Try Not to Die!! [Tuesday, May 10, 3rd period]

[sith_happened]

Today, Anakin was a little bit grateful for the cloak he habitually wore as he waited for his class to arrive outside on the border between Fandom and the Viking village. It was a little chilly for a guy who grew up in the desert.

"The island has given us too great an opportunity to ignore today in this course," Anakin told them as his robe flapped occasionally in the breeze in front of a sturdy little clue box. "You will have to complete two tasks today that will hopefully teach you a little bit more about the Vikings and their traditions. Try not to die!"

With that he stepped out of the way of the clue box.

[OOC: You'll need the OCD. Please hold! Go go go!]

Comments

Sign in [5/10]

[sith_happened]

Like it's beginning to dawn on you that your instructor might be a crazy person.

Re: Sign in [5/10]

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

Angelica Jones

Detour: Weaving or Waving

[sith_happened]

Pick one of the these two tasks, where you will learn about traditional Viking activities. When you complete them, you will earn your next clue.

Detour: Weaving

[sith_happened]

In Weaving, you race through town until you come to a woman making jewelry! Ha, did you think you'd been knitting a sweater? Listen as she explains the instructions in Ancient Norse, then wrap enough silver around the frame to make a bracelet. When she is satisfied with your work, you'll receive your next clue.

[OOC: From about step 9. The set-up part will have been completed for you.]

Detour: Waving

[sith_happened]

In Waving, you run through town and to the wharfs, where a number of villagers were working on a ship that made the Vikings so rightfully feared.

Using the ancient tools of this time, you must carve a steering oar. When your work has satisfied the foreman, he will give you your next clue.

Road Block!

[sith_happened]

Everyone's clue will lead them back to the docks of Fandom, where there will find enough rowboats to take them to the Isle of Ikea. Once there, you must complete a Billy bookcase without instructions. When you're finished, an Ikea salesperson will hand you the final clue, which tells you to make your way back (via rowboat, again. Anakin believes in a lot of exercise) to the Viking village where he's waiting for you. First one back wins this day's prize!

Re: Road Block!

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

Angelica was horribly nervous after accidentally melting her bracelet, so she took her time with the bookcase. She had to anyway with the lack of instructions, though most of it seemed relatively intuitive? Hopefully?

She might be underestimating IKEA.

Re: Road Block!

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Ok, so boats were something new for her. It took her some time to row the boat where it was supposed to go -- instead of around in circles. If she hadn't thought Professor Anakin would frown on it, she would have used Craft to make the boat do what she wanted it to do.

But the purpose of this was probably to learn something new and not take the most obvious or easy way out.

She finally got to Isle of Ikea and putting together the bookcase was a lot easier than working the boats. Thank the Darkness that Poppy was a carpenter and she had grown up watching him put things together without any written instructions at all.

By the time she fought with the boat and got back to the dock, her arms were sore.

Re: Road Block!

[wwiii]

Oh, man. Warren so wasn't made for this sort of thing.

The Worthingtons paid people to put together their bookcases for them! How was this supposed to work?

At least the rowing wasn't so bad. Thank you again, X-gene enhanced upper body strength. He rowed back quickly, but not nearly quickly enough to make up for the fact that he sucked at arts and crafts.

Re: Road Block!

[notagoose]

It took longer than what Goose would have liked at making the bookcase, finding it quite frustrating as he went about building.

Rowing on the other hand wasn't an issue, which went a lot more smoothly than the actual bookcase making.

Re: Road Block!

[wrongkindofsith]

The thing about rowing was you didn't have to think, so that was...okay. Okay enough that Cara spent rather more time rowing than she strictly should have.

The bookshelf itself was simple enough once you figured out where everything was supposed to go.

Re: Road Block!

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Toby didn't think it was cheating, exactly, to try and keep a mental 'ear' open as he assembled his bookcase in case any of his classmates happened to be really good at this bookshelf-building thing and had a plan in mind.

Re: Road Block!

[necroslacker]

Getting to the Isle of Ikea wasn't too bad. Sure, he turned himself around in the rowboat a few times and veered off course but the real test came when assembling the bookcase. Sam just stared and stared and stared some more.

His bookcases back home were the kitchen table, the floor and his desk. Needless to say, it took him several tries to get the damn bookcase together so it wasn't both an eyesore and a major health hazard.

Re: Road Block!

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

"Oh, come on!" Jack groaned. He could handle the rowboat ride but the ikea bookcase? WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONS?

"What kind of sadistic person does this," he grumbled as he put the bookcase together.

Needles to say Jack made a mess of it at first but managed to get it done with a minimum of injury.

"Stupid allen wrenches," he complained as he rowed back to the viking village.

Re: Road Block!

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle had no objection to having to row over to the Isle of IKEA; what, did you think she'd paid for those abs of hers? It was harder work rowing by herself, but with a lot of stubbornness and effort and some really comical facial expressions she pulled up to the other island and . . . managed to conk herself over the head a few times with bookshelves in the process of building. If not for that, she might have finished faster.

