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[no_justice]

The sleigh is still there.

The boars are still there.

The smell is tisll there, and will probably be there long after they've gone.

The skeleton is still dressed in red, he's still there.

Have you been a good boy / girl / being this year?

[OOC: No, I will tag all slowtimes and tags from this post and the last one, when I'm not running around

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[torch_reporter]

"Okay, so, I know Milliways gets a lot of weird things and everything, but what the heck are you supposed to be?"

It's a skeleton in red, and he's giving Chloe the creeps right now as she studies him. And the sleigh. And the boar.

WTF.

[no_justice]

I'm the Hogfather. Death protests. Ho. Ho. Ho.

[torch_reporter]

Chloe shakes her head. That's not enough information to go on. "And that's...?"

[no_justice]

The god of Hogswatch, explains the Hogfather. Giving toys to all the good girls and boys. It's jolly.

[_mother_dearest]

...May the Light have mercy.

What was that? Why were there boars and a sleigh, and a rather frightening skeleton thing?

Staring in horror, Lyrae was not entirely sure that whatever festivity prompted this ridiculousness was entirely appropriate for children. That skeleton creature very well might give her nightmares, much less small children.

[no_justice]

Ho. Ho. Ho.

Yes, that's all he's gpt. He doesn't know what she's thinking.

[_mother_dearest]

It spoke, and a rather eerie intonation at that. Warily, she inquired of him.

"...What?"

[no_justice]

Ho, Death repeats.

Ho. Ho. It's jolly.

[princeinexile]

Few things get Zuko to stare in Milliways. Most of them involve the fact that a lot of the women here do insane things with their clothes and call it good and even, occasionally, decent. At least he's no longer hypnotized by the shock of someone else's bare midrif (besides, Ty Lee was a total skeeze and showed everything off!) ....

But that?

He stares. He stares a lot.

[no_justice]

Ho. Ho. Ho says the Hogfather, when he becomes aware that he's being stared at. Happy Hogswatch

[princeinexile]

"Happy what?" Must be an entirely stranger holiday. Christmas doesn't involve skeletons. PRobably not from an Earth, Zuko reasons.

[no_justice]

Hogswatch, he explains. Winter holiday involving a ritual sacrifice to a winter god to ensure the return of the sun for the coming year

[give_us_candy]

[ooc: I am also running around, so will be equally slow, BUT!!!]

"YOU AGAIN." Oh smack- Lock Shock and Barrel, fresh from the freezing lake after playing with Old Lace.

"Didn't you come here last year, Skeleton Sandy Claws?" Coulda sworn ya did.

[no_justice]

I did,, he confirms. I just came from last year.

[give_us_candy]

"Why didn't you stay?" It's a legitimate question.

[no_justice]

Because the Hogfather only comes on Hogswatch.

It's a valid answer.

[whitest_witch]

Jadis. . . eyes the man. . . skeleton. . . being in the red outfit. Then eyes some more.

She thought she'd missed Christmas. Apparently not. Still, for curiosities sake. . .

"Just what," she asks, managing not to sound too imperious, "are you supposed to be?"

[no_justice]

The Hogfather, he explains. Ho. Ho. Ho.

[whitest_witch]

Well. . . at least he's not Father Christmas, that's something. Although. .

"Is that," she hazards a guess, "something along the lines of Father Christmas? Only with less. . ." regarding him, "belly?"

[no_justice]

Death puts his hands under his pillow, and adjusts it awkwardly.

Different god, same aspect.