Phys Ed: Week 14, Period 1 (Fri. 4/17)

[satedan-soldier.livejournal.com]

The floor of the Danger Shop gymnasium was covered with thick, blue mats. To one side, students might notice a bucket of blue rags and a bucket of short, bantos rods with hand guards.

"Today we're playing Capture the Flag," Ronon's booming voice echoed in the empty room. "The goal's to grab the other guy's flag." He paused with a slightly evil smile remembering how his friends back home failed fiercely at this game. "No penalties. Nothing off limits. Once someone grabs the flag a new round starts. After every round, the level of difficulty’s increased. It’s to simulate battle since after every encounter there’s the possibility of injury. Round two's one-handed. Round three's one handed and one-legged. Round four's one handed, one-legged, and one-eyed." Someone always gave up at round four. Something about playing with one eye closed didn't work for most.

"Get your uniform, a flag, a partner, and get going."

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Re: Capture the Flag [PE 4/17]

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"Or flying spaghetti monster," Claire said solemnly, as she threw paper. "Oh, yay, my round."

She was so overjoyed.

Re: Capture the Flag [PE 4/17]

[lovemykilt]

Priestly closed his eye and suddenly had to stick his arm out to the side and flail it around in a desperate attempt to keep his balance.

This didn't prevent him from continuing the conversation, though. "I dunno. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is primarily protesting religion in schools and intelligent design. The Invisible Pink Unicorn is more anti-religion itself, a symbol of conversational intolerance more than one of absurd diversity."

Yes, Priestly put far too much thought into things like this.

"Both of which would probably be totally wiped out by the sun going supernova, unless we manage interstellar travel, first."

Re: Capture the Flag [PE 4/17]

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"So unicorns beat spaghetti," Claire said, holding very, very still. She'd found her one-eyed balance; no need to move enough to mess it up. "But, okay, does the sun going supernova beat things that aren't real anyhow? Even if we aren't still around, all of our satellite transmissions and the information would be."

She wobbled. "Eeep. One, two, three..."

She threw scissors.

Re: Capture the Flag [PE 4/17]

[lovemykilt]

"Okay, good point. That stuff will keep expanding until the end of the universe. But that begs the question," he threw paper and grimaced. "Does paper really beat rock? It only covers it up. The rock is still in existence underneath the paper. It's still affecting the world. And when scissors cuts paper, who's to say that the paper isn't dividing to conquer? Paper can cover scissors as easily as it covers rock."

Re: Capture the Flag [PE 4/17]

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"And when rock smashes scissors, it's really just dividing them into smaller blades, right? And it probably scratches up the rock," Claire said, following along. "I think we decided rock-paper-scissors is a stupid game."

She put her raised foot back on the ground. "... But I still won."

Re: Capture the Flag [PE 4/17]

[lovemykilt]

"Did not -- oh, yeah, I guess you did." Priestly set his own foot back on the ground. "I totally should have thrown 'the end of the universe'."

Re: Capture the Flag [PE 4/17]

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Claire shrugged slightly, triumphantly. "Sorry. Next time?"

Re: Capture the Flag [PE 4/17]

[lovemykilt]

"Sure. It'll give me time to figure out the proper hand gesture."