As usual, I won't be available for anything today. Please try to make sure there's still a multiverse in existence when I come back.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

[Issei is sitting in his room, as usual.]

Everyone should have received their Secret Santa presents - please let me know if there are any missing gifts.

I'd like to wish-

[Suddenly, the door opens, revealing a bearded older man in monk's robes.]

Issei, are you talking to your friends again?

Yes, I am, Father. It won't take very long.

No, please carry on. I remember not a few years ago when your only friends were books. You were such a shy child.

Father, please. I wasn't that bad.

Now you're a regular social butterfly! It's too bad that I don't have any grandchildren yet.

F-Father, it's still recording and you're embarrassing me...

Hm, although you did invite your boyfriend over for Christmas-

Diarmuid is not my boyfriend and he's going to see this why are you embarrassing me?! [He shuts the camera off, rather forcefully.]

((Issei's father is not an appable character.))

A conversation at the Christmas party today made me wonder: what would you lose if something happened to the community? Would it be people? Things? Opportunities? If you could no longer worldhop or contact people from other worlds, would your life be better... or would it be worse? What would you consider worth risking this loss?

[...]

I suppose I should say thank you to those of you who got me gifts (Kanaya, I need to talk to you about yours). There were a lot of cookies this year.

What would you do if you could turn invisible?

I need to remember not to tell Charle when I make plans for this kind of thing. She keeps insisting that I wear a dress for it, which is not something that I care to do.

At least everything else seems to be going along smoothly.

Merry Christmas to everyone on the community, and a happy Winter Solstice to those who have no idea what that means! ♥

I won't be around much today, but if you need me, I'll be lounging on the sofa, watching old movies and drinking some mulled cider with brandy that grandfather never used up.

New Year's Party Invite coming up soon!