Mira Hasta-Rur wrote: > > Jac shakes his head, "I'm not sure what this is." > > > > The young woman across the table leans in and whispers, "It's a > > vargr poem from Sequi. Onc is speaking the words and the other is > > translating the scents and body language into words..." she stops > > and listens. > > > > Jac raises his eyebrows and says to Mira, "That makes sense, I > > guess, but I've never heard anyone try to do this before." > > Mira nods, "Me either. We'll have to ask Woof about it." > > > "Are they any good?" Jac asks the others sounding like he doesn't > > think so. > > > > The girl whispers to her companion, "They aren't very good are > > they?" > > > > He shakes his head and grins, "Nope, six to four they'll be rolled > > off the stage." > > Mira grabs a second roll before she loses her chance and starts > slathering butter on it. All the better to watch the fun with. She > gives Jac a guilty smile, realizing she'd enjoy this if they were. There is some tittering around the room, a rustle of voices, that Mira picks up. Glancing at the two men on the stage she see that they notice it too. One of the men's voice breaks, and when it does the crowd pounces. A hail of rolls flies toward the stage with shouts of laughter. Jac grins and grabs a roll tossing it in an arc toward the stage as do most of the people seated around Mira. The two men fend off the rolls laughing. One of them bats at the rolls with his guitar as the pair run off the stage and back around the corner to general cheers and shouts of laughter. After the performers leave, three people come out and sweep the rolls up shoveling them into large wicker baskets. Only after the rolls have been removed does the next act come forward. It is a pair of young men, college aged, carrying what look like bowling pins. The begin to juggle them. Jac still chuckling leans over and says, "Oh, my! These two are just asking for it!" However, the pair of jugglers are actually very good and soon there is a smattering of applause from the eaters. Someone near the stage says something to one of the jugglers who nods and deftly catches first one, then two and three, rolls tossed to him and includes the rolls in the juggling. This draws even more applause. Now the applause is rhythmic and in time with the jugglers and the music, now coming from somewhere. By the time the pair finish their act the crowd is clapping and stomping their feet in time and end with a rousing cheer. After this act finishes, the stage stays empty for a while, as the crowd slowly quiets down. Many of the eaters finish and leave and are replaced by new arrivals. To Mira, it's almost as if a "ringer" act was included in the rotation to finish up a "shift"...but no one here seems to notice that. Eris AKU GM
