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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!! ]

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Ah, I gotcha. [Mostly. He was somewhere else too, before this place, but it was a much more peaceful world. Sounds like Silco wasn't so lucky.] You gotta do what you gotta do to survive, especially if we're talking about the lives of millions or billions of people.

[Nodding, he hums thoughtfully. That's one reason he plans on killing his own father - because he wants to stop his old man from hurting more people. If only he knew Silco was more the destructive type...]

If that's the case, then I wish you the best of luck so you and your people can end up free. And while you may not have gods to help you back home, here you're always welcome to rely on me.

Hm.

[ There's a look on his face, the narrowed eye. The instinct of suspicion. ]

Where I come from, one does not offer something without demanding something in return. We do not rely on others, we forge our own paths. [ It's a... bleak worldview, but even at its kindest, Zaun was still a city of criminals with little to go around. ]

You'll have to let me know about payment.

[Understandable, given everything Silco's said. His is a world where give and take is a matter of principle, offering something for free means whoever's doing the offering either expects to gain something or has some other ulterior motive.]

Not the type of sunshine and rainbows sort that thrives on the power of friendship, huh? [Rhetorical question.]

Alright, then. Depending on what you need, my price starts at five kryptos. Standard shrine offering.

[ His bitter little scoff is almost amused. ] No. Friendship is something one can never rely on.

[ Thanks, Silco. Maybe not everyone had shitty friends. ]

Five kryptos.

Hm.

Do you know what we say about cheap work where I am from?

You get what you pay for. I'll assume that gets very little, hm? I'll make sure if I need you, to actually pay you. I've heard my offered rates are decent.

I'm sorry to hear that's been the case for you. I've found my friends to be irreplaceable.

[He sounds genuinely full of regret for him, which is probably the last thing Silco wants, but there it is.]

Ah-- That's... a fair point.

My business model has always been affordable so those in need can hire me, but I see where you're coming from. Admittedly, I can't do as much as some other gods here, since I'm more a war god than anything else, but hey, if you have something that needs slaying, I can likely help.

[ It isn't, and there's a scoff. ] I don't want your pity. Most friendships end up the opposite. It is the way of things.

[ That's... that's very rude of him to say, but to be fair... well. He has his reasons. ]

Hah, a war god? You make yourself sound useless. I've found war gods to be anything but. After all, I'm quite close to the others. Set, and Tezcatlipoca?

[ Silco: i hate gods
Also Silco: set and tezca are my persona little guys ]

Noted. I won't claim otherwise, since everybody's experiences are different.

[Perhaps in Silco's world, friendships really don't hold much weight. Who is he to say? No insistent heroic Power of Friendship speeches here.]

A war god that doesn't like to kill is rather useless, wouldn't you say? [He smiles wryly. nodding.] I've met Tez, but not Set yet. Found it rather funny that Tez got himself locked out of the base in the snow.

[See? He's not the only silly god around!
But yeah, HYPOCRITE!! Not that Yato's going to say anything about it - he is one, too.]

[

Literally it's just Silco because they made mistakes, but he'll never admit it ]

Oh, you caught him getting locked out?

[ A laugh, like he and Tez hadn't been locked out together earlier and had to wait on Set to finally let them in. Ugh. ]

Sometimes, even gods have bad luck, hm? I wouldn't hold it against him.

[That's the joy of it - you don't have to fess up to everything.]

Sure did, heh. It was pretty damn funny.

[If only because he finds the fact Tez can't teleport to be amusing. Yato may be lacking in the interesting powers department, but he can do THAT.]

So it seems. Hopefully he's learned to be more careful, though. It'd suck to find out one of my fellow gods got done in by the weather because he couldn't get back in, pffft.

Oh, I can only imagine it was amusing.

[ Tezca better not look at this. ]

I think he's a bit more of a survivalist to perish from such a ridiculous fate, though. Perhaps I am biased, but Tezcatlipoca seems a touch more competent than to pass on so easily.

