Door 1 - The Snow Realm (The North Pole)

[NativeForeigner]

Here is where everyone currently within the North Pole will post.

The Snow Realm:

Nicknamed "The North Pole", the Snow Realm is perpetually cold and usually snowing, but there is a make-shift shelter and a fire burning in the middle where the door lets out.

So far, the major point-of-interest seems to be a large, icy castle that protrudes above many of the trees.

Ice Castle:

The Ice Castle is rather tall, standing at about ten or eleven stories tall and looks more like a mountain of ice with windows, doorways, and walls carved into the facade.

There is a wide chasm separating the group from the castle entrance. There is a narrow bridge, about three feet across, of ice leading to the castle's massive entrance, a door about twenty feet high, fifteen wide, and made from cold, blackened steel.

The bottom of the chasm can not be seen save for the deadly points of a few icy stalagmites.

A stone wall surrounds most of the chasm and lines the path that leads to the castle. The walls along the path are about seven feet in height whereas the walls along the chasm are only about three feet high. A small doorway in the wall revealed several notches in the chasm wall leading down to a series of steps leading down into the chasm.

A large manger with walls of stone with a straw roof comes up on the left of the path. There is a single window in the wall furthest from the castle and a large opening towards the path; this opening, an area of about five feet on either side of the manger, and the end of the path are the only breaks in the wall along the path. The floor of the manger is padded with straw and the light of a fire can be seen dancing within.

Castle Interior (First Floor):

The interior of the castle is quite large and, most expectantly, icy. Even the three staircases in the room are crafted of ice, two on the sides and one central staircase.
There are no obvious rooms in the castle at this level, but there are several windows that are seen from outside.

There seems to be another room behind the staircases.

Stairwell:

The Stairwell is right at the top of the stairs in the Castle Interior at the end of a short hallway. The hallway is covered with paintings of various Elves on either side.
At the end of the hallway is a door to a large, spiraling stairwell, leading upwards to the top of the castle as well as downwards into the chasm interior.

There are also doors on either side of the hallway about halfway down.

The Boss' Office (Santa's Room):

Santa's room is at the very top of the stairwell. It is large and circular, quite spacious, but there is little light. In the far right area of the room is a red curtain concealing a bed and an apparent extension of the room. The ceiling is high and coned, but easily visible.
Directly across from the entrance is a large painting, probably eight foot by ten foot, of the Mr. and Mrs. Clause that the people of Corona were familiar with when they were children from the holiday of Christmas.

Other than that, the room seems to be almost completely bare, stripped of its contents when the "Boss" became sick. All that remains are a few scattered boxes, torn wrapping paper, streaming ribbons, and cobwebs.

The room's decor, too, is rather barren. The once colorful and spiraling design on the floor has since faded, cracked, and has been iced over. The walls themselves reveal no sign of any previous decor, they're simply ice, now.

There is a large window carved through the icy walls of the room, allowing a beam of light to shine through into the room, the only source of light other than the flood lights the elves had placed by the bed.

The Chasm:

The chasm has yet to be explored, but it is know that it is quite deep, quite dark, and quite pointy. A hole in the stone wall near the bridge leads to a series of notches that lead to a series of steps about five meters down that descend VERY deep into the darkness of the Chasm.

At the bottom of the chasm is a light-blue and foggy light.

The bottom of the chasm is solid rock, granite from the looks of it. It is still quite chilly, but there isn't as much snow or ice down there as there is up above.

At the bases of the many massive stalagmites are bundles of massive, light-blue, bioluminescent fungi, the obvious source of lighting down in the chasm. The view is obstructed by a thick fog, but one can see clearly enough to move about safely and see the many, distant mushrooms.

Sounds of miscellaneous life are all around, from scuttling to growling to prowling, sounds were everywhere, they aren't alone.

Along some obscure facade in the obscure depths of the obscure Chasm is a large boulder concealing the entrance to the interior of the Chasm.

On the side of the chasm that Santa's window overlooks, there is a shallow slope heading directly away from the chasm and eventually becoming steeper before returning travelers to the surface and a small, log cabin.

Chasm Interior

After a brief hallway, the opening in the Chasm wall leads to a large and open area.
In the center of the chasm interior is a frozen pond. Spiraling up the sides of the chasm interior is a massive slope of stone, at the very top, a stone bridge, roughly three meters wide, that leads to a large door which leads to the stairwell leading upwards into the castle.

Along the slope are several, large openings in the wall covered with bars or drapes.

The blue mushrooms from outside crowd any and every corner possible.

In the Wilderness:

Below is a list of the locations discovered in the heavily forested and cold region of the Snow Realm, better known as the "North Pole".

The Shelter:

The shelter consists of four wooden poles supporting a roof made of sheet metal. Hay is spread about everywhere and there are a few bales near the poles. A series of five, small logs surround the fire.

The door the Guests had entered through is freestanding about five feet behind the fire. It now lacks hinges and a door frame.

Outside of the shelter it is snowing gently but steadily and the ground is covered in snow and ice. A few, snow-covered pine trees stand, elevated by a short, snow-covered hill, on either side of small path made up of various sized flat stones.

The Cabin:

Inside the cabin is nice and cozy. There is a small fire burning and an old, round rug in the middle of the snug cabin. A bed, a rocking chair, a dresser, nothing particularly interesting. Another door leads outside.
Mr. Jingles resides in this cabin.

