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[open] If Santa Claus isn't coming to town, we have to go and find him.

Attention! By popular vote the Big Finale has been postponed!

Who: Everyone!
What: As announced, the NSCG+friends have been called to Lapland! There, they travel North, hunt down some kidnappers and finally discover...
When: 13th-~~19th 24th of January~~ after Toushiro and Dani's post.
Where: Lapland
Warnings: Abduction of children, scary Santa Clauses, violence, one instance of (not graphically described) brutally murdered reindeer

On the David Graibiger and Monika Hallbach will greet the numbered in Rovaniemi and together they will all get on a bus northwards. Up there, they will all room in a few cabins, each with two four-person-bedrooms; food will be provided and the beds are made, but they'll have to cook for themselves. TV is available in the living room/kitchen of each cabin, but the internet connection sucks. Up there, they will be taught how to drive a car in the snow, how to drive a snowmobile, how to shoot a rifle if they have no combat power (for self defense). They will then be tasked with one of the following things:

1. People with combat powers: Go out there and hunt down the kidnappers! If those people seek for long enough, they will find:
- Haggard, wild looking old men with unkempt beards who are either dressed in red santa's clothes or have been jammed into green fur suits, their faces painted green with what appears to be markers. These men are feral: They will run away but, if attacked, use hands and teeth to fight, and not be afraid of injuring a person in any way. They are superhumanly strong, but seem to be incapable of human speech - they can seemingly neither speak nor understand what is said.
If a child of up to 14 years is with the group, they are much more likely to find one of these as the beings are seeking out children. They will try to get their hands on and run away with the child in question.

2. People without combat powers: They will be sent on various trips to look at sightings, talk to people, etc. These include, but are not limited to:
- Talk to the parents of abandoned children. There isn't much information to be had from the conversations themselves, but keen numbered will realized that there are vermini in the bedrooms of the vanished children...
- Checking out a flock of reindeer that was bitten to death - yet whatever killed them doesn't seem to have eaten anything. Disturbingly enough, the brave researcher will realize that these were human teeth that killed them...
- Checking out an abandoned excavation site. The only description is that the mad guy who just recently started it (no, nobody knows who he was or why he did it or how he got the permission) hasn't be seen in almost a month now and the workers left for Christmas and didn't return after it. The place is full of vermini, but vermedi can also be found. What they will find too is a letter in Russian, written by the two last guards of the place, in which they resign from their spot, quoting that none of their tasks, which they describe as "watching lunatics and guarding the rise of a monster", was in the job description and that they just aren't paid enough. If someone wants to try, these guards can be tracked down, just comment to the Lapland plot post and ask for more information.

3. Everyone:
- Captured not!santas and not!grinches, after having been tied up or locked up or something similar, need to be watched. And questioned, but really, they will only be violent and still not say a thing or show intelligence above a scared badger. The only way to get any information out of them will be to set one free and hope that they lead the numbered to the place that they live in, but through trial and error one who attempts that will realize that they'll only return there once their mission of kidnapping a child is accomplished.

4 And last but not least
- Much more MUNDANE and nothing that they will strictly be tasked with but: Cooking! Fighting over the shower, throwing things at the snoring person in the next bed. Learning how to shoot, learning driving, petting reindeer, fun in the snow, do you want to build a snowman... go wild!

Please start your own threads and head over to the Lapland plot post if you have questions, need more information on something, want an NPC, want more tasks, etc.

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[Emilia had meanwhile taken to the skies, taking full advantage of her night vision in an attempt to see where these faux Santas and Grinches were going. Sooner or later, though, she spots her boyfriend down below... So, soon enough, she began to descend towards him once he stopped...]

Mmmm. [He grumbled into his cheek before he felt the idly thrum of Emi's magic in the air. He turned to look back at her, forcing up a smile. He was irritated with the weird mountain people, but voicing complaints was something he almost never did.]

Hey. Any luck, Emi?

Arthur, weren't you paying attention to what the kidnappers were said to be wearing?

[She loves him with all her heart, but sometimes he really can be aggravating...]