[Sorry, Tez, they're dragging your ass.]

I should hope so! It's be hella embarrassing to croak from getting your ass locked out in a snowstorm cuz you wanted a smoke. Especially if you're a damn god.

I keep telling to just smoke inside, but there's always this —

[ A wave of his hand. ] Whole thing about smoking indoors.

Who's the one who got locked out, hm?

[ BOTH OF YOU DID, SILCO... ]

You'd probably set off the fire alarms or something silly like that. That's always how it goes in the movies.

[Life's not popular fiction, Yato...]

Still finding that hilarious as hell. I mean-- you think he'd at least stick something in the door to jam it. But hey, at least this is always fun blackmail material.

[He kids, he kids. Teasing material, on the other hand...]

Oh, well, perhaps he learned his lesson, hm?

[ He did not. Silco got up there too. ]

And well, if the alarms go off, they go off. What are they going to do to us? Fire us?

I almost hope not cuz it was funny, heh.

[Nobody said he was a nice god all the time.]

Good point! Though they have been known to punish people. Not sure I wanna risk that.

[ The small show of... mischief actually draws a half-laugh out of Silco.

Way to getting in good with the man? Be mean. Even to his "friends". ]

Oh, punishment. [ A scoff. ] If they want to stop me from smoking, they will need to come up with a legitimate reason.

[ Someone comes from a place where the air's so bad smoking indoors isn't... actually... a problem. lmao ]

Hey, laughs are good! It shows he has a sense of humor, which everyone needs.

Thankfully for Yato's part he does have a tiny mean streak.]

Guess it being not so good for your health isn't gonna sway you, huh?

[Yeah, that's definitely some bad quality air lol;; You know it's bad when smokes are used to freshen up a place.]

My health?

[ A scoff. ]

If I were concerned about my health by now...

[ Well. He tipped his head, and tapped at his eye. Like... come on. ]

I'd be feeling a great deal worse about more than just the state of my lungs, hm?

[Hey, he's not one to judge a book by its cover for the most part! For all he knows that's just how Silco naturally is and assuming otherwise would be highly insulting. Still, Yato offers a sheepish grin.]

Haha, I guess so... Although I'm pretty sure the badass eye ranks higher on the coolness scale than smoke-filled lungs.

..... [Okay, rude or not he can't help himself.] Does it have any special powers like letting your see things normal people can't or shooting lasers??

[ His lips twitch, somewhere between a grimace and a smile. ]

No.

[ He rolled his eyes. ]

I'm afraid it isn't even exciting. This is what happens when the water where I am from gets into an open wound.

[ Okay so first of all, an open wound on the eye sounds bad. Second. Yikes. ] Where I'm from, we are not granted such fanciful things.

[Now see, this is were someone with a sense of humor or an especially devious mind would say "Sure, and it acts as a flashlight" or something equally ridiculous. Because he would've eaten that up.

As is, Yato mere winces sympathetically.]

Oh damn, ouch. Not a nice time, there...

["Yikes" is an understatement and half.] Same here, but I figured you never know. At least you look badass if slightly ominous.

[ Silco's humor only comes out if he's making fun of someone... or bullying them... RIP ]

Yes, at least it allows me some intimidation, hm?

[ A twitch of a smile. ]

You would be surprised how uncomfortable it makes people. Even here.

[Well... at least the teasing part is something Yato can understand. He can be a troll of a little shit too at times.]

That's true! You'd be perfect in a spooky house of horrors!

[...did we mention he does rude, too...]

No, I can see how that might be the case. Humans especially get uncomfortable about physical abnormalities.

[ A house of horrors. That sounds like the kind of thing kids get up to, thinks silco, a guy who probably had to grow up too young. ]

Oh very much so. Here more than anywhere else. Where I am from, they are... less unusual. If one doesn't come out of the mines with a debilitating injury, it will likely be something else, after all.

[ A small shrug. It Is What It Is. For now, but he's not getting into that with Yato. ]

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