fandomhigh | Tracking: Urban v. Wilderness; Thursday, Period Three [ 09/16 ].

The class would be meeting in the Danger Shop today, where Angua stood waiting for them to gather at the divide between two different settings: to one side, a lush rocky forest. On the other, an old sprawling city, not too dissimilar from Anhk-Morpork.

"Welcome back," she started. "Sorry about last week. Yes, I'm fine. No, I don't want to talk about it. Today, we're going to start by talking about last week. Clearly, none of you had any problems finding the trail mix, which is a good sign. Those of you with more honed senses could tell it was under there, while those of you without had the good sense to observe your surroundings, learn from them, and act accordingly. That sort of attention to detail is invaluable; in fact, it puts you at an advantage over those who may depend on their senses for tracking. Sometimes, they get so caught up in what they sense that they can't notice what else might be going on, which could lead to missing obvious things or could even be deadly.

"So, to prove this point..."

Angua brought out from her pocket a little glass vial. "This," she said "is peppermint oil. While very good for things like headaches, indigestion, that sort of thing in small doses, it, in large doses can completely throw off a person's sense of smell and, if strong enough, taste and sight as well. I'm not one to fluff my own fur--eathers, but I was getting so good at tracking criminals back home in Ankh-Morpork that they were starting to use this liberally on the crime scene so that I couldn't even detect where to begin...outside of shipping records, because the peppermint merchants were probably experiencing quite the boom in business.

"So, what we have here today are two different scenes, clearly, and we will be splitting up into two groups and playing hide and seek. Each group will take a different setting for the first half of class and then, for the second half, we'll switch. Both scenes are liberally covered in peppermint oil. Each of you will also be liberally covered in peppermint oil. So you haven't got your senses to depend on as much, and have to use other cues to help you to find your classmates. The first person to be 'IT' will be our TAs; once they find someone, that person becomes it and must find someone else. Then that person becomes It and so on and so forth. If you become It, the person who found you is exempt from being caught while they go and hide. When we switch, there will be five minutes to hide, and the TAs become It again."

"Team A, headed by Jacob and starting in the woods, will consist of Andros, Ben, Blysse, Blind Seer, Effy, Dana, George, Jason, and Roy."

"Team B, headed by Maladicta and starting in the city, will be Zack, Alice, Ender, Bruce, Cara, Dru, Katniss, Makita, and Tahiri."

"Any questions? And, before you ask, yes, the peppermint oil will wash off without a problem. Most peppermint oil won't, but that's why we love this Danger Shop, right?"

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With minty freshness!

Listen up and cover yourself in peppermint oil.

It could have been worse.

It could have been Axe Body Spray.

Edited 2010-09-16 13:31 (UTC)

How this works:

Below will be two threads for the different settings. Team A is the woods, Team B is the city. These settings are, of course, completely moddable, with the exception of going into caves or buildings. Access to those have been blocked. Ping your character in as to where they're hiding, and, if an It person "finds" you, then you ping someone else, "finding" them, and they become It and ping another person. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Feel free to hide and find as many times as you'd like.

God, I hope that makes sense.

Lots of trees, rocks, streams, or whatever else to hide in and around!

Streets and alleys, nooks and crannies. You just might want to avoid that river...

Second verse, same as the first, but with settings switched!

TAs are It again, Team A is in the city, Team B is in the woods!

Pity if you didn't wear your moss coloured trousers today.

No, seriously, don't go near that river (http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Ankh_%28river%29)...

Or you could pout at them if they made you It.

Who may, by the end of the class, finally letting it show on her face how much she hates gods damn peppermint oil.

Hooray for my computer not blowing up this morning!

Zack Fair

Oooh, this sounded like a lot of fun! Zack was grinning a little as the lecture went on, for two reasons. First? Working in Midgar meant that he was pretty used to having no sense of smell to speak of, because that was one rancid-smelling city. And second? Mmmm, pepperminty.

Makita

Ben Skywalker

Was it just Zack, or did that river look a little... squashy?

He wrinkled his nose a bit as he passed it by, and decided, rather than ducking underneath a bridge, to take to the rooftops instead of the nice, predictable alleyways. He could probably duck behind a chimney or something, maybe, and getting up to the rooftops in the first place was really just a matter of making a running leap and doing some creative acrobatics around the spires and eaves.

Cara

Effy Stonem

Grimacing and hoping that this wasn't going to permanently damage her leathers, Cara started anointing herself with the oil, remembering to daub her pulse points. She was going to reek of this stuff.

Kind of pretty out here, really. Even if it wasn't really real. The pepperminty gave that away a little more than usual.

Still, strength of that scent gave her an advantage. Around here, you never knew who might be able to use their nose. After a moment or two looking around silently, she set off, finding a Rhododendron type shrub big enough to hide herself in the lower branches and settle in.

Tahiri Veila

Jacob Black

Well, you could try pouting but Jake would probably just laugh.

Tahiri made a bit of a face at being assigned to the city first, but she supposed the practice couldn't hurt.

And she'd been covered in things a lot worse than peppermint oil, really, so . . .

What did it say, that she'd been a bit confused by the point of the oil at first, since scent wasn't typically the first sense she thought of using in these situations?

She obviously hadn't tracked enough beings who possessed a sense of subtlety.

This whole peppermint thing was weird, but at least it didn't stink, and Jake had other senses. The woods, he was familiar with and he knew which sounds belonged there and which didn't.

He'd found some prints earlier on and he'd slowed himself down, moving almost soundlessly through the trees. When he came near the shrub Effy was hiding, he couldn't actually see her. Neither could he smell her (stupid mint), but his hearing was still just fine. Too fine maybe. "I know you're there," he said, turning in her direction.

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