Fighting the Good Fight Against Those Holiday Blues:

[jack_babalon]

Another annual tradition observed here in Terminus is the gathering of a mob of drunken malcontents who dress up as Saint Nick and then 'draft' a random busker to dress as Jesus before chasing him wildly through the streets. The tradition originated back in Terminus during the early 1800s - when every Christmas the city elders would dress as Santa and chase the Irish out of Five Points. Eventually though, after Sherman's Siege of Terminus, they decided to chase out a symbolic representation of Jesus due his refusal to participate in the 'War Between the States'. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle...