Another Long, Long Line- (Adventure times with Lea, OTA)

[hotheadwarmheart]

Famed lightnoisist Gurancha Heralda, to the surprise of everyone, booked a one-night-only performance at Corastra Hall with dirt-cheap prices. This promises to be the hit event of the year, or competition for it anyway -- but by the time you and your companions get to the ticket booth, they've sold out of tickets!

How will you get in to see Heralda now?

[Honestly, Lea probably should have expected that the show would be sold out by the time they arrived. He wouldn't even be that disappointed, but he was taking music class, so he figured it might pay him to learn something about the kinds of music they had here. Plus, he was dying to know what the heck a 'lightnoisist' actually was; it sounded kind of cool. 

How to get in though? He supposed he could try getting up on the roof, but if they didn't have a skylight or a roof entrance, that'd be a bust. There might be another way though, one that might even make them a little extra money if the door guy went for it.

Lea turned to those with him.]

You know... with a sell-out crowd on such short notice, they might be a little short staffed here. If we can convince them, do you think maybe they'd take us on temporarily to help sell snacks and things? I mean something like that can't require too much experience, right? Plus, it would show that us 'Sundered' don't just intend to be freeloaders while we're here.

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You know she would be replying to this....

[nobodys_puppet]

"Sell?" Xion was asking. She didn't care about the tickets or anything. She was going there to be with Axel because it was something that he wanted to do. Honestly she wasn't even fully sure what this ticket thing was anyway.

But... "Like a moogle?"

But of course! X3

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Eh... kinda?", Lea said. "More like the people we buy ice cream from though. Basically people would tell us what snacks they wanted and pay us munny, then we'd give them the snacks they wanted, along with giving back any munny that was left over, if they gave us more than the price of the snacks."

[nobodys_puppet]

She listened, considered that. "One question... where do we get the snacks?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Presumably, they'd give them to us, if they agreed to the whole thing," Lea said. "We wouldn't be selling them for ourselves, we'd be selling them for the people who run the concert hall. Then we'd give them the munny and any leftover snacks when we were done, and they'd pay us a set amount of munny for the work we did."

"At least, that's the plan," he said. "Who knows if they'll go for it?"

[nobodys_puppet]

"Why would they give us munny for selling their food?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea shrugged. "So they wouldn't have to do it themselves, I guess," he said. "That's kinda how jobs work, when you're not part of an evil Organization. You do work for somebody else, and assuming you do what you're supposed to and don't slack off too much, they pay you for your time."

[nobodys_puppet]

"And if we do slack off too much, they turn us into Dusks?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Huh? No, of course not!", Lea said. "They probably just wouldn't pay us, if that happened. The most they might do is throw us out and tell us not to come back. People whose employees have a choice whether to work for them or not can't just go around hurting or threatening them. Not if they want to still have employees."

[nobodys_puppet]

She looked so perplexed. "Why would people have choices?"

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Because...", Lea started, then faltered. How to explain a concept that he had always considered so basic that it needed no explanation? "Because most people aren't beholden to an Organization, like we were," he said. "They have lots of different choices about what to do with their lives."

"And so do we," he said. "Right now, you and me? We can do whatever we want with our time. We don't have to work for them. We could go back to the school and study, we could find other work somewhere else, we could bum around town all day not doing much of anything, whatever we wanted. We're not part of the Organization any more, so as long as we're not actually breaking any rules or laws, we're free to do pretty much whatever we want."

[nobodys_puppet]

"But.." Didn't rules and laws mostly just mean do what Xemnas and Saïx tell you to? "They told us when we came here, we have to go to this school, and when I wanted to leave a lot of people," like Atem "kept trying to make me come back. I don't know who gives the missions here so, yet, because I've been avoiding people as much as I could... but...."

She just figured eventually sooner or later whoever was in charge would find her and give her orders and threats....

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Xion," Lea said, "they kept trying to make you come back because it was freezing cold, and we don't have anywhere else safe to stay here at the moment. And we have to go to this school because we need to learn at least enough of this world's magic that our power doesn't start backfiring on us in icky ways. There's no one giving out missions. Teachers at the school give lessons, but the most you'd get for not doing them or doing badly at them is a bad grade."

"Life outside the Organization is... really different from the way it was when we were part of it," he said. "And that means, we have choices now. Understand?"

All tags for the mo are iPad tags till I pass out, please excuse odd typos and errors. Even ones too

[nobodys_puppet]

“What is a... grade?” She had heard the word, but didn’t know what it meant... “And... will our powers really backfire, or do they make it happen if we fail?”