fandomhigh | Try Not to Die!!!! [Tuesday, July 19]

Anakin, despite not having lived on a desert in several decades--and having a wife who was from New England--was still ~~a big baby~~ very sensitive when it came to cold. And he'd learned that as long as you were warm, it didn't really matter how silly you looked.

Perhaps someone had just told him that based on the headgear he was currently sporting, thanks to the island's bizarre weather, which was certainly...something.

Bundled up in his Jedi robes and trying not to look like he was completely freezing, he gestured to a rack of the sort of snowgear that mountain climbers wore. "Put that on," he commanded. "The cold on the other side of the causeway is not messing around, and those suits have been fitting with tracking devices in case you wonder off. I would really hope you all take the name of this workshop to heart today and try not to die."

After the students were suitably dressed, he handed them GPS units and gave very brief instructions on how to use them, then stepped back from the clue box. "See you at the rendevous point."

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Out here in the ice, both are essential to survival. In one, you must walk a greater distance (using the GPS) to find a place out of the wind to build a fire. For the other, you only have to walk far enough to find a suitable piece of wood and a stone, which could take a while...choose wisely.

Once you reach the area that is out of the wind, build up a pile of sticks (larger ones as well as kindling), and start a fire without matches.

When you're finished, go over to the modified mouse droid, which will give you your your next clue.

Bring some of the fire with you when you leave.

Edited 2011-07-19 14:58 (UTC)

Start a fire without matches? Please. Until fairly recently, Firekeeper hadn't even known matches existed.

And, well. Her name was Firekeeper. Taking the flint and steel from the pouch around her neck, she got to work.

Blind Seer, of course, supervised the process.

Oh, Wesley knew all about starting a fire without matches. If anything, it was often essential on watchers' retreats. He used his glasses, focusing a lens on a small point, and a flame erupted.

A pang in his chest reminded him how much he associated fire with Katniss now, but he ignored it as he went to collect his next clue.

This would be a second time in less than a week that Luke's had to build a fire for class. He was practically a professional by now.

Annie thought that a fire would be way easier to her than a weapon.

Annie was totally wrong. At one point when she was trying to get the fire going she even started talking to it, like that would help. And then she maybe started yelling at it.

Neither worked, and by the time she finished, she had a feeling she was way behind.

Considering the conditions, Lion-o felt it would be better to try building a fire. While he didn't have any problems with the GPS, it took forever to get his fire going. He was never going to take lighters for granted again.

Fire... Fire... Marshal was certain that Corrine had talked at one point about optics and alternative lenses, different things you could use to focus light, and he was pretty sure ice had been one of them. Which made sense, he realised, as he thought about it, pulling the old physics lectures out of memory: clear ice should work just as well as a glass lens, and be easier to shape.

It took a little bit of time, but with some luck -- in finding a patch of clear enough ice -- and some ingenuity -- in using a combination of heat from his hands and the edge of his GPS to shape the chunk -- he had an ice lens, and, shortly after, a flame.

Wishing for some pitch to make a better torch, he grabbed a longer piece of wood and made sure it was burning strongly before carrying it away and grabbing his clue.

Welcome to the Ice Age, where people went after something the size of a woolly mammoth with a spear. You'll be making the spear.

Anakin cut you a break by putting together a pile of rawhide strings, but you still had to sharpen the point of your weapon by beating one rock against another and get the stone to stay tied to the stick.

When you were finished, take your weapon and show it to the mouse droid, which will give you your next clue.

Take the weapon with you.

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If Charles had done anything, it was to assure that Mercy could create her own weapons with nothing but sticks and a couple of rocks. She was done with this in no time.

She could have easily made the fire as well, but despite being used to the cold and snow in Northern Montana, she was usually able to be in coyote form there if she wanted, and getting to the weapon area was quicker.

She showed her weapon to the mouse droid and was on her way.

It shouldn't really have been a surprise that Cara picked this task, sitting down she quickly selected a suitable rock and started chipping away at it.

Fire or weapon?

Yeah, Sam went for the weapon. Don't you judge. Maybe she just wanted to beat on some rocks.

"Don't see why we can't make a club," she grumbled the third time she had to retry to lash her sharpened rock to her stick. "A club is totally fine as a weapon."

She got her spear together -- eventually -- go her clue, and set out on her merry -- or very grumpy, rather -- way.

Scully wasn't sure how wet the fuel would be, and making a weapon was a lot easier for her. Her point was needle-shark by the time she was done; impromptu surgery with it was not out of the question.

She had a horrible feeling she was going to have to stick it into something, though.

Since he could literally make fire from his hand ~~and damn the RNG for putting him so far down the list, he could have HAD this~~, Seifer decided to go for something a little challenging and make the weapon.

So out there in the snow and window, running around in a t-shirt and jeans, was one Seifer Almasy, hunting for a stick and a rock.

Then he had to shape the rock.

By the fifth stone in, he was wishing he had taken the easy way.

Oh boy, whichever detour would Bruce choose? How could he possibly choose between OF COURSE HE BUILT A WEAPON. It didn't take him very long, either, and the spear was both sizable and sturdy.

It was almost as if fashioning his own weapons was a hobby, really.

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