GSP's Christmas 2019 Brainstorming thread (AO)

Anarchy Online General Discussion
1

As some of you may know, I collect ideas every year at GridStream parties for Christmas brainstorming. After two weeks, I curate them into a somewhat ordered list, we put them in some semblance of order, and I put a little more detail into our favorites, with reference images where appropriate. Then I send those off to FC roughly two months before the event, hopefully around the time they patch in whatever’s new for Halloween and start planning Christmas.

I’m starting a little earlier this year so we’ll have three weeks, just in case the instabilities we’ve been dealing with lately slow things down. So if all goes well, we’ll have three weeks to collect ideas, and if not, I should still be able to get this posted before Halloween events.

Posting the official list on the GSP forums and linking to it from the AO and SWL forums worked well last year, so let’s go with that again. On the GSP forums, I don’t have to worry about dividing the list between AO and SWL, and the post length and editing restrictions are much looser, so I can manage the list better as ideas come in.

If you have an idea you’d like to add to our list, the thread is at http://forums.gridstream.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29712

If you’re too lazy to make a GSP forum account to post it, (or that’s just not working for whatever reason,) go ahead and tack it on here. I should see it within a day or two and I can just copy it over.

Once I’ve finalized the list, I’ll post the whole thing here too, but separated into AO and SWL posts.

And yes, you can always just post your own suggestion any time you want, but I find that these threads, especially the discussions of them at parties, bring up a lot more ideas and more of them actually get posted in a big pile FC can more easily find. So let’s hear it. What do you want Santa Leet to bring you this year?

2

  1. New Backpack-- skinned as Ornament, snowflake, holly leaf, snowman’s head, Xmas tree, Star.

  2. New vehicle-- Giant Candy Cane? The long skinny hover-bike might be re-workable as one.

  3. Oversized sunglasses with holiday bling.

  4. Alien Leet Elf pet.

  5. Snowball Grenade launcher

  6. full sized alien elf costume.

  7. Scrooge as a boss in mission.

3

I’d say send off the suggestions around this time of year.

4

I was thinking more like the Besom Sky Sweeper broomstick? If it’s more like a hover-bike, is the hook of the candy cane behind you, like a back rest, or in front, for handles? Or is it two hooks in front for handlebars?

Uhm… what? Could you be a little more specific what you imagine that looks like? I’m thinking a green scaly-looking leet with an elf hat? That’s a little creepy. Is that what you were going for?

Bringing back the social snowball nano is already on the list. Would this just be a QL1 rocket launcher that casts that nano when clicked? Like Adrienne’s bow? I don’t know if that script could be adapted to work on a weapon but target friendlies. I guess we can ask, though.

Again, what’s an alien elf? Is it one of those cricket-looking aliens with a Santa hat? And how would that be a costume? Do you mean a morph? Or do you mean a more Christmassy version of the old Veteran alien costume?

Well, obviously not “Ebeneezer Scrooge.” We have Fleet Commander Grin’Cha, the boss of the Santa Leet’s Workshop missions, but that’s about close enough to copying a classic. I guess there could be a new mission, very loosely based on an idea inspired by a story someone remembered being told about having heard of A Christmas Carol. Something like three ghosts and then some ICC penny-pincher too hyper-capitalist even for Omni. Kind of a big vague idea, but it’s an idea. Anyone have any little vague details that would fit with that without being completely plagiarism?

5

Candy Cane bike-- I like both your ideas, slight pref for hook on the back one.

Alien leet pet yeah, the smallest alien with some leet morphing.

Snowball launcher-- Say an OT-12 with a candy cane skin.

Alien costume-- this exactly: “…a more Christmassy version of the old Veteran alien costume?”

“A Christmas Carol” is public domain. You can borrow from it & modify it at will. (small detail-- adapt ghost costumes & ghost shoulder light for social wear)

Some of this stuff I could see being useful for Halloween too.

1 Like
6

There hasn’t been any commentary on the collected ideas on the GSP forums. Not really surprising, as not too many people actually use those lately. So here’s the current list, at least the AO part of it. Maybe we’ll get some discussion going here. There’s one more week left to collect ideas, so please feel free to comment on these or add more.

  1. Virgin killer minidress, knit grey with silver threads

  2. Green Spanx with red handprints

  3. iridescent rainbow taffeta and opal bead steel boned corsets
    https://www.facebook.com/RainbowCurveCorsetry/photos/a.1490242064629430/2369541866699441/

  4. starbrite mint bikini and stockings
    like this or this

  5. frozen excavation site loot table
    remove from the loot table:

  • bearded box with bow (it’s in Borealis)
  • duplicate placards (just the one Snowflake Placard is enough)
  • a snowflake shirt (keep either red or white)
    replace with missing items:
  • Candy Cane prop weapon
  • Santa Leet Doll
  • Snowman
  • Snowball Fighting Manual v2.1
  • Old Fashioned Apple Cider
  • Snow Shovel
  • Igloo
  • Present Placard
  • Fruit Cake
  • Bouquet of Winter

  1. Pet snowman that moves like BB-8 by using the rolling animation from a rollerrat on the bottom snowball, but the two snowballs on top just lean forward
    with creepy and cute variations

  2. wassail

  3. Rupert the Red-Nosed Swiftwind and/or Randolph the Bright-Horned Silvertail

  4. a variation of the hula outfit, but with silver tinsel instead of a green lei, and a little microskirt made of holly, tied on with a mistletoe vine

  5. a fairy godmother wand, the kind with a big star on the end, that you can equip to wave around and click to case random sparkles

  6. trox thong with a gingerbread man on the cabbage

  • Maybe a couple different versions, featuring the various gingerbread cookies?
  • Boxers with a repeating pattern of gingerbread men, hearts, and women?
  • Thongs with any one of them - click to change - or gingerbread yuttos for the jokers

  1. red satin babydoll and thigh-high stockings, white panties, green hollybough belt and sparse details.

  2. marching baton, possibly spinning in your hand when clicked, red and white spiral like the candy cane, but straight and narrow, and a gold and purple marching band uniform to go with it

  3. eggnog that gives a red and/or green sparkle effect

  4. green version of Santa Hat

  5. spray can of scent deletion nanos, or canned Christmas hearth smell, the smell of chestnuts roasting on a pine fire in a stove made of peppermint sticks

  6. Icy mint gum so cooling it causes a brief snowstorm around you like a snow blower

  7. a variation of the sleigh nano pulled by a team of antleets wearing jetpacks

  8. mistletoe bikini bottom
    and matching men’s thong made from a holly leaf and two fir cones

  9. Something like Adrienne’s heart halves quest that involves cooperation with other players. Like cooperative snowman construction.

  10. a shoort [sic] red and white skirt with a bikini top

  11. bring back the social snowball nano (Snowball Throwing Manual v2.1)

  12. friendly nano that causes a local snowfall like the snow blower toys, but longer lasting

  13. New Backpack-- skinned as Ornament, snowflake, holly leaf, snowman’s head, Xmas tree, Star

  14. New vehicle-- Giant Candy Cane? The long skinny hover-bike might be re-workable as one
    the long straight part of the candy cane points forward and the hook comes up behind you for a backrest

  15. Oversized sunglasses with holiday bling

  16. Alien Leet Elf pet

  • You know how the dog xenomorph in Alien3 came out a quadrupedal dog-like alien? Imagine a leet-hybrid alien like that, like one of those cricket-type aliens with a spiny tail and no front paws. Then he takes the hat and booties from the elfleet he spawned from to camouflage himself and infiltrate Santa Leet’s workshop to sabotage the ongoing efforts to evict Grin’Cha’s forces.
  • Or just a leet-sized cricket alien with a hat if that’s too much.

  1. Snowball Grenade launcher
    like an OT-12 with a candy cane skin that fires the social snowballs on clicking, like Adrienne’s bow does

  2. full sized alien elf costume
    a more Christmassy version of the old Veteran alien costume

  3. Scrooge as a boss in mission
    Apparently that’s legal. “A Christmas Carol” is so old it’s public domain. So there could be a mission with ghosts of past, present, and future, and even NPCs named Marley and Tiny Tim and a boss named Scrooge, and it would be fine. But I still like the idea of adapting it to AO by way of verbal history, passing down the story from one generation of leets to the next. And it doesn’t take many leety retellings to totally confuzzle a story.
    The reward could include a Christmas Ghost version of the Halloween Horror Ghost costume that makes you translucent, and a Christmassy version of the shoulder ghost lamp.

  4. Morninglight St Nicholas outfit
    the same outfit the ghost wears at the end of The Christmas Conspiracy, but opaque and in the Morninglight white & gold colour scheme, instead of translucent red and white, and maybe with a matching mitre

  5. lump of coal outfits

  6. pet lump of coal (shem)

  7. A minigame where you deliver construction paper to random children in the Tokyo slums.

  • You choose either to give a red piece or blue piece to protect them from the appropriate Namahage.
  • Getting a certain amount correct nets you the Morninglight Santa outfit.
  • And if you’re a Dragon, rather than construction paper, it’s toilet paper (no kidding, the Korean ‘namahage’ sits in bathroom stalls to scare children).

  1. make the cookie frosting wearable

  2. translucent pastel colored pet hecklers - rock candy

  3. apartments that can hold more than a backpack

  • maybe 100 items per apartment

  1. a proper blouse and some nice slacks

  2. wrapped gift backpack

  3. chocolate toffee

  4. chocolate yalms

  5. reindeer, wild and/or pet

  6. UPH in Santa suit dancing doll

  7. chocolate support beam
    maybe tear open the gift-wrapped one and take a bite

  8. giant box that a character can burst out of, for screen-cap photos

  9. photo-op cutout Christmas scenes with holes so you can stand behind them and take a selfie

  10. glowing red nose

  11. tiny pets

  • a little mousie in a nightgown and cap, stirring a cup of tea
  • a mouse-size antleet (in the Scrooge mission, with a stapler)
  1. flannel pajamas
  • green and red plaid
  • red and white check
  • blue too, but please not faction-exclusive

  1. A dead pine tree strung with blinking UV LEDs and burgundy tinsel the color of dried blood

  2. hot chocolate that buffs cold AC and chocolate craving resistance

  • maybe +2 Stamina even, like an extruder bar

  1. Grin’Cha doll
    – it’s not actually a plushie, it’s what really happens to Grin’Cha when he just disappears without dropping the loot

  2. a VR gaming rig with a simulation speed setting so you can get in a full week of gaming every night

  3. a hippopotamus

  4. a pet wooden cuckoo bird that escaped from a very large and slightly magical clock

  5. a Bing Crosby mask and suit

  6. white leet with red spots in a dalmation pattern

  7. red and white color swap of the Oscura outfit, with some green details, like a holly brooch or a thin vine of mistletoe for a belt

  8. QL0 MA special attack “Smack to the Smackitty Smack”

  9. MA attack nano “Fists of Epicine”, 1 damage for 1 nano, casting time -300, no cooldown, damage based on Heavy Weapons skill (and Martial Arts). Break that nano button off on some punk.

  10. Slow Djinn Fizz - a carbonated drink made by intellectually challenged elemental spirits, so viscous that the bubbles take a full minute to rise to the top and pop

  11. a tangled bunch of old school Christmas lights, like the fist-sized frosted bulbs and tear-shaped ornaments and boiling bubble lights, all too tangled to get on a tree, so they’re held up in a big vaguely tree-shaped tangle by a hovering drone, like the balloons inverted

  12. a little black skullcap hat with a model yalm on top – a Yalmica

  13. Christmas cards like the Valentines

  14. Omni-zon gift cards that can only be redeemed from the head office on Earth, postage not included
    Minimum order for free shipping is equal to the number of miles between you and the planet of origin

  15. variation of the brick fireplace with no fire in it because the chimney is stopped up with a bag of gifts and a skeleton in a Santa suit

  16. magic Christmas stocking like the box of chocolates, click to pull out a random tradable edible candy, one minute cooldown
    – miniature candy cane
    – chocolate santa leet
    – gumdrops
    – sugar plums
    – peppermint patties
    – chestnuts, already roased by either hanging the magic stocking too close to the fireplace or burning it on a stake for being magic
    – raw chestnuts to put in a frying pan and hold in the fireplace
    – leet treats
    – a bronto burger (requested by Lue, of course)

  • chocolate crispy mint discs
  • orange and mint flavored chocolate sticks
  • chocolate covered miniature Zix

  1. Informer Snowman toy that says random things when you poke it, like mixes of Lovecraft and Snow: “Informer Cthulhu R’lyeh fhtagn Tekeli boom boom down”

