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Having held up enough fabric to his felt cowboy hat to feel like he had accomplished this ritual, whatever its purpose might be, the handyman turns back to his box of little bottles and resumes sucking his teeth. Finally, he picks up another piece of fabric, and starts laying the little bottles on it. He folds the fabric over the bottles, making a little pocket to contain the bottles, and then begins smashing the bottles with a hammer he grabbed from his tool belt. Crunch crunch crunch! Gingerly, he pulls back the fabric to reveal the shattered pieces of glass inside, and starts glue-gunning the pieces to his hat. The glue gun doesn't seem to be plugged into anything in particular, but it's still working fine. However, he quickly gets frustrated, and looking around, gestures frantically to The Black Rock Hearted Boy. "Psssst! Hey you! You've got more delicate fingers than my meaty fists... Come help me!"

Jacob looked around more before looking down at a dice on the table. What was going on with the dice? He picked it up giving it a roll.

"I think this one would look fabulous," Tabetha picked out a brown bowler hat. "What do you think, darling?"

Tabetha finally noticed all of the new arrivals, setting the hat down. "Ah! Greetings, all you beautiful travelers! It is an honour to have you all here today!"

There she goes again, trying to draw attention to herself for no particular reason...

The boy looked at the Handyman. "M-Me? I...okay?" He stood up and headed over to the Handyman. "What do you need help with?" He asked carefully, looking at the table filled with fabric and glass and glueguns.

The chest in front of Jacob swings open to reveal his assigned mystery items... The chest is full of popcorn, which must also be incorporated into his design! The table is also laden with plain hats he can choose from to decorate, fabrics, sequins, feathers, and whatever else a person might want to design a fancy hat.

As Tabetha searched for a hat to act as the base, Mimi took some cloth and began carefully rolling it into a sort of bowl shape, like the birds' nests she had seen outside. She then began to attach feathers and flowers from the little boxes, weaving them over one another in such a way that it could appear naturaly constructed by a wild creature. She was pretty sure she had seen pictures of dinosaurs with feathers, anyway, even if Mini Might did not appear to have any. She held the construction up for Tabetha to see, hoping to get input before moving on to the next step.

Mini Might steals a robbin egg while no one is paying attention and eats it in one gulp then eyes the hat that Tabatha found and hops around excited as if approving the hat

"I uh, I'm making this hat really... sparkly?" says the handyman, gesturing to his cowboy hat that has a few random bits of broken glass glued to it. "I need someone with better fine motor control than me to get the glass pieces onto the hat, all tight together, like we're making a hat and bottle mosaic. Does that make sense?" and by "does that make sense" it seems like he's asking "do you think that's a good idea?" staring almost pleadingly at the teen from under his bushy eyebrows. A drop of sweat is rolling down the side of his face.

Tabetha clapped excitedly. "You are doing a marvelous job! Marvelous, I tell you!"

With two big thumbs-up, Tabetha flashed a bright grin.

...Wait. Did elves normally have teeth that looked so incredibly sharp...?

Jacob picked up a black hat, perfect for his idea. He still had no clue what the dice roll had done. He noticed the popcorn and smiled slightly. Well, things just got interesting, popcorn and wolves didn't really fit together but he could make a moon shape out of the popcorn, or stars by covering them in gold glitter. He got to work covering the popcorn in glitter while he wrapped black and brown feathers around the rim of the hat for Werewolf fur.

The boy seemed to like the idea, "That's actually really cool, let's see, I actually have something that will stick a lot better than glue, let me see..." He began digging around in his vest pockets. Where was it... ...Ah-hah! He pulled out a round, pink ball that had a pink goo in it. He set it on the table, used one of the pieces of glass to pop it open, releasing the sticky goo, and he grabbed a paintbrush and dipped it in there. "Let's try and make this hat... Sparkly." The boy said proudly, painting some pink goo on one side and then sticking it to the hat. It definitely stayed on. What was that pink goo stuff anyway?

((its fine Mini, i'll only be able to be on for this bit of time anyway when i said Jacob could only stay for 2 hours i ment that as me)

Next, Mimi selected some scaled eggs from the chest, gently setting them into her constructed nest. She added feathers and any other fluffy materials she could find, ensuring that the eggs were nestled nice and cozily. Then, as a final touch to the nest, she sprinkled in a few sequins among the eggs and fluff. One could imagine that these were shed scales from the parent dinosaur (dragon.)

The handyman purses his lips in approval, nodding as the boy started painting goo onto the hat and sticking the bits of broken bottle on it. "What's that stuff? What color is it when it dries?" he asks with a sort of keen professional interest. "I'll make you some more glass bits, and then maybe... maybe we can pick some ribbon to make a hat band for it too?"

Tabetha laid the hat over near Mimi and reached for the eggs provided. Delicately, she plucked up the scaly egg that may have belonged to a dragon.

"Darling! What about this?" She offers it to Mimi. "I think this would make a delightful addition, like a crown jewel! It suits our little friend very well, hmm?"

Jacob kept working on his project with an intent smile he took the Werewolf figurine and made it look like it was howling at the moon this was presented with white sequins the gold popcorn scattered around as stars.

The boy proudly said, "It's a, uh, chemical compound of my own design. I actually use it as a safer alternative for a raccoon trap, since my village has a bit of a critter problem." He explained, "It's extremely sticky so it can catch the raccoon or even human, ha ha, don't ask... It was an accident... and keep it there until I can get it out of there."

He paused, and embarrassed, he blushed, it was barely seen behind the mask, but it was faintly there. "Ha ha, I'm...rambling again, sorry..."
"It'll dry clear, this new batch, because I was having a problem with it dying my gloves pink." The boy laughed, "And ribbons, ribbon. Yeah, that'll be good." He smiled, his bucktooth showing.

Watches his new friends wondering what kind of nest they making. is still not sure what a hat is.

It did not know how or why but it had ended up at this winter masquerade event. The tall, slim figure hid half of its face with a mask that covered their eyes and part of their nose, adorn with a scorpion accent atop - fitting for it's name wasn't it? However the mask could not hide the white void that was its eyes. With not pupils the pure white color stood out like emptiness.

Walking inside, it looked around, an unwavering expression on its face as it looked at the other patrons.

"RACCOON traps!" he crows, chuckling. "That's clever, very clever. We'd better be careful not to glue ourselves onto our hat though."

The handyman looked around, feeling ever more frantic as he sees that the other teams are getting ahead of them. He's really sweating now, and has to pause to mop his forehead with a rag. "Here, here, I'll do the other side while you work on that side, doyamind?" he adds, picking up a paintbrush and holding it poised over the bottle of pink goo. Assuming he gets permission, he starts painting the other side of the hat and sticking bits of glass on. "Whadya think, should we pick like a... like a black ribbon to give it some contrast? Or should we pick a real sparkly ribbon with some bright color to go with the whole... the sparkle thing? Because of, uh, holidays?"