GWJ Secret Stan 2018: Who Was That Masked Elf?!

Stanta Hobear dropped a box off personally at my house, it was great meeting you in person sir, thanks for stopping by!

He also wiped out a portion of my Steam wish list by gifting me:
Portal 2
Shadow Run: Hong Kong (got sucked into it New Years eve and was up till 12:30 am playing it)
Darkest Dungeon
Axiom Verge(spent quite a bit of time playing this New Years Day)

Package along with Mable my assistant verifying no murderbutts in the package....:
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Package Opened:
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Nice letter (second part had Hobear's info, and didn't want to put that out on the interwebz):
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Sweet, a physical version of my avatar with dinosaurs, and carving tools so I can learn how to carve/whittle wood! I got the finger carving I mean wood carving merrit badge in Boy Scouts, but that was almost 3 decades ago...cough....
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If you got packages, at least post a comment in here. I have several worried Stans thinking that the Great Pumpkin ate their who-fidgets and who-toys.

Finally posting pictures of my awesome gifts. I've been a terrible mix of busy and lazy this holiday season.

I was gifted by the wonderful Cod (I'm 95% sure) who nailed it with delicious candies, a Mulan figure for my desk, and a fantastic Harvest Moon t-shirt. It was a joy to receive these. Thank you Cod!

The candies were well loved by both myself and the dog in the first picture. He got hold of the mango chili suckers and ate 9 of the 10....

Pictures

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To my Stantee I promise you weren't forgotten and I'm sorry it's taking forever for your gift to reach you. The last time USPS or Canada Post seems to have seen it was 12/20. Hopefully there's an update in the next few days.

A bonus Stanta gift appears!

This time I suspect the culprits are one or more of my D&D group (Eleima, Higgledy, Maq and/or Mr Devil) in a desperate attempt to ward off an inevitable part wipe...

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First up, a glorious Gametee UK, refillable leather journal and a couple of refills for all those notes I continually forget to make...
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(plus a nice little fabric bag to carry it in)

...and secondly, a hip flask for my favourite tipple. The tears of my enemies! (non-alcoholic)

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The DM is pleased! I shall postpone your inevitable doom at least a few more sessions!

(Seriously though, this was very cool , thanks a LOT!)

Tanglebones and DanB were also involved.

nice! big thanks to them as well then

Jonman wrote:

Late checking in, but my Santee's gifts were unwrapped on Christmas Day.

Gift 1 was a curry cookbook, from which I'm already scheming things to cook.

Gift 2 was Santorini. Haven't had a chance to play it yet with the holiday craziness, but my wife and I need something to break out Azul addiction, so I'm hopeful that's a winner.

Gift 3 is the one I'm most excited about. EDIBLE GAMES?!?? It's something I actually looked at before Christmas to get as a gift for my wife and I, so good call, Santa! The fact that it won't arrive until a few months from now is actually a bonus - mid-year gifts are the sh*t!

This is the point where I pull off my Santa mask and reveal that for some strange reason, my Santee was also my Santa! Which is to say, thanks and you're welcome to bhchrist!

I thought the location of origin was curious! Like a small little coven of Goojers right outside of Seattle. Well done to you as well. Glad you liked the Edible Games. Remembered you mentioned it as something you would like a while ago in either the cooking or board game thread. Looking forward to seeing you share results. Cheers!

bhchrist wrote:

I thought the location of origin was curious! Like a small little coven of Goojers right outside of Seattle.

To be honest, there's easily a covens-worth of us scattered around the suburbs and exurbs of Seattle. Maybe even enough for a coterie?

Jonman wrote:
bhchrist wrote:

I thought the location of origin was curious! Like a small little coven of Goojers right outside of Seattle.

To be honest, there's easily a covens-worth of us scattered around the suburbs and exurbs of Seattle. Maybe even enough for a coterie?

A murder of GWJers perhaps?

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thrawn82 wrote:
Jonman wrote:
bhchrist wrote:

I thought the location of origin was curious! Like a small little coven of Goojers right outside of Seattle.

To be honest, there's easily a covens-worth of us scattered around the suburbs and exurbs of Seattle. Maybe even enough for a coterie?

A murder of GWJers perhaps?

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Murder rollcall! I am also just outside of Seattle.

aaaaaah! The extra-surprise stanta presents continue :O

This time it's a painting of my brother's Doggo, Milo (who seems to spend more time with us here than he does at home)! Hecking Good! Thanks Higgledy.

