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Detention, Saturday Morning, April 7

When the students filed into the Danger Shop this morning, they'd notice Fraser standing at attention near the front of the room. The names of those with detention were neatly displayed in plain view.

~~Alec~~
~~Rikku~~
~~Seely Booth~~
~~Hamlet Dane~~
~~Jim Ellison~~
~~Zero Hopeless-Savage~~
Ranma Sao

"Good morning everyone," Fraser said, smiling pleasantly. "I trust you all had a fine Friday, slept well and are prepared for your detention this morning. Some of you may know me, some of you may not. I'm Constable Benton Fraser, head of school security here. If this is our first meeting, I wish it could be under better circumstances."

He paused to take his hat off and drop it on a desk. "For today's detention, we're going to have a little adventure. This adventure will be non violent and, should you try anything violent, you will have to deal with me. I'll be guiding your progress and controlling the adventure. Your goal is to retrieve the treasure from the castle and unleash it's many wonders. Good luck."

Fraser stepped back and the Danger Shop suddenly became a large, open meadow.

[Basically, this is Choose Your Own Adventure. I'll start out with a setting and some minor directions and the students can go from there. Familiar characters might pop up along the way. But, please, no violence. I'll be around all day most likely.]

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Rikku wandered up carefully, trying her best to be sneaky. She knelt down to inspect the moat. Full of bitey things? Or just water?

The water was empty of bitey things. The guards hadn't noticed her testing the moat yet.

Rikku considered, then tried to wait patiently until the guards were mostly not looking.

And then she took a huge breath and hopped into the moat. And started swimming towards the dungeons, staying as far down under the surface as possible.

(Holding your breath for ages: hooray, weird canon!)

Lucky for Rikku, she was able to hold her breath for so long as the journey was long. Eventually, she came into the dungeons.

It was dark, smokey and dank. There was something asleep in one corner.

Rikku surfaced, feeling pretty cool that she'd avoided the guards and not sure why the dungeons were such a hot place to be. She tiptoed over to the sleeping mass and inspected it, warily.

The mass moved and gave way to a small, rusty metal chest with an inviting keyhole in the center.

SCORE! Rikku knelt down, looking around her warily, and then dusted off the chest with her hands.

She slowly inserted the key into the hole, waiting to see if anything was going to leap out at her. Barring that, she's opening the chest.

The chest creaked open and revealed a map and a note.

To whomever finds this note, please help me.
I'm a prisoner in this castle, being held by the evil king.
I can give you riches, royalty and land.
Follow this map and you will find me.
Help me, youngly traveler, you're my only hope.

The map shows a direct route to what is thought to be the king's chamber.

Rikku read the note a few times and tried to understand it. Some prisoner was being held in the king's chamber? Okay. Not sure if she bought that, exactly, but getting to the king's chamber was definitely a plus on the whole treasure-hunting scheme, so she might as well follow the path and see what happened.

She stood up, checked the room quickly for any potential weapons or oddities, shrugged, and decided to follow the route on the map.

The king sat high upon his throne, kicking his feet and laughing as a jester juggled in front of him.

There was a door behind him with a neon sign that said "PRINCESS HERE" above it. Yes, really.

There were many people in the room so it would be easy to blend in. The door, however, was shielded by an alarm that would go off and alert the king should anyone get too close.

Rikku hung back and tried to fall into the crowd, wandering with its flow to get close to the door. Alarm. Not good. Also, a bit obvious, no? Something was weird here.

She slipped back into the crowd and looked for a place where people were milling and talking. She laughed a bit. "That king. Such a joker. Can you believe the sign?!"

[OOC: Am assuming alarm is visible, since you mentioned it ... if that's wrong let me know and I'll reping.]

The king threw a pineapple at the jester and the jester shuffled off.

Someone from the crowd said, "He thinks making it so visible will make people think it's lethal. Only the king knows the way past it."

"Well, people should think it's lethal, shouldn't they? I mean, that's what I heard." She folded her arms behind her head and leaned back. "Seems like a lot of effort to go to, just to keep his daughter off the market."

Rikku hoped that making wild, off-base assumptions would get a better response than asking nosy questions.

A person in the crowd eyed her. "You deign to try and take his daughter?"

The question was said loud and the crowd was turning it's attention towards Rikku now. So far, the king was still distracted.

Rikku froze. And then tried to laugh the question off. "Of course not! I'm not a handsome young prince looking for a bride. I doubt she's my type."

She did her best to look confused. "Why, who else would the king need to guard her against? I don't understand."

The king was looking towards the commotion now.

"Who dares take the attention off of me?"

Rikku cleared her throat. Showtime!

"My liege," she said with a sweeping bow. "I noticed the part of your jester was absent and felt I should audition. My apologies for taking the attention. But of course your brilliance only shines next to my inanity."

"You wish to entertain me?" the king asked. "Do so or I will banish you!"

"I would like nothing better," declared Rikku.

She scooped up a few items the jester had dropped and launched into her rendition of Cuban Pete. With rumbaing and a failed attempt at juggling, which she hoped failed in an entertaining way. Especially when she bonked one off her head and flailed wildly.

She tried to inch closer to the door without being obvious about it. Hmmm.

The king clapped his hands together in glee. "Bonk yourself on the head again!"

The king was completely oblivious to the inching closer to the door.

"But of course, your majesty." Rikku grinned and grabbed more fruit and other easily-tossable items to make another failed bid at juggling, still singing "Cuban Pete."

She threw up seven or eight of the items all at once. If she aimed it right, one was going to thump onto her head, most were going to fly randomly about the room ... and one was headed for the PRINCESS HERE door.

If.

The king laughed in delight and, because this game was unfair, kicked off the alarm with his foot without noticing.

The princess's door was now unguarded.

Yes. Rikku scoope up a couple fruit and threw them straight up in the air for a finale, letting both bonk her on the forehead and falling backwards to play dead.

After a few seconds she stood up and took a long bow. "Thank you, your majesty, for your laughter. I think I need a few moments recovery while I find my wits again. If I ever shall."

The king shoo'ed her away and brought the crowd closer, telling them of the jester that had just regaled him.

No one was paying attention to Rikku now.

Rikku slipped through the crowd unnoticed, wishing she had picked softer fruit. Ow.

She lingered in front of the doorway for a long moment, trying to look around without looking like she was looking around, and then took a quick step through.

Detention, Saturday Morning, April 7

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