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(We see Adler alone on a hilltop, standing knee-deep in half frozen slush. The weather is a miserable mix of snow and rain. From his vantage point he is glaring at a sleepy little yew-man town a distance away) Every Yew-man in Yarksberg Liked Kringlemas a lot... But Adler, hiding just north of Yarksberg, Most certainly did NOT! Adler HATED Kringlemas and all the “Giving” seasons! Don’t ask him why, he’ll talk your ear off with his reasons. He’ll claim it was built with elvish slave labor. It’s all an excuse to rip-off one’s neighbor. Yet the most probable reason of them all Was that Adler’s brain was two sizes too small. But, Whatever the reason his soapbox or brain, He hated it all, standing cold in the rain. Staring down from his cave with a sour, elfy frown At the warm lighted windows below in the town. He knew every yew-man in Yarksberg understands That now is the time to make lists of demands. “And they’re hanging their stockings!” He snarled with a sneer. “Next Month is December! It’s practically here!” Then he growled, with his elf fingers nervously drumming, “I MUST try and stop this Kringlemas from coming!” For, Very soon, he knew… All the yew girls and boys Would rush for their pens and greedily make noise! Then many elves would fall to that Kringle’s ploys, All rounded up and forced to make yew-man TOYS! Adler, of course, was way too smart for all of that. He’d honed his skills well, he could hide like a cat. He could dodge and pook at the mere drop of a hat, There’s simply no way he’d make toys for some brat! Adler’s great, masterful hiding skills aside, Disappearing every year was hurting his pride. Squirreling away while the yew-mans could mingle, It made him so mad he could strike at the Kringle! "It just isn’t fair, I'm the grand elven KING!!!" And the more Adler thought of what this would all bring, The more Adler thought, “I must stop this whole thing! “Why, for decades and more I’ve put up with it now! “I must stop Kringlemas from coming! … But how?” (to be cont.)

A crime against what now? Adler says he might take lowfolk rules more seriously if the lowfolk actually followed them.

Eric Costello

Well, the Wolf Queen is usually free this time of year. She can dispense her particular brand of snark, gratis.

This is collective punishment! That’s a crime against humanity! But I guess elves don’t care about human rules…

Walter Reimer

(employs two psykers from the Librarius) He's possibly over . . .

Major Matt Mason

Happy Tryptophan Day!