I'm About As Organized As Ran, I Guess? [closed post]

[summerdude]

"And then we realized Frigg was knitting with clouds. Actual factual clouds," Magnus says, passing another box that, as it turns out, holds nothing useful down to Galahad. He climbs up another rung on the little stepladder and starts in on the next shelf. "How many boxes of Legos do we have so far?" He knows it's certainly not enough for a bachelorette party yet, but surely there's something they can go on. He'd kind of tonight that this far after Dark, there would be... more? "Do you think we should find another room to look in? Maybe the game room isn't the best choice."

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[onthewillowsthere]

"Are we allowed?" It feels a little like taking the bones from a reliquary.

[summerdude]

"I can't think of why not," Magnus says. "But we could also bring her here?"

[onthewillowsthere]

The idea of bringing Tress on a quest with them is actually wonderful. Galahad nods -- eagerly, for him. "Yes."

[summerdude]

"We should bring Shen Yuan here, too," Magnus suggests, going over to look at a mountain scene with Lego bamboo and little Lego bunnies. He squints, and leans in closer. Could this be -- is it Hanguang-jun's home?

[onthewillowsthere]

"We could have the bachelorette party here."

[summerdude]

"Do you want it here?" Magnus asks. "Or the tower, to pick constellations for this place?" He scratches his head. "Or we could do both places. Tower for constellations and Alex's bestiality, and then here for the Legos and the music and soda and food tastings?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"I would like to do both. Do bachelorette parties happen like that? Is it allowed?"

[summerdude]

"Oh yeah, a lot of bachelorette parties involve going to multiple locations." Probably. He'd seen some of them, like, commuting when he was trying to sleep on his favorite park bench.

[onthewillowsthere]

"Then I would like to do that."

[summerdude]

"Then we definitely will," Magnus says, slinging an arm around Galahad's shoulders and tugging him in for a squeeze.

[onthewillowsthere]

He squeezes back. "Thank you. For this quest. And for organizing my party."

[summerdude]

"Dude, of course," Magnus says. "Anything, anytime. You know that."

[onthewillowsthere]

"I know." It's just important to say it. He touches the spire of a Lego castle with a graveyard and a brook outside it.

[summerdude]

"Do you recognize it?"

[onthewillowsthere]

Galahad shakes his head, frowning.

[summerdude]

"Me neither." Magnus turns in a circle, taking in the enormity of this space. There's a Statue of Liberty, and there's also a Ratatosk, and there's an enormous house that, upon closer inspection, has a maze of hallways and stairs that go nowhere but which still looks super different from the Mansion. "This place is huge."

[onthewillowsthere]

"I don't think it fits." He glances around. There are Legos as far as the eye can see, tables and tables of them, intermittently broken up by the giant columns that support the space.

[summerdude]

"In the Mansion? No. I don't think any of these places do."

[onthewillowsthere]

Magnus has a point -- the chasm with the Thing in it certainly didn't. Galahad nods.

[summerdude]

"Do you think they were always here?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"I don't know. Maybe they were waiting for us to come look to decide."

[summerdude]

"Wild," Magnus says, thoughtfully, poking the edge of a display that looks like the mushroom cavern they found earlier.

[onthewillowsthere]

Galahad inspects a Café Musain, then straightens. "Let's mark this door."

[summerdude]

"Yes," Magnus agrees, immediately. He doesn't move to go to the door, though, just hunts around until he finds the section he was hoping would be there -- an area with hundreds of different kinds of Lego sets in unopened boxes lined up next to build mats. FJERDAN ICE COURT, reads the first one. He makes his way down part of the line: FOURTREES (STARCLAN EXPANSION SET). CATERPILLAR'S MUSHROOM (WITH HOOKAH). CASTLE OF THE QUEEN OF CAKES. HIMEJI CASTLE. CASTLE DREARBURH. CASTLE WHITESPIRE. THE GLOBE (EARTH). THE GLOBE (LONDON). THE NEW SMOKE. DEATH STAR. GREEN GABLES. GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA. And on and on and on.

[onthewillowsthere]

Galahad follows, and then breaks off on his own to look at more of the boxes. There are sets made to look like all kinds of different plants -- grouped together, mainly: SUCCULENTS. SUNFLOWERS. AUTUMN BOUQUET. CARNIVOROUS PLANTS (he takes that one) MUSHROOMS. UNDERSEA GARDEN.