The Grand Christmas Carol! (Round Two: The Cult of Jin-Gal'Bel)

[Dragon Fogel]

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Starting now so we have a chance to actually finish around Christmas.

Christmas of next year, that is.

The Philanthropist stroked his long white beard as he looked over a list. Then he looked over it again.

"Oh, this will not do," he said. "These poor souls have so much selfishness and resentment in their hearts! I'd better help them remember what Christmas is all about!"

Then he laughed, his large belly shaking.

"Of course! That's it! I'll call the spirits of the holiday to help them out! But we'd better act fast if we're going to help all of them in one night!"

On the 12th month of battling, the Director gave to me,
Twelve bearded swordsmen
Eleven undead monsters
Ten spin-offs starting
Nine far-fetched arse-pulls
Eight bastards scheming
Seven dead contestants
Six bombs exploding
FIIIIIIIIVE MIIIIIIIILLION WOOOOOOOOOOOOORDS
Four Chekhov's Guns
Three OTPs
Two dragon heads
And a Tender in a World Tree!
And a Tender in a World Tree!

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Song composed through brainstorming in #mspafa, compiled by Schazer

Welcome to yet another Grand Battle spinoff!

Here's the deal - the Philanthropist is looking for eight spirits to help him spread holiday cheer, and teach some selfish people about the true meaning of Christmas. That's where you come in!

Your character is a spirit of the holiday (or perhaps a different holiday around the same time of year, or heck, a different time of year entirely; the Philanthropist doesn't care as long as they get results), and will hopefully have some ability that will help him, her, or it open the eyes of these Scrooges to the joy of Christmas!

Except, in every round, one of the spirits won't make it through. As in all Grand Battle spinoffs, the losing spirit in every round will be decided by whichever player demonstrates the worst writing skills. Shortly after, you'll be moved on to the next round and have to do it all over again!

To avoid somebody ninja-ing you while you work on a long post, the reserve system is in place again. Just post a reserve, and for three hours, all other players are obligated to respect that reserve by letting you post first.

With the basic rules out of the way, it's time for the entry form!

Name: The spirit's name.
Gender: The spirit's gender (which may be "none")
Text color: Post in a different text color to avoid confusion. Red and green are taken, as they're festive colors and useful for me as host.
Ability: What abilities the spirit has that can be used to aid in the main goal.
Description: The spirit's appearance and personality.
Biography: If the spirit used to be alive, talk about that here! If they didn't, then talk about where the spirit came from! And maybe how they became a holiday spirit.

I'm looking for eight slots. Let's go, people!

Players:
1. gloomyMoron - The Spirit of Mirth (#0080FF)
2. Ixcalibur - Capitalism (#8000FF)
3. piester - Ghost of Christmas Nostalgia (#FF8000) - Out
4. bobthepen - The Spirit of Christmas (Sienna)
5. TheBoyd - Penguin (#4000FF)
6. WoodlandBeef - The Spirit of Fine Feasts (#26619C)
7. MrGuy - Autumn (#FF8000 on black)
8. SleepingOrange - The Spirit of Winter Solstice (#4000BF)

[gloomyMoron]

Name: The Spirit of Mirth (Shortened to Mirth)
Gender: None (Though for simplicity, I will use male identifiers)
Text color: 0080FF is ice-cold.
Ability: Able to conjure physical representations of joyful memories, has a vast collection of various Hypnotic Carols and Songs that inspire levity in others, and has other ghostly-powers (flight, transparency, and selective intangible-ness)

Description: A jolly spirit that is able to take many forms. Its default form is that of large, table filled with a lavish feast.

Biography: Mirth was not once a human, nor is it a possessed kitchen table. It is, however, a manifestation of an idea and an emotion associated with the holiday season. Many a mortal have delighted in festivities around tables such as the one Mirth represents. Good food shared with friends, and family. Tables of beverages and snacks lined along walls of parties. Where ever there are people having a good time (and a table with food upon it), Mirth is there. Mirth may take many forms, however, and is not limited to being a table, but it is its standard form.

