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There was a snow storm brewing on the world hub, that according to Xisuma's notice it was strong enough to affect all servers meaning no matter the biome all hermits were on a snow warning.
Meaning unfortunately Grian, Impulse, Gem Scar and Skizz had to delay their trip to the game world, instead they opted to meet at Grians base for a sleep over, maybe watch movies and play some bored games.
Pretty much as soon as the four had confirmed they're on their way over Grian realised he didn't really have a place to host his friends so with the little supplies he had cobbled together a rather nice and cosy room.
He was just gathering all his blankets when Gem arrived. She took one look at his new room and laughed, "You just built this didn't you" She accused playfully walking over to his enderchest, "No this was here the entire time" Grian denied.
"I brought some of my blankets, I figured you'd make a fort" Gem said putting a shulker down next to the chest Grian was currently dumping his own blankets into. Grian blushed despite being a hermit for who knows how long at this point he's still not used to his Avian quirks being so openly welcomed and catered to.
Gem wasn't the only one who had thought to grab her blankets and pillows either because seconds later, Scar waltzed in wordlessly, set a chest down before promptly bursting into smoke and experience balls sending his inventory everywhere after being poisoned according to his death message.
There was a moment of silence before Grian and Gem burst into laughter as they picked up Scars things and put them into a chest for when he gets back.
He returned pretty quickly with Mumbo, Pearl and Cub trailing behind him, "why didn't you say something Scar?" Grian asked as Scar was rummaging through the chest with his things. "I thought I was okay," Scar exclaimed, waving them off.
"Can we join or is it a you guys thing?" Pearl asked, gesturing to herself, Cub and Mumbo, "Yeah of course, I bet the Dads are going to have Tango trailing after them" Gem answered, "Great," Pearl said, walking over and poking Grian, "I help build fort?" She said, "Obviously" Grian said before turning to Mumbo and Cub and jokingly demanding they get all of their blankets only to be completely surprised when the two men already had them.
Mumbo was genuinely (or very good at pretending) to be offended that Grian would think he'd show up without and Cub had his neatly packed into a bundle apparently turning around and back tracking to his base to retrieve them after Scar told him where he'd be.
Pearl smacked her brother with her wing and dragged him over to the pile of blankets so they could begin building the base of the fort from freshly crafted mattresses and their blankets.
They had just begun working their blankets into it when Impulse, Skizz and Tango wandered in, "Sorry we're late" impulse apologised as he set a shulker down, "Apparently no one told Skizz about the blanket thing" The demon said as both avians clearly in nest building mode started pulling the blankets out and incorporating them into their structure.
"You know" Gem said as Impulse joined her in the makeshift kitchen Scar had set up as he was baking some cookies and not the crafted kind either. "I don't think Grian hosted a sleepover last world so it'd make sense that it was never brought up" Gem said.
"So everyone knows about this?" Skizz asked, "Oh yeah, you've never forted until you've been in an Avian fort dude" Tango said.
"Avians are flock focused creatures Skizz" Mumbo explains "You get feathers from them yeah?" He asked, Skizz nodded, "And you've never noticed your clothes disappearing?" Mumbo asked. Skizz went quiet and before he could answer Gem cut in "Mumbo grian and I had to show him the top of his pyramid was missing"
"Hey" Skizz exclaimed as everyone started laughing, "Just too mean" he mumbled, shaking his head.
Eventually Grian and Pearl had deemed their fort finished and went to get their friends. Everyone had changed into some sort of soft clothing, -yes that is how it was phrased just so Scar couldn't loophole his way into being naked- before making themselves comfortable in the nest.
They spent the rest of the night laughing, playing games and watching movies, Later into the night when the snow outside had slowed down Xisuma had checked on them and found all nine sound asleep, after making sure nothing could catch fire thanks to fire tick, he shut the lights and continued on to check on the others.