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

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!]

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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.

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.]

Edited 2011-05-10 12:27 (UTC)

Angelica decided on weaving (wondering more and more just what kind of school Emma had sent her to). She was making good progress and enjoying herself until the silver and copper melted into a gooey glob of metal and dripped off the wooden dowel. Dismayed, she looked around frantically, hoping no one had noticed, then shoved the ruined bracelet under a rock and reached for another frame.

This, of course, put her firmly behind the rest of the class.

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Cassidy had never done anything with metal like this before, so she was paying careful attention, wanting to make sure she got everything right.

No matter what Toby tried, he couldn't seem to weave the bracelet and make it look exactly how had been demonstrated. However, the further he got along in the task, the... somewhat closer to how it should look his weaving got. Eventually, when he reached a point where it didn't completely look like a tange of wires, he was permitted to go get the next clue.

Which was something of a relief because he was pretty sure he'd caught a thought involving throwing him in the lake in exasperation the third time he'd messed up what was apparently a pretty simple task. If you were a Viking.

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You know, usually Gabrielle had no trouble whatsoever communicating with people, no matter what ancient faraway country she ended up with. Yes, that was weird. No, it wasn't worth asking how it worked.

It was a moot point, anyway, because it wasn't working so well for her today, and her stammered attempts to get the woman to slow down and go back a couple of steps were way less persuasive than usual.

Luckily, both her Amazon tribe and the villagers of Poteidaia had intricate craftsmanship traditions of their own that Gabrielle had observed enough to get the gist of things, and by dint of a lot of squinting and muttering to herself she managed to figure it out sooner than she'd thought.

. . . she was also not above playing up the earnest, adorable, eager-to-please role to the hilt to soften the woman up, and despite the (inexplicable) language barrier, that worked well enough to get her past the weaving station in good time.

Simon really got through this task mainly on his patience. He watched the demonstration intently, then took his time with doing the weaving. It cost him some time but at least he didn't poke his fingertips with the wire, nor did he have to start over.

Yes, he took this all pretty seriously.

Lindsay picked the task she thought would be easiest. When she started over again for the second time, that's when she regretted that decision. Eventually, she figured it out, but by then she was already well behind.

Weaving? How hard could that be?

Plenty hard, as Richie discovered while trying to coax his silver wire into some semblance of order.

"Mac probably speaks Vikingese," he said mournfully as the woman corrected him again. At least he thought she was correcting him. He really had no idea. Eventually he made a very, very ugly bracelet that probably would have sold for a ridiculous amount of money in Tessa's shop and got his next clue.

It wasn't Annie's fault she was in a class called Try Not to Die with two exclamation points, and so she was maybe a little bit panicked for this very first class. It ended up being a plus, though, as Annie's insane attention to detail was a big help in bracelet-making, and it meant she could take a little more time in getting it right on the first try without freaking out.

And it was near perfect on the first try, thank you. Woo! She wasn't going to die this class!

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.

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Warren had thought that he'd had this whole thing in the bag. After all, while everyone else in the class had to run across town, he had a serious advantage in getting from point A to point B. But the nice viking lady at the weaving station had been difficult to understand, and Warren had never been very good at arts-and-crafts things (his last attempt had led to him gluing his feathers to the wall of one of the cabins, after all), and so after poking himself with silver wire and tying it hopelessly in knots a few times, he'd ended up giving up and making his way to the wharfs, instead.

Carving was way more up his alley. He managed to get through the task quickly, without even breaking a sweat, but he'd lost so much time at the other station, he was pretty certain he'd blown the rest of the race.

Goose wound up at waving and was able to get through the task without major difficulty.

Even without her aversion to anything involving textiles, anything involving weaving would require far more effort than Cara cared to make, so she made her way down to the docks where she quickly lost herself in the thwack of metal against wood.

Sam chose waving because he rarely followed instructions well. Douglas Montgomery could attest to that. His face remembered the punishments he'd gotten because of his inability to listen.

So, waving it was. Carving the oar actually proved easier than he'd first thought. He'd gotten pretty handy with knives (he had to be to cut his own arm and not kill himself) so adapting to the ancient tools didn't take him too long.

"Seriously?" Jack groaned when he got to the wharf. "Carving?"

What the hell kind of school is this?

"What the hell kind of school is this?" Jack muttered (as he has no inner monologue and tends to mirror narration) to himself as he began to carve. For the most part it was butchery of wood but it was able to pass for an oar and the foreman approved with the roll of his eyes.

As fond of everything having to do with sailing and the sea as he was, in addition to his complete desire to remove himself from the household tasks he'd spent his life having to do, it was an easy choice for Alexander. He rather appreciated the almost slap-dash, dive right into things method of the class; no wasting time with too much talk, so that he could feel the excitement of getting straight to the task, which he did with alacrity and a fair amount of skill, leaving him quite proud about the results.

He almost cared more about making the oar than obtaining the next clue, but, of course, he would try not to die and stay focus, although, really, there didn't seem to be too much threat so far.

Knives? Wood? Sure, Jocelyn could do this. She wasn't actually good at carving like Lucian, but she was strong enough to fudge it into some semblance of an oar.

Oh, this was just cruel. Alice was starting to wish she'd gone with the damn weaving in the first place. After far more time than it should've taken her -- as she saw it, anyway -- she finished and received her next clue.

Carving! Surreal was good with a knife, and called in one of her older blades to do the carving.

Except nothing she was doing was good enough for the foreman, and eventually she gave up and went to go weave. She was no Black Widow, unlike Titian, but it had to be easier than this.

Squall very patiently and methodically set about carving the wood into something approaching a usable shape. He was almost done when he managed to use a little too much pressure and the oar started to split down the middle along the grain.

One of the Vikings came to inspect his work and grumbled at him, and Squall grumbled back, and pretty soon it devolved into two grumpy men speaking two different languages and shouting "I don't understand what you're saying!!!" at each other. Eventually, Squall threw his hands up, shouted "WHATEVER!", and turned to get a new block of wood. At which point the Viking winged the next clue at the back of his head.

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