As previous years - anyone can contribute. Following panto and christmas thriller in recent years how about this year we go old-school "BYO adventure" style. All posts must build off the previous, state the selected option, develop the plot, then list the player inventory, location, and end with the classic options for what to do next:
edit: suggest when writing a move just post a temporary holder - something like "move X dibs'd and in progress" and then go back and edit that post to avoid clashing with other people.
Intro:
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Following on from a couple of successful years of Christmas story threads you are getting a bit confused as to where this year's outing is. You check your diary and it's in there as launch 2nd weekend of December... Maybe SammyC has got distracted this year. Not to worry, the committee always plan things at the hall on a Monday evening...
So you stride up to the Hexus village hall to find it locked, and there's nothing on the noticeboard. Walking round the side you peer through the window and everything inside is stacked up, with a layer of dust covering the parquet floor, and the stained stage curtains closed across the stage. "Cack!" you think, "they've moved venue. It can't be at DR's log-cabin, we're still banned after that got trashed last year... I must have missed the announcement. Maybe it was hidden in the member seller rules overhaul? I never did bother reading that."
After 5mins reading the small print about profiteering vetos and trust+ name in the pictures it is clear it wasn't hidden in there, even in white text. The phone battery runs out and you stand wondering "So what to do now?"
You start walking back down the path when you hear "psst" from the bushes. A dishevelled looking vagrant is thoroughly embedded in the leylandii and sniffing on what looks like a pot of TIM cleaner... "Pssst, mister..."