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Jonothon was rocking his tricorn hat and shoulder parrot today, thank you all very much, as he waited for his students to join him on the Causeway.

"Today, we're going to go and see another sporting event," he stated, once everyone had arrived. "Because I can't get this bloody hat or this damn bird to go anywhere, I had to find something that'd be welcoming to a pack of oddballs dressed as pirates, today."

The bird on Jono's shoulder squawked, and then added, "Arr, mateys! We be goin' ashore t'see a real keelhauling! I got me trusty hat and parrot, and ain't never seen a more scurvy group of bilge rats than ye!"

"Er… thank you."

"Brawwk!"

Jono and the bird stared at one another for a moment, before Jono shook his head and nodded toward the portal.

"I hope you like baseball. We're going to Pittsburgh to see today's Pirates game."

Jono couldn't care less about baseball, himself. He'd far sooner be watching football, instead. Proper football. The kind where the ball actually spent a fair amount of time touching the players' feet.

The parrot, who had no idea what baseball was, hesitated for a moment before just saying, "Avast!"

Jono shook his head and fed it a cracker from his pocket, and then waved people through the portal. He could say more, but anybody who had ever had a large parrot screeching in their ear could probably imagine why he wasn't in a hurry to encourage it to speak more.

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Like you're going to a baseball game. Possibly with parrots. In Pittsburgh.

Hang around on the Causeway, introduce your parrots to one another, show off your hats, swab the decks, whatever it is you do before class.

Yes, you may be jealous of Jono getting to speak normally. Don't envy him that bird, though.

The Pittsburgh Pirates versus the San Diego Padres. The Pirates lost their last three games in a row to the Padres this week, so they can probably use all the weird-looking kids in pirate garb that they can possibly get.

Yes, Portalocity was kind enough to not only take them to the ball game, but take them to the start of a ball game that started at lunchtime. Jono was impressed it actually got them there without any unfortunate stopovers on the way.

And yes, he would be willing to buy typical ballgame snack foods for the students, today. Peanuts? CrackerJack? Big messy hot dogs? This was his apology for the pit seating last week.

And Jono's parrot.

That moment when you have a last minute "CRAP, PIRATE-THEMED CLASS HALP" flail at someone who lives in Pittsburgh, and they say, "Well, we DO have a baseball team, and they do have a game tomorrow…"

Mavis Dracula

Cecil Baldwin

Mavis's shoulder-parrot was perched not on her shoulder, but atop her big black floppy tricorn hat.

That might have something to do with the black veil hanging down from said hat, which didn't exactly leave anything so obvious as a shoulder sticking out from the shrouded figure.

For some people it was Talk Like A Really Creepy Pirate Day.

"Be the baseball bats fruit bats or vampires? If they be real bats, how do they carry the balls?"

Okay, a really creepy, chirpy, somewhat sheltered pirate.

"I needs more rum," sighed the Black Palm Cocktoo atop her head.

Edited 2013-09-19 15:49 (UTC)

Bay Kennish

Bay's dad was a retired baseball player, so she'd been to more baseball games than anyone ever needed. She got a box of Cracker Jacks and some lemonade, and then behaved exactly the way she had at the last Royals game she'd been to -- which was to say, she spent most of the time sketching and only glanced at the field when the crowd got extra-noisy.

She did take a photo to text to her dad, though. She thought he'd get a kick out of it.

Mercy Thompson

Karina Lyle

Toby Logan

Snow White

Snow had no idea what baseball was or what the rules were. It didn't seem very exciting unless people were running, so she spent a great deal of her time people watching, and enjoying a hotdog and crackerjacks. Truly this world had marvelous food.

Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar

(Zhari)

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