<br/>----------------------------------------<br/>Skosha<br/>8:05 PM<br/>Floor 50<br/>Algade Town Square<br/>----------------------------------------<br/><br/><br/>"I heard about the Naughty/Nice list.  The item description for the snow globe says that it pairs with the list or something like that, and I heard rumors the two items can only be obtained in December.  I don't know how true the rumors are though; it's very difficult to check facts in Aincrad," Skosha said while pulling the snow globe out of her inventory.  "Do you know something about the list Jonathan?  How long would it take to get one?"  On December 1st, one of the NPC dealers she went to frequently to obtain supplies had new seasonal items on display.  She bought all of the sewing related ones, and a couple of the cooking items.  The snow globe she bought on a whim because it looked cute, and she wanted to put it in her room.  She hung up about 10 stockings over the fireplace in the common room of the inn she was staying at for fun as well.  The inn's decorations seemed lacking without them.<br/><br/>Suki's comments were a little darker.  "Well, I think I'd prefer a lump of coal.  Certain doom doesn't go with my color scheme."  It figured that Suki would use the Christmas event as a chance to corral the PKers.  It was the only time that the safe-zones would be down in such a popular area.  It would be easy to cover it up if people died.  And anyone could disappear in the chaos that was coming.  There was a massive amount of people in Algade tonight.  Probably ten times as many than a normal night.  A couple walked through the vendor market, hand in hand, without a care in the world.  There was a certain amount of envy in Skosha's eyes as she watched their carefree stroll.  It honestly didn't feel like Christmas to her.  All of the lights, wreaths, decorations, seasonal items didn't matter.  Even after buying all the seasonal items that were available, none of it really managed to shake her from the reality.  They were all in a game of life or death.  Mistakes could not be made, Skosha could never let her guard down.  Even now she stood in the middle of a safe zone with a sword as large as she was staked into the ground at her side.  All she had to do was grab it and parry and almost any PVP attack would be ineffective.  Parry-bypass builds weren't very effective against most players because parry was the fifth most useful defense on the server, by a large margin, making it one of the least used.  It was only a matter of time before someone was willing to spend a few levels respec-ing to take her out.  It was the same for Suki.  PK guilds were not happy with the growing interest in hunting.