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Heroing [Period 2, Class 14, Tuesday]

Today, the Danger Shop was set up with an elaborate, dirty cityscape. "GOOD MORNING, CLASS!" Hammer boomed. "Welcome to your final. Your job, today, should you choose to accept it" -- that's not the quote, Hammer, but nice try -- "is to rescue a damsel in distress!"

He held up a rather unrealistic looking blow-up doll. Yes, even in the Danger Shop, Hammer hadn't gotten realistic people simulations. One could argue that he didn't want them to risk messing up with real people, but the truth was that he had messed up the programming. The class should feel lucky to even have this much put together.

"You can use anything at your disposal -- gadgets," he said, gesturing to the table of ~~totes moddable~~ gadgets on a table before them, "vehicles," and he pointed to the...motley assortment of vehicles nearby, "or simply your physical skills." He flexed, in case they didn't get that.

"Your damsel is up there." Captain Hammer pointed up several stories of a building about a hundred yards away, where students might observe a blow-up doll hanging out a window. "If you take longer than two minutes, the room will catch on fire, too. Have fun!"

[~~give me a couple minutes to toss up the OCD, kiddies.~~ IT'S UP YAYYYYY.]

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Okay, so here's the dealio. The gadgets are totes moddable within reason -- grappling hooks, small weapon-y things, et cetera.

The vehicles are: a horse, a tank, a pair of roller skates, a skateboard, a hippity hop (http://www.jumpingballs.com/Jumping_Balls_hop_Ball_hoppity_s/1.htm?gclid=CK7gzb-MhZoCFQoMDQodYShJFg), and a covered wagon.

You don't have to use any of that -- you can totally run over to the building and climb up the side if you think you can manage it. The doll is hanging out the window about 4-5 stories up. You can even take the stairs, but if you think you've taken longer than 2 minutes, please do mod some fire.

Romeo decided to do this the easiest way he could manage. That meant skateboarding to the building, throwing grappling hooks attached to a rope to the window (it took him three tries, but he got it to hook only a little to the left of the right place eventually), an ungainly climb up the rope -- and he strained to grab the blow-up doll by the tip of one hand.

For a real person, it would have been a precarious hold, but it worked for a blow-up doll. As did dropping "her" from halfway down the ladder.

Final complete, damsel rescued. No victory kiss?

Ben stared for a looooong time at the blue...bouncy thing...before choosing to go on horseback instead.

He galloped over to the building, tossed a grappling hook up to grab the windowsill (using a little nudge of the Force because he'd overshot just a tad), then climbed up the side of the building, plucked the doll from the window, and bounced back down with, oh, three seconds to spare.

He was very pleased with himself.

The hippity hop looked like it would have been fun, but Lion-o had a deadline. So he rushed off on one of the skateboards.

He was a good climber and opted to go straight up the side of the building to save time. It didn't take him long to get to the doll, but then he couldn't figure out how to safely go back down with the doll. He went through the window and tried to race down the stairs, dragging the blow-up doll behind him and just barely making it before the deadline passed. Unfortunately, the doll didn't quite make it and its fake plastic hair was smoldering.

Tony looked up at the doll. Okay, need to get it down to safety in less than two minutes. Easy. He lifted his hand and spoke the seven-syllable spell in an unrecognizable language. (Tony didn't actually know what the words were; he'd memorized it phonetically.) The doll dropped out of the window and landed directly in his hand. He held it up triumphantly.

It occurred to him a moment later that if it had been a real person, dropping them five stories straight down into his hand would be a pretty bad idea. Oops. Hopefully the teacher wouldn't consider that when grading him.

Tahiri's original plan had been to drive the tank over to the building and use the grappling hook to get into the room.

This was somewhat complicated by the fact that she ended up crashing the tank into the building, using up a good minute of her time trying to extricate herself from the hole, and losing the lower third of the grappling line when it snagged badly on some of the rubble on her way out . . . which ate up another thirty seconds.

By that point, since she hadn't brought any other gadgets with her, she didn't have much choice but to use a Force-assisted leap just to scale the wall with what was left of the grappling line. With four seconds to go she was still half a floor away from the doll and had to summon it to herself (it got a tiny bit singed on the way out when the fire started).

She was so not saying anything beforehand about having to do things the hard way again, she decided as she dropped back to the ground with the doll -- it was taller than her, which didn't help matters -- awkwardly slung over her shoulder.

Summer got into the tank and drove it to the building. If one could call it driving. She ran over things and smashed a lot of cars along the way. Running stuff over, knowing no one would get hurt, was fun.

Once there, she opted to climb the stairs rather than the side of the building. When she reached her destination, she grabbed the doll. Of course more than 2 minutes had gone by at this point and fire was spreading rapidly. She ran faster than she ever had in her life. It probably could have gone better, but she got the job done.