  2. Play Costume – Sixth Edition in Christmassy red with white trim and a ribbon bow instead of the neck tie

  3. Christmas lights with more colors, particularly purples and pinks

  4. make the gingerbread cookies tradable

  5. silvertail with red and white stripes and a candy cane colored horn, still the horn shape

  6. leets with hovering zigball shoulderpads and candy canes tied to their tails with ribbons so they can play a holiday special zigball game – even if zigball isn’t normally played with sticks because the tail hook is how you play it with no hands

  7. Lantern-style shoulder-hovering leet with Santa hat and candy cane tail

1 Like
7

Here’s the AO portion of the final list I just sent in. The full list is at http://forums.gridstream.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29712&p=235223#p235223

To whichever elves, space-elves, fae, notum miners, and/or code monkeys may be tasked with Christmas content for Anarchy Online,

Here’s GSP’s annual brainstorming contribution of Christmas ideas. Ideas were collected over three weeks of GSP parties, plus a few from the forums and some set aside since last year. GSP DJs, Dancers, and staff helped put them in order so I could fill in extra details on our favorites, but the whole list is here. One difference this year is I tried to limit the repeats instead of asking for the same things we ask for every year. We still want that stuff too, but I’m sure you still have the old lists, so just consider this an addition, rather than an update.

  1. [both] Scrooge as a boss in a new Christmas Carol mission

Apparently that’s legal. “A Christmas Carol” is so old it’s public domain. So there could be a mission with ghosts of past, present, and future, and even NPCs named Marley and Tiny Tim and a boss named Scrooge, and it would be fine.

On the other hand, an adapation that fits the game world would be better than just retelling the original story. I like the idea of adapting it to AO by way of verbal history, passed down from one generation of leets to the next. And it doesn’t take many leety retellings to totally confuzzle a story. Like Marleet is telling the story about how Tiny Tim is actually tiny, even from a leet’s perspective. A talking mouse, perhaps. And also an enchanter. Like an agent shrunk down, morphed into a leet, and casting fireballs. And he’s off to storm the castle… err… office of some ICC credit-pincher named Scourge the Ebon Geezer, so greedy he stoled all the shineys from all the shuttleports and won’t give any back, even for Christmas, so all the leets in Arete have to make do with stolen candy and no shinies and not a Christmas present ever. But the office is guarded by huge, mean humming bugs and three ghosts that have to be defeated in order. Or something like that.

The reward could include a Christmas Ghost version of the Halloween Horror Ghost costume that makes you translucent, and a Christmassy version of the shoulder ghost lamp.

  1. [both] rolling pet snowman

Give the bottom snowball the rolling animation from a rollerrat and the top two just lean forward, so it moves like BB-8. I’m sure it’s more complicated to implement than to describe, but it would be really cool if you could make it work.

Bonus points if it comes in creepy and cute variations.

  1. [AO] bring back the social snowball nano

I don’t know if there’s a reason Snowball Fighting Manual v2.1 was retired, or it just got forgotten, but it’s been quite a while so there are a lot of folks who have never seen it. Or at least they have new characters who have never seen it. It’s become rather rare to be able to throw snowballs at each other.

There’s really no reason for the Christmas Gifts or Frozen Excavation Site to drop any other Snowball Fighting Manual, as the only other one you need is the v2.2 for the Santa Leet’s Workshop mission, which you get right there. So maybe you could just replace all instances of “Snowball Fighting Manual” (ID: 259898) or “Nano Crystal (Throw Snowball v2.2)” (ID: 294023) with “Snowball Fighting Manual v2.1” (ID: 284713) in those loot tables.

  1. [both] A new mission or activity that encourages some cooperation

Something like Adrienne’s “You’ve Got Heart” Valentine heart lantern quest or properly summoning Hel that involves cooperation with other players, but with new rewards to actually encourage us to make the effort. Maybe something like cooperative snowman construction, for example. Why are AO’s snowman parts NoDrop anyway? Who builds snowmen all by themselves?

  1. [both] glowing red nose

I know there’s a clown nose in SWL already, but it doesn’t glow. Something just like that, but glowing bright enough to cut through fog, and yet not so bright it blinds the wearer, might be tricky. Or magical. Probably both.

  1. [both] a fairy godmother wand

The kind with a big shiny star on the end, that you can equip to wave around and click to cast random sparkles. The kind of thing anyone who ever wore rainbow fishnets, a fluorescent tutu, and a glow in the dark bikini to a rave always wanted, but less pharmaceutical-powered. And yes, once we had the wand, we’d probably ask for that outfit next. At least, I would.

