16: Tree Lighting
One last outdoor activity before heading inside to get warm.
Tree Lighting Ceremony: (New York example) In a city or town big enough to have an official tree in a public square or a large enough commercial space, a bit of a show as somebody presses the button. Usually in early December, so it’s lit up for about a month until New Year or Twelfth Night.
Trees may be donated by local forests or even from other countries - ours have traditionally come from Norway since 1947.
If there’s a Christmas market for holiday shopping, ice skating and the like, it will be probably be nearby.
Celebrity PCs could be asked to take part.
This is a public occasion, and so prone to supervillain attack as demonstrated twice in Batman Returns. The Rockefeller Center tree and ice rink was also the site of the final battle in Hawkeye though this was around Christmas itself so well after the lighting, which also featured the MCU version of the time an owl nested in it.
It’s also the kind of thing where a whole Christmas-centric small town gathers together so characters can meet in Hallmark/Lifetime Christmas movies. And there are story games for that subgenre as well.
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