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Freya C-M posted:Ooooooooooe.... Maybe! I hope so! But we're still in the calender! Reality is still re-stitching after that explosion of strangeness - the christmassy trees and things growing in the shopping centre, the weird time effects, the ability to see everything christmassy all at once - and we haven't found out why that was happening to my satersfackshern yet, but later tonight - when it's all settled down - i've decided i'm going to be opening that last, final dore, and we'll see whether it is our Way Out of here. Not long now...
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Well until then I still want some choccy (don't care if it's Boxing
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But...but...So many questions are left unanswered! Will Rudolph get off
the sauce? When will Rose make her move on Snatter? Did the Loompas
actually DO anything to help or did they just have a stoned-out drum
circle? And what about Mr. Henson and Bowie?
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swiss_army_chainsaw posted:But...but...So many questions are left unanswered! Will Rudolph get off the sauce? When will Rose make her move on Snatter? Did the Loompas actually DO anything to help or did they just have a stoned-out drum circle? And what about Mr. Henson and Bowie? It's okay, next year's calendar will reveal all. It's like seasons of Lost condensed into a one-month span. But there's chocolate. omnom
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swiss_army_chainsaw posted:...Did the Loompas actually DO anything to help or did they just have a stoned-out drum circle?...
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Radio PhoolCat posted:They summoned the Snatter Titan, you silly numpty - weren't you paying attention? Or were you just stuffing your face with oe. Sorry, I forgot that part.
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All right then. I think it's time to wave bye to the world of Christmas
and go back through to the real world, through this final dore. The
blurry shapes on it has resolved so now it says "OUT". Here I goe, I will open the doore. Hey, I wonder if all thiose christmas tree bits will still be in the shopping centre? Or if that was all part of the Spirit of Christmas? Which is, sort of... dead. Isn't it? Is the SPirit of Christmas dead now? That'd be a bit of a let-down ending I think... Well, it's all finish now and we always goe home after Christmas. So, I suppoes we should just goe or something! Well, opening the dore now. Opening the way out dore.... ....oe. Yes, that's right I remember now. Same as last year. Hmm. I'm not sure I want to go thru that dore just yet m8s. I feel a bit weird about it, um. Let's... I know, let's go down there, to where the snoe is. The ... ok the dore is seems to be following us about a bit, erm, let's maybe walk a bit faster down. oe. dore is moving after us faster, um... sloe? yes. okay. dore is moving sloe. So at least it's not trying to scoop us up or that. It just will be right there behind us, whenever we um, want to er, to goe. I say let's join in the party first! A lot of Snomens are gathering in this big snowy area outside Elf Grottoe and they seem to be waiting for something, whispering, like they have heard something is going to happenne. And we knoe, because we saw the future a minute agoe, that they're going to have a party in a minute. I wonder why? Let's wait and see! Come on lets hide in I mean let's hang around in these snomen and see what happens! Party soon! Here it comes!
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Ooo, yes, lets join the party! because after all when we get back our
mums are goin to be well ticked off i mean we stayed awae all month and
didn't help clean up after christmas dinner or nothin, they might be a
bit mad about that whole thing so i reckon we should enjoy the party
atmersfere while we can right? an i bet itll be good too i mean snomen
are pretty awesome altogether. glad we dont have to goe home yet its nearly christmas over out there!
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W8 up buml0r! I'm draggin the chocodore behind us so we can keep nommin! Help me make it liter guys! homnomnom Oe and we can share some with the snoemans!
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This
is Agent M8s, reporting (this time almost certainly) for the last time.