  1. [both] Play Costume - Sixth Edition, Christmas version

That’s the sexy school uniform one, but in Christmassy red with white trim and a ribbon bow instead of the neck tie. Maybe some holly details, like holly on the back of the stockings.

  1. [both] Hawaiian Christmas (tourist edition)

A variation of the hula outfit, but with a silver tinsel garland instead of a green lei, and a little microskirt made of holly, tied on with a mistletoe vine. In AO, that’s the miniskirt/skorts type. The legs mesh, not the skirt mesh. If you have to put a green thong under it for censorship, that would be acceptable.

  1. [both] Virgin killer minidress, knit grey with silver threads

Like this: https://www.amazon.com/Lucky2Buy-Sleeveless-Cosplay-Turtle-neck-Pullover/dp/B074HZBW1T

But a slightly looser knit so you can /almost/ peek through it, but still not actually see anything, and the silver threads give it a little bit of sparkle.

  1. [AO] friendly nano that causes a local snowfall like the snow blower toys, but longer lasting

Preferably with a fluffy little cloud over you, but that’s optional. If it has to have an effect, maybe 2 points of Fire AC, but the visual is enough. If the engine can handle everyone triggering a snowblower at once, it can handle everyone having this nano running.

  1. [both] Christmas eve nightwear, just slightly naughty

A red satin babydoll nightie, maybe something like this:
https://www.wantitall.co.za/fashion/kranchungel-women-s-sexy-santa-lingerie-christmas-babydoll-set-chemises-outfit-lace-sleepwear-small-__b07l845r9v

… with thigh-high stockings, white panties, and green hollybough belt. Maybe a little mistletoe detail on the front of the waistband, instead of the typical bow. That’s pretty skimpy though, if you can see the bow with an opaque nightie that doesn’t /actually/ ride up or flutter, so maybe it’s just a bit more than slightly naughty.

Or how about something more like this:
https://www.amiclubwear.com/clothing-lingerie-kk89hc-2349red.html

So it goes a little lower in back, but ties in front and doesn’t fully close. It only almost closes where it’s tied at the waist with a holly-colored silk rope belt with little leaves. Or maybe it doesn’t go lower in the back so it’s a separate chest item and the lacy white panties and ruffle-topped wide fishnet thigh-highs are a separate leg item.

Okay, it’s not slightly naughty, it’s slight and naughty, but that’s just a different kind of good, right?

  1. [both] mistletoe bikini bottom

Either a Christmas bikini like the one AO already has, just with a mistletoe design on it, or one that looks like just some leaves and vines of mistletoe and holly. Like AO’s “Leaves” outfits, but just the bikini part, not all the way down the legs or up the abdomen.

And a matching thong made from one holly leaf, two fir cones, and a ribbon for the menfolk.

  1. [AO] green version of Santa Hat
  1. [AO] Icy mint gum so cooling it causes a brief snowstorm around you like a snow blower

And maybe gives you the “frosty breath” effect for a minute, too.

  1. [both] Christmas cards like the Valentines

  2. [both] iridescent rainbow taffeta and opal bead steel boned corsets

  1. [AO] frozen excavation site loot table

This isn’t something /new/, just an adjustment you could make to improve the Frozen Excavation Site. There’s some redundant and superfluous stuff in those loot tables and some stuff conspicuously missing.

Remove from the Frozen Excavation Site’s loot table:

  • “Bearded Box with a Bow” (289578)
    because “Bearded Box with a Bow” (289509) is the same thing, free in Borealis, with no timer

  • duplicate Placards
    just one is enough. I would suggest keeping “Snowflake Placard” (284717)
    “No Snow Placard” (284718) and “No Antleet Placard” (284719) click to change into the same thing.

  • kLoathing Holiday Series #1: Snowflake Shirt - Red (294519)
    kLoathing Holiday Series #1: Snowflake Shirt - White (294520) - no need for both, for the same reason

  • Microphone (156764)
    It’s cheap and tradable and not Christmas-exclusive in the first place. I’m not sure why this was in Christmas Gifts to begin with.

