trans_9 | Good-will Toward Men

There is a whole world out there to spread holiday joy to. A world of flying cars, and massive towering skyscrapers, of quiet, cold deserts, of snow-covered cities. Everyone in it is either holed up in their homes, hooked into the Links, the network run by Macrohard, abstaining from human contact, or they're poor and destitute, in the streets, and in parts of the world that are ailing right now.

Some of them are due to stop in on specific parts of the world during their journeys. Others are just going to be show generosity to anyone they meet. Every angle has to be covered, every holiday that celebrates generosity and unity, to help stoke the fires and revive the Holiday Spirit.

Pick a place, Meatcrew. Grab some crewmates to help. Make some noise and entice people to leave their VR sets and come outside with their fellow man.

With the magical sacks, containing last of the Spirit's power, they can give anything that's wanted OR needed to the people of this world, and with the enchanted flying cars, they can get anywhere in the world to do it, in no time.

[ooc: Special holiday groups, tag your assigned subthreads (and keeping them in one thread would likely be best, since those groups are small). Whoever feels creative can pick an exact location and set up details--we wanted to give you some freedom to have your characters find where to go. Anyone else, doing Christmas or general gift-giving, tag and make new subthreads for each situation of gift-giving. These can stand alone as vignettes, but we encourage everyone to thread-hop and tag in to random threads. Don't worry about the organization of groups, they'll probably be switching groups all over the place throughout the night.]

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Leaf's own pace was slower, thanks to the bag, but the problem of the door let her catch up. She spat out the bag and peered at Scout, tilting her head to the side. "You cannot open it?"

"I got this," Scout struggled with the knob for a bit trying to push. it. open. And oh-

Pull. That works. He held the door open for Leaf, what a gentleman (except not really).

Leaf grabbed the bag in her jaws again and dragged it through, her ears pricking forward as she moved. Well, that was one problem solved. "Now what?" she asked, though the bag made it slightly garbled.

"We leave presents and shit," Scout wasn't exactly sure where considering there wasn't much in the way of holiday decor or a tree to leave gifts under.

He also wasn't being very considerate of the inhabitants of this apartment. He was being quite loud.

"Then to do that, I think we must find other apes first." Leaf put her nose to the ground and started sniffing. The whole place reeked of humans to begin with, but she was looking for the freshest scents. It if was fresh, the humans might still be there.

"Take the bag; I will find an ape."

"Wait wha-" Scout grabbed the bag. This could end badly.

Leaf ignored Scout's comment and continued to follow the scent trail, finally stopping once she was in front of door. She thumped at the door with her forepaws, barking, "Ape! Come here!" at it.

She wasn't quite sure this was how it was done, but tearing down the door seemed like it wouldn't be the best option.

Whoever was behind that door took a look through the peep hole and... screamed. The sound of more locking was heard.

Scout rolled his eyes. He almost took the bag and the flying car and flew wherever the hell he could go. But he didn't. He's a good guy underneath it all. He went over and knocked, "We got presents and stuff for, ya' know, Christmas."

"So stop your screaming," Leaf snapped, pinning her ears back. Clearly, the human behind the door wasn't the tolerable sort of ape. She glanced to Scout. "What if they do not come?"

"We got a- ugh God dammit," Scout dug around the bag pulling out a present, "A baseball bat! Wait I kinda want this..."

"A baseball bat?" A small child's voice piped up behind the door, as the door cracked open slightly. A pair of eyes glanced between the odd duo and and the gift in Scout's hand. His mother (presumably) fussed behind him warning him to shut the door.

Leaf just shouldered Scout's leg, her ears pricking forward again. "Give it to the ape cub," she grumbled at him. "That is what we are supposed to do, isn't it?"

~~What aww~~

Scout reluctantly handed over the bat. He almost grumped about it, but then he actually did something... sort of nice. He reached in the bag and pulled out a shiny new baseball, "Here kid."

He didn't have the best attitude about it, but at least he was kind of being thoughtful.

Leaf watched the exchange, tilting her head and trying to conceal her curiosity. "And that is all we do?" she asked Scout. Now what?

"You do the next one," Scout was kind of lazy.

"Fine. Then I will find another ape." With that, Leaf turned and set her nose to the ground again, going up to another apartment door and scratching at it.

"Ape! We have things to give!"

Red Talons were, perhaps, not meant to be door-to-door salesmen.

Scout grumbled and sighed. This was going to be a very long night.

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