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[tallasaking]

[Tyrion is looking at a wrapped ... something sitting atop his worktable in the Engineering room, mis-matched eyes narrowed as he poked at it gingerly. It was brightly wrapped, clearly done by hand with fancy paper and that wonderous device known as tape.

Tyrion kept poking at it like it might bite him.]

...so just out of curiosity, what precisely is going on this time of year for most of you? There seems to be a lot of ... giving recently.

[He really just wants to make sure no one has gotten some sort of alien disease. Really.]

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[tallasaking]

Listen I think we have enough problems without ghosts wandering about, ser. [Is Tyrion's dry response.]

...let me see if I understand this, if one is good, one gets gifts. If one is bad, something called a Krampus would come for you? I take it Krampus is rather nasty?

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[silvercast]

You're right on both accounts. My grandmother used to tell us tales of St. Nicholas and his dark shadow, Krampus. Children who were good and behaved through the year had no worries to be had. But those who were mischievous or ill-behaved got a visit from Krampus, instead.

[ He pauses, grin spreading across his face. ] You see, Krampus comes not to give, but to take. He would fill his bag with naughty children and beat them with switches made of hickory.

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[tallasaking]

[Tyrion listens to all of this, his eyebrows slowly raising together.] ... and so, enforcing good behavior through the fear of beatings and the bribe of gifts. Clever. Just how much of it is true?

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[silvercast]

See, now that is the difficult part of legends, isn't it? How can one possibly tell what is the doing of circumstance, or the shadowed counterpart to Saint Nicholas?

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[tallasaking]

This Saint Nicholas seems to be something of a political genius. Perhaps he's got some sort of disguise and he's both.

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[silvercast]

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[ Tyrion what have you done? He's actively thinking about it, now. ]

I.. suppose that is a possibility. [ Everything he knows about Christmas is wrong!! ]

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[tallasaking]

It's what I would do if I wanted to bring people onto my side. Play both sides.

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[silvercast]

That is very clever, but not at all in the spirit of Saint Nicholas.

[ He refuses!! ]

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[tallasaking]

Ahhh ... but you know very well that we cannot know spirits as well as we can know the man.