School Assembly, Friday afternoon, The Auditorium

[fh_extras]

For today's assembly, there were eleven chairs set up on one half of the stage, a microphone at center stage and a table with several books piled on it one the other half of the stage. When everyone in the audience was seated, a small, blue figure strode onto the stage. "Hello der," it said. "Me Cookie Monster. De following people please to come up on stage and be in spelling bee. Is impromptu."

He cleared his throat and pronounced the names carefully. "JC Broots, Dick Casablancas, Demyx, Zero Hopeless-Savage, Pippi Longstocking, Ami Mizuno, Stealtrike, Tannim, Valentine, Naomi Wildman, and Matilda Wormwood."

Once they were all up on stage, he went to sit behind the table and gave them their instructions. "Me say word, you say word, you spell word, you say word again. If you right, you get cookie and go to next round."

[[OOC: Please see the plottery post for a rules refresher. Also, please wait for OCD is up! Spell away.]]

Comments

Find A Seat

[fh_extras]

Sit down before the assembly starts! Chat! Do other things related to sitting!

Re: Find A Seat

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette found a seat close to the stage.

Re: Find A Seat

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Why did these assemblies have to go on during the market reports? Turtle was there, one ear plugged up with an earplug hooked up to her radio. C'mon, MT, stop falling...! Falling is bad!

Re: Find A Seat

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna didn't have anything better to do; she found a seat near the back, and went over swords techniques in her head while she waited for the assembly to begin. Knowing she had trouble with English spelling, she figured this would be interesting.

Re: Find A Seat

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter vaguely wondered if the spelling had to be American spelling only as he found a seat.

Re: Find A Seat

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka sat down near the back. With pen and paper. Spelling bee == Time to take notes!

Re: Find A Seat

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

With a wee mouse Jack still balancing on her shoulder, Isabel took a seat to watch the show.

Re: Find A Seat

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter made himself comfortable to watch the proceedings.

Re: Find A Seat

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac settled in her seat to wait for the assembly to start.

She has her phone at the ready to take pictures of anything weird that might happen. She's learned that assembly is a really good place for finding that sort of thing.

Re: Find A Seat

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy had never been to a spelling bee before. He wondered why it was called a Bee.

Re: Find A Seat

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Naomi found a seat.

Re: Find A Seat

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker's there to support Zero, and to a less extent, Broots. Zero's way with words ought to make this entertaining to say the least.

Audience

[fh_extras]

React to what's going on once the assembly has begun. Or ignore the assembly despite the fact that a Muppet is instructing people to spell.

Re: Audience

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Cookie?" She snorted, looking at Cookie Monster then Steerpike.

Re: Audience

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle cheered loudly when the contestants had been called up, and not because EAS had gone up. "Whoo! Go Tannim!!"

Re: Audience

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette stood and shouted, "Good luck, Dick!" When he turned and waved at the audience.

Re: Audience

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka scribbled furtive notes the entire time.

Re: Audience

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy wasn't the sort to burst out into cheers, but he did clap extra loud for Ami.

Spell!

[fh_extras]

Please only ping into the subthreads for each round. That way, we have the option to skip ahead to the... thing if people get bored or I can add more rounds if people want to keep going.

Re: Spell! Round 1

[fh_extras]

Participants, please ping into this thread. If you spell your word correctly, you get a cookie and move onto the next round. If you spell your word incorrectly, you just get a cookie.

Re: Spell! Round 2

[fh_extras]

Ping into this thread if you passed the previous round. If you spell your word correctly, you get another cookie and move onto the next round. If you spell your word incorrectly, you just get a cookie.

Round [number to be determined later]

[fh_extras]

Something surprising will happen here later!

Round 4 ZZZZZOMG!

[fh_extras]

Before Cookie Monster could begin the next round, a loud buzzing sound could be heard. Without further warning, a swarm of bees rushed the stage, chasing after anyone who dared remain there.

The swarm moved up to the microphone and began to speak in harmony although many lingered around the audience.

"Helloooooo, zzzzzztudentzzzzzzz! Weeee are the zzzzpelling beeeeeeezzz! Your zzzzzpelllliiing and grammmmmar zzzkillzzzz do not imprezzzzzzz or pleazzzzzzze uzzzzzz! You take your ability to zzzzpeak for granted! Mozzzzzt of our couzzzzzzinzzzzz can't zzzzzzpeak at alllllll! Yet your diction often leavezzzzzz much to be dezzzzzzired, and what'zzzzzz with pronounzzzzing your 'S'ezzzzz without the proper 'zzzzzz' zzzzzzound?"

They droned on and on like this for a good long time.

[OOC: Please react to this inzzzzanity in this thread. Any attackzzzz on the beezzzz will be rezzzzponded to with zzzztingzzzz. *ahem* Sorry. If you get stung, you will randomly spell words that you speak throughout the day. The more stings you receive, the more frequently you are compelled to spell words. Mod the bees as you will.]

Rescue!

[fh_extras]

Something possibly more surprising will happen after that!

Re: Rescue!

[fh_extras]

With the bees rambling on for such a long time, they attracted a special audience. A group of teal deer wandered peacefully into the auditorium to hear the speakers. When they saw the bees, they all smiled and looked at each other happily.

It was a little known fact that teal deer found spelling bees to be delicious. They were also immune to spelling bee stings.

They charged the stage for a feast. The battle was soon ended and there were no bees remaining. The deer then took a brief group post-meal nap on stage. How cute.

[OOC: React to the bee vs deer fight here.]

Leaving

[fh_extras]

"De winner of first annual impromptu spelling bee is [spoiler deleted]!" Cookie said. "Me would give cookie, but me ate dem all in excitement."

People in attendance were free to leave now.

OOC

[fh_extras]

This is all bugofjustice's fault.

Please ping me here if you guys want me to add more rounds.

Re: OOC

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

C is for Cookie, that's good enough for me!