The Elements of Friendship, Thursday, Period 3

[locointhecoco]

The Danger Shop was set up as a barnyard this week for Pinkie's class, though there were fortunately no animals in sight. There was a pile of fabric, a ring of watering cans on the ground and a few tables off to the side covered in old fashioned canning jars, and what looked like cans of paint and brushes by the barn itself, but no animals.

Pinkie was standing off to one side as the students gathered, wearing a rather fetching bonnet. She stood next to a much older green and white pony napping in a rocking chair.

"Welcome back, students!" Pinkie said. The green and white pony snorted and woke up long enough to holler "lima beans!" before resuming her loud snoring. Pinkie started again, in a quieter voice this time.

"Welcome back! This week, I've got an extra special treat for you! We're going to learn how to make zap-apple jam! Zap apples are magical rainbow apples that only grow for four days out of each year back home in Equestria, and ponies come from all over to sample some of the amazing jam made only by my good friend, Granny Smith Apple." Pinkie gestured to the snoring pony beside her. "Luckily for you, she's decided to share her recipe with us! Isn't that amazing?"

As Pinkie waited for the students to tell her it was, indeed, amazing, the howling of distant wolves echoed over the class. Granny woke again, sitting bolt up right this time, and started smacking a cast iron skillet with her hoof.

"The timber wolves are howling! The timber wolves are howling!"

"That's right, Granny Smith," Pinkie said. "And you know what that means!"

Granny probably did -- but she'd fallen back asleep.

"We'll just let her sleep for awhile," Pinkie decided. "We've got lots of preparation to do before the zap-apple harvest!"

[ooc: and we're live!]

Comments

Sign in [1/19]

[locointhecoco]

Like an old pony just woke up from her nap and started yelling.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan Young

[therewaslife]

Nobody Owens

Mingle, lecture, etc. [1/19]

[locointhecoco]

Listen to Pinkie talk, react to Granny Smith, wonder how someone with no fingers manages to program such elaborate settings and characters into the Danger Shop every week.

Re: Mingle, lecture, etc. [1/19]

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy was listening -- and wondering if Granny Smith had any interesting stories. Grandmothers usually did.

Re: Mingle, lecture, etc. [1/19]

[lockestheway]

You knew it was a bad week when Peter barely even reacted to impending humiliation.

He was still dealing with yesterday's news in his head. Sorry.

Re: Mingle, lecture, etc. [1/19]

[abitlowkey]

Magical apples? Loki saw no issue with that part of class at least. Seemed legit.

Look, he was from a special place, okay?

Re: Mingle, lecture, etc. [1/19]

[leavingthenest.livejournal.com]

Oh, jam! Rapunzel thought jam was wonderful, and always wondered how you were supposed to make it!

(None of her experiments had turned out quite right...)

Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19]

[locointhecoco]

The preparation is very intricate and specific, so make sure you pay close attention!

Re: Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19] - Sing to the water

[locointhecoco]

Put on a bunny suit, hop over the watering cans, and sing the alphabet!

No, really.

Re: Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19] - Sing to the water

[leavingthenest.livejournal.com]

Huh. Apparently someone had designed this bunny suit for people with less than 80 feet of hair. This was sad because Rapunzel really wanted to learn how to make jam, and she was already having problems with the first step!

Re: Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19] - Sing to the water

[i-am-the-rat.livejournal.com]

Hank was having a BLAST already!

Hopefully, the zap-apples wouldn't be hurt by him screwing up the alphabet song.

Re: Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19] - Sing to the water

[richieryan.livejournal.com]

"Swear to god," Richie said to nobody in particular once he'd put on the suit, "pictures of this end up anywhere and I will have to murder whoever took them. Just saying."

Look, he just figured you should humor the giant pink talking pony, okay?

Re: Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19] - Yell at the jars

[locointhecoco]

Line the canning jars up all nice and neat, and then go drill sergeant on their asses!

Re: Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19] - Yell at the jars

[richieryan.livejournal.com]

Now sans bunny suit, Richie was happy to take out a little aggression on the poor defenseless jars.

Re: Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19] - Paint the barn

[locointhecoco]

Grab a brush and a bucket of paint and start covering the barn in pink polka dots!

Re: Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19] - Paint the barn

[richieryan.livejournal.com]

Polka dots were pretty goofy but at least he wasn't in a bunny suit or yelling at inanimate objects. This was definitely the best of the three tasks today. Probably because it was the least embarassing.

Re: Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19] - Have some jam!

[locointhecoco]

"Wasn't that fun?" Pinkie asked, when all the tasks were completed. "And I didn't even make any of those steps up! It'll still be a few days before the zap-apples would be ready, but I thought all that hard work couldn't go without a reward, so I have some of last year's batch here for you to try!" She held up a jar of perfectly rainbow striped jam. "I like it best on toast!"

Re: Zap-Apple Jamming! [1/19] - Have some jam!

[richieryan.livejournal.com]

At least all the weirdness ended with food. Of course, the food was weird too. Jam wasn't supposed to have stripes. It wasn't supposed to be made by ponies either though, so Richie was going to go with it. Probably he was just hungry.

Talk to the TA [1/19]

[locointhecoco]

She probably can't get you out of wearing a bunny suit, though.

Re: Talk to the TA [1/19]

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

In fact, Cassidy was quite cheerful about the bunny suits -- even if they made no sense to her.

Talk to Pinkie [1/19]

[locointhecoco]

She doesn't know why you'd want to get out of wearing a bunny suit!

Re: Talk to Pinkie [1/19]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

Jim... didn't mind the bunny suit so much, really. There were worse things that he could be wearing. He wasn't sure what, but there were. Maybe that space suit that Dr. Doppler picked up that one time.

"Hey, Professor Pie," he said, walking up to her with a little smile on his face and one bunny ear drooping over half his face, "can I talk to you for a moment?"

OOC [1/19]

[locointhecoco]

True, true happiness will follow if you'll only follow me

Re: OOC [1/19]

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

I spent a long damn time awwing over the galleries.