Traitor Tales: Holliday Cheer!

[tangentman]

Our Story So Far:


"I can't wait until Christmas time! Girls & boys have been so good this year, and since the children of Man's World are living in such troubled times, I think I should do something extra special! Why don't I just fly up to the North Pole and see if Santa Claus needs my help?"

The kind-hearted Amazon sprints to her Invisible Plane and heads north! Flying at speeds well in excess of 1,500 miles per second, Wonder Woman reaches the North Pole in record-setting time.

However, a mystery greets our heroine!

"Great Hera! I can't find Santa Claus anywhere! What about the children of the world? I simply can't let them down!"

Suffering Sappho! Whatever shall I do?"

The Wisdom of Athena inspires Wonder Woman!

"Aha! Until I locate Santa Claus, there's no reason I can't spread a little Christmas cheer! I'll fly to Paradise Island and select my very own 'elves' to help me deliver toys to all the children around the world. In the meantime, maybe we'll solve the mystery of Santa's whereabouts, too."

[tangentman]

Premise: Help the Golden Age Wonder Woman ensure that Christmas happens for good boys and girls everywhere!

Host: Golden Age Wonder Woman & Etta Candy, with a little opposition from a surprise antagonist!

Location: Holliday College, Paradise Island, Santa's Workshop, and a few other surprise spots!

Character selection: Any heroic character who has ever appeared in a Christmas (or equivalent holiday) story! Whether your character celebrates Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, Solstice, or any international variant doesn't matter, as long as they're in the appropriate "holiday spirit"--or even a little "Grinchy". Super-powers not required, all genres except video game welcome. Prefer Golden, Silver, or Bronze-Aged characters, but not a must.

[tangentman]

The Invisible Plane sped back across the globe at fantastic speed! Eventually, the daring craft landed silently behind The Holliday College for Young Women. Wonder Woman dashed up the stairs of the Beeta Lambda with the Speed of Mercury, bounding six steps at a time! Soon, the Amazing Amazon finds her friend, Etta Candy, at a most special ceremony!

"Sisters of the Beeta Lambda, attend ye now to the commencement of our most honored Christmas event--The Christmas Cavalcade of Candy!"

A veritable feast of sweets lay out before the sorority. Dishes of nearly every candy, ice cream, pastry, and dessert covered the dining table in a splendid array of colors. True to form, Etta claims the "First Bite"...

"Woo-Woo! Girls, I think this year's cavalcade will top last year's by a chocolatier's mile!"

Unfortunately, Etta's festivities are interrupted...

"I'm sorry, Etta dear, but something even more important than a candy tasting has come up!"

"Gee, what could be more important than candy? Especially Christmas candy!"

"Santa Claus is missing."

The Holliday Girls gasped in horror. While most young people their age scoffed at the notion of Santa Claus, the girls had experienced fantastic adventures that carried them across the world and to exotic locales. They'd encountered Nazis, super-villains, lovely foreign girls, comely Amazons, exotic beauties from lost civilizations--even aliens!

Over the course of the past two years, they'd even met Santa Claus. Yes, the Holliday Girls took Wonder Woman's news very seriously! Wonder Woman quickly shared an account of her evening...

"Yes, girls. I flew to the North Pole earlier tonight, because I'd intended to reward the girls & boys around the world with extra presents! Whatever their faith or creed, children deserve love and joy. I'd intended to offer whatever help Old Saint Nicholas needed--but I discovered that Santa had been spirited away! Suffering Sappho, I swear that the children will have presents this year!"

The tender-hearted Etta is moved by Wonder Woman's story.

"Gee whilikers, that sounds just awful, Wonder Woman!

Woo-Woo! Listen up, girls--we're gonna help Wonder Woman save Christmas!"

"Oh, thank you, Etta! I knew the Holliday Girls wouldn't let me down! However...not even all of us might be enough. To deliver presents to ALL the good girls and boys across the world--and find Santa and foil his kidnapper--we just might need extra helping hands.

The Justice Society are tied up with the Thinker. The boys won't be able to help us. According to what I saw on mother's Magic Sphere, the Black Canary still won't debut for a few more years! The All-Star Squadron are fighting the Axis of Evil.

Great Hera, who can I ask for help...?"

Once more, Athena's Wisdom serves the virtuous Amazon well!

"Etta, I have a plan! Remember that strange 'Traitor Game' last Christmas?"

"Woo-Woo, do I ever! And how! That kooky Nazi dame still gives Mala fits! We're lucky we came out of that alive!"

