songerein | Saving Christmas

✵ SAVING CHRISTMAS ✵

As the sun sets and the moon rises on Christmas Eve, a strange sound of jingling bells is heard high in the sky as the snow suddenly begins to fall heavily upon the town. A heavy weight of sleep slowly overcomes everyone, and just as their eyes close they'll hear a loud, raging bellow—

That damn bastard!! I won't let you ruin—!

Before the words are finished, everyone will suddenly jolt awake and find themselves scattered in a strange looking town called Whoville. Although it looks as if it's supposed to be festive, none of that holiday cheer is evident. The town is completely ransacked with torn up decorations, broken gift boxes and toys. Even its colors seem faded, music distorted and muted.

All through the town the Whos stare listlessly at their hard work now ruined, some crying openly while others remain indoors in their grief. A brave few young souls try to help clean and bolster some cheer, chanting, "It's not too late, we can fix this! We can't let that Grinch get us down!" But many just shake their heads, their eyes dim. No one seems to have noticed the sudden arrival of new faces.

In the meanwhile, the tapirs appear to inform the Dreamwalkers that they are inside another large dreamscape similar to the one during Halloween. This time, however, an entity called "The Grinch" had suddenly appeared and attacked it, stealing all the presents and leaving everything to ruin as they see now. The tapirs point to a meter floating high in the sky, and although it's not rock bottom, it keeps wavering and lowering as time passes. The Dreamwalkers must help raise the meter to save the dreamscape from turning into a nightmare.

"But the big guy is really angry now," the tapirs chatter among themselves. "If they help fix things, maybe they'll gain a powerful ally!"

Dressed in Christmas themed attire, it will be up to the Dreamwalkers to try and restore the Christmas spirit before the day is ruined forever.

I. HELPING WHOVILLE

The town is an interesting looking place with its unique architecture, bright colors swirling and curving about that it make it look like it could be made of cake or candy instead. It's supposed to be adorned with all manner of Christmas decorations and lights, and yet all of it is missing and instead everything looks so drab and dreary, the colors faded and nary a carol sung. Its tree has also been stripped bare, the presents pilfered, and the much too big Christmas Star gone.

A. Gift Retrieval. The Grinch has scattered all of the presents and decorations throughout the surrounding forests and they need to be returned before Christmas is over. Dog sleds big enough to load up found presents are provided to be used, and the dogs will help track down presents. However, those who enter the forests should be cautious. While there aren't any huge threats, there are present mimics, monsters that pretend to be present boxes only to attack any who approach. They will also eat real presents, so be careful they don't reach the sled!

» BONUS: PRESENT DELIVERY. The last objective is to deliver the present to their rightful owners. However, it's possible the Grinch may have tampered the presents, and this will only be revealed upon opening. Players must RNG 0-5 to determine if the recipient likes the present or not.

» BONUS: SPECIAL PRESENTS. There are some special marked boxes that are guarded by present mimics. Get past them to retrieve the present. However, upon touching the box, it will disappear in a poof of orange and be replaced with a pumpkin pie that will help amplify one's dreamotion abilities if eaten.

B. Fixing Decorations. With broken ornaments and torn wreaths and ribbon everywhere, a massive cleanup is in order along with repairing and redecorating. While anyone good at crafts can help, positive emotions and dreamotion abilities will be key to help brighten everything from its current dreary atmosphere. Creative minds can help produce the necessary decorations while the athletic can figure out ways to bolster their skills to reach those high, hard to reach places. Another RNG for rating is here as the residents will judge their work.

» BONUS: JUDGMENT. Anyone can throw up decorations, but will it be to the residents' liking? Players must RNG 0-5 to determine what kind of rating their efforts receive.

» BONUS: CHRISTMAS STAR. The original Christmas star was smashed to bits so a new one is in order. Although anything can be used, the Whos do have some preferences on what can be used on the star, even if those materials may be hard to find. Rainbow crystals found in the forest will surely help give the start that glittery feeling; they prefer to have it gold; and it needs to illuminate on its own so some kind of light source is needed.

