Ocker 101 - week 5 - period 4 [11/06]

[whatacrocdundee.livejournal.com]

The class had been told to meet at the end of the Causeway, which was where Mick was waiting. When they'd all arrived, Mick gestured to the portal. "G'day. No idea how this thing works, but it's a little ripper. Bloke says it'll take us straight to Walkabout Creek. Come on." With that, he turned and gestured for the class to follow him through the portal.

On the other side, they'd find themselves standing on a dusty road in the middle of nowhere, a nowhere that was very hot and very dry.



Welcome to Walkabout Creek.



Mick led his class into the pub.

"G'day you pack of bastards! Mick's come home," he yelled as he entered, and was greeted with various catcalls and cries of, 'It's about time, you bastard!'. "Yeah, I know. Only here for a quick trip, and I brought my class. You lot look after 'em, all right? Specially the frog presuming he's there."

This was greeted with dead, almost stunned, silence, finally broken by Wally saying, "Who the bloody hell let you teach?!"

"Been trying to figure that one out meself!" The pub broke into laughter, and Mick ushered his class inside. "Walkabout Creek Hotel. Make yourself at home. Shirl'll take your order at the bar if you want some tucker or a drink, just stay away from the bloody Fosters. Stuff tastes like piss. I'll be keepin' an eye on you, but if you get into trouble, just give us a yell. It's my shout, so anything you want, Shirl'll put it on my tab," he added. "Go on, have fun."

[What we've got here is gonna be a whole lotta OCD, and you're just gonna have to wait. The class has actually left Fandom entirely, but a squirrel is welome to smuggle itself along for radio purposes.]

Comments

Sign in [11/6]

[whatacrocdundee.livejournal.com]

Like an Aussie madman is dragging you half-way across the world through a swirly portal to his homeland.

Re: Sign in [11/6]

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara

Go through the portal

[whatacrocdundee.livejournal.com]

Off you go, Mick'll have you back in time for your next class, thanks to the wonders of portals and fake time zones.

Re: Go through the portal

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Edmund glanced around at the other students with a wary expression he was trying to cover with confidence. As the TA, he felt it was his duty to be reassuring. "Portal then," he said to them once Mick had walked through and followed after him.

Re: Go through the portal

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara wished it to be known she was only going through the portal under duress. As far as she was concerned, if a portal didn't have the Midlands and her friends on the other side, it was Bad News.

Re: Go through the portal

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

Portals were still amazing things to him even if he'd been through one a time or two. Without hesitation, he walked through, excited about seeing another place.

Re: Go through the portal

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

James did a quick check to make sure he had everything on him he thought he'd need; he did. He marched through the portal without delay.

Re: Go through the portal

[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

Okay, so Clark was all kinds of excited to take a trip off-island. Even if it was with the crazy Aussie.

He didn't pretend to understand how the time zones or portals worked, accepting just about anything after the riot his laundry threw while he was getting dressed earlier in the day.

React to Walkabout Creek

[whatacrocdundee.livejournal.com]

React to the town, the hotel, its patrons, or anything else that takes your fancy.

The portal's gone and it won't be back for an hour or so, so no running back to Fandom.

Re: React to Walkabout Creek

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

The first thing that occurred to Edmund was that it was hot. Not the heat of a Fandom summer, or the light warmth of a Narnian summer, but a dry, blaring heat that you could almost taste on your tongue while it stripped it of any moisture.

Of course, he might have been overreacting, not that he would ever admit to it.

Re: React to Walkabout Creek

[wrongkindofsith]

It was brown. Brown, hot, flat, and dusty. But mostly brown.

Still, after being in a place as built up as Fandom for over a month, she was grateful for being in a place she could actually see the horizon without much trouble.

Re: React to Walkabout Creek

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

It was warm here. Thankfully, it was warm back on the island to so he'd dressed lightly but it was a different kind of warm and Jonas found himself shading his eyes as he took in the flat, brown landscape. Very different to what he'd become accustomed to.

Re: React to Walkabout Creek

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

It was as hot as Kesh (or so the stories from soldiers' told).

He looked around; this place was smaller than Fandom, not as many buildings. James was a city boy without a city, now.

Re: React to Walkabout Creek

[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

Different equaled cool, and Clark took his time looking around, really wishing he'd gotten himself some sunglasses for the brown glare.

Order some food or a drink from Shirl

[whatacrocdundee.livejournal.com]

They've got anything you'd care to order, booze-wise, including lots of beers (http://www.significantbit.com/Beer/). (Mick's serious about the Fosters.)

Food is typical Aussie pub fare, with your choice of: bangers & mash (http://www.gcfoodguide.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/beach-hotel-bangers-and-mash.jpg), Barra Burger (http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/food/freshtv/791698/barra-burgers), fish & chips (http://glotter.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/fish-and-chips-seafoodinsouthafrica.jpg), steak & chips (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/2718975823_856605f7f1.jpg), meat pie floaters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater), chicken parmigiana (http://www.pastorelli.com/wdk_pas/wcm/resources/images/recipes_dishes/5712_1210924_52450/chicken_parmigiana_pastorelli.jpg), or a burger with the lot (http://aussiechic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/196303950dlsqbf_fs-1024x768.jpg) (pineapple, egg, tomato, lettuce, cheese, onion, beetroot, beef pattie) and some chips.

Ketchup is tomato sauce, vinegar and mustard are non-existent, but there's lots of brown sauce (http://www.brownsauce.org/) on offer.

Re: Order some food or a drink from Shirl

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Edmund hadn't had lunch, so if they were going to be here (and oh how he was wishing for Fandom's greener pastures right now), he thought he might as well have something to eat. "Hello," he said, feeling very out of place amongst the accents he could hear around him. "Might I please have the bangers and mash?"

Re: Order some food or a drink from Shirl

[wrongkindofsith]

It mightn't have looked exactly like the kind of inn you'd find in the Midlands, but it was similar enough that Cara felt on more familiar ground, and judging from the smells coming from the kitchen, Zedd would like it here well enough.

"Ale," she said, then added "Thanks." It was probably best to be polite around the crazy people.

Talk to some of the locals

[whatacrocdundee.livejournal.com]

They're super friendly blokes, really.

[Ping in here and someone will throw a yobbo at you.]

Re: Talk to some of the locals

[wrongkindofsith]

With a drink in her, Cara felt comfortable leaning back against the bar, forgetting for one moment that her leathers mightn't be recognised as a 'Keep Away' signal like they were in the Midlands.

Try and knock the beer off Duncan's head

[whatacrocdundee.livejournal.com]

He stands as the hotel's champion; hundred of people have tried to knock the beer off by punching him in the gut, hundreds have failed. The only one who's ever succeeded is Mick...by giving Duncan a great big kiss.

Feel free to have a go at getting that beer on Duncan's head to hit the floor (http://pics.livejournal.com/whatacrocdundee/pic/0000xc0w/s640x480).

[Mod this thread and Duncan's reaction. Go ahead and try anything that comes to mind that won't do serious injury.]

Re: Try and knock the beer off Duncan's head

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara looked Duncan over thoughtfully. Off the top of her head she could think of a half-dozen ways to get that beer off his head, but most of them would end with him bleeding on the floor, and that kind of thing, tended to start bar-fights, which she didn't mind but usually ended in her getting glared at by Richard or Kahlan, or both of them.

In the end, practically won out over a sense of fun (though the truly practical thing would have been to simply ignore him), and stepping to one side, she simply reached up and used a finger to push the glass off the top of his head.

Duncan stared at her for one long moment, then at the floor, then back at her, before bursting into laughter. Cara wasn't entirely sure about that, but since it didn't seem to involve trying to kill the Mord'Sith, she was willing to go along with it.

Talk to the TA

[whatacrocdundee.livejournal.com]

It's probably the only time you'll get to chat to a King of Narnia in an Outback pub.

He's probably quite glad of that fact.

Re: Talk to the TA

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

He was very glad of that fact. Nonetheless, it was his job to keep an eye on the students and so he found a place to sit with his food and watch out for the other students.

Talk to Mick

[whatacrocdundee.livejournal.com]

He's throwing darts, with a beer in his hand and a smoke hanging out of his mouth. It may not look like it, but he's keeping a close eye on his students.

OOC

[whatacrocdundee.livejournal.com]

Okay, so the deal is that everyone will be gone from Fandom for only the length of the class, but will be in Walkabout Creek for about two hours. You will be back in time for First Aid!

And once_a_traitor will be your Player of Yobbos for today's class! THANK YOU!

Also, I'm hungry now.