Opening the Doors

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Some doors cannot be unopened.

Opening the Doors is a Stories quality.

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Level Increase Descriptions per Item

Wiki note: Descriptions also begin with a number, a colon, and a space, with the number representing the day they are gifted. Since the numbers change from year to year, they are omitted in this table.

Equipment Description
Apian Coronet Honeyed dreams and the milk of inhuman kindness.
Bag of Station VIII 'Humbugs' Some are joyless; some just lonely. The Fifth City throws up many walls.
Clandestine Candle No darker than the rest of the year - but it feels like it.
Completely Unassuming Palaeontological Accessory It pays to keep a sharp edge, even when the season is merry.
Discarded Warden's Garb Crimson and gold, standing watch over the empire...
Gant Bowler of Fiduciary Responsibility Children on the streets in vicious packs; schoolboys out of their classes becoming feral as urchins; all-out lacre warfare.
Inconspicuous Overalls A log crackling in the fireplace; pine tar and soot.
Lingering Goodwill Cold hands; warm hearts.
Mark of Disdain,
Wounds (+1 CP) 		Some names cannot be unlisted.
Murgatroyd's Patented Fungal Christmas 'Tree' Tinsel and baubles and spores, glittering in the parlour.
Plate of Scandalously Buttered Scones Gingerbread and pudding and scones and trifle and brioche and...
Pugilist's Hello Ha.
Meticulously Altered Stocking Ho. Ho. Ho.
Mr Sacks' Surplus Sack Some gifts cannot be unopened.
Christmas Item Description
Potential Christmas Card set to 7 Envelopes at your doorstep; heavy paper and colourful inks and lace ribbons.
1 x Rat of Glory Some wicks cannot be unlit.
1 x Magnificent Feast "What's today, my fine fellow?"
1 x Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre Do you recall— do you recall— do you recall—
1 x Sky-Story Cold, bitter wind through the streets; lacre swirling in eddies. "The Avid Horizon yawns," say the zailors.
1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow It piles on stoops, it weighs on eaves, it swirls in the air.
Teaser Item Description
1 x Blood Oath,
Nightmares (+2 CP) 		Some acts cannot be undone.
1 x Caustic Apocryphon,
Nightmares (+2 CP, up to level 6) 		Some books cannot be unread.
1 x Deconstructive Lens Some travels cannot be returned from.
Misc Item Description
1 x Araby Fighting-Weasel,
1 x Baptised Rattus Faber Corpse 		Uncharacteristic quiet; the rats in the walls with runty winter litters, small and silent.
1 x Book of Hidden Bodies Some gifts cannot be unopened.
20 x Certifiable Scrap,
100 x Primordial Shriek 		The Carol of the Wells. (2023)
Oh— oh— listen to the wind. (2025)
1 x Darkdrop Coffee Mulled wine, long-steeping tea, hot chocolate... nog. Inquire not on the sourcing of the eggs.
1 x Devilbone Die Hold a box aloft; feel its weight; rattle its contents. What's inside?
1 x Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures Candles on gravestones, candles at the doors of disused columbaria, candles on dinner tables and windowsills.
1 x Holy Relic of the Thigh of Saint Fiacre,
3 x Human Arm 		Some bodies cannot be reburied.
1 x Horsehead Amulet An ancient second chance, humming in your palm.
1 x Mountain-sherd Baubles, tinsel, glass, lacework.
1 x Silent Soul All is quiet; breath is held.
1 x Tin of Murgatroyd's Jellied Mushroom Cakes Peppermint and licorice and ginger and sultanas and mandarins and...
2 x Whirring Contraption Gifts of jewelry and finery and ratwork, glinting in candlelight.

Level Increase Descriptions (2025)

Wiki note: The doubled number-colons are not a formatting error, the first number-colon is standard on the wiki in level increase descriptions to indicate what level gives the text, and the second one is part of the description itself

1: 1: Envelopes at your doorstep; heavy paper and colourful inks and lace ribbons.
2: 2: It pays to keep a sharp edge, even when the season is merry.
3: 3: Baubles, tinsel, glass, lacework.
4: 4: Some gifts cannot be unopened.
5: 5: Mulled wine, long-steeping tea, hot chocolate... nog. Inquire not on the sourcing of the eggs.
6: 6: Candles on gravestones, candles at the doors of disused columbaria, candles on dinner tables and windowsills.
7: 7: Some wicks cannot be unlit.
8: 8: It piles on stoops, it weighs on eaves, it swirls in the air.
9: 9: Hold a box aloft; feel its weight; rattle its contents. What's inside?
10: 10: Tinsel and baubles and spores, glittering in the parlour.
11: 11: Some acts cannot be undone.
12: 12: Cold hands; warm hearts.
13: 13: Gingerbread and pudding and scones and trifle and brioche and...
14: 14: Do you recall— do you recall— do you recall—
15: 15: Cold, bitter wind through the streets; lacre swirling in eddies. "The Avid Horizon yawns," say the zailors.
16: 16: Some are joyless; some just lonely. The Fifth City throws up many walls.
17: 17: Oh— oh— listen to the wind.
18: 18: Some bodies cannot be reburied.
19: 19: An ancient second chance, humming in your palm.
20: 20: Crimson and gold, standing watch over the empire...
21: 21: Peppermint and licorice and ginger and sultanas and mandarins and...
22: 22: Some names cannot be unlisted.
23: 23: All is quiet; breath is held.
24: 24: Ho. Ho. Ho.
25: 25: "What's today, my fine fellow?"

Level Increase Descriptions (2024)

1: 1: Envelopes at your doorstep; heavy paper and colourful inks and lace ribbons.
2: 2: It piles on stoops, it weighs on eaves, it swirls in the air.
3: 3: An ancient second chance, humming in your palm.
4: 4: Tinsel and baubles and spores, glittering in the parlour.
5: 5: Peppermint and liquorice and ginger and sultanas and mandarins and...
6: 6: Some names cannot be unlisted.
7: 7: Some wicks cannot be unlit.
8: 8: Candles on gravestones, candles at the doors of disused columbaria, candles on dinner tables and windowsills.
9: 9: Hold a box aloft; feel its weight; rattle its contents. What's inside?
10: 10: Cold, bitter wind through the streets; lacre swirling in eddies. "The Avid Horizon yawns," say the zailors.
11: 11: A log crackling in the fireplace; pine tar and soot.
12: 12: Cold hands; warm hearts.
13: 13: Mulled wine, long-steeping tea, hot chocolate... nog. Inquire not on the sourcing of the eggs.
14: 14: Baubles, tinsel, glass, lacework.
15: 15: Children on the streets in vicious packs; schoolboys out of their classes becoming feral as urchins; all-out lacre warfare.
16: 16: Do you recall— do you recall— do you recall—
17: 17: Some travels cannot be returned from.
18: 18: Gingerbread and pudding and scones and trifle and brioche and...
19: 19: All is quiet; breath is held.
20: 20: Some are joyless; some just lonely. The Fifth City throws up many walls.
21: 21: Some gifts cannot be unopened.
22: 22: Honeyed dreams and the milk of inhuman kindness.
23: 23: A dream of a prayer to a fading memory, lost upon waking.
24: 24: Ho. Ho. Ho.
25: 25: "What's today, my fine fellow?"

Level Increase Descriptions (2023)

1: 1: Envelopes at your doorstep; heavy paper and colourful inks and lace ribbons.
2: 2: A log crackling in the fireplace; pine tar and soot.
3: 3: Gifts of jewelry and finery and ratwork, glinting in candlelight.
4: 4: It piles on stoops, it weighs on eaves, it swirls in the air.
5: 5: Gingerbread and pudding and scones and trifle and brioche and...
6: 6: Uncharacteristic quiet; the rats in the walls with runty winter litters, small and silent.
7: 7: Some wicks cannot be unlit.
8: 8: No darker than the rest of the year - but it feels like it.
9: 9: Hold a box aloft; feel its weight; rattle its contents. What's inside?
10: 10: Candles on gravestones, candles at the doors of disused columbaria, candles on dinner tables and windowsills.
11: 11: The Carol of the Wells.
12: 12: Children on the streets in vicious packs; schoolboys out of their classes becoming feral as urchins; all-out lacre warfare.
13: 13: Some books cannot be unread.
14: 14: Ha.
15: 15: Cold, bitter wind through the streets; lacre swirling in eddies. "The Avid Horizon yawns," say the zailors.
16: 16: Cold hands; warm hearts.
17: 17: Peppermint and licorice and ginger and sultanas and mandarins and...
18: 18: Do you recall— do you recall— do you recall—
19: 19: Some names cannot be unlisted.
20: 20: Baubles, tinsel, glass, lacework.
21: 21: Mulled wine, long-steeping tea, hot chocolate... nog. Inquire not on the sourcing of the eggs.
22: 22: Honeyed dreams and the milk of inhuman kindness.
23: 23: All is quiet; breath is held.
24: 24: Ho. Ho. Ho.
25: 25: "What's today, my fine fellow?"
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