fandomhigh | Campfire Stories & Songs #1, 5/23/06, Main Campfire, Evening

Lyta Alexander
Pip Bernadette
Hamlet Dane Jr
Demyx
Timothy Desmond
Walter Dornez
Jude Lizowski
Greg Sanders
Nadia Santos

Ted had had a little trouble starting a contained fire at first, but by the time the workshop started after the sun went down, the fire was blazing and the marshmallows were out. Ted had a Twinkie on the end of his stick and was roasting it.

"Evening, dudes! I am Ted 'Theodore' Logan and I'll be your most esteemed workshop instructor dude for this workshop. You can call me Ted or Professor Ted or whatever you want. The workshop is pretty simple. I like simple. I bring the food, you bring the stories.

Each week a different person will tell a story. I'll get you dudes to sign up for a week before you go tonight. Some people will need to double up, so if you wanna tell a story with a partner, you can totally do that. Then at the end of each workshop, we'll end with a song. Is that not excellent?"

Ted cleared his throat. "So. Your stories can be anything you want - personal experience, something you heard, something you read. Anything you want. Tonight I want you to start by introducing yourselves, tell us where you're from, what kind of stories you like and what kind of music you're into."

After that was done, Ted started to tell his story. "This one's a love story for all you romantic dudes and dudettes out there."

"Okay, so, once upon a time there was this dude named Jack. His best friend was Spide...Bug. Let's call him Bug. So Jack and Bug were best friends and they were in England and were playing a poker game against these Swedish dudes. Jack won the hand and it turns out that in with the money were two tickets on a ship to America. So they grabbed all the stuff that Jack won and ran and got on the ship.

So then this dude Jack, he sees this totally classy babe named Sarah. She was way pretty, I think, but she had a thing for guns, so it was kinda weird, but in a totally hot way. ANYWAY. So then Sarah got into this fight with some dude who totally dissed her shoes, and he jumped off the ship to get away from her, and Sarah was gonna jump in after him just to kick his ass, but Jack stopped her with some lame story about the water being cold and he threatened to jump in after her. Because she wanted the fight on her own, and didn't want to share it with Jack, she said 'I won't then!' and Jack was all 'Okay then!' and Sarah was all 'Fine!' and Jack was all 'Right.' And Sarah totally wanted to get the final word in, but Jack made her be quiet by kissing her.

And then they kissed some more and there was lots of kissing and steam and, um, stuff I'm not supposed to mention because I'm a PG-13 teacher, and then the ship HIT AN ICEBERG!

So then the ship's sinking, it's sinking, and it's all sad and everything because people are drowning and the rock band is playing Metallica while the ship goes down, and then BUG COMES TO THE RESCUE! He tore up part of the deck with his BARE HANDS and Jack, Bug and Sarah got on it and then the ship went down and the deck-raft floated away and then it looked like they were gonna die, and then they came to an island and they were SAVED.

So then they set up a school and pretended they were all too cool for each other and then left and I dunno what happened to them, but I'm totally sure they all lived happily ever after. THE END."

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Bzuh?

Tim having never seen Titanic, was oblivious to the paralells, except that he knew there was a ship that hit and iceberg a long time ago and supposedly Chivalry died that night.
The story itself wasn't all that engaging, but Ted's enthusiastic telling of it, and his amusing way of speaking more than made up for that.

Jude was chuckling, even if he didn't quite get the end bit. "Duuuuude! That's awwwwwwwesome!"

Nadia surreptitiously passed both Walter and Pip notes:

Squirrel meeting for planning mischief in ~~handwaved~~ secluded spot tonight after workshop. I'm making stew. Tell no one.

Pip's had an addendum to it.

I need to talk to you about something privately. Perhaps after the meeting?

Walter took the note, read it, and tossed it in the campfire with a nod for Nadia.

Pip looked at the note and slowly nodded. He slipped back one of his own.

Where?.

Away from people and shrubs. Nadia wrote back. Then, after a moment's thought: but not because either of us is likely to get violent.

Hamlet had never seen the late 90s film about the Titanic, but he still felt that there was something very odd about Professor Ted's story. And that the characters in the story somehow sounded very familiar...

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