fandomhigh | Class 7: A Field Trip

Jareth walks into the classroom looking like he means business. He's dressed in black leather with spiky bits, matching gloves, and a shiny black walking stick.

"Attention!

"All students who have turned in their permission slips, line up here." He strikes the ground in front of him, then turns and opens the classroom door.

"Well? What is everyone waiting for?"

He leads the way through muttering something that ends with, "...should never have gotten that far."

He stops abruptly once everyone is through, and raises an eyebrow at the door, which closes and is not there any more, if anyone cares to look behind them.

"All right. The labyrinth is not a fuzzy place full of happy, playful things. Everything is a trap. Do not cuddle the fairies, do not pet the goblins, do not touch the walls and do not stray from the group. Does everyone understand?"

He waits, watching the students. When there have been sufficient signs of understanding, he continues, "Now, everybody pick a partner. Hold hands. If, by some misfortunate circumstance, you become lost or separated from the group, call my name. I will be along eventually to fish you out of whatever oubliette you've fallen into.

"This way." He turns and starts walking, setting a very brisk pace through passage ways guarded by high brick walls. Everything sparkles. Eventually, topiary starts to show up, and a little while after that, the topiary seems to become one with the walls.

"We are approaching the hedgemaze. Keep your mouths shut in case the door guards are awake. We'll never get them to shut up again once we wake them."

He walks several more feet, stops so fast the class almost runs into him (whichever unlucky student is up front) and spins around. "I have to go...attend to something," he says. "Stay here and try not to move." Then he walks around a corner, out of sight. If any one peeks around it, they will see a dead end in the hedges, and no Jareth.

[ooc: okay, do what you will! And if any people are on at 9 pm pacific, we can roleplay some of this in real time--that's four hours from now when I will next have internet access.

ETA: There's going to be dance number. Oh, yes.

ETA2:The field trip part 2 ~~will be posted later tonight~~ for the players that haven't gotten lost...yet :D If you have, carry on, until (or even IF) you call Jareth to come get you. Neither of these have a time limit, considering how bad I've been about posting in a timely manner. It's all borrowed playing time, anyway, so assume you'll be back slightly worse for the wear, at the exact time you left.]

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Looks like we're partners without him. Let's go!

"Okay!" Kiki agrees eagerly, then pauses. "Go where exactly? Are we supposed to find our way out or further in? Somehow, I get the feeling that Professor Jareth will be more upset if we just stand here and yell for him to lead us out than if we head off on our own."

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[ooc:my brother was subbing while I was in the bathroom]

[ooc: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! No problem.]

Kiki looks around for a moment, and then says, "I've got an idea. Maybe we can get the lay of the land a bit."

Kiki hops on her ever-present broom and pushes off from the ground. She raises a few feet in the air, but just as she reaches the level of the tops of the shrubs, she wobbles and plummets. The fall is only about 3 feet, so she lands on her feet. Puzzled, she tries again, and falls again.

"Evidently," she says with a frown, "Professor Jareth has ruled out flight for those of us with the ability. Looks like we're walking."

Maybe I can try the 4 point spell. point me
*nothing happens* I guess magic doesn't work either... Right hand rule?

You're fairly light weight, right? Maybe you can stand on my shoulders to see over the hedges.

Kiki is quite petite.

"We could give it a shot, as long as I won't end up hurting your back."

"Good as any rule, I guess," Kiki replies. She looks to her right. A long green-walled corridor stretches away from her, turning a sharp corner. She looks to Harry's right. The same sight greets her eyes.

"Ok, let's try that direction," she says, pointing to Harry's right.

Ok *Follows*

*dead end* Okay, then...

[ooc: To try to keep this on one thread, wanna say here is where Kiki climbs on Harry's shoulders (revert to the thread above)?]

[ooc:okay, I was thinking the same thing]

*bends down* Here, climb up.

Kiki rather gingerly wraps her arms around Harry's neck and pulls herself onto his back and then swings her legs up so shes sitting on his shoulders. She has, naturally, never found herself in a position quite like this one before, and she's flushed quite a bit with embarrassment.

"Almost... there," she says, stretching herself up taller. It seems that a good view of the labyrinth is always just out of sight.

"There!" She says, "I think if we head straight and a bit to the left, we'll get to a sort of raised platform and - I think that's a fountain - we might be able to see better from there."

Great! Lets head that way, I can carry you, so you can tell us whether we are getting closer or further away.

He walks with her still on his shoulders toward the estimated location of the fountain.

Harry gets out a spare piece of parchment from his robes and a no-dip quill, I'll be marking our progress with these.

"OK - but um... let me know if you get tired," Kiki answers. "The shrubs are all different heights - or maybe the shrubs are the same, it's the ground that's all over the place - anyway, the result is the same. Sometimes I can't see over the hedges, so I can't be exactly sure about the path. We seem to be going the right direction, at the very least."

"That's good."
He comes across a fork in the path, an eerie hand pits to the center trail.
"Since we think the fountain is on the left, I guess we should go that way. What do you think?"

"It's tough to tell from here, exactly, but... yeah, I'd say take the left path."

Harry marches on. Sure enough, the left road leads to the fountain. But it's not a fountain, A massive statue of Jareth looms over them.

"OoooKaayy...This is interesting."