"That may well be true, Etta, but we met some very remarkable people there. If my Invisible Plane can only break the barriers between the dimensions--we just might save Christmas!"

With the Holliday Girls aboard, the Invisible Plane hurtles through the night skies. Faster, ever faster, does the remarkable Amazon aircraft fly, until the IMPOSSIBLE!

Certain scientists believe that there are infinite parallel universes that correspond with our own world. Wonder Woman crosses the dimensional gulf to several counterpart Earths, where, swinging daringly down her Golden Lasso, she recruits candidates carefully selected by the Magic Sphere...

"Happy holidays, friend! I'm Wonder Woman and I need your help to save Christmas!"

[tangentman]

A few simple rules

1. No god-moding. Yeah, yeah. Just practice "loving obedience", okay?
2. Vote for the character you think is guilty.
3. You may only change your vote once.
4. Please no disclosing "insider info"--i.e. roles--via pm.
5. HAVE FUN!!

The Players

Brainiac 5Joe Acro (Joe Acro, DC's Legion of Superheroes)
Wolverine (The Purple SkullMarvel's X-Men, Avengers, etc.)
Red (wolvie616, Pokemon)
Brock (JoshM, Pokemon)
The 11th Doctor (Jeremi, Dr. Who)
Connor Hawke (OverMaster, DC's Green Arrow)
The Seraph (Indigo Al, DC's Super-Friends/Global Guardians)
Gabrielle (Chris Lang, Xena: Warrior Princess)
Stan Smith (Redem, American Dad)
Gin, Hana, and Mizuki (Yun Lao, Tokyo Godfathers)
Death's Head (Deadpooligan, Marvel UK)

Players may begin posting!

[Jeremi]

"Happy holidays, friend! I'm Wonder Woman and I need your help to save Christmas!"

A rather disoriented man among the group spoke up. "Help? Yes, help. Well then you came to the right place! I can do help." He shook her hand. "Call me the Doctor."

[The Purple Skull]

Prologue - Wolverine (Click to play video!)

[The Purple Skull]

"Happy holidays, friend! I'm Wonder Woman and I need your help to save Christmas!"

"...What the hell is this?"

[tangentman]

A rather disoriented man among the group spoke up. "Help? Yes, help. Well then you came to the right place! I can do help." He shook her hand. "Call me the Doctor."

"Thank you, Doctor Who! I'll certainly welcome all the help I can get. Your own experiences with time and inter-dimensional travel should prove quite helpful!"

"Say, you're a little on the skinny side, but you're kinda cute! Would you like some candy?"

"Ha ha! Now, Etta, this isn't the time to think about boys or candy! There are more important matters at hand, dear. We've gathered to save Christmas!"

[tangentman]

Wonder Woman is taken aback by the crude manner of some players!

"...What the hell is this?"

"Watch your mouth, friend. There's no need for such coarse language. Especially with children and young ladies present.

I'm a super-heroine known to Man's World as Wonder Woman. Earlier tonight, I attempted to help Santa Claus prepare presents for all the girls and boys of the world. Sadly, I learned that Santa Claus has been kidnapped.

In order to find Santa, and ensure that children get their presents, I've come to heroes uniquely suited for this mission. You're one of your world's greatest heroes. Wolverine, won't you help us save Christmas?"

[Yun Lao]

Our story takes place amongst the decorative lights and falling snow of Tokyo, however, this tale is far from those you might be acquainted with. As many set about their tasks out in the cold, some delighted in the snow, others seeking to get back into warmth quickly, we find our protagonists sitting down to a holiday meal.


"I told you, we're not going to eat any cats!" Miyuki shouted defensibly.

"It was a joke! I'm not that desperate." Gin replied gruffly, only for Hana to butt in, "That would because the woman in the soup line was so taken in by my plight!"


"She looked more frightened by your face."
"Hush you!"

Did I mention they our heroes were...unique? Either way, before they could fully take the time to enjoy their soul and bread before a golden lasso from the very heavens snatched them away, their soups sploshing across the ground where the stray cats were more than welcomed to lap it up.

After a rather frightful trip, their captive finally announced herself and her plans...they were undoubtedly confused.

"Happy holidays, friend! I'm Wonder Woman and I need your help to save Christmas!"

"Are....are you a crazy person?"
"How dare you doubt Miss Diana."
"You know her?"
"Kinda, I used to do some musical numbers dressed as her...although she obviously looks much better than I, I'm so jealous." Gin was noticeably disgusted with that oh-so lovely mental image.
"I don't...she must be cold being dressed like a hooker."
"That's no way for a young lady to talk!" Hana scolded before "she" turned back to their host. "Don't mind those two, how can we help you?"

[Deadpooligan]

S.W.O.R.D. Space-Base Satellite Interior Deck Alpha. The Present.

The smoldering hulking machine known as Death's Head blinks a single working optic in disbelief.

"Ow. Okay."



"I yield, yes? Believe it is time to simply cut my losses.

...perhaps should now reconsider profession, hmm?"

The voice of a young girl calls out from beneath him.

"Hey! Abby warned you if you ever came back to bother her she'd call out the big guns--"

>chk chrrt-cck<

"--right! And me! She'd call me too. Since I guess the X-Men are really busy these days to just pop up here and help Hank out."

"Incorrect. Brand had threatened me with the fleshy squelching of her and the blue cat-man. In retrospect, likely the less... embarrassing result, yes?

"Your and everybody else's result, pal. What're you doin' messin' around with S.W.O.R.D. for, Dee?"

"Just business."

"Business... or evil-villainy-vengeance?"

"...Freelance-Peacekeeping-Agent--Client Confidentiality...?"

"You wanna lose that other robot eyeball, pal?", the girl says, shaking her fist.

The massive mechanoid shrugs, debris from his damaged body falling to the ground with a loud THUNK. "Alas, you have caught me at an impasse. Truth is, I was supposed to distract you long enough--"

"Distract me? B-but... I have the proportionate distractedness of a s--"

Suddenly, a golden lasso emerges from a tear in space-time and pulls the girl in! Death's Head looks on in disbelief again. He pauses for a solid minute before uttering a reply.

"...was counting on it, yes?"

His head suddenly catches fire from the inside, chewed up wiring igniting critical fuel lines to his cybernetic brain.



"Ow. Ow. Ow...", he says before collapsing unceremoniously face-first into the floor.

[Deadpooligan]

"Happy holidays, friend! I'm Wonder Woman and I need your help to save Christmas!"

"Earlier tonight, I attempted to help Santa Claus prepare presents for all the girls and boys of the world. Sadly, I learned that Santa Claus has been kidnapped."

Completely forgetting about Death's Head for the moment--

"Oh my good golly gosh!"



--Squirrel Girl cried out in shock!

"All those poor li'l kids! Wonder Woman, how can we help save Santa?", the young mutant replied nervously, gesturing to herself and the gray squirrel scurrying out of her bag.

[Jeremi]

"...What the hell is this?"

The Doctor turned towards Wolverine with a smile. "Oh you know the usual pan dimensional gathering for something or 'nother. Appears this one is about saving Christmas. Exciting. Wolverine, right? Fascinating."

"Thank you, Doctor Who! I'll certainly welcome all the help I can get. Your own experiences with time and inter-dimensional travel should prove quite helpful!"

"Just the Doctor." He replied with a smile. He then took something out of his coat pocket and pointed it at her golden lasso. "Forged by a God from objects of myth into an unbreakable lasso that makes the affected speak the ultimate truth...I can see that come in handy from time to time." He pocketed the device again.

"Would you like some candy?"

The Doctor put his hand inside his coat pocket. "I was just going to ask you the same thing." He replied as he put a jelly baby in her hand.

"All those poor li'l kids! Wonder Woman, how can we help save Santa?", the young mutant replied nervously, gesturing to herself and the gray squirrel scurrying out of her bag.[/CENTER]

"Oh aren't you the most adorable thing since ever?" He walked up and examined her. "Not alien...a mutations in the human genome...I met a few before in these...scenarios...like Wolverine over there...well not as like Wolverine there, you are clearly female and...cuter."

[Redem]

Stan Smith found himself in a confusing positon and like he always did when he was confuse he got ballistic. He drawn out his pistol aiming at the various people around him. Not really pop-culture savy enough to recongnize most of them and well. The sight of Wonder Woman although was very confusing.

"Stan Smith CIA! tell me what the hell is going on!"

[Jeremi]

"Stan Smith CIA! tell me what the hell is going on!"

"Hello Stan Smith, call me the Doctor. Now, I am sure we don't want to cause any bodily harm so could you holster that gun of yours, yes? Before something you will regret happens." He wanted to nip this scene at the bud before it escalated to anything worse.