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Title: CPSS7: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 01, 2015, 04:12:11 PM
Welcome once again to all you good little boys and girls to yet another installment of the "famed" MotK CPSS.  This will be the seventh year it has happened and it's only just now adopting a Touhou theme, so I would appreciate some leniency this year with the numbers not being perfect.  I, Santa Hakurei, am overjoyed that I have once again been chosen to run this most wonderful of wondrous events!  Every year I aim to not only improve on last year's event but also to run the best event yet, so I hope you will all contribute this year and make this Christmas a truly merry one!

For those of you who have never participated, it's really very simple: Sign up and you'll be assigned a partner, then buy a present for them and mail it off.  In return you'll get a present from somewhere else around the world!

If you want to sign up, please PM me (Santa Hakurei) the following information with the subject "CPSS sign-up" by Sunday 11/15/15:
Full name:
Address (including country):
Email:
Are you willing to ship international? Yes/No (US residents only)
Willing to receive NSFW presents? Yes/No
MotKers you exchange with:
(Optional) T-shirt size
(Optional) 5 things you like (if you're afraid no one knows what you like (NO GUARANTEE you'll get anything from that list))

[vic]Note: Please give your address as it would appear on a letter to reach you.  Every country does addresses differently so please ensure that it is correct.[/vic]  Hey!  What are you doing in the first post?  You're not the one making the decisions anymore since you couldn't be trusted!  Now shoo, you can have the next post.

IMPORTANT: This year, we have added a line on the form for you to list fellow MotK'ers that you exchange gifts with independent of CPSS.  Adding someone's name to this list will eliminate them from being matched with you.  However, in the spirit of Christmas please only use this this option for good; do not use this to eliminate people you don't want to exchange with for petty reasons.  This is my time of the year to relax and I don't want to be forced to solve an incident on you!  You don't need to list the people you have sent/received from in past CPSS exchanges as we have all of those records (assuming you have not changed your forum name!)


Important dates to note (Dates are for US Eastern Standard Time, i.e. GMT-5.  Adjust for your country accordingly):
11/15/2015 - Deadline to sign up
11/16/2015 - Partners assigned
12/07/2015 - Last date to ship International
12/15/2015 - Last date to ship USPS First Class Mail
12/25/2015 - Open your gift and post what you got

A few important rules to keep in mind:
1. Tracking is required!
2. When you ship your package, PM me (Santa Hakurei) with the topic "Package shipped" and provide the tracking number.
3. If sending USPS international then the customs number is the tracking number
4. If you don't send a present you will be BANNED!
5. If you miss ANY deadline, please PM me with a timeline on when you can ship the package out.  Starting this communication means saving yourself from being banned.
6. That said, do your best to ship before the international deadline as packages have been stuck in customs for lengthy periods in the past.

FAQ:
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Participants:
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 01, 2015, 04:12:51 PM
First thread here (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,3492.html), Second thread here (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7562.html), Third thread here (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,11228.0.html), Fourth thread here (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,13743.0.html), Fifth thread here (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,15796.0.html), and Sixth thread (last year's) here (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,17589.0.html).

*Angel by Sarah McLachlan playing in background* Customs Hell is a real place that many packages find themselves every year.  The good news is that you can help.  For the low price of only 0 cents a day, you can meet your shipping deadline and help save another international package from Customs Hell.  Please, won't you help?

HEY TRIANGLES LOOK WHAT I DID!!!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on November 01, 2015, 06:09:33 PM
Signed up, once again. Hope that it'll be a brilliant year as always~ <3
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Spotty Len on November 01, 2015, 07:33:56 PM
Of course I'm in again.

Though if I get a certain DVD again I'll stab somebody.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: triangles on November 01, 2015, 08:22:17 PM

HEY TRIANGLES LOOK WHAT I DID!!!

YES GOOD YOU DID THE THING AND WIN THE PRIZE OF ME NOT FUSSING IN MY FIRST POST :toot: :toot:
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: DX7.EP on November 01, 2015, 08:39:25 PM
As much as I'd like to partake once more, I'm not 100% sure of my situation at the moment to be able to commit. :<

EIther way, let's see who gets that dreaded DVD, eh? :P
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Raikaria on November 01, 2015, 08:50:25 PM
My chips are on the table. Was wondering when this would come up.

Now what is this DVD I am hearing so much about?
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Tengukami on November 01, 2015, 08:52:47 PM
Now what is this DVD I am hearing so much about?

Eiken on BluRay.

Also, in. Promise to be on time this year, too.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Raikaria on November 01, 2015, 08:57:32 PM
Well I know a DVD I won't be receiving if someone respects my Lewd or Not section.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: PX on November 01, 2015, 09:15:24 PM
Dammit I would have taken that first slot if I wasn't working. In for a glorious 3rd year in a row, let's hope my bank account can keep with the quality of stuff I send :getdown:
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Helepolis on November 01, 2015, 09:18:45 PM
F**** YEA, SANTA HAKUREI IS HERE!!    /IN

(Will send the PM tomorrow morning, I am dead tired now)

Eiken on BluRay.
This is what Kilga definitely would attempt to gift me if he was my partner last year.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Spotty Len on November 01, 2015, 09:23:28 PM
Now what is this DVD I am hearing so much about?
NOTHING
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Mеа on November 01, 2015, 10:59:13 PM
The amount of effort everyone puts into this (with some lunatics) makes this daunting, but I'll give it my best shot.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Drake on November 01, 2015, 11:29:00 PM
/in, but jfc i have to scale myself back this year (and send earlier)
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Reddyne on November 01, 2015, 11:30:19 PM
-AAAAAAAAW YEAH!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Jq1790 on November 01, 2015, 11:32:18 PM
Let's see if I can get my partner's name right this year!  OTL

Anyway, in as usual, sending PM after I get done this post.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Chaore on November 02, 2015, 03:16:03 AM
I need to make some prods before I decide whether I'm entering or not, because I entrusted something to my father last year I never checked up on fully.

If that...did not end up going through, I'll withdraw this year, even if I'm more able to send things out myself this year.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Kilgamayan on November 02, 2015, 03:23:05 AM
F**** YEA, SANTA HAKUREI IS HERE!!    /IN

(Will send the PM tomorrow morning, I am dead tired now)
This is what Kilga definitely would attempt to gift me if he was my partner last year.

Nuts to you, if I find Eiken on BluRay I'm getting it for myself.

Probably not going to enter this year, I have negative time and negative creativity and last year was far more stress than fun. We'll see if my mind changes before deadline, though.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: aUsernameIsFineToo on November 02, 2015, 03:33:02 AM
First time participating, hope everything goes well!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: The ⑨th Zentillion on November 02, 2015, 03:37:59 AM
In. But augh i screwed up on the application sending... TWICE. Sorry about that. X_X
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: RuneDevros on November 02, 2015, 04:31:31 AM
I've never done this before but it sounds fun, so I'll sign up.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Moogs Parfait on November 02, 2015, 04:52:08 AM
I signed up.  I have little time to hand-make something, but it should be fun despite me getting anxious anytime I have to physically mail a package.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Helepolis on November 02, 2015, 08:11:26 AM
PM sent.

Funny to note that many people suffer from stress and other things for this year. Same for me too. Bit stressed life lately due to pretty much a lot of events. TL DR: My own stuff to sort out, no worries.

I hope to be as equal creative as previous years. Edible in 2013 was easy :V but Vyrien was quite the challenge last year for me to come up with. Finding that chest was harder than everything else.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Pesco on November 02, 2015, 09:06:34 AM
F**** YEA, SANTA HAKUREI IS HERE!!    /IN

(Will send the PM tomorrow morning, I am dead tired now)
This is what Kilga definitely would attempt to gift me if he was my partner last year.

You got a calendar last year. I hope you used it.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: N-Forza on November 02, 2015, 09:38:55 AM
I have literally never made anything I shipped out (but I guess I have a certain advantage) so I'm not sure why people are sort of stressing about that. I guess if you care about things like "personalization" and "actual thought"...
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Helepolis on November 02, 2015, 10:40:06 AM
You got a calendar last year. I hope you used it.
Ripeness of the Melons. Imo it was bit too ripe for my taste.  :o

so I'm not sure why people are sort of stressing about that. I guess if you care about things like "personalization" and "actual thought"...
Speaking for myself, not really stressed about that. More like private life stuff bothering.

Though the process of opening a gift can be just as enjoyable as the gift itself. Which is why I often try to make it an experience, even if it lasts a short while :V
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on November 02, 2015, 12:34:20 PM
aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in thx
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Helepolis on November 02, 2015, 04:00:04 PM
Now what is this DVD I am hearing so much about?
I will make this brave leap to explain. May god have mercy on my soul. Please bury me with my sketch books.

There is this non-existent existing anime serie called Tsukiwrjh3wbfbf. Tsukiwrjh3wbfbf DVDpack is notorious to be gifted to the person you hate love the most. A few people have received the Tsukiwrjh3wbfbf DVD and it drastically changed their lives. So, bet your money, life, dog, cat, family on it that whoever gets Forza will be the depressive owner of the Tsukiwrjh3wbfbf DVD pack.

I still haven't opened my Tsukiwrjh3wbfbf pack. It is sealed, which is good for humanity's sake. Maybe one day if I give up on humanity I will open it but for now, I am sane. I think.

I did see Tsukiwrjh3wbfbf anime btw.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 02, 2015, 05:15:43 PM
I already own Tsukihime on DVD and I paid full retail. Any of you chumps send a copy to me is getting banned.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Nietz on November 02, 2015, 05:37:03 PM
I'm in. I might not be in Japan anymore, but still have lots of loot that'd be great as gifts. Too bad I don't have anymore access to weird Japanese sex toys to send (or do I??).
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on November 02, 2015, 06:07:56 PM
I'm in. I might not be in Japan anymore, but still have lots of loot that'd be great as gifts. Too bad I don't have anymore access to weird Japanese sex toys to send (or do I??).

WINK WONK BABY
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Vyrien on November 02, 2015, 06:13:56 PM
I'm in. I might not be in Japan anymore, but still have lots of loot that'd be great as gifts. Too bad I don't have anymore access to weird Japanese sex toys to send (or do I??).

Worry not peasants for I have taken Nietz's place as weaboo god this year, and I am a generous deity.

I'm innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: pasu on November 02, 2015, 06:19:34 PM
Usually I'd be sending my pm by now, but I'm actually worried I won't be creative enough this year... Will probably do before the deadline though, since it's still fun in the end!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: HakureiSM on November 02, 2015, 06:43:47 PM
Hell yeah you cunts I'm in

I have taken Nietz's place as weaboo god this year
pls gift that gigantic waist-high dildo you found in akiba
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Tengukami on November 02, 2015, 06:51:23 PM
Sure am glad I listed "giant dildos" in my five interests.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: pasu on November 02, 2015, 07:51:09 PM
ok screw it sent mine in after i got a flash of inspiration of what to make

Edit: guys why is #7 EoSD this is bothering me more than I thought it would should it not be Perfect Cherry Santa
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Vento on November 02, 2015, 08:01:48 PM
i n the zone

Hell yeah you cunts I'm in
pls gift that gigantic waist-high dildo you found in akiba
i hope haku gets vyrien

pls
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Mеа on November 02, 2015, 08:11:57 PM
Hmmm perhaps I should change my answer to:

Willing to accept NSFW gifts?
Ironically: Yes
Unironically: Oh god no
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: hungrybookworm on November 02, 2015, 08:19:43 PM
I'm interested again this year! One question though: with the list of people we've already exchanged prezzies with, do we list the people we sent stuff to, the people we got stuff from, or both?
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Reddyne on November 02, 2015, 08:51:00 PM
I'm interested again this year! One question though: with the list of people we've already exchanged prezzies with, do we list the people we sent stuff to, the people we got stuff from, or both?
Whoops actually we might need some clarification on this simply because it's the first year it has been listed. I think it's the list of MotK'ers that we will exchange presents with in real life regardless of CPSS. It's there since a bunch of the people who will be participating know each other outside of MotK.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Moogs Parfait on November 02, 2015, 08:57:53 PM
Hmmm perhaps I should change my answer to:

Willing to accept NSFW gifts?
Ironically: Yes
Unironically: Oh god no

I assumed this was the standard. ..right?
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 02, 2015, 09:51:38 PM
What a fantastic response so far!  I am currently updating my list and the OP but in the meantime....

I'm interested again this year! One question though: with the list of people we've already exchanged prezzies with, do we list the people we sent stuff to, the people we got stuff from, or both?

Whoops actually we might need some clarification on this simply because it's the first year it has been listed. I think it's the list of MotK'ers that we will exchange presents with in real life regardless of CPSS. It's there since a bunch of the people who will be participating know each other outside of MotK.

Reddyne has it, that part is specifically for any gift giving outside of CPSS so many people would be leaving it blank.   The nature of the partner selection means we really can't have a "do-over" if you wind up assigned with such a person, so we'd want to make sure we know all of that information in advance.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: N-Forza on November 03, 2015, 01:28:19 AM
guys why is #7 EoSD this is bothering me more than I thought it would should it not be Perfect Cherry Santa
same
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: PX on November 03, 2015, 01:57:44 AM
Oh whoops, leave mine blank then
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 03, 2015, 04:16:00 AM
Edit: guys why is #7 EoSD this is bothering me more than I thought it would should it not be Perfect Cherry Santa
Hey Santa Hakurei said to deal with it. Also that name is dumb and next year will probably not have a touhou theme.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: N-Forza on November 03, 2015, 05:37:14 AM
Why? Does "Imperishable Santa" seem too redundant?
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 03, 2015, 05:43:24 AM
Why? Does "Imperishable Santa" seem too redundant?
No but something like CPSS8: Presents of the Five Armies will probably also piss people off which would be Good And Funny
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: DX7.EP on November 03, 2015, 06:33:51 AM
Well, as long as the hat continues to have no bias, the name should not matter too much, yeah? :P
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Reddyne on November 03, 2015, 01:53:08 PM
Did we seriously get 23 people to sign up in the first ~24 hours? The event's pretty well established now and the list consists mostly of regulars but that's still pretty nifty.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Helepolis on November 03, 2015, 01:54:53 PM
We need to break the barrier of 48.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 03, 2015, 02:40:19 PM
The initial surge is over but there's a lot of veterans who didn't sign up yet so I am hopeful! 
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 03, 2015, 02:46:30 PM
Maybe Suikama might actually sign up this year! (No)
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: triangles on November 03, 2015, 02:52:24 PM
We're getting a good showing from the puzzlemon contingent so maybe  :V :V :V :V
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Suikama on November 03, 2015, 05:17:05 PM
Maybe Suikama might actually sign up this year! (No)
im still trying to get a job :fail:
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Helepolis on November 03, 2015, 07:46:02 PM
im still trying to get a job :fail:
Still jobless?  :ohdear:
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: PX on November 04, 2015, 03:09:27 AM
We're getting a good showing from the puzzlemon contingent so maybe  :V :V :V :V

Oh god if I have to get more Pazudora stuff  (Although those mini figurines were cute)
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: triangles on November 04, 2015, 05:03:35 PM
If I wind up with a fellow puzzlebro ohoho am I going to have fun  :V

ps we need more signups kthx
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Helepolis on November 04, 2015, 05:06:15 PM
People who have posted in here and didn't sign up should be banned. Unless they have valid reason (financial)
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Hello Purvis on November 04, 2015, 06:27:58 PM
Oh hey, I was idly wondering about this.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Raikaria on November 04, 2015, 06:40:08 PM
People who have posted in here and didn't sign up should be banned. Unless they have valid reason (financial)

Helio you don't get your secret banhammer until Christmas.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Hello Purvis on November 04, 2015, 08:07:50 PM
SAYS WHO DANNY BOY?
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Kiro on November 04, 2015, 08:44:18 PM
I'm in.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 04, 2015, 08:45:45 PM
The only one going to be doing any banning around here is gonna be me.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 04, 2015, 09:13:32 PM
To those of you who listed past recipients on your sign-up forms please check your PMs because I have sent a form letter to all of you asking for clarification.  Sorry for the impersonal nature of the form letter but today I am feeling lazy.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 04, 2015, 09:16:49 PM
Hey Santa Hakurei I've thought for the past year that your avatar was an SD version of you just looking kind of blobby and festive but I only just now realized that you're actually holding a large bag over your shoulder and have very svelte gloved arms that blend in too well with your outfit.  Sorry for not noticing sooner!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Helepolis on November 05, 2015, 08:19:16 AM
The only one going to be doing any banning around here is gonna be me.
You need a banhammer first son. Are you a carpenter?
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 05, 2015, 02:06:38 PM
Sorry for not noticing sooner!
Hoisting all these presents is quite the workout!
Also it's a spot of trouble if Hele gets his holiday wish of BANHAMMER, than means someone else went without receiving a gift  :ohdear:

No new participants this morning, let's break those procrastinating ways and get those applications in!

Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Labuto on November 05, 2015, 04:44:27 PM
[00:20:27] Helepolis: Sign up for Secret Santa, we have a cute Santa! *
[00:45:15] SunkenPirate:  Helepolis, you know secret santa is nothing but a donation to postage services
[00:46:45] Helepolis: doesnt matter, chances of receiving onnahole is high
[01:33:14] Labuto: You know what, I am starting to want to sign up for that. I blame you if I get giant waist high dildos. I'll send a pm after I confirm shipping fees/details with the local post office

So yeah. Yay, new blood. Hopefully. (I wanted to join up last year, but was lacking in funds/ideas. Not this year though.)

* Disclaimer: Quote may have been unfairly TL:DR-ed
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Vyrien on November 05, 2015, 05:15:36 PM
pls gift that gigantic waist-high dildo you found in akiba

the gift that keeps on giving
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: RuneDevros on November 06, 2015, 04:43:01 AM
What's the kind of expected budget for a gift?
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Sect on November 06, 2015, 04:48:44 AM
What's the kind of expected budget for a gift?
Whatever you can afford. We don't want to force people to go broke just to have a bit of fun for the holidays.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on November 06, 2015, 10:01:28 AM
Oh well, I guess I'll join this time around.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on November 06, 2015, 03:13:43 PM
Oh well, I guess I'll join this time around.

YOU STILL OWE ME DINNER
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on November 06, 2015, 03:58:49 PM
YOU STILL OWE ME DINNER
One KFC Pizza coming up at 25th December.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 06, 2015, 04:42:35 PM
Yay, new blood.

Oh well, I guess I'll join this time around.
Hooray!  Don't forget to actually put in the application of course  :3
Who will be #30?  What other veterans will finally remember to sign up?  Stay tuned!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Shadow1176 on November 06, 2015, 10:52:42 PM
Just signed up. This seems like a good bit of fun.  :3
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Mr_Bob on November 07, 2015, 04:31:47 AM
Forgive me Santa Hakurei, overloaded myself with 19 units in order to graduate by spring.  Chemistry or bust.
Would not be responsible to commit to this season.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Puffy on November 07, 2015, 09:19:24 PM
This year i'll go out my comfort zone and accept NSFW presents! Don't get any ideas, how will i explain this to my siblings and parents  :ohdear:
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Helepolis on November 07, 2015, 09:37:39 PM
Forgive me Santa Hakurei, overloaded myself with 19 units in order to graduate by spring.  Chemistry or bust.
Would not be responsible to commit to this season.
WHAT!?  FE#R#@#.     Good luck on your graduation, Mr. Bobunreal.

This year i'll go out my comfort zone and accept NSFW presents! Don't get any ideas, how will i explain this to my siblings and parents  :ohdear:
"We just send presents in secret to each other. Nobody knows what they get!"

Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: HakureiSM on November 08, 2015, 05:46:04 PM
Forgive me Santa Hakurei, overloaded myself with 19 units in order to graduate by spring.  Chemistry or bust.
Would not be responsible to commit to this season.
wimp
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Edible on November 08, 2015, 05:47:17 PM
I should probably sign up for this!

Edit: I have probably signed up for this!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: triangles on November 08, 2015, 06:43:31 PM
I would have signed you up anyway fyi  :V

Forgive me Santa Hakurei, overloaded myself with 19 units in order to graduate by spring.  Chemistry or bust.
Would not be responsible to commit to this season.
;_____;
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Helepolis on November 08, 2015, 08:14:12 PM
I should probably sign up for this!

Edit: I have probably signed up for this!
Welcome back, Secret Agent Edible.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Jq1790 on November 08, 2015, 09:17:47 PM
Welcome back, Secret Agent Edible.
Well he's not very secret with you announcing him like that!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Nobu on November 10, 2015, 03:19:16 AM
I'm not about to miss the 7th one of these. Seven's fancy.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 10, 2015, 02:20:18 PM
Less than one week to go, let's see how many more wonderful people we can have participating  :3
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Helepolis on November 10, 2015, 02:47:28 PM
Not expecting us to break the brutal 48 of last year, but expecting 40 for sure.

Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: triangles on November 10, 2015, 06:41:59 PM
Most certainly I'd imagine.  There always seems to be a half dozen or so last minute participants (< 24 hours before deadline)
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Spotty Len on November 10, 2015, 07:13:26 PM
We should have an early bird bonus. :derp:
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 10, 2015, 09:28:05 PM
We should have an early bird bonus. :derp:
Sounds good. Since I was first everyone sends me a gift!!!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Edible on November 10, 2015, 11:40:31 PM
Sounds good. Since I was first everyone sends me a gift!!!

You play the Titans this week.

Merry Christmas!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: SirSlarty on November 11, 2015, 02:08:57 AM
Christmas is also my birthday.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 11, 2015, 03:30:36 AM
Christmas is also my birthday.
It's also Arcueid's birthday!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: yuyukos on November 11, 2015, 03:47:22 AM
It's also Arcueid's birthday!
The implications! :V
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: SirSlarty on November 11, 2015, 05:14:51 AM
It's also Arcueid's birthday!

I also have blond hair.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: NekoNekoRex on November 11, 2015, 05:23:45 AM
I was waiting to see when the CPSS thread would come up but it appears I missed the OP by 11 days

anyway /in

EDIT: OMG I just realized I never used that Amazon money I was gifted last year :o
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Chaore on November 12, 2015, 02:44:30 AM
Dirty Laundry checked. Will sign up as soon as I sort out which of my now staggering three addresses I'm getting this shipped to, especially since two of them are new. :v
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 12, 2015, 04:40:18 PM
Hello all!  This is a reminder that Sunday will be the last day to sign up and that partners will be assigned throughout the day on Monday.  I'm getting so excited!  I can't wait to start this year and I hope it will be the best ever!

We have 40 signed up currently, let's see if we can break last year's total!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Helepolis on November 12, 2015, 10:06:15 PM
Congratulations all for breaking 40!  :getdown:
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 13, 2015, 02:29:18 PM
Today's Friday the 13th!  Are you ~spooky~ enough to sign up for Secret Santa?
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Raikaria on November 13, 2015, 10:35:06 PM
Today's Friday the 13th!  Are you ~spooky~ enough to sign up for Secret Santa?

*Gifts may or may not include a spooky scary skeleton*
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: HakureiSM on November 14, 2015, 02:12:26 AM
Yearly plead that if you get someone who's in a... less privileged country, please ship fast.

I swear with the internal crisis in AEHAEIHAIOEHAIOEHIOAUEHIOAEHIAHEIOUAEHIOAEHIOAEHIOAEIUOAohgodpleasegetmeoutofhereAEHAOEHAIEHIOAHEAIHEHAOIHEAIEHland, I'll only see my gift in July.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on November 14, 2015, 03:14:04 AM
Yearly plead that if you get someone who's in a... less privileged country, please ship fast.

I swear with the internal crisis in AEHAEIHAIOEHAIOEHIOAUEHIOAEHIAHEIOUAEHIOAEHIOAEHIOAEIUOAohgodpleasegetmeoutofhereAEHAOEHAIEHIOAHEAIHEHAOIHEAIEHland, I'll only see my gift in July.

I shipped fast and you still got it in February. :V
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Jeremie on November 14, 2015, 03:28:52 AM
I signed up after reading the comments, I realized that I finally have a use for http://i.imgur.com/c5ReiHY.jpg?1 (http://i.imgur.com/c5ReiHY.jpg?1)! I'm sure it'll be a wonderful gift for whoever gets it!

Joking aside, that event is a neat idea. Count me in.  :3
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Pesco on November 14, 2015, 01:52:55 PM
Yearly plead that if you get someone who's in a... less privileged country, please ship fast.

I swear with the internal crisis in AEHAEIHAIOEHAIOEHIOAUEHIOAEHIAHEIOUAEHIOAEHIOAEHIOAEIUOAohgodpleasegetmeoutofhereAEHAOEHAIEHIOAHEAIHEHAOIHEAIEHland, I'll only see my gift in July.

South African shipping from Canada :derp:
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: HakureiSM on November 14, 2015, 05:34:02 PM
When the fuck did you move to Canada

I shipped fast and you still got it in February. :V
SO YEAH
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: triangles on November 14, 2015, 06:03:17 PM
Didn't your gift arrive in December this last time around and it was more playing tag with the post office?
LET'S HOPE FOR A REPEAT OF THAT :D

edit - the timely arrival, not so much the juggling with the post office.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: yuyukos on November 15, 2015, 06:32:12 AM
I have sent Santa an electronic missive. Festivities!
Twice because I forgot the subject the first time :V
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on November 15, 2015, 07:08:18 AM
Ez katka
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Pesco on November 15, 2015, 11:32:20 AM
When the fuck did you move to Canada

I've never been to Canada
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: dyril on November 15, 2015, 02:49:48 PM
Hello maidens,

I am quasi-new. A certain spammy Dutchman led me here. I have requested entry into this event.