Replace with missing items:

  • Candy Cane (301706)
  • Santa Leet Doll (274172)
  • Snowball Fighting Manual v2.1 (284713)
  • Giant Snow Shovel (289501)
  • Snowman (300859 or 274261)
  • Present Placard (259925)
  • Fruit Cake (259922)
  • Bouquet of Winter (259937)
  • Igloo (289522)
  • Old-Fashioned Apple Cider (289491)
  1. [both] starbrite mint bikini with candy cane stockings

This is an old favorite that keeps getting requested every year. I tried to minimize the repeats in this list, but this one’s kind of a tradition. I even drew my own examples twice because I couldn’t find any reference images close enough to what was suggested.

like http://forums.gridstream.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=21449&p=177432#p177432

or http://forums.gridstream.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=21449&p=226775#p226775

But with better shoes. I never did get around to fixing the shoes on those.

  1. [AO] Alien Leet Elf pet

You know how the dog xenomorph in Alien3 came out a quadrupedal dog-like alien? Imagine a leet-hybrid alien like that, like one of those cricket-type aliens with a spiny tail and no front paws. Kinda like Leetzilla, now that I think of it. Then he takes the hat and booties from the elfleet he spawned from to camouflage himself and infiltrate Santa Leet’s workshop to sabotage the ongoing efforts to evict Grin’Cha’s forces.

Or just a leet-sized cricket-type alien with a hat if that’s too much.

  1. [AO] apartments that can hold more than a backpack

I know it’s not exactly a Christmas thing, but someone suggested that’s what they really wanted for Christmas, and there was more than one voice of agreement. 100 items per apartment was requested, but maybe that’s a bit high. Wallpapering it with posters seems excessive. Or not. I mean, we don’t have paint. There must be some good number in between that would feel less arbitrarily restrictive without taxing the engine too much.

  1. [both] tiny pets
  • a little mousie in a nightgown and cap, stirring a cup of tea
  • a mouse-size antleet (in the Scrooge mission, found next to a stapler)
  1. [AO] “Fists of Epicine”
  • QL 0.03 MA attack / nano, 1-3 damage for 1 nano, damage based on 70% Heavy Weapons skill, 25% Brawling, and 15% Martial Arts, with casting time -300 and no cooldown.
  • Break that hotkey /off/ on some punk.

  1. [both] a shoort [sic] red and white skirt with a matching bikini top

  2. [both] a little black skullcap hat with a model yalm on top - a Yalmica

  3. [both] unicorn/silvertail with red and white stripes and a candy cane colored horn (normal horn shape)

  4. [both] Christmas lights with more colors, particularly purples and pinks

  5. [both] make the cookie frosting wearable

  1. [both] flannel pajamas
  • green and red plaid
  • red and white check
  • blue too, but please don’t make them faction-exclusive

  1. [both] photo-op cutout Christmas scenes with holes so you can stand behind them and take a selfie

  2. [both] Green Spanx with red handprints

  3. [both] new backpacks

  • ornament
  • snowflake
  • holly leaf
  • snowman’s head
  • Xmas tree
  • Star
  • wrapped gift
  1. [AO] leets with hovering zigball shoulderpads and candy canes tied to their tails with ribbons so they can play a holiday special zigball game
  • even if zigball isn’t normally played with sticks because the tail hook is how you play it with no hands

  1. [both] Oversized sunglasses with holiday bling

  2. [both] marching baton, possibly spinning in your hand when clicked, red and white spiral like the candy cane, but straight and narrow, and a gold and purple marching band uniform to go with it

  3. [AO] QL0 MA special attack “Smack to the Smackitty Smack”

  • inflicts embarrassment damage you can feel even if you’re afk on a food run
  1. [both] Snowball Grenade launcher
  • like an OT-12 (from AO) with a candy cane skin that fires the social snowballs on clicking, like Adrienne’s bow does
  1. [AO] magic Christmas stocking like the “Chocolate Exultation” Gift Box, click to pull out a random tradable edible candy, one minute cooldown
  • miniature candy cane
  • chocolate santa leet
  • gumdrops
  • sugar plums
  • peppermint patties
  • chestnuts, already roased by either hanging the magic stocking too close to the fireplace or burning it on a stake for being magic
  • raw chestnuts to put in a frying pan and hold in the fireplace
  • leet treats
  • a bronto burger (requested by Lue, of course)
  • chocolate crispy mint discs
  • orange and mint flavored chocolate sticks
  • chocolate covered miniature Zix
  1. [AO] make the gingerbread cookies tradable
  1. [both] red and white color swap of the Oscura outfit, with some green details, like a holly brooch or a thin vine of mistletoe for a belt
  1. [AO] Grin’Cha doll
  • it’s not actually a plushie, it’s what really happens to Grin’Cha when he just disappears without dropping the loot
  • bonus points if you can actually script that to appear in his place when he does despawn without any loot
  1. [both] a proper blouse and some nice slacks
  • not the awful one your fashion-blind but well-meaning free-trade shopping local-artist supporting aunt picked out, bless her heart

