Nexus Advent :: DAY FIVE & DAY SIX

[advent_tree]

Again, the tree is sitting serenely in the Nexus, still decked quite beautifully and shimmering prettily with its lights and the glow of the multicolored orbs surrounding it. Today, the game it started on the fourth is continuing and the tree is waiting in anticipation. (Because trees do that, really.) This time, there are red and green cards

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((*Mun wishes she could find the real lyrics to this song, instead of going on memory*))

[dens_extra_pups]

There's a baritone voice singing as it gets closer to the tree.

"Angel cakes and devil cakes and cakes with lots of spice... Layer cakes and coffee cakes I think are rather nice... But when it comes to Christmas cakes, can anyone dispute, that when you make a Christmas cake, it really should be, should be, positively, must be really made of fruit?"Dennis is back with a couple of boxes, one labeled "Den", one wrapped in pretty paper, and one open with the contents clearly visible. Seems the subject of his song is also the item in the wrapped box, "Fruitcake

[advent_tree]

If the tree had a nose, it would likely be in an aromatic heaven right now, between the cakes and all the delicious cookies. (If it had a mouth, it'd be drooling, too.) No doubt the visitors the tree garners between now and Christmas will enjoy the sampling of cookies its branches will soon be weighted with!

Dennis' next clue is revealed, gold ink leaking onto red paper when he opens the card, as:
On the fifth day of Christmas, the Nexus found for me ...
The finishing touch on any wrapped gift (tell this one from that, that one from this).

When Den finally gets to her new card, she'll find her next clue appears much the same way, in pleasantly looped writing (the i's dotted with hearts), reading:
On the fifth day of Christmas, the Nexus found for me ...
Something to wrap up the presents so no one can see.

[dens_extra_pups]

"Hmm.... I think I know what I've gotta go get. I'll meet you back here around the same time, okay, Den?" At the nod from the blonde, Dennis PINs home, humming the rest of the Fruitcake song.

Den works on hanging all of the pouches of cookies on the tree's branches, and once she's done, she's found the green card with her name on it. Once she's read the clue, she's grinning and PINning home herself.

[advent_tree]

Now oh so pretty with edibles for random passersby to nibble at, the tree sits quite serenely while waiting to give out its next clue when Dennis and Den return with their scavenger hunt collections.

[dens_extra_pups]

Oddly enough, it's Den who returns first, several rolls of wrapping paper tucked under her arm, along with scotch tape dispensers. "I wasn't sure if you had tape or not, so i brought a couple of rolls..." Wrapping paper and tape get placed under the tree, and Den looks over her shoulder, checking for her alternate.

Thankfully, he's not too far behind her. Dennis has a couple of packages of the 100-count gift tags, which he sets beside the giftwrap and tape. "Thank the dieties for dollar stores..."

[advent_tree]

The tree sparkles when the pair return with the finds for the second leg of their Christmas-y scavenger hunt. Once the wrapping paper and tags are under the tree, a pair of scrolled pieces of paper unfurl from twin branches for each of them, declaring in flowing script:
You've put up with my many requests,
Here's one last to go with the rest,
Tomorrow sing a Christmas song that will uplift,
And upon completion choose your gift!

[ OOC: A post for the 7th will be up on the main comm shortly for the end of the scavenger hunt and the gift-giving. :D ]

[dens_extra_pups]

"..."

"..."

Both Den and Dennis are now grinning, and dashing to their respective homes to practice.