Detention, Saturday June 7, 2008

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

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!]

Comments

Re: Before you start

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"No offense taken," Ella said thoughtfully, as she puzzled it out. She knew she was far from a giant, but a glance told her she was more than half a foot taller than Ino. "I'd rather try my luck at the ropes than walk through the mud, though. Is there a reason we need to do it the same way, as long as we do it at the same time?"

Re: Before you start

[intraspective]

"Well," Ino considered that, "see, that's hard to say? She didn't really give us the best instructions. We're supposed to work in pairs though? So I think we're supposed to help each other out? Maybe if you went on the ropes I could help balance you from the ground?"

Re: Before you start

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"That would work," Ella decided. "If I lose my balance, you could reach up to steady me, as long as our pace is the same. Should we at least give it a try?"

Re: Before you start

[intraspective]

Ino had to grin at that. "We can, yeah. But first we've got to do some climbing. Have you ever done this before?"

Re: Before you start

[ella-obeys.livejournal.com]

"Not on ropes," Ella had to admit. "A few rocks, but nothing this steep." Steep and full of holes and generally worth being nervous about, but there was no profit in being afraid. "Let's go (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/1792001.html?thread=111260673#t111260673)."