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I have gone insane. That's the only explanation for how I've written a Christmas Tale like this. Seriously, what the hell?

Anyway. It may be silly, yes,but I put a lot into this, and I hope you guys like it. This is the manifestation of my insanity, and god damn it, I had so much fun writing this, so I hope you have fun reading this.

Merry Christmas!

Isabel Wondertainment Santa Claus best Santa Claus.

It's nice once in a while to have some fiction in the SCPverse where things actually turn out okay. Even without the Christmas gimmick this tale works as a good "everyday life at the Foundation" story.

"Dr. Partridge is a pear tree."

U wot m8

In all seriousness this was a bundle of fun. Great tale ihp. Well done.

I feel like I should point at all the little things I loved about this, but I already did that in chat. All the nods and jokes are great without getting too ridiculous¹, which is what I like about your writing in general.

gg wp sharkjumper

"As he ran down the corridor, panting loudly, he drew a sprig of mistletoe from his pocket and held it in front of him like Van Helsing would hold a cross to Dracula. Unfortunately, at the moment, the tree was acting more like Alucard."

And upvoted.

What if Christmas was bees?

holy-crap-this-is-a-long-christmas-tale

Indeed, but it's also a Sloth's Pit tale for the ages!

Kant counter- though that's unreliable

Bless you. I also appreciated "E-2512".

Hail Hydrate!

I can't believe these people are giant nerds.

"The Christmas of 2008 never happened. We all agreed on it."

This joke was fantastic.

"…I dunno. I thought that I was kind of hot in that universe."

This was also fantastic.

Did they… make a wrestling ring of mistletoe for the fight?

"Dr. Partridge is a pear tree."

FFFFFFFFUUU—

That was really amazing. Thank you.

I hate to be that guy¹, but I kept noticing grammar errors (such as 'starting a quote with an apostrophe instead of quotes", and once where a "were" should have been used instead of an "are" because the subject was plural). And I don't know the policy of tales, so I don't know if I am allowed to edit small errors like that. The thing with tales is that it's prose, so grammar isn't necessary to be as strict, so I don't know what to do here. Also, I am going to relay a pet peeve:

"When quotes have more "quotes" in them." You can write it in a less ugly way by "doing something like 'this'". Everyone seems to do this and I have no clue why. It made me confused as to when people were talking and when they weren't in some particularly crowded areas.

However, I started with negative because it's always better to end on positive notes, and the great thing about this tale is that everything except what I have mentioned is a positive note. SCP hijinx (don't know how to spell that) surrounding a Christmas tree that's trying to kill Krampus is pretty hilarious. It made me chuckle in quite a few places, and kept me smiling the rest of the time. Not even Christmas, but this has gotten me in the Christmas spirit. I hope Dr. Partridge keeps showing up, and continues to be a pear tree. Great work, Ihp!

There's a part in Eleventh day where it says "Chris as he looked at his arm" and I think there should probably be some verb before the "as" but I don't know exactly what kind of vibe you want to do, like whether he's in pain or horrified or something else, so I don't know which verb to put. I could just remove the "as he" but then it would be a simple sentence and that would be boring.

I am screaming. Stream can be found here, reading starts at around 1:05:00.

Also, someone did fanart of Dr. Partridge. So that's a thing.

Also, thanks to WolfExpert for letting me use their art for this tale. Find them at http://wolfexpert.tumblr.com or http://twitter.com/wolfexpert1.