Winter is a time for tales… stories told among friends and loved ones during long, dark nights. To celebrate simple pleasures, we present the Goblins of Yuletide Storytime!

Do you want to share a story about a long-ago winter? Or maybe tell us what this year's holiday season has in store for you? Do you have hopes or fears about future Yuletides? Or do you want to give the finger to the holidays altogether?

Share your traditions, or thumb yer nose at it all!

This is Goblin Storytime! Tales of St. Nick, Krampus, Yule logs, solstice sacraments, rigged dreidel games, boar's heads, jólasveinar mischief, mistletoe smooches, or yellow snow! -- Truth or fiction, fact or fantasy: we want it all!

For $45US, you will receive both a Limited Edition perfume oil (in a fancypants green velveteen pouch!) and an atmospheric room spray that coordinates with your holiday tale.

Stories are optional, but we do enjoy them, and all forms of communication are welcome! Poems, prose, pictures, puns - all mediums are fantastic'ee! You have a choice: tell us a story and let the Black Phoenix goblins determine your scent, come right out and tell us your demands, or leave it entirely up to the goblins to determine which package you need.

If you would like to tell the Goblins a story, please utilize the comments field of your order, or, in the case of PayPal orders (due to PayPal's irritating new 300-character limit comment fields), please email us your story (or demand!) at tradingpost (at) papow (dot) net. If you are emailing us your story, please make sure you include your name, email address, and mailing address as it appears on the order.

If you choose not to tell us a story or make a demand, leave the comments field blank. The denizens of Black Phoenix will utilize the ancient art of sniffomancy in order to determine which Goblin of Yuletide is right for you!

Each of the Goblins of Yuletide Storytime Packs are only sold as a set, the packs cannot be split up, and the products in this LE cannot be sold on their own. You may place an order for multiple sets, or place multiple orders; in either case, each will be considered separately in the course of the Storytime process. If you are placing an order for more than one set, you may submit multiple stories or demands, applicable to each order. Please indicate which Storytime statement or quiz result pertains to which order.

The atmospheric sprays are 4oz, and the perfume oil is 5ml.

Entries will be published on the Black Phoenix Trading Post web site as time permits, unless you request otherwise. Please indicate whether you wish to remain anonymous, and if you would like your name published, how you wish for it to appear.

You have until December 5, 2008 to participate, at which point the Goblins of Yuletide Storytime will end, and the Goblins will finish up their work, grab a cup of egg nog, poke the fire, and watch reruns of Rankin and Bass holiday specials. Due to the nature of BPTP Inquisitions, Inquests, and Storytimes, there will be a delay in processing orders as we take time to ponder all of your entries. We cannot guarantee shipping on these packs in time for Christmas, though we will do our best!

If you tell us a tale of Yuletide Past, you will receive:

GOBLIN OF YULETIDE PAST ATMOSPHERIC SPRAY
Powdery snow, glittering softly with the sweetness of memory, juniper, and heliotrope, with a faint hint of cinnamon-sprinkled sugar cookie.

AND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING

SNOW ANGEL: RESURRECTED
Cherubic spun sugar with a hint of lemon, sparkling peach, and floral tea.

OR

SNOWBLIND: RESURRECTED
The perfect vanilla mint.

If you tell us a tale of Yuletide Present, you will receive:

GOBLIN OF YULETIDE PRESENT ATMOSPHERIC SPRAY
Clove-spiked dried oranges, dusted with ginger and cinnamon.

AND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING

GLÜHWEIN
Warm red wine spiced with cinnamon sticks, cardamom, vanilla beans, honey, clove, lemon and orange rind, bay leaf, and honey.

OR

HOLLYBERRY & MISTLETOE
Blood red holly berries and mistletoe accord.

If you tell us a tale of Yuletide Yet to Come, you will receive:

GOBLIN OF YULETIDE YET TO COME ATMOSPHERIC SPRAY
Frankincense, myrrh, styrax, oakmoss, and clove.

AND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING

SCATTERED GLOOM
Dry olibanum, opoponax, mandrake accord, black currant, and opium pod.

OR

UNCERTAIN HORROR
Red patchouli, sage leaf, Darjeeling tea, smoke-scarred sandalwood, green tobacco, and oud.

If you tell us a tale of Scrooge'ly Grinchitude, you will receive:

BAH HUMBUG ATMOSPHERIC SPRAY
Cedar wood, dry stout, twigs, boot leather, vanilla-infused benzoin, patchouli, and coal dust.

AND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING

BAH
Thick Turkish coffee spiked with whiskey, with a little bit of mocha to soften the bitterness.

OR

HUMBUG
Vanilla licorice.