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All the emails are sent out! Check your spam folder if you didn't get one and if there's nothing there, contact me right away. Alright kids now it's time for LIGHTNING BONUS ROUNDS! Lightning bonus rounds are how you take part in the Trad Games Secret Santa thing after the deadline for the main round is passed. It's also how you can be greedy and exchange more than one present with your fellow goons! Beginning today (November 27th), we will have a series of one or more extra bonus rounds and YOU can participate. The LIGHTNING BONUS ROUNDS work a lot like the main round. All of the rules apply except for the deadline for application. Re-read the rules in the OP just in case you forgot them. OK so to sign up I post in the thread and send you an email? Correct. You must do this even if you participated in the main round. Post in the thread. If you already participated in the main round you can link to your original post or just quote it to show your gift preferences. You must send an email to tgsecretsanta@gmail.com as well; if you already sent one this year I don't need your address again, but I do need another email regardless. My response to that email is your only confirmation that you've successfully signed up. What then? I will end each LIGHTNING BONUS ROUND according to whichever of the following things happens first:
Once each round closes I'll randomize the participants in the round and you all exchange gifts. You immediately fire off a Trad Games Present at your Santee, and they do the same! And of course the instant one LIGHTNING BONUS ROUND ends, the next one begins. What about international shipping?  You can still tell me you prefer not to ship internationally – if it's impossible for you, let me know and I'll try to make sure that doesn't happen. But if you live outside the US it's probably required to ship internationally. Bear in mind that you can always buy something online from a store that operates in your target country and thereby avoid expensive shipping costs. (You might have to pay a currency exchange fee but that is typically much less money.) If I get a pool that contains nobody else in your country and you said no thanks to international, I will contact you to check if you'd rather take a pass, before I do the matchings. It's better though if LIGHTNING BONUS ROUND participants can all ship internationally. Remember, you can always just order something online from the destination country: you usually just need a credit card. So then what's the shipping deadline? Of course, as we close in on Christmas day, you will have less and less time in which to accomplish purchase, shipping, and delivery. You'll have to pick an appropriate delivery option and be certain whatever you're buying is either in your hands, or definitely in stock at the retailer of your choice. You are still supposed to ship your item absolutely no later than December 15th AND get your gift delivered to your Secret Santee by December 22nd! This is part of the challenge! But it probably means that you won't have time to make a hand-made gift or wait for something that is out of stock to get restocked. Strongly consider ordering online from a major retailer with a strong reputation for shipping things immediately. Will I get matched with someone I've gifted or been gifted by before? Possibly. For the main round I do my absolute best to avoid this. But with limited goons, it's possible that the only way to be polite to the no-international-please people is to match you with someone you've gifted before. As always, you can give me a list of your mortal enemies and I won't match you with someone you despise. ROUND ONE BEGINS NOW GO!
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GLHP Good Luck, Have Presents.
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Signing up for LIGHTNING BONUS ROUND 1!!DigitalRaven posted:Dear Santa,
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Cheer has been deployed and should arrive tomorrow. Unfortunately, gift wrap/messages were not available, but will be deployed herein once the package is received.
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today was a very cheery day, even for being in florida. it was 45 degrees and I went for a nice cold walk on the beach in my jacket, and on the way home listened to classic holiday tunes. Firmly in a santa frame-of-mind, I sent off my package today. Bomb voyage!!! I hope u enjoy it, my secret santa-ee
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Nov 29, 2023 22:45
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My spreadsheet says there's like ten goons' worth of gifts already winging through the gifternet on the way to their santees, I love how fast some of y'all are!
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Gift Dispatched!
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Nov 30, 2023 01:06
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My corpo courier reports gift dispatch.
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Nov 30, 2023 01:37
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I know a guy, he says that a label is created, so I expect the 28mm reindeer to deliver the +3 cheer by December 7th. Silvery Barbs
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The gift for my main round Santee has been deployed! I would like to sign up for Bonus Round #1 please! rydiafan posted:Location: Wisconsin, USA
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Dec 1, 2023 03:16
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According to the Bezosian tracking devices, apparently my Santee's gift has arrived.
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I paid for my giftee's gift but it unfortunately won't be gift wrapped, in the interest of making sure it gets there before xmas. I am not sure I will be able to participate in any LR this year....I'll have to sleep on it for a few days
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An unexpected Amazon box? I didn't get any notifications, does this mean a gift? Apparently it does!  Very gifty!  Thanks Santa Nessus!  Lady Annika, now I need to get something for that blade to drink.  Thanks again Nessus!
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Dec 1, 2023 17:07
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December 1st, and the first gift is open. Dunno if that's a record, but it's good!
