{"id":1772,"date":"2015-12-24T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-10-11T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:11:59","slug":"the-sidekick-advent-calendar-grand-finale-fight-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2015\/12\/the-sidekick-advent-calendar-grand-finale-fight-special.html\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sidekick Advent Calendar: Grand Finale Fight Special!"},"content":{"rendered":"Christmas is a time for fighting. Why else would we do it with such regularity? In this spirit, Jon and K have engaged their respective champions to go at it in a charming vignette we call ‘Violent Night’<\/b><\/a>. They’ll be doing this via the Beat ‘Em Up form from Coin Opera II<\/a><\/b><\/i>. In this form, each player writes a couplet, the first line of which must ‘block’ their opponent by nouning the verbs in the line directly above. Have at you!

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<\/b>J\u00f3lak\u00f6tturinn<\/b>, the Icelandic Yule Cat, who eats lazy children who have not finished their work by Christmas.

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<\/b>K’s Champion:<\/b>
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<\/b>Frau Perchta<\/b>, Alpine spirit who takes her approach to festive child discipline straight from the school of Krampus, tearing out the guts of her victims and replacing them with rubbish.



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<\/i>Merry Christmas, everyone!<\/span><\/b>

With special thanks to Mental Floss for a fascinating article<\/a> on Christmas monsters.<\/i>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas is a time for fighting. Why else would we do it with such regularity? In this spirit, Jon and K have engaged their respective champions to go at it in a charming vignette we call ‘Violent Night’. They’ll be doing this via the Beat ‘Em Up form from Coin Opera II. In this form, … Continue reading “The Sidekick Advent Calendar: Grand Finale Fight Special!”<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[428,424,429,423,425,426,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent-calendar","category-christmas","category-frau-perchta","category-jolakotturinn","category-jon-stone","category-kirsten-irving","category-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}