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Costume party! Dude, awesome. Who's going? I've got my costume already.

Raven, you'll save me a dance? Or two or three. Assuming there is dancing. And Aara, Claudia, Bryn, Chloe, Rapunzel, I'm totally expecting dancing from you, too. Actually, pretty much just might ask everyone I know to dance, just tossing that out as a warning.

[He is so

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[Xanth has three reactions to this:

1. He's not sure what Halloween is, aside from the night nearly one year ago that the Elegante started to go to hell. This makes him worried.

2. Bobby is safe from the expedition into the forest and seems to be as peppy as ever. This makes him happy.

3. Bobby has actually put up the petition for a movie night. That makes Xanth grin with silly pleasure. He sees all these responses, but he doesn't want to take the time to dig through them. Lazy get!]

So-- s-so did-- did they say y-yes?

[hopeful hopeful]

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[mister_10_below]

[Bobby will totally reassure him about Halloween, if he asks! Also, he's very pleased to see Xanth on here, and gives him a bright smile.]

I'm not sure. I think we might be out of luck from the staff. But the point was brought up that some people have laptops, and might have movies on them! So I can ask around that way, too.

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Oh. O--Okay!

[Liiittle disappointed, but hey, Bobby tried. That's the nicest thing.]

...wh-- what's a-- a laptop?

[Video]

[mister_10_below]

[Man, Bobby is going to be so sad if he can't pull this off. He doesn't want to disappoint Xanth.]

A laptop? Oh! It's-

[And then he has to pause, because he'd been getting ready to say that it was like a mini-computer, but if Xanth doesn't know what a laptop is, he might not know what a computer is, either.]

Um. Well, it's got a keyboard and a screen and a memory and a bunch of programming. Basically it's something you can watch movies on, or play a video game on, or also write stuff up.

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[Aww, well, Bobby's giving it the old college try. It's not his fault if it doesn't work out!]

O-Oh, okay. We, uh, w-we didn't-- we didn't have those w-where I grew up, e--either.

[But they sound cool...]

Do-- d-do you know if a--anybody has one?

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[Well, yeah. But still sadness.]

Not surprising, if you didn't have movies. I think a lot of people's worlds don't have them. And I know I've seen someone talking about having one! I'm not sure who, though. I'll have to ask around.

Trade ice cream for someone willing to let us borrow it, maybe.

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That's-- n-not a b-bad idea! I've been-- looking i-into ice cream, a-actually, but more for... s--smoothie p-purposes.

[He's had two conversations with two separate people about them ,and by god, he wants a damn smoothie.]

[Video]

[mister_10_below]

Oh! I could probably help with that, actually! I can make ice cream and snowcones easily enough, so with a little bit of experimenting, smoothies shouldn't be too much harder.

[...yeah, actually, he kind of wants one, now.]

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[OH DUDE YOU CAN MAKE SMOOTHIES OH MAN WHO EVEN CARES ABOUT MOVIES ANYMORE XANTH IS ALL OVER THIS SHIT]

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S--Seriously? I-I've been-- I-I've been thinking, I-I mean, there's-- th-there's no b-blender here, but-- c-can you-- can you g-get around that?

[CAN YOU MAKE SMOOTHIES FROM YOUR HANDS?

(Xanth doesn't really get Bobby's powers yet.)]

[Video] XANTH WHY SO ADORABLE?

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[Man, Bobby wishes he could make smoothies from his hands. That'd be epic.]

We should be able to! Probably just have to cut everything up really small, or mash it a bit. I'll have to test it out, see if it works better if I make really finely crushed ice and mix it up, or if we just mix up everything and then I can try to freeze it to the right consistency.

But yeah, man, we can totally do this.

[Audio] BECAUSE HE'S SECRETLY MADE OF COTTON CANDY? OR MAYBE KITTENS

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G--Great!

[Bobby you don't know the extent of his smoothie addiction. It's a problem okay well it's not that bad. Just, they are so very tasty.

And they kind of remind him of people he knew.]

I--I think th-that'd work? I-I mean I, I-I can't see why it-- i-it wouldn't. W-We should... e-experiment.

I-I mean, there's n-no fire, so, I-I don't think we'll have too much t--trouble.

[Isn't that right, Arch-Duke Char, Burner of Cake?]

[Video] /NOMS FOREVER

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[Bobby'll just have to be his smoothie enabler, then. Because they are tasty! How can smoothies be a problem?]

Definitely! We'll get it working, one way or another.

[And then he's laughing, bright and cheerful.]

Hey, it's not fire that's my downfall! It's ovens. Evil, evil ovens. And things that go in baked goods. I'm pretty sure baking soda has it out for me. Or maybe baking powder, I can never remember the difference.

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[Bobby is the best smoothie-enabling bro.

Xanth laughs, too, and it feels so nice. He's gone much too long without laughing.]

J-Just-- don't mix up s-salt and-- and sugar. Th-that'd be... even worse. Cause-- c-cause then i-it'd look okay, but, w-when you bite in, it's... t-terrible.

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[mister_10_below]

[He is! All other smoothie enablers pale in comparison. Clearly, Bobby needs to spend more time bugging him and trying to get him to laugh, too.]

Right, I definitely wouldn't want to do that. I'll remember that, for the future. Because it's not like I've done it.

[Except he totally has.]

Okay, in my defense, I was really little, and my mom just labelled the canisters with a big S for sugar and a little s for salt. I couldn't tell the difference.

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[Hey, he hasn't been much for laughing at anything lately. But if anyone can get him to laugh, it's Bobby.

He can't help another amused snort.]

I-I guess you were just-- b-born to be a--a menace to c-cake society, h--huh?