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Try Not to Die!! [Tuesday, May 17, 3rd period]

Anakin was rather enjoying the movements of the island, even if this one took them to a place as hot and full of sand as Tatooine. Ugh, sand. It certainly made coming up with his class assignments more interesting.

"Welcome to Alexandria, Egypt," he said. Rory was going to love hearing where they were now. "Today's tasks will take you through this ancient city," he paused, "in its heyday."

Working in Fandom was weird. He stepped back from the clue box. "You will complete two tasks, then meet Tahiri and I somewhere in the city. Try not to die."

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The library of Alexandria is the world's largest user of papyrus. Taking one of the Homeric texts ~~handwavily~~ before you, transcribe five pages of ancient Greek onto a papyrus scroll. When the head librarian is satisfied with your work, he'll hand you your next clue.

While the hauling seemed more up his alley, Sam knew he was pretty winded from the first part of the class so he chose to write. Sam took his time so he'd get everything right on the first try but wasn't surprised when he messed up a little.

After another try, the head librarian seemed satisfied with his work and he was able to snag his clue and head out.

The quill pens weren't that much different to those used in the Midlands, and Cara had enough experience with journey-books that it was easy enough to be both fast and neat when using plain ink.

Angelica really didn't want to haul more books around (and get lost again), so she opted for the writing. She took her time, afraid of setting the papyrus on fire by accident like she'd melted the bracelet last week.

Surreal knew how to read and wasn't bad at writing, although her penmanship was the blocky letters must humans would associate with a small child.

However, she was used to reading Craft books, in a language she spoke, not five pages of gibberish doodles. After a half-hour spent on the first page alone, a well-meaning scribe leaning over her shoulder to help, Surreal stood up and bowed in apology before heading out the door. Scribing was important, and a skill she needed to work on or Daemon would thump her, but this was taking too much time. She'd go back to the docks and deliver materials instead.

And of course Gabrielle would opt for the writing challenge.

If you could call transcribing ancient Greek a challenge for the girl who was from ancient Greece.

So how did this contribute to her falling further behind in the pack? Well, she kept stopping in her transcription to rant about how Homer must have gotten hit over the head or something, because he'd gone and gotten things all wrong again, and oh, was she ever going to give him a hard time for it next time she saw him, and . . .

Look, as much as Gabrielle was capable of talking, that was a huge chunk of time lost.

Damian was not interested in running around doing manual labor. Transcribing the Greek was easy enough, but a dull task. He tried to liven it up by adding some more interesting phrases into the text, but the librarian caught him at it and he had to redo the scroll.

Transcribing was easy. Annie picked this one immediately, and got to work on it. And despite her insane attention to detail, when she proudly handed her scroll to the librarian, he shook his head and told her she had something wrong.

So then Annie had to spend a few minutes arguing about how she was right before finally going back to check her work... and finding her mistake. She was a little sheepish when she handed in her work this time, but at least it was right. Even if it put her further behind.

Even though she had done well with the first challenge, she really did not feel like hauling more books around. So she settled for the transcribing detour instead. She was very pleased to have gotten it done correctly on the first try.

It was hot. Writing sounded easy, so Richie went with that.

Of course, writing in ancient Greek was less easy than anticipated. "Mac can probably read ancient Greek, too," Richie muttered as he painstakingly went over the 4th page. Again.

When he finally finished he took off at a run after grabbing the final clue. Sure, it was hot, but he didn't want to lose.

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