Santa Claus is coming to town

[afallenstar]

Who: Secret Santa participants, but also EVERYONE!
Where: Town Hall
When: Evening of day 24
What: Present giving! The Secret Santa reveal, and anyone who wants to have a christmas party is welcome to join too!
Notess: Party style thread guys, so go nuts. No order, everything is chaos, tag to your hearts content, feel free to break off into separate threads, and no spiking the punch! Also I think she's sort of mentioned it to a bunch of people but want to do me some lovely favours and handwave the actual name drawing? I will backtag if people want but it seems a little pointless to thread that out.


There's another message on the network that morning from Anna, just audio again. It's about as garbled as her first one regarding the Secret Santa idea, but for anyone who is listening closely enough they'll make out a few details. Namely this evening, town hall, and bring your presents before she shuts it off.

She's spent the rest of the day trying to do what she can to make the place look nicer. She's hardly got Christmas decorations on tap, but she's done what she can with what she has all the same. There's paper snow flakes up around the place, some of the food from her house placed in bowls to make it more party-appropriate, and it's no fir but she has relocated a small tree from the edge of the woods and placed it in the hall. Barely decorated, not even the right kind of tree, it's the best she can do with the resources she's been given.

Now all there is to do is wait for people to come.

Comments

[gleans]

Oh. Galen's hand drops down, and he taps the notebook against his fingers for a second, looking concerned. "Oh, somebody returned my notebook, put it under the tree. But -- you can't see? Did you talk to Dr. Banner about it?"

[manofiron]

"That's great!" Tony understands the importance of recovering one's work. Before the advent of computers, he had spiral-bound notebooks filled to overflowing with diagrams and blueprints. "Is everything intact? Nothing's been lost or undamaged?"

Important questions asked, he follows with the answer to Galen's. "I did, yeah. He can't find anything wrong to explain it."

[gleans]

"Yeah, everything looks fine," he says quickly, a little more worried about Tony's lack of eyesight. "No ripped pages, songs all there."

Galen shakes his head. "That's messed up. Do you think they put something in the water?" Tony can't see it, but he glances suspiciously at the nearest camera. He wouldn't be surprised if it was payback for catching one of the scientists.

[manofiron]

"Glad to hear it. There's nothing worse than losing what you're working on and not having a backup somewhere." He speaks from experience. It only took one server crash to realize that he needed to upgrade his system and take extra precautions for something like it not to happen again.

"Could be. I don't know. Do you feel strange? If it's something in the water, it's going to affect more than just me."