First Entrance without actual entrance...

[face_in_the_moon]

There is a shadow outside tonight, like a walking potato sack, humming a jazzy tune as he ambles along the edge of the forest.

If you happen to cross his tracks, you might find a very colourful bug or two, wiggling along.



[[OOC: Feel free to find a bug, keep it, and invent what it's like! It'll be odd, colourful, cartoonish, and change in some way -- grow bigger, change its colour, grow wings, whatever you like. It doesn't have to grow explosively like Fry's, but it can. Oogie Boogie himself, though, can't yet be encountered. Believe me, you don't want to.]]

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[herr_bookman]

Autor did think that the butterfly which changed colors was a bit odd, especially since electric blue seemed to be its favorite. He'd thought about catching it to show Mirai, but putting something so fragile and beautiful in a jar seemed mean, so he does the next best thing: acquires a digital camera capable of taking video.

The boy takes several pictures of his thumb before he figures it out, and takes enough pictures of the butterfly to catalogue its color changing cycle.

Then he spots another odd bug--a snail with a miniature recliner on its back. And another--an orange and purple striped centipede. He takes pictures of these, too, and starts following the bug trail, as there seem to be a lot of them. Weird.

[death_gone_mad]

Coming in from the paradoxically very snowy part of the grounds near the Carribean inlet, a hungry Amascut detours a bit to explore the non-snowy parts of the grounds.

She finds several beefy looking orange and red spiders near the forest.

She also finds they don't taste beefy.

She continues to the bar for better food.

[visible_sariel]

Sariel, be-sweatered and shivering - blasted Milliways weather patterns, making checking in on the greenhouse a terribly cold adventure - indeed - doesn't keep the violet and pumpkin orange moth that just about clips her ear when she's halfway to the bar. She does watch its progress through the air for a minute or two after she dodges it, however. ... Hmm. Violet, pumpkin orange and suddenly, visibly glowing. That is definitely not a Terran insect.

[merryeccentricities]

Joly's inside with a mess of tangled experiments being reformed into something new, as all sensible people should be on cold nights, when something buzzes against the lab window. Given that it's glowing, he goes to investigate more closely.

It's a bug. That's not an insect, it's a bug! He grabs a handy specimen jar and a net and lets it in, catching it without trouble. He clamps the lid on it--

--and it promptly folds those (glowing? reflective? no time to study it, darn it!) wings around itself, spins a rather sticky-looking web, and attaches to the side of the jar.

Well then.

Joly writes a specimen label ("Bug, nocturnal, luminescent(?), gathered at window, Christmas A.O.D 1"),puts it on the jar, and goes back to his interrupted work.