At the North Pole, you are greeted and quickly debriefed by Christmas Operations Supervisor Mrs. Valencia Claus. (She’s married to Benjamin Claus, a dentist from Northern California who happens to have the same last name as Santa Claus, but is uninvolved with “holiday business.”)
Since it’s already Christmas Eve, there’s no time to properly train you in the use of your burgeoning Santa powers. Instead, Valencia says you must eat a magical, emergency sugar cookie which will give you the full knowledge and powers of an experienced Santa for 24 hours. However, the cookie is highly experimental and unstable. She warns you about “painful side effects,” but won’t elaborate beyond that.
It’s your choice whether to eat the cookie or not, but if you don’t eat the cookie, there will be no Christmas this year.