Collaborative Cadvent Story

Anybody may write a paragraph at any time with no asking whatsoever as long as the last heading on the page says “Open”
This is a collaborative story written during the months of November and December by members of BlogClan! Anyone is free to sign up to contribute.

Rules

 * Each person writes a paragraph of the story.  Please get it done quickly so that we can write this by New Year’s!
 * If there is no paragraph in progress, feel free to go and write your own.
 * If a paragraph is in progress for too long, I'll invite somebody to complete it.
 * You can write more than one paragraph, but you can’t write two in a row.
 * If there are people who have been waiting to write a paragraph, try to give them a turn.
 * There is no set storyline, but try to follow off of what the last person wrote.
 * When you are done with your paragraph, please add another heading that says 'Open' underneath.
 * Any paragraph that's written on December 1 or later must begin to resolve the conflict. The paragraphs will close on December 30th and I’ll write the final one on the 31st (but probably not because lazy)

That was probably very confusing. Now, let's start!