18 Consimbs 4385: Escapade at the Orchestra of Occlusion

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

After hot hot hot Surprise it's hard to get used to Second Fall!  It's been cooler than usual for Consimbs in Vheshrame. I've hardly been swimming AT ALL if you can imagine that. Like only ONCE this whole last week!  I have to take long hot baths just to keep from drying out and blowing away.  (To all my extradimensional friends: no not really).

Instead I've been going out on escapades with friends.  (Escapades are like adventures but without the dangerous-getting-mutilated-by-monsters part).  Some of the escapades have been not very escapade-y, like the one where we went hunting all over Vheshrame for a place that served milk o'quits and never even found one.  Studies-Too-Much ended up buying snails and making his own, but now he's not sure he got the right type of snails.  Another couple were watching performances -- a puppet show and the Orchestra of Occlusion -- and the puppet show shouldn't count as any kind of escapade if you ask me.

Oh but the orchestra does, because they were sold out and none of us had tickets and Archonandi had PROMISED his fiancée Fressis they'd go. So we HAD to get at least the two of them in. 

Archonandi, Fressis, Studies-Too-Much, Paraffa, me, and Outcast that were supposed to go.   Don't ask me why Outcast was there. Oh nevermind I'll explain anyway: see, Mirhandrax and Outcast have kept on adventuring together because they're trying to raise lozens for an expedition to find Outcast's lost mewellicapfriend. For reasons I don't begin to understand Outcast refuses to give up on the relationship despite it being GROSS and WRONG and bad for everyone including Elisia.  And instead of trying to talk him out of it like any sensible prime, Mirhandrax is helping him. So they're still best buddies.  Archonandi is also friends with Mirhandrax and so when Mirhandrax is in town Arcsy invites him to stuff.  And since Outcast is Mirhandrax's friend and Arcsy doesn't want to be rude he always invites Outcast too.Then Mirhandrax doesn't want to come anyway because he doesn't go to puppet shows or musical performances or anything that anyprime might consider fun unless you count pit fighting which I DON'T.  But of course OUTCAST is happy to come and so we're stuck with him. 

I bet you wish I'd stuck with 'Don't ask'.

Fressis had to work until just before the performance started, so the four of us went on ahead to get tickets.

Except, like I said, the show was sold out. Paraffa said, "We go to different show, maybe?"

"No, I swore to Fressis we'd see the Orchestra of Occlusion!" Archonandi protested.  "She's been wanting to see them since Lage. I've already had to back out three times for one reason or another. I can't disappoint her again."

"Perhaps we can buy tickets at a markup from someone who already has them?" Outcast suggested. "For the two of you, at least."

But it turned out that the Orchestra of Occlusion has a really strict policy against reselling -- they put the names of the ticket holders on the tickets at purchase, and if they find out you resold they'll never let you buy again.  Which isn't exactly a foolproof prevention tactic, but it was good enough that we couldn't find any resellers.

"There are always empty seats at this sort of thing," Studies-Too-Much said.  "They're bound to have some people who don't show up.  We just need to find a way to get them to sell us those seats."

Outcast crinkled his muzzle in thought. "Well ... I have one idea."

While he explained, I surreptitiously cast The Raven's Beak because this sounded like it had a good chance of being an Adventure.

Comments

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I haven't been keeping up with music in Vheshrame at all lately. What is the Orc. of Occ., and why are they so severe?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

I don't know why they hate resellers so much! But they're very popular right now. They have like fifty players and they use Illusidor to amplify and occlude various parts of the performance for effect, which is pretty cool.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

If you don't have to make a hurried escape at the end, it isn't a real escapade?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

There has to be at least the possibility of needing a hurried escape at the end anyway!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

It does indeed sound like an Adventure! ^_^

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

One of my safest adventurers yet!

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Hey Delight, this is a bit off topic, but I couldn't get to sleep cause I was thinking of all the fun conversations we had in your scroll, and all the interesting insights you give. I was thinking of the times I shared little tidbits from my world with you, like how our gods, if they exist, seem to focus more on making stars and stuff, and that funny time when we started talking about all the animals in my world that look like thinking creatures from yours, and that funny time where you reacted to that fictional durudor construct (it was made to look scary!) from that illusidor play I shared with you.

Anyway, I have another to share with you! Inspired by you, I recently made an effort to try eating some insects, which my particular culture doesn't usually consider appropriate food sources (other cultures in my world do, however). I tried some dried, cheese flavored mealworm larva, and they reminded me of the shell of heat-popped corn kernels. They were kinda hollow on the inside, and didn't have much any flavor at all... the cheese flavor could have been wayyyyyy stronger. From what I hear, it is difficult to find insects that are really good at being the main attraction; most tend to not have lots of flavor... I think I would have to go searching for obscure varieties to find insects that are innately tasty. :(

Anyway, on the band and orchestra and singing groups and stuff, have you ever attended any concerts where the music was just part of a much much more involved performance-art sort of thing? Like musical plays or operas or avante-garde stuff with light shows and 'special effects' and other weirrd artsy stuff going on in time with the music?