fandomhigh | School Assembly, Friday afternoon, The Auditorium

Before the assembly, The Tick used the same mysterious process that chooses students for the detention lottery for another purpose.

He had written a play. Destiny told him that all the world was a stage and he was but a player, meaning that he was playing the part of someone that got people to play parts that he created. It was very meta.

Anyway, the curtains opened to start the assembly. It was time for The Tick's first play: A Time for Bagpipes.

[OOC: Cast, please handwave getting roped into this as a result of the announcements this morning. It may be a good idea to look at the plottery post to see what I told different people just so you can be better prepared.

Again, I'm very sorry about the last minuteness and the general WTFery of this. Feel free to go nuts, though. This is a play by The Tick that you had at best a couple hours to look over. Things need not make sense have fun. And thank you for volunteering and attempting to make this work!

Oh, and people in the later acts, don't feel obliged to wait for people in earlier acts. Jump in whenever.]

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Having lost most of his costume between acts, Seely wandered back onto the stage.

"Woe is me, for I fear that that man with the girly emo hair may never find someone to fix my pipes."

"I am not fixing your 'pipes," Peter said, making the air quotes. Whether he'd forgotten his lines or had gotten distracted by Seely's lack of outfit was a hard thing to judge. "I told you I already have a girlfriend. Who's currently a guyfriend but true love gets past these issues. Not sure how her boss at the strip club's going to take it though."

"Hey, don't knock it until you've tried it, buddy," Seely replied. "In any case, trolls do not often use dirty euphemism in the way that humans do, I was referring to my actual set of pipes."

"Your actual set of - oh right! The angry cat in a bag." It was possible that being on stage for this long meant Peter had begun to repress memories of the show while he was still in it. "Uh, yeah. We've been working on that. There was a whole pre-pregnancy scare. And trust me when I say you do not want to know about the cows."

[ooc: *vanishes to bed*]

"Cows?" Seely squeaked. "What have you been doing with my pipes?"

"Not me!" Peter said. "My friend from college! He's got a cow thing, but I'm there for him because that's what friends do! I'm just, yanno, not going to let him get near the ponies."

"A likely story!"

"You can't tell me you've never read the online wank about the cowfu...frakker?"

"Noooooooo...that's him?"

"Don't tell anybody," Peter whispered. "He's trying to get help for it, really."

"Most people would suggest intensive therapy to be good for that."

"His wife has been trying to get him to go but he swears he won't unless he gets milk every day," Peter said. "It's been a real struggle."

"Cow-frakking and a milk addiction? That's a pretty bad combo."

"He had a bad childhood," Peter said. "His dad was a rodeo clown. It spiraled from there."

"It's a vicious cycle." Seely shook his head. "Perversions passed from father to son. Won't someone think of the children?"

"He's got sixteen of 'em," Peter said. "I honestly can't blame him if he forgets a few."

"Sixteen? Who knows what horrors they have suffered."

"On the upside one's really into bagpipe repair," Peter said.

Seely perked up and tried to look casual. "Really?"

"Yep," Peter said. "And she promised to fix your bagpipes for me free of charge."

"She?" Seely totally wasn't fiddling with his hair. Really.

"She's not a troll," Peter told him.

"Nobody's perfect."

"Long as you're okay with that," Peter said. "I didn't want you to get a nasty surprise when she didn't look like you expected."

"She has bagpipes, those are far more important than looks."

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