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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"I brought you a Christmas present!" Ami explains cheerfully. She holds up the actual shopping bag, the name emblazoned on it being a recognizable department store, in Japan of her world at least. It will turn out to be a man's shirt in Pharaun's size, with suspiciously pastel-colored buttons. She did at least make sure the 'buttons' are all the same color.
"Go ahead!" She nudges the bag towards him.
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When Sebastian finds his next card, another little riddle springs to life on the blank page, ink seemingly seeping up through the paper and into life in bright, gold lettering:
On the fifth day of Christmas, the Nexus found for me ...
Something that twists or ties or knots in a bow.
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"Here you go," he says with a grin. "All the ribbon a tree could ever want!"
And it is. Somewhere there's an empty Walgreen's, because Sebastien has brought all the ribbon he could find. There are spools and spools of it, green, red, blue and gold, and bags and bags of bows, every color imaginable. He places them under the tree, then pauses. He selects the biggest, most beautiful gold bow of all and sticks it on a branch, not far from the glass angel he hung just a few days before. He steps back, admiring it. The tree gets more beautiful every day!
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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 aaaall the tree's gift-giving needs. :) ]
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"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 ( ... )
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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When she opens the card, she will discover her next clue as the fresh ink pulls together to form words:
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).
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She opens up the card and studies the request. Hmm, rhyme scheme's changed a little. "Oh, this should be simple -- I'm pretty sure Aunt Susan has these around too. And if not, I could make them myself out of the sketchbook." Might be a bit tiring on her hand, but that's okay. She heads off to fulfill this latest request -- back shortly, tree.
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