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A time for merriment and laughter

Who: Everyone in Luceti!
What: The annual musical rendition of A Midsummer Night's Dream that everyone's been waiting for with the party!
When: From 8:00 pm to later into the night.
Where: At the school gym/auditorium and the cafeteria.
Summary: The big time for the play has come, time to put it on then party!
Rating: G to PG-13 at best.

When the audience entered the school gym, there will be a large stage set up with tons of chairs for everyone to sit in. After all were seated, the play began and everything was wonderful for the most part, there were some minor slip-ups here and there. Yet overall, the play was a success. Once the party had finished and the encores were done however, Frederic came out on the stage to make a speech.

"Good evening everyone, thank you for coming out tonight on this glorious occasion. To everyone involved and to all of you our wonderful audience, it has been a pleasure seeing and being with all of you. Now if everyone will turn to the school cafeteria, we can all dine together."

The door to the school cafeteria then opened to reveal a beautiful nature setting with decorations galore all over the place. There will also be a very large table with much food on it with drinks for guests and cast/crew to eat, drink, and be merry. Tonight is a night for celebration, everyone will celebrate with happiness in their hearts.

[ooc: Feel free to make your own threads, not just post to the first two. ♥ Also due to LJ fail, backtagging is encouraged.]

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Kazooie isn't one of those people that fades into the background, that's for sure. During Pao-lin's people-watching, she might notice this very flamboyantly-loud bright red bird...

... Of course, Kazooie notices her first. Sitting in the corner? That's no good.

"Whatcha all by yourself for?"

Pao-lin looks up, startled. Did...did that bird just talk to her? This was a seriously weird dream she was having. (Though it didn't top the zombie textbooks dancing in a conga line.)

"Erm..." She glances back down at her food a bit. "Well, I'm new here, so I don't really know a lot of people..."

"You're one of those 'New Feather' guys, then," Kazooie says, curiously. "Huh... First time I've seen 'em. Are they all human-types like you, or is there maybe any bears?"

... She hasn't given up on seeing Banjo, yet.

"Um..." (Forgive her, she is still trying to get used to a talking bird.) "All the ones I've seen are, um, human, but I just got here this morning so I don't really know who's new and who's not. S-sorry."

"Pah, figures. Banjo's late, as usual. I've been waiting two months! He should've been here already!"

She flails her wings irritably a bit, as though it was Banjo's fault that he hadn't been dragged against his will yet.

"... Anyway," she continues, turning to face Pao-lin again. "I'm Kazooie. Who're you?"

"I'm Pao-lin. It's nice to meet you, Kazooie!" She's fairly certain she can't shake hands with a bird, so instead she just gives a friendly nod. "What did you think of the play?"

Pao-lin will probably get some fancy nickname eventually, but for now Kazooie will just go with permutations of that name. Expect to be called "Pal" a lot...

"It was pretty good, actually! Never heard of the "Shakespeare" guy, though. Sounds like a stuffy old coot to me!

... at least he can write some funny stuff."

~~Kazooie could always call her Pow-Pow. The gods know I do.~~

"Really? You've never heard of Shakespeare? Oh, but I guess you probably wouldn't have, since you're not from my world." She laughs a little. "I didn't like reading his plays for lit lessons, 'cause I thought they were boring, but watching one of them is a lot different!" Even though the archaic language patterns still gave her a massive headache. Doesn't help that her first language isn't English, either.

"Lit lessons? What're those?" Let it never be said that Kazooie ever went to a proper school. ~~Actually, even she is aware most of her history is handwaved.~~

"Though reading's a lot more boring than doing. Y'know, getting out there and having some real action! That's a lot better than sitting around on your butt looking at letters..."

"Literature lessons. They make you read a bunch of old stories that are supposed to be 'great' or 'classics' or something. Reading's okay, but the stuff my tutor makes me read is boring. There's almost never any dragons or magic or cool fight scenes in whatever I have to read for those lessons. And no pictures either, like in manga." She grins. "I definitely like getting up and doing things, though! That's why I do kung fu. And sometimes I play sports, too."

