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

"Since this is our last class together," Anakin said, standing before the students on the causeway, "I've made your tasks a little more difficult today."

Anyone else have a bad feeling about that? Good. "Read your clues carefully, follow the directions of the locals--as much as you can understand them if you aren't fluent in what seems to be ancient Greek--and try not to die." With that he stepped back from the clue box.

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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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"Oh God. Oh God oh God oh God..."

You know, for all of the freaking out that Warren did as the massive horned animal barrelled toward him, he actually managed the handstand over the bull's back like a pro. One of these days, logic would dictate that his mutant physiology was actually useful in situations like this, and he wouldn't kill precious minutes before the fact by freaking out and trying to nerve himself up to it.

It was kind of anticlimactic, really, after all the hanging back and trying to talk himself up to it that he'd done beforehand.

Oh, breasts, like Cara hadn't seen those before. Working off the logic that the one that sounded more fun probably wasn't, Cara picked leaping.

While she hadn't done anything quite like this before, she had a good sense of balance and quick reflexes. Besides the worst thing that could happen would be dying.

Not that she did.

Okay, this was just cool. If Jocelyn ignored the living-bull part, it didn't seem much different than half the training maneuvers they used at home. She tried a few times on the hide then managed to pull herself up into a handstand on her first attempt with the bull.

Goose went with the leaping option, which he actually found was relatively easy to do and managed to do in a reasonable time.

Angelica had taken dancing at the Academy, so she went with Leaping. When she saw the bull, she was sure she'd made the wrong choice. She practiced a few times, but when it came to the real thing, she changed her mind and fled to the other task.

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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Kate took one look at the bull-leaping, and decided she wasn't feeling suicidal today, thank you.

So fishing. Which she had done before, but... never with a trident. Catching fish in such a way that they weren't mutilated by the time they left the water turned out to be tougher than you'd think.

Sam picked skewering the hopes that meant it was something to do with food. And while he wasn't wrong, it wasn't food he was gonna eat so he hoped his lack of breakfast didn't catch up to him.

Amazingly enough, Sam managed to catch his fish in quick succession. They seemed to leap onto his trident and, quicker than he expected, he was done and heading away from the task.

...Yeah, Toby was fine with mundane.

He didn't even end up with any fish that didn't pass muster. Of course, it helped that he wasn't quick enough with the trident to catch anything small, so. It took a while, but eventually his pile of fish reached twenty.

Yeah, there was just no way either of these options was going to go well for Gabrielle. She knew how to catch fish (sort of), but not with a trident (which made her think of Finnick, and in turn of Katniss, and that was a distracting train of thought if she let herself dwell on it), but Xena enjoyed that task so much that Gabrielle tended to leave it to her when they camped near water.

Still, given the choice between that and bull-leaping . . . the ankle that was just barely healed up was one that she'd managed to sprain doing a somersault over a fixed pole. There was no way she was duplicating the feat over a moving animal with horns. So fishing it was, complete with a lot of swearing and flailing around and getting tangled up in the net and falling over into the water and scaring the fish ~~because in any episode involving Gabrielle and a body of water it was obligatory for her to get fanservicey soaking wet~~.

Really, all she needed was slapstick-y music going in the background, but eventually she caught her twenty fish and got to move on.

. . . she suspected the being-soaking-wet part had helped sway the fishing master's opinion in her favor. Which was cause to sigh, but she was used to that.

Squall didn't have anything against leaping -- or for it, for that matter -- but slicing and skewering were really his forté, so he went for that.

When he found out that the task involved fishing, he was grumpy. He'd never used a trident before, but he'd trained with a net and spear once or twice at Garden, and it shouldn't be that hard. Still...

Screw that.

He summoned Leviathan, and in no time the sea monster had caught a large pile of fish and brought them to shore. After that, he had to work to try to stop the fishing master from running away, but he managed to get the next clue.

Lindsay immediately regretted choosing this particular task. Everytime she thought she caught a fish, it would escape. She could swear the fishing master was laughing at her. Despite all this, she stubbornly stuck with the task.

Whatever 'leaping' meant, Annie figured she should probably skip it. Granted, she wasn't much for fishing, either, but she was lucking out today and not having much of a problem catching fish.

Even if she felt bad skewering them with a trident.

Richie thought, very very briefly, about attempting the bull-leaping. But he thought he'd rather remain alive, thanks, because Tessa would kill him if he came home dead and then Mac would kill him for upsetting Tessa ~~and he didn't yet know that he could die that many times~~. Fishing it was then.

Somehow it didn't take nearly as long as he'd feared to catch 20 acceptable fish. Maybe the gods were smiling on him, or maybe the crumbs he'd tossed into the water had helped. What, he'd been hungry and there hadn't been a trash can nearby, so the crumbs had hung around his pocket until they came in handy.

Catching fish was more tedious, but at least there wasn't a huge bull involved, nor were the fish likely to gouge her.

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

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