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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[swindle_blitz]

Swindle is back, with a few boxes. Luckily his wife knew what a 'Man with Candy Buttons' meant--her having grown up on an Earth and knew much more bout Christmas then he did.

One box had freshly made gingerbread men, all decorated with fancy candies, and another had a box of gingerSwindles, an enegon-made equivilent that were shaped like him. "Hey, I didn't decide the shape of these, Blitzwing did," Swindle says, tapping the gingerSwindle box, "I hope these are what you meant." Neither of those boxes had anything fae-made, both were on their list of sellable foodstuffs anyway.

Now the third box...that was fae-made. And indeed had a festive red and green shirt with buttons made from candy. Or at least plastic candy canes. No man wearing it, however. >.>

"So...another card?" Swindle says as he finds his card with his name on it, "Lets see what you need today."

[advent_tree]

Well, that third box is just funny. The tree's lights twinkle in a rhythmic way that looks like the visual equivalent of a laugh. Near Swindle's card, an ornament in the shape of a shirt (with candy cane buttons) appears to be hanging as if it had always been there.

When Swindle opens his card, he'll find his next clue rise out of the paper in a collection of metallic ink, coalescing into neat, typed font:
On the fifth day of Christmas, the Nexus found for me ...
Something that twists or ties or knots in a bow.

[swindle_blitz]

"That sounds like ribbon," Swindle says, "And that I have on me. Mostly to keep it from Blitzwing, or I'd really have it on me." Yes, Blitzwing liked tying ribbons on Swindle. Made him look like teddy bear. >.> "You can have as much of this as you like," Swindle adds, taking out a rainbow's worth of ribbon in all sorts of colors. "Though if you want your Ribbon...smaller...I'll have to go get more."

[swindle_blitz]

(And there's Blitzwing, ready to pounce on poor Swindle. Ignore him this time, Tree. >.> Or Swindle might end up giftwrapped ^.^;;; )

[advent_tree]

Oh, no, this ribbon is perfect and the tree seems to sparkle that much brighter at the heaps it's given. Swindle is quite good at this! As if in grateful acceptance of the ribbon, the tree jingles a bell on a branch at Swindle and causes a scroll of paper to unfurl at him. It declares:
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 very shortly! It'll be for the end of the scavenger hunt and the tree's gift-giving. :3 ]

[swindle_blitz]

"Song? You want me to sing?" Swindle asks the tree, as he carefully takes the jingling bell and puts t with the shirt ornament. "This will...take a bit of research, I don't know Christmas songs..." He'll at least learn one by tomorrow, though.