The GP Advent Calendar 2022 - Door 1

Dec 1, 2022 6:57 pm
Hey there, lovely GP community!

It's December and that means, lots of chocolate. But also advent calendars (which are usually full of chocolate). In fact, I would have loved to just send everyone some chocolate through this thread, but that feature hasn't been implemented yet so we had to come up with an alternative.

Throughout the next 24 days, we, the mods, want to highlight some fun, exciting, cool or otherwise interesting GP posts, just to give you all a glimpse of what might be going on on the site outside of your own games and to share some gaming enthusiasm around.

Since we can only be in a small number of games, compared to all the many going on at the same time, there will definitely be some amazing posts that none of the mod team are aware of. If you saw a great post in a game you're in or you have written something that you're particularly proud of, please share it with me in a private message and we will put it under consideration for a future advent calendar door. Unfortunately, an advent calendar only has 24 doors so it's possible we won't be able to share everything that gets submitted to us if we get a lot of messages, but I'd still love to read as many posts you find fascinating as possible so don't be shy about submitting one or more posts you think would get other people excited 😊
For the first day, we have a little newspaper article written by the amazing Dr_B for Weekenders! the Monster Hunters Club, detailing the second adventure of that little crew of trouble makers.

When the mother of one of their classmates mistakenly starts to believe the monster hunters were bullying her son, she unknowingly summoned a vengeful motherly spirit, hellbent on punishing the children. The only way to pacify that spirit was to make peace with their classmate's mother so, rather than talking to her, they do the reasonable thing and fake his disappearance so they can find and bring him home in order to appear as heroes to his mother.
Did they get away with this lie? Only time (and the newspaper) will tell...
Dec 1, 2022 6:57 pm
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LOCAL SCHOOL KIDS FIND MISSING BOY
by Chuck Lafayette


Readers will certainly remember our coverage of the disappearance of young Davey Jenkins, aged 10, a few days ago, from his house in Gulf Haven.

[Photo of Davey Jenkins, from the School Yearbook]

The story found a happy ending thanks to the courage and commitment of three local young heroes, Cody Brewster (12), Logan Henry (11), and Alana Patterson (11). We went to meet the young heroes on the scene of the rescue (Cody Brewster was not there, injured in an unrelated fall - to him, our best wishes for a speedy recovery!).

Concerned about the missing friend, who attended their same Booker T. Washington Elementary School, the group decided to run their own search, asking Logan's older sister Anna (17) to drive them to Donner Lake, where they had last seen Davey.
"Basically, my brother and his friends had a hunch Davey could be here, as they had seen him recently around the lake. They really insisted I drive them here," says Anna.

They were able to find Davey's bicycle tracks in the surrounding woods and followed them to the bike itself, that was hidden in a hole in the ground under an old tree.

[Photo of the rescuers around the hole under the tree, with their dog]

"I went inside and it was creepy and it seems like the perfect home for a creepy crawly monster," said Alana, a spirited girl with a fervid imagination, "but then we heard Davey from over there where he was on top of a tree."

From there, the brave quartet found a scared Davey Jenkins in the branches of said tree, where he had climbed - apparently scared by some noises - and from where he was afraid of climbing down for the height.
"He was stuck on that branch there," said Logan, who climbed up to help Davey down. Logan demonstrated this by nimbly climbing to the high branch for us.

[Photo of Logan on the tree branch]

"Then the police also came and we saved the day," Alana concluded.

And the day they saved indeed, as Davey was reunited with his Mom, to her great relief. Mrs. Jenkins commented how grateful she is to the four brave searchers for returning her son. Davey was missing for a total of nine hours.
Our newspaper joins Mrs. Jenkins in celebrating these young brave Gulf Haven heroes. What wonderful news to share with our readers on Independence Day!

Chuck Lafayette

Dr_B

Dec 2, 2022 12:22 am
Why thanks - what an honor to be chosen to open the dance floor!
OOC:
Meet the Gulf Haven, AB reporter that wrote the piece 😎
Chuck Lafayette
Dec 2, 2022 12:57 am
Oh, side note about this: B had us actually play out the interview, so those quotes come directly from our answers to the interview questions, which was pretty fun.

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