I believe I can say, without raising too much controversy, that our job
here is now concluded. When the Accounts were first extracted,
collected and examined, and the story of the Antisnatter's spell, cast
through time to kill the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and
Yet-To-Come, was discovered... I cannot imagine any of you found it
easy, then, to imagine that one day your enormous task would actually
be over and finished. But it would seem that is the case today. The Spirits died that day so long ago, but they are not dead. Indeed, I do not believe that they actually can die. They may have laboured for those intermediate centuries in the form of ghosts, but a Spirit and a Ghost are not so much different after all, and I'm not sure they really resented the difference as much as you or I might. They certainly did good in the name of Christmas, as our esteemed leader knows very well. In the years leading up to 2008, that final date on which the Antisnatter's dark spell would take its final effect, the Spirit of Christmas flared up each December, as a result of the electrifying energy that rode on the wave of impending Christmas Catastrophe. Reality broke down around it, or it broke reality down itself, it is difficult to say conclusively which is the case. This year, it finally came to a head. The shopping centre - if there even is a shopping centre, and I should not be too astonished to find it gone when we return; in fact I don't remember with any vivid clarity its being there even two short years ago, though the calendar shop certainly seemed to be - blossomed and bent under the weight of Christmas trees and the like, its walls and tiles bulging and cracking as roots like claws tore rents in its structure and, in an almost sweet display of charming festivity, sprouted tiny baubles and presents and tendrils of tinsel as though they were buds, leaves, vines. That this was even possible, that the Spirit of Christmas could become manifestive in this way in the real world, was a clear sign of its approaching crisis. I feel that the purpose of the Organisation and the reason for its original forming, therefore - to make amends for past deeds by gathering together reformed Christmas villains and together save the Christmas Spirit - was justified. But even so, I have a feeling that the Spirit of Christmas has a tendancy to save itself, as is evidenced by the histories of many of your esteemed members. In this case, perhaps Christmas Present would have opened those Calendar doors even without our guidance; indeed, perhaps they would have opened themselves. Perhaps our target, whose safety, health, and journey towards and eventual finding of this year's Advent Calendar was our business and ultimate goal, would have found that Calendar no matter what. I can't help but suspect it. But these are matters which greater men and indeed agents than I will have already considered and discussed, and no doubt your conclusions are already formed. I speak to the man who I believe to be the head of the Organisation when I say that I saw you arrive at the scene of the Snowman party here at the end of the tale, and you were accompanied by Christmas Past, very decisively real, solid and alive. It is my happy conclusion then that the plan worked, that somehow in being here, in observing all this, our jolly little target (and after all I've watched him go through it seems distasteful still to call him that) managed to actually save the lives of the Christmas Spirits, so that after that crisis point on Christmas Day 2008, they somehow survived. More than survived: came somehow back to life as Spirits, no longer as Ghosts. I should like to know how this was, but perhaps I will learn in time. All I can say is that we have done good here, and I am proud to have been a part of it. And now, if you will permit me, I think it is my time to leave the Organisation. My time with you was based on my closeness to and familiarity with the target, which I believe has now served its purpose and yours. No: ours, since I have come to learn that your work was of the utmost importance and share in your aim. Of course, the Spirit of Christmas does not endure all year round. A Christmas tree loses its relevance quickly into January, and tinsel is packed away before too long. The Christmas Spirit never quite dies, but goes into hibernation very shortly after Christmas is over. We didn't feel quite in the mood to watch it take place here today, and so my colleagues and I, as you will have observed, opted to consume the sticks of treated edible material Agent Beazie introduced us to, which have that secret ingredient that allows a tained Agent to fly up and away, and in our case, back to our respective homes. Beazie was careful to tell us what dosages were safe, so that we don't find ourselves hurtling all the way up into space, a fate which as you are aware befell him before he was made an Agent, and was responsible for his ruined body. But I confess, just before we left... I felt compelled to watch our target walking happily away.  He waved to everyone as he walked towards that final door of the year. His face was lit up with its usual infectious festivity and, just as last year, with his friendly "Goodbye mates," he simply was...
