fandomhigh | Try Not to Die!! [Tuesday, June 21st]

Your clues give you only those two words, and the direction to ask the locals (with the underlined instruction not to stare at the locals) to get you to your destination.

There was also the reminder you could change tasks midway through.

If you thought you were going to be learning a traditional dance, you were going to be sadly disappointed. The people of Atlantis preferred bull-leaping.

Yes, the animal. Yes, to a handstand....at least you got some tries on a non-moving bit of animal hide for as long as you wanted before attempting the bull himself?

Don't. Die. You only have to do it correctly once, then you get your next clue.

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Here was a longer, more mundane task. You were handed a trident and a fishing net and told to keep fishing until you'd caught 20 fish that met the standards of the fishing master watching you, who would hand you your next clue.

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Head to the marketplace and using the coin provided in the clue, negotiate with the locals for what you think would make an appropriate offering to Poseidon, god of the sea. (No, Anakin didn't tell you what one might be.)

When you are satisfied with what you have, make your way by foot to the Temple of Poseidon with your offering.

Warren's being ~~a massive wimp~~ so careful before leaping the bull earlier had left him a little behind, and so he was determined to make up lost ground now, scouring the marketplace for something that would be suitable for a god.

Gold always seemed like the best bet. Gods liked gold, right? But negotiating for that meant a bit of creative charades, and ultimately he'd ended up trading all of the coin he'd gotten, plus a couple of pulled flight feathers and a stick of chewing gum, for a golden statue of a fish.

... Good enough, right?

Cara had no idea what anyone was supposed to offer a god. She supposed that people offered the Creator flowers, but she wasn't really interested in giving those to anyone.

Eventually, after a lot of gesturing towards the temple she left a carver's stall with a small wooden bull.

Sam didn't barter. He was the guy who took messed up orders and just ate them so he wouldn't have to wait around or start an argument with anyone. He just didn't care enough.

It didn't help that he had no idea what someone like Poseidon wanted. He almost wished he'd kept from fish from the previous task. At one of the stalls, Sam offered up his coin and the shopkeeper ended up giving him a pretty intricate (but small) carving of a dolphin.

Dolphins swam in the water so Sam thought that'd be fine and he made the exchange before dashing off.

Well, now Toby wished he'd known about the second task before he'd left all the fish he'd just spent forever catching behind. Sea gods probably liked fish, and then he would've gotten to keep the coin. Win all around.

Since that wasn't an option, though, he was going to have to go with this necklace made of seashells.

Here, luckily, Gabrielle had an advantage she was not above using: she knew perfectly well what an acceptable offering to Poseidon was (even though she personally wasn't all that fond of him, what with him getting her and her seasickness stuck on boats for prolonged periods of time on more than one occasion), she spoke the language just fine, and she was the one who got stuck doing all the bartering in any marketplace in any town they ever stopped in.

(She didn't spend all that much time at the temple once she'd left her offering. She was pretty sure Poseidon still wasn't too pleased with her and Xena for helping Cecrops break free of that curse.)

It wouldn't make up for all the time she'd burned in her disastrous fishing attempt, but it helped, and put a spring in Gabrielle's step and a smile on her face as she headed toward the check-in point.

She didn't have much of a clue what one should offer to ancient gods, but Jocelyn did speak the language so she took some time to try to figure it out - and to get directions to the temple.

Would a sea god LIKE fish, or would he be angry at someone who caught fish? Squall tried to consider the problem and figure out what might be an appropriate gift. It turned out that it didn't matter anyway, because he somehow managed to walk right by the marketplace without realizing it.

So, instead, he just stopped a penitent on the steps of the temple and offered the coin, plus a handful of gil, for the offering the man was carrying.

Lindsay was sure shopping for the god of the sea was not an easy task. She mostly wandered aimlessly until she found a suitable offering. In this case, she went with a small statue of a seahorse.

Annie had absolutely no idea what a good offering to a god of the sea would be. So, rather than wandering around aimlessly looking for something, she went up to someone and asked. And from there all she really had to do was be cute and friendly and negotiate for it. It was way easier than she would have thought, too.

Negotiating wasn't Goose's strongest forte and so it took him longer than it might have had to find a reasonable offering to give to Poseidon.

Without staring (much), Richie managed to find a friendly looking woman to assist him. It took a lot of sad puppy faces and hand gestures at the temple and the sea and more mime work than Richie was really comfortable with, but she finally understood what it was he was asking. Or so he hoped. With her assistance, he bought what he dearly hoped was an appropriate offering for a sea god. Hopefully he wouldn't get smited. Smote? Whatever.

Two Jedi, no waiting, with access to bacta patches and healing techniques, especially if your help need is along "help, I have been lightly gored" lines.

Hopefully nobody would have to ask for help along the "I have been lightly gored" lines, or more than lightly, but in the event that they did Tahiri was here.

Casting longing looks back toward the bull-dancing arena, because that looked like an awful lot of fun, but . . .

Who was waiting for you beside the Temple to Poseidon.

"I jumped over a bull."

Please, Anakin, do pardon Warren. He's just a bit shellshocked over that one.

"I jumped over a big, angry bull."

Why the hell had he done that?!

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