TEXT | BONUS XMAS MINGLE

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[ The moment the clock strikes 12 midnight to usher in Christmas Day, a hoard of delivery drones will be activated throughout the base. They enter each Outsider's room or finds them where they might be and drops a gift off into their hands. Some Outsiders who have been gifted a paid subscription or virtual gift will receive this gift in their oculars instead.

Each gift was individually chosen. Please refer to this table to see what your character will receive! (If we have missed anyone, please contact us on the mod contact page.)

There's a brief note from Captain Yamakawa. ]


My Angels of LILITH,

I know we haven't made it easy on you during your stay here, but please know that we truly, genuinely appreciate your service and what you have done to protect our world from the impending threats. Please take this gift as a token of LILITH's appreciation.

Happy Holidays to you all. Let's hope for a peaceful and fruitful new year.


Sincerely,
Jun Yamakawa

[ Feel free to use this network post to chat about the gifts your characters received. Happy Holidays everyone!! ]

Comments

@Goldilocks

[likemybooks]

Because you look and act like one, is my guess.

[He's using stories of his own grandfather as a reference. So, of course Silco would give off grandfather vibes.]

[zauneyete]

How so?

Surely it isn't my winning personality.

[ Is he.

Is he serious? ]

[likemybooks]

For one, you're older than most of us.

And you look serious enough to be one.

We need some grandfather figure around the base and you fit the bill.

[zauneyete]

[ He squints one eye as he reads the text. Older? Older??? He can think of at least three people off the top of his head that are older than him! ]

Older?

[ A sneer. ]

I will take serious, but I'm hardly that old.

[likemybooks]

It's what LILITH says anyway.

It think it's a cozy sweater.

[zauneyete]

Hm.

I think they are trying to insult me.

But if you think it's so cozy, you're welcome to it. I have no interest.

[ He WILL give you this sweater. ]

[likemybooks]

I'm too young and handsome to be a grandpa.

[zauneyete]

Mhmm.

How old are you, exactly?

text -> video

[likemybooks]

28.

I think. There's some mix-up I'm working on.

[And to prove the handsome argument, he turns on the video camera and leans back: a practiced pose he's seen on television. His cheek rests on his fist with the elbow on the think plastic armrest of his desk chair, and he crosses one left over the knee.]

See?

[zauneyete]

Hm. You must be very proud of your youth.

Too bad it is as fleeting as the years, hm?

[ now silco... Silco is a particular sort. Because he doesn't really get what he's doing by switching to video, and so he says --]

See what?

[ it isn't that he's a man without eyes, but he is a man without appreciation for anything shy of deadliness on display. ]

[likemybooks]

[Taryon's smile drops and he raises his head.]

That I'm too good-looking to be a grandpa?

[It has to be obvious. It has to be.]

Right?

[zauneyete]

[ His good eye blinks. ]

I'm sorry to break this to you...

[ He trails off. He doesn't sound all that sorry. ]

[likemybooks]

[Taryon's jaw drops.

This cannot be.] I-

Everyone I know says my hair is amazing and — I know they meant it somewhat insultingly — but "pretty" has been used to describe me.

[He swings his folded leg off the other and plants both feet on the floor as he leans towards the camera.]

You're pulling my leg. You can't possible think I looked old.

[zauneyete]

Maybe it's the mustache...

It always tends to make a man look older, hm?

[ He tipped his head, considering. ]

Well, that's a possibility as to why...

[likemybooks]

Well, yes, but I would think it would push me towards "older distinguished gentleman" territory if it hasn't gone gray.

[He strokes his goatee. One of his defining features. How will anyone recognize him in the streets? What if he looks so young no one will take him seriously.]

I don't have any wrinkles, do I?

[Touching his face with the tips of his fingers in search for that patch of aging.]

[zauneyete]

Oh? Do you think gray and wrinkles are the requirement for being a grandfather?

[ Silco asks. Sporting gray and wrinkles. ]

I think you have one... right... there.

[ He points to the laugh line on his face. Maybe not a wrinkle, but he can't help but be a little mean. ]

[likemybooks]

[He's in his late 20s, he's starting to worry about losing his youthful looks. Which means he's tracing the laugh line over and over, dreading what the future holds.]

I'm not...oh no.

[zauneyete]

[ I'm sorry Taryon. Silco's just an ass. ]

Oh, is this the first time you've realized? So Sorry.

[likemybooks]

No, it's...thank you. I know I have to take better care of myself....

[Gods, then he'll really look like the grandpa of the team! This cannot be allowed to occur.]

[zauneyete]

Well, it's a flaw we all fall into. After all, one becomes busy... you lose the routine...

Or merely the ravages of time. They come for us all.