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Wow this is really exciting m80s!  The snowmen who were here must be from all the different snowmen tribes! It seems news travels fast in the snowman world, because loads and loasds of tribes have sent reppersentatives to stand around here and wait to find out what's going on and then we found out what was going on didnt' we! Did you see? The Snowmads flying back with their gest of onner, which they plopped down on the flore and then snogran and man with cowboy hat and party hat man, and all of them explained to everyone just how much of a gr8 m8 Snoman is and that they shouldn't call him the Curssed One any more! And Snatter was all "Ye!" And Snatter declare open the first Season's Greetings Snoman Party since the great divide, and now they're all doing a big Christmas party for the first time as one big great huge Snowman race once again, unified and happie! And then the Head of Elf School Richard Burton, come hurtling over and he go KRINGLE! My boy! No-one would have believed, in the last years of life here generally, that Christopher Kringle hadn't been killed by the horrid hands of fate! And yet, across your chuckly face, beard immeasurably superior to most of ours grows with endless nice, and slowly, and surely, you've saved our world again m8. Three hurreys for snatter! Hip-hop: hurrey! hip-hop: hurrey! and another one like that And Snatter get: HIS DIPLOMER! Because he was trapped in time for graduation and that! It's an honorary one because he didn't do the exams and such but he deserves it!  And now here we are at the SNOWMAN PARTY!! yaaay! they're playing music and it go doobe diddly doobedoo bedoobediddly doo beedoo. And everyne's dancing around, get in a ring and dance, go in a line and dance, do-cee-do, tum-tee-tum, and have a great big old snowy christmas dance! Hurray! And here come elfs and stuff, and everyone have a big dance around YAY Click here to see the partye! O but who is this? Some snomen are flying along and they are dangling an oldy looking man with them. they set him down...  Who is man? he looks sort of weary but he have a twinkle in eye like he can make you go  whenever he want. i wonder who he Is! I don't noe him... but Snowgran seems toher eyes go BING and little icicles appear under, and she goe: "Raymond!!!!" and she hobble over and stumble, and try to run but she old, and raymond have a little stumbly over as well and eventually they stumbly into each other, and there's lots more icicles then This must be her husband that she kept trying to rebuild but the magic wouldn't work! But that's why it wouldn't work! HE NOT DEAD! Raymond Snowman DIDN'T succumb to the curse yet, he have survived! But, what happen then? And here come with the snowppl, T-SHIRT! He had been saving SNowmen and thought it didn't work but it DID! They did survive even tho they were melty and that, and they built each other up more, and then in all the commotion they went inside with T-Shirt to find Raymond! "He was in the queue," T-Shirt say. "The Antisnatter was going to experiment on him next. He was spared because the Antisnatter found what he wanted before it was Raymond's turn. But he couldn't let him free, you see. He knew too much. I think he was going to melt him down once Christmas was destroyed. Either that or just let the sun do it as the whole of Lapland thawed." You are very brave t-shirt for saving him. Nobody thinks you're bad guy T-Shirt, we noe he enslaved you! Oe this is VERY HAPPY. And Snowgran take some snoe, and put it on raymond, and raymond put snow on her, and it's like a big cuddle they're doing but it's putting snow on them until...  Oe that is nice! They're young again! I'm really glad I stayed, this is all nice things happening!! And Snowman watch happily, now friends with all of them again!  The Spirits are watching the party, that's nice, and actually I don't noe where the nerds are, they must be fading away back to real world as usually happens after christmas. In fact I can see some of you pinging away as well, bye m80s! bye! And Burgess Meredith's butterflies - who did not die - are here, fluttering with Burgess' merry long olde beard in their little tiny hands, because here he is, the wise old Elfy himself, Burgess Meredith! This is a grand occasion indeed if he here. He goe up to Snatter and Snatter can't believe it. "I have something important to say. It's time I told you, it's time I told you everything. Cast your mind back some years, to the time when you first disappeared from Elf School and appeared wearing that Snatting apparel. I assume you will not contradict