Snowscheme 2009 Part 8

In documenting the lore for Ragnarok TWILIGHT, I actually went as far as to do a writeup of the most irrelevant, oddball stuff like how people celebrate Christmas. Part of this includes a mention of guilds hosting open house events on 12/23 (with Christmas Eve itself typically being reserved for guild Christmas parties).

And... this would be the Across version of a guild open house.

Left panel: Santa Aries getting mobbed by... let's call them "anony-kids." If you've seen Azumanga Daioh, surely you would know of the blatantly lazy-yet-still-endearing trick known as the "anonymous crowd" in which crowds are literally rendered as a pile of grayscale lumps that vaguely look human. In this case, these anony-kids can be identified as either human (no ears) or elf/dragon (pointy ears), male or female, but otherwise... generic children that I am far too lazy to render in full detail.

Top-right: Hikaru reads the story of that universe's Santa Claus mythos (in which a Marin sacrifices itself so that Santa and his reindeer wouldn't starve/dehydrate during a blizzard) to another group of anony-kids. Why does she have Prinny assistants? I have no freaking clue.

Bottom-right: The Santa Prinny squad stares down Numair to demand their paychecks... or take his cookies... or probably both, dood.