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]

"Oh, good! That makes things easier then, I guess." He goes over to investigate the window, which does, thankfully, open. He's still not entirely convinced it'll fit though. It's going to be a tight squeeze in the best case scenario.

[summerdude]

Magnus tilts his head, scrutinizing the pumpkin. "Can you shrink things?" he wonders. "Or just grow them? Oh, wait, also, third question: Do you think a hollow pumpkin house counts as a jack-o-lantern if there's a little light inside of it?"

[vineleaves]

"I don't see why not, people make jack-o-lanterns that look like all sorts of things. They're not just the little, y'know, triangle eye faces." he shrugs. "I can shrink grapes and grapevines no problem, I'm just worried I might -- well, actually, I was going to say I'm worried I might break this one or something, but I could just grow a new one if that happens, so let's see."

He turns back to the pumpkin and very slowly and very carefully starts shrinking it down a little.

[summerdude]

"You're so cool," Magnus breathes, watching eagerly.

[vineleaves]

He laughs. "Can I get that in writing?"

[summerdude]

"Sure thing, Uncle D. It'll be the first thing I write when Hanguang-jun starts teaching me calligraphy."

[vineleaves]

"Oooh, you're going to learn calligraphy? That's fun!"

[summerdude]

"Yeah! He said he'd teach me -- and Galahad -- anything we wanted to know, so. That seems nice, right?" Also, Magnus super hopes that it'll make up at least a little bit for going to Lancelot for sword training.

[vineleaves]

"Oh, so it's going to be all three of you? Even better! Cozy little hang out classes!"

[summerdude]

"Yeah, that's the idea."

[vineleaves]

"Okay," he says, looking at the pumpkin, "I think we might be able to just get it out the door now at this point."

[summerdude]

"Got it," Magnus says, with a silly little salute, and then he hoists the pumpkin up and starts carrying it out of the room. As he does, he says, "Uncle D? I have a question."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus grabs his thyrsus before they head out of the room, and quickly falls in step beside Magnus as they walk. "Yeah? What's up?"

[summerdude]

"Can you, like, tell when other gods show up?"

[vineleaves]

What brought this on, he wonders, but he answers anyway. "Sort of? I could tell Apollo was here, but not until I was nearly at the room he was in at the time. Couldn't tell with Xie Lian at all until the day he was -- ah, younger, I think, though I suspect he's been through something or other that caused me to not be able to tell, theoretically I should have been able." A pause. "Did you know he's a god? Misfortune, apparently. Anyway, why do you ask?"

[summerdude]

"I figure out he was a god within, like, twenty minutes of meeting him, but he told me he was Aesircore," Magnus says, and clarifies, "Um, a martial god. Specifically. My dad was here the other day. I mean... I guess it was a few weeks ago now¹."


¹It's important for this typist to note that this conversation is happening AFTER Magnus told Laertes about Frey's visit!

[vineleaves]

Dionysus has other issues to worry about 20 minutes after meeting Xie Lian, so that checks out, he figures. The next thing Magnus says though makes him stop walking. “Your— oh goodness — Magnus — how, ah, how did that — how long? Just the day?” Dionysus knows that there have been times when visitors have been allowed. People from home. He was rather under the impression it tended to be a lot of people all at once though, and he’s pretty sure he would have at least noticed if there were several visitors. Must have just been a special occasion for Magnus?

“How did that go?” He finally manages to get out coherently.

[summerdude]

"Oh, I'm pretty sure it was a summer thing, since he's the god of it. It was nice to see him! And to know some of my prayers have gotten through." He blushes as he says this, of course; most of his prayers are thoroughly sarcastic. "It was only a dream visit. You know? He came, we walked around, my body hung out at camp with Alex and Sunny."

[vineleaves]

Dionysus smiles. "I'm glad things went well. Wish I could've met him while he was here!" But, well, if it was a weird dream situation thing then that clearly would've been difficult.

[summerdude]

"Yeah," says Magnus. "The reason I'm asking, though, is -- part of the reason Alex came here for good is because we assumed this was a No-Parent Zone. You know?" He pauses, then amends, "No godly parent. And also no Mr. Fierro. I'm not trying to get, like, Sagramore and Laertes yeeted out of here."

[vineleaves]

"Ah, I see... I take it her parents are both ... less than ideal candidates to show up here?"

[summerdude]

"Yeah. If her mom showed up... badness."

[vineleaves]

"Who's her mom, again?"

[summerdude]

"You ever hear about Loki?"

[vineleaves]

"Only a little," he says, sincerely regretting not paying more attention to other religions at home. "Trickster god, right?"