SCARMIGLIONE by French Surrealist painter, Félix Labisse. 1974.
Item: Scarmiggle, a small Aberration originally created to act as familiars for Beholder spellcasters. Scarmiggles come in ten flavors, each able to cast a different one of the spells in a Beholder’s eye-tendrils, once per hour, at the will of the spellcaster it is attuned to, as long as it is on the same plane. They feed vampirically on life-energy through the lamprey-like mouth in the “left” hand (pictured here feeding off a tree). If the DM has no preference for which spell it can cast, roll d10:
At a workshop in Berlin, Santa arrives to train a handful of apprentices how to act like him. “From out of the forest I appear, to proclaim that Christmastime is here!” he exclaims.
Santa — real name Tim Zander — wears a long, red robe and matching hat, and he pulls on his beard slowly as he recites a traditional poem. He then segues into pointers on how to channel one’s inner Santa.
“A really epic arrival is good, just like I just performed,” he tells a roomful of recruits, “complete with the bells, the ho-ho-ho, and a heavy knock on the door. But not so hard that you break it.” The applicants, one wearing a full Santa suit, sit around a conference table, taking notes.
Throughout Europe and North America, throngs of Santa impersonators like Zander have been busy preparing children for Christmas. But in Germany, the number of people willing to play Santa Claus has dropped precipitously, after a student union that traditionally supplied candidates stopped doing so last year out of a lack of interest among students. It was a code-red Santa emergency.
The Mari Lwyd is a horse-like creature found in South Wales. The Mari Lwyd is described as an undead horse a skull head and it wears a white cloak. The Mari Lwyd rises from the dead every New Year’s Eve to remind people that it exists and that it should be feared. Every year a festival called the Mari Lywd Party was help where a replica of the Mari Lwyd was made and was puppeteered by seven men and they would go door to door and sing songs asking to be let in and the inhabitants of the home had to make excuses not to let the Mari Lwyd in and once they ran out of excuses they had to invite it in and give them ale and food.
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