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Quasi-Emergency Town Meeting, Town Hall, Sunday Morning

Apr 15, 2012 02:11

Zoe had spent most of yesterday pacing in her living room, rereading the letter from the school board, and leaving angry phone messages in clipped five-minute sections. The limitations on voicemail were just ridiculous when one had a lot on their mind ( Read more... )

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Arrival of the School Board/Complain bigdamndean April 15 2012, 06:13:33 UTC

Whatever plan the administration had cooked up clearly hadn't worked, because shortly after the meeting, the school board arrived.

If one looked carefully, one might notice the point where Zoe started to twitch.

[Please wait for the school board members to start pinging in!]

Arrival of the School Board/Complain feelsitinhisgut April 15 2012, 15:58:05 UTC

Stephen entered the room, flung his hands up in the air and did a victory lap to the applause that...probably wasn't coming.

Ungrateful ingrates.

"Hello, ladies and gentlemen and--" wow, this place was bizarre. "--others! We are here to save you from yourselves!" He gestured at his fellow members of the board, and waited (probably in vain) for more applause.

"If you have any questions or complaints, well, we don't care," he added. "Questioning things is unpatriotic!" He pointed to Edna Mode. "But wearing uniforms Made in the USA! That's patriotic! As is polyester, which was invented right here in America!"

Probably. It's not like he checked these things.

"So line right up to get put into your new Costumes of Freedom!"

He smiled oh-so-sincerely at them. "Or if you insist on getting my autograph first, please have a check ready made out to my SuperPAC where we work on--" here he paused to stare dramatically into the middle distance, "making a better tomorrow, tomorrow ( ... )

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain bigdamndean April 15 2012, 16:36:59 UTC

Zoe stared in disbelief as Colbert addressed them. Somehow, seeing him in person was even more disturbing than getting the letter, like she hadn't really believed that he existed until right now.

"You cannot be serious." This was going to be an unbearable day.

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain feelsitinhisgut April 15 2012, 18:31:53 UTC

"When it comes to my SuperPAC, I am always serious," Stephen told her.

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain nookiepowered April 15 2012, 23:46:43 UTC

Bo was less of a thronging mass and more of a stalking, fashionably late, frustrated succubus (though not last month's kind of frustrated; they could all thank their deity of choice for that, at least). She pushed through the gathered townspeople looking for Zoe, having missed both her speech and the much less welcome one that followed it.

"Sorry," she said when she caught her first glimpse of the principal's face, not really taking much notice of who else might have been standing near by. Emergency situations, you know. "I couldn't even get to him! Portalocity stranded me overnight in some dimension where everybody's six inches tall, blue, and lives in a mushroom hut, and there's only one woman in the entire freaking village."

The number of times she'd had to repeat No, because you would DIE would have been difficult to count if it hadn't been exactly equal to the population posted on a tree trunk outside the mushroom town hall. Plus the one No, because I will KILL YOU, of course. She didn't really mind the balding, but why did ( ... )

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain bigdamndean April 16 2012, 00:41:08 UTC

"It's all right," Zoe said quickly, shaking her head. "I'm just glad you made it back all right. I was worried when he showed up without you."

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain nookiepowered April 16 2012, 01:34:30 UTC

"He's he--"

You could look around yourself anytime, Bo.

"Well, shitballs."

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain bigdamndean April 16 2012, 02:20:05 UTC

Ah, a vocabulary Zoe could appreciate. There were so many reasons she liked Bo. "He's here to save us from ourselves. We're getting Costumes of Freedom," she said dryly. "People are going to have a field day."

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain nookiepowered April 17 2012, 16:29:24 UTC

Bo scowled. "I am not wearing anything spandex that isn't black."

Oh, Bo. You only wish it was that kind of Costume of Freedom.

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain screwyoumarvel April 15 2012, 17:53:38 UTC

Steve stared at him for a moment before he found his tongue. "Excuse me?" There was just so much wrong with this he didn't know where to start.

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain feelsitinhisgut April 15 2012, 18:32:36 UTC

"You're excused," Stephen said helpfully. "Would you like an autograph?"

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain kentucky_darby April 15 2012, 16:34:54 UTC

Darby was well-accustomed to the school board chairman's antics, and while certainly there were times that a... well, louder tactic was called for, she thought she might do just as well to be a more reasoned influence.

... Given that this was Darby Evans -- and, for that matter, Stephen Colbert -- 'more reasoned' didn't mean calm.

"No, no, no, this won't do at all. Those wings will have to be covered up, and oh, my, that full-body tattoo?" She was looking right at Jono with that, yes. "Say it with me now: cover-up. I'm sure Ms. Mode can find something to disguise that particular shade of cerulean!"

Looking around, she considered the whole crowd. "And some of you look so angry! Oh, we'll just have to yoga that out of you. I'm certain you'll all relax if you give yourselves the chance!"

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain glacial_witch April 15 2012, 16:40:59 UTC

Karla's jaw clenched as this female called out two of her favorite people on the island for needing to be fixed. It was going to take a Hell of a lot more than yoga to jolly her out of her temper. Though the shock of seeing the uniforms might do it...

"Or maybe we just don't like it when people come in and demand we change who and what we are so we can look 'normal'," she said flatly.

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain kentucky_darby April 15 2012, 16:45:31 UTC

"While I can understand why one might be... reticent... to change one's appearance for another person -- I continue to lament my husband's insatiable desire to straighten out my son's hats! -- one must also dress for the occasion with which one is confronted."

Darby's eyes went steely. "The occasion in question is the arrival of the people who fund this school. If you wish the school to continue, you might reign in your temper."

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain glacial_witch April 15 2012, 16:59:46 UTC

Karla did wish for the school to continue, she fervently did. But this female had just equated people wanting to hide Warren's wings with her husband adjusting someone's hats.

"There is a difference between dressing for an occasion and telling someone the way they look is wrong," she said through clenched teeth. "And singling people out in particular for needing to be fixed."

Re: Arrival of the School Board/Complain kentucky_darby April 15 2012, 17:13:22 UTC

To be fair, Vance's straightening of Ryan's hats was an expression of his subconscious desire for Ryan to be straight, so it was closer than Karla thought.

Still not the same thing.

"Wrong for the occasion," Darby insisted. "I have absolutely no problem with how anyone may look -- or even choose to look -- in their own time. This week? Their time is not their own. If they wish to continue being associated with this school, they will accept our... suggestions."

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