Toy Factory:

The Toy Factory is filled with conveyor belts, extravagant candy cane style piping and funnels, large, box-like machines, and short, wooden stools placed all along the conveyor belts. Everything is colored... vibrantly and Christmas-y, having many shades of red, green, white, and gold all over the place.  

[NativeForeigner]

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[NativeForeigner]

Residents:

-Beetles
-Crazies
-Elves
-Infected Elves
-Santa (infected) (Deceased)
-Snowmen
-Nutcrackers (Halberdier and Riflemen)
-Yetis
-Icy Beetles

Guests:  

[NativeForeigner]

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A Brief Recap:

Ro, Henry, Arthur, Andreas, and Gregory are all on their way to "The Boss's", better known as Santa's, Castle. Upon arriving on the castle grounds, the group witnesses Carpenter and Shepard being tossed around. Everyone but Henry decides to take Carpenter's advice to move along.
After a brief, curious, and slightly disturbing encounter with the MADman Munkwon, Henry with given an intriguing offer which he decides to take some time to think on.
As they move forward, they encounter an ice bridge leading to the castle entrance. Arthur, Andreas, and Gregory decide to attempt to cross the bridge. Andreas by sliding and Arthur and Gregory by crawling across with the aid of climbing hooks.
They are currently fifteen feet across the roughly fifty foot bridge.

Meanwhile, Henry found some notches leading down to steps leading down into the darkness of the Chasm. Henry and Ro are currently in the process of climbing down the ancient steps.  

[SirBayer]

"Keep going," Arthur suggested to Andreas. There was no room to go around the slowed man. Arthur was cold and tired, but he was making progress, and he could probably make it. The ice would be uncomfortable but not fatal.  

[NativeForeigner]

Andreas looked back to see Arthur and Gregory waiting anxiously to move on and began to labourously crawl across the bridge, steadying himself with telekinesis when necessary.
Arthur and Gregory followed close behind, making slow but steady progress.
Gregory tried his best not to look down as he crossed, keeping his eyes locked on the bridge in front of him.
They had made it roughly thirty feet across, leaving only another twenty to go when an elf emerged from the forest behind them and stood at the end of the bridge.
He stood there for a moment, thinking. His eyes were noticably black, as well as the veins of his face. His finger shot out towards the three.

"ATTACK!" the small elf yelled out in a morphed voice, sounding deeper and rougher than what would be expected out of something his size.

Out from the trees charged six nutcrackers running across the bridge towards teh three, halberds extended.
As their wooden feet hit the ice, two of the nutcrackers slipped and fell into the abys.  

[SirBayer]

Arthur flipped over, slipping off his backpack. Into it he went, leaving his hooks embedded in the ice. After half a second or so, he found what he was looking for - the stolen silverware taken from the Penfold Estate. Brilliant! He grabbed out five or six and began hurling them as hard as he could from his sitting position at the nutcrackers, hoping to knock them back or even better yet off.  

[NativeForeigner]

Gregory flattened himself out in a panic to provide Arthur with a clear line of sight.
Arthurs makeshift assault was proven mildly effective as the advancing Nutcrackers paused their advance to dig their halberds into the ice to keeps from falling off as the flying silverware made impact. The Nutcrackers withstood the barrage, standing shoulder-to-shoulder.
Between impacts, they dislodged their halberds simultaneously and took a step forward, bracing for the next attack.
A spoon hit the Nutcracker farthest left midstep, causing it to loose footing and begin to tip over.
Arthur had a handful of Silverware left.  

[SirBayer]

"Not good, not good enough," Arthur muttered. "Gregory, do you think you can kick them off? It's a long shot, especially with the halberds, but I don't see that we have much else we can do - this really isn't working. What happened to the rope?" Arthur dug into his backpack to see if he still had it.  

[NativeForeigner]

Gregory looked at Arthur in disbelief. He wanted nothing to do with the nutcrackers, wanted to be nowhere near them. But Gregory wasn't dumb, he knew that that nutcrackers wanted to be near him and if he didn't do anything, they would get closer.
He took a deep breath, sighed, and nodded slowly, 'O-okay, I can try." he said.
He carefully rolled onto his back and looked back at Arthur, "Do you have anything I can hit them with?"

Arthur suddenly remembered that they burned the rope back in the manor.  

[SirBayer]

"Ahm..." Arthur pulled everything but the silverware (not including the steak knife) out of his backpack, rolled them all up in his blanket, and slid the backpack to Gregory. "Use the backpack, with the silverware it should have enough heft to knock them off even when they're dug in."  

[Venom3001]

Andreas continued his advance. "Yank their halberds to the side - they'll either lose it or they'll slide off," he advised.  

[NativeForeigner]

Gregory took a deep breath, preparing himself mentally as best he could. He took the backpack and braced himself as the nutcrackers approached. The first nutcracker came into range, he swung, clipping the halberd and knocking it loose and throwing the nutcracker off the bridge and into the abyss. He swung again and again, wildly, knocking off all of the nutcrackers off of the bridge. On his final swing, he lost his balance and nearly threw himself off of the bridge.  

[Venom3001]

Andreas immediately threw a hand out at Gregory - he came to a complete stop. Andreas muttered a curse as his head began to pound from his repeated abuse of his telekinetic abilities.

"You okay?" he asked, using the pause as an excuse to gather himself.