Despite having already written to Santa (what did I even write?), here are some more general things I like:
 pleasant music, timeless technology, sleep, fixing things, cooperative weather, privacy (despite my being fairly stalkable)
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 15, 2015, 03:38:43 PM
When the fuck did you move to Canada
I think Drake had him in one of the early exchanges. 
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: triangles on November 15, 2015, 05:34:03 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/IGP1tKb.jpg)
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Helepolis on November 15, 2015, 05:34:51 PM
If we get 50 sign ups I will record myself doing something silly as a video message.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Reddyne on November 15, 2015, 05:45:09 PM
44 people?! Agh, we're so CLOSE! Tomorrow will be interesting.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on November 15, 2015, 05:53:27 PM
If we get 50 sign ups I will record myself doing something silly as a video message.

T H I S I S the challenge we must meet come my motk friends get your friends on the irc to join because i dont go out of dots-meido
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Helepolis on November 16, 2015, 08:27:59 AM
44 sign ups huh? Close, but not quite.

The even number makes it easier to pair I guess. Otherwise somebody else would've had to perform a threesome.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Mеа on November 16, 2015, 11:46:39 AM
The even number makes it easier to pair I guess. Otherwise somebody else would've had to perform a threesome.
Except that it's not a pairing, is it?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 16, 2015, 12:19:04 PM
Thanks to some last minute sign-ups we wound up with 46 this year, falling just shy of beating out record once again. Partner emails will be sent throughout the day, so please be patient.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Reddyne on November 16, 2015, 12:50:16 PM
Thanks to some last minute sign-ups we wound up with 46 this year, falling just shy of beating out record once again.
46 is still very respectable and we had at least two previous participants who couldn't join this year.
Partner emails will be sent throughout the day, so please be patient.
Oh boy! So much excitement!
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Helepolis on November 16, 2015, 01:20:27 PM
46? Oooh, close close. (My ass is saved)

Except that it's not a pairing, is it?
It is indeed not pairing, maybe I worded it wrong. But even numbers make it easier.


Btw, Santa Hakurei I want to suggest something to improve the secret fun factor. My suggestion is that preferred, people do not report in public if they shipped their gift or not. Previous ones some announced they shipped out their gift. This kind of makes it possible for people to track if they receive the package within ~3 weeks. (Which is average shipping speed for non-US I believe) and maybe shorter for US people.

Unless of course Santa Hakurei or the people don't find it that much troublesome/important, fine with me too.




I just want to increases the chances of BANNING people.  :ohdear:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: hungrybookworm on November 16, 2015, 01:42:17 PM
Me and Microsoft Word are ready for this.
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa SIGNUP BY 11/15
Post by: Sect on November 16, 2015, 04:00:41 PM
Btw, Santa Hakurei I want to suggest something to improve the secret fun factor. My suggestion is that preferred, people do not report in public if they shipped their gift or not. Previous ones some announced they shipped out their gift. This kind of makes it possible for people to track if they receive the package within ~3 weeks. (Which is average shipping speed for non-US I believe) and maybe shorter for US people.
I think most people just report to Santa Hakurei directly instead of announcing it in thread, anyways.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: PX on November 16, 2015, 04:43:59 PM
46? Oooh, close close. (My ass is saved)
It is indeed not pairing, maybe I worded it wrong. But even numbers make it easier.


Btw, Santa Hakurei I want to suggest something to improve the secret fun factor. My suggestion is that preferred, people do not report in public if they shipped their gift or not. Previous ones some announced they shipped out their gift. This kind of makes it possible for people to track if they receive the package within ~3 weeks. (Which is average shipping speed for non-US I believe) and maybe shorter for US people.

Unless of course Santa Hakurei or the people don't find it that much troublesome/important, fine with me too.




I just want to increases the chances of BANNING people.  :ohdear:

My gift is already shipped 8)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Helepolis on November 16, 2015, 05:57:56 PM
I think most people just report to Santa Hakurei directly instead of announcing it in thread, anyways.
You're suppose to do that when you ship, in PM anyway.

My gift is already shipped 8)
Would've been a funnier post if you did it post-pairings.  -11/10   :ohdear:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Raikaria on November 16, 2015, 05:58:45 PM
*Reads PM*

Ooh... interesting.

Due to work schedules and such it will be the w/c 30th Nov I do my stuff. MAYBE Sunday 29th or Sat 28th [I have overtime in the morning then however]
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Jq1790 on November 16, 2015, 06:09:00 PM
Heh.  This's gonna be fun.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Spotty Len on November 16, 2015, 06:17:58 PM
I just got the chills, this is not a good sign.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 16, 2015, 06:18:49 PM
And with that, all the partners have been assigned!  Please check your PMs if you haven't already and get to thinking about what to give your partner.  Let's make this the best CPSS ever!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 16, 2015, 06:19:47 PM
I know who my partner is very well but I have no idea what to get them.  How embarassing
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: yuyukos on November 16, 2015, 06:30:19 PM
I know who my partner is very well but I have no idea what to get them.  How embarassing
Me too! I had a feeling this would eventually happen :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: PX on November 16, 2015, 06:35:28 PM
You're suppose to do that when you ship, in PM anyway.
Would've been a funnier post if you did it post-pairings.  -11/10   :ohdear:

Who is to say I didn't get mine early
Title: Re: Cirno's Perfect Secret Santa 7: Embodiment of Secret Santa
Post by: Kiro on November 16, 2015, 06:36:50 PM
I'm in. I might not be in Japan anymore, but still have lots of loot that'd be great as gifts. Too bad I don't have anymore access to weird Japanese sex toys to send (or do I??).

Time to stalk my target.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Reddyne on November 16, 2015, 06:44:27 PM
It begins!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Helepolis on November 16, 2015, 07:02:22 PM
And with that, all the partners have been assigned!  Please check your PMs if you haven't already and get to thinking about what to give your partner.  Let's make this the best CPSS ever!
Best CPSS? I need snow and ice. I haven't ice skated last year.

I want ice.



And Letty.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Spotty Len on November 16, 2015, 07:10:45 PM
Okay, let's all send one ice cube to Helepolis. He needs it.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Kiro on November 16, 2015, 07:25:57 PM
I want ice.

And Letty.
Okay, let's all send one ice cube to Helepolis. He needs it.
[attach=1]
Here you go, I even cubed it for you.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: triangles on November 16, 2015, 07:55:49 PM
A+++++

HEY here's some Secret Santa tips that I basically post every year  :V

1. Giftwrap your present before putting it in the box you're mailing out!  This will keep the surprise even if the box gets opened early accidentally or someone's parents don't trust internet strangers (to be fair we are pretty strange  :derp:)   Likewise, if you receive a box that you aren't sure about you can PM Santa Hakurei and she can check the return address to see if it is indeed your CPSS gift!

2. If you are sending internationally and the shipping prices are looking ridiculous, take a look at various online sellers and consider ordering direct to your partner.  Amazon in particular is nice since they have warehouses all over the world and could save you quite a bit!  Though in that case I'd definitely recommend springing for giftwrapping per #1.  Another option if you're looking for things from Japan without the crazy markup is our homeboy N-Forza - bonus points as this will obfuscate your sending address and help keep your identity a ~mystery~

Also if you're sending internationally the sooner the better no really!  The shipping time can vary sooooo much and it only gets worse the closer to Christmas it gets.  Customs Hell is a very real place with very real heartache attached :(

3. You don't have to post in the thread when you mail out your gift (like Hele mentioned, it can be used to sleuth out your identity) but do remember to keep Santa Hakurei informed.  I think pretty much everyone tends to post when they receive though.


This year's gonna be great :D
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Tengukami on November 16, 2015, 08:46:33 PM
I am very pleased with my assigned partner, and they will be very easy to shop for. Nice!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Hello Purvis on November 16, 2015, 11:12:08 PM
Oh man, I have like zero interaction with my partner, and the listed interests have almost no crossover (oh thank fuck they gave me some interests though).

Time to go stalking through their post record and see if lightning strikes!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: NekoNekoRex on November 17, 2015, 12:00:13 AM
I'm not too sure what I'll do for my partner this year =w=
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: pasu on November 17, 2015, 12:07:55 AM
Got an idea, but worried it won't be enough...  :ohdear: Time to brainstorm for more gifts
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: PX on November 17, 2015, 12:23:26 AM
Oh man, I have like zero interaction with my partner, and the listed interests have almost no crossover (oh thank fuck they gave me some interests though).

Time to go stalking through their post record and see if lightning strikes!

That worked for me the first time :P
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Shadow1176 on November 17, 2015, 01:34:05 AM
Why is it so hard to decide what to get my partner... I'm leaning towards two different things, but I'm trying to decide between collectibles and practicality...
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Drake on November 17, 2015, 02:05:33 AM
sent
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: HakureiSM on November 17, 2015, 02:09:13 AM
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahuehahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahah
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Shadow1176 on November 17, 2015, 03:23:33 AM
sent

Already sent? Damn, that was fast.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on November 17, 2015, 05:03:41 AM
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahuehahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahah

s c a r y
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Hello Purvis on November 17, 2015, 05:19:55 AM
Why is it so hard to decide what to get my partner... I'm leaning towards two different things, but I'm trying to decide between collectibles and practicality...

My instinct with gifts is to lean toward either helluva useful, or fun. When in doubt, lean toward fun. Everyone loves fun except hipsters.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Labuto on November 17, 2015, 07:53:55 AM
Oh boy, my predecessor left extremely large shoes for me to fill. I'll still do my best to ensure a unique experience though.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Helepolis on November 17, 2015, 08:34:44 AM
sent
Banned

Read my PM as well. Need to retreat in order to think now.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Dorakyura on November 17, 2015, 09:32:12 AM
Read my PM as well. Need to retreat in order to think now.

And another masterpiece will rise from his depths.  :ohdear:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa PARTNERS ASSIGNED TODAY
Post by: Firestorm29 on November 17, 2015, 12:44:47 PM
Alrighty, the one I got this time might be a bit more tricky than last year... though I've been hatching up a few ideas.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Edible on November 17, 2015, 01:25:22 PM
Title slightly updated because reasons.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Helepolis on November 17, 2015, 01:36:01 PM
I've landed in the most stressful and occupied RL situation in my entire life. Nothing that cannot be solved, just needs time and some tactics.

I don't expect it to influence my Secret Santa gift.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: hungrybookworm on November 17, 2015, 01:51:06 PM
I've landed in the most stressful and occupied RL situation in my entire life. Nothing that cannot be solved, just needs time and some tactics.

I don't expect it to influence my Secret Santa gift.
I had a dream last night about you and the Drill Chichikuri team transporting a nuclear bomb across the Australian outback, complete with the usual report manga hijinks. Where it came from, I dunno, but just in case you and Warugaki are actually in possession of a nuke, don't drop it, okay!

Looks like I'll be writing something cute and fluffy again this year, since I dunno what my partner's tolerance for sin darker stuff is. (If in doubt, make it cute.)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 17, 2015, 01:54:15 PM
Title slightly updated because reasons.
That idea crossed into my head as I was changing the title but I didn't want to cross the streams references.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on November 17, 2015, 02:16:09 PM
After the events that happened last year, both in terms of arranging the package, and the ridiculous amount of stuff we received, it's going to be an interesting one this year. I can't wait to see who sends what; and the amount of happiness we'll all get come next month...

Having said that, I've got ideas already set in stone; so it all comes down to timing this year~ XD
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Helepolis on November 17, 2015, 03:29:54 PM
I had a dream last night about you and the Drill Chichikuri team transporting a nuclear bomb across the Australian outback, complete with the usual report manga hijinks. Where it came from, I dunno, but just in case you and Warugaki are actually in possession of a nuke, don't drop it, okay!
Wha--- ho-  How are your dreams fueled!?!?! That sounds like supreme crazy indeed.

Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: hungrybookworm on November 17, 2015, 04:17:38 PM
Wha--- ho-  How are your dreams fueled!?!?! That sounds like supreme crazy indeed.
I have no idea where it came from! lol The depths of my imagination probably. I can't remember much in detail, but I remember one part where you guys lost sight of the lorry carrying the nuke, and had an emergency meeting over what to do about it. And Ryuuichi had a massive rifle, for some reason. (I was researching Japanese matchlock rifles last night for my DDC novel, so I know what caused that part, at least!)

If you live in the Australian outback and see a nuclear bomb wandering around, you know who to call now.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Moogs Parfait on November 17, 2015, 04:42:17 PM
Plotting complete, materials ordered.  Still will be a race against time to get all this done.   :ohdear:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: triangles on November 17, 2015, 05:56:11 PM
So the Totally Fair And Balanced Bias-Free Sorting Hattm did its thing all right but oh oh, it's gonna be fun times ahead.  Off to get things done in a timely manner!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Tengukami on November 17, 2015, 05:59:38 PM
All I gotta say is we need someone, anyone, in Iceland to register here so I can ship something domestically for a change. Such as by carrier puffin.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Edible on November 17, 2015, 06:01:37 PM
carrier puffin

Just send me a box of these, please.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: triangles on November 17, 2015, 06:26:50 PM
I don't know about carrier puffins, but that stuffed one you sent us a few years back is on display about one yard from where I am currently sitting  :3
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Hello Purvis on November 17, 2015, 07:07:36 PM
To be fair, Hele, that does sound like a legit Warugaki story.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Helepolis on November 17, 2015, 09:37:35 PM
Somehow stress seems to be also a great fuel for brainstorming creative things (I don't get why). I know what to do now to form my gift. So this weekend I will do some shopping/ordering. Gyahahahaha!!

To be fair, Hele, that does sound like a legit Warugaki story.
Oh man. You're all crazy.

I'll tell him about this crazy dream when I talk to him next to see what he is going to say
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Jq1790 on November 17, 2015, 09:42:21 PM
Gotta figure out juuuust what avenue I wanna take for this.  Should be a fun one though(as if they aren't ALL fun ones, hah). 

/me is contemplating.  Please watch warmly until it is ready.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Spotty Len on November 17, 2015, 09:43:43 PM
I don't know whether I'm scared or impatient to see Helepolis' box of wonders and doom.

Probably both.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on November 18, 2015, 01:29:17 AM
Title slightly updated because reasons.

KIMIRASHIKU HOKORASHIKU MUKATTE YO
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Lloyd Dunamis on November 18, 2015, 03:43:01 AM
!!??
SHAAAAARKS!!!
(SHUCKS!)

I remembered about this only now, and found out signups have ended?

*hides, cowers in shame ;~; ?*

Umm?a-anyway, have fun, you guys & maidens?!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 18, 2015, 03:48:42 AM
!!??
SHAAAAARKS!!!
(SHUCKS!)

I remembered about this only now, and found out signups have ended?

*hides, cowers in shame ;~; ?*

Umm?a-anyway, have fun, you guys & maidens?!
Join us next year!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Lloyd Dunamis on November 18, 2015, 04:07:00 AM
Join us next year!
*looks at last-year thread's specific posts (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,17589.msg1143633.html#msg1143633)?*

*looks to all you beautifully weird people?*

??? I? I will!! @x@

*sets alarm clock?or rather, calendar!*


I?actually am really scared to post at this moment just to say this, and wouldn't have posted here at all, i-if not for my occasional "H-here goes everything!" mood, but here I am shaming mysel?no, just informing?goshdarnit why am I about to tear up
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 18, 2015, 04:33:42 AM
*looks at last-year thread's specific posts (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,17589.msg1143633.html#msg1143633)?*

*looks to all you beautifully weird people?*

??? I? I will!! @x@

*sets alarm clock?or rather, calendar!*


I?actually am really scared to post at this moment just to say this, and wouldn't have posted here at all, i-if not for my occasional "H-here goes everything!" mood, but here I am shaming mysel?no, just informing?goshdarnit why am I about to tear up
(http://i.imgur.com/WKcM8dj.gif)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: SirSlarty on November 18, 2015, 05:25:10 AM
The present-gifting-idea gears immediately went to a screeching halt until I looked a little further into my SS's preferences. Suddenly the gears spun into overdrive after a bit of oil known as knowledge.

I hope my idea is both hilarious and useful!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: HakureiSM on November 18, 2015, 03:16:17 PM
I ain't got a fuckin' clue really

and while before I had little to no money I now have negative moneys

so recipient dude girl person, I'm gonna cheap out on ya

which is why I have a lot to think over so that it's still nice

ahahahhahahahahhahahhahhuahahahahhahueahahhahehaheuaheuhaeuhauehuah
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Shadow1176 on November 19, 2015, 04:15:17 AM
Sent! (But I'm sorry to my person for being cheapish. You'll see why later.)

Also, I'm not going to get the banhammer like Drake, will I?  :V

Plz dun ban meh Helepolis.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: PX on November 19, 2015, 05:57:30 AM
Sent! (But I'm sorry to my person for being cheapish. You'll see why later.)

Also, I'm not going to get the banhammer like Drake, will I?  :V

Plz dun ban meh Helepolis.

See the key is to lie about when you sent it.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on November 19, 2015, 06:41:13 AM
Singaporeans prolly be sending the dank shit presents out after AFA o/
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 19, 2015, 01:43:11 PM
See the key is to lie about when you sent it.
I will say that as of this morning there is not a perfect overlap between people who posted saying they sent it already and people who actually gave me tracking numbers hohoho~

Even if you send via Amazon or another online seller I do still need that information so don't forget to message me the tracking info!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Helepolis on November 19, 2015, 03:13:33 PM
You better proper inform Santa Hakurei. Else you know, bad things might happen. Like, getting BANNED.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 19, 2015, 04:16:27 PM
Stop posting in the thread when you send!  Start posting in a PM to Santa Hakurei instead!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Spotty Len on November 19, 2015, 04:39:43 PM
Can we post in the thread when we don't send?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on November 19, 2015, 04:43:10 PM
Can we post in the thread when we don't send?
please don't
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on November 20, 2015, 12:37:29 AM
Singaporeans prolly be sending the dank shit presents out after AFA o/
This
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 23, 2015, 05:53:12 PM
Hello all you wonderful people, how is everyone doing?  So far I have received a handful of tracking numbers/shipping confirmations, and we even had our first gift arrive last week :3

Let's keep up the good work everyone!  I can't wait to see more updates!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Raikaria on November 23, 2015, 05:59:14 PM
Hello all you wonderful people, how is everyone doing?  So far I have received a handful of tracking numbers/shipping confirmations, and we even had our first gift arrive last week :3

Let's keep up the good work everyone!  I can't wait to see more updates!

I'll be sprting my stuff out Saturday and posting it probobly later that week. [Monday/Tuesday]

Just hard between work to sort my stuff.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on November 24, 2015, 07:59:32 AM
Did someone troll me and send me something because this is so strange

I got something in the mail today and I /had/ to open it because it came in while my mom was at home (omg what if its a bomb)

The gift I got was confusing to say the least :v Oh well time to wait till christmas
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Helepolis on November 25, 2015, 10:19:42 AM
Isn't time flying? We're almost in December! Less than a month remaining now. For some reason, I am more excited than before.  :getdown:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 28, 2015, 03:08:53 PM
I'm so excited too!  The international deadline is a touch over a week away, hopefully everyone is on track to send on time and make this a fantastic CPSS   :)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Pesco on November 28, 2015, 10:17:44 PM
Sending via courier pidgeon.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: pasu on November 29, 2015, 11:14:07 AM
Ohh boy its plan B time
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Helepolis on November 29, 2015, 11:51:50 AM
Ohh boy its plan Banned time
Fixed.

Man time sure passes fast. Last week I was wondering in stress and annoyance about certain things. But my RL stress has been reduced by 99% due to positive development.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Raikaria on November 29, 2015, 12:40:20 PM
STUFF and PACKAGE obtained.

Next step: Combine STUFF and PACKAGE to create PRESENT

Step after that: Go to POSTING LOCATION and SEND the PRESENT. This needs to be delayed until weather where the PACKAGE will survive the foot-journey.

When I actually send I'll PM.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Spotty Len on November 29, 2015, 07:55:47 PM
I'm only one step away from sending it, but a certain store is being assholish with me. I should be fine though.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on November 29, 2015, 11:21:20 PM
Quick tip primarily for the US folks sending internationally, but might apply to others:

Getting official tracking from the US Postal System is $obscene$ but luckily the customs number can serve as a somewhat limited tracking system. It might require checking both your home and your partner's country's postal tracking pages.  Please PM me that if you don't have an official tracking number!

Also don't forget to either post or message me when your gift arrives~

Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Edible on November 30, 2015, 02:55:46 PM
SOON.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 01, 2015, 03:09:48 AM
hhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahaha really now ahahahahahahahahah
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: hungrybookworm on December 01, 2015, 03:19:23 PM
I've finished the thing I'm making. Gonna leave it for a day, then proofread it, then posting time woo!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Pesco on December 01, 2015, 05:49:06 PM
Already got an idea of who my SS is. Game too easy.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on December 02, 2015, 06:52:03 AM
Already got an idea of who my SS is. Game too easy.

2 ez 2 ez 2 ez 4 r t z
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Raikaria on December 02, 2015, 07:06:44 PM
Already got an idea of who my SS is. Game too easy.

That is one more idea than I have.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 02, 2015, 08:50:29 PM
Already got an idea of who my SS is. Game too easy.
You're the Pesco though, don't you always figure it out first anyway
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Pesco on December 03, 2015, 12:18:17 AM
I have my answer before the gift is even sent.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 03, 2015, 03:48:04 AM
hhhhahahahahahahahaha dude this year really hahahahahhhh what the helll
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Nobu on December 03, 2015, 10:11:32 AM
I was sure of what I was going to get my partner from the moment I found out who it was. But... now i'm having doubts.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on December 03, 2015, 03:12:57 PM
Good morning everyone!

The international send-by date is just a few days away, will this be the year Santa Hakurei's list is full at the deadline?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: dyril on December 03, 2015, 04:35:28 PM
The international send-by date is just a few days away, will this be the year Santa Hakurei's list is full at the deadline?

Probably :ohdear:

It's been super busy at work. I'm about halfway prepared. Motivation to get on with it, rising!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Hyn on December 03, 2015, 05:16:43 PM
Damnnnn I missed the sign-up date this year ughhhh
Have fun for me y'all
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Helepolis on December 03, 2015, 09:13:11 PM
I have one thing to say about those date formats.

(http://i.imgur.com/TKJkOWu.png)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 03, 2015, 09:26:43 PM
Honestly I go MM/DD/YYYY on stuff for general use since it is the cultural standard where I am but I totally use YYYY-MM-DD on things like filenames on my laptop since it means they actually sort into chronological order :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Edible on December 03, 2015, 10:01:44 PM
YD/DYY/MYM master race.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 03, 2015, 10:58:59 PM
YD/DYY/MYM master race.
So today is... uh... 20/301/152?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: SirSlarty on December 04, 2015, 05:00:34 AM
So today is... uh... 20/301/152?

Yesterday was special tomorrow was not.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Puffy on December 04, 2015, 06:12:20 PM
So i just got a box today  :3...The value of the items inside and shipping must've hurt my Santa's wallet   :ohdear:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: aUsernameIsFineToo on December 04, 2015, 07:31:00 PM
I have one thing to say about those date formats.

(http://i.imgur.com/TKJkOWu.png)

YYYY/MM/DD makes the most sense because it actually sorts in chronological order.

DD/MM/YYYY seems to go from "shortest" to "longest" measure.

MM/DD/YYYY is just the U.S. wanting to be different :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: PX on December 04, 2015, 07:39:51 PM
Please, there's 12 potential months, 31 potential days, and 100 potential years, it makes total sense :getdown:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Hello Purvis on December 04, 2015, 09:06:51 PM
A boxen draws near! It is covered in MYSTERIOUS RUNES

Fight
Item
>Defend
Run

Now I have to keep my evil-ass cat from trying to demolish it in the meantime.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Mеа on December 04, 2015, 09:47:02 PM
Please, there's 12 potential months, 31 potential days, and 100 potential years, it makes total sense :getdown:
Upvote

Do Europeans actually say "12 of December(, 2015)"? Because we Americans say "December 12(, 2015)".
Which corresponds with "Room 024" or "homework assignment 6" and etc
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Helepolis on December 04, 2015, 10:46:43 PM
Please, there's 12 potential months, 31 potential days, and 100 potential years, it makes total sense :getdown:
"It totally makes sense" is such an American thing to say when it actually doesn't makes sense :V  because logic is hard.

A year has months and a month has days. Which brings us to Year-Month-Day format.