[Ixcalibur]

Name: Capitalism
Gender: Male
Text color: #8000FF
Ability: The ability to give people whatever they ask for, though without a financial incentive he is unlikely to do so.
Description: Capitalism is a sleazy salesman wearing a chequred purple shirt. He has an innately distrustful face, a black goatee beard and a long stringy ponytail. He cares about one thing and one thing only: Money. Christmas yeah it's important but only as a means to extract money from gullible saps willing to pay top dollar for a cheap plastic figurine painted gaudy colours to appeal to stupid children. He talks quickly in an attempt to baffle and confuse those who speak to him, sometimes being painfully honest sometimes being sneaky dependant on what in particular he wants from them, but he will always want something.
Biography: Capitalism is the embodiment of the modern Christmas, at least that's how he sees it. He's there behind every advert for a new expensive children's toy and in the hearts of every spoilt brat demanding more presents than any normal person would know what to do with. He is a relatively new spirit, but one that gets stronger every year.

[TheBoyd]

FIIIIIIIIVE MIIIIIIIILLION WOOOOOOOOOOOOORDS

[Dragon Fogel]

You can thank Not The Author for that line.

Edit: Sruixan has recorded himself singing the song. Or attempting to.

Also, fanart is planned for all the verses. I will edit this post to display said fanart as it is completed.

Update: Keep an eye on this space for more fanart!

Seven dead contestants

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FIIIIIIIIVE MIIIIIIIILLION WOOOOOOOOOOOOORDS

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Four Chekhov's Guns

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Left to right: Literal gun from the Mutewood round of GB1, Hoodoo dagger from BR, mirror from GB1, flight coin given to Thomas in EC. Yes, I am a terrible artist and I am well aware of that.

Three OTPs

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Two dragon heads

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[snoomanwaff]

Name: Capitalism

Sounds like one of the scrooges.

[Dragon Fogel]

I am unsure if we're actually going to get a game out of this or if it will just be a topic dedicated to fanart for the song.

[Ixcalibur]

Name: Capitalism

Sounds like one of the scrooges.

No no, the scrooges hate Christmas but Capitalism loves it; after all it's an opportunity to make loads and loads of money. Nobody said that the spirits have to help the scrooges appreciate Christmas in the traditional manner.

[piester]

Name: Ghost of Christmas Nostalgia

Gender: Male

Text Colour: Orange

Ability: Can give anybody happy christmas related nostalgia easily.

Description: He appears to be a jolly old man who always floats around carrying a photo album that contains a nearly limitless amount of pictures of christmas good times he collected as his time as a spirit.

Biography: He was always a spirit, but he wasn't always a old man spirit, ever since he was little boy spirit, he has been taking lots and lots of pictures each and every christmas, and as he grows older and older, his reputation as the Ghost of Christmas Nostalgia has also grown Bigger and bigger.

[TheBoyd]

I... I'm not sure what you're going for, but I think you just made me really sad.. suicides not funny... I..


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okay, I'm good..


should I join this? I dunno. I'm thinking about it, I'm just not sure what I should expect.

I've never done one before, and I've never read one before.

I wouldn't want to get in over my head.

And I'm not sure if I even really get it. You can write what other people do? It just confuses me.

..my spirit should be a penguin. That'd be awesome.

[CheeseDeluxe]

Reserved.

[Dragon Fogel]

I... I'm not sure what you're going for, but I think you just made me really sad.. suicides not funny... I..

Yeah, I don't find that an appropriate character, piester. If we're going to end up subverting the lighthearted tone of this thing, we are not subverting it that blatantly before it even begins.

And Boyd - you can control other players' characters to speed the game up. For instance, if two characters have a twenty-line conversation, you can have one player write the first ten lines, and then the other player write the last ten, as opposed to each player writing one line at a time. It can be tricky, because you want to be familiar with the other player's character, but it generally works well as long as players are reasonably flexible about how their character would act.

[Schazer]

Posting here to reaffirm my inappropriate girl-crush for the perpetual light in my life that is Malkytop.

Aaaaah Zephyr~

[bobthepen]

Okay I'll join this but not until later.

[piester]

I... I'm not sure what you're going for, but I think you just made me really sad.. suicides not funny... I..

Yeah, I don't find that an appropriate character, piester. If we're going to end up subverting the lighthearted tone of this thing, we are not subverting it that blatantly before it even begins.

And Boyd - you can control other players' characters to speed the game up. For instance, if two characters have a twenty-line conversation, you can have one player write the first ten lines, and then the other player write the last ten, as opposed to each player writing one line at a time. It can be tricky, because you want to be familiar with the other player's character, but it generally works well as long as players are reasonably flexible about how their character would act.

Fine, I will change it.