"You sure talk about a lot of stuff I've never heard about." There's a trace of what might be almost jealousy in Kazooie's tone. How dare other people experience things she hasn't?

"But I'm pretty good at sports. Great at Stony kickball! ... Though I had to be a Stony for that; that was annoying. I bet I'd be even better at it as myself!"

"Ah? Stony kickball? What's that?" Sounds like it could kinda be like soccer or football.

Only a surprisingly fun minigame, but still, Kazooie can ramble about it.

"Well, there're two different colosseums for it with different scoring rules. But basically, you earn a point for kicking a Yellow Ball into a net, and lose a point for kicking a Red Ball into a net.

... In some games, you wanna have the highest score, so you kick Yellow Balls into your own net, right? But in some games you wanna have the lowest score instead - just 'cause they do stuff differently I guess - so you kick Red Balls into your net instead!

... The other balls go into the opponent's nets, so you can make it harder for 'em to win!"

Not exactly the rules, but close enough.

~~Ah, the memories of that minigame.~~

"That actually sounds really interesting!" she says. It definitely sounds like a different version of soccer. "Maybe when I get back to Sternbild" -- when, not if -- "I can try out something like that with my friends." Her face falls. "Oh, but you don't remember your time in Luceti when you go back, apparently, so I guess I wouldn't be able to do something like that..."

"Yeah, I heard about that." Cue awkward floor-scratch with a talon. "I don't know, though. I never saw anybody come back yet.

... Can't say I'd wanna forget stuff like that, though. How'm I gonna relearn it all?"

Kazooie's lucky she's not from Nuts and Bolts.

Pao-lin nods. "It's kind of depressing, isn't it? You could spend all your time here, making new friends and learning all sorts of new things, and then you forget it all when you go back." She sighs. "I guess that's why none of us have heard of Luceti before we came here, because we always forget once we go back."

"It seems like a lame game idea to me," Kazooie says, irritably. "I mean, what's the point? Doesn't the hero go through all the stuff for a reason? And if you forget it all, why'd it even matter?"

This is the closest Kazooie gets to philosophy. Cherish it, Pao-lin.

Pao-lin's not sure why Kazooie started talking about games all of sudden, but she can definitely agree about the pointlessness of losing all memories of Luceti.

"I guess that if we get sent home and don't remember anything about Luceti, then we can't use what we know to defeat the Malnosso," she says. "But then why even send us back home in the first place? Why not just keep us here?"

"Maybe they want us here to do stuff for them," Kazooie suggests, shrugging her wings a bit. "Or they wanna suck our life forces out or something like Grunty tried to do to us. Heck if I know - they're weird and crazy, but they gotta have some reason."

"Well, I really hope it isn't anything like sucking our life forces out," Pao-lin echoes, shivering a bit. How do you even defend against that? "Though if they were going to do that, they'd probably have done it by now, don't you think?"

"Maybe. But they do dumb stuff all the time for no reason, so I can't say when they're going to do much of anything."

Kazooie figures the Malnosso "logic" is about the same as cartoon logic - stuff happens at random and sometimes for no reason other than to further the "plot".

Well, that all sounds very reassuring, except not.

"They're probably being random on purpose," Pao-lin muses. "That way we can't predict what they're going to do, and we can't defend against it."

"It works," Kazooie says bitterly. "I've never been able to figure out when they do stuff - it's supposed to have patterns! That's how it usually is, anyway..."

... Video games are used to very specific kinds of combat. And in Kazooie's case it's even more exaggerated.

"Well, I'm sure we'll figure something out eventually," Pao-lin says brightly. "For now, though, I guess we should just enjoy this party. The food here is pretty good!"

That gets a hearty nod of approval from the breegull. "I bet these are better than Ms. Bottles' scones!"

...

She's still bitter about those stupid scones.

A time for merriment and laughter

Can't guarantee Kazooie will be too friendly...

That's what makes her fun!

Indeed it does! \o/

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