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[Waiting at Frisk's mail box is a small pouch, filled with all sorts of gingerbread cookies in shapes much like these. Nestled in them and smelling all the lovelier for it is a joker playing card with some writing on it.]

Welcome to the carnival. We'll watch out for you.

[Oh nifty. Frisk's not going to say no to free cookies but they are kind of curious that the playing card isn't signed.

...sure they were told Joker was in charge of what Frisk did, but they're not putting two and two together yet.

However, just in case the gift-giver is still hanging around Frisk sticks a thumbs-up in the air.]

Thank you for the cookies! I hope you have a good day.

[Having painted a card using magic paint, the one that Frisk will find atop their gift-wrapped carefully in plastic to keep it dry on their cabin windowsill for now-seems to move, despite being so childishly drawn. As it is, there is a note on the back:]

I don't have a lot of money anymore, so I can't get big things, but I can get important things, I think. People say that we have to wear more than just one outfit if it's been more than a day, so now you can have different clothes!!

I'm also learning to make cookies, so you get some of them!

This card is the magician Pikeru-they give lifepoints, so they make people feel better. If they have more monsters with them, they can give more life to them too-so they make the monsters feel better too. It's a nice card-and you're nice too!! - Reira

[Frisk will find, alongside a small bundle of cookies, two t-shirts; both of them, of course, are striped.]

[You're a sweetheart Reira. Frisk brings the gift in ASAP and sets it out on the table.

The cookies are always welcome and Frisk can't help but laugh, thinking back to all the times in the Underground when their sweater got ripped and torn and how they wished they had another. Well now they've got two for a grand total of three.

They smile and take a peak at the card. The person drawn on it is very cute and they wonder if they should ask Reira how it works later on.

But in the meantime they've got some work to do. Frisk bought a craft set and what better way to get some use out of it by giving a nice thank-you for a gift?

So Reira will find a card for her - in her inbox or actually in the house if it's unlocked/someone lets them in. It says it's from Frisk and has five people drawn on it: Frisk, Petal, Reira herself, her Scarlet Eagle and Flowey. It's crude in a way that's expected of a kid, but pretty heartfelt. Written on it is:

Reira,

Thanks for the gift. The card is pretty and you're pretty good at baking! And thanks for the t-shirts.

It's nice to have something you can change into after awhile.

Frisk :D

[Left in Frisk's mailbox is a painted card. The card smells of pine needles, snow and a fireplace, and features Papyrus, waving enthusiastically ahead. Somehow there's boneprint snowflakes faintly falling against the pale background. Along the header and footer, the card reads:]

HAPPY GYFTMAS
(ON THE MOON)
FROM PAPYRUS!!!

[Inside, a personal message continues:]

HI HUMAN!
THAT IS TO SAY, HI FRISK!
I WENT SO LONG WITHOUT KNOWING YOUR NAME... THAT I TEND TO THINK OF 'HUMAN' AS YOUR NAME.
SO NOW YOU HAVE TWO NAMES!
THAT'S TWICE AS GOOD.
I WISH I HAD TWO NAMES TOO.
I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT YOU A GIFT, IN APPRECIATION OF YOUR COMING, BUT...
I'M BROKE!
GIFT-BUYING IS A REALLY EXPENSIVE VENTURE.
SO I'LL HAVE TO GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP.
WHICH... YOU ALREADY HAVE!
SO COME BY SOMETIME, I'LL SHOW YOU SOME EMBARRASSING PICTURES OF BABYBONES.
SOME OF SANS, BUT MOSTLY OF ME.
I WAS SUCH A CUTE BABY THAT THE CUTENESS VASTLY OVERPOWERS THE EMBARRASSMENT.

Edited 2018-01-07 03:17 (UTC)

[Papyrus, you're an adorable skeleton and never let anyone tell you otherwise. And he's going to make Frisk's heart melt. For many reasons.

Frisk also has access to a craft set thanks to the market, so once they find his cabin, there's a card inside the mailbox. It's just a simple drawing of a child in a stripped sweater and Papyrus himself hugging. There's a message on the back.]

Hi Papyrus.

Thanks for the card, it's really nice. And your friendship is the best gift ever :D Maybe we could find a second name for you too!

I'd like to come by to see those pictures. I bet you were a really cute babybones that grew up into a hot skeleton.

-- Frisk

[This human! Honestly! How do they have such smooth moves... when they're so definitely a child still? Incredible! It's frightening to imagine what their Dating Power will be like when they're an adult. Truly, their dance cards will be full at all the balls.

That card's going on the trailer fridge with the other drawing cards.]

FRISK,
YOU'RE NOT WRONG!! ABOUT ANY OF THAT!
I'M SURE WE COULD FIND A SECOND NAME, IF WE REALLY SEARCH...
BUT! THAT CAN WAIT!
ADMIRING WHAT A GREAT BABYBONES I WAS COMES FIRST.
OR MAYBE SECOND, AFTER FRIENDSHIP.
SO, MY DOOR IS METAPHORICALLY OPEN.
NOT LITERALLY, AS LONG AS WE'RE ON THE MOON, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT SNOW EVERYWHERE.
BUT YOU CAN COME BY PRETTY MUCH WHENEVER. JUST CALL AHEAD!

- PAPYRUS

[A combination of reading books and listening to things. And Papyrus's new message is going in their scrapbook along with his first one.]

We can say cute pictures and friendship go hand in hand. I'll tell both you and Sans if I'm coming over.

- Frisk

[Which! May not be all that fun considering the very, very...."awkward" conversation Frisk had with Sans when they first arrived. But they're trying and avoiding the other skeleton like the plague won't help.

Unless he says so. But that can come later. Cute baby skeleton pictures first.]

[That must be the secret to why Papyrus' flirtations were nearly as potent; he reads and listens to plenty.

An excellent listener... but not quite an excellent rememberer. After the intense dramatics surrounding Flowey's appearance, Papyrus had nearly managed to forget that things were tense between his brother and Frisk. So that makes this invitation a little bit awkward.]

GOOD IDEA!!!
DO THAT TOO. IT'LL GIVE US TIME TO PREPARE!
I'LL MAKE SNACKS.

- PAPYRUS

[Whenever they get together for pictures and friendship, admiring what an adorable skeleton Papyrus was (and surely still is, even if 'adorable' has switched into at least an equal degree of 'handsome'), they'll get shown pictures like this:

Surely enough to make any mild uncomforts to the visit worthwhile. And fortunately, if the picture-viewing visit gets too bad, they can always take it over to the trailers instead. One of the many bright sides to separate rooming.

That, and a sock-free home.

[They're asking for copies.

But hopefully things go okay the day the picture viewing happens.]

[Towards the end of the holiday, they will find a fancy looking gift box in his trailer with a note left on top. The handwriting is done in an over the top cursive that he might recognize as the Ringmaster's, written on aged papyrus with the ink seemingly made of shining gold.]

"Frisk-

I'm curious about what you'll do with this!

The Ringmaster❧"

[Her signature is so massive and florid that it fills up the rest of the paper. When they open the box, they'll find a ring filled with magic lockpicks. This ring can open nearly any mechanical lock, including some magical ones.]

[ Connie delivers a wrapped copy of The Green Boathouse." A myster novel with the description "No one seems to know who owns the abandoned boathouse on the lake, but there are plenty of stories of bad things that happen to people who go there."

It comes with a handwritten note from Connie: ]

Happy Holidays! I love books, and I hope you do too!

If you don't like this particular one, maybe you'll find one more to your liking in at the Book Swap!

[ Included is a crude drawing of the cabin layout with a star pointing to where the book swap is located. ]

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