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So, what happened? Did the Elites get into the spirit of giving?
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The basic gist was that the characters were plucked from their worlds by omnipotent gods who just want to play with them because they're bored and they do that by putting them through challenges, which are essentially going through the events of a work. We were doing Halo: Reach before we were suddenly plucked from that challenge and into the Christmas Challenge.