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Try Not to Die!! [Tuesday, June 7]

Anakin met his class on the causeway to the new town this morning. "Today's activities will be about survival in a not-quite tamed mining town. As usual, you will complete two activities while trying not to die." He stepped clear of the clue box. "May the Force be with you."

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Ready to face the Wild West!

Saddle up a horse and ride it to a nearby creek (you'll have to ask the natives for directions), then learn from the craggy prospector there how to pan for gold. Find five gold nuggets that pass muster with the prospector and he'll give you your next clue.

Edited 2011-06-07 13:38 (UTC)

Mwahaha.

In Taking Stock you ride your horse out to a marked sheep ranch (It's a ways off from town) and will help herd 150 sheep into their pens for shearing.

Then, yup, you get to help shear 150 sheep. Don't you love Anakin?

In Stocking Up, you ride your horse to one of the marked houses around the mine and pick up a list of ten items (flour, beans, sugar, salt pork, nails, cloth, pins, ammunition, a pitchfork, and enough wood to build an outhouse) that'll you need to get in town. Hitch your horse to the family's wagon and get into to town, buy their items and return it all to their house. They will give you the clue to finding Anakin and Tahiri.

They won't shear your sheep for you.

Who won't judge you if you're muddy and grumpy today.

And the Mighty RNG says that today, here's how it panned out:

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

Alice says yay she's not dead last this time!

Sam LaCroix

Alice Cullen

Shane Gooseman

Horses. Sam would have preferred to just walk or even jog but now he had to ride a horse. It took him some time to get the saddle on the horse and then to get the horse to head in the right direction. By then, he'd lost some time and had to rush through the gold part of the roadblock.

He managed to find five gold nuggets quick enough though two had to go back because they were too tiny and mud covered. With a sigh, Sam went back to find two more pieces. He managed to find two passable pieces a few minutes later and took off.

There was no way Sam thought he could herd and shear sheep and get back before nightfall so he chose the other one. His horse was still a pain in the ass and he was nearly tossed a few times but he managed to get the horse to the house. After picking up the list of things, he hitched the wagon to the horse and headed into town.

The shopping part of the detour was the easiest part of the whole thing. He found everything quickly (and was thankful the family didn't give him anything too tough). Sam paid for the purchases and rode back to the house where he got his clue.

The horse riding wasn't a problem for Goose, he did have some trouble with the gold panning but it wasn't long before he found five gold pieces that were enough to pass.

Gabrielle

Sam didn't think he was last but he knew he didn't do as well as he had last week. He was going to blame the horse that seemed to hate him. Sam swore that horse had even been glaring at him when he'd finally gotten off and headed to check in.

Horses. Alice was more used to feeding on animals than riding on them, but you did what you had to do.

She followed the natives' directions easily enough, and learning to pan wasn't so hard. The actual finding gold nuggets took for-freakin'-ever, though. The bright spot of that was that all five of her nuggets passed on the first try.

Yay!

Alice wasn't crazy. She picked up her list and was off to shop. She liked shopping, never mind what it was for. She was good at it.

Even if it did take her a while to round up a couple of the items. She still managed it reasonably quickly, or so she thought. Then back it was to the house, where the happy family gave her the next clue.

Alice just wanted to not be last. And to have not been a complete disappointment. If she'd managed those two things, she'd be happy with however she came in.

Annie Edison

. . . oh, the horse riding was going to be a problem. She could ride, but Gabrielle usually needed help getting on a horse when she didn't have a badly sprained ankle.

She tried to manage it on her own at first; there were several spectacular faceplants, a couple of which spooked her horse so she had to chase it down (again, difficult with her ankle) and try to calm it down. Finally she managed to swing herself up into the saddle, only to start sliding sideways because she hadn't tightened the girths enough, which meant getting back down, falling in the process and having to calm the horse again, readjusting the girths (for the love of the gods, don't ask how a girl from ancient Greece was that familiar with modern tack), then talking a bystander into helping her up.

All told, it took a really huge chunk out of her class time, and then she had to take the ride slowly because anything faster than a gentle trot jarred her shoulder.

Learning how to pan for gold was the easy part, compared to everything else, and even finding five suitable nuggets wasn't entirely horrible, but that took her a while too.

Sigh.

Neither of these two options was going to be much fun for Gabrielle, but she'd grown up in a farming village and thought she could at least muddle her way through the sheepherding process better than hauling anything.

She'd been overly optimistic, and ended up having to chase down more sheep than she successfully herded, and when it came to the actual shearing process?

Let's just say that when it came to her chances of doing this in any timely fashion, she'd pulled the wool over her own eyes.

Still, she refused to ask for help, or beg off on account of being hurt; she'd just take it slow. No sense in hurting herself worse.

Gabrielle was limping and exhausted by the time she made it back, and . . . promptly faceplanted right at the check-in point.

Or she'd claim she was kissing the ground in relief at making it back. Whatever.

Warren Worthington III

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Try Not to Die!! [Tuesday, June 7]

Sign in [6/6]

Road Block [6/6]

Detour: Taking Stock or Stocking Up

Detour: Taking Stock

Detour: Stocking Up

Ask Tahiri or Anakin for help!

Check in with Anakin [6/6]

OOC

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Re: Sign in [6/6]

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Re: Detour: Stocking Up

Re: Road Block [6/6]

Re: Sign in [6/6]

Re: Check in with Anakin [6/6]

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Re: Detour: Stocking Up

Re: Check in with Anakin [6/6]

Re: Sign in [6/6]

Re: Road Block [6/6]

Re: Detour: Taking Stock

Re: Check in with Anakin [6/6]

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