The Lantern Christmas Issue

This should explain where I've been and what I've been doing. The decision to put this together was sort of last minute... I started it around the 1st of the month. The principle writing is almost finished, but there's tidying up and I want to rewrite the last third of the main story once again, as I think it's a bit of a muddle. I'll try to have this ready for Friday, but just now, I can't make a promise.

It is D&D and at least two of the stories are directly about Christmas, with one a legitimate Christmas story. The adventure is not a joke, not a mock adventure, but a real one; if there's anything I find annoying about pairing D&D with Christmas, its the incessant need to make a mockery of both concepts in order to produce images that are meant to be funny and are, rather, both not funny and at the same time, pretty insulting. I don't do that here.

Some struggle was had representing Christmas in 1635. Tradition at the time was not to actually celebrate Christmas until the actual Twelve Days started, so that recent events, such as the adventure, could not actually happen during Christmas but rather, during Advent. But I do the best I can to get the honest Christmas spirit into this thing. The mace on the cover is probably, admittedly, the oddest thing ever associated with holly and mistletoe. That one, yes, is on me.

Just now, it's coming in at a whopping 32 pages. This explains the 10 c.p. ($) fee.