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Try Not to Die!!!! [Tuesday, July 26, 2011]

Instead of meeting on the causeway like usual, Anakin was bundled up as much as the rest of them and was standing before the workshop in....wherever the hell they were, using a bit of the Force to make sure his voice was heard over the wind.

"Because this environment is so drastic, I felt like there was more here for you to learn about survival, so today's class will also be held in the cold. There will be hot cocoa waiting for you on the other side, please keep your skin safe from the cold...and try not to die."

With that, Anakin raised his hand and dropped the class into the 19 individual caves he'd dug for them under the snow.

Anakin needed more productive hobbies.

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Like you're freezing.

Oh dear. You're stuck inside a cave ~~upside down entirely optional~~, with one of three weapons: a hockey stick, a pickaxe, or a homemade spear from last week, and ~~you can hear Anakin doing his krayt dragon impression, ala Obi-Wan~~ something huge and hungry-sounding approaching.

Dig your way out of the cave: halfway through the ice, you'll find your next clue.

Anakin loved his job perhaps a little too much.

Make Shelter is closer, but requires more brute strength; Make Tracks takes longer and might not be the best choice for students who are already cold from digging out of their caves.

When you get to the marked-off area to Make Shelter, you will find several sticks and the recently deceased, still warm carcass of a ~~tauntaun~~ buffalo.

And snow. Lots of snow. It's your choice what parts you use to build a shelter, but make one, take a picture of it with the digital camera provided inside the mouse droid, and then use the clue provided to run to find Anakin.

Without using your GPS and only using such landmarks that are around you and the map that was provided with the clue, track down and dig up three little plastic snowmen that Anakin has buried in the snow.

The final one will have the clue that will tell you where Anakin is hiding.

Edited 2011-07-26 15:30 (UTC)

"I am getting frostbitten!" is a good reason to ask for help. "I can't find the snowmen" is not.

Who will tell you ~~what the RNG decrees~~ how you did and admire your shelter-making skills if necessary.

And the RNG sayeth:

1. Seifer Almasy
2. Sam Puckett
3. Dana Scully
4. Elle Bishop
5. Nico di Angelo
6. Stephanie Brown
7. Bruce Wayne
8. Luke Castellan
9. Cara
10. Blysse Norwood (& Blind Seer)
11. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
12. Lion-o
13. Jim Hawkins
14. Spock
15. Mercy Thompson
16. Jason Todd
17. Annie Edison
18. Marshall Wheeler
19. Hank Venture

And that took quite long enough to put up, kthx, LJ.

Edited 2011-07-26 15:39 (UTC)

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce

Mercy Thompson

All right, no. Just no. Mercy quickly stripped, bundled her clothes into something easily carried in her coyote form, and dug her way out of the cave. She took longer than usual to get done, simply because she was busy making sure none of her fellow students saw her shifting or saw a clothes carrying coyote dashing for the next station.

Hey, at least she was toasty warm.

[That Mercy has shifted is NFB, but if radio wants to report that a coyote was seen by people during class, that's fine.]

Edited 2011-07-26 16:16 (UTC)

Stealthy coyote. Very, very stealthy coyote.

She left the bundle of clothes hidden off in the woods and again waited for clear space to be able to dash in and find the snowmen, slipping off whenever a classmate appeared. Once she'd found them all she disappeared off into the woods, shifted, dressed, and headed off to find Anakin.

[That Mercy has shifted is NFB, but if radio wants to report that a coyote was seen by people during class, that's fine.]

A still nicely warm Mercy, back in human form, made her way in finally to give Anakin her snowmen. Funny how she didn't seem to expect to have done well...

[Anakin's fine to have noticed that she shifted - or just that something's up - and question her here or later, just not for radio broadcast. :) ]

Anyone who wants to have seen a coyote, or wonder why they didn't see Mercy along the way or some such, is welcome to do so. It's about time somebody caught her or started wondering. Just NFB if they figure it out, please. :)

Dana Scully

Jason Todd

Lion-o

Cara

Cara sighed, picked up the axe and started digging.

At no point did she imagine the ice was anyone's face, really.

Of course there was a dead buffalo. Since Cara was already wearing as much dead animal as she cared to today and still had her pickaxe, she ignored it in favour of digging a trench in the snow.

Cara was much less happy this week than last, fancy that.

Jim Hawkins

Hey, a pickaxe. Jim could pretend that he knew his way around that thing like a pro, and it had the added bonus of being pointy and pretty darn dangerous if whatever it was that was making its way closer actually caught up to him.

He was going to dig like the dickens anyhow, though, because he really didn't want any run-ins with something that wanted to eat him, today. Beyond that, he wasn't used to weather like this, which kind of helped the wanting to get out of there faster.

Jim was too cold to want to make the trek through the snow, so he took the other option.

And stared. And stared some more.

"What am I supposed to do with this thing!?"

He didn't even want to get close to it, never mind the fact that he had no clue what it was even supposed to be. It took him a little longer than he would have liked to finally give in and go piling up snow around it, like a fort.

A fort with a dead buffalo in it.

His teeth were chattering and he was just a little on the cranky side, but damn it, Jim had finished the tasks that were set out before him. And he was only mildly scarred for life at the whole 'buffalo corpse' thing! Honest.

"Dead things," he muttered, shaking his head and cramming his hands into his armpits. "Of course, dead things."

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Try Not to Die!!!! [Tuesday, July 26, 2011]

Sign in [7/26]

Road Block [7/26]

Detour: Make Shelter or Make Tracks

Detour: Make Shelter

Detour: Make Tracks

Ask Tahiri or Anakin for help!

Check in with Anakin [7/26]

OOC

Re: Sign in [7/26]

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Re: Road Block [7/26]

Re: Detour: Make Tracks

Re: Check in with Anakin [7/26]

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Re: Road Block [7/26]

Re: Detour: Make Shelter

Re: Check in with Anakin [7/26]

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Re: Road Block [7/26]

Re: Detour: Make Shelter

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