Trick Or Treat... But DON'T Smell Sunny's Feet!!!! [open]

[summerdude]

It's Dark now, and Magnus has been preparing. He doesn't want Sunny to get bored or to feel the pervasive lack of the month, and so he's been squirreling away the necessary items for fun. It's not a surprise activity — Sunny has been on board since the very beginning, helping pick out exactly what they need to make it truly exceptional — but it does have a very intensive prep.

Finally, about a week into the month, they reach a point of cabin fever where the time seems right. It's not so intense that they're truly cranky, but they're definitely both in need of some diversion. Apu's cold is waning, and Far's isn't very advanced, and so Sunny allows that she can take a break from playing nurse (a word which here means verrrry carefully but verrrry insistently bringing them both cup after cup of water) to play Halloween instead.

And so, equipped with a closet full of costumes and an enormous basket, they start their rotation of Every Single Door In The Mansion (And All Other Non-Mansion Buildings Where People Live). Magnus knocks loudly, Sunny at his side, poised to say the magic words.

Halloween! In... May. When tagging in, please just get your character to the point of opening the door: we're going to describe Magnunny's costumes in our first tags!

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[biteybaby]

"Raaaa!" Sunny says, because tiger beetle.

[summerdude]

"Sick," says Magnus, approvingly. He has no idea what a tiger beetle is. "What should I pick instead of a mantis, then?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"A tortoise beetle, because you are good at shielding."

[biteybaby]

"Tortoiseses is like turtles right?"

[summerdude]

"Yes, exactly. Good job, Sunny."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Turtles are primarily aquatic, and tortoises are primarily terrestrial."

[biteybaby]

"I don't know what that word means."

[summerdude]

"'Aquatic' means that turtles mostly go in the water and 'terrestrial' means tortoises mostly stay on the land."

[onthewillowsthere]

"Thank you," he tells Magnus. It's very hard to know what words are familiar to a child like Sunny. "Would you like to see a tortoise beetle? We have several in the laboratory."

[biteybaby]

"Uh huh! Yes please!" Are giraffes allowed in the laboratory? Great question.

[summerdude]

"Yeah, let's do it. Do you have tiger beetles, too?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"Yes." They no longer have the exact specimen that Galahad was collecting when Claudius' other self was here, but Galahad has it saved -- when it died he added it to his collection immediately.

He's still wearing only Claudius' dressing gown, so he says, "Please wait here," and then disappears back into the room.

[biteybaby]

Sunny is very good at waiting.

[summerdude]

Magnus tugs her foot. "Do you wanna sing a song while we're waiting?" he asks her. "We can sing the gross food song."

[onthewillowsthere]

Perhaps fortunately, they have minimal time for a serenade about the evils of jello, because Galahad dresses efficiently and reappears in the door with his messenger bag over his shoulder. "This way."

[biteybaby]

Sunny is partway through perfectly singing one of the verses, a phrase which here means, 'singing the completely wrong lyrics, but with confidence', when he reappears. "Um, Galad, does giraffes get to go in there or does us gotta be humans?"

[summerdude]

Magnus is pretty sure giraffes is fine, but he'll let Galahad answer the question.

[onthewillowsthere]

"You may be a giraffe if you are a careful one."

[biteybaby]

"Okay! I a very careful giraffe."

[summerdude]

"Careful giraffes only touch what Galahad says we can touch, right?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"I trust you," Galahad says gravely.

[biteybaby]

"I can't reach anything when I a giraffe anyway."

[summerdude]

"Yeah, because you're the tallest animal in the savanna, right?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"If you're the tallest animal, why can't you reach?"

[biteybaby]

"It cause I allll the way up here on Magnu, but my arms is still little."