Try Not to Die!!!! [Tuesday, July 12, 2nd period]

[sith_happened]

This time, the person greeting the class at the end of the causeway was tall and blond, rather than short and blonde. He also wore shoes. Well, big stompy boots, but the details weren't overly important.

"First of all, thank you, Jedi Veila, for handling class last week. I'm Master Skywalker, this is Try Not to Die!!!! and hopefully you've all returned even after your experiences last week." He gestured to a long table full of Earl Gray tea, scones, and clotted cream. "Please, accept this as a gesture of apology for my not being here last week. I've been told the food is traditional in the place and time we now find ourselves."

Once the students were finished with their snack, Anakin stepped away from the clue box. "Head back into Regency London, students, complete the two tasks as you learn about them, and as always try not to die. See you all on the other side."

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Detour: Hard Work

[sith_happened]

In Hard Work, you make your way by foot to Cumberland Market where you will have to sell 20 meat pies to the people who are there to buy hay and straw and are not particularly interested in buying meat pies.

Don't ask what kind of meat the pies are made of. Just don't. When you have sold 15 pies, a nearby vendor will hand you your next clue.

Re: Detour: Hard Work

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

Marshall lost a bit of time selling the pies -- the first twelve went fairly quickly, but after that it took him way too long to find a family willing to take the next three off him.

Re: Detour: Hard Work

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie had learned a little something about herself in the last few months, which was that if she really put her mind to it, she could convince people to do things in various ways. So, she picked that over manual labor. Sure, she'd get told a lot that people didn't want to buy this stuff (and she sure didn't want to eat it) but most of the guys would actually have no problem buying one if she looked cute enough.

Beware her learning this lesson, people.

Re: Detour: Hard Work

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara was oddly good with selling the pies. It had absolutely nothing to do with the leather and bad attitude. Really it didn't.

Re: Detour: Hard Work

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke didn't really have trouble with this part at all. It was sort of his job to convince people to do what he wanted and, at the moment, he wanted people to buy these suspicious looking pies. All it took was a bit of charm and a lot of lying when people asked what was in the pie.

Re: Detour: Hard Work

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Running around and navigating London was simple, but actually persuading people to buy things had never been one of Wesley's skills. It took him almost an hour to sell them all, and his attempts to buy them off himself did not seem to satisfy the vendor waiting with his next clue.

Re: Detour: Hard Work

[i-am-the-rat.livejournal.com]

Hank knew from experience that "Yard Work" was probably going to end up being WAAAAY harder than whatever "Hard Work" was.

And he was right!

Hank's keen business sense, relentlessly persistent attitude, and near-complete inability to understand anything the locals said combined into a perfect storm. People were willing to do anything -- including buying pies, and in a few cases very nearly including cutting their own throats -- in order to get him out of their faces.

He was out of the market in record time.