http://idontlooktired.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] idontlooktired.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2008-06-07 03:16 pm

Detention, Saturday June 7, 2008

When the students came through the door into the Danger Shop, they'd find themselves standing on a grassy knoll. Stretching out before them was an expanse of warm, thick bubbling mud over which a simple ropes course had been built. On the other side of that was a stretch of solid ground, and on the other side of that was a lake.

Harriet was waiting for them, hands behind her back. "Good morning." She favoured them all with a brief smile. "All you have to do is get to the other side." She waved behind them, where the door they'd come through had disappeared, then pointed into the distance, where it could just be seen. "As you can see, that's where the door is now. You will work in pairs to go over the course and across the rope bridge, after which you will build a raft and paddle across the lake. You'll find everything you could possibly imagine you'd need to build one waiting for you."

She announced the pairs -- Ella and Ino, Lois and Gwen, Gavin and John -- and then added, somewhat sharply, "Gavin and John, you're going to have an extra special challenge." Harriet threw a belt with metal loops to each of them, and a length of climbing rope with a carabineer on each end. "You will put those on, and you will stay clipped together until you leave, or we're going to be spending every Saturday from now until the end of time together." She gave them a look. "And I will not be happy about it. Now, off you go!" She smiled again. "I'll be keeping an eye on you from outside."

And she turned away towards the door, walking about two feet above the mud, the ground, and the water, and left.

[ooc: plz to be
waiting for OCD
playing now!]

Re: The ropes course

[identity profile] armybrat-lois.livejournal.com 2008-06-07 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Lois looked over the ropes course with a look of anticipation on her face. She had been doing stuff like this for as long as she could remember.

"This should be nothing," Lois informed Gwen.

Re: The ropes course

[identity profile] ihaveniceteeth.livejournal.com 2008-06-07 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nothing, right," Gwen repeated. "That's what they always say right before something tries to eat your head."

Re: The ropes course

[identity profile] armybrat-lois.livejournal.com 2008-06-07 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Unless the ropes can magically turn into man-eating snakes then I don't think we have to worry about anything eating our heads," Lois said. She looked at the ropes warily then and really hoped they couldn't turn into snakes.

Re: The ropes course

[identity profile] ihaveniceteeth.livejournal.com 2008-06-08 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
"The dean wouldn't have done that," Gwen said, trying to remember any incidences of snakes in Whitehall. "I think."