EDIT: I'm sorry if that was offensive, I was off my medication at the time. (That's usually a bad thing) and didn't think it would be offensive due to me being of my medication.
Moral of the story is: Take your medicine and don't whine about it, being off of it can only make things worse.

[Dragon Fogel]

piester, change your text color. Yellow is too hard to read. I should have mentioned that as well.

[piester]

piester, change your text color. Yellow is too hard to read. I should have mentioned that as well.

Done

[Dragon Fogel]

Gray is also too hard to read, for pretty much the opposite reasons that yellow is.

[piester]

Gray is also too hard to read, for pretty much the opposite reasons that yellow is.

Okay, I am editing my Character for the... Forth time? Holy Crud.

Wait, make that sixth now

[Dragon Fogel]

All right, that's better.

[bobthepen]

Name: The Spirit of Christmas
Gender: Male
Text color:Sienna
Ability: The Spirit of Christmas is quite quick, able to reach 40 miles per hour in a good sprint. He is the bane of any grass or oats and god help you if you're a sugar cube.
Description: The Spirit of Christmas is quite amicable and good natured; though, he is easily spooked, especially by loud or sudden noises. Physically he is a regular thoroughbred, about 16 hands tall with a chestnut coat. He is currently saddled and bridled, and has a lovely winners wreath of flowers draped across his neck.
Biography: There was a bit of confusion when The Philanthropist summoned The Spirit of Christmas to aid in his spread of holiday cheer. The portly spirit scoured the earth, looking for help and flew past the great state of Kentucky when a joyous shouting and cheering reached his ears.

"...and they're coming round the track! It's the final lap. On a Boat is in the lead, followed by Nutty Squirrel, It's a close race folks! one of these two contenders will win the event! But wait! What's this! It's The Spirit of Christmas coming up from behind! Look at that boy go! The Spirit of Christmas is neck and neck with Everybody Dies! Oh my goodness The Spirit of Christmas is blazing forward! Everybody Dies is left in the dust and now it's The Spirit of Christmas vying for first place with Nutty Squirrel! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS HAS WON BY A NOSE! THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS HAS WON THE DERBY!"

Goodness! The Spirit of Christmas! Exactly who The Philanthropist was looking for! With a wave of his magical hand the jolly spirit cast a spell summoning The Spirit of Christmas to his ethereal abode.

[CheeseDeluxe]

Name: Spirit of Giving (a.k.a. Alex)
Gender: Both, but prefers to be referred to as a male
Text color: [background=#FF4000:3c5qt8ol]#FFFF00 on #FF4000[/background:3c5qt8ol]
Ability: Can show a physical picture of one's deepest emotions, along with other ghostly abilities
Description: Looks like your average teenager with a present for a head
Biography: -repairing-


What once was supposed to be, isn't anymore.

[Dragon Fogel]

Cheese, I think I want a bit more detail than what you've got right now.

Also, mentioning St. Nick is discouraged. If you're not sure why... well, reread the first post and maybe you'll realize something about the Philanthropist.

[CheeseDeluxe]

Cheese, I think I want a bit more detail than what you've got right now.

Also, mentioning St. Nick is discouraged. If you're not sure why... well, reread the first post and maybe you'll realize something about the Philanthropist.

UM, SHIT.

FIXING.

[TheBoyd]

Alright! Lets finally try one of these! Whoo! Noobie time!



Name: Penguin

Gender: Male

Text color: Four thousand-FF

Ability: Any ability I can narratively give to a penguin. Mostly he's just cute I guess.

Description: Penguin is a Penguin. The other spirits just call him Penguin. He's cute and cuddly. Likes everyone.

Biography: Penguin is not really a spirit, but he does embody a part of christmas so he counts

• Penguin is a living, breathing penguin with everything that entails.
  
  It could be said he's ignorant of his circumstances, not realizing why he's where he is, and not minding being taken away form his life. Childish Naivity is a better description.
  
  For these instances he can talk, as long as he's communicating with another spirit. That's more of a power of the spirits than Penguin. Penguin can not actually speak english.

Hes a pretty good idea of an image if you're interested.

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wow, that's not that great of a picture.. I should take one myself.. cause yeah, I own that plush. He is awesome.


EDIT (a couple hours later)

Hey look I drew a picture:

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If it's not too obtrusive I might predate my posts with a little avatar (kinda Alanna esque) I tried to read a GB once and started forgetting who people were pretty quickly...