Hey, at least it didn't involve having to carve pegs or lash things together with strips of leather. Maybe she could suggest this to her tribe as a building alternative -- no, bad idea, Gabrielle. The Amazon village got destroyed spectacularly enough every time you were around and someone with a bone to pick with you just happened to swing through. No need to make that easier.

Re: Road Block!

[sedlexduralex.livejournal.com]

This would be so much easier if the boat had a sail. A sailboat, Jocelyn could maneuver without a problem, but the rowboat? Ugh.

The bookshelf though was even worse. She came from a world of crafted objects and heavy, hand-down-through-generations furniture, not this easily breakable stuff. And it did easily break more than once as she accidentally used too much strength to try to put the pieces together.

Sigh.

Re: Road Block!

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Rowing a boat, building a bookcase. The first Alexander found pretty easy just out of sheer pleasure for being in a rowboat, the other he found easy from years of having to fix and construct furniture, sparse as it was, around Mannanan's tower. While he didn't particularly like the idea of doing some of that stuff again, the fact that he was doing it for class and that he wouldn't be killed if he refused did wonders for his enjoyment of the thing, really.

Re: Road Block!

[forhisfriends.livejournal.com]

Simon had rowed a boat before. He just hadn't had to do it all alone, and while he knew enough about the technique not to end up going around in circles, it seemed to take him forever to get to the isle. The bookcase didn't provide half the same challenge, even if he did manage to put one of the shelves in backwards on his first try.

He knew the rowing was good exercise, but his upper arms were protesting.

Re: Road Block!

[mathletenomore.livejournal.com]

Lindsay was not good at rowing. It took what seemed like forever before she reached her destination. She thought for sure she was going to be last.

But then she got to the bookcase. She got through that much faster once she realized where everything was supposed to go. Her math skills helped her understand all of the dimensions.

Re: Road Block!

[aliceseesthings.livejournal.com]

This part? Not so difficult for Alice, thankfully. At least until she got about halfway through and had pieces of wood that didn't seem to go together. Finally she worked it out, though. Next clue, yay!

Re: Road Block!

[richieryan.livejournal.com]

While rowing to the island, Richie was wondering how exactly he'd ended up in this class.

While trying to assemble the damned bookcase he was wondering out loud. Loudly. "And there are too many pieces!" he complained, giving the pile of metal bits a dirty look.

Eventually there was a bookcase. There were still bits left over, but it was a bookcase.

And then a rather exhausted Richie was rowing AGAIN. This course was ridiculous. Just ridiculous.

Re: Road Block!

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh! Annie had done this! Well, she'd watched one put together at her house! It was the rowing that slowed her down. She'd never done that before- everyone be shocked that a seventeen-year-old girl had not rowed a boat before- and it took some time to make it do what she wanted it to do.

The bookcase at least, that should could do. Aww, look what scarily-named class built up her self-esteem today.

Check in with Anakin!

[sith_happened]

He'll reiterate what the RNG has decided below congratulate you on completing your first class and not dying!

If you won today, you get to wear a genuine Viking hat for the rest of the day, should you choose. It's quite fetching.

Re: Check in with Anakin!

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

Angelica was the last to return and looked positively miserable about it. She didn't want to look incompetent on her very first day of classes. But at least she hadn't died?

Ask Tahiri or Anakin for help!

[sith_happened]

If you get stuck anywhere, lose an oar or manage to really piss of a Viking...

Re: Ask Tahiri or Anakin for help!

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri was . . . well, she was here, let's say that. A couple of hours in a meditative trance meant she didn't look like she'd been crying, but she wasn't exactly bright and cheerful.

Yuuzhan Vong might know how to channel physical pain into strength, but if there was a way to do that for the emotional variety she hadn't figured it out yet.

OOC

[sith_happened]

And the mighty RNG says that today, the class finishes in the following order:

1. Prince Alexander of Daventry
2. Damian Wayne
3. Gabrielle
4. Kate Daniels
5. Annie Edison
6. Cassidy
7. Squall Leonhart
8. Sam LaCroix
9. Jack Carter
10. Simon Bellamy
11. Cara
12. Toby Logan
13. Jocelyn Fairchild
14. Shane Gooseman
15. Richie Ryan
16. Lindsay Weir
17. Warren Worthington III
18. Surreal SaDiablo
19. Alice Cullen
20. Angelica Jones

As on the Amazing Race, if your character gets frustrated with the first Detour task they chose, they are allowed to switch, but this will cost you time. You have to row the boats yourself (no flying to and from, for example) or you will again be slapped with another time penalty. This is mostly for your own information if you want to play with the narrative of how the RNGs results happened. Mostly, though, have fun with this!

Re: OOC

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

Will I be eliminated, Phil? D: