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Sex And Candy, Wednesday, Second Period

"So, one of the problems of fairy tales is that they are sometimes contradictory in the messages they try to teach," Cindy said, as students filed into the Danger Shop, set up to look like a vast forest with a single path winding through the middle. "Some of them try to tell you that so long as you follow the rules and work hard, everything will be okay. Others make a point of life's unfairness, where people even decent people get the short end of the stick and children die for getting dirty. While most of them stress how important it is to be kind to those you meet, no matter how lowly or common they appear to be, some show how easily kindness can be repaid by cruelty. Sure, most of those usually end with the bad guys getting their comeuppance, but most of those endings seem tacked on at the last minute. It's the suffering that gets most of the attention."

Of course, part of that could be blamed on sheer human nature and what people found most interesting to hear about, but that was a lecture for a different day.

"So, today, we're going to experiment with the arbitrary nature of fairy tales," Cindy continued, and please ignore that little grin she can't quite get rid of. "Your job is to deliver this basket--" and with the click of a button, there were a stack of picnic baskets by her feet "--through the woods to Grandmother's house. Stay on the path and don't forget--" She clicked another button and stopped biting back the grin. "--Your little red hood."

[Many thanks to

furnaceface for helping me iron out the OCD!]

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In red!

Eye the hoods dubiously...wonder if there's anything good in the basket...

The forest itself is quite pretty, with birds singing and a river splashing somewhere ahead of you.

*Just a few yards down the path, there's a large spiderweb spun in a bush. Caught in the web is a small ant. "Help me!" it cries out to you in a small voice. A big, brown spider is busy trying to wrap it up in silk. "Go away!" says the spider. "This is my dinner!"

You can either stop and free the ant--though the spider looks like it might try to bite you a few times first--or continue on your way and let the spider eat.

*A little while later, you hear small cries of pain. Around the bend, you see a fox with its foot caught in a trap. It looks almost out of its mind with pain; if you help it, you will almost certainly get scratched and clawed? Do you free it or walk along?

*Ah, you've finally caught up to that river! There's a small footbridge that spans a river that looks rather deep, filled with rocks and water plants. You check under the bridge for trolls and don't find any, but you do see a fish with a hook in its mouth, caught by an unattended fishing pole. "Hurry, hurry!" the fish calls. "The old man will be back soon to fry me up for supper! Let me go before it's too late!"

The pole doesn't look very sturdy, so if you want to free the fish, you're going to have to wade out there and get soaked. Or you can keep walking and stay nice and dry.

Three encounters, several options. Make your choices!

After you cross the bridge and continue on, you hear what sounds like an old woman calling for help, off to the right. She doesn't sound all that far away, but you'll definitely have to leave the path to help her.

Do you follow the rules (http://fandomhigh.livejournal.com/2857460.html?thread=179603188#t179603188) and stick to the path, leaving an old woman in trouble? Or do you disobey and try to help (http://fandomhigh.livejournal.com/2857460.html?thread=179603956#t179603956), facing the perils of an unknown forest?

[This is an either/or. Once you continue on, you can't leave the path, and once you leave the path, there's no going back to it!]

Edited 2011-06-08 08:46 (UTC)

Sorry, old woman. Rules are rules.

You continue down the path towards grandmother's house, basket in hand, when a fairly disreputable-looking fellow darts out of the trees, snatches your basket, and dashes away down the path back towards the river.

Hey! You just got mugged!

So much for following the rules.

Forget the rules! There's an old woman calling for help!

Only when you get to where the noise is coming from, you don't find an old woman in danger--no, you find a hut on chicken legs (http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs41/f/2009/047/1/4/Baba_Yaga_by_YoitisI.jpg), with a cackling old woman sitting in a giant mortar (http://www.pastafairy.com/press/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/The_Baba_Yaga_by_Samolo.jpg) in front of it.

Great. It's Baba Yaga, and she wants to eat your face.

Maybe you should have followed the rules...

Edited 2011-06-08 08:39 (UTC)

Once you've either retrieved your basket or got away from Baba Yaga, it's a straight shot to Grandmother's cottage. You tap on the door and go inside to find Grandmother! (http://www.racheshop.de/product_images/images/big/117675_halloween-karneval-kostuem_big.jpg)

...Oh. There's an image that will linger.

Little red hood or no, you quickly realize that that is not Grandmother, but a wolf in disguise! Fight him or trick him to get away!

They won't tell you what to do, though!

Who was very good and did NOT use an image of Frau Totenkinder for Baba Yaga.

I was pleased by the number of ass-kicking icons I got to use! \o/

Also, feel free to use whatever powers/skills/ingenuity at your disposal! Fairy tails are built on tricksters, you know.

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Sign in (Week 5)

Listen to the Lecture

Random Encounters!

Major Decision Time

Sticking to the Path

Going to Help the Old Woman!

To Grandmother's House!

Talk to the TAs

Talk to "Professor Perrault"

OOC