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That’s amazing!

I love that!!

I agree. At first glance I thought it was June, though!

Last evening of the holidays...seems like the perfect time to say a very big thank you to Trichy! I've had so much fun with this thread over the past few months and I really appreciate all the work you put into running this. Stalking my prey Stantee was great, plus I got my gorgeous Majora's Mask Link from my own amazing Stanta, UpToIsomorphism. So thanks again to Trichy, to UpToIsomorphism, and to everyone who posts here, this thread is lovely.

I had a most harrowing experience collecting my Stanta package. Turns out Canada is even deadlier than the collective mass of GWJ murderbutts. With 30 minutes to spare before the lovely folks at UPS deported the package for the USA, I ran/stumbled/cried my way 2 miles (3.2 km) round trip in -22 oF (-30 oC) windchill. The only other time I was this cold was a 10 minute walk to university in Saskatchewan when it was - 54 oF (-48 oC) in January*

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Here is a very cold me with a package!

To celebrate my continued existence I'll be live streaming my package opening tomorrow, January 8th, 2019 at 8 EST over here. I'M EXCITED!

*Seriously! Because no one believes me when I tell them this, I pulled up the historical weather log: IMAGE(https://i.ibb.co/f2XfLbx/image.png) and when you factor in that wind chil, voila, - 54 oF

Hope you didn't staycold.

All that scorpion venom will have warmed him right up.

My santa arrived over the weekend and it is magnificent and i'm sorry i didn't get to post, i'm so slow sometimes! My most fave FF enemy and some truely magnificent slogan stickers to live my life by (and a game:D). Thank you mysterious santa:D

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Nice perler bead designs! Those are painstaking to make.

staygold wrote:

I had a most harrowing experience collecting my Stanta package. Turns out Canada is even deadlier than the collective mass of GWJ murderbutts. With 30 minutes to spare before the lovely folks at UPS deported the package for the USA, I ran/stumbled/cried my way 2 miles (3.2 km) round trip in -22 oF (-30 oC) windchill. The only other time I was this cold was a 10 minute walk to university in Saskatchewan when it was - 54 oF (-48 oC) in January*

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Here is a very cold me with a package!

To celebrate my continued existence I'll be live streaming my package opening tomorrow, January 8th, 2019 at 8 EST over here. I'M EXCITED!

*Seriously! Because no one believes me when I tell them this, I pulled up the historical weather log: IMAGE(https://i.ibb.co/f2XfLbx/image.png) and when you factor in that wind chil, voila, - 54 oF

I'm glad you were able to get the package before it was deported!!

Your unboxing video was very entertaining. Have you figured out why the fish pillow?

It appears... the game is afoot.

Yellek wrote:

I'm glad you were able to get the package before it was deported!!

Your unboxing video was very entertaining. Have you figured out why the fish pillow?

Thank you Yellek (I'm going to assume given your "fishy" knowledge it was you!) for the cookbooks full of humour, erotica, chickens, and even some recipes! I've been in a bit of a cooking rut lately so looking forward to thumbing through the books for something new!

The fish totally went over my head at the time, a mentally exhausting work week has left me indisposed of my normally sharp faculties, but yeah! I definitely put "please no fish" in my dislikes wish, because up until this Christmas I thought I was allergic to fish, but turns out I'm not!

Hehe, yeah, when I read "don't get me fish because I'm allergic and really, who ships fish anyway?" I definitely HAD to send you fish of some sort. I also enjoyed stuffing it into the box so it would kinda jump out at you upon opening.

I will second the fact that was a very amusing unboxing video. *thumbs up*

pyxistyx wrote:

I will second the fact that was a very amusing unboxing video. *thumbs up*

Indeed!!

I feel bad for my poor Santa, whose package vanished in Chicago en route to Canada. McChuck probably had something to do with it. Dastardly!

One day that package will reach you...maybe...probably...hopefully. I've opened a grand inquisition with the USPS. hopefully they can tell me something about it soon.

And this is the tale of how Certis's first ever Secret Stan was ruined.

Skiptron wrote:

One day that package will reach you...maybe...probably...hopefully. I've opened a grand inquisition with the USPS. hopefully they can tell me something about it soon.

And this is the tale of how Certis's first ever Secret Stan was ruined.

You still aren't even within striking distance of breaking the record of latest Secret Stan gift. Gremlins hit every year. Try not to worry.