This was because of the TOME holiday video.
Snow crunched under Kirbopher's feet. "Huh, that's pretty cool."
As a way to celebrate the holidays, TOME adopted a festive look. There was snow on the ground and decorations for all sorts of holiday celebrations were spread everywhere. They seemed to be pulling out all the stocks for this. Kirb noticed a few people playing a snowman building mini-game that the mods had set up.
It was Christmas day and Kirb could tell that a large number of players weren't online because of it. The only reason that he was online was… well… An empty apartment didn't hold much Christmas cheer. He was much happier playing his favorite game than lazing around his apartment. It was pretty lonely though, maybe somebody he knew was online. Kirb checked his list of saved users to see who was on.
What? Alpha was online? Didn't he celebrate Christmas?
Kirb looked at Alpha's username in his list. "He's in Sanctuary? Might as well say hello!"
Kirbopher ran over to Sanctuary looking for Alpha. He finally found him watching a few users build a snowman.
"Yo, Alpha! Fancy meeting you here today!"
Alpha turned around and waved at Kirb. "Oh hey, it's good seeing you!"
Kirb waved back. They both walked toward each other and met at the middle.
"What are you doing here man? Not that I mind but, why aren't you doing Christmas stuff with family?"
Alpha clasped his hands behind his back and answered. "I wanted to give Mom some space for now."
He was looking a bit past Kirbopher at a few decorations and he probably didn't realize what he had just said.
Kirb thought for a moment, 'Give Mom some space? Why not pare…. Oh. That could explain some things…'
"Kirb?"
Kirbopher snapped back to Alpha waving his hand in front of Kirb's face.
"Wha-? Oh. Well, as long as we're both on here, wanna check out the decorations? They went all out."
"Sure, that sounds like fun!"
They hadn't noticed it, but it had started snowing. Kirb opened his hand and caught a flake.
"Wow. It's seriously snowing."
Alpha kept looking at the snowmen being built.
"Kirb, want to play the snowman mini-game together?"
Kirbopher looked over at everyone having fun. It seemed nice.
"Sure."
