I Applied for a Delivery Job and Got Turned into a Flying Reindeer?! (now on SH!)

[ThisAdamGuy]

I'm a day late here (this was part of yesterday's chapter) but I'm pretty sure this is the funniest joke I've ever written.

A hollow, ghostlike voice echoed across the town. It rose and fell, singing a song that caused visions of death, decay, and endless nights of absolute darkness to dance before Justin’s eyes. He clapped his hands over his ears, but it did no good. That wicked, hateful voice burrowed straight into his brain.

“Nolo multum in Nativitate Domini.

Unum tantum postulo.

Non curo munera.

Subtus arborem Nativitatis.

Ego iustus volo te esse meum.

Plusquam scire potuisti.

Da mihi quod volo.

Omnes volo pro Nativitate est tibi.”​

Krampus rose up into the air again, his arms spread wide. Behind him, the moon began to disappear, like the night itself was falling asleep and closing its eye, casting the entire city into even deeper shadow. The only remaining light came from the back of Santa's sleigh, and from Santa himself.

Anyway, today's update is the last chapter in book one! Be here on December 1st for the beginning of book two, I Applied for a Delivery Job and Got Turned Into a Flying Reindeer?! The Revenge of Mari Lwyd!

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Was reading that and thinking "I know enough Latin I should be able to figure this out but I'm just too tired" last night... and then ran it through Google Translate today...

Spoiler

While that song IS terrifying, there was a period where you were nearly guaranteed to run into an even more obnoxious Christmas tune for two painful years, because Oldies and "pure Christmas" stations were running the George Michaels/WHAM original of Last Christmas, Pop/Top 40/Country stations were running that and the Taylor Swift cover and, at least once, I caught the terror that I think was Emilia Clark covering it from the movie of the same title...
I mean, THAT song even inspired a published Call of Cthulhu adventure where someone took the lyrics just a bit TOO literally...

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

The first chapter of book 2 is now up!