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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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Like it's the last class with Anakin!

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.

Edited 2011-06-21 13:47 (UTC)

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.

Edited 2011-06-21 13:47 (UTC)

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.

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.

Who was waiting for you beside the Temple to Poseidon.

The RNG says:

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

Thank you all soooo much for being such a great class, willing to go along with all of my crack.

Warren Worthington III

Kate Daniels

"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.

Cara

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.

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?

"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?!

Ahahahahahaha Annie LOVES THE RNG.

Surreal

Annie Edison

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.

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 LaCroix

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.

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.

"Cow-jumping? Really?" People did strange things for entertainment in these places.

Dolphin carving in hand, Sam jogged up, still amazed that he'd done pretty well during this challenge. He'd expected to be dead last or close to it but he figured he was pretty close to the front today.

"I hope I don't smell like fish," he said apologetically.

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

Sign in [6/21]

Detour: Leaping or Skewering

Detour: Leaping

Detour: Skewering

Road Block [6/21]

Ask Tahiri or Anakin for help!

Check in with Anakin [6/21]

OOC

Re: Sign in [6/21]

Re: Sign in [6/21]

Re: Detour: Leaping

Re: Sign in [6/21]

Re: Detour: Skewering

Re: Road Block [6/21]

Re: Check in with Anakin [6/21]

Re: OOC

Re: Sign in [6/21]

Re: Sign in [6/21]

Re: Detour: Leaping

Re: Road Block [6/21]

Re: Sign in [6/21]

Re: Detour: Skewering

Re: Road Block [6/21]

Re: Check in with Anakin [6/21]

Re: Check in with Anakin [6/21]