Krampus Defeated
Your final blow knocks the Krampus's horn clean off, and you snatch it -- and Uncle Crimbo's hat -- right out of the air like a real badass. The demon roars in pain and fury, and rears back to deliver a devastating final attack, but just then Uncle Crimbo's Hat chakra flares up like a violet supernova, filling the entire area with warm light. "NO!" the Krampus shouts, enraged, but it's too late for him to do anything as a pulse of snow-white lightning arcs from Uncle Crimbo's Sack chakra, to his Boots, to his Jelly, to his Reindeer, to his Beard, and finally to his Hat chakra. You are blinded by rainbows, and the monster's screams quickly dissolve into silence.
You recover your senses in a featureless white void, like the inside of the purest cloud. Uncle Crimbo stands before you, smiling. He's traded his Crimbuddha robes for his traditional red suit, brand-new and gleaming.
| Hand him back his hat |
"Thank you, my friend," he says. "With this final obstacle overcome, you have helped me reach my true potential."
"True potential?" you ask. "Did you give up on the Crimbuddha thing?"
"I've gone even beyond that," he says. "I am no longer merely the personification of Crimbo, or even the Spirit of Crimbo. I am now the pure spiritual essence of Crimbo itself, as it exists in the hearts of all the people of the world."
"I have no idea what that means," you say.
"I have transcended mortal form," Uncle Crimbo explains. "I'm the pure energy of charity and goodwill to all, now. Where ever someone feels the spirit of Crimbo, I am there."
"Still don't really get it," you say. "But cool? Way to go! What's that mean for the actual event, though? The sleigh and chimneys, and so on?"
"Oh, don't worry about that. The elves have pretty much been working around me for a number of years now, to my embarrassment. They'll get on fine. And I'll always be there for them in spirit. In a quite literal way, though not exactly."
"Still makes no sense," you say.
Uncle Crimbo lays a finger alongside his nose, and with a "Ho ho ho!", he fades away into the white light.
Occurs after defeating The Krampus.