C. Christmas Carols. Carolers are doing their best, but everyone is stumbling over their verses and instruments are out of tune. A bit of positive reinforcement and Christmas cheer will help sort things out. Those who are musically inclined can lead the way by singing and even creating new songs to help inspire others.

» BONUS: A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS CAROL. In the designated thread, a new carol will be composed by the dreamwalkers. Each one will supply their own verse in response to the previous (click here for example). The thread is only for the verses, but there will be another thread where players can go ham for their characters to comment on the song as it goes on. Anyone can participate multiple times but must wait for another comment to be made first.

II. SANTA'S TOY FACTORY

Just beyond Whoville with just the Winter Forest to separate them is one of Santa's toy factories. It, too, has been attacked and smoke rises from the damaged buildings. With machines malfunctioning, toys are running rampant and everything is chaotic. If not fixed soon, there will not be enough toys for Santa to deliver.

A. Elf Rescue. The Grinch not only stole the presents and destroyed the toys, but they also sabotaged the machines running the factor. Now elves are trapped inside and are in desperate need of rescuing as toys malfunction and start to turn on them. The machines are even trying to box up the elves as gifts instead! Behaving similar to the present mimics, boxes, wrapping paper, and ribbon bounce around in search of anything to wrap up. Dreamwalkers must venture in to try to turn off the machines and rescue the elves without getting turned into a present themselves. The more elves rescued, the more allies gained to fix the factory and more favor earned from Santa.

B. Reindeer Games. The reindeer have been scattered all over and the only way to bring them back is to attract them with fun and games. In order to do so, dreamwalkers will transform into reindeer and will have additional abilities granted to them, such as flying and manipulating snow. As for what kind of games, they can choose from any of the following:

Ring Racing. High up in the air is a flying course with rings made of magical frost. Racers must pass through each ring to count, but they must fly quickly. As soon as they approach, the ring will start to contract, and if too late it will close and the racer will be disqualified.
Sleigh Pulling. This is a contest of strength! Sleighs will be piled high with presents and, if not enough presents are available, large rocks to weigh it down. Each reindeer must then try and pull their sleigh down a simple straight lane to the finish line. Just beware, rogue toys will appear on the track and will need to be dealt with somehow. There are no restrictions—each reindeer can use whatever ability or skill they can think of to help pull the overloaded sleigh. The contest can be 1v1 or 2v2.
Robot Reindeer. All the excitement does attract many of the reindeer back, but unexpected guests arrive as well—and they're not friendly. Sent by the Grinch, robotic reindeer will suddenly descend from the skies to ruin the festivities. It will be up to the dreamwalkers in their reindeer form to fight back against them—or try to convert them to help out instead.

C. Gingerbread Army. Giant gingerbread men occasionally appear and try to smash through the toy factory, hampering rescue efforts. Fortunately, they are only made of gingerbread and easy to fall apart. Unfortunately, they will not only regrow lost parts but grow from severed parts. Their weak point is the glowing gumdrop located among the many gumdrops on the body, and destroying it will destroy the gingerbread completely.

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((OOC: Alastor is still dressed impeccably but he has a green with white fur-lined jacket in place of his usual red one. The rest of his clothes are in green as well. The red is obviously his hair, eyes, claws, etc.))

Helping Whoville: Gift Retrieval

[Alastor is keeping his distance from the dogs, ears flattening every time one comes sniffing too close.]

Focus on finding the presents, you vile Hellbeast!

[One of the dogs is snuffling along when it suddenly yelps and runs away from a present mimic. Alastor's grin widens.]

I'll take this one!

Helping Whoville: Christmas Carols

Oh, come now! You can't expect to make joyful music when you won't even smile!

[Some of the Whos look more than a bit worried to be in the grinning demon's presence.]

[Alastor taps his chin for a moment before snapping his fingers. His ears twitch before starting to play "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" by Frank Sinatra only it's just the background music. He summons his microphone stand and twirls it in his fingers before starting to dance along to the beat. Time to put on a show!]

