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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[waterfell]

After the frustration of finally getting the gingerbread cookies to come out right (and that was with help), Ami really can't resist some fun of her own. She makes a detour by the mallFirst stop is the candy store. Ami is a girl with a mission and it only takes her a moment to find the candy necklaces. She buys one, thanks the clerk far too cheerfully, and all but skips out the door. A man's shirt in what she hopes will turn out to be the right size is just as easy

[berranyrmizzrym]

Pharaun raised an eyebrow. That coming from Ami was usually a bad thing. "Yes, Ami? What is it?"

[waterfell]

Now be fair, Pharaun! When has she ever- Oh, wait. Nevermind!

"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.

[berranyrmizzrym]

Pharaun regards the shirt cautiously as he pulls it from the bag, but bright buttons or not it seemed all right. "Ah... thank you, Ami..."

[lapetitmauvais]

Sebastien arrives, trudging eagerly through the snow. There's a flat white box under his arm, the sort one gets from a bakery. He opens it up, proudly showing the tree what he's brought

[advent_tree]

The tree glows with a radiant sort of joy at the cookies being added to its branches. This is spectacular and oh so wonderful and by the time all four dozen are scattered amongst its ornaments and lights, the tree is looking much better (and smelling delightful).

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.

[lapetitmauvais]

Sebastien has his PINpoint out before the last few letters shimmer to life. He presses a few buttons and winks out of sight, only to return a short time later, laden down with bags of treats for the Nexus tree.

"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!

[advent_tree]

Goodness! The tree seems quite amused by this development, Sebastien. It shimmers in a way reminiscent of light laughing. In exchange for the ribbon and bows, the tree helpfully offers Sebastien his final clue, written on a scroll of paper on the branch next to his newest addition to the tree.
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. :) ]

((*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.

[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 ^.^;;; )

[save_us_alice]

Alice arrives at the tree with a gaily wrapped box in bright blue and yellow. Inside is a piece of homemade fruitcake, courtesy of Aunt Susan's recent efforts in baking. "I hope you appreciate this," she tells the tree as she gently tucks it under the branches. "I went without dessert last night to bring you a slice." Then she grins a little, to show that she's more or less teasing -- she's not precisely a fan of fruitcake.

[advent_tree]

Oh, the tree is terribly appreciative. And that's such a prettily wrapped box that Alice will discover an ornament hanging from the branch nearest her next clue card in the shape of a blue and yellow wrapped present. The tree likes those colors, young miss!

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).

[save_us_alice]

Alice giggles at the sight of the ornament. "I'm glad you approve of the packaging. I thought it was nice and bright."

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.

[advent_tree]

The tree sits oh so serenely while Alice is gone, simply rife with anticipation!