[A little question mark almost nearly appeared over his head. That was how confused he was by what Emi said.]

Wait, what're you talking about?

[He forgot to try and think of a way to ask people what was up without sounding like an idiot and totally forgot to do that when he got the snowmobile.]

These... creatures, these weird men, whatever they are. They're the ones that have been taking kids.

Wh--

[Arthur's jaw dropped.]

I thought those guys were drunk homeless people!

[And he'll be getting a slap round the back of the head.]

I love you, Arthur, but you try my patience at times! We have to follow them...

[That's assuming these creature weren't just milling about...]

[Arthur's vision spun for a moment, but he seemed to recover fairly quickly--

Theirs was a stable relationship, given his penchant for recovering from concussions.]

Well--why don't you fly up high and tell me if you could see 'em? I think they'll stand out.

[A good thing too, since she can hit harder that she means to a lot of the time. Still, scouting from above was what she was trying to do, after all.]

Sure, that was the plan.

[She then took to the air without another word, watching their targets from above for a short while...]

They don't seem to be doing much! [Emi calls down to him.] Just... milling about.

Uh. What's milling around mean!?

[He called up to Emi, completely forgetting the idea of stealth--]

...Wandering.

[Okay, that's just sad. Her English is better than his!]

Wh-- [Arthur went still, turning bright red.]

I thought like--nevermind! Which way!?

[She watched from above with growing annoyance, none of them seemed to be truly going anywhere at all...]

That's just it, they don't seem to be doing more than wandering aimlessly!

What, really? [Arthur revved the snowmobile and tore through the snow bank he landed on earlier, speeding around in the direction Emilia had been looking. When he came through, he could see a number of the Krampus-Santas had come to a halt to look at him.

He just hoped they didn't run.]

Crap. There's a lot! Think we could herd 'em up?

[She circled above a few times, noting how far they've spread out...]

We can try, perhaps...

Hnnn. [He had to think awhile. Those things could move pretty fast when they got excited. The problem was, he didn't think he had a good way to--]

Wait, shit, I got it! I could honk the horn at 'em! That might mess with their nerves.

[Emi came down low overhead, trees preventing her from trying to buzz the bestial men.]

Let's try it!

[Arthur nodded and revved the snowmobile one more time before he took off. The snowmobile spun with perfect grace, a stark contrast to Arthur's general attitude. He stopped in front of the woods where a majority of the weird men were.

He slammed his palm on the horn, startling a number of them--all of which began to slowly lumber towards him.]

[Emi then flew down to the ground nearby, landing between the madmen and Arthur himself. If they try to attack, they need to get by her.]

Got their attention... Let's see what happens.

Huh. Guess we'll see! [He revved the gas and took off, beginning to run circles around the weird men. Despite the handling of the snowmobile, Arthur handled it expertly as if he simply knew how to make it glide. It made it easy to run circles without hitting any trees when he maintained a good air of control.

In turn, the Krampuses turned to follow him, a few becoming somewhat dizzy and mesmerized by the repeated circles.]

I expect them to attack, neither of us are the usual targets!

[Emi had taken to the air once again, this time flying low over the strange old men, effectively helping to corral them all and drive them towards a place where they can be rounded up.]

[The men all seemed to act frightened as Emi came down lower to them, especially as Arthur tightened up the circles. They get more frantic in finding a way out of being trapped.

So, when Arthur suddenly broke the circle, they headed the opposite direction of him. Arthur's jaw dropped.]

It's working!

Good! Now, keep them going.

[If this works, she was pretty sure that maybe they can have the police round them up. She didn't trust them, but she decided to let them know where to find all these crazed old men. Maybe they'll talk...]

[The fact that those people were acting like cattle was scary. That didn't seem normal--in fact, how could they really be suspected as criminals if they acted like that? With a grimace, Arthur did as Emi directed, doing turns in the snow to pressure the Santas further towards town.]

You gotta call up the police before we get there! Or else people'll be freaked out!

Yeah, on that.

[She has her phone out and makes a quick call to the police...]

They'll be here soon.

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