I totally use YYYY-MM-DD on things like filenames on my laptop since it means they actually sort into chronological order :V
This is probably the best answer so far, regarding of date wars, because it also keeps my holiday photos nice and organised  :3

YD/DYY/MYM master race.
I'll send you to the Netherlands
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: RuneDevros on December 04, 2015, 11:58:49 PM
A boxen draws near! It is covered in MYSTERIOUS RUNES

IT WASN'T ME
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 05, 2015, 12:03:57 AM
Do Europeans actually say "12 of December(, 2015)"? Because we Americans say "December 12(, 2015)".
I don't know about other countries, but over here we do. It's literally "12 December 2015".
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 05, 2015, 06:28:45 AM
Holy FRAG!!! Why is FedEx so goddamn expensive? Normal post is 50% cheaper than FedEx!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 05, 2015, 06:49:22 AM
Holy FRAG!!! Why is FedEx so goddamn expensive? Normal post is 50% cheaper than FedEx!

So send by normal post? :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 05, 2015, 09:51:31 AM
So send by normal post? :V
Yes.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on December 05, 2015, 10:05:07 AM
KAPPA I havent send yet errr this week i swear
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 05, 2015, 11:50:04 AM
KAPPA I havent send yet errr this week i swear
Post offices at Jurong Point, Killiney Road, and Paya Lebar still open at sunday and Public Holiday.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa YOU GET TO SENDING!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on December 05, 2015, 05:42:11 PM
Post offices at Jurong Point, Killiney Road, and Paya Lebar still open at sunday and Public Holiday.

So far wa lao

Ok Paya Lebar not that far but still uhhhhhhh
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on December 05, 2015, 07:20:33 PM
Regardless of how you choose to write the dates, the deadline for a whole bunch of you is a few days away let's get those packages out for a holly jolly Christmas  :3
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 05, 2015, 07:53:31 PM
A box just came in. It's fairly light for its size, but my danger sense is tingling.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 06, 2015, 03:18:41 AM
Whew, just sent my present today, who ever thought that sending an item overseas would be so complicated (Well, this is my really first time doing this).

I'm afraid whether or not he'll accept my gift or not.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: triangles on December 06, 2015, 03:38:57 AM
As per my family's motto "they're lucky they're getting anything at all"  :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: SirSlarty on December 06, 2015, 03:49:15 AM
As per my family's motto "they're lucky they're getting anything at all"  :V

I'll adapt this to my family motto of "if something can go wrong, it probably will".
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 06, 2015, 03:57:12 AM
As per my family's motto "they're lucky they're getting anything at all"  :V
y'know I still haven't finished that jam kilga sent me last year

it's also surprisingly still good

good stuff
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Helepolis on December 06, 2015, 10:01:57 AM
Damn we're almost a full week into December already. Time sure goes fast.

Santa Hakurei, are there people already eligible for a BAN?

Edit
PS. I've put the list of participants in alphabetical order. Easier to track people :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 06, 2015, 02:23:46 PM
As per my family's motto "they're lucky they're getting anything at all"  :V
I'm sorry about my words earlier. I'll be more optimistic from now on. It's not like I'm giving him $5 item from K-Mart.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on December 06, 2015, 02:45:10 PM
Never worry friend, it's the thought that counts for the holidays  :3

BAN?
Silly Hele, it's way too soon.

As a reminder, if you will be a bit late in getting your package out for whatever reason send a PM to keep me in the loop.  Being late isn't going to get you banned, we've all been there when life crops up unexpectedly but do keep me informed of what's going on rather than not say anything at all and have me/your partner be in the dark.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Labuto on December 07, 2015, 12:28:27 PM
Anticipation intensities. Really looking forward to the reactions bothways.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: triangles on December 07, 2015, 03:46:44 PM
SECRET SANTA HYPE HYPE HYPE
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Helepolis on December 07, 2015, 03:52:07 PM
Maybe bit early to announce for me.

There is a possibility I may or may not be on holiday around Christmas, meaning I cannot confirm a received gift, do photo-report on my received gift or BAN people if they have been naughty. That depends on if I want to make the 16d travel-around trip to Cambodja or not.

Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Tengukami on December 07, 2015, 05:30:23 PM
We're all ordered by the police to stay indoors until tomorrow afternoon on account of this mondo hurricane-strength storm (http://grapevine.is/news/2015/12/07/stormgate-iceland-braces-itself/) set to beach here any minute now, so I will be sending out on Wednesday at the earliest.

Fuck I hate this country sometimes.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 07, 2015, 05:35:24 PM
We're all ordered by the police to stay indoors until tomorrow afternoon on account of this mondo hurricane-strength storm (http://grapevine.is/news/2015/12/07/stormgate-iceland-braces-itself/) set to beach here any minute now, so I will be sending out on Wednesday at the earliest.

Fuck I hate this country sometimes.

I think we'd prefer you living over you risking yourself to send a package though. Stay safe!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on December 07, 2015, 05:37:50 PM
We're all ordered by the police to stay indoors until tomorrow afternoon on account of this mondo hurricane-strength storm (http://grapevine.is/news/2015/12/07/stormgate-iceland-braces-itself/) set to beach here any minute now, so I will be sending out on Wednesday at the earliest.

Fuck I hate this country sometimes.
Bann

Maybe bit early to announce for me.

There is a possibility I may or may not be on holiday around Christmas, meaning I cannot confirm a received gift, do photo-report on my received gift or BAN people if they have been naughty. That depends on if I want to make the 16d travel-around trip to Cambodja or not.
Why would you not want to go to Cambodia?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: triangles on December 07, 2015, 07:29:45 PM
Why would you not want to go to Cambodia?
too easy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Shadow1176 on December 07, 2015, 08:04:09 PM
Whew, just sent my present today, who ever thought that sending an item overseas would be so complicated (Well, this is my really first time doing this).

I'm afraid whether or not he'll accept my gift or not.

First time that I've sent overseas too. And it wasn't all that bad... until I saw the bill for shipping and handling.  :ohdear: And the shipping company forgetting to give me info, but it all worked out in the end.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Sect on December 07, 2015, 08:06:23 PM
I got a thing.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Helepolis on December 08, 2015, 10:13:19 AM
Bann
Why would you not want to go to Cambodia?
Wanting isn't the problem. Able to is. Just had phone call from the Travel Agency >> Flight is full. That is what I get for trying to arrange last minute holidays.

Fml.  :ohdear:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Labuto on December 09, 2015, 08:27:19 AM
Package arrived at local Post Office, going to collect it this Saturday.

Hype
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Raikaria on December 09, 2015, 08:32:43 AM
Wanting isn't the problem. Able to is. Just had phone call from the Travel Agency >> Flight is full. That is what I get for trying to arrange last minute holidays.

Fml.  :ohdear:

Wow Helio managed to post in this thread without saying BAN
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 09, 2015, 05:17:43 PM
To be fair, it was probably because the word is in the quote his post was containing.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: pasu on December 10, 2015, 07:14:38 AM
Mine arrived!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on December 10, 2015, 11:28:13 AM
Been keeping a little silent this year; in terms of both stuff being sent, and the receiving of said stuff...

Nothing has came through yet; but I'm pretty excited about the prospect of it all. I haven't had anyone miss Christmas Day when sending me stuff so far, so no pressure whoever got me~ ;)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Tengukami on December 10, 2015, 05:52:50 PM
Aaand sent. In your FACE, Icelandic weather!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa INTERNATIONAL DEADLINE IS MONDAY!!!!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 10, 2015, 08:23:01 PM
Something may or may not be happening soon.  That is all.

/me slinks back into the shadows
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Labuto on December 11, 2015, 08:49:38 AM
So I went and collected the package a day early.

IT'S ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE AAAAAA
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 11, 2015, 08:26:16 PM
Is it january yet so I can get my gift
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Tengukami on December 11, 2015, 08:48:10 PM
Yeah, I'm gonna have to call the post office every couple days. My upstairs neighbors have literally thrown away delivery notices. Why? Because they're a couple of primitive turfhut-dwelling squarehead superstitious savage barbarians with no sense of social propriety or consideration, that's why.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: PX on December 11, 2015, 09:47:49 PM
Package sent. Question is, is this post early, late, or on time :3
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Dorakyura on December 11, 2015, 10:28:53 PM
Packege arrived save
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Jeremie on December 11, 2015, 10:48:08 PM
A package arrived today! I'm even more hyped now, haha.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 11, 2015, 10:53:31 PM
Package sent. Question is, is this post early, late, or on time :3
I believe the correct question should be "Will I get banned or not?"
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: PX on December 11, 2015, 11:11:59 PM
I believe the correct question should be "Will I get banned or not?"

I can ban myself if I want to
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Hello Purvis on December 12, 2015, 12:28:35 AM
Yeah, I'm gonna have to call the post office every couple days. My upstairs neighbors have literally thrown away delivery notices. Why? Because they're a couple of primitive turfhut-dwelling squarehead superstitious savage barbarians with no sense of social propriety or consideration, that's why.

This feels like a declaration of war, and I suggest responding by tossing water balloons filled with syrup.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Dorakyura on December 12, 2015, 03:09:34 AM
This feels like a declaration of war, and I suggest responding by tossing water balloons filled with syrup.

Kill them with dihydrogen monoxide
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Tengukami on December 12, 2015, 03:22:22 AM
I'm moving in like a month, so I think I'll just ring out the new year by switching on a loop recording of klezmer music at top volume before heading out for the night. There's no aggression like passive aggression, I always say.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Hello Purvis on December 12, 2015, 04:30:26 AM
While this is true, there's also no aggression like aggressive aggression, so while you're out get some water balloons and some syrup. This could be a bonding experience for you and Ammy Jr!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: RuneDevros on December 14, 2015, 04:49:12 AM
Sweet! My package arrived... and it's all the way back in Virginia so I won't see it till Christmas day when I head home!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 14, 2015, 04:53:39 AM
While this is true, there's also no aggression like aggressive aggression, so while you're out get some water balloons and some syrup. This could be a bonding experience for you and Ammy Jr!
The image of the two both just about to toss their balloons is in my head now(inexplicably in drawing form), and it's adorable.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: NekoNekoRex on December 15, 2015, 12:42:50 AM
=w= My package arrived today and it helpfully reminded me I have to go do some shopping...

I dunno how I'm supposed to let this giant box sit in my room for 10 days without me opening it. Last time I did SS my box came well after christmas because I !!!AAAAAAAAAA!!! gave them the address for the place two doors over because I'm terrible and it got returned.

EDIT: I'm pretty sure I know who this is from, though, given the address it was sent from, and given I know a couple people love to talk alot about local events... That said, I'm pretty excited since I know the person who I think sent the gift knows me pretty damn well...
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: SirSlarty on December 15, 2015, 03:17:23 AM
Package arrived! Hooray!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Hello Purvis on December 15, 2015, 03:41:24 AM
Gift update: Gift had to be moved because my shitty cat wouldn't stop laying on it like it was for her.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Kiro on December 15, 2015, 08:47:28 AM
Looks like my Secret Santa gift has arrived.

Damn... this postage...
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: triangles on December 15, 2015, 12:25:38 PM
Come back from dropping off MJP for a 7:13am train and there's a package waiting for me :toot:

I know the mail on my street comes early but that's a new record  :o :o :o
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Reddyne on December 15, 2015, 12:58:14 PM
Maybe I should get around to sending along that tracking number for the package one of these days, hm?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: hungrybookworm on December 15, 2015, 01:49:46 PM
My package has a week to arrive before it gets opened over new year instead :P
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 15, 2015, 08:39:28 PM
gift only next year confirmed

ahahahahahhahahahahahahahhhhahahadshhashfahahahahh this year dude ahahhahhahhhhhh
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Edible on December 15, 2015, 09:25:36 PM
gift only next year confirmed

ahahahahahhahahahahahahahhhhahahadshhashfahahahahh this year dude ahahhahhahhhhhh

wtf brazil
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: The ⑨th Zentillion on December 15, 2015, 09:29:01 PM
My own package came in today, now comes the nine and a half day slog of waiting until I open it. BV
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Raikaria on December 15, 2015, 09:55:36 PM
I'll share with you all the wondrous derpy journey of the gift that was shipped to me.

When I've opened it.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 15, 2015, 10:53:05 PM
wtf brazil
hhhahahahah customs dude hahahahahahahhahahahah I just ahahahahahahahahaha dude hhhh fucking customs man ahahahahahahahhahhahaaaahahahaha
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: N-Forza on December 16, 2015, 01:04:10 PM
Well, it seems my box finally came in. Since I'm taking part in two other Secret Santas I had to open it to figure out where it was from, but fortunately the item on the very top definitely gave that away. I'll dig into the rest of it later.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Firestorm29 on December 16, 2015, 03:27:56 PM
I believe I now has the thing. :)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Reddyne on December 16, 2015, 03:31:30 PM
gift only next year confirmed

ahahahahahhahahahahahahahhhhahahadshhashfahahahahh this year dude ahahhahhahhhhhh
hhhhahahahahahahahaha dude this year really hahahahahhhh what the helll
hhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahaha really now ahahahahahahahahah
I ain't got a fuckin' clue really

and while before I had little to no money I now have negative moneys

so recipient dude girl person, I'm gonna cheap out on ya

which is why I have a lot to think over so that it's still nice

ahahahhahahahahhahahhahhuahahahahhahueahahhahehaheuaheuhaeuhauehuah
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahuehahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahah
Yearly plead that if you get someone who's in a... less privileged country, please ship fast.

I swear with the internal crisis in AEHAEIHAIOEHAIOEHIOAUEHIOAEHIAHEIOUAEHIOAEHIOAEHIOAEIUOAohgodpleasegetmeoutofhereAEHAOEHAIEHIOAHEAIHEHAOIHEAIEHland, I'll only see my gift in July.
Can someone get this man some Valium?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Hello Purvis on December 16, 2015, 04:22:04 PM
That'd just make the customs rigmarole even worse!

Finally got around to sending this morning.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Nobu on December 16, 2015, 10:37:22 PM
Walked up to my door to find a package blocking the way, first I thought it was from my BF but it turned out to be the SS. Holy shit this package is huge. Good thing it came today and not when I was in the hospital.

And its heavy and lots of stuff inside and ofmg what is this I don't even :o

Thanks in advance Reimu Claus, i'm not disturbing the inner contents of the box until Christmas. I don't wanna have a bad time.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Chaore on December 16, 2015, 11:39:17 PM
will have to check on my own boxes contents post-finals

apologies to own recipient, had to mail it mid-finals so presentation may be lacking
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on December 17, 2015, 12:07:44 AM
There are certainly some interesting stories to tell this year of Adventures in International Mailing, that is for certain.
 
Do remember to either post in the thread or PM me when your gift arrives!  There's a few that were shipped long enough ago that I suspect have made it but I don't want to make any assumptions just in case.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Hannibal_Kills on December 17, 2015, 12:19:22 AM
Hey Santa KRAUSSSSSSS,

You're sending gifts to us every year right? I wonder what you would send next year 'cause I'm joining in!
If I'm not too late, I hope the shipment to be a fluorescent lamp because I'm in need of that.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Edible on December 17, 2015, 12:33:40 AM
Oh right.

I received my package any time between yesterday and eight days ago.

Hooray!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Shadow1176 on December 17, 2015, 12:39:28 AM
Well, I got my present. I think. Not sure if its the right package, but I think it is. Unfortunately I'm heading on a cruise this Saturday, so I won't be back until a little later after Christmas day. But I do have an interesting little tale for international shipping, that of which will be revealed when the time comes.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: dyril on December 17, 2015, 01:16:18 AM
Through the mail a something was carried towards my hands
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: hungrybookworm on December 17, 2015, 11:57:51 AM
Something arrived yesterday... except I was out, so it got sent off to the post distribution centre, which recently relocated to 2357456 miles away.

So later tonight, once I've finished my writing quota, I'm gonna go on an epic journey into the local industrial estate, and hopefully come out with the parcel. (Assuming it's the secret santa parcel...) (I can't think what else it could be though. All the other expected parcels have arrived.)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on December 17, 2015, 02:03:26 PM
Do remember to either post in the thread or PM me when your gift arrives!

Yeah... I'm still waiting on mine. Kind of getting worried as we're closing in on the Christmas week rapidly now... nice to hear how many of you are receiving them at least~ XD
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: SirSlarty on December 18, 2015, 12:46:57 AM
I got a second thing but since the second thing wasn't marked on the outside of the package indicating that it was a second thing, I opened the second thing to see what the package was.
I really like second thing and hopefully first thing is good, too!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Nietz on December 18, 2015, 02:01:07 AM
Picked up mine today, and I already think I have a good guess who it came from.
In other news, I'm still in doubt whether my partner will love his gift or hate me for it. Possibly both...
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: hungrybookworm on December 18, 2015, 11:22:55 AM
Package acquired! Looking forward to opening it next week.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 18, 2015, 05:41:17 PM
I'm still in doubt whether my partner will love his gift or hate me for it. Possibly both...
Did you buy a vagina again
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on December 18, 2015, 06:30:18 PM
Finally sent mine. That took a while.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Raikaria on December 18, 2015, 08:22:34 PM
Due to family issues present opening/posting could be delayed.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 18, 2015, 11:10:21 PM
Still don't have mine. :( (Well I have a thing but Santa Hakurei and I are like 99% sure it's my present from Iced and just shipped straight to me from seller.)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 19, 2015, 03:27:47 AM
No sign of mysterious arrivals yet, but that's ok.  Still plenty of time so my SS doesn't need to worry about it I don't think. 

Still, hope what I sent goes well...I THINK I did well enough but ???
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: aUsernameIsFineToo on December 19, 2015, 04:11:01 AM
Got a text from my parents. They said they received the package. I'll be home on Sunday to take a look under the Christmas tree :)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Nietz on December 19, 2015, 04:25:23 AM
Did you buy a vagina again
I will neither confirm nor deny that at this moment.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on December 19, 2015, 04:51:20 AM
I will neither confirm nor deny that at this moment.

Did you send them my thing too
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 19, 2015, 06:57:35 PM
Did you send them my thing too
Ow.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: pasu on December 19, 2015, 08:47:26 PM
Why isnt it christmas yet i want to open my preseeent  :(
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Jana on December 19, 2015, 08:51:58 PM
I have received a ~*~mysterious package~*~
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on December 19, 2015, 09:45:41 PM
Why isnt it christmas yet i want to open my preseeent  :(
6 more days!
I can't wait either!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Helepolis on December 20, 2015, 03:20:31 PM
I.R returned from land of Letty. But no package yet. Assuming customs is being a dick here in Holland too, expecting by Tuesday or Wednesday max.

Otherwise, well. . . . fuck :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa USA DOMESTIC DEADLINE TUESDAY!
Post by: Nietz on December 20, 2015, 04:50:48 PM
Did you send them my thing too
I had a different recipient in mind for that. Also I have to find out where I left it.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Tengukami on December 20, 2015, 07:35:41 PM
At last, a package has arrived, from the good ol' US of A.

Should I be nervous if it's making a ticking noise and smells like C4?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 21, 2015, 12:13:24 AM
At last, a package has arrived, from the good ol' US of A.

Should I be nervous if it's making a ticking noise and smells like C4?
Nah, I'm sure it's totally fine.  Keep mini-Ammy in another room just in case though.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: aUsernameIsFineToo on December 21, 2015, 12:37:42 AM
One of the first things I did upon stepping into my house was check under the Christmas tree. Underneath was a brown USPS package that weighs around a pound. It sounds like it's loosely packed, too.

(patiently waiting for Christmas day)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: NekoNekoRex on December 21, 2015, 07:27:50 AM
thank christ this package is under the tree in the living room, behind a curtain wall, in the room I never go into, or else I might not be able to resist the temptation.

On the other hand I feel like this cough I've had since last week is gonna kill before Christmas 'x'
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 21, 2015, 06:25:14 PM
I...MIGHT have gotten my thing?  I got something I know I didn't order, but since it was shipped directly from somewhere instead of a personal address I have absolutely no idea whether it's my CPSS thing or not. 

Operating under the assumption it is until further notice.

???
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Reddyne on December 21, 2015, 06:38:57 PM
My understanding is that Sandy Claws will be dropping off my package smack on Christmas Eve. And it'll happen at an undisclosed location that may or may not be in international waters on a barge owned by nobody in particular via an exchange between two heavily armed parties dressed from head to toe and wearing balaclavas whereupon one of the individuals in the opposing party will simply present an unmarked, nondescript box just before somebody flinches and the whole thing ends in an action packed gunfight.

Well, at least the first part is true.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on December 21, 2015, 06:43:32 PM
Sandy Claws
Ranta Claws
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Dorakyura on December 21, 2015, 07:42:24 PM
have I wrote that my packet arrived at my place?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on December 21, 2015, 08:35:52 PM
You did!

Once again, there's a few people out there who probably received their gifts that I haven't heard from yet, please post/PM in order to keep my Nice List accurate! 
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 22, 2015, 01:36:35 AM
I'm still waiting~
Wsiting for preseent~
O, Santa Claus,
I've been doing good this year.
I am not a naughty boy.

Edit: Never mind me, my present just arrived.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: yuyukos on December 22, 2015, 03:00:17 AM
I'm still waiting~
Wsiting for preseent~
O, Santa Claus,
I've been doing good this year.
I am not a naughty boy.
Me too! Maybe tomorrow!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: PX on December 22, 2015, 05:23:16 AM
I came home and there was a thing. Pretty big and beat up.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Chaore on December 22, 2015, 06:43:32 AM
received notice that the packet has arrived at the LZ

repeat, the package has arrived at the LZ

operation will begin in t-minus 72 hours or some shit
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Helepolis on December 22, 2015, 11:52:28 AM
Once again, there's a few people out there who probably received their gifts that I haven't heard from yet, please post/PM in order to keep my Nice List accurate!
Still nothing here. But technically there is still < 52h left for the package delivery service. Either today or tomorrow.

Haven't received notes or anything either. I don't even know which company delivers the package. Could be UPS, DPD, DHL or PostNL.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 22, 2015, 08:06:58 PM
GODDAMN THIS THING IS FUCKIN' HUGE
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 22, 2015, 11:09:58 PM
That's what she said
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 22, 2015, 11:21:44 PM
That's what she said

Seriously though.

(http://i.imgur.com/7wFFrj5.jpg)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 23, 2015, 01:02:28 AM
Seriously though.

(http://i.imgur.com/7wFFrj5.jpg)
Excuse me while I admire the large package.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Tengukami on December 23, 2015, 01:08:43 AM
Seriously though.

(http://i.imgur.com/7wFFrj5.jpg)

Ah, the old "mail yourself to your recipient" technique. A classic.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 23, 2015, 01:16:34 AM
Ah, the old "mail yourself to your recipient" technique. A classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaUkhvvP5LM
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on December 23, 2015, 07:40:57 AM
Ah, the old "mail yourself to your recipient" technique. A classic.

Sounds like a good way for Helepolis to embrace the true form of the Trojan Horse and invade a new country
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 23, 2015, 07:47:41 AM
Sounds like a good way for Helepolis to embrace the true form of the Trojan Horse and invade a new country

Naw it was a domestic package. :V

pretty sure it's
Vic since it's from NC and I thiiiiiink I recall first name in the return address being his
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Helepolis on December 23, 2015, 09:46:11 AM
Seriously though.

(http://i.imgur.com/7wFFrj5.jpg)
My god, that is a huge package.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Drake on December 23, 2015, 10:55:30 AM
Naw it was a domestic package. :V

pretty sure it's
Vic since it's from NC and I thiiiiiink I recall first name in the return address being his
what a large box just to hold a dvd
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 23, 2015, 02:36:34 PM
My mom would do something like that, haha.  We're all about oversized packages for smaller gifts.  Keeps people guessing!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 23, 2015, 08:03:28 PM
Yeah I am fully expecting something smallish and a ton of moderately heavy packing material :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Hello Purvis on December 23, 2015, 08:13:31 PM
It is a yuletide cinderblock!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: yuyukos on December 24, 2015, 12:16:35 AM
I have received a package, someone is once again safe from a ban! :V
It's from Japan, and I'm able to narrow it down to Not NForza.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: The ⑨th Zentillion on December 24, 2015, 03:14:48 AM
The next 28 hours can't go by fast enough, dangit. :fail:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: triangles on December 24, 2015, 03:33:44 AM
I KNOW

Crossing my fingers that Mailman Claus gets the remaining gifts out in time!  I'm expecting one to arrive tomorrow pls do so  :ohdear:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Helepolis on December 24, 2015, 11:32:16 AM
Mailman/women are highly active today in my neighbourhood (bicycle or small vans). Probably delivering those last minute packages/letters. So far still nothing here. But we still have 12 hours to go or so.

Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Mеа on December 24, 2015, 12:23:46 PM
Package arrival the arrivedness, worry not mein friend.
You know, I wasn't at all excited about getting a present tbh, but now that it's sitting so defenseless in the room, I'm suddenly a lot more tempted and nervous.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Labuto on December 24, 2015, 01:25:44 PM
Being GMT+8 is suffering, a whole 13 hours to wait after midnight.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Helepolis on December 24, 2015, 01:42:17 PM
Package get.

Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on December 24, 2015, 02:14:39 PM
Who is still missing a package???
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on December 24, 2015, 02:29:50 PM
According to Santa Hakurei's list and please correct me if there's a mistake....

