Fun with Magic | Friday, First period

[nuclear_snide]

Class was back out on the lawn today. In front of them were chairs - one for each student. Eliot hung back, his guitar slung over his shoulder, looking like he sort of mildly regretted being there. He eyed the chairs suspiciously.

The chairs were moving. Not much, but shuffling a bit as if they were restless. Despite this (or be real - because of it), Bob was grinning.

"Right. Today, we're playing musical chairs. Or, well, magical chairs." Bob waved at the chairs. "If you've never played, there's music." Eliot saluted. "When it stops, you have to sit down. Whoever's not in a chair is out. Whoever's left last, wins. It's usually played in a boring circle."

Bob didn't approve of that.

"These chairs have spells on them. First of all, they won't be sitting still, so I hope you all brought running shoes. Secondly, you'd best pick wisely. You see, there are enough chairs for all of you, but when the music stops, one of them will disappear. And one more each successive time."

He let them all think on that for a moment. "Once you're out, you have three options - you can choose to sit and watch the others, if you like. You can also choose to help someone else find whichever chair you think is good. Or whichever one you think isn't. You could also choose to help the chairs escape. It's entirely up to you."

He looked around. "Questions?"



[OOC: played with assistance from the lovely vdistinctive!]

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Sign in!

[nuclear_snide]

Musically!

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[bestatmystery]

Lottie Grote

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[yogurtvore]

Blue Sargent

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[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

Elsa of Arendelle

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[that_oldsaying]

Alluka Zoldyck

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[not_every_mage]

Anders

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[buzzkillcaptain.livejournal.com]

Dipper Pines

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[boneyard_girl]

Ada Miller

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[notamascot]

Kaylin Neya

Listen to the lecture, eye the chairs!

[nuclear_snide]

They're sort of boring. Except the "looking alive" part.

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[bestatmystery]

Hey, that "looking alive" part was well exciting, okay?

Lottie had mental images of little chair bridles and a wild chair herd roaming the plains. . . .

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[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

Elsa pulled a deep breath, and then nodded, steeling herself. She'd learned over the last few classes to dress for being active, so she was at least wearing a pair of jeans today instead of her usual dress. Maybe she wouldn't do so terribly?

Actually, this sort of sounded like fun!

Please don't anybody sit on her.

Re: Listen to the lecture, eye the chairs!

[that_oldsaying]

"Are the chairs people?" Alluka wanted to know. They were moving! Like they were alive! That meant they might be people! "Will it hurt them to be sat on?"

There was nothing boring about the chairs. At all.

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[nuclear_snide]

"The chairs are not people," Bob answered, "and they were made to be sat upon. They've merely been spelled to move."

Re: Listen to the lecture, eye the chairs!

[boneyard_girl]

Well, if she had to be fast... Ada looked around to make sure no one was looking, then slipped off her slightly-large tennis shoes. Everyone would probably be too busy to stare at her feet, right?

Musical chairs!

[nuclear_snide]

And...they're off!

Order of chair-disappearing:
Dipper Pines
Blue Sargent
Alluka Zoldyck
Lottie Grote
Ada Miller
Elsa of Arendelle
Kaylin Neya
Anders

Have at!

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[bestatmystery]

Lottie wasn't sure about the music -- where was the screaming? Screaming was important! -- but she was perfectly happy chasing chairs around. She'd picked out her lucky one already: it had a few little spots along one leg that almost looked like a little smirking demon face.

It was a chair with personality. That was important.

Also, it was the chair that fled from her the fastest.

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[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

Elsa had actually been doing rather well at keeping up with the chair she'd picked, and was just starting to feel, by the time there were only three of them left with chairs to grab, as though maybe she'd manage to win this somehow...

When the chair she grabbed vanished out from right underneath her, and her bottom hit the grass quite unceremoniously.

She didn't swear outright, but a few of Barry's favorite words did cross her mind as she pulled herself to her feet, twisting around to look at the new grass stains on her now somewhat sore behind.

That could have been done much more gracefully.

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[buzzkillcaptain.livejournal.com]

Dipper was all geared up to win this thing. Oh, yeah. He was pumped. When the music stopped he was already moving to sit down on his chair when it disappeared right out from under him.

In the first round.

He sat for a moment and fumed.

He could swear the other magical chairs were mocking him somehow.

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[boneyard_girl]

OUTSIDE. NO WALLS. Ada was so happy she almost did a little dance, bouncing from foot-to-foot as she waited.

Once Mr. Bob Sir was done talking, Ada had picked out a blue chair as her favorite target, relentless pursuing it since it seemed stable enough. Besides, picking just one target made everything easier, when it came to maneuvering around her classmates.

Right up until Blue vanished with a POP, and Ada landed in a tangle of limbs in the grass, laughing. Not her most graceful moment, no.

Talk to Bob!

[nuclear_snide]

He's here as always!

Talk to the TA!

[nuclear_snide]

Once he pings in!

Re: Talk to the TA!

[not_every_mage]

Anders hadn't gotten kidnapped by squirrels that morning, and it was throwing his entire day off. He kept waiting for the furry beasts to show up during class and drag him away.

Talk to Eliot!

[nuclear_snide]

Why not?

Re: Talk to Eliot!

[vdistinctive]

Ask if Eliot knows how to play anything other than Johnny Cash's greatest hits, perhaps.

He does. . . . But not a lot.

OOC!

[nuclear_snide]

I am all out of witty.