Feel free to join in if you know this one!

♪♫ Oh, the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

It doesn't show signs of stoppin'
And I brought some corn for poppin'
The lights are turned way down low... ♪♫

[He then holds his microphone out to the closest person from Reverein, a silent prompt for them to sing the next line.]

Reindeer Games: Alastor the Demon Reindeer

[As a surprise to absolutely no one, Alastor looks like Halloween threw up on one of Santa's reindeer. He's tall and majestic, yes, but his coat is danger sign red with the parts one would expect to be white in black. He still has his wide, fanged grin and red-on-darker-red eyes. His antlers are solid black and rather pointy.]

[He trots in a circle, experimenting as his shadow trots in its own reindeer form beside him.]

Well, this is a treat, isn't it? [He gives himself a shake, the bells on his green harness jingling.] I can't complain!

Reindeer Games: Robot Reindeer

I'm sorry, but you all weren't invited to these reindeer games. [Alastor's eyes glow red, his grin widening maliciously, as his shadow paws the ground. A few robot reindeer stalk towards him.] Looks like I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

[He leaps out of the way as one of the robots rush him. He lands, spins about, and plants his rear hooves into the side of the machine.]

[He looks towards his companions.]

Well, shall we?

Wildcard

Don't see a prompt you like? Toss one Alastor's way!

[Rokurou had some fun in the factory, but he was now checking the Reindeer Games area and actually contemplated in trying the whole transformation things. But then he sees a very red and black reindeer, the voice familiar.]

...Alastor?

[Alastor's ears prick up and he turns his head to see Rokurou. He then trots over, bells jingling.]

Hello! Been quite a while since we've last crossed paths, hasn't it?!

[Okay, he can't help but laugh a bit.]

Yeah it has. Been roaming around here and there so not too surprising. Looks like you've been having fun.

How's it like being a reindeer? Was debating if I should try it out or not.

Rather enjoyable! And rather appropriate given my usual appearance!

[He is a deer demon, after all.]

I highly recommend it! Though I admit that I'm still trying to properly control flight! I go for a jump and suddenly...

[He leaps up, intending to just do a little hop, but he hangs in the air, hooves dangling beneath him.]

It's a bit tricky!

[He's going to watch curiously and then chuckle a bit.]

So you can get up there but have trouble moving around, huh? Not sure if I'd have much luck, but it does look kind of fun.

Difficult to get around, yes, but managing to land gets a bit sticky at times!

[And he's going to basically swim as best he can towards the ground.]

With enough practice, I should be flying like a professional in no time!

[He's about to say something when something else catches his eye behind Alastor. Tilting his head slightly, he peers into the darkness...only to be met with glowing red eyes.]

...Uh, you may need to speed up on that practice. We have company.

[Alastor turns his head as he finally finds his hooves back on solid ground. His toothy grin widens, showing off all his delightful yellow fangs.]

So we do!

[He turns around to face them, pawing the earth with one forehoof as his shadow double mirrors him.]

If they're interested in joining our little reindeer games, I think we should let them! [One red eye glints maliciously as it looks towards Rokurou.] Don't you?

[No way is Nuadha going to allow himself to be transformed into a reindeer. Nope, no way, no how, but that doesn't mean he isn't curious to see how the entire process works, so he's made his way over just to watch other people go through the transformation... for purely scientific purposes, that is.

... he's not sure whether this one particular reindeer counts as a success or a failure. That's, uh, sure a color scheme right there.]

You don't find it disorienting?

[Alastor snaps his head in the direction of the speaker. He gives himself a little shake before trotting over.]

Not at all! If anything, I find it rather exciting! A new experience in a long line of them! Ah, this place is delightful!

[He prances a bit as he says this. Hell has gotten so boring to him. He craves new entertainment which he's been getting in spades since arriving in Reverein.]

Saving Christmas

Alastor | Hazbin Hotel | OPEN

reindeer games (with robots??)

Ride Alastor into battle!

HELL YEAH

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