HakureiSM - made it to Brazil but there was a thing with ~customs~ TO THE SURPRISE OF NO ONE so still in limbo
Kanjou
Pesco: At the post office waiting for pickup it seems
Jq1790
MJP
Reddyne - according to the tracking it's already in town and should be arriving within a few hours It came!
I think that's a record!

A reminder once again if you were planning on sending any digital/Steam/etc gift and wanted the element of surprise, you can PM Santa Hakurei and we'll pass it along for you!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 24, 2015, 02:32:51 PM
Is that a hammer I hear in the background?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: triangles on December 24, 2015, 02:44:43 PM
Maybe that's what was in Hele's gift box  :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Reddyne on December 24, 2015, 03:50:03 PM
Reddyne - according to the tracking it's already in town and should be arriving within a few hours
I think that's a record!
              :o                 :o
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                   :o      :o
 :o                :o :o
                        :o

:getdown: :getdown: :getdown: :getdown: :getdown: :getdown: :getdown: :getdown: :getdown: :getdown: :getdown: :getdown: :getdown:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 24, 2015, 04:00:03 PM
Its December 25th 2015, 12:00 AM in here.

Edit: I'm 3 seconds late of posting at exactly 12:00 AM
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 24, 2015, 04:05:47 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/YPIrsRqqO7oB2/giphy.gif)

Still 7 hours more to wait here.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Helepolis on December 24, 2015, 04:22:54 PM
to GMT+++++++++++++++++ people, Merry Christmas. I have to wait for 6,5 hours.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on December 24, 2015, 05:38:10 PM
>Pesco hasn't gotten his present

What a guy rofl literally an hour and 37 minutes past khuristmasu

oi hey aren't I supposed to be posting my opening thing now uh I can pretty much guess who it is I got it from kappa
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: pasu on December 24, 2015, 06:33:21 PM
HOLY SHIT
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Tengukami on December 24, 2015, 06:38:01 PM
Quote
hey aren't I supposed to be posting my opening thing now uh I can pretty much guess who it is I got it from kappa

Don't forget to start with at least 5 pics of the box being opened, as per proud /jp/ tradition.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Pesco on December 24, 2015, 06:59:17 PM
I was out for way longer than i anticipated today. Got a parcel notice at 5PM SGT. I'll only be able to go pick it up at a much later date though because i finish well outside of the post office hours tomorrow.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Kilgamayan on December 24, 2015, 07:06:47 PM
HakureiSM - made it to Brazil but there was a thing with ~customs~ TO THE SURPRISE OF NO ONE so still in limbo

hue

Bro your country needs to step it up

(Also I demand to know if you actually get it before January 1st because I take pride in my record-breaking punctuality (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,17589.msg1154889.html#msg1154889))
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Nietz on December 24, 2015, 07:10:41 PM
hue

Bro your country needs to step it up
I actually got mine quite in advance though. Maybe it's Haku the one that's haunted by the mail demons.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on December 24, 2015, 08:48:24 PM
There is a distinct reason for the hold up this time and it is quite the story for when he's ready to tell us :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 24, 2015, 09:49:46 PM
Bro your country needs to step it up
my country needs to burn down and sink into nonexistence

also it won't get here before the 1st

also get fucked Nietz, you live in the south

aahrahehahhahahahhehahehhahahahahahahhaehauhaiheihaeihahhahahahahahah

e: holy fuck it is getting here before the 1st. 28th it is

e2: hhhhhhhhhhhhahahahahhahahahahahaha
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Helepolis on December 24, 2015, 10:41:26 PM
So where the hell are the Christmas reports!?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Edible on December 24, 2015, 10:43:45 PM
e: holy fuck it is getting here before the 1st. 28th it is

IT'S A CHRISTMAS FUCKING MIRACLE

HAKUSM GETTING A SECRET SANTA PRESENT BEFORE FEBRUARYJANUARY
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Firestorm29 on December 24, 2015, 10:44:33 PM
Wondering if I should be cheatsidoodle amd open right at midnight or wait until 7AM... Choices T_T
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on December 24, 2015, 11:01:47 PM
So where the hell are the Christmas reports!?
People aren't supposed to post until Christmas in GMT-5, and that's always been the rule so you have another 6 hours to wait!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Helepolis on December 24, 2015, 11:21:43 PM
People aren't supposed to post until Christmas in GMT-5, and that's always been the rule so you have another 6 hours to wait!
Really?







Fuck. I believe I've broken this rule twice so far.

So that means I finally get to BAN someone?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 24, 2015, 11:48:59 PM
People aren't supposed to post until Christmas in GMT-5, and that's always been the rule so you have another 6 hours to wait!
Wuah, I almost did a mistake. I'll wait until tomorrow then.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: RuneDevros on December 24, 2015, 11:56:27 PM
A mysterious Aikatsu box appears!

But I'm going to leave the contents for Christmas day to open it.

[attach=1]
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Edible on December 25, 2015, 12:47:30 AM
A mysterious Aikatsu box appears!

Good ol' aikatsu, with its data cardass machine.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on December 25, 2015, 01:08:29 AM
According to Santa Hakurei's list and please correct me if there's a mistake....

Kanjou

Yep... For the first time in my history of taking part, there is no gift present. So no opening pictures from me today. Fingers crossed it arrives by the New Year; and at least I get to watch the shenanigans of everyone else unfold around me without having to rush around myself~ <3

{Also, it's :1:08am here. Merry Christmas!}
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 25, 2015, 01:14:34 AM
Turns out the earlier post where I THOUGHT I got my thing was not, in fact, my CPSS thing so I'm still unaccounted for as the list states.  Ah well, I trust my sender just had a delay or some other issue so no worries.  Merry Christmas to those who are in timezones that's appropriate for!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Edible on December 25, 2015, 05:13:51 AM
Merry Christmas from the only timezone that really matters!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 25, 2015, 05:18:54 AM
Gift opened and pictures taken, though I shall post in depth later. Many thanks
Vic
you know what I like.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: PX on December 25, 2015, 05:21:38 AM
People aren't supposed to post until Christmas in GMT-5, and that's always been the rule so you have another 6 hours to wait!

I don't remember this last year
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Edible on December 25, 2015, 05:37:52 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/CUjCSdl.jpg)

BEHOLD, A DISPLAY OF WONDER AND MERRIMENT


(http://i.imgur.com/X4pJj22.jpg)

An extremely adorable Saber Lion nendoroid!  She has many cute expressions and will go great with the pictured Saber Lion plush, which was also an MOTK secret santa gift from a previous year!

(http://i.imgur.com/JRDBLB4.jpg)

fasdfjoijaoerijaseor

If I wasn't about to go to bed, I would tear into these right now.  Got a busy day tomorrowtoday, so I have to get up early-ish.

And speaking of getting up early:

(http://i.imgur.com/JjFze3B.jpg)

yesssssssssssssssss

A really great and thoughtful gift, and a big thanks to whoever sent it!

I'm going to guess that my secret santa this year is
Zent


I don't remember this last year

Me neither :getdown:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Labuto on December 25, 2015, 06:03:16 AM
(http://puu.sh/m7R0T/baa420da9f.jpg)

Box of many Merriments and such Santas.

(http://puu.sh/m7R48/ce72f46377.jpg)

えー! An Ami Ami thing. Never ordered anything from it before, so it was quite refreshing.

(http://puu.sh/m7Ra5/12577a49bd.jpg)

And the contents of the box, an Uzuki Nendroid, an Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Cushion , and a Rika Can Strap!

I have the sneaking suspicion that my Secret Santa stalked the Starlight Stage thread over at Akyu's Arcade. As Uzuki was my first SSR pull, while Rika was my most recent SR pull.

Massive thanks to whoever my Secret Santa is, and have all the luck in whatever gacha you find yourself participating in.

I have absolutely no idea, whom my Secret Santa is, due to me not being that active in the forums, preferring the IRC. But if I have to take a wild guess,
yuyukos
?

soft cushion is soft
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 25, 2015, 06:13:56 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/mHy9fih.jpg)
Camus and my gift from Iced (Amnesia artbook eeeeeee <3) are protecting the addresses but OH GOD HUGE BOX

(http://i.imgur.com/Zty5fGN.jpg)
Oh geez maybe it's not a very tiny gift and a ludicrous amount of packing material?

(http://i.imgur.com/hHhBxV6.jpg)
ooooh lots of very careful packing and the card mentioned craft breweries from across the state? (oops I forgot to rotate it because I'M ALREADY TIPSY)

(http://i.imgur.com/XUP6XXC.jpg)
Yes,
Vic
got me a lovely-looking assortment of beers from North Carolina. :3 I'd probably crack one open except I just got myself a couple bottles of Dogfish Head 120-Minute IPA today for the holidays. :V (Normally I don't care for IPAs but that one's so strong it kinda wraps around into its own thing. But I haven't tried a more typical IPA in a while and I've been meaning to! So the one in here is fortunate. :3)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Chaore on December 25, 2015, 06:33:42 AM
will have to delay report due to imminent travelings, but will submit late today :v
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Moogs Parfait on December 25, 2015, 06:44:14 AM
Box!

(http://i.imgur.com/nbNKE06l.jpg) (http://imgur.com/nbNKE06)

What's this? Puzzlebro extremely likely.

(http://i.imgur.com/sQgrp1Wl.jpg) (http://imgur.com/sQgrp1W)

ROSE!

(http://i.imgur.com/AHPcxF6l.jpg) (http://imgur.com/AHPcxF6)

Box seems to have been damaged in transit.  No matter!

(http://i.imgur.com/AyAilw4l.jpg) (http://imgur.com/AyAilw4)

(http://i.imgur.com/qeLZHeUl.jpg) (http://imgur.com/qeLZHeU)


Thank you so much, Secret Santa, this is really cool.  I keep looking at it, likely with a dumb smile on my face.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on December 25, 2015, 06:57:58 AM
Will post about sending beer tomorrow, but tldr it's a pain.

I don't remember this last year
It was never enforced but the language had always been there.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on December 25, 2015, 07:42:17 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/zTtSQ2Q.jpg)
Present opening time!

(http://i.imgur.com/j9MOTuh.jpg)
That's a lot of doujin

(http://i.imgur.com/5YW2iXd.jpg)
Too bad I can't read Japanese.

(http://i.imgur.com/4ZsSE0i.jpg)
Guess it's time for me to learn Japanese.

(http://i.imgur.com/gPnAoBy.jpg)
I don't get it, what kind of card costs $50 anyway? Trading card?

(http://i.imgur.com/nnxpqWi.jpg)
OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!! A steam card?! Now I can buy Phantom Pain without spending too much money. Oh my God thank you so much.

(http://i.imgur.com/e9lFVf5.jpg)
Now Cirno has some friend. Just need to find Rumia and Wriggle next.


Judging from the fact that my Secret Santa knows I love steam and Mystia (that's obvious), I'm guessing my secret santa is..... I don't know, all I know for sure is it can't be Helepolis-san, PX, Edible, YJ, or Pesco. That still leaves a lot. But still, thank you for the present. Thank you so much.

Edit: Nevermind, already knew my secret Santa.
That's very stupid of me revealing the address like that.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: yuyukos on December 25, 2015, 07:49:19 AM
A package arrived! Mysterious contents!
http://imgur.com/kLWcc2f

Okay, maybe not so mysterious. Thanks customs regulations.
http://imgur.com/kxajKxT

Packages in packages, the usual packageception.
http://imgur.com/bKX40rH

Parts! This looks complicated.
http://imgur.com/5cZGmLh

Some assembly required.
http://imgur.com/OSba9qs

This is what the fan looks like.
http://imgur.com/SajmLva

Cue haughty laughter once again, duhuhu. I received a folding fan in a past year's MotK Secret Santa as well. Fan is effective at hiding my unshaven countenance.
http://imgur.com/rPwM46w

I managed to figure out how it should be displayed thanks to Google.
http://imgur.com/FZ8Ck77

Great gift, Yuyuko should never be without a fan.
I honestly have no idea who my Santa is. I think they might live in Japan, but they also could have had it ordered and shipped to me. I'll guess... Drake.

e: Fuck image editing, have an album link http://imgur.com/a/ZQxBj
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on December 25, 2015, 08:30:11 AM
Apparently I'm not supposed to open present and post pics till I get an email which was supposed to be sent 9ish hours ago according to Santa over here

But eh OK no problerino baby as long as I have to wait shorter than Haku here rofl
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: aUsernameIsFineToo on December 25, 2015, 08:40:08 AM
It's a box!
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0k2U6aV60UXdFNJSXMxem1uUWc)

What could be in it???
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0k2U6aV60UXZVFOQXNWeWtTWFk)

"You like movies, huh? Movies are awesome! Problem is, there's so many so when one specifies no genre one opens themselves up to the whims of the giver!"
"Please 'enjoy' these 'decent' works of cinema 'excellence' and when the s#!tty movies become too much, enjoy these homemade ginger spice biscotti while playing the game that should be in your Steam box any moment now. Merry Christmas! -Your Secret Santa"
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0k2U6aV60UXQkVtUE1kcktNMVE)

Biscuits!
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0k2U6aV60UXeGpqdTA0Y1F2VTA)

Green gift-wrapped package!
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0k2U6aV60UXYTZ3X1JmekZTdk0)

Blu- PUZZLEBRO DETECTED!!! REPEAT, PUZZLEBRO DETECTED!!!
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0k2U6aV60UXWk9XM1AydE02WGs)

Everything in the package:
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0k2U6aV60UXOTBQb2FTZDBCUE0)

I think I'll start with the one on the left...
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0k2U6aV60UXTmxRYUFSVFR3c0k)
Looks good, haven't seen it yet.

Now for the one on the right... I wonder whether it's this (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61AYWHBAF3L._SY445_.jpg) infamous thing everyone seems to be talking about...
[nsfw]https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0k2U6aV60UXT2ZFcEtMd0hTQmc[/nsfw]
aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
YOU MONSTER!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!



Addendum: Woke up and saw an email from Steam:
(https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B0k2U6aV60UXSEVOMGFveXl2R1U)
:getdown:

Upon accepting the gift it became obvious who my Secret Santa was. Thanks a BUNCH,
triangles! (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1063)

Merry Christmas, everyone, everywhere!!!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: The ⑨th Zentillion on December 25, 2015, 08:49:53 AM
After some adventuring around lots of containers to find the USB cable for my camera (I found my headphones, my pc-comptible dualshock controller, and my ds lite before I found it under some stuff)... But that's been taken care of, so!

(http://i.imgur.com/hEhcNo6.jpg)
The package itself, the shipping labels conveniently censored with the cable TV remote and a box of mozzarella sticks - yes, McDonald's sells them now. They're okay, but I think I still like the ones from Arby's better. BV

(http://i.imgur.com/xuFPpCy.jpg)
Hmm, what appears to be a Japanese newspaper surrounding my stuff...

(http://i.imgur.com/aRDGrXO.jpg)
First things I notice in here is what appears to be a Yo-Kai compass, looks like they don't get sold here in the states. of course. Aaand not just that, but a copy of the 3DS game itself! Awesome, now I have two 3DS games; KH3D and now this~

(http://i.imgur.com/IUX5TO3.jpg)
And then, more Japanese supernatural lore fun! Iiiit's Ghost Stories! IIRC, it has a very bawdy gagdub, can't wait! Hmm, guess that's... ...all...?

(http://i.imgur.com/wczJxTP.jpg)
But no, it was NOT all! Three Touhou bookmarks with a couple of my favorites. Hell yeah.

(http://i.imgur.com/oTxRdCd.jpg)
But that was all, so here's the whole spread.

Thanks a bunch,
PX
!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Jana on December 25, 2015, 09:01:32 AM
I have opened my ~*~mysterious package~*~, documentation tomorrow!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 25, 2015, 09:10:54 AM
Okay, let's get this thing going. I wanted to do this yesterday because I had the right mindset with all that beer and stuff, but rules are rules and we gotta do it now. ANYWAY HERE IS THE BOX

(https://zippy.gfycat.com/SimplisticRespectfulDutchsmoushond.gif)

Lovely package. Don't mind the scizors at your side, I'll just pierce gently into you. Yet, as I start thinking about opening that gift, a chill is going down my spine, but it's probably just my imagination. What could possibly go wrong?

Aight, skillful cut and boom, there it is.

(http://i.imgur.com/RapGuEG.jpg)

YOOOOOOOO NOW WE'RE TALKING

(http://i.imgur.com/iwdpwt0.jpg)

WHAT IS THIS, NOT A DVD I'M NOT CRAZY RIGHT?!

Well yeah, actually, I'm not, great. There she is, she's a beauty, let's welcome Phantasmoon.

(http://i.imgur.com/XxjSv2A.jpg)

She's now standing right next to Arcueid, looking good, and as bright as my heart right now. Thank you, mysterious friend who is apparently in California. That makes it at least like 30 possibilities.

But! We can't be too safe, let's see if there's anything else in the box, why not?

(http://i.imgur.com/tuHqyUa.jpg)

I mean, maybe I didn't check properly, let's have another look.

(http://i.imgur.com/ZoUPByt.jpg)

Oh hey, I can see something in there, what is i-

OH NO.

(http://i.imgur.com/HqW8ebm.jpg)

NO, NOT AGAIN.

(http://i.imgur.com/BVCyEem.jpg)

"AHAHAHAHAHAHA, I HOPE YOU DIDN'T THINK YOU COULD FORGET ABOUT ME. YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY, THERE IS NO ESCAPE!"

OH YEAH WELL WE WILL SEE ABOUT THAT

(http://i.imgur.com/it2xn0r.jpg)

"OW"

(http://i.imgur.com/eyMaMH4.jpg)

RIGHT IN YOUR SCHRODINGER PARADOXAL FACE YOU MONSTER

(http://i.imgur.com/qPrLCgD.jpg)

GET LOST AND NEVER COME BACK

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

(Actually there wasn't a DVD, this one is the one I got last year but it came back with a vengeance. Merry Christmas! :D)

EDIT : Oh right, yeah, I'm gonna guess it's from
Kiro
.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Helepolis on December 25, 2015, 09:22:12 AM
MERRY CHRISTMAS SECRET SANTA 2015 REPORT FROM THE NETHERLANDS


Right, so this was like a day-before-christmas delivery for the mailman. He had the face of an eagle and his shirt the stars and stripes. I saluted him. A mythical box had been put into my hands. The eagle flew away at mach 3045. I saluted it while being burned to ashes because of the sudden afterburners in my face.

Either way, after respawning I took the package to my room and studied it.
(http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_00a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_00.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_01a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_01.jpg)


(http://i.imgur.com/OA7LXuY.jpg)

Is what my Secret Santa said while packing this. Obviously. Anyway, carrying on. We need to open this, safety as usual is important. Let us put on these and go in.




(http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_02a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_02.jpg)(http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_03a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_03.jpg)(http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_04a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_04.jpg)
Safety firstDoes this count as a 'duck face'? ...?? What the!? (nsfw)















STOP
(http://laserwifi.com/images/Police-car.png)


Suddenly, High officer Melon Bear has arrived at the crime scene immediately.
(http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_05a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_05.jpg)
OFFICER I SWEAR, SHE IS 18+


The book was confiscated without any hesitation. From this point on officer Melon Bear would stand by to ensure no other immoral things would come out.
(http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_06a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_06.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_07a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_07.jpg)
So far safe, a note, a package containing powderish thing and a pair of slippers appeared!


No shenanigans you say? So how do you explain High Officer Melon Kuma and the dangerous book then, hmm? Anyway, let us test these slippers out. Damn they look comfortable!
(http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_08a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_08.jpg)

Huh? They don't seem to fit quite well. I can squeeze my foot in there but my heel will be left outside. Which is odd, because size says 9-10 (Large). I checked my jogging shoes which report US 9.5. Either this store has some strange way of tagging sizes or my feet are weird. A slight bigger size would fit perfect! It is ok though Secret Santa! I can pass it on to my Onee-san who perhaps might fit them (her feet aren't giant like mine). Please don't worry about it because such gifts are always difficult when you're sending them across the globe.


So what else is there.
(http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_09a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_09.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_10a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_10.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_11a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_11.jpg)
White Russian. Arabica. Netherlands. Turkish. . . . . . . . . you know about that note you wrote. You sure about that?


Ok so after doing some research it seems that a White Russian is a form of drink between Alcohol and Coffee. But this one is Alcohol free it seems. Pitty. But nothing that we can't fix by adding some quality Vodka to it. Although where do I find quality vodka in The Netherlands?

I then realised the note had a backside as well. Cheeky bastard.
(http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_12a.jpg) (http://www.taihou.nl/f/ss2015/ss2015_12.jpg)
Yea. Sticky stuff. Dangerous books.


To be honest I have no idea who my Secret Santa is. I'll do some list-analysis. Seems this is someone who isn't confident in his or her shenanigan powers. Might be a newcomer or not. Either way, the slippers ARE fucking comfortable to the max. I really wish I didn't drink much Dutch Milk so my feet didn't grow this large. But it cannot be helped. Lucky sister I have then.

Thank you Secret Santa.






PS. Before lynching my Secret Santa: The book was not sent by him/her :V It was gifted to me by the Mizuki Hitoshi himself.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 25, 2015, 09:34:07 AM
Ok so after doing some research it seems that a White Russian is a form of drink between Alcohol and Coffee. But this one is Alcohol free it seems. Pitty. But nothing that we can't fix by adding some quality Vodka to it. Although where do I find quality vodka in The Netherlands?

Yep! It's usually a cocktail made of vodka, coffee liqueur, and dairy. Kahlua is a major brand of coffee liqueur, so in this case it's probably just a flavored coffee with a bit of cream-ish flavor. (Though if you were to spike it with something it would probably turn out nicely. :3)

I'm not your Santa but it is a cocktail I'm generally fond of. So.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Raikaria on December 25, 2015, 09:44:43 AM
Apologies for bad camera. On the upside you get bonus RAILEG.

(http://i.imgur.com/8G8CXWY.jpg)

I have a tube. Long journey. Mostly my fault. Involves going to the wrong house 3 times and back to a warehouse then falling off an elevator until I chased it up.

(http://i.imgur.com/wERXl9j.jpg)

GOD HOW MANY LAYERS OF TAPE DID THE CHINESE WRAP THIS IN? This took like 15 mins to actually unwrap.

(http://i.imgur.com/ioxDUjH.jpg)

Is a Koishi and a Kokoro.

I needs to find room for this alongside my [now framed] tapestry from last year.

I don't have the time to figure out who this was sent by right now. I'll do that later and post again with my guess. I'm pretty sure I might be able to figure this one out.

Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa AND NOW THE WAITING GAME!
Post by: PX on December 25, 2015, 09:59:48 AM
Alright, weird being one of the early ones to post being in the west coast and all, but let's go! (Images taken with phone because too lazy to charge camera :P)
(http://imgur.com/TVpqQlM.jpg)
Convenient Miku and scissors censor

(http://imgur.com/WwYr1IB.jpg)
And a LOT of bubble wrap o_O

(http://imgur.com/tHs1FUi.jpg)
A box! I always wanted one!

(http://imgur.com/8jNbSRc.jpg)
(http://imgur.com/CNz7VTB.jpg)
So I maaaaay have not put down anything under my list of preferences (except for one small hint), so I'm in for surprises

(http://imgur.com/8wbCQwm.jpg)
(http://imgur.com/mqLY5eD.jpg)
So a shoebox with some stuff in it!

(http://imgur.com/fcYEITl.jpg)
(http://imgur.com/8KlcLPi.jpg)
Some tea and a robot to mix it!

(http://imgur.com/SXcfCdA.jpg)
Two albums from some pretty good bands. Too bad the Aerosmith one doesn't have my favorite song, but I'll have something to listen in the car now outside of my 7GB of love live music

(http://imgur.com/5QM3mEC.jpg)
Some syrup! I'll be sure to use this whenever I can!

(http://imgur.com/h3zgUme.jpg)
Oh my god. Nooooooooooooooo! The bird teams continue to haunt me! (I'm winning this fantasy football league :V)

(http://imgur.com/4OLdD10.jpg)
And last but not least, some mints and bars!

Thanks for the gift
MJP/Triangles
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Raikaria on December 25, 2015, 11:57:27 AM
Too many people here are Koishi fans I can't figure it out again this year.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 25, 2015, 12:51:02 PM
I understand your pain. The biggest one didn't join so makes it extra hard. Also please fix your images, they don't show up =(

@ PX,  HOLY SHIT that Tea Infuser Robot is awesome. Who ever gifted that, you rock.

(Though if you were to spike it with something it would probably turn out nicely. :3)
And then I passed out due to some shady drug, not remembering how I ended up in this hotel. :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Tengukami on December 25, 2015, 01:36:17 PM
Christmas Day. Leftovers consumed, coffee drank, I can now open the present. Customs regulations be damned, my Secret Santa (who I gather is located somewheres up in the Ozarks) was able to cleverly get around revealing the contents while still being truthful about what was inside. For example:

(http://i.imgur.com/XPk7NIwl.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/XPk7NIw.jpg)

This lovely gigantic Syameimaru mouse pad was just "mouse pad" on the customs sheet. I would have been content with a regular mouse pad, as my old one barely reflects the laser back at the mouse anymore. But this! What a thing of beauty. Thank you, Ozark Santa, this is very thoughtful. I will think of you every time I play Fallout with this.

