Thanks for the participation and all of your requests! Here's a breakdown of this year's Santa Umishuli.

Intro:
While many CF'ers were deep in slumber, a figure moved across the night sky - silhouetted in front of the moon. A sleigh, pulled ahead by eight small dots in the sky, moves whimsically through the air.

The sleigh swings downwards, nearing your neighborhood as the shapes come into focus. Pulling the sleigh are eight little critters of varying shapes and sizes (though all very charming in appearance). The sleigh itself is made of HTML and PHP, coated with a beautiful layer of CSS. The figure within it stands tall - and can only be described in one word: Umishuli. As he passes over the houses, he pulls a mixture of presents and coal from his sleigh - tossing them into the chimneys (and a few windows, pardon the broken glass).

Catching your eye, he winks once, before pulling at his reins and yelling:
"Now C, now SQL
VSC and Vim
On Putty, on Nano
On Notepad and Git!"

And off he flies into the night sky... Until next year.


SO!

We had 55 total Santa wishes, assuming I can count, and from those we gave out a few presents. Here's our list!


The cost of Angel Flight and Mass Deliverance have been lowered.
Angel's Wing sword attacks now have a modest change to add some bleeding similar to Jab.
Grinning Skull healer can now cure disease.
New Edge - Distinguished Extinguisher
Antipaladin spell echoes
We'll try to do better about leaders and alts
Phoenix Brand is "smarter"
Improved Templar's Defense helpfiles (DONE)
When reaching mature/aged, gain hp/mana if the relevant stat is already maxed
Minotaur are more hoofy
Substantially changed mental saves (yay for bards)
Paladins learn shield mastery at 80% in shield block.
Improving tame-soothing-demeanor options (PENDING)
Lowered requirements for Anti-Paladin weapon controls
Improving some limited-option rangers (DONE)
And three other likely presents we're still examining.
Mariner Ranger weapon prog improved, and has an on-land counterpart.



We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, and hope you had a great end to your year!