  1. [both] a variation of the Phasefront Sleigh nano pulled by a team of antleets wearing jetpacks

  2. [both] Informer Snowman toy that says random things when you poke it, like mixes of Lovecraft and Snow: “Informer! Cthulhu R’lyeh fhtagn, tekeli boom boom down!”

  3. [both] pet lump of coal shem/heckler

  4. [both] a hippopotamus

  5. [AO] trox thong with a gingerbread man on the cabbage

  • Maybe a couple different versions, featuring the various gingerbread cookies
  • Boxers with a repeating pattern of gingerbread men, hearts, and women
  • Thongs with any one of them - click to change - or gingerbread yuttos for the jokers

  1. [both] lump of coal outfits

  2. [both] a VR gaming rig with a simulation speed setting so you can get in a full week of gaming after work every night

  3. [AO] Omni-zon gift cards that can only be redeemed from the head office on Earth, postage not included

  • Minimum order for free shipping is credits equal to the number of miles between you and the planet of origin
  1. [both] wassail

  1. [both] Rupert the Red-Nosed Swiftwind and/or Randolph the Bright-Horned Silvertail

  2. [both] eggnog that gives a red and/or green sparkle effect

  3. [both] spray can of scent deletion nanos, or canned Christmas hearth smell, the smell of chestnuts roasting on a pine fire in a stove made of peppermint sticks

  4. [AO] Giant Candy Cane vehicle

  • the long skinny hover-bike might be re-workable as one
  • the long straight part of the candy cane points forward and the hook comes up behind you for a backrest
  1. [AO] full sized alien elf costume
  • a more Christmassy version of the old Veteran alien costume
  1. [both] Morninglight St Nicholas outfit
  • the same outfit the ghost wears at the end of The Christmas Conspiracy, but opaque and in the Morninglight white & gold colour scheme, instead of translucent red and white, and maybe with a matching mitre
  1. [both] translucent pastel colored pet hecklers/shems - rock candy

  1. [both] chocolate toffee

  2. [AO] chocolate yalms

  3. [AO] reindeer, wild and/or pet

  4. [AO] Uncle Pumpkinhead in a Santa suit dancing doll

  5. [AO] chocolate support beam

  • maybe tear open the gift-wrapped one and take a bite
  • Tobler1000
  1. [both] giant gift box that a character can burst out of, for screen-cap photos
  1. [both] A dead pine tree strung with blinking UV LEDs and burgundy tinsel the color of dried blood and black lace garland
  1. [both] hot chocolate that buffs cold AC and chocolate craving resistance
  • maybe +2 Stamina even, like an extruder bar

  1. [both] a pet wooden cuckoo bird that escaped from a very large and slightly magical clock

  2. [both] a Bing Crosby mask and suit

  3. [both] white leet with red spots in a dalmation pattern

  4. [both] Slow Djinn Fizz

  • a carbonated drink made by intellectually challenged elemental spirits, so viscous that the bubbles take a full minute to rise to the top and pop

  1. [both] a tangled bunch of old school Christmas lights, like the fist-sized frosted bulbs and tear-shaped ornaments and boiling bubble lights, all too tangled to get on a tree, so they’re held up in a big roughly tree-shaped tangle by a hovering drone, like the AO balloons pet inverted

  2. [AO] variation of the brick fireplace with no fire in it because the chimney is stopped up with a bag of gifts and a skeleton in a Santa suit

  3. [AO] Lantern-style shoulder-hovering leet with Santa hat and candy cane tail

Thanks again for reading and letting us participate in the making of festivities, and thanks for continuing to bring more festivites to our favorite worlds. I hope you found something useful, interesting, or at least amusing here and we’re all looking forward to seeing whatever the holidays bring!

2 Likes