But wait, there's more!

(http://i.imgur.com/QJfo90Pl.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/QJfo90P.jpg)

In the foreground here is oven-bakable clay, glaze, and clay glue. This is great stuff! My daughter and I alike can both have some fun with this. Plus I can finally finish my army of tiny clay soldiers who will one day come to life at my command.

Behind the clay and clay accessories are 3 bags of peanut brittle. Which is eerie. I don't know if I listed in my 5 preferences that peanut brittle happens to be one of my top favorite snacks, but Ozark Santa either somehow knew or just by sheer coincidence happened to have some spare peanut brittle laying around and decided to send it my way. Either way, I am one happy tengu.

This is really thoughtful stuff, and I'm sure to enjoy all these things immensely. Thank you, Ozark Santa, aka my new favorite person. Caw caw!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Hello Purvis on December 25, 2015, 02:45:59 PM
SECRET SANTA, WHEREIN PURVIS LEARNS THAT HIS HAND SHAKES LIKE A DRUNKARD DESPITE NEVER DRINKING A DROP.





(http://i.imgur.com/1FE1v5z.jpg)

Neohio. The land that prosperity forgot. Here we see a vibrant Neohioan field, across the road from my main window. A colorful view like this is rare to find in my state.

(http://i.imgur.com/hBRYUUj.jpg)

And here we have a box! My lovely assistants were obscuring the address, but as you can see, my horrible shaky hand made it unnecessary.


(http://i.imgur.com/99EZmp3.jpg)

My lovely assistant Kisume, you all know well. And she is joined by Dizzy, whom those that know me from the old days (Read: Emouse) would recognize as Waifu Prime, from back before Waifu was even a thing! Today is her birthday, as Stuffman can surely tell you!

(http://i.imgur.com/OQdwFmj.jpg)

KITTY! But how are we to open this?

(http://i.imgur.com/l9uMabH.jpg)

Oh lovely assistant, that's your answer to all of life's problems.

(http://i.imgur.com/CoJrpsn.jpg)

Not that you're particularly wrong, though.

(http://i.imgur.com/LiVQ26v.jpg)

A WARNING!!!!!! But who are the Moth SS  ...Are the Nazis onto me? The StormTrumpers, perhaps? We shall have to proceed with caution...


(http://i.imgur.com/3xoMQhu.jpg)

Hmmm. Waste and desolation. But as a resident of Neohio, I am used to such things and we dig in without hesitation!


(http://i.imgur.com/ZJwAnyW.jpg)

Gasp! Dramatic Lighting my sister's phone could not correct for and spazzed out over for like five literal minutes!  It's...a cryogenic capsule!


(http://i.imgur.com/qQerKip.jpg)

It's a shrine maiden! Her hugeness is supreme!

(http://i.imgur.com/cmUhNCR.jpg)

Lovely Assistant II has detected a secret passage!


(http://i.imgur.com/hcB5ftq.jpg)

OH MY GAAAAAAAAAAA

(http://i.imgur.com/vEvmhsu.jpg)

UFO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(http://i.imgur.com/C26eEIx.jpg)

TAMUSIC AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


(http://i.imgur.com/C03RpGw.jpg)


KOKYO ACTIVE NEETS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


(http://i.imgur.com/jjJHEdp.jpg)

CAFE DE TOUHOU 6 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


(http://i.imgur.com/51ftYQe.jpg)

TOUHOU EUROBEAT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(http://i.imgur.com/MUqy3vB.jpg)

MORE EUROBEAT I CAN'T FIND ON VGMDB AAAAAAAAAAA

(http://i.imgur.com/cGJGqRq.jpg)

WHEW! All that screaming gave me a headache. Oh, and it seems the lovely assistants have found something else?

(http://i.imgur.com/NQyixBd.jpg)

A lovely bag! Lovely!


(http://i.imgur.com/XrhSPPM.jpg)

And here we have a close-up of the miko so ice cold she frozen herself in place. What amuses me is that this us the UFO version, but includes a Miracle Mallet. Also what seems to be a purple version of the Jeweled Branch of Hourai? And what I assume is her loot bag from when she visited Mayohiga.


Anyways, I took a peek at the customs sheet, and apparently this is like...9000 yen worth of stuff?! Holy shit, either my secret santa spent way too much on me, or is an accomplished shoplifter. The best part is, because it was sent from good ole Japan, I cannot say for certain who it was, because everyone knows Forza works there as a purchase agent, and would likely be amenable to routing a treasure box for an Unseen Santa! (HINT HINT PLUG HINT)

As such, I rightly have no clue who this generous thief really is =D Thank you very much, you made my morning, and this will outvalue pretty much all the rest of the stuff I get today, guaranteed. (Thus far: An electric kettle, a large bag of Reese's Pieces, and 50 dollar; the lion's share.)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on December 25, 2015, 03:06:42 PM
What an excellent year thus far.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: NekoNekoRex on December 25, 2015, 03:12:57 PM
IT'S CHRISTMAS!

(http://i.imgur.com/eFpAMtD.jpg)

Poor Chen has been curious as to the contents of this mysterious box since last week! Finally time to open it!
...hmmm, the box is from the UK, and the contents are labeled 'biscuits'! Well, that might be a trick, but I am kinda hungry...

(http://i.imgur.com/wJXAPh7.jpg)

With her trusty claws box cutter, she rips open the box to get at it's innards.


(http://i.imgur.com/JUOKhVD.jpg)

Inside is revealed.... packaging! ...and more!


(http://i.imgur.com/QfM9mFJ.jpg)

Ooh! A real present, for Chen! Time to put those claws to use! She rips open the package and reveals...


(http://i.imgur.com/kykiEMf.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/rE2JoCt.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/pRcadW6.jpg)

Aha! Lots of british food! I can hear my stomach growling already! Thankfully, I'm half-british (in heritage), so this stuff looks delicious~


(http://i.imgur.com/jiSX7hd.jpg)

Chen's eyes pop at the last part of the contents! A ball of yarn!!?


(http://i.imgur.com/J7Dc1yK.jpg)

Oh! It's a cute little short story! I didn't expect this! Gonna read this while I heat up the little pies...


Mmmm~
This stuff is all delicious! Especially the little orange cookies (for obvious Chen-related reasons)
And I loved the little story!

Thanks Secret Santa!
Although you left the author of your work unknown, I think I know who to properly thank!
So thanks hungrybookworm!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: triangles on December 25, 2015, 03:20:32 PM
Since MJP is taking part in 6 (!!) Secret Santas this year I made it a house rule to open up all the boxes that showed up to have something resembling order, so when a ~*~mysterious package~*~ arrived I had my sister recon it to see if it was wrapped and indeed it was!

(http://i.imgur.com/QgN5Czq.jpg)
In keeping with tradition I asked my cat Ceci to help open it.  She was deep in thought about something, probably snacks.

(http://i.imgur.com/VL3CEuP.jpg)
Yes that must have been it she has a one track mind, I understand Ceci snacks are amazing.

(http://i.imgur.com/YZ2ki4H.jpg)
So I have a gift box from ?\_(ツ)_/? and a note to open later.  The box is pretty lightweight let's see what's inside.

(http://i.imgur.com/QtXXKUD.jpg)
PUZZLEBRO DETECTED
Look at that cutie  :3

(http://i.imgur.com/0dWiF8J.jpg?1) (http://imgur.com/0dWiF8J)
And the message inside.  Tamadra is most certainly totes adorbs!  I did not receive anything else yet, so I will look forward to saying HALLO to another friend (?)  :3 :3

Also bonus:
(http://i.imgur.com/Buf82Ca.jpg)
Special guest Reddyne is here for the holidays!   
(see also: anglesister)


-------------------
Edits:
Thanks for the gift
MJP/Triangles
While a logical guess due to the return address it's neither of us!   
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Hello Purvis on December 25, 2015, 03:31:24 PM
GET OUT OF THERE REDDYNE THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU! I WILL COME BACK TO BOSTON AND FIGHT YOU!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on December 25, 2015, 03:42:59 PM
Also bonus:
(http://i.imgur.com/Buf82Ca.jpg)
Special guest Reddyne is here for the holidays!   
(see also: anglesister)

vomiting rainbows dot jpeg
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: triangles on December 25, 2015, 03:47:07 PM
JUST YOU WAIT I CAN POST WORSE
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 25, 2015, 04:04:05 PM
Purvis you got your hands on a nice PVC / statue. Pretty much a lot of people agree UFO is one of the best touhou games around (inb4angrytohoplayers)


JUST YOU WAIT I CAN POST WORSE
Bluff.

Edit:
NekoNekoRex, I just noticed. Is your computer on the floor? Like. . . keyboard / mouse / screen?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Kilgamayan on December 25, 2015, 04:28:06 PM
That is a pretty sweet hat, ngl.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Hello Purvis on December 25, 2015, 04:28:26 PM
Yeah, I noticed the computer on the floor thing myself, and thought it had to be weird optical illusion.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: NekoNekoRex on December 25, 2015, 04:32:57 PM
Nope, I don't have a desk so my base of operations is on the floor. A desk is the one piece of furniture I haven't been able to find for my room, at least a suitable one. My parents keep offering me these gigantic work stations that I'd have to lug up three stories and dominate a quarter of my room, and I keep saying no.


(http://i.imgur.com/P5JjYvZ.jpg)
for reference. Currently eating these mincemeat pies. Sweet, but meaty.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 25, 2015, 04:36:26 PM
Well if I have to go by Warugaki, he uses tangerine boxes as furniture for his computer. http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2003504 (danbooru warning, but safe image)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: NekoNekoRex on December 25, 2015, 04:41:34 PM
I had my monitor on a box back when I lived with my mum, but I haven't found a suitable replacement for it since then. When I moved I took everything in trash bags.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Tengukami on December 25, 2015, 04:42:39 PM
Love seeing all y'alls' hauls. All y'all's!

(http://i.imgur.com/P5JjYvZ.jpg)
for reference. Currently eating these mincemeat pies. Sweet, but meaty.

So do you browse/game laying on your stomach or sitting stooped over until your back aches? I highly recommend the Milk Crate Battle Station, if carrying heavy furniture up stairs doesn't appeal to you.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: NekoNekoRex on December 25, 2015, 04:48:58 PM
I sit cross-legged on a towel, but I just had an amazing burst of inspiration for solving the issue of looking down at my screen all the time.

(http://i.imgur.com/LuEXWWQ.jpg)

Santa unknowingly provides one last present for Chen: The box itself!

Thanks again!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on December 25, 2015, 05:21:24 PM
Also, big shoutouts to Purvis for not having a potato camera this year.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 25, 2015, 05:45:54 PM
Also, big shoutouts to Purvis for not having a potato camera this year.
Was about to say, this time we could actually see what was being presented.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: dyril on December 25, 2015, 05:55:18 PM
Strange shipments of much needed foodstuffs have finally made it to the storehouse!

(http://i.imgur.com/9dNB9KO.jpg)

A cursory inspection






[SLASHING]



(http://i.imgur.com/O66Mg5s.jpg)








!

(http://i.imgur.com/sNl9Zxa.jpg)
WHY ARE YOU HERE?!




[SLASHING INTENSIFIES]




(http://i.imgur.com/WtMDu93.jpg)












So what do we have here...







It appears that YOMU must wait a bit longer..


(http://i.imgur.com/X2NwK1H.jpg)


..an inedible dee vui dee!






(http://i.imgur.com/RtL5tUo.jpg)


Also, a book for fixing the EVERYTHING. The mansion has been in need of repairs for some time, now.

And finally, something I've always wanted: a ratcheting screwdriver!
Bits & socketses in Freedom AND METRIC that might be effective with EVERYTHING.

These are likely to be scattered around and be of most definite use.
Thank you!

Secret Santa, you did well despite my own secret tendencies. I will take your included note to heart.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: DX7.EP on December 25, 2015, 06:00:21 PM
Seems like an absolutely fantastic year of gifting thus far! :toot:
/me is still irritated at their situational inability to attend this time though. :fail: But there is next time!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on December 25, 2015, 06:29:32 PM
A word of advice to anyone else who is considering sending beer to their CPSS in the future: don't; it is difficult and expensive.  I spoke to the owner of the bottle shop where I got the beer and he said that the beer must be packaged very tightly and thoroughly to prevent any breakage or leakage, and that it is also against the policy of both UPS and FedEx to ship alcohol (not illegal though).  I ended up buying specialized wine shippers to provide some structure for the bottles, but given the dramatic size differences between a bottle of wine and bottle of beer, I had to take extra steps.  I sealed the caps of every bottle with electrical tape, wrapped each bottle is 5 layers of bubble wrap, and filled in the remaining space in the wine shippers with newspaper.  Then I placed the wine shippers in the giant box and filled the rest with more newspaper.  I wound up spending more on shipping supplies and postage than the beer itself :<  I hope you enjoy the beer though Arashi!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: RuneDevros on December 25, 2015, 06:33:15 PM
MotK ate my post so let's try again...

Mysterious box from Japan...

[attach=1]

There's a Yukari inside and some books!

[attach=2]

Yukari!

[attach=3]

Two very pretty Touhou doujin books and a CD!

[attach=4]

This gigantic tome of a Kancolle artbook.

[attach=5]

And finally a postcard featuring Renko and a huge hawk

[attach=6][attach=7]

Thank you so much, Secret Santa!! I didn't expect to ever get so much cool stuff.

I know it's not NForza because I do business with him regularly. As for my guess, was it you
Vyrien??
. You're one of the few other people who posted in this thread saying they were in Japan.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 25, 2015, 07:06:32 PM
I hope you enjoy the beer though Arashi!

It looks good! I'm especially looking forward to the stout. :3
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on December 25, 2015, 07:08:46 PM
So my package arrived from The Netherlands and I WONDER WHO THAT COULD BE?!  Anyway, we join our intrepid hero's journey, already in progress.

(http://i.imgur.com/KigTrfG.jpg)

Boy howdy, I sure do love international newspapers, thanks santa!

(http://i.imgur.com/jcgp2GK.jpg)

Purple camera returns this year with a vengeance!  Two envelopes, one containing instructions and the other containing ???????

(http://i.imgur.com/En7Ynhc.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/pjqWRYT.jpg)

The gifts(?), the first letter and lockpick set.

(http://i.imgur.com/yDsbUoZ.jpg)

Yes, lockpick set.  The padlock that needed to be picked was clear and that would make for an easier time picking, but enough with that!  Time to plug in that USB drive and watch our first video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxTkl7QEZmc

Whoa, sounds pretty serious!  I'd better get started with the first few packages, maybe there will be a password for the locked .zip files on the USB stick.

(http://i.imgur.com/hLHSYMk.jpg)

HOLY CRAP I FINALLY GOT SOME STROOPWAFFEL!  THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY EV-

(http://i.imgur.com/b5JhTjn.jpg)

;_; But wait, maybe the :V isn't just mocking me but is also the secret code?  (It was) So we got to view the second video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmBXujebUkY

I'd better get to work on picking this lock!  I've never picked a lock before but maybe I can accidentally stumble in unlocking it through sheer dumb luck.  After some time and wildly guessing, I somehow managed to the get the lock open, and what did the box reveal?

(http://i.imgur.com/tZib33C.jpg)

Some candies, and THERE'S THE STROOPWAFFEL!  OK THEN!  But wait, this 193 looks like it might be the code to unlock the other .zip file.  We got one last video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P9Ut8fBgww

I did it!  Now to open the last two gifts and bask in the glow of a job well done.

(http://i.imgur.com/pleGbZ5.jpg)

A cute tumbler and a pretty neat 3D puzzle that I look forward to putting together later on.  All in all, a successful outing with the Brotherhood.  Thanks (STOP) Helepolis!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Mеа on December 25, 2015, 09:06:38 PM
Merry Christmas everybody!

I spy with my little eye a suspicious looking package. And from le Deutschland?!?
(http://puu.sh/m8sjF.jpg)

How else would one open someone... without a key? Let's borrow the power of the master key wielder for to openit.
(http://puu.sh/m8sl9.jpg)

And... with a little twist and turn...
(http://puu.sh/m8smu.jpg)(http://puu.sh/m8soc.jpg)

It's open, now what do we have here?
(http://puu.sh/m8sox.jpg)

Why hello sweet delectable delights, you won't last to see the dawn of the new year.
(http://puu.sh/m8sxA.jpg)(http://puu.sh/m8soN.jpg)

And what's this?!?!?!?
(http://puu.sh/m8swl.jpg)

I-its... a Bach CD!?
From Germany!? That's Legit!
(http://puu.sh/m8sqW.jpg)

And not only did you get me a Bach CD, it's totally in season, holy carpel tunnelling syndrome!! I didn't even know he did something like this.
(http://puu.sh/m8srv.jpg)
And those Mozart chocolates, I'm laughing mao mao mao.
(http://puu.sh/m8ssC.jpg)
This CD, I don't know what or who this is but I'll be listening to it later.

My total spoils:
(http://puu.sh/m8stZ.jpg)

This is amazing my santa, secret santa. You are best!
(http://puu.sh/m8sv5.jpg)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 25, 2015, 09:31:51 PM
This CD, I don't know what or who this is but I'll be listening to it later.
It's the best music in the history of mankind, appreciate it

Also fucking hell helepolis how do you even find the time
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: RuneDevros on December 25, 2015, 09:58:40 PM
Oh gosh Mozart Kugeln are so delcious.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: triangles on December 25, 2015, 10:03:05 PM
Bluff.
We're all at my parents' place tonight and behold the adorbs (http://imgur.com/XF9VHdj) (no tamadra included)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 25, 2015, 10:21:50 PM
...Helepolis, please.  :o
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Puffy on December 25, 2015, 10:43:15 PM
Merry Christmas everyone!

Just got home from a Christmas dinner. Tis' be the festive season to gorge on roasted food.

I won't bother with 17 pictures in a post. You can go to the album here (http://imgur.com/a/5OTNK).

Highlights are:

Selection of exotic chocolate:
(http://i.imgur.com/Nlbm0MC.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/SGVgWFg.jpg)

A Kaleidescope! :
(http://i.imgur.com/QEYcoSn.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/VbepCRq.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/JyTh6Vj.jpg)


Thank you RuneDevros! Though not really secret santa if you wrote your name in the christmas card  :V

Quite happy with the interesting things you have sent! Looking forward to CPSS 2016.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Nietz on December 25, 2015, 11:59:50 PM
 :o A-aren't lockpicks kind of illegal to ship or something...?

Anyway, here's my gift box, with my trusty zashiki warashi standing guard to prevent any accidents or hauntings.
(http://i.imgur.com/ThphJU1l.jpg)

Opening the package, i find some candy, as well as... Elsa and friends?
(http://i.imgur.com/YlQYL8cl.jpg)

Opening the inner wrapping, we find...
(http://i.imgur.com/3G9iBVvl.jpg)
a Stormtrooper Look-Alite (http://imgur.com/SBTQ3CO)! As the accompanying letter (http://imgur.com/olY1ks7) explains, they went for the Nerdy & Cheesy angle, and certainly did a great job at it! It also mentioned they couldn't send the batteries along, which I understand, is why I too prefer to send people toys with no batteries (just ask HakureiSM). But it also works with an USB power cable, so it was fine.

Also, I have to say it looks particularly cool in the dark.
(http://i.imgur.com/D6spkkAl.jpg)

But oops, when turning the lights back on, it seems some dangerous beasts had showed despite the zashiki warashi after all.
(http://i.imgur.com/DEd1Fsnl.jpg)

But in the end, the very box of the gift turned out to be extremely useful in containing them.
(http://i.imgur.com/uD1zGRyl.jpg)

Well, using my psychic detective skills, I will guess the sender as...
Raikaria
. Thanks for the great gift, and may the Schwartz be with you!

Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on December 26, 2015, 12:09:47 AM
Same chocos as last last year m8 Dorakyurs gotta step it up
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: RuneDevros on December 26, 2015, 01:23:58 AM
I'm happy that you enjoyed my present Puffy!! Let me know how the chocolates are.

I got Yukari out of her box and set her up.

[attach=1]
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Jeremie on December 26, 2015, 04:22:10 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/OJAQoco.jpg)

Why do you get boxes from the post office? Shouldn't they be from the box office? Eitherway, the camera I started with was crap so I borrowed one that doesn't turn everything blurry.

(http://i.imgur.com/MwvShn9.jpg)

Aw, thank you Secret Santa's Santa Surrogate, I hope you'll be able to enjoy whatever you got too and thanks for your services, they're incredibly appreciated.*

(http://i.imgur.com/5DlskSI.jpg)

The fox decided to come take a look. How... foxy? I'll stop with the crap puns now

(http://i.imgur.com/yGPLwny.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/jqSeKgt.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/vwkFII1.jpg)

Oh my, truly, this is a very Eirinicious Christmas! Thank you very much Secret Santa, the books are wonderful and that cute glass also fits well with the shot glasses I got at Touhoucon.

(http://i.imgur.com/MRRKhFM.jpg)

As who I think it is... I... honestly don't have a single clue seeing how the package went through quite a few places and I also admit I don't know that many people on the board. Still, thank you very much, I appreciate the lovely items. Merry Christmas everyone!

*:
I know it's the thought that counts but I'll probably give you something else online because I honestly feel like I could've done better than that.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: SirSlarty on December 26, 2015, 04:34:16 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/Goufob0.jpg)
Okay, Reimu finally gets to open my present!
It's from the beautiful land of Singapore. I honestly don't know anyone from Singapore.


(http://i.imgur.com/6ayWSPc.jpg)
Making sure she doesn't miss a thing.
Hurry up and get out of there!


(http://i.imgur.com/OmCjn48.jpg)
Huh, a Left 4 Dead display box? Wonder what's...


(http://i.imgur.com/yLlt037.jpg)
...inside...eh?


(http://i.imgur.com/tFdS5fq.jpg)
"This doesn't look like me at all. But that's a very accurate portrayal of Yukari." -Reimu
Okay, moving on.


(http://i.imgur.com/hnCJs4U.jpg)
A card from the Moriya Shrine with Kanako's seal of Disapproval


(http://i.imgur.com/vuFILRt.jpg)
A note from my SS and a super cute drawing! It's Sanae praying for for more popularity votes and Suwako saying how futile it is. Reimu isn't impressed.
I still have faith in you, Sanae!
The P.S. reads " Sanae is cute but Sumireko is cuter." I will agree with that they are both cute and they're both really nerdy. Along with Kosuzu. The three dorkiest Touhous!


(http://i.imgur.com/TlyAfNf.jpg)
Oh! Music CDs of HKT48 and AKB48! Yes, I have a lot of Touhou CDs but something else is refreshing!
I've actually never listened to the groups but I have heard of them.


(http://i.imgur.com/Fs8bOvS.jpg)
Also there were a bunch of clipping from Newtype of animus.
Idolm@ster and the Free! Fist Bump posters are my favorites.


(http://i.imgur.com/D6V1wmF.jpg)
I received a second package (as mentioned earlier).
"Dracula Was a Lawyer? Does that mean Remilia is a lawyer?" -Reimu pondered
It's a book of random trvia about law. I love books like these! Thanks, SS!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Kiro on December 26, 2015, 06:47:32 AM
Today, I'm enlisting the help of Sukusuku Satori for present divinings.
[attach=1]
We start with a Suruga-Ya box. I've never ordered from them, but this is exciting.

[attach=2]
First look at the contents inside.

[attach=3]
We have a card with a cute Yakumo Christmas Eve scene. Teamwork! Also, a nice message from my Secret Santa: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your Family! Enjoy the gifts!

[attach=4]
Hiding under the card is a Reimu plushie! She's my favorite, yet I didn't actually have a full sized Reimu plushie so this is too awesome. She's also got that stoic "takes no shit" expression which I think is the best Reimu.

[attach=5]
Classic and seasonal Ghirardelli chocolates. These things are the B.

[attach=6]
Whoa, Macy's boxes. Judging from what I put on my wishlist, I'm pretty sure I know what these might be, but I wasn't expecting 2 of them.

[attach=7]
Hooray, neckties for work. That purple one on the left is perfect because my company dress shirt is also purple. The right one is a fun Snowman themed necktie and amusingly enough, fits all seasons.

[attach=8]
A whiskey glass! It says Top Of The Rock on it which after a quick lookup, is from Rockerfeller Center.

[attach=9]
And to top it all off, the classic I <3 NY mug. Good stuff even if your Mets beat my Dodgers last year.

[attach=10]
Typical New Yorker. With those lifeless eyes.

And on a normal guess, I could probably narrow down my Secret Santa pretty well, but I already knew who it was based off the shipper's name.

Me too! I had a feeling this would eventually happen :V

If I had paid more attention to this post, I might have actually figured it out then. Big thank you to yuyukos for all of the wonderful gifts. You are the best!!! And hope everyone else is having a merry time with their Secret Santas as well. This calls for a celebration!

[attach=11]
You read my mind Sukusuku Satori. Hey... wait... why are you starting without me?!?!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 26, 2015, 08:49:09 AM
Purple Camera strikes again indeed. Well it is hardly a Secret Santa when I am like the only person shipping from the Netherlands :V . I am glad you're happy with the stroopwafels and the gifts. I tried to give you a little bit of THE NETHERLANDS. The drinking cup is our world famous Nijntje (duh) and the along with the Windmill and waffles you should be feeling a Dutchy for a while.

Hope you managed to lockpick the padlock with some ease.

:o A-aren't lockpicks kind of illegal to ship or something...?
I honestly had no idea, but I read the regulations about owning lockpick sets at http://toool.us/

But thanks to this SS, I got myself addicted to lockpicking so I bought myself a set as well and some random locks. So whenever I am bored behind my computer, I fiddle around with it. Quite fun if you ask me.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 26, 2015, 09:15:48 AM
But thanks to this SS, I got myself addicted to lockpicking so I bought myself a set as well and some random locks. So whenever I am bored behind my computer, I fiddle around with it. Quite fun if you ask me.
So what you mean is our houses are actually not safe anymore?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Firestorm29 on December 26, 2015, 12:11:10 PM
Hey, hey, hey. Sorry about not getting this yesterday, I underestimated how busy the night shift was going to be. Anyways, I have a package:

(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h170/Firestorm29/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_045504_1.jpg) (http://s64.photobucket.com/user/Firestorm29/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_045504_1.jpg.html)

Upon closer inspection, I find there's a bag in the package.

(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h170/Firestorm29/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_045525.jpg) (http://s64.photobucket.com/user/Firestorm29/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_045525.jpg.html)
What you got in the bag, maybe it's some swag?

Aaaannndd, in the bag is a bag that's giftwrapped. It also has duplicate addresses from the package. Pretty cool idea once I thought about it, if the package gets damaged, you still have a way to get the package to the destination or back.
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h170/Firestorm29/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_045630.jpg) (http://s64.photobucket.com/user/Firestorm29/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_045630.jpg.html)

I found a rather nice laptop bag in it. I wish it could fit my gaming laptop, but however, anything that could barely fit in it was more broke down over time (including my favorite bag I had for 10 years T_T). I do plan on looking into a new Surface or something like that, I'm sure it'll fit that just nicely. I do plan on getting pretty good use out of it. Also like the Flan picture lots.
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h170/Firestorm29/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_045701.jpg) (http://s64.photobucket.com/user/Firestorm29/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_045701.jpg.html)

Also, it did have some swag, some pretty nice postcards. Though I'm conflicted if I should frame them or use them. So hard to decide. ^^;
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h170/Firestorm29/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_050755.jpg) (http://s64.photobucket.com/user/Firestorm29/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151225_050755.jpg.html)

Overall, pretty cool gift. Do intend to get some good use out of it.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on December 26, 2015, 03:12:03 PM
Purple Camera strikes again indeed. Well it is hardly a Secret Santa when I am like the only person shipping from the Netherlands :V . I am glad you're happy with the stroopwafels and the gifts. I tried to give you a little bit of THE NETHERLANDS. The drinking cup is our world famous Nijntje (duh) and the along with the Windmill and waffles you should be feeling a Dutchy for a while.

Hope you managed to lockpick the padlock with some ease.
I honestly had no idea, but I read the regulations about owning lockpick sets at http://toool.us/

But thanks to this SS, I got myself addicted to lockpicking so I bought myself a set as well and some random locks. So whenever I am bored behind my computer, I fiddle around with it. Quite fun if you ask me.
I had some assistance from my brother to open it the first time, but after opening it later with the key I understood how the lock worked better.

It's not illegal to own a lockpick set in the States, only to use it for nefarious purposes. I've actually thought about getting a lockpick set in the past, so I consider that a bonus gift. Thanks again!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 26, 2015, 03:34:18 PM
toys with no batteries (just ask HakureiSM)



Also Reimu plushies everywhere

I'm pleased
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on December 26, 2015, 04:30:20 PM
Sure are a bunch of SLACKERS not posting their presents!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 26, 2015, 05:15:09 PM
To my Secret Santa: My elder sister tried the slippers > perfect fit. "Wow! They are so comfortable"

Of course they fucking are. They are Secret Santa's Secret Comfortable Slippers.

Christmas was saved.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: hungrybookworm on December 26, 2015, 07:23:24 PM
Like last year, I can't post pics and stuff until I'm back home on the 29th. But my SS can rest easy knowing the presents are liked and being enjoyed (read: eaten) :P
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 26, 2015, 07:41:11 PM
I've actually thought about getting a lockpick set in the past, so I consider that a bonus gift. Thanks again!
It was your fate to be part of the Thievery Corporation.
[attach=1]

Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Tengukami on December 26, 2015, 07:58:06 PM
Picking locks is great fun, and fairly easy (on your standard household deadbolt anyway) once you have the right tools. Although I once managed to break into my old apartment with a couple hairpins, I admit that took me a good 10 minutes.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: N-Forza on December 27, 2015, 01:43:10 AM
Sure are a bunch of SLACKERS not posting their presents!
Don't even start with me.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 27, 2015, 02:37:16 AM
Can't post yet due to, well, the thing not arriving yet.  Sorry, Edible, but I'm pretty sure time travel is prohibited for my clearance level.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Chaore on December 27, 2015, 02:46:33 AM
Sure are a bunch of SLACKERS not posting their presents!

can't hear you over all these dogs
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: SirSlarty on December 27, 2015, 03:14:18 AM
can't hear you over all these dogs

You're carrying too many dogs.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Reddyne on December 27, 2015, 03:56:27 AM
Sure are a bunch of SLACKERS not posting their presents!
Ya ya just let me get back to reality and a computer so I don't have to post from my phone.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 27, 2015, 08:40:13 AM
Can't post yet due to, well, the thing not arriving yet.  Sorry, Edible, but I'm pretty sure time travel is prohibited for my clearance level.
pshh what an amateur
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 27, 2015, 01:00:36 PM
@ Vic, I am sorry for sending such a rough lock pick set. I didn't knew which set to exactly select and this one was "advised" by some Dutchy site who explained the regulations and such. Apparently if you polish the set I sent you, they will become smooth and easy to insert.

Also I linked all present unboxing in the opening post. We have 26 out of 46 reports here. I know that Hungry had told us she would post her stuff soon, so 27 / 46 I would say.

19 people were lazy or didn't got their present yet. If they are lazy, they risk in getting banned.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: N-Forza on December 27, 2015, 01:10:58 PM
Is there a deadline for this or can I get an extension? Because I am seriously drowning in Comiket stuff, meaning I can't give my package a proper display.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: DNAbc on December 27, 2015, 01:32:38 PM
P sure even as a non participant Forza is not gonna be the last one with hakureism huehuehuehuehue

Gifts are surprisingly tame this year
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on December 27, 2015, 04:06:26 PM
an extension?
Granted.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Menorah Jams, Pham on December 27, 2015, 04:14:33 PM
Yay I got mine!

(http://i.imgur.com/p4xq6i8l.jpg?1)

don't tell me what to do, envelope

(http://i.imgur.com/rKrWYFSl.jpg)

Instantly leaping out: SNAX
Rice cracker mix thingy, holla

(http://i.imgur.com/m5gdBj5l.jpg)

FANCY CHOCOLATE, YES
We had it last night, this is bananas it's so good.  It's got a nice spicy burn midway through that lasts.  This is gonna be my TREAT YO' SELF chocolate.

(http://i.imgur.com/Es6PObkl.jpg?1)
what i cant eat this
(believe me, I tried)
sick hat drawing bro

(http://i.imgur.com/DdAWboal.jpg?1)
Where can one buy this paper, the wife demands

(http://i.imgur.com/IP6dyxXl.jpg?1)
ONE DAY I WILL RATE -SAMA

(http://i.imgur.com/ZuciO4ll.jpg)
hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng, this is the correct drawing

(http://i.imgur.com/FCWTbiEl.jpg)
THIS IS GOING ON MY SCOOTER

(http://i.imgur.com/GSX4Tygl.jpg)
thank mr/ms santa skeltal
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Dorakyura on December 27, 2015, 05:37:29 PM
So, my Santa comes from Briten?
Since everyone seems to open their packets with huge knifes, I decided to scale things down, a little  :V
[attach=1]

So we got some candy, very nice.
[attach=2]

And some stuff?  ??? What does this mean!  ???
[attach=3]
*Insert silly picture of me with hipster glasses* I prefer my own, I guess.

But here is the best thing
A Sphinx Plushie (of my favorite PAD Charakter (http://puzzledragonx.com/en/img/monster/MONS_1668.jpg)
[attach=4]

Will have good company  :3
[attach=5]

Also, my cat tried to photobomb. This is what you get, old man. (he is 16 years old)
[attach=6][attach=7]

Thanks Santa
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Raikaria on December 27, 2015, 06:16:30 PM
can't hear you over all these dogs

Hear under them then.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Sect on December 27, 2015, 06:51:57 PM
Hear under them then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4wptBuM6zs

I'll have my report later today.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Jana on December 27, 2015, 07:08:41 PM
I haven't gotten the pictures from my gift-opening to make a full report; I opened mine with the family around so I wasn't the one taking them. Will report as soon as I get them.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Chaore on December 27, 2015, 07:14:00 PM
expect update sometime today, finally home and rested

it's just sorting through these photos i took at like 1 am before a trip and seeing what's usable
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on December 27, 2015, 07:20:19 PM
Done with a tournament so gonna post tmr
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Chaore on December 27, 2015, 09:50:45 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/TYVgxXu.jpg)

GREETINGS MORTALS AND CHIREIS

It is I! Your lord and master and other extremely impressive titles, Chaore! Once again in my GLORIOUS TRUE FORM. Or was. Time is a human construct anyway.

As you can see, I have received a modest tribute by one who wishes to have my blessings for that glorious night of Christmas once again. I am standing on it, to properly demonstrate dominance over it before i tear into it. It is not particularly heavy, and appears to have been shipped from some sort of 'Santa Reimu's Workshop'. While adorable, these tributes make it impossible for me to bless you, so I'll just have to mail another round of blessings to RDJ or something.

BUT ENOUGH OF THIS, TO THE OPENING

(http://i.imgur.com/S9zmAWp.jpg)

Dastardly! Disguising it's true form of two presents by hiding it in a larger box! I like how you think, I'll have to add another set of blessings to the 'send to RDJ' pile.

One is labeled from the mysterious 'CIRNO CLAUS' and the other, of course, from my archnemesis of three seconds ago to probably three minutes from now 'SANTA REIMU'. Names may not be exact, the paper and labels are long gone.

This is probably why i just forward all my blessings to RDJ instead.

As it is the easiest to get to, Cirno Claus' tribute will be opened first!

(http://i.imgur.com/7gR5yzw.jpg)

EXCELLENT.

A pile of various Cocoas and Chocolatey treats. Straight from my book of 'probably literally no one dislikes delicious delectables for Christmas'. I like how you think. Another blessing to the pile!

Reimu Claus, Santa Reimu, Etc. You have a lot to try and match up to-

(http://i.imgur.com/8qkBHb6.jpg)

awwww shit

(http://i.imgur.com/jUXRGc5.jpg)

A bag in pattern of the infamous 'Archer'! Quite fortuitous, indeed. It matches quite well with a tribute from last year, and I look forward to being a turbo-nerd and using them both in conjunction.

There was also a free pin, seen in the picture above on top of the bag, which ended up being Archer as well, in either a planned circumstance or some crazy luck. If I ever feel like being completely unsubtle, it'll go perfectly with the bag.

Overall, Thank you quite a deal for your GLORIOUS TRIBUTE TO THE RABBIT EMPIRE, Secret Santa! I'll take good care of the bag and enjoy these chocolatey treats with abundance.

As I have no clue who you could be, I will continue to shower RDJ with blessing in your stead.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 27, 2015, 10:18:09 PM
Hear under them then.
Did you fix your images btw? Because I cannot see them (unless I am the only one)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Raikaria on December 27, 2015, 10:40:28 PM
Did you fix your images btw? Because I cannot see them (unless I am the only one)

That was directed at me? I can see my own images but I dunno.

Brb transferring images to site I know better. Only way I could upload by phone was dropbox...

Edit:
Re-uploaded on Imgur. Also images are resized to be smaller and not take up entire screens.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Zirene on December 27, 2015, 11:58:39 PM
I received my CPSS package about 2 weeks before Christmas and have been glancing at it sitting on my desk, so I was excited to finally open it.  I'm not sure who sent it, but I know there are quiet a few people from Ohio on MotK so that will keep me guessing.

I opened the box which was very well packaged, the amount of packing paper made me think it was something breakable. I got a cute stuffed dog, which goes with the tradition of me getting stuffed animals for xmas, I think this will be my 5th and I usually sew little Santa hats on them and put them out during the holidays.

Also in the box were 2 MtG booster packs of Battle for Zendikar, which could contain some card I need, and hopefully an expedition foil land. Apparently the chances of opening an expedition (Special full art foil lands) are 1/8, but I'm not so sure about that. I've opened at least 25 packs and have yet to open one.

The last item was a can of chili that is apparently a big deal in Cincinnati, a city I visited at the beginning of the year for a SCG Magic tournament. Unfortunately the weather was so bad I was stuck at my hotel, which was right next to the event site so I didn't get to do as much exploring as I'd have liked.  I do enjoy me some chili so I'll save it for a rainy day and make a Frito Chili pie.

A big thank you to my Ohio secret Santa. I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday, I know I am. Also this may have been the only time someone has told me to lurk less in the card, quite a compliment if I may say so.  ;)

Bonus picture of my dogs in front of the Christmas tree. The black Labrador is mine, the other 2 are my parents adopted shelter dogs.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Shadow1176 on December 28, 2015, 01:46:06 AM
I'm back from my cruise and my report is ready!

I sort of opened it then remembered to record what I got.

OH MY GOD QUALITY GREEN TEA. I LOVE YOU.

And a reusable tea packet device? How did you even guess? It's wonderful.

The chocolates are a very nice touch too.

The stuffed doll is cute too, as is the santa hat.

Whoever you are Secret Santa, thank you so much.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 28, 2015, 09:15:06 AM
That was directed at me? I can see my own images but I dunno.
Yes, because nobody could see them afaik (people were mentioning it on irc)

Edit:
Re-uploaded on Imgur. Also images are resized to be smaller and not take up entire screens.
Now I can see them.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Drake on December 28, 2015, 11:29:04 AM
A box!

(http://i.imgur.com/p6n2Tuol.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/p6n2Tuo.jpg)

What I noticed immediately was the exorbitant shipping cost for this. I had correctly guessed that this was the sender's first CPSS and wasn't fully aware of how godawful semi-heavy packages can be to send (I know this because I did this myself on my first year lmao). Anyways, I really appreciate not just giving up then and there.

We open the box (or read the customs notice) to find:

(http://i.imgur.com/fWpHYKEl.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/fWpHYKE.jpg)

Coffee!

(http://i.imgur.com/IHXlFigl.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/IHXlFig.jpg)

Delicious, delicious coffee!

This is from Elemental Coffee, an Oklahoma-based company that frustratingly has a logo clearly displaying Cobalt with the atomic number 08. The coffees are as follows:

- Kenya Peaberry (no other description, but I had some this morning and it tasted quite berry-ful, almost like what I'd expect from a tea)
- Vaquero (Brazilian arabica/bourbon/catuai; "good body, hints of lemon and toasted nuts")
- Saucha (Burundian bourbon; "orange, spices, chocolate")
- Groove (Ethiopian Limu Jimma; "sweet and tart, apple, red grape, chocolate")

Additionally, thank you for not having these ground at the store, since I have my own grinder and waiting a month to open this after they were all ground would have been a bad idea.

But there's more!

(http://i.imgur.com/5DahKFMl.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/5DahKFM.jpg)

What is clearly a poster!

(http://i.imgur.com/pDvltpPl.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/pDvltpP.jpg)

im ded

I cant tell if you already knew/figured out that I play piano or whether it was coincidence, but you did good. I didn't recall seeing this picture at first, so normally I might have said something like "congrats I don't think I've seen this picture before" since it would be uncommon for me, and I was considering the possibility that it was a commission. Yet oho! I was at Touhoucon as well, and so I know this was being sold in the artist's alley. In fact, it would have been...

At - your - booth!

Thank you Moogs!
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Post by: HakureiSM on December 28, 2015, 02:22:52 PM
You play the piano?


e: btw I'm gonna go pick up the shit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zZhTYQtuIA) in a couple hours

it was taxed

hhhhhhhhhhhahahhahahuhhahahhhahah of course it was hhhhhhhhhhhhhhaiehaeaehahahhhahhhaahaha

no report until tonight though there's work to be done
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Post by: Pesco on December 28, 2015, 02:36:25 PM
I was going to pick up my present but then I uh.. got distracted :V
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Post by: Jq1790 on December 28, 2015, 03:19:05 PM
Report later, but placeholder post now because I need to post that the post delivered something I must post about!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on December 28, 2015, 06:33:34 PM
The list of slackers grows ever shorter.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 28, 2015, 07:44:35 PM
A Thing occurred, and I couldn't leave work to reach the post office in time, so it's now close, so I will SLACK until tomorrow

heuheuehuehue
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on December 28, 2015, 08:08:20 PM
Meanwhile I still have no idea if my recipient even got it (I mean it totally says it was delivered! but :mail shenanigans: can always happen) never mind if they liked it or not.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on December 28, 2015, 09:36:20 PM
Update on my end... still no package. Here's to hoping it'll arrive before 2016 actually starts...  :ohdear:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: dyril on December 28, 2015, 11:01:53 PM
Gifts are surprisingly tame
Seems to be the case, not that I'm complaining either. Maybe my perception of you lot being pure actually holds true! The vast majority of participants are not willing to accept NSFW gifts :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 29, 2015, 02:34:59 AM
More like everybody chickened out this year, previous years were more intense at this
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Shadow1176 on December 29, 2015, 02:57:06 AM
More like everybody chickened out this year, previous years were more intense at this

What? I totally said willing for NSFW. Then again, let me be honest, green tea and a refillable tea packet device are GLORIOUS.  :3
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 29, 2015, 03:18:52 AM
Ok, pictures are GO!  Crappy quality phone pictures due to not having batteries for my proper camera right now, but pictures!

First off, enlisting the help of several friends to obscure addresses and stuff(as if the photo quality didn't obscure them entirely ANYWAY). 

(http://i.imgur.com/H1xkifz.jpg)

Anyway, with that out of the way...The contents! 
(*note:  Contents may not be displayed as originally packaged due to only having time to OPEN and not PHOTOGRAPH them when I first got the package.)

The first thing was easily the most noticeable, a rather adorable(and super soft) Yukkuri Reimu plushie.  Yukkuri Shiteitte Ne~!

(http://i.imgur.com/8NyPq2l.jpg)

Beneath that there's a rather neat mini artbook.  Super high-quality stuff there.  No pics of the inside; if you wanna see the rest, go buy the book or something!

(http://i.imgur.com/HCdwhyr.jpg)

Also included was a really neat Youmu picture, I believe her Touhouvania self in fact.  SUPER nice foamboard that I really need to figure out how I'm gonna display later.

(http://i.imgur.com/QVmEywq.jpg)

Oh, right, there was a card, by the same people who made the artbook from before.  No idea who this character is, but the card's cool anyway so all's good!

(http://i.imgur.com/8ELvqFT.jpg)

...oh?  There's writing on the back of it!  Basically my SS (who I already can tell is
YJ
because he likes to forgo the "secret" part of this whole thing, haha and had his name and handle ON THE BOX) explaining "why these things in particular."

(http://i.imgur.com/43fLqIm.jpg)

BUT WAIT!  There's more on the bottom! 

(http://i.imgur.com/K4wiPCi.jpg)

"Put your hand up Reimu's hair, or to be precise the back of it.  There's a gift there!"  What wizardry is this?

...

...

Uh, wow.  Just...wow.

(http://i.imgur.com/EdIAeir.jpg)

1% indeed! 

Anyway, though I already said it on FB, thanks again
YJ
!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: triangles on December 29, 2015, 03:19:00 AM
It's a Venn diagram between people wanting to receive and give NSFW things both conditions must be filled my friends. 

Edit: hahaha 1% indeed!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Moogs Parfait on December 29, 2015, 04:16:36 AM
Additionally, assuming you actually care; NSFW goods carry a lot of risk, especially compared to standbys like quality/exotic consumables or various entertainment media.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Sect on December 29, 2015, 04:30:41 AM
Okay, apparently "tonight" meant "tomorrow". So here it is!

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0570.JPG)
Here it is, the present. From parts unknown, because of strange floating black boxes protecting secret addresses.

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0575.JPG)
Practice safety when using box cutters, by the way. Anyways, let's see what's inside!

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0581.JPG)
First, a mysterious red ball thing! Also, the black boxes return to protect identities.

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0583.JPG)
And book shaped objects!

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0585.JPG)
A-and more book shaped objects... Anyways! Let's see what's inside!

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0590.JPG)
It's a twenty sided die! Hand made, too! Pretty cool, though I don't quite understand the numbers...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0591.JPG)
Someday, I shall discern your secrets...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0598.JPG)
Oh ho, a coffee mug! One that I can decorate myself! Oh, pure white mug, I shall do things to you...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0600.JPG)
SOON

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0594.JPG)(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0603.JPG)(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0605.JPG)(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0607.JPG)(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0612.JPG)(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0614.JPG)
Books! Lots and lots of Sci-Fi/Fantasy books! None of them I have read, either! I'll have some reading to do...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39590996/secret%20santa%202015/IMG_0619.JPG)
Many thanks, Secret Santa!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Jq1790 on December 29, 2015, 04:36:58 AM
Who IS that mysterious mustachioed man on your shirt!?  The potential SCANDAL behind that black box!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Kilgamayan on December 29, 2015, 05:30:41 AM
The one time I successfully infiltrated Sect's apartment, I remember thinking "You know what the one thing this place needs is? More books."
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Post by: SirSlarty on December 29, 2015, 05:31:22 AM
I like how gifts sometimes contain even more gifts.
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Post by: Pesco on December 29, 2015, 11:19:21 AM
[attach=1]

It appears my sender did not send the gift themselves. There goes my chance of confirming who sent to me via sender address.

[attach=2]

Moar rabbits for the colony :D

[attach=3]

This guy features giant teeth according to Monty Python

[attach=4]

Now I'm curious about what this in its mouth is for. Did my sender secretly send me a lewd gift?

Thanks Haku
The waybill inside had your name on it :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Reddyne on December 29, 2015, 02:13:54 PM
Doing this stuff in a timely manner is often difficult since I often spend the entire weekend with family and friends and all it entails, often leaving me distracted and without a viable manner of uploading/organizing photos. It appears to be the same for many others. Anyway,

(http://i.imgur.com/JiNcVZu.jpg)

This is a box just in case you guys were wondering what a box is.

(http://i.imgur.com/DP7HcPI.jpg)

I has a helper! She starts by getting in the way. :fail: Well, she's around for her endearing personality and isn't hired help. So what's inside?

(http://i.imgur.com/vTxIo0g.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/AS7TH0N.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/IfizgDz.jpg)

The dimensions of the shipping box match up with the present perfectly. Inverting the opened box results in static and then kinetic friction nearly canceling out the respectable weight of the present inside. It's hypnotic and satisfying to watch the present inside slowly slide out. It's also wrapped in a manner that makes me realize I have very little going for me in the way of dexterity or efficiency.

(http://i.imgur.com/L6MNeCi.jpg)

Under the wrapping, the box features some runes from some sort of incomprehensible dead language. So incomprehensible that they mess with my camera's focus. Crazy gibberish.

(http://i.imgur.com/U6g6jZU.jpg)

Cardinals are my favorite birdy. (?・ω・`)
(http://i.imgur.com/IiEBuIK.jpg)

Summarized, the card inside says "from one freezing hellhole to another!" Hyuh. (http://i.imgur.com/mhxYxVg.jpg) "REAL CANADIAN GEAR FOR REAL CANADIAN WINTERS
YEAH WEAR ANIMALS ON YOUR HEAD"

(http://i.imgur.com/lhtCPi3.jpg)

Inside are a hat and scarf! The hat doesn't mess around either. It's heavily insulated yet really soft. Considering my current headgear is a worn 25 year old Bruins hat that has more salt in it than a 5 month old snowbank in April and my scarf looks like a fleece blanket that gave up, this is quite a sound improvement. Most of the time, winter here is very manageable but last year was a disaster for New England at large. Snowfall was nearly constant for 6 weeks and temps stayed well below freezing for weeks at a time. Proper protection from the elements and the ability to work from home helps so much.

(http://i.imgur.com/LsmiAEV.jpg)

Speaking of which, look what showed up while I was writing this. I'll have my first chance to test out the new gear this afternoon.

(http://i.imgur.com/xOBQqaU.jpg)

Also inside is some sugar! Three separate kinds of Lindor chocolate truffles and sea salt chocolates. Ones with a distinctly stereotypical Canadian motif but from England? Oh, marketing. Great for sharing with friends if I'm in the mood. GJ, Mousebutt!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 29, 2015, 06:53:28 PM
Thanks Haku
The waybill inside had your name on it :V
Goddammit, the shop page didn't give me any sort of gift options

I feel satisfied that you weren't actually sure it was me, ya fuckin sly rabbit :V

Also I got a thing
(http://i.imgur.com/5ep3Fkg.jpg)

Not opening this until I'm home and quiet in my bedroom, although it's beckoning me
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 29, 2015, 07:52:34 PM
Holy fuck. He got his package before 2015 ended.