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hm... two mysterious bezos devices at my door... and I don't remember ordering anything... how peculiar.. now, the real challenge is if I open them now(as I've just discovered you can open them whenever you'd like) or open them on christmas morning? decisions, decisions. EDIT: oh hell, ive been so dour as of late- I'll open one of them!!! LurchinTard fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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Dec 1, 2023 20:30
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thegodofchuck posted:Thanks again Nessus!
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Dec 1, 2023 20:41
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 the alluring brown package...  oh hell yes. I've been wanting to read this for years, as soon as I turn in my final papers I'm givin this bad boy a read  Thank you godofchuck!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll post opening the second one on christmas morning.
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Dec 1, 2023 20:42
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LurchinTard posted:Thank you godofchuck!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll post opening the second one on christmas morning. You should get another package too... it'll be a bit though, it will be coming from farther away.
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Nessus posted:You're welcome... but it's not over................... Sweet! I guess I'll be thirsting for more presents.
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Dec 1, 2023 20:59
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thegodofchuck posted:You should get another package too... it'll be a bit though, it will be coming from farther away. oh I have a second one from amazon, if thats the one you are referring too. I'm waiting to open it on christmas though.
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Dec 1, 2023 21:18
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Dang with these gifts going out I'm feeling the pressure. Both figuratively and literally, as I've got a bad cold that's making my sinuses explode and my head implode. Hoping to get to the store this weekend to pick out a good gift, or failing that, to the ol' world wide web to find a good one.
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Dec 1, 2023 21:45
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My stuff isn't even coming from the store for another week and a half.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:22
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My gift is winging it's way to it's destination.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:41
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LurchinTard posted:oh I have a second one from amazon, if thats the one you are referring too. I'm waiting to open it on christmas though. Nope. Another other one.
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Gift to my 1st person has been sent out and will be there on the 14th! Enjoy  2nd person has had all gifts dispatched  Final person gift dispatched  And I assume the dollar amount was like a minimum sorta thing and going over some is okay Also, i'll toss my hat in for the lightning round!!! Tiny Chalupa fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Dec 2, 2023 |
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Dec 2, 2023 01:06
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Tiny Chalupa posted:Also, i'll toss my hat in for the lightning round. And I assume the dollar amount was like a minimum sorta thing and going over some is okay If it's not, I'm an annual repeat offender. Lock me up, Santa!
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Dec 2, 2023 01:55
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Sign me up for the lightning round, too! Here is my post full of holiday details.
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Dec 2, 2023 02:00
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Another unexpected Amazon box, you know what that means! Apparently this time, they're not offering any deals. But they are offering gifts!  Nicely wrapped.  Nessus again, with a promise of dice!  Enslaved to Darkness. Apparently my dice will burn out. Better than fading away.  Thanks x2 Nessus!
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thegodofchuck posted:Nope. Another other one. well hell, color me excited!!! i may just go ahead and open up the other amazon package then! update:  gently caress yeah, this is the first part so now i can start the series LurchinTard fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Dec 2, 2023 |
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Dec 2, 2023 04:13
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LurchinTard posted:gently caress yeah, this is the first part so now i can start the series Go for it! Glad you're excited =)
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Pulled out my trusty Ono-Sendai Cyberspace VII cyberdeck and jacked into the 'net from my rundown capsule motel this morning. Had to navigate around some serious black ICE to deliver the payload, but my santee's gift has been uploaded to the mainframe. Now just to sit back and watch the fireworks. (
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cool cool cool. I've been very busy this weekend so apologies if it took me more than a day to get back to anyone. Family stuff. I expect to be fairly busy throughout the holiday season this year, but I still try to deal with TGSS emails and posts within one day as a rule.
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LurchinTard posted:well hell, color me excited!!! i may just go ahead and open up the other amazon package then! This is a good series.
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I've heard its one of the best pieces of Modern Sci-fi ever written. I'm a huge fan of post apocalyptic fantasy type stuff so I'm really excited. I'm reading a book right now but as soon as I finish it and get some finals turned in I'm gonna blitz read through these.
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A mysterious sleigh hath arrived! Containing mysterious plastic gemstones from the kingdom of Chessex, some of which glow in the dark with arcane power!  The advent calendar was not part of Secret Santa, just a cool backdrop I could use. Dice! Its a Gamesmas miracle!
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Got notice today that Holiday Cheer has been shipped and is on it's way to my Santee!
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My Santee's gifts apparently got sent in three packages. Oh well, more mailbox excitement for them, I guess.
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rydiafan posted:My Santee's gifts apparently got sent in three packages. Oh well, more mailbox excitement for them, I guess.
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Just saw I am expecting a third package but.... Holy ghosts of runners past thst was fast. This looks amazing so far. Can't wait to see the third bit. Benedict fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Dec 4, 2023 |
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Cheer deployed! Due to some personal issues I wasn't able to wrap it, but it should all be delivered early next week.
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