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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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."

Harry stares at it, "I keep expecting it to step and down and perform that musical number he was taking about"

"Don't give it any ideas!!"

....Too late.

The statue stretches and coughs, and then breaks into song.

*shudder* Let's get out of here!

"Yeeeek! Just when I thought he couldn't get any creepier." Kiki stares at the statue. "I think his next lecture should focus on why, exactly, he wears those pants. I'd suggest climbing the statue to get a good look around, but touching it might not be the best idea."

"My thoughts exactly" He points to a path on the right,
"If we want to keep moving forward, that's the only way out. And I want to get away from that thing soon."

"Um... yes. Me too. The singing is nice... but we should keep moving." Kiki thinks a moment. "In these circumstances, would it be rude of us to leave in the middle of ther performance?"

"Probably, But he didn't say we had to stay for them."

Harry marches on down the path until it makes a sharp Right turn. Since it the only choice, he takes it. They hit another 2 way. The rads lead straight and the right.

"I have been keeping a map, and that right turn Will take us back to where we started.

"Should we try it to see if that's correct? I get the feeling things have been kind of shifting around on us..."

"Good idea. I have the same feeling too."

They follow the right-hand road. The green shrubs dissappear and are replaced by Sand-colored bricks.

"I think you're right, It has changed. I guess I wont be needing these."

The walls are low enough that Kiki can see over them fine.

"Where to? I'm all out of ideas"

[ooc: Its getting late, and I have school and the last minute homework rush, so we had best wrap up quickly"]

[Ooc: Ditto!! I have to *groan* work in the morning.]

"Retracing our steps back to the group would be pointless, so I guess we should try to press on. Maybe we can find someone to give us directions. If we keep heading this way, I think we should be heading somewhere near where we entered - but the door disappeared, so maybe we can't get out that way."

"Maybe now that We're out of the shrubs you can fly."

Harry tries his wand "point me" The wand spins and points to their left.

My magic works.

I think we should shout for Jareth, Maybe he can find us.

Kiki climbs down off of Harry's shoulders, and tries out her broom again. It supports her weight, but is shaky.

"Climb on behind me," she says, "And I'll see what I can do. It might be a rough ride..."

Harry climbs on. The broom is shaky, but he can handle it.
"Alright, I'm ready"

The broom gives a couple of alarming wobbles, but Kiki wrenches it back under control and starts flying unsteadily towards where she thinks the exit might have been.

[ooc: Want to leave off here and continue this tomorrow? I think there's a LOT more fun to be had in the Labyrinth here ;-) ]

[ooc:sure ;)]

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kikidelivers.livejournal.com - 2005-10-06 13:42 (UTC) - Expand

that right turn Will take us back to where we started.

no it won't *g*

Do you think I should shout for him?