Holy fuck.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on December 29, 2015, 07:57:36 PM
Holy fuck. He got his package before 2015 ended.

Holy fuck.

I am truly astounded.

Also, the list of slackers grows shorter by the day!  Still a few people who have received their packages and haven't posted, though...
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Santa Hakurei on December 29, 2015, 08:32:57 PM
I'll try and get the full list of remaining reports out later today, we only have one package not yet delivered and it's in the destination country so should be very soon!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 29, 2015, 08:59:28 PM
gotta go fast
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Hello Purvis on December 29, 2015, 09:20:44 PM
Interesting haul, Sect! I can't tell you too much about most of those, but I am familiar with  Greg Bear. He wrote a short story in the Mirrorshades compilation that was essentially an SMT spinoff which I enjoyed greatly.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: hungrybookworm on December 29, 2015, 10:09:01 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/YH8k3zW.jpg)
Here we go, parcel time! This year's seems to be from... Iceland? Maybe I got sent a bag of ice...

(http://i.imgur.com/KPAnfQZ.jpg)
Nope, the contents are much more exciting: A book, chocolate, a cute dolphin, and a postcard! And not just any old book either, it's the American edition of Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart! This happens to be one of my favourites. If any of you forumites haven't read it yet, get off your backsides and get reading! It's pretty short, and contains ~the gay~.

(http://i.imgur.com/sorBomP.jpg)
Milk chocolate with toffee and sea salt... I'm drooling already. In fact I drooled so much I ate the lot without sharing it. Whoops!

(http://i.imgur.com/lNXlIcg.jpg)
There's something bittersweet about landscapes that no longer exist. Thanks for sharing! Caw caw!

(http://i.imgur.com/NSZEd55.jpg)
Cat pauses reading his new Neil Gaiman book to investigate the new intruder. Thanks for the presents, Tengukami! (Is there any point in censoring your name? Probably not.)

I'm also glad
NekoNekoRex liked his presents too. I used my psychic powers to deduct that you needed a cardboard box to prop up your moniter, so I picked a suitably sized box! Ok no, but I'm glad you enjoyed the story, and the food! Merry Christmas!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Drake on December 29, 2015, 10:58:21 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/IfizgDz.jpg)

The dimensions of the shipping box match up with the present perfectly. Inverting the opened box results in static and then kinetic friction nearly canceling out the respectable weight of the present inside. It's hypnotic and satisfying to watch the present inside slowly slide out. It's also wrapped in a manner that makes me realize I have very little going for me in the way of dexterity or efficiency.
It was mostly a coincidence until I realize how well they fit lol. The wrapping paper itself filled in the little bit needed and it was amazing.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Vento on December 29, 2015, 11:26:49 PM
EXTENSION PLZ TOO BUSY WITH COMIKET PREP TO TAKE PROPER PICTURES AND POST.....
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 29, 2015, 11:28:10 PM
ban
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Pesco on December 30, 2015, 02:10:09 AM
Goddammit, the shop page didn't give me any sort of gift options

I feel satisfied that you weren't actually sure it was me, ya fuckin sly rabbit :V

Asking me about Monty Python shortened the list of possible senders considerably.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on December 30, 2015, 02:44:12 AM
No idea how you associated me and Monthy Python but oh well :V

Alas, I'm finally home, so I finally opened the shit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zZhTYQtuIA). It cost me 112 ahuebucks because my country hates its people and deserves to burn.

Practice safety when using box cutters, by the way. Anyways, let's see what's inside!
Pansy

Here's box:
(http://i.imgur.com/CEOPf8R.jpg)
My pocket knife is covering the address and such.

(http://i.imgur.com/Ensus0W.jpg)
Oh hey are those

(http://i.imgur.com/7L8RVCj.jpg)
Yep, shushurokus! I already have the entire second set, so I guess it's duplicate gifts time this year again, but I have nothing of the third, and the price of these has gone up a lot now that they're apparently not made anymore, so let's see what's that!

(http://i.imgur.com/O8ZLv5m.jpg)
It's Reimu and Player 2 Reimu!

(http://i.imgur.com/1vnbZlJ.jpg)
I completely flipped shit thinking Reimu 2 was missing a hand, until I realized that that's how she is. Katawa Reimu <3

(http://i.imgur.com/fNr1zHl.jpg)
There's never enough Reimu

(http://i.imgur.com/ILe6FRl.jpg)
Final photo of my two weaboo overseas christmas gifts of this year, sent to me by awesome people! Thank you Merp for the car, and thanks my SS, I've no idea who you are since this was eBay ordered and there are no clues anywhere!

I'll post the yearly daikazoku picture later with my new novel, Tales of The Huehuehueheu Customs. M-m-m-m-major props to me SS for actually getting this fucking thing here before the year ended, and to anyone who still hasn't posted or received before me, #GETREKT
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Post by: Kilgamayan on December 30, 2015, 05:37:39 AM
I have been shown who is the boss. :(
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: DNAbc on December 30, 2015, 06:33:52 AM
Jesus Christ on my silvery banana plastic tangerines Haku you can't do that
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Raikaria on December 30, 2015, 07:52:21 AM
Clearly you need to put the Player 2 Reimu between the Player 1 Reimus and pretend it's like some Reimu dance party.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on December 30, 2015, 08:58:16 AM
I linked the latest reports to the first post. We have now 38 / 46 reports.

Forza was granted EXTEND!! for his Ket efforts. Meaning 7 people didn't post yet. Now that HakureiSM had received his package. The risk of getting banned is increased by 300%.

Jana, you're going to die a Yuukarin death.
Nobu, lost somewhere in a jungle (non existent)
pasu, TOO LATE FOR MERCY NOW.
Kanjou,  INKLINGS != CHRISTMAS REPORT.
Vento, NOW LATE FOR MERCY TOO.
Vyrien, LATE MERCY TOO NOW FOR.
YJ, Dude. Please.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: N-Forza on December 30, 2015, 12:51:03 PM
If you ban pasu, Vento, OR Vyrien, you will have to ban me too.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on December 30, 2015, 01:19:22 PM
300% of 0 is still 0 :V

With that said, if folks is busy, droppin' a note hopefully wouldn't be too hard (as Forza did).  I think we've got about half of that list accounted for in some way regardless.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Spotty Len on December 30, 2015, 01:20:26 PM
D... Don't say scary things by tempting him, Forza.
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Post by: HakureiSM on December 30, 2015, 01:24:33 PM
Pasuventovyrien are dicking around in comiket too, so there's that
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on December 30, 2015, 06:38:29 PM
I linked the latest reports to the first post. We have now 38 / 46 reports.
The risk of getting banned is increased by 300%.

Kanjou,  INKLINGS != CHRISTMAS REPORT.


Good news : The package finally landed in the UK!
Bad news : ... Of course you had to try and deliver it in the afternoon the second I get a 9am - 5pm work shift!

Which means it's sitting at the nearest branch. On one hand, I can hopefully pick it up tomorrow... on the other, I have a ridiculous amount of stuff to do from the morning, right through to the evening. As in, the second I leave the flat tomorrow morning, I won't be back there until the New Year. If I can get them posted before the year is out, that would be fantastic... but it all comes down to if I can actually pick the damn thing up~ ><
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: hungrybookworm on December 30, 2015, 07:58:58 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/plD0ZHT.jpg)

I thought Christmas was over, but then I got this through the post today!

Is this from one of you guys? I can't think who else it could be who knows my address.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Tengukami on December 31, 2015, 04:06:42 PM
And not just any old book either, it's the American edition of Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart! This happens to be one of my favourites. If any of you forumites haven't read it yet, get off your backsides and get reading! It's pretty short, and contains ~the gay~.

I knew I was taking a gamble buying a book for a book lover, but I'm glad you were pleased. I was going to get you Yoko Ogawa's short story collection, The Diving Pool, but no copies were available here. Do look it up (if you haven't read it already!) because she's light years ahead of Murakami.

And yes, posting my name is fine. That's why I signed the card. I think just seeing the return address pretty much gives it away anyway!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on December 31, 2015, 09:26:58 PM
Okay then. Quick update for you all. The package has been received; obtained it at about 9:30am. I thought I'd be able to open it in the space of 10 minutes, take pictures, and post the report up later from where I was...

Then I opened the box...

And realised there was no way I was going to be able to do so in 10 minutes. So basically... I was forced to run away for the time being. (I had to be out by 10am) and won't be back until the evening (potentially) of tomorrow. But watch this space... Because oh boy, a report is coming!

(Also, to the Secret Santa in question... I am bloody determined, you utter genius!)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Nobu on December 31, 2015, 11:08:09 PM
Alright let's get this show on the road! I got quite a hefty package this year, and upon opening the box I was greeted with a deluge of packages. Holy crap this is a lot of things!!

[attach=1]

And order matters? How fun~ :3 Anyway, I opened the first package and found...

[attach=2]

....towels! Hand and bath towels to be precise! First year idol group bath towel aaaaaah~~ *__* These are so nice how am I even supposed to even use these?! Maybe i'll just hang them on my wall. Next package!

[attach=3]

RULES OF NATUREEEEEEEEE indeed goes with everything, including this gift. Wow, that Senjougahara. Very fitting given my boyfriend has me pegged as the Senjougahara to his Araragi. We basically have the same sort of thing going on. Not familiar with the girl on this large tapestry all folded up thing but she has black thigh highs so *thumbs up*. And music is always amazing, especially of the Touhou variety! (if only y'all knew about my Satori.. ehehe.) On to #3!

[attach=4]

And in #3, a bunch of assorted little figures, bookmarks,  keychains, card sleeves! The Eli and Hanayo are totally adorable and these Nanoha sleeves are almost too good to use! The Love Live card with Honoka on the front is actually a set of nine stickers!! I LOVE STICKERS RAAAAAAAmoving on

[attach=5]

Package 4! A Miku clipboard, K-on! (!!!!) towel, some pretty damn spiffy Madoka x cute thing crossover keychain, and a.....

.......framed Shingetsutan Tsukihime picture. Dear lord.  :ohdear: this shouldn't exist why does it exist

[attach=6]

And the last package. This was the biggest of the bunch, and opening last it must be good. And this on the front meant it MUST be some damn spiffy Undertale merchandise, right? Please wait, girls are now opening...

[attach=7]

 :getdown:  :getdown:  :getdown:

 :*

 :colonveeplusalpha:


[attach=8]

THANKS, SANTA REIMU!
 
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: hungrybookworm on December 31, 2015, 11:44:13 PM
I knew I was taking a gamble buying a book for a book lover, but I'm glad you were pleased. I was going to get you Yoko Ogawa's short story collection, The Diving Pool, but no copies were available here. Do look it up (if you haven't read it already!) because she's light years ahead of Murakami.

And yes, posting my name is fine. That's why I signed the card. I think just seeing the return address pretty much gives it away anyway!
The big 'Iceland' sticker was a big hint, yeah lol. I'll keep an eye out for that book! Thanks for recommending it!

Hm, so you didn't send the parcel I posted above? Mysterious... I wonder who it's from then.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on January 01, 2016, 01:08:01 AM
.......framed Shingetsutan Tsukihime picture. Dear lord.  :ohdear: this shouldn't exist why does it exist

NO ONE CAN ESCAPE
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: PX on January 01, 2016, 01:41:02 AM

I am so jelly right now
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Jana on January 01, 2016, 03:12:18 AM
OK it's New Year's Eve and I still haven't gotten the pictures I asked for so I took matters into my own hands! It's not anywhere near as exciting as the pictures of the opening process, given how many boxes were inside the package I got, but here are the gifts!

(http://puu.sh/mfp9H/10293be3a8.jpg)
Here's everything laid out!

(http://puu.sh/mfp8Y/10dc450bd9.jpg)
A cute doujin, CDs including 3 by Shibuyan who are great, Meiling strap, and Kaga, the fanciest boat.

(http://puu.sh/mfp9i/9ba418537f.jpg)
Handmade(!) coasters! The note says they represent something, but I am a philistine who can't puzzle.

And a blurry-ish image of the note included: (http://puu.sh/mfpuv/1c466076ac.jpg)
Quote
Hello Jana,
Humans sure are interesting! They have strange and wonderful items, I found some and made some guesses as to what you might like >:3
Here's hoping you enjoy these gifts as much as I had fun putting it all together. Santa Hakurei and her helpers sure are accommodating and/or always looking for blood!
メリークリスマス!!

Honestly I was really overwhelmed by this! I'm not sure who this could have came from, only that they either know me well or did their homework... Or just have good taste!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on January 01, 2016, 10:52:15 AM
YJ, Dude. Please.

I'LL GIFT YOU AN OGRE MAGI SET IF I man this is hard uh ok I have my pictures somewhere

Well I got games. I already have a few of them even though my Santa looked through my Steam wishlist which isn't exactly something you should read but ehhh yeah sure more games are always dank even though I said I don't want games HEY WHO'S COMPLAINING? FREE GAMES 8/8 T8 R8s GR8 like my career eyy lmao

https://www.humblebundle.com/?key=AazcGt5ND7vfzTuM

You can pop on over to take a look because they've all been redeemed already eyyy

Other than that I got Uzukis in the mail

http://imgur.com/a/pzocG (http://imgur.com/a/pzocG)

That you can see here

She's alright.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on January 01, 2016, 07:08:39 PM
(Picture of Uzuki looking forlornly at her spare parts in a box)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: yuyukos on January 02, 2016, 01:24:01 AM
>Ganbarimasu intensifies
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on January 02, 2016, 12:29:29 PM
The following content is rated U for Under the Radar!
All of my comments will be in purple to make reading a little easier...

And so, after waiting until New Years Eve, we witness the arrival of... the package!
(http://i66.tinypic.com/28lzwqc.jpg)(http://i63.tinypic.com/6idu7l.jpg)
Oh gosh! There's quite the fair amount of stuff in there, it seems. Looks like they're numbered as well, so let's follow the rules properly and open them in order...

(http://i63.tinypic.com/14o6gau.jpg)
"However, before getting them, you will have to solve some puzzles. But I know you will do alright. Just start with No 1. And no cheating. Be good, alright?"

Don't worry Toriel, I won't let you down. Also, internally squealing at the fact that this package has already started off great! Like, seriously, an Undertale theme?! GIVE ME THIS!

(http://i64.tinypic.com/11907xf.jpg)
... Oh hi Papyrus!
"BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO RECEIVE A GIFT FROM THE GREAT PAPYRUS!! A DELICIOUS GIFT, IF I MAY REVEAL IT IN ADVANCE... ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SOLVE THIS PUZZLE OF A VERY HANDSOME GUY. AND THEN HAVE ENOUGH DETERMINATION TO TAKE YOUR EYES OF SAID GUY."

...Wait what?!
(http://i63.tinypic.com/29985u.jpg)
... Oh you little... Welp! Time to get to work on this...

(http://i64.tinypic.com/2q21iyh.jpg) (http://i64.tinypic.com/w0lv9h.jpg)
Why hello there. Also, while putting the pieces together, I noticed the markings on the back of them. And of course, it's a bone related question. Thankfully, the answer was easy...

(http://i65.tinypic.com/34oq841.jpg)(http://i68.tinypic.com/2nusrpg.jpg)
"ON TO YOUR GIFT THEN!!!"
(http://i63.tinypic.com/71i7aq.jpg)
"HEY! WHERE DID YOU COME FROM? BACK AWAY! DON'T TOUCH THE SPAGH..."
(http://i63.tinypic.com/n5ikbn.jpg)What a load of crap :V
"THIS ONE IS BY DR. ALPHYS, SO IT WON'T BE SO EASY. NYEH HEH HEH..."

And that ends the joys of the skeleton. Now then...

(http://i65.tinypic.com/2wna59k.jpg)
If this is a Rubix cube, I swear I'm going to smash the thing in...
(http://i68.tinypic.com/2edwf1g.jpg)
... F**K!
"hi! here's a quick puzzle i made for you. it's really simple. just align the colors and then add the numerical results from each face."

{A whole day later}

(http://i64.tinypic.com/2vuyjjs.jpg){I'M SCREAMING FOR REAL RIGHT NOW! <3 <3
"this artbook is about some really cool girls who fly and shoot bullets. oh, and it's also cool that some are monsters and some are humans, but they still get along well... i mean, except for the shooting bullets at each other part."
Oh Alphys, you are adorable. Also, yeah, I can imagine her liking Touhou a pretty fair bit considering the whole thing...

(http://i66.tinypic.com/b7grcy.jpg){HOLY F**K! NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY! YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! <3
"oh, and this doujinshi is about one of the monster girls who controls flowers. but she's actually really strong and aggressive, i mean, you wouldn't think that of a flower, right? but she's still a pretty cool one."
Oh Alphys... you have no idea! And yes, Yuuka is amazing; love her more! LOVE YUUKA! <3 <3 <3

(http://i63.tinypic.com/2prigt2.jpg)(http://i63.tinypic.com/30a437q.jpg)
And another Touhou folder to keep stuff in. I seriously am collecting these now in Secret Santa packages. Also, FINALLY, A MAMI FIGURE! Give me all this goodness~ <3

Now, present number 3... was literally just a little roll of paper. Knowing Undyne, there isn't probably going to be a puzzle... and low and behold...
(http://i66.tinypic.com/a0jbbq.jpg)
"hey dude. sorry, no puzzle stuff from me. if you wanna get your gift, you gotta show your strength and break that chain and lock down."

I'm afraid I'm not the strongest person in existence. However, I'm fortunate in one area here... Puppy, being the adorable wife she is, offered to help on this part. And with our strength combined...
(http://i65.tinypic.com/xnccpy.jpg)(http://i63.tinypic.com/15fgg42.jpg)
We were able to wrench it open, and reveal yet another cup for Christmas; and an Undertale one at that! Naturally, we had a mini fight over who gets the cup, but she has so many, so MINE! But yes, UNDERTALE CUP! XD

...

Oh, you're probably wondering about the paper I was holding in that picture. Well, it was Sans...
"felt like too much work to make a puzzle from scratch. so i just hid the key inside my brother's spaghetti. you probably found it already. that's it, unless it went somewhere else or something.
But there wasn't any spaghetti, there was just a...

It's in the f**king turd, isn't it?!

(http://i67.tinypic.com/2wm4a4h.jpg)(http://i66.tinypic.com/f0vnty.jpg)
It's amazing how brilliant this entire thing has been so far. We've laughed all the way, I've been screaming at the Touhou stuff, and Puppy has just been great throughout it all. And here we are now, with the key to our final gift... And I seriously can't wait to see what's in here...

(http://i68.tinypic.com/2vd4aok.jpg)
...
(http://i66.tinypic.com/2vn47f7.jpg)

-------------------

Many thanks for this! A Papyrus puzzle, a plush turd, two amazing Touhou books, an Undertale cup, a Mami figure, and NSFW lollipops. So grateful for this, and you are amazing for doing this. Well done from us both! <3

{Package said it was from Brazil}
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: pasu on January 02, 2016, 01:40:59 PM
Just popping by to say ill post my report after I get back from my vacation in japan (which ends like today but I need to deal with urgent homework first when I get back)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on January 02, 2016, 06:15:22 PM
NSFW lollipops

Nietz detected.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on January 02, 2016, 09:48:40 PM
Well I got games. I already have a few of them even though my Santa looked through my Steam wishlist which isn't exactly something you should read
dude that's what the list is for
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on January 03, 2016, 06:28:18 AM
dude that's what the list is for

My wishlist is basically how I remind myself to feed Dormio when I feel like it eyyy

Nietz wheres that thing I gave you
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Nietz on January 03, 2016, 04:34:30 PM
Nietz wheres that thing I gave you
It's in one of the many boxes of I brought from Japan and are now scattered around two houses. I'll send it along as soon as I manage to find it. =p
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: N-Forza on January 07, 2016, 11:30:48 AM
Okay, finally found some time to show my gift off (for what it's worth, had this been before the 25th, it would've been more on time).

So I get a package from Canada. It seems my sender has a shoe size larger than mine; an impressive feat indeed.
(http://i.imgur.com/JDto6hH.jpg?1)

But I take off the lid to find an... unpleasant surprise.
(http://i.imgur.com/nRuYkHE.jpg?2)

Thankfully, I was not actually visited by the nonexistent Ghost of Christmas Past.
(http://i.imgur.com/1iuYMc7.jpg?1)

And what of the other stuff?

First, a bag of Momiji candies.
(http://i.imgur.com/1xIcYtn.jpg?1)

A strange, Canadian take on a familiar breakfast.
(http://i.imgur.com/qHvYyKt.jpg?1)

And then Touhous, Angels, and a boat.
(http://i.imgur.com/YB2BRyn.jpg?1)

No sure who you are (since I got Drake in a previous year), but thanks, SS!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on January 07, 2016, 02:53:30 PM
Truly this has been the year of tsukihime anime headfakes.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Reddyne on January 07, 2016, 03:12:17 PM
So I get a package from Canada. It seems my sender has a shoe size larger than mine; impressive feet indeed.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: N-Forza on January 07, 2016, 03:52:57 PM
Thanks for spelling out the joke.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on January 08, 2016, 12:34:14 AM
I'm gonna watch Tsukihime this weekend to prove a terrible point!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Zirene on January 08, 2016, 06:14:47 AM
When is the list of who go whom as a Secret Santa going to be posted? I scanned the thread and couldn't find it. Are we still waiting on a few people to get their gifts? I'm totally curious of who my SS was since I know a few people on here are from Ohio.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Tengukami on January 08, 2016, 11:27:49 AM
Holy crap Dragon's Lair! You lucky duck!

When is the list of who go whom as a Secret Santa going to be posted? I scanned the thread and couldn't find it. Are we still waiting on a few people to get their gifts? I'm totally curious of who my SS was since I know a few people on here are from Ohio.

I am also curious about this. I don't even remember who here is from Arkansas. But maybe the "secret" part of Secret Santa is to remain that way?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on January 08, 2016, 12:33:27 PM
Pasu, Vento and Vyrian need to post their ones. They returned from MOONLAND recently no?

After that I think we got everybody which probably will trigger Santa Hakurei to post the full list?

Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on January 08, 2016, 03:36:37 PM
I'm pretty sure Vyrian is still in jaypee but I could be wrong
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on January 08, 2016, 03:43:08 PM
Viryen is still in Japan, P and V are back in irrelevant city-state
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Vyrien on January 08, 2016, 04:37:53 PM
Viunian apologises for the delay and will post tomorrow. 
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: pasu on January 08, 2016, 04:50:00 PM
RIGHT THEN finally transferred the photos from my phone to the laptop, I've kept everyone waiting! Really sorry about the long wait, life always finds a way  :ohdear:

(Some of the vertical photos got.. rotated, I'm not sure why, but I think it's fine)

It's a pretty big box, and I was greeted by bubble wrap!

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66775711/cpss/P_20151225_015724.jpg)

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66775711/cpss/P_20151225_015731.jpg)

I really like bubble wrap  :V

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66775711/cpss/P_20151225_015954.jpg)

a box... with a letter taped onto it! with... are those locks..?!

>Here's a photo of the letter so you guys can read it too< (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66775711/cpss/12511136_10205632220464230_1260123907_o.jpg)

I tried to figure it out first and politely asked for a pen and started underlining
the letters in italic: two, zero, five, zero. Hmm..t, e,v, o? two.. eight.. five.. zero?
My educated guess did not work, so I started on the ygo puzzle  :colbert:

Now, I've never actually played YGO myself, did watch the show though, and my brother and sister were big fans of it growing up (I was more of the pokemon/dual masters/neopets side) but I still accepted the challenge!..

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66775711/cpss/P_20151225_021335.jpg)

Then I tried to tackle the puzzle and....

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66775711/cpss/P_20151225_022030.jpg)

... didn't really get anywhere. W-what the heck is a pendulum?! YGO was more easier back in the day :( As I thought out combos involving the tewi and cirno cards, Vyrien suddenly piped up,

(http://puu.sh/modxT.jpg)
Edited and rotated back to original because Vyrien said she looked fat

"Did you try 205 yet"

"Nnnnno..."








*ka-chak!*









 :getdown:

Onto the gifts! In my letter to Santa, I'd explicitly actually asked for some card game supplies, and Santa really delivered!

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66775711/cpss/P_20151225_024426.jpg)

A Twilight Princess poster!!  :getdown: which came with...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66775711/cpss/P_20151225_024449.jpg)

My own ocarina of time, a compass, and some rupees! Now I too, can save Hyrule :getdown: Next, was a tube, and inside was...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66775711/cpss/P_20151225_024637.jpg)

A!! Medicine!!! Playmat!!!
:getdown: I didn't have a playmat for my tcg until now, and it was the best kind of playmat I could ever ask for! It was even made with one of the best Medicine artworks out there too  :derp:

Last but not least...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66775711/cpss/P_20151225_024847.jpg)

Deck boxes, with treats stuffed into them! :getdown: The biscuits were absolutely delicious, at this point of time they're mostly gone now  :V I think my family members stole some too :(

And that's it! Package address said it was sent from France, but I don't really know anyone from France (or do I?) Thought it was possibly from Helepolis because he sent a locked(?) chest to Vyrien the year before, but I thought he lived in another country so... I'm stumped  :V Whoever it ends up being, thank you very much for the gifts, including the puzzle! The custom touhou ygo cards were a great surprise and while I was unwrapping my gift I was just laughing the entire time because it was just so enjoyable, hope you had a great Christmas and New year!  :toot:

Viryen is still in Japan, P and V are back in irrelevant city-state

oi last warning ar
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on January 08, 2016, 11:28:24 PM
u mad lah
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on January 10, 2016, 07:21:07 PM
ルピー
So you want to buy this awesome stick?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Nobu on January 10, 2016, 07:55:12 PM
Hmm.

......

...

*nods, then walks off*
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on January 11, 2016, 05:04:03 AM
Hmm.

......

...

*nods, then walks off*
Nobu what are you tacitly acknowledging?

I did a thing:
(http://i.imgur.com/Z0suzX3.jpg)

Thanks again Helepolis!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on January 11, 2016, 05:52:56 AM
But does it turn into a gundam?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on January 11, 2016, 06:36:35 AM
But does it turn into a gundam?
No but the blades actually turn! #whoa #wow
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on January 11, 2016, 07:03:44 AM
I also did a thing

that thing was drink all the beer

thanks bunches Vic
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on January 11, 2016, 03:38:07 PM
Glad you're enjoying.

By the way, have you upped your lockpicking abilities Vic?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on January 13, 2016, 03:40:42 AM
I also did a thing

that thing was drink all the beer

thanks bunches Vic
You're welcome! Any thoughts on any beer in particular?

Glad you're enjoying.

By the way, have you upped your lockpicking abilities Vic?
I have not! I have not had a lot of time to play around with the lock, but I learned a lot about how a lock works because of the clear lock.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Helepolis on January 13, 2016, 04:22:15 PM
You're welcome! Any thoughts on any beer in particular?
I have not! I have not had a lot of time to play around with the lock, but I learned a lot about how a lock works because of the clear lock.
If you're further interested in a good yt channel which also discusses some things, check out bosnianbill. Lots of videos and things.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: HakureiSM on January 14, 2016, 02:40:22 AM
You're welcome! Any thoughts on any beer in particular?

I want Arashi beer reviews too
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Edible on January 14, 2016, 03:57:44 AM
I read that as "Asahi beer reviews" at first and was gonna be like "it's just a lager"
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on January 14, 2016, 01:41:57 PM
I read that as "Asahi beer reviews" at first and was gonna be like "it's just a lager"
I dunno, I like Asahi a lot and not just because I can pretend I'm imprisoned in an underground work camp zawa zawa
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Vyrien on January 17, 2016, 05:33:34 AM
Okay this is finally happening, SORRY FOR THE DELAY because of timezones 'tomorrow' means 'in 9 days' in Japan

First of all, a package from Hong Kong arrived

(http://puu.sh/myEud.jpg)

a package with the addresses clumsily blurred out i just woke up ok

(http://puu.sh/myEDd.jpg)
omg she finally got a job

(http://puu.sh/myEBP.jpg)
MOKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU this card really speaks to me on a personal level
(http://puu.sh/myF8y.jpg)
uh

(http://puu.sh/myENn.jpg)
LUNARIAN COIN GREAT i can spend it in my moonrune shops

(http://puu.sh/myEEo.jpg)
ask kanako

(http://puu.sh/myEGS.jpg)
EIRIN OF MY VERY OWN also omg that yuyuko I LOVE ARTBOOKS

(http://puu.sh/myFvF.jpg)
ignore her, evil laughs make the world go round NO BUT WAIT

(http://puu.sh/myFEZ.jpg)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA also you can see pasu in the bg performing some kind of chinese ritual idk

then there was like this big block and i thought it was cardboard backing BUT ACTUALLY
(http://puu.sh/myFIH.jpg)
omgomgomgthatmokou
(http://puu.sh/myFJO.jpg)
SCREAMS

but wait
(http://puu.sh/myG7c.jpg)
and so there was

(http://puu.sh/myGay.jpg)
CLOTH BAG ITS GOT A DRAGON FUCK

inside the dragonbag there was
(http://puu.sh/myGcK.jpg)
a pretty nicely presented DVD boxset thing also w/ dragon so 10/10 in my book

inside there were also
(http://puu.sh/myGiW.jpg)
KEYCHAINS AND MORE DRAGON

(http://puu.sh/myGon.jpg)
this really cool clear acrylic poster LOOK AT THOSE BOOTS THO

Damn houraison,  you sure managed to stuff a lot in. It was really a lot of fun opening it so thank you!!!! There were also like 2 artbooks you can sort of see in the first pictures that I forgot to take a picture of, really nice art THANKS FOR PAYING ATTENTION TO MY WISHLIST <3

I'm going to make an estimated guess of
Labuto
from doing some snooping around. Cheers!

:getdown:                   :getdown:
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Labuto on January 17, 2016, 06:04:33 AM
Cheers~

Really glad that you enjoyed it. I was initially panicked because of your geographical location, as you may have gotten your hands on the majority of artbooks already.

So I sent books that can only be specifically bought/found outside Japan* , to hopefully reduce chances of double gifting.

I'm happy that it all worked out in the end~

*I may have forgotten that most of the books were in Chinese. Woopsies.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Raikaria on January 17, 2016, 10:09:18 PM
So... [when] are we getting lists? Has everyone posted yet?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Vento on January 18, 2016, 05:58:57 PM
ababABABAH had to settle comiket stuff sorry sorry


so i got my package sent early to vyrien's house and couldn't actually open it on christmas lol
but
(http://puu.sh/mApvy.jpg)
watercolour like i asked for SWEET
also some brushes...how did my SS know almost all my brushes are dead
i recently started dabbling into traditional drawing and its great to use something better than
those cheap $10 dry palettes
(http://puu.sh/mAq2f.jpg)
hold on do those brushes say Van Gogh on them
Does that mean I'll be able to draw a The Starry Night with th-
here goes noth--
(http://puu.sh/mAqkT.jpg)
....okay so the mona lisa didn't come out but the colours were pretty good!
There was a very convenient skin tone colour in the selection that fixed my issue of having to manually mix yellow/white/orange with my old set...

I don't know who my Secret Santa is (vyrien says she knows psh) but thanks a lot for the equipment upgrade!!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: The ⑨th Zentillion on January 19, 2016, 05:12:52 AM
I do believe that's everybody now! Can't wait to see that reveal list.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa GO GO GO GO GO!
Post by: Rin Kagamine on January 20, 2016, 04:09:09 PM
If we actually revealed the list then it wouldn't be a secret now would it???

Vic Viper -> Arashi
Pesco -> Labuto
Tamashii -> Dorakyura
Spotty Ren -> pasu
triangles -> Chaore
Raikaria -> Nietz
Sect -> Spotty Ren
Mea -> HakureiSM
jq1790 -> triangles
Moogs Parfait -> Drake
Tengukami -> hungrybookworm
aUsernameIsFineToo -> Moogs Parfait
Zent -> Edible
RuneDevros -> Puffy
PX -> Zent
Jana -> Helepolis
Helepolis -> Vic Viper
Reddyne -> PX
Nietz -> Tamashii
HakureiSM -> Pesco
Vyrien -> Rune Devros
Vento -> SirSlarty
pasu -> Jeremie
MJP -> aUsernameIsFineToo
YJ -> jq1790
Puffy -> YJ
Purvis -> Zirene
hungrybookworm -> NekoNekoRex
Kiro -> Your Everyday NEET
Your Everyday NEET -> Firestorm29
Shadow1176 -> Raikaria
N-Forza -> Purvis
Labuto -> Vyrien
Dorakyura -> Mea
Edible -> Nobu
Nobu -> MJP
Arashi -> Vento
Drake -> Reddyne
SirSlarty -> Sect
NekoNekoRex -> yuyukos
Jeremie -> N-Forza
Chaore -> Shadow1176
yuyukos -> Kiro
Zirene -> Tengukami
dyril -> Jana
Firestorm29 -> dyril
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: dyril on January 20, 2016, 11:46:45 PM
I finished Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer (correction: it was 5 discs)!

(http://i.imgur.com/rBwvZsJ.jpg)

It felt force-fed at the start but heartstrings were pulled. You don't often come across a show like this anymore.

(http://i.imgur.com/CgCb9Ul.jpg)

screencaps irrelevant :B

Thanks again, Firestorm29!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Jq1790 on January 21, 2016, 12:40:00 AM
Angelic Layer is a fun one.  Good taste indeed.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Shadow1176 on January 21, 2016, 01:04:34 AM
Oh, can we share our international shipping stories now then?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on January 21, 2016, 01:12:20 AM
Oh, can we share our international shipping stories now then?

My international shipping story: I was shipping to Japan so I just bought on Amazon Japan and it arrived like 12 hours later and shipping was free. :V

(I mean I already shop on Amazon Japan somewhat regularly they just only ship internationally, i.e. to me, for media mail type stuff and shipping is... rather more. :V)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Moogs Parfait on January 21, 2016, 02:26:33 AM
I was brutally murdered by shipping costs because I missed Santa's note about just the customs number being enough.

Also Drake managed to guess it was me despite not actually seeing that poster at my booth, it was a commission.  Maybe it's the style of artists I hire?  Or maybe that it's the same dimensions as a Danmaku!! poster because I had the template lying around?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: yuyukos on January 21, 2016, 02:35:19 AM
I mailed my gift and then I saw him in person a week later anyway so ?_(ツ)_/?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on January 21, 2016, 04:52:45 AM
I had to tell Pesco what Idols to buy for Labuto because he knows jackshit about Idols
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Chaore on January 21, 2016, 05:38:33 AM
...no -wonder- my gift fits with last years.

Triangles, you clever geometry :v
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Raikaria on January 21, 2016, 08:13:50 AM
I typo'ed y own address; so my package went to #1 not #2.

When I realised this it was back at the werehouse. They fixed the address and put it for re-sending.

Except it fell off the elevator and wasn't noticed until I rung to query it again and the same phoneperson went and checked remembering saying to me when it was due
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: hungrybookworm on January 21, 2016, 09:21:56 AM
I spend about an hour at the post office waiting to send my gift, because a couple in front of the queue decided now was a great time to go totally beserk and scream abuse at the post office staff, and then the staff got fed up with it and started yelling at them back, then the crowd joined in because they were fed up with waiting, then eventually security showed up and tried to drag the couple away, but they came back to do more yelling.

I was pretty shaken up by this so when I finally got to the counter and filled in the form, I forgot to tick 'gift' and then spent the rest of the day worrying my SS would have to pay import tax. Luckily I *cough* undervalued the items *cough* so it wasn't a problem.

The post office manager looked like he wanted to die.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Tengukami on January 21, 2016, 10:20:37 AM
Paying for tracking cost more than the postage itself.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Dorakyura on January 21, 2016, 10:33:36 AM
Cost were okish, for 2kg of packet, I didn't expect less. Wasn't as expensive as last years delivery to JP, though.
(also I choose to deliver via ship instead of air cargo  :derp:, saved me 30? extra, and still arrived on 23th :V)

Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: N-Forza on January 21, 2016, 03:08:29 PM
Wasn't any different from my usual routine, except instead of being paid in cash, I was paid in cheer and goodwill.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Sect on January 21, 2016, 05:43:29 PM
I decided to muddle through Amazon.fr to send my package (fun trying to figure out how to send packages in a language you don't know) so I'd save a ton of money on postage, which was why I was confused when the package came from California.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Firestorm29 on January 21, 2016, 09:47:00 PM
I finished Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer (correction: it was 5 discs)!

(http://i.imgur.com/rBwvZsJ.jpg)

It felt force-fed at the start but heartstrings were pulled. You don't often come across a show like this anymore.

(http://i.imgur.com/CgCb9Ul.jpg)

screencaps irrelevant :B

Thanks again, Firestorm29!

Glad you liked it. I like to try and find anime others haven't seen but were pretty good. I was torn between what would have been the best match based on your MAL; Angelic Layer, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar or maybe Slayers. Angelic Layer felt the closest of the three. :)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: HakureiSM on January 21, 2016, 10:51:11 PM
Oh, can we share our international shipping stories now then?
hhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahhhahahah
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Rin Kagamine on January 22, 2016, 04:08:42 AM
My international shipping story: I was shipping to Japan so I just bought on Amazon Japan and it arrived like 12 hours later and shipping was free. :V

(I mean I already shop on Amazon Japan somewhat regularly they just only ship internationally, i.e. to me, for media mail type stuff and shipping is... rather more. :V)
ARASHI I NEED BEER REVIEWS!!!
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on January 22, 2016, 05:24:45 AM
ARASHI I NEED BEER REVIEWS!!!

but I am bad at detailed opinionssssssssssssss ;_;

beer was good I liked the stout best but I like stouts anyway. =P I still don't really like IPAs it turns out but that one was okay enough and I'm glad for a chance to try a decent one since I hadn't in a while. :3
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Vyrien on January 22, 2016, 06:09:25 AM
I had to deal with the post office lady deciding I couldn't speak Japanese (GAIJIN RIGHT) then trying to ask me about the contents in broken English (English EMS form so I wrote the contents in English) whilst I continued to speak Japanese because she couldn't understand my English explanation. She wasn't listening and was panicking then got her 'Hi my name is xxxxxx i can speak English' colleague with whom I had a pleasant conversation in Japanese (including but not limited to the contents of the package) with the original colleague listening in and looking very embarrassed. By the time I'd finished it had taken about an hour and the post office was past closing time, luckily they still took the parcels.

This is a recurring thing I've found, people just do not want to believe I can speak Japanese here lol

apart from one lady in melonbooks who gave me a bunch of free stickers because EEEEEEEEEEH? NIHONGO DEKIRU??? BIKKURISHIMASHITAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Helepolis on January 22, 2016, 09:36:01 AM
My shipping story: Costed me money. I found the recording of movies quite fun to be honest.

Also highly suspicious of Vic Viper rigging the pairing system to roll me as SS. I am not quite sure what he did to Reimu in order to make her HAXOR the list. Probably was one hell of a donation.


I had to deal with the post office lady deciding I couldn't speak Japanese (GAIJIN RIGHT) then trying to ask me about the contents in broken English (English EMS form so I wrote the contents in English) whilst I continued to speak Japanese because she couldn't understand my English explanation. She wasn't listening and was panicking then got her 'Hi my name is xxxxxx i can speak English' colleague with whom I had a pleasant conversation in Japanese (including but not limited to the contents of the package) with the original colleague listening in and looking very embarrassed. By the time I'd finished it had taken about an hour and the post office was past closing time, luckily they still took the parcels.

This is a recurring thing I've found, people just do not want to believe I can speak Japanese here lol
Wait, so while you actually were speaking in Japanese, she refused to speak back in Japanese and kept putting up English!? Why?

apart from one lady in melonbooks who gave me a bunch of free stickers because EEEEEEEEEEH? NIHONGO DEKIRU??? BIKKURISHIMASHITAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
Confirming reactions/startle from natives is funny when you're obvious-gaijin-as-***** and respond to them in Japanese.


The responses always take a certain pattern. First they are logically surprised. Followed by usually the phrase: "You speak Japanese!?" Eventually asking: "Where / why did you learn Japanese"


Edit:
in melonbooks
I bet you were in the Adult version of Melong Books on the main street :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Drake on January 22, 2016, 11:47:11 AM
relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLBShiGoJFo
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Tengukami on January 22, 2016, 12:41:29 PM
relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLBShiGoJFo

Quote
Q: Why do [people who watch this] find it funny?
A: Because someone was speaking with a Kansai accent.

This killed me.

Also, it was really interesting (like the host points out) that they didn't really get what the video was trying to say at first. I found it really encouraging, though, that when they were asked some pointed questions about the depicted situation, they showed a pretty good level of tolerance for foreigners who are at least trying to speak the language. Kind of gives me a little bit of hope for the new generation of Japanese.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Nietz on January 22, 2016, 01:49:17 PM
Getting the gift done and sent ended up being quite an ordeal. Based on Helepolis' past gifts, I had been entertaining the idea of a sending something involving a puzzle of some sort. I had even considered the lock + lockpicks one, but rejected that because of doubts about the legality (hence my surprise when Hele did exactly that).
Drawing Tamashii, who was an Undertale fan, gave me the perfect opportunity to go overboard with this, moreso because I was also a fan and soon had all kinds of ideas for it.
But just then a selection process for a teaching position opened up and I got very busy studying and traveling out of state to take it. So when I was free again I had to go around buying lunchboxes, making holes in for locks in them, printing stuff and assembling everything. (I had to give up on some ideas in the end, like the snake-in-a-can with Flowey's face that springs out and throws "friendliness tic-tacs" on you. =p)
It was way after the international deadline when I managed to sent it, and then I was worrying whether it wouldn't arrive super late, if it wouldn't be stopped at the border for all the suspicious locked boxes inside, if the lollipops wouldn't melt, and lastly if  my partner wouldn't find the puzzle thing too dumb or boring.
Fortunately, none of that happened. Seeing some of the other gifts, I kinda feel I should've sent more stuff, but the "experience" factor seemed to have been pretty successful. :)
I told my girlfriend to remember me to not got through this kind of trouble next time, but who am I kidding, I'll probably do it anyway. (●`‿?●)

Nietz detected.
Hey, I have a reputation (http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2216154?tags=warugaki_%28sk-ii%29) to maintain. (danbooru link)

Wait, so while you actually were speaking in Japanese, she refused to speak back in Japanese and kept putting up English!? Why?
Happens annoyingly often, especially in Tokyo. A lot less elsewhere though. I guess it might be that they're used to getting tourists who can't speak Japanese or have only a few phrases memorized. Cultural stubbornness about foreigners not being supposed to speak Japanese also definitely plays a part though.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Rin Kagamine on January 22, 2016, 02:34:20 PM
My shipping story: Costed me money. I found the recording of movies quite fun to be honest.

Also highly suspicious of Vic Viper rigging the pairing system to roll me as SS. I am not quite sure what he did to Reimu in order to make her HAXOR the list. Probably was one hell of a donation.

Wait, so while you actually were speaking in Japanese, she refused to speak back in Japanese and kept putting up English!? Why?
Every single year I gotta shout about how the hat has no bias! No respect.

It's extremely common. I rarely got the BIKURIII response but I often tried to greet people first. I actually ran into more of the "we're gonna keep speaking Japanese at you until you understand" treatment in Hiroshima, but outside the city that disappeared.

Also, our Melonbooks was like 2/3 R18 stuff. I bought my Sukusuku Hakutaku there :V
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Tengukami on January 22, 2016, 03:27:01 PM
If it makes you all feel any better, I'm a fluent speaker of the native language here and still get people answering me in English. I've taken to pretending I don't understand English in order to make them respond in the language I just used when talking to them.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Hello Purvis on January 22, 2016, 07:19:55 PM
Go frustrated parliamentarian on them.

As for me...I just had no idea what tot get Zirene, we've pretty much never interacted. So I just got some Magic cards, which he seems to esteem to quite heavily, and a stuffed dog since his list included dog stuff (I assumed it wasn't toys for dogs, but I wondered sometimes! Then a can of Cincinnati-style chili, because he listed foodstuffs, and that is literally the only regional dish we have. Then I spend ages fretting that my note my have come off as chiding or mean, rather than good-natured friendly frustration. Cost me more than I anticipated to ship it, but I was being super optimistic on that front anyways.

Also: Thank you again, Forza. All that stuff was great, and more than I deserved ;_;
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: HakureiSM on January 22, 2016, 08:00:53 PM
reputation (http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2216154?tags=warugaki_%28sk-ii%29)
Nietz is that all you think of
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Chaore on January 22, 2016, 09:30:48 PM
shipping story: ran out a few hours before a final while sick to ship it totally forgetting a box and packing it right at the shipping center

bun finals this year were kinda hell but next year i won't even have them!

I'm glad you liked the tea and chocolate though, I keep forgetting to ask about allergies/likes when I do this.

My only real regret is not getting the same tea holder my father got me. That thing is just adorably dumb.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Jq1790 on January 22, 2016, 09:40:41 PM
Shipping of what got there:  Entirely uneventful.

The originally planned "other thing":  Hoo boy.  Apparently the place I ordered the intended thing from had a really ancient address on file; I hadn't realized I made the account so long ago and coulda sworn I had to  put in my actual address, but apparently not and that's the end of that.

Still working on figuring out how I wanna rectify this(and don't tell me not to because I SAID THERE'D BE ANOTHER THING THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER THING. >=(  ).
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Shadow1176 on January 22, 2016, 10:58:31 PM
I sent the Kokoro and Koishi poster to Raik, but got the address mixed up. The only bigger issue with that is that for some reason, Amazon wouldn't give me an applicable tracking number, so I spent something like a week trying to find until they sent an email with the name of the company that shipped it. I was lost because I thought they provided all the info I needed, until I realized a few days later that they never gave me the correct TRACKING number for the international shipping. It was only until later that Raik got his gift (I am so sorry for what happened).
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on January 23, 2016, 02:07:45 PM
Partner likes: Robots, cards, JRPG. I don't know any of them! Don't play Yu-Gi-Oh, don't watch Gundam (okay, I did play Xenogears), don't have his Steam ID (I should have sent him Steam Wallet). Touhou it is then.

In convention lookin for stuff: discovered that Kantai Collection is the Shit in Singapore, not much Touhou, want to buy Mokou related item, she's not famous unlike Flan.

Shipping: Uncle got a friend work at FedEx, ask about the price, HOLY FREAK! That just as expensive as my stuff! FedEx, you're dick. Local post it is. Wrap my gift like a champz, they don't accept my MAD wrappinz, double wrap, sent. (The post doesn't accept red wrapping and paper wrapping)
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: dyril on January 23, 2016, 03:39:07 PM
No money was spent on packing or wraps but I did spend quite some time gathering the materials.
I printed off the shipping label and school-glued it around the edges. You clean up this glue using water before it dries. So, no worries even if it got rained on, right?

Shipping within the States was easy. Gently release box onto the countertop inside the post office and trust that it makes it. I would hope that if all the forms are done right, it would be as equally humanless/painless for international. Gotta wonder if self-driving cars will eventually take away jorbs.

coasters! The note says they represent something, but I am a philistine who can't puzzle.
ジャナのバカ!!:derp:

That the color's slightly off is something I had failed to fix, but I was still hoping for at least one out of three, however imperfect or abstract. Have you held them up in pure daylight yet?
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Vyrien on January 24, 2016, 03:18:19 PM
Wait, so while you actually were speaking in Japanese, she refused to speak back in Japanese and kept putting up English!? Why?

No bloody clue, guessing she was panicked because she couldn't speak English. Also, I had an Indian woman do it to me in Shinjuku in McDonalds as well just yesterday. TRIGGERED
Similarly, when I don't catch what's been said because Japanese people love to mumble then they instantly switch to English even though I just asked them to repeat or said it was difficult to hear ;_; gaijin struggles


also yeah I found people didn't do it nearly as much outside Tokyo.
Title: Re: CPSS: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED
Post by: Tamashii Kanjou on January 24, 2016, 10:39:21 PM
Drawing Tamashii, who was an Undertale fan, gave me the perfect opportunity to go overboard with this, moreso because I was also a fan and soon had all kinds of ideas for it.
But just then a selection process for a teaching position opened up and I got very busy studying and traveling out of state to take it. So when I was free again I had to go around buying lunchboxes, making holes in for locks in them, printing stuff and assembling everything. (I had to give up on some ideas in the end, like the snake-in-a-can with Flowey's face that springs out and throws "friendliness tic-tacs" on you. =p)
It was way after the international deadline when I managed to sent it, and then I was worrying whether it wouldn't arrive super late, if it wouldn't be stopped at the border for all the suspicious locked boxes inside, if the lollipops wouldn't melt, and lastly if  my partner wouldn't find the puzzle thing too dumb or boring.
Fortunately, none of that happened. Seeing some of the other gifts, I kinda feel I should've sent more stuff, but the "experience" factor seemed to have been pretty successful. :)

Oh my gosh, Nietz, what you did was amazing; you shouldn't feel bad because things got busy. Stuff like that happens pretty often, and even if it was late, I was pleased with everything that was in there; and the Undertale theme was simply perfect. It made it worth the wait, for sure! Having read up on your actions with Waru and Helepolis earlier on, it really was an amazing experience; and seriously, keep being awesome! I think Puppy might have ripped out Flowey's face if you did that trick, though; she doesn't trust those flowers any more~ ^^ {Do it to the poor person who gets you next time}

Also, as for stories on our end, I feel like the credit list should say Tamashii & Puppy, seeing as the plush was made by her. I did research into what other stuff Dora liked, and then I remembered seeing you post about PAD pretty often. So yeah, it was the perfect thing; and Puppy was happy to make it. Everything else was stuff I threw in; it wasn't that much, but I'm glad you loved the plush, that was the main present. We actually thought we had less time than we did; but when they said because it was staying in Europe, I still had like an extra week to send it. To think this was my first time not sending outside of Europe; felt weird~ :V