12-25-2014, 08:12 AM | #1 | |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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The Christmas Cat (Jólakötturinn)
This is a gigantic monster from Icelandic folklore. It appears during the month before Christmas and eats (or tries to eat) anyone who has not received any new clothes in that period. Even if it is killed, it always returns in time for the next post-Christmas season. It's not entirely clear what it does in the meantime, but since it's a cat it's probably sleeping.
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Merry Christmas, and I hope you all received new clothes this year...
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12-25-2014, 03:52 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
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Re: The Christmas Cat (Jólakötturinn)
How does he know whether the clothes you are wearing are new?
I think he needs a supernatural Detect trait or at the very least advanced Connoisseur (Sartorial) skill. And I can't imagine that red-green colourblindness is anything but an infernal nuisance when he has to instantly determine the age of any clothing he encounters, as the vividness of colours is an important clue that clothing is new and red and green are traditionally festive Christmas colours.
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12-25-2014, 07:48 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: MO, U.S.A.
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Re: The Christmas Cat (Jólakötturinn)
Perhaps a scent based roll, instead of visual cues?
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12-25-2014, 09:01 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Re: The Christmas Cat (Jólakötturinn)
Incorporated Icelander's suggestions.
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12-25-2014, 09:39 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
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Re: The Christmas Cat (Jólakötturinn)
Here's a news article from Christmas Day this year speculating that the loss of a digital camera by young parents may be attributed to the Christmas Cat, as they had focused on clothing their fresh offspring in new clothes and neglected updating their own.
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12-25-2014, 09:54 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Austin, TX
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Re: The Christmas Cat (Jólakötturinn)
I received a gift card for L. L. Bean. Will it give me a pass until the package arrives? ;)
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12-25-2014, 10:32 PM | #7 | |
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
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Re: The Christmas Cat (Jólakötturinn)
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It's a demon. It doesn't interprent rules in your favour, it looks for loopsholes to justify eating you. Welcome to Icelandic Christmas, by the way. We also have the Yule Lads. Thirteen small-time criminals and ne'er-do-wells dispatched by their child-eating mother to bring holiday cheer to deserving children and bring her any less exemplary specimens for the pot. When my three-year-old-niece was informed that three Yule Lads were espied heading for the Christmas Party at her grandparents were she had her festive lunch, she immediately threw her tablet under a table to hide it. Her reasoning was that a group of 13 small-time criminals probably couldn't resist a free tablet lying around, no matter what they ostensibly came for. Solid logic, kiddo. How are you going to trust people who live with an acknowledged cannibal proudly raising them as their mother, keep a carnivorous child-eater as a pet and make their living mostly by thievery and rape?
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Za uspiekh nashevo beznadiozhnovo diela! Last edited by Icelander; 12-26-2014 at 04:41 AM. |
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12-25-2014, 11:34 PM | #8 |
Join Date: Dec 2014
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Re: The Christmas Cat (Jólakötturinn)
I like the Björk song of the same name.
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12-26-2014, 12:10 PM | #9 |
Join Date: Aug 2014
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Re: The Christmas Cat (Jólakötturinn)
This should've been the thing that the line editor given for the first day of GURPSmas
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christmas, folklore, fun |
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