me when I say that you found the Snatting Hat and placed it on your head?" Snatter can only nod. "The chamber in which it was sealed was an enchanted chamber. I myself had locked it using some of my most powerful spells. Only two men in all the world could have entered that chamber: myself, and... and I think you can guess the other." Snatter look wide-eyed. "The... surely not?" Burgess nod. "The Chosen One. Yes. And that, of course, confirms something I had suspected about you since the day I saw you with that amazing beard of yours. That could only have been the beard of the Snatter himself." "But I," say Snatter, "but I'm not..." "Time will tell. But I think you are. I have observed your bravery on your adventure this year, and skill with which you defeated each and every adversary not with violence, though it was available to you in the form of the sword I instructed Rose to help you make, but with the gift of presenting presents and gifts. This is your, well it's your legacy. One day it will be your highest duty, your greatest honour and your most heart-rending passion. You have grown not only physically but in your powers and your mind." "But I... I killed the Antisnatter, what kind of Snatter could kill?" "You did not. Every one of Earth's children must get a present. What present is best suited to them, well, that is decided by deeper magics than even I know. The Antisnatter is difficult to kill and there is no way to know that it has happened today. But either way, you did not kill him. You were only the messanger of the cosmos. You delivered the Antisnatter's Christmas present; you delivered the world's judgement upon him." "I just don't... I don't know." say Snatter with doubts in head. "But there is something else," go Burgess. "Something still more delicious. The Antisnatter believed that by firing a quantum cannon into the Christmas Star, all of Christmas would be destroyed. But he did not spend long enough examining the properties of quantum chocolate. By firing concentrated quantum energy into the source of all Christmas, he did not destroy Christmas, he caused it to take on crazy quantum states for the duration of the blast. In much the same way that the original Quantum Chocolate formed by the merging together of all possible potential Christmasses, past, present and future, so in that one instant of quantum communion did the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future. And in that moment they were one, and the Spirit was one with them. All three were mashed together into one single being, a great mighty oak of a being, a festive life form of such immense power that it could not be described physically, but which might manifest in the perception of a mortal as a great tangling of vines and roots and presents and holly and pine. A Christmas Spirit so absolute and incorruptible that it was, decisively, finally, immortal. "The effect did not last long, but long enough for a part of this being to bud off and find its way down to the world. There is a Spirit of Christmas out there, somewhere. It is real, it is a person, just as its brothers Past, Present and Future can be said to be. "THat being was the Spirit of Christmas, not of Christmas Past, not of Christmas Present or any other single aspect of it, but Christmas itself. And you can't kill it, that's the thing. Nothing can kill the Spirit of Christmas entirely, because it is only an idea, an emotion, a manifestation of the cheery attitude that makes strangers wave to one another and smile instead of merely stare at their feet. It is something that appears, always each year, and exists somewhere no matter what anyone does or says to try and stop it. "It was alive, and it was everlasting, and the Antisnatter created it. How wonderful. If only he could know." "I ahve something to add," say a ladyvoice. It is Snowgran, now a nice young Snowlady! "Speak," go Burgess. I think he knoe what she's going to say. "When you set out on your adventure, I had you pull the Runcible Spoon from its plinth. Was it easy?" "Yeah," go Snatrer, "it just slid out, exactly like a normal spoon in some ice cream would." "That was not ice cream, it was the denses rocks of the northern hemisphere, and made more solid still by magical influence. No-one in the world could have drawn out that spoon, no-one save for... the Snatter." ":O" goe snatter So he knows he really IS snatter! But the knowledge seeeme almost too much for him! He stagger and stumble backwards, he gasp and gulp! And he crash backwards into ... into Beazie. The teenage beazie who work in his lab all the time on potion. He ask Snatter what the matter is, and Snatter stumble away with him, talking. Rose join them. Rose and BEazie look concerned about snatter. They might be good friends to him, even Beazie! And a man arrive now, it's the Herald of Christmas, Noddy Holder. He's there with his friend Mr Blessed the Noise Marine. Together they have a little friendly battle taking it in turns to shout loudest: "It's CHRIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!" and Christmas it is. And look! Look who here too!  