Holly Spriggletoes

Holly Spriggletoes covers headline news for the Tinsel Post, which at the North Pole means civic events, workshop operations, sleigh readiness, and the reliable annual question of whether any of it will be finished on time.

She is a decorated correspondent, credited with breaking the Great Sleigh Map Update of ‘19, and is described by colleagues as having a nose for frosty leads. She is also, by the paper’s own account, the reporter most likely to declare something an event and start taking notes.

On the beat

Holly’s filing pattern is consistent: go to the place, find the elf holding the clipboard, and ask what the clipboard says. Much of her strongest work has come out of Hangar Bay Frost during the summer overhaul season, where she has documented sleigh maintenance cycles, experimental hover-boosters, and at least one engineer’s assurance that the work is “about 92% there.”

She covers the midsummer calendar heavily — the Christmas in July mobilisation is effectively her season — and turns up at the Frostbite Frenzy most years, where the judging tends to generate more copy than the competing.

Style

Her reporting keeps a straight face. Where a story involves a committee, a shortage, and a spirited disagreement about whether snow cones count as infrastructure, Holly’s approach is to report all three in the same tone and let the reader decide which is funniest.

At the table

Like most of the newsroom, Holly plays in the Post’s recurring tabletop campaign, where she runs Scribella Swiftquill, a bard-chronicler with a documented habit of attempting to interview non-player characters rather than fighting them. Results are mixed. The approach is, colleagues note, entirely in character.