Oh dear, what are we gonna do? Is this year's RP just going to stay unfinished?

Kaguya recalls a certain rule about "stealing" a gift, and decides it's time to put it to use, even if he can only steal one. And so, he walks up to the purple-haired girl and nicely asks to have the noisy mini back, not forgetting to apologize one more time.

A short girl with bright purple hair sat up, rubbing her eyes. “Sorry, musta dozed off. Haven’t slept in a week.” She grinned, bouncing over to the gift pile with a surprising amount of energy for someone who just claimed she hadn’t slept in a week. “Lemme see... this one!”

There was a pause and she grinned even more. “Did... anyone get me explosives? No? Ok!” She opened the gift and pulled out a daruma doll. “Ooo, what does this do?”

The doll cackled, making her jump a bit, before she laughed as well. “Nice! Thanks, puddin’!”

Jiwon paused in front of the pile of presents, which was already reduced to nearly half its original size. He spent a good ten seconds looking over them until Charlie spoke up.

“You know, if you don’t want to leave it to chance, stealing’s always an option!”

Jiwon looked almost appalled at that. “What? No, no, I’m… I’m good, thanks.” And with that, he took the top present from the pile. He walked back to his seat, placed the box in his lap and slowly began to peel at the edges of the wrapping paper. After half a minute, he pulled out a small box of chocolate, which he tilted his head at.

“Hey, are those good?” Charlie asked, leaning over to look.

Jiwon flipped over the box to read what was on the back. “I’m not sure?”

“Heads,” Miguel replied. “Wait, can ponies even do coin flipping?”

Ami pointed at her horn with a deadpan expression.

“Oh, right. Unicorn.”

She grabbed the coin in her clear blue magic, then flicked her head up. The coin spun through the air and (with a little extra guidance) landed on the arm of her seat showing a horseshoe emblem.

“It’s tails. Good for me!” Ami trotted up to the pile of gifts, which was looking a bit smaller already. “Eeny, meeny, miney…this one,” she said, pulling a small yellow box from the pile. She magically undid the ribbon and lifted the lid to reveal…

“Oh, this looks interesting. Is this cabbage? It looks sorta like cabbage, but in pickle juice.”

Charlie walked over to the pile of presents and took the top one, before sawing off its lid with a few deft claw strokes. Taking a look at its contents, they paused, then reached in, pulling out a clump of dark fur. They blinked a few times, rolling the stuff between their fingers to confirm that yes, it was in fact fur.

They looked over at their partner. “Hey, Jiwon? Is this from you?”

Despite being a fox and thus lacking much of an expressive face, Jiwon still managed to shoot them an incredulous look.

Charlie shrugged. “I’ll take that as a no, then.”

The gift she's unwrapped half resembles a weapon, half a model of a DNA chain, the blades gleaming chillingly, the hilts richly carved and decorated with jewels. It looks like it could've been a legendary, limited event item in a fantasy MMORPG, available only to players most unflinching in paying out and emptying out their real-life wallets. She doesn't know exactly how to use this object, but there's no denying it's the most beautiful thing she's ever seen.

"It's all yours, Momo," her master says, smiling sweetly. "I'm not one for bladed weapons."

Since this is the first time participating in this type of thing for most of us, here's a link to the last Gift Exchange RP so you can know how the formatting for these tends to go.

Hopefully this link works.

Thanks!

-OrangeFox

A middle-aged Latino woman with dark hair and a smile as warm as her reindeer sweater walked up to the present pile. "Thank you for including a plus-one on the invitations. I'm glad I could make it; the Nursery holiday party takes just as long to clean up from as the party itself! Now, um..." She looked at the boxes, then the list of rules, and then at the boxes again. "These aren't going to explode in my face, are they?"

Two rows from the front, Miguel facepalmed. "Ay, Mamá, it was one box, two years ago, and I didn't even get that one."

"You can't blame me for being worried about my boy," Diane replied in rapid-fire Spanish. Then she picked up a red box with black ribbon and carefully opened it. "Awww, what a cute doll! Miguel, look, it's like a little man!"

As soon as she took it out of the box, however, the daruma doll let out a piercing "Nyahahahahahahahaha!", startling Diane into dropping it on the stage.

"What on God's green earth is this? Who put a laughing doll in the pile?"

The correct spelling is Shigisawa, sorry 😅