It's the Accounts Office bloke and a friend! They've come specially from the future to see the party hurray! Everyone's here! Well! I think that clears things up nicely. I feel much better now! I feel all christmassy but then I USUALLY DO, hehe! I think on that note I can brave the WAY OUT dore! Come on! Er, you don't ahve to go throu, you'll probbly just ping off like the nerds and ppl are doing, but I'm going through the doore okay! Here I go! doo dee doo nearly there oh look and there we're passinbg burgess talking to Dooley! Wonder what they're saye.  "It was risky, oh grand High Elf, I admit that. But I knew the Loompas were ancient enough and traditional enough in their beliefs that they would be able to raise a Titan for our side. The Snowman was so fond of the idea that he begged me to allow him to pilot it, feeling he had something to make up to his people. I don't see why, I never really knew why Bowy and Henson had to hide him away, but it is no longer the case. I have spoken to them and they are very happy for him. They will visit us whenever they can, and I imagine Snowman will be the man to help them get here. We can expect them at future Season's Greetings celebrations, I am sure and certain, certain and sure." "Yes, as am I. And perhaps more Titans might be raised." "Just what I was thinking, your ancientity! Titans to encircle the Grotto and guard it... perhaps one day! But there are other concerns, are there not? Since he returned, Claus has been speaking of the Spirit of Christmas. He seems to be concerned with the welfare of the season, as though its Spirit were in some way inaccessible to him. Is he right?" "In a sense, young Dooley. But in a very real sense it doesn't matter. It is not whether Kringle and the Spirit of Christmas can communicate in a direct sense, but that they are ever near one another, that counts. As long as the Spirit follows Kringle in his adventures, all will be well. He will spend the rest of his life seeking it, and it will seek him. I don't dare guess what would happen were they ever to meet, how he would react." "Who, Claus?" "No. The Spirit." "There really is a Spirit of Christmas then? A person?" "Oh yes. Somewhere. We may never see it, but it is rarely far away." "Sir? I... I think Claus is the Chosen One." "As do I. He has shown every quality and passed every test to prove the idea true... all except one. There is one further challenge a candidate must conquer in order to prove himself the Snatter, but it is not one I shall ever ask of Kringle, or of any other. It is something he must simply do, of his own accord and in his own bravery." "And what is that?" "He has to die." I wasn't really listening what were they on about? I got distracted by Snatter and Rose. Snatter looks shaken and scared, Rose looks longingly at Snatter, and they're listening to Beazie tell them what's in his potion. He looks very serious. Wonder what potion does. Well I think that is enough for this year! I'm going out through the way out dore now! Yes it's very close. Only a little heev needed and it swung open, i think it's really time i went. bye then! bye everyone! here i goe! Goodbye m8s! goodb-
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GOOODBYEEE O GR8 M8! hay is that a sequeal i hope i hear for next year ohmohlohoho that rhymed an everythin. Godawful spelling aside, the advent calendar stories are brilliant. Cheers buml0r and I hope you had a good christmas!
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I really wish someone could turn these strange advent calendars into an 80's cartoon Christmas special. I really do. Merry Christmas everyone! Let's all wiggle!
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His
face was lit up with its usual infectious festivity and, just as last
year, with his friendly "Goodbye mates," he simply was... gone. Just
gone. I wonder what the rest of the year is like for him, if he
remembers it at all. The Spirits weren't able to wrest out of him any
real coherent comment about the mother he believes he has, or any
memory other than what happened during previous Christmas advent-ures.
