'Tis the Season!

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Hey, folks! It's been a little while since we did something fun that all of you got to participate in, and with the holidays coming up (at least here in the U.S.), we thought now would be the perfect time to do something awesome. So, we present to you the first-ever JSR Secret Santa gift exchange!

The rules are simple (and familiar, if you've ever done one of these before!). We, the awesome Scionites who hang out on this site and blog, are going to give one another gifts, either in the holiday spirit if you celebrate solstice/Christmas or just because we know that all our friends here are awesome. You get to give a gift, you get to receive a gift, and then we all get to show off our gifts to one another. Hooray!

If you want to participate, here's how it works:

1) Send us an email at ampstorytellers@gmail.com by December 5th, letting us know you want in and giving us the following information:

• Your name and address. The only people who will see your address are us and the person who sends you a gift.
• Whether or not you're willing to send gifts internationally. If you're not in the U.S. or Canada, you'll probably want to say yes to this - we can't promise we'll get someone else in your home country.
• What your favorite mythology or pantheon is, so your gift-giver has an idea what you might like! If you have any other guidelines - no mature material, or anything like that - include those, too.

2) You will receive that information in return from one person. We'll choose the person you get a gift for at random from the submissions we receive, and they won't know it's you (unless you tell them!).

3) Get a small gift for the person you receive, and ship it to them. Please keep the price of your gift at $20USD or less; that way, everyone gets a basically equal gift and nobody has to feel like they can't participate because of expense. Please let us know via email once you have sent your gift, so we can make sure nobody gets left out. If it turns out you can't participate after signing up, let us know that, too - we won't have any hard feelings!

4) The fun part - receiving a gift! You will also receive a gift from a person chosen at random by us, from parts unknown! If you can, take a picture of it - or of you with it, if you want - and email it us.

And that's it! We're super excited and will also be participating ourselves, and we hope some of you guys want to as well. We promise that if you participate, you'll get a gift no matter what - even if your gift-giver has to drop out, we'll make sure you get one ourselves. The only guideline is to keep it in some way Scion, mythology or gaming-related, and to have as much fun as possible!

If you've got questions, hit us up here, and we hope to hear from some of you in email soon. We'll keep participation open for signup until December 5th!