Open: kind of a cool ironic twist...

[vineleaves]

This post is backdated to be occurring on the last day of Rainbows. Thank you for your understanding :)


He isn't really sure how it happened, the first time. He went to make some jelly for toast, his thoughts drifted, perhaps, and he ended up not just with the jelly, but also with several bananas. This was, as you can imagine, a huge shock, and he actually jumped back when he first noticed them, startled by the absolute jumpscare of their appearance. He calmed down quickly enough, and started playing around to see what would happen.

In a way it makes sense. He has been able to tell that everything is more magical here this month, a complete opposite to the effect Dark had on things. During Dark his powers were weakened, so it would follow they are stronger now. He just didn't assume that would mean expanding his powers.

This, of course, brings us to now. It's early afternoon in one of the many parlors of the mansion, and he seems to finally have gotten the hang of things, as evidenced by the fact that he's absolutely surrounded by various fruits, fruit wines, preserves, vegetables, and even a few bags of rice. His thyrsus, which has scarcely left his side since he found it a few days ago, is resting against a wall. If his new powers are linked just to Rainbows, that means he has less than twelve hours to enjoy them. He's reasonably certain that the thyrsus will remain after the season changes.

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[vineleaves]

...That's a good question. "That's a good question. I dunno. I think it's just an expansion of how I usually make grapes? It ... it feels very similar, anyway. Except now I can do it for other things."

[summerdude]

Magnus is fascinated. "Can you make a pumpkin big enough to win a state fair?"

[vineleaves]

He laughs. “Probably! Though I don’t know what my hypothetical competition is.” He starts forming a pumpkin, small at first but it keeps growing, as does the twisting vine coming off the top. “Tell me when,” he says with a grin, still making it larger and larger.

[summerdude]

"It needs to be at least a thousand pounds, I think."

[vineleaves]

"I don't know how big that'll be," he isn't a scale, for cryin' out loud. "We'll have to eyeball it." It's pretty big so far, maybe toddler-sized eggplant sized.

[summerdude]

"Okay... bigger than me."

[vineleaves]

“Planning on using it as a carriage for the ball, Cinderella?” It’s end table sized now.

[summerdude]

"Just preparing for when Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater inevitably shows up," Magnus jokes.

[vineleaves]

“Hope he’s hungry.”

[summerdude]

"Or maybe the next thing we get here will be a state fair, and the day only ends when we win the biggest vegetables contest."

[vineleaves]

"Ooh, that would be fun. ...We should deep fry oreos for everyone sometime." The pumpkin is big and round and definitely comes up to Dionysus's waist by now.

[summerdude]

"How big do you think it would have to be to make Sunny a, like, fun little fort she can play in?" Magnus wonders, crouching down so that he can get a sense of what the pumpkin might look like from her perspective.

[vineleaves]

"Hmm. Well, she deserves the best play fort there is, so it'll need to be -- ooh I wonder if I can magically hollow it out so we don't have to scrape all the insides ourselves. Or did you still want this whole so it can win the hypothetical state fair?"

[summerdude]

"Could you do it hollow but somehow save the seeds so we can try roasting them?" Magnus does not know what goes into roasting a pumpkin seed! But he does love to eat them.

[vineleaves]

"I'll try, but worse comes to worse I think I can just make seeds for us to roast." It's still getting bigger, but now a small hole is appearing on the front and growing as well.

[summerdude]

Honestly sometimes Magnus forgets that Uncle D is a god. Now is one of those times! "That's so cool," he enthuses, watching. "How are you doing that?"

[vineleaves]

"Great question," he says with a shrug. "It's -- different than working with my usual grapes, but not that different from making vines grow in shapes, I suppose."

[summerdude]

"I wonder if I could do it," Magnus says, thoughtfully, watching. "Like, with one that's growing in the ground. Have you seen the church I made Galahad?"

[vineleaves]

He blinks. "You grew a church?" He's definitely picturing a building growing out of the ground.

[summerdude]

"Yeah, out of the oak tree that's outside of my camp."

[vineleaves]

"That's -- that's really cool, Magnus. Huh." Meanwhile, the pumpkin now has a little four pane window adjacent to the door, and it's definitely big enough that Dionysus could probably crawl in and sit if he wanted to get the seeds and pumpkin gunk all over himself, as all of that is currently in a wet lump on the 'floor' of the pumpkin-house.

[summerdude]

"It's my... Magnus opus," Magnus says. He does crouch down and poke his head inside the pumpkin's door. "Holy crap! This is so cool."

[vineleaves]

"How much bigger d'you think it needs to get?"

[summerdude]

"Ummmmm..." Magnus wants it to fit Sunny, but also the rest of the family, if he's honest. "Maybe another few feet?"

[vineleaves]

"Okay. Ah, can you scooch that coffee table over then?"