Warren grabbed the skateboard, and did a decent enough job getting to the building. But like hell he was going to bother with the grappling hooks and the like. He was taking the stairs, dammit.

And so what if the room was on fire when he got there? The 'damsel' wasn't going to come with him, being a blow-up doll and all, but that wasn't going to stop him from making a few choice comments threatening her with more fire as he walked through the flames to retrieve her, and then simply jumped out the window with her in tow.

He'd been thrown through concrete pillars that hurt more, really.

Helen rode the horse over to the building, threw the grappling hook up without too much difficulty, climbed up and pulled the doll out. She dropped the doll onto the horse and rode back to where she'd started.

Woo! Skateboard! Robin sped over to the building on it, armed with a grappling hook. He wasn't going to need it to get to the girl (he'd seen Muppets that looked more human), but he knew realistically he'd never have gotten her back down again without it.

He hopped as high as he could go, covering about half the distance, onto a window ledge. Then he hopped the rest of the way. "Stay calm Ma'am!" Firing the grappling hook at a streetlight, he grabbed the doll's wrist.

"Hold on tight. To the grappling hook, not to me." He held the doll's hand against the grappling gun, wrapped his own arms around it, and then let go.

"WHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!" He retracted the line as he fell so he wound up swinging ~~somewhat~~ gracefully to the ground under the streetlight.

This would be a million times easier if Adora could just transform to She-Ra. With a determined look, she grabbed a grappling hook and rope and threw them up to the window. She was easily able to crawl up the line and rescue her...doll. Really?

Hmm. Her time could have been improved to avoid flailing about putting out the fire.

Okay, so Jess wasn't exactly the most physically fit person in the world, but he didn't have any trouble skateboarding to the building and getting up the stairs. By the time he'd grabbed the doll, the fire had started, and he used the grappling hook and rope to climb out the window and get back down the side of the building. If he dropped the doll out the window in order to make the trip down faster, well, it was better than catching on fire.

This was what Anemone had been crated for. Well, not this, more the 'kill maim destroy' than play 'care about the moronic civilian', but it was close enough.

She simply dashed into the building, taking the stairs three at a time before simply grabbing the doll and climbing out the window, jumping the rest of the way to the ground.

Andros opted to use the roller skates, managing to get to the building in a reasonable amount of time. He was able to climb the building without using any gadgets. He managed to get the doll and back down within the 2 minute time limit.

Rodney was really glad he had some experience with driving a tank so that he didn't have to waste time figuring it out. Grabbing the mask and compact fire extinguisher he'd picked up from the gadget table, Rodney made his way upstairs; unfortunately, the fire had started by the time he got there. He carefully put out the flames and then dragged the slightly singed doll out behind him.

It wasn't flashy, but it got the job done.

Up the side of the building? In two minutes? Not a CHANCE.

Sokka grabbed a grappling hook and took the skateboard over to -- and INTO -- the building, squealing with delight the whole way. He hopped off the board at the bottom of the stairs and bounded up them two at a time. Without breaking his stride, he lodged the grappling hook securely on the doorframe as he entered the room, wrapped the arm NOT hanging on to the grappling hook's rope around the doll, and dove out the window just as the room burst into flames.

It was all incredibly impressive, just as he planned it to be.

Except for the part where the rope jerked and caught him, and then he swung HARD into the side of the building. And then the fire burned through the rope and he fell another story onto the pavement. Luckily, the blowup doll broke his fall.

Two minutes was more than enough time for her to teleport into the building, rescue the doll, and teleport the both of them back down to the ground.

True, she could've teleported the doll to the ground without having to go inside, but the other way was far more interesting.

Dor... was so not up to this task.

He took the horse which he was fairly used to riding in Xanth. Technically he rode centaurs but he figured they were the same.

He figured wrong. The horse would not pay attention to him so he ended up running. Of course he tripped over the rope and grappling hook he was carrying and fell on his face.

By the time he was able to get up the stairs the flames had gone to a full burn.

Technically he was able to bring the "girl" down but it was a big ball of melted plastic.

Two minutes, a hundred yards away and how many flights up? Momoko watched the others complete the final using their various abilities (Magic? Cool!) and made up her mind. People here knew she had powers, so what did it really matter if she used them?

She stepped back into a darker corner to try to transform without drawing attention. But when it was Momoko's turn for the rescue it was Blossom that stepped out. She flew to the building and in through the open window, pulling the doll with her as she burst through walls and down the stairs. She stopped a moment on the first floor to change back to Momoko before walking out with the rescued 'citizen' firmly in hand.

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