Maybe he sleeps, maybe he dies and is reborn. Maybe we all imagined him
in the first place. Either way, I'm content not knowing, as I don't feel it is really ours to know. My only regret for him is that he has never yet succeeded in actually shaking hands, or exchanging greetings or even glances, with Santa Claus himself. Thank you for including me in this, and Merry Christmas.  ....OH MY WORD. Thanks for reading through this whole silly thing, everyone who did. You can probably imagine how much time this all took, given that I bit the bullet and decided to produce actual pictures this year to illustrate the story, rather than the crude MSPaints we've previously had. Because of that, I can't quite explain how important Abby Ryder was to the project this year, and must give her an equal amount of credit for the images you've seen throughout. As well as shading the whole thing, and colouring plenty of it, Abby did all the really damn good pictures out of the bunch. You know the ones: the boss fights, the Mecha Snatters, even some of the more anatomically reasonable drawings of Snatter himself had at least some sketchy input from Abby, such as his first appearance stumbling through the snow, which Abby pencilled for me. We worked together in various ways, usually with Abby pencilling her pictures, me inking them and her colouring them to finish off. Meanwhile I drew the really bendy, cartoony ones, the celebs and the close-ups. We've both been up too late almost every day this month, I've been up even later than that - it's 4:30am right now, for instance, and this isn't the first or even the second or third post-3am work I've found myself having to do this month. But we did it! It was genuinely close, but we did! So thanks yet again to everyone who read the thread, or even skimmed it for the pictures, and especially thanks to those of you who genuinely seemed to want this thread to happen before I posted it. I was amazed to see how much of a response the OP got, a couple of pages before I was even able to post in it again! Some of you asked questions along the way that I'd have to break out of character to answer, so I'll answer them now if you can remember them. We've already covered the lyrics, I'm sure there was something else though, so now's the time. There will be a song, it's all written, but what with all this drawing (which, as ever, I underestimated) I haven't been able to record it yet. Stay tuned, either by keeping this thread bookmarked or by getting in touch with me privately, and you'll hopefully be able to hear it soon. Finally, if you enjoyed this then please have a look at demontomato.com it's my blog where you'll be able to see my comic, which is what I drew when it isn't December. Give me a day or two and I'll update it with some new bits specially for you lot. Also make sure to check nemesisfleet.blogspot.com which is another comic, this time one that Abby and I are working on together in almost precisely the same way we worked together on this year's Calendar. Now! How was your Christmas? Mine was great. Buml0r fucked around with this message at Dec 27, 2008 around 04:43 |
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Just wanted to chime in and say that this thread is amazing. I had no
idea what it was when I first clicked on it but I'm glad I did! Also I
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Gosh, Buml0r. I love these threads. They really, truly make my holidays complete. You're amazing. Thank you. 
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Merry Christmas and thank you very much for the awesome thread, Buml0r!
I can't believe I didn't read the first two threads until now, but I'm
certainly glad I found it this year! Also my Christmas was great! How
about you? (besides furiously drawing all December)
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Played m8, thanks to you and Abby, hope you have a nice break.
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Now that's what I call Christmas. I hope y'all have a great new year!
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AlphaMole posted:ok, now I feel like a real retard that I wasn't able to see that last twist there :x Ah, now, yes. I genuinely hope none of them are offended by their appearance in this thread. Basically I needed some nerds, and google images is surprisingly unhelpful, so I mined goons.jpg for the Cranium Nerds. Apologies to anyone who saw themselves here and thought I was trying to paint you as a villain. I don't know anything about any of them - except one, the one who we saw talking for one frame before he was transformed in the next. That guy I do know one thing about, and that's that he really enjoyed Dan Abnett's Horus Rising, and I don't feel comfortable being rude about anyone who liked that book. If anyone has seen themselves in this thread playing a Cranium Nerd and is cross about it, please consider that we've also put ourselves in. I can't call anyone else a nerd while I'm devoting a month of work to pleasing a handful of people on the internet, especially by talking about such nerdy things (you have to be a pretty big nerd to know about Cranium Rats, for instance, on which the name was based). So which ones did you recognise, and where are the blanks? Some of them are just made up, so you might well know them all. There's nobody you'll recognise in the wiggling picture for instance, and the one dressed clumsily as Cloud was invented - I was going to draw a genuine cosplayer, but found that even the bad ones tend to just look like a bad drawing of the character if you draw them. The joke might not have played properly.
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I couldn't beleive it when I watched "Have I Got News For You" on
Christmas Eve and saw Brian Blessed dressed as Santa Claus bellowing
"IT'S CHRISTMAS" at Noddy Holder. It was like this thread had come to life and invaded reality. Great thread as always Buml0r, and I'm looking forward to the song!
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This's the first one of these I've been able to participate in, and I
gotta say Christmas '09 can't come soon enough. Cured my holiday
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New song? Bloody awesome! Being brainless I'd totally forgotten the advent calendar stories until I saw the thread title, following which my flatmate and I spent several days tunelessly giggling "wiggle he, wiggle he, smack him to his bum" at each other. Neither of us had been feeling terribly christmas-enthused, but reading back the last two years left both of us humming carols and running around the shops looking for tinsel. Spirit of Christmas indeed!
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These threads are amazing, and they're only getting better every year.
