Dear Honored Employee
It has come to my attention that Santa doesn’t exist, so none of you received your invitations to last year’s annual Secret Santa. The cookies and milk purchased for the occasion could not be refunded, so you may or may not be seeing this in the form of pay cuts and/or layoffs.
Oops,
Crank
wRHG Secret Santa III
The Grand Gladiator Gift Exchange
Some of you may already be familiar with the way I run this, but if not:
All you have to do is say you will be taking part, link your wRHG page, as well as say your location for unwrapping your gift, within the beach. This will come into play because the people you’re seated around may react to you, and you to them
Nothing too hard, just write two brief stories. First, deciding upon, and acquiring the gift of your choice, and then second, unwrapping and reacting to what you’re given.
DO NOT POST WHAT YOU WILL BE GIVING ON THIS THREAD. All will be submitted through PM.
The first thing that’s due is the acquiring of the gift story, as well as a detailed account of what the gift actually is, including how it’s wrapped. This is due January 21st. Now, I know a week isn’t much time, but I’m not expecting a novel. A few paragraphs will suffice. If you want to write more though, be my guest.
By the 23rd, I will have PMed you what your gladiator will be receiving.
At this point, you can collaborate with the people your gladiator will be with, such as mini RPs if you choose. If not, turn in your entry by the 17th so I can pass it to the people around your guy/girl for little reaction insertions. Anything they add will be shown back to you so you can either reject, green light, or add to it. Things MUST BE IN FINAL FORM BY THE 13TH. It’s going up the next day.
Again, submit by PM so I can organize it and have it posted on the day you may or may not have realized this is falling it.
All submissions will be placed in spoilers with the gladiator’s name being the title of it. These will be organized by location, but only the unwrapping will be posted on February 14th. Who did what will be revealed a week later, so feel free to take guesses and discuss in the meantime!
The gift giving takes place on a beach. The water is crystal clear, there’s not a cloud in the sky and it’s comfortably warm out. Your toes almost melt into the soft sand, and occasional rotting corpse of a fish aside, it’s a beautiful area. There’s a tent big enough to fit everyone with two seated tables under it, as well as towels just out of the shade and in the sunlight. The tables are round, and a light wind litters empty paper plates and cups into the orange sand, and refreshments reside at a tiki bar, along with a variety of fruit. The gifts are inside of there.
Your unwrapping options:
Table A: Farther from tiki bar
Table B: Closest to the tiki bar by process of elimination
Towels: They’re the only towels at the moment
Depending on how many people go where, tables or blankets may be added, but you will be notified if things change. If they do, it will be no later than the 14th, just because by then I am no longer accepting participants and will know exactly what to expect.
What kind of gift can I give?
Doesn’t matter so long as it doesn’t effect anything cannon. You can give anything from a severed head, to a diamond ring, to a bag of chips out of the vending machine.
I don’t have a wRHG, can I use something else?
Sure, just make sure it’s actually yours and you have a link to something like a profile page. If you link me a novel that you expect someone to read, I’m rejecting your character.
Can I do multiple?
No, I don’t want anyone getting over ambitious and crashing and burning. Someone’s counting on you to do your part, don’t let them down.
Sign ups end: 1/13/16
Given who getting gift for: 1/15/16
Planning gifts/Selecting gift stories: 1/15/16-1/22/16
Opt in RP: 1/5/16-2/13/16
Unwrap and swapping: 1/22/16-2/13/16
You may have noticed that I didn’t really change much from last year or the year before (setting aside) and that’s because I really don’t want to throw a wrench in and break the formula. If there are things you’d like to see changed between this and last years’, I’m extremely open to suggestion, so long as it’s before we get the ball rolling on the 14th.
Hope you all had Happy Holidays,
Crank