fandomhigh | 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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Like you are about to save the day!

Or the explanation. Whatever.

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.

Who, honestly, is probably kind of confused. Maybe less so this week!

Who is here to be spoken to!

A couple things!

1. I forgot to stick it up there, but if you wanna use magic or any special weapon you can carry around with you or anything like that, go for it.

2. Unfortunately, this final falls on my last final, so I'm a little AFK throughout the day.

3. You guys have been phenom omgggggggg. I'm so sorry I've been slightly less than awesome this semester -- my RL exploded about two weeks into this, and I appreciate how everyone has had fun in this class. So thank you guys for being great!

Lion-o

Ben Skywalker

Lion-o felt pretty well-prepared to tackle the exam, even if he wasn't too crazy about the funny-looking damsel in distress.

...he was going to save an inflatable doll from the top of a building. Yeah, that sounded about right for this class.

Ben gave a little shrug.

Adam Park

Adam realized he shouldn't be surprised by what happened in this class anymore, really.

Hannibal King

Hannibal was just going to be over here. Laughing.

Romeo Montague

Well, Romeo was certainly glad he had held off on leaving for Verona for a few hours for the sake of this. Though he wasn't displeased to have a damsel to rescue.

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.

Tahiri Veila

Tahiri tried to catch his eye. Someone had to share her bemusement.

Seriously, did Hammer realize how much leeway went into "anything at your disposal?"

Tony Foster

Arthur Pendragon

Ben grinned back. They could just float the doll down from where they were, but that didn't seem sporting.

If Tony were to call the doll to his hand with magic, would it get caught or stopped by anything (like the window?) on the way?

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.

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Heroing [Period 2, Class 14, Tuesday]

Sign in [04/22/09]

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Do your final!!! [04/22/09]

Talk to the TA [04/22/09]

Talk to Captain Hammer [04/22/09]

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