The illustrations this year were simply fantastic! I can't say enough
how much I appreciate all the work you guys put into it, and I'm
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Dec 27, 2008 15:50
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Plum pudding and Christmas crackers! Buml0r, are YOU the Spirit of Christmas?  Thank you for all your hard work. We'll all be here again starting Dec. 1, 2009.
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Dec 27, 2008 16:25
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This was my first Buml0r christmas, and it was a glorious one. I hope
to see more of this next year. And htank you for your hard work, it
makes it all the more special, just that little bit of care.
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Dec 27, 2008 16:39
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Excellent job, as usual, Buml0r. I've spent the whole christmas period
so far confusing my better half by regularly saying "Wiggle he!" and
other such stuff. You should really write some kids books, or something!
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Dec 27, 2008 17:08
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Buml0r posted: God damn it, now I have to re-read this year's adventure! And possibly last year's too! And the first year.
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Dec 27, 2008 19:45
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Wandering Knitter posted:God damn it, now I have to re-read this year's adventure! And possibly last year's too! And the first year. There's quite a few little hints, let me know what you find. Mainly because I'm interested to see if there are any accidental ones that I didn't notice myself. 
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Dec 27, 2008 19:55
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Buml0r posted:There's quite a few little hints, let me know what you find. Mainly because I'm interested to see if there are any accidental ones that I didn't notice myself. Part of me wants to make a Plushie...guy? Not too sure what to call him. Maybe next Christmas if I'm not busy with making gifts. But hell, Santa really never talks or looks at him.
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Dec 27, 2008 20:47
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zombieman posted:Excellent job, as usual, Buml0r. I've spent the whole christmas period so far confusing my better half by regularly saying "Wiggle he!" and other such stuff. No joke, I think kids would eat this stuff up. My inner child was giggling the whole way through. Like others, this is my first year joining in your advent-ure and I had to go back and read the previous ones. Brilliant. This thread just made my holidays that much better. I gotta admit I lost it when you showed that real picture of a Christmas tree lot as what Lapland had turned into. So, maybe I'm slow, but your character is the Spirit of Christmas, isn't he? What a cool ending.
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Dec 27, 2008 21:06
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Bulmer: I notice Aeris was missing from the party scene, dos that mean there's going to be a post-script... hint hint ...
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Dec 27, 2008 23:06
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Buml0r posted:There's quite a few little hints, let me know what you find. Mainly because I'm interested to see if there are any accidental ones that I didn't notice myself. So how much do you have this whole thing plotted out, if you were leaving hints like this from the start? Not asking for spoilers, but do you already know what you're going to do for the next few Christmases, and how much do you already have planned? And did you have it planned out that much from the start?
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Dec 28, 2008 01:58
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After reading through the first one there's just one thing I want to know. Why did the Spirrit of Christmas make us eat his poo?  Edit: Just finished the second one again. I am so pissed that I missed these the first time around. You better make one next year!  Wandering Knitter fucked around with this message at Dec 28, 2008 around 04:08 |
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Dec 28, 2008 02:15
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Wandering Knitter posted:After reading through the first one there's just one thing I want to know. I'm not going to be the one to test that, though.
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Dec 28, 2008 03:08
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This was completely sweet as, Buml0r. Thanks for making my xmas so much
better and I loved the Mario Bro's movie references!! Can't wait for
next year now You're a clever, clever person.
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Dec 28, 2008 06:16
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OH BUML0R! Huge thank-you to you and Abby! As (you know at least) I
also sometimes have to pull the late nights to finish stupid computer
stuff for a bunch of whiny childish people who should know better (only
joking, m8s!), I really appreciate all the hard work you've put in to
this! I hope you get to have some sleep and food and drink now.Robotic T-Rex posted:I couldn't beleive it when I watched "Have I Got News For You" on Christmas Eve and saw Brian Blessed dressed as Santa Claus bellowing "IT'S CHRISTMAS" at Noddy Holder.  STOP MAKING SENSE posted:No joke, I think kids would eat this stuff up. My inner child was giggling the whole way through. 
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Dec 28, 2008 10:25
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