Decking the Halls and All That Jazz

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The Justice League Watchtower has a highly sophisticated comm system that can send messages to individuals, to separate rooms, to separate floors or to the whole place. Right now, the entire system is activated. An emergency? Not quite. There is holiday music being played, from Vince Guaraldi to Nat King Cole to Ella Fitzgerald, classics all. And in the dining hall, a towering spruce tree has been erected. Atop a ladder, a young man sings along with the music as he carefully feels his way along the tree to hang lights. His usual attire of slacks and a neatly pressed shirt has been exchanged for jeans and a sweater with a red-nosed reindeer knitted into the fabric. Looks handmade, too.

Across a table near the front are at least eight pies of different sorts: fruit, chocolate, pumpkin, chess. Homemade, from the looks of it. A basket nearby seems to be brimming with cookies, too, and beside that basket are a few hot beverage dispensers labeled cocoa and mulled cider.

Someone is bringing the holiday spirit to the Watchtower.

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Re: Let Those Who Worship Evil's Might Fear My Power, Green Santa's Light!

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From behind him pops Tora, dressed in a short red velvet outfit trimmed in white fur, complete with black boots and a jaunty Santa hat.

"We brought presents for everyone!"

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"'Merry Christmas, ya punks,'" repeats Kip pensively. "Sounds like...hrm...Batman?"

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"Daaayum Stevie Wonder! Why ya gotta do me like that??" quips back the cheery lantern.

An elf rummages through the bag and produces a present wrapped in all kinds of materiel that it odd and intriguing to the touch. Gotta wrap for your audience, plus input from Tora and a visit to San Francisco's 'Exploratorium' will give you all kinds of ideas for alternative wrappings.

Guy pushes the gift into Kip's hands and claps him on the back.

"Merry Ex-Mass buddy!"

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Stevie Wonder? Oh, how Kip laughs. And laughs. He's probably been called that before, but still, it amuses him. "Oooh," he then says after getting a clap on the back. "Thank you, sir. That's really kind."

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Kip then gets a hug and a smooch on the cheek from Tora, and a whispered, "Merry Christmas, Kip. I hope that you like it." She doesn't know the man well, but he seems sweet and kind.

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He returns the embrace and cheek buss in kind, replying softly, "The thought's definitely the greatest gift of all, ma'am," to Tora. "Merry Christmas."