Since I set this Friday theme, I'd better do it :)
On Wednesday night I had roleplaying. Giffy, Svend, Margie and Jon were all there playing Working South of the Border. We were most of the way through the game, up to the last climactic battle scene when Giffy's boyfriend Erik arrived. Erik is also Svend's brother.
As is the way at our apartment, he called from the main building door and we buzzed him in. I went to open the apartment door to let him in and there was a person dressed as a tiger there. I let this person in assuming it was Erik.
Let me just say something here, people in animal costumes, or with full-head masks freak me out. They also freak Margie out. The tiger walked in, went into the kitchen, DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING...we were all treating the tiger as if it was Erik. After he hadn't said anything for a while we went, 'hey wouldn't it be weird/freaky if this isn't Erik..." Then the phone went, and it was the intercom. The tiger left as the phone rang and it was Erik at the door!
We all freaked out a lot at this point. After a bit, there was a knock on the door and I went and looked through the peephole. It was the Tiger! I ran off and sent Jon to scare it away, I told him to "take of it's head!". (In a scooby-do find-out-who-it-is way, not a Queen of Hearts way.)
Jonathan played peeping round the corner games with the tiger, who wouldn't go away, and there was no sign of Erik. Or was there?
I took a photo of the tiger peeping round and it ran off laughing in a very-Erik like way. But when the tiger first appeared, it was too short to be Erik, and had more belly.
Giffy realised there was a bag hidden just by our door, she brought it in and it was Erik's, with Erik's things in it. So now we were pretty sure who the tiger was.
Giffy watched at the peephole for the tiger to come very close. When it did she flung the door open and roared. Then the tiger took his head off, and it was Erik, and he came in.
We all told him off, and then he explained that his other brother Paul was the first tiger and had hired the costume just so he could do that kind of thing.
Brilliant. Made for some great photos, too.
Posted by jenni at November 14, 2003 07:42 AM