fandomhigh | Live Entertainment Appreciation, Thursday, Period 5

"Not all live entertainment is a spectator event," Jonothon said, giving his shoulders a shrug as he waited for the portal on the Causeway this week. "Though it's usually in a large part about spectacle, certainly. After all, it's hard to enjoy something that has difficulty catching your interest in the first place. That's why things like carnivals and fairs are so popular. There's so much going on, with lights and music and rides and contests and so on, that it's almost impossible not to feel engaged. There's generally a trade-off with that sort of thing, of course. You might have the time of your life, but queues are often long, and ride and game tickets are anything but cheap. If you're dealing with carnies and hoping you'll win a prize… best of luck. Their job is to make money out of you and lower the odds that you'll win that giant… half panda… half duck… plush… thing that you're aiming to get while throwing the ball at the milk bottles."

Jono was not exactly a carnival person.

"I'll be taking you to a carnival today, so that you can experience one for yourselves," he added as the portal appeared behind him. "The price of admission, plus all of your rides and games are covered for the afternoon, and we even get to fast-track you to the front of the lines since we've only really got the duration of class to enjoy ourselves. With that in mind, we'll all reconvene at the same place the portal dropped us off in an hour. Try to stay with a partner while you explore, and do stay out of trouble, hm?"

And with that, he waved everyone through the portal before he followed them through, himself.

And stopped. And blinked up at the large black mouse in the red shorts that was casually wandering by. And up again at the buck-toothed dog that wandered along shortly after.

"... Goofy?" Well, then. "Er. Emergency new class topic, then. We're not quite at a carnival, but an amusement park is nearly the same thing, only permanent. Enjoy Disneyland. Please don't steal bits of the park to bring back to the island with you. If anybody needs me, I'll be in Adventureland, appreciating the quality animatronics in the Tiki Room. If you get lost, ask a princess or a large anthropomorphic animal for directions back here to Sleeping Beauty's Castle."

Jonothon had a certain fondness for this place. He might even be persuaded to book an extra portal back to the island, for anybody who wanted to stay a little later.

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Run wild and free! Hug people in costume! Ride rides! Don't steal any animatronic parrots from the Tiki Room. Jono will notice that.

The first thing Karina did was snag a map of the place and begin plotting her way through it while keeping an eye out for a partner.

"Do we have to go back in an hour?" she muttered.

Even with the being bumped to the front of the lines, that was barely anything!

"Don't wanna," Minako confided as she bounced up to Karina. "Go back, I mean. Like, can't we stay all day? I don't have other classes! And, like, how can you pick a favorite ride unless you go on all of them twice? For comparisons."

Karina grinned, looking up from her map. "Exactly. I don't have more classes either! Think he'd let us stay longer we asked? Or we could just get… lost… but that that's probably the wrong option. I suspect he'd get angry at us."

Most likely. And Karina didn't really want to make him freak out about missing students.

"He's not, like, unreasonable for an adult," Minako pointed out. Cry, Jono, cry. YOU ARE OLD. "Especially if we already have a plan. Like, if we gave him our cell phone numbers and bought our own portal back, and promised to text in once we were back on the island, that might be okay?"

“That does cover all the bases,” she mused, thinking it over. “And I am totally willing to shell out for a portal later. Much later. At, like, closing time.”

That would make her early morning class a pain in the ass tomorrow but did Karina care? Not at all!

“You want to ask him, or should I? What’s your cell number anyway?”

"We should do it together," Minako decided firmly. "Unity and maturity!"

...stick with unity, Minako.

"But my phone number is 555-2466." Yes, the last four digits of her phone number spelled out 'Aino.' Because Minako was a giant dork.

… Yeah, Karina was going to side-eye you a bit for that ‘maturity’ comment, Minako.

"Together? I guess so, sure. And thanks," she said, plugging that into her phone for future reference. "Mine’s 555-7273."

Which spelled out ‘rare’ because blue roses were rare and she was one thanks to Pepsi and Titan Industry. Ah, marketing.

"Let’s go, then. (http://fandomhigh.livejournal.com/3455191.html?thread=202880471#t202880471)"

An hour wasn't really enough time to do much, so after some souvenir shop browsing, Bay got a giant soft-serve ice cream cone and sat down on a bench near the carousel to people-watch. She was morbidly curious how many little kids were going to either cry or get way too excited about the people in costume.

This was great fun for all three of the a Zhahar Tryad. Sholeh wanted to see all of the park, Zhahar wanted to check out the stores, and Zeela wanted to go on every ride there was, especially the scary ones. And, with so many people about, it was very easy to duck into a bathroom stall, let a different aspect emerge, and then run off to the next part of the park they wanted to visit.

[Feel free to run into a different sister/realize that neither Sholeh nor Zee were normally in this class.]

Oh, Cecil hadn't been to Disneyland in ages!

Start with the fact it was warm, add in all the craziness, and it was almost like being at home! ~~If you added random death and subtracted the remaining laws of physics.~~

He started with the cotton candy and the flying rockets.

Snow wandered around, mostly staring in amazement at the rides.

Fortunately she managed to miss one attraction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White%27s_Scary_Adventures).

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