GFM-Santa Inc.

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10 or More players, Ages 6 and up Santa Inc.

Art by: Natacha Worthington

      It was bound to happen. However, no one thought it would come to pass so soon. Well, perhaps if you were really good at studying the stars, you might have seen it coming. But for the majority of us that use tea leaves and crystal balls, this was one whopper of a holiday catastrophe.

     Santa Claus is going public. I hear your cries of pain. How can Santa Claus become Santa Inc.? Some would blame it on overpopulation; too many kids to visit in one night even if he is using some kind of time distortion device. Did you ever think that Santa might not only need a time distortion device but enough coffee to last him through an 832 hour night? Milk and cookies were certainly not helping.

     Others would blame rampant consumerism. With our kids wanting more and more high-tech gifts every year, Santa had to start paying for college tuition for his elves so they could know the difference between programming Motorola and Intel microprocessors. But you say “Elves are magic. They don’t need to go to school. They magically assemble the pieces.” Well, if you said this under any circumstances other than Christmas, I would suggest you consult with the voices in your head and seek professional help. But today, I guess you’re right.

     But here’s the real story. The elves are happy little magical creatures with desires like anyone else. How else do you explain that you have an army of elves turning out products of exceptional quality without a hope for promotion? The answer is that the elves love what they do and want it to wow some lucky child on Christmas day. That is unless you are one of the few disgruntled elves, often referred to as gnomes by their politically incorrect colleagues.
     With the constant drive to build better, newer, and faster toys, stress levels have been rising at Santa’s workshop. These “gnomes” decided that they should be rewarded above and beyond the general work done by elves. They pushed and pushed until Santa agreed that they could go public and show the world once and for all that Santa stock is a solid investment and will beat any toy made by those would-be toy makers like Hasbro.
     But Santa is sad. Instead of the jolly little work room full of merrily singing elves, he is suddenly attending corporate presentations of new toys. It looks like the North Pole is falling apart because of some miscreant gnomes.
However, Santa doesn’t know who the gnomes are. In fact the gnomes don’t even know their membership. Now that’s what I call a secret society.
     But CEO Santa Claus has a plan to promote that happy singing spirit again and minimize those isolationist trends that have developed recently. He wants all the elves to start working together again and make new toys by combining their different talents. This renewed teamwork effort is sure to unmask the rogue gnomes.