[The observant might notice that the halls of the student and teacher's dorms are slowly becoming covered with colorful lights and snowflake garland. The extra-observant might notice that it's Zelda as usual, hanging holiday decorations.

In every common room is a sign-up sheet, printed on--what else--seasonal stationary, with gift-giving instructions.]

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[ TEXT, privated to RICK and mostly unhackable ]

Busy right now? Too bad, get over here.

[ be afraid rick. be very afraid. ]

[ TEXT, filtered FROM rick this time... ]

So, ball sports. Which do you enjoy? I used to play basketball fairly regularly when I was younger. Anyone else?

[ it gets worse. ]

[ ACTION, open for all. everybody get up its time to slam now. ]

[ so in the hallway somewhere outside adam's office, there is suddenly a garbage can mounted to the wall--is that glue?--, with its bottom missing. LOOKS LIKE A MAKESHIFT BASKETBALL HOOP, INDEED. if you stop to wonder for a second what this is all about, YOU MIGHT EVEN FIND OUT.

hint: it involves a robobutt. ]