25: The Watch House
Post 5,555 give or take!
We started this calendar with Buffy, and we return home for the big chocolate behind the window for Christmas.
I kept The Watch House Christmas episodes pretty low-key, with more real celebrations around the time, including making custom action figures over a couple years and editing the first title sequence video for another.
 |
| From Cat, Christmas 2004 |
I also didn’t want to compete with Amends for heartache and resisting the temptation to go full Santa or Scrooge. I put them up against killer snowmen in a short story one year, as you do.
Separate from the magic weather attack that got an actually played episode. And the one riffing on The Wicker Man for an equinox... which we played on Valentine’s Day, now I think about missed seasonal references. And the season finale where Matthew tried to stop the others interfering with his rise to magical power by giving them everything they ever wanted.
And as noted, a bunch of other ideas I’ve mentioned could fit as well, including supers, monster hunters, and the M. R. James homage.
So something character-specific.
One suggestion from a player was A Christmas Carol with Travers as the spirit of Watcher past, Giles as Watcher present and one of the PCs as Watcher future.
The Closing Of The Year
The Watchers have a number of duties they have to fulfil regularly or there will be Dire Consequences, and this year one of the things that must be done every Christmas has fallen to the Cambridge Prentices after the Watchers that were supposed to do it got food poisoning at a pub lunch on the way.
“Nothing complicated, just have to make sure the King of the Winter Court doesn’t forget that his reign isn’t all year round.”
“That sounds complicated.”
“Oh, nothing to worry about. Deliver some mulled wine, bit of ritual combat with a frost giant. You’ll be back in time to pull crackers, if you survive.”
“Sorry, did you just say - ”
“Best of luck! Best wishes to the family!”
“...”
No comments:
Post a Comment