Try Not to Die!!!! [Tuesday, August 2]

[sith_happened]

Anakin had taken two steps across the causeway toward the new town and all of the hair on the back of his neck had stood up. He had a definite bad feeling about the place that was entirely separate from the feeling of general unease that he'd woken up with.

He hoped he wasn't coming down with something--he was hardly ever sick and because of that made for one rotten patient.

He contacted his students to let them know to ]meet him at the Danger Shop this morning, which had been programmed to look like the Coruscant he'd spent his teenage and young adult years on: Tahiri would recognize some of the changes, but for the most part Coruscant was an enormous, bustling city that covered an entire planet.

"Welcome to Coruscant, the capital planet of my galaxy," Anakin said, projecting his voice to be heard over the noise of the streets as thousands of aliens jostled past the students. "It's the home to billions of different beings, and you'll hear hundreds of different languages as you race around today. Try not to die--it'll be extremely difficult to find you here and dying upsets the Danger Shop programming."

Or wasn't allowed by the programming, but Anakin wasn't going to mention that.

He scratched idly at his arm, then stepped away from the clue box.

Comments

Sign in [8/2]

[sith_happened]

Like something with four arms just walked past you.

Re: Sign in [8/2]

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy Thompson

Road Block [8/2]

[sith_happened]

Make your way to Dax's Diner, where you will be facing a plate of ten Sulfurous Moon Sliders, one of Anakin's favorite snacks before Dex took them off the menu due to numerous customer complaints.

Eat all ten, don't die, and Dex will hand you your next clue.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara had eaten worse.

She'd also eaten better, but she wasn't going to focus on that as she mechanically ate.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[walkswithcoyote]

This... was so not happening. Despite her best efforts, Mercy just couldn't manage to get these down. After her second dash to the bathroom she began just trying to wash them down with huge gulps of water and using her napkin judiciously when she couldn't manage that.

Finally she managed to 'finish' the last of them, looking rather green, and got the clue from Dex.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

Come on, really? Jim's mother made even less palatable dishes back at the Benbow Inn for some of their less humanoid patrons, and growing up with a single parent trying to run a business on her own meant that he ate whatever was put in front of him.

Actually, the sliders weren't so bad after a few bites. They weren't trying to get away from him as he ate them, which won them serious bonus points in Jim's book.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie's immediate thought was Ugh whyyyyy. She couldn't eat that much even before she lost all that weight and she was really worried about the word 'sulfurous' in the name.

It took her a while to shovel them down, and she hoped she could make up her time on the next thing.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

Elle had no shame, which meant she had no problem shoveling the things down.

She just wasn't thinking too closely about what she was eating.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Okay, English cooking was dreadful, but this -- this was far worse. Wesley had a pinched, choked expression as he forced the sliders down.

What he wouldn't give right now to have to do that tea challenge again...

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Please. Food was food, as evidenced by the fact that Blind Seer and Firekeeper managed to down ten each without so much as a sign of complaint.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[dontvotemeout]

Jason had eaten quite a few odd looking things out of desperation, so it wasn't so much the taste as the fact that there were ten sliders. Still, he managed to get them all down after a bit.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[hurtingzeebo]

Please, Sam was the kind of girl who would get sick from extremely expired Persian chocolates and then eat more of them.

She didn't just eat all ten Sulfurous Moon Sliders, she ate them with gusto.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

Marshall eyed the 'food' curiously before diving in.

... The sliders were not exactly his favourite food ever, but he managed to get them down fairly quickly. The trick, of course, was going to be keeping them down, but he managed at least long enough to get his clue and head onwards.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[lordofthecats.livejournal.com]

It didn't smell like the most pleasant meal, but Lion-o was sure that he'd had worse. He was also pretty confident that his stomach could handle it as long as he didn't linger to enjoy the aroma of sulfur. He quickly ate all ten sliders, got his clue, and moved on.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Stephanie strolled into the diner thinking she could handle this challenge, no problem. She'd totally eaten worse, right? Right?

Maybe, but usually 'worse' was less . . . overt about it, because this was --

Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Halfway through she ended up having to excuse herself from the table for a few minutes best left undocumented, and came back to make her way through the rest of the meal while nagged by the lingering thought that green wasn't really her color. Conversely, and comfortingly, at least it was only a metaphorical green.

She hoped.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

Those were so not the sliders Nico was looking for. In fact, he was horrified by what had been done to his favorite food. Where was McDonald's when you needed it?

He took way longer than he should have to get all ten down and suspected he'd be feeling that all day and night.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

Seifer had eaten worse back home (Jelleye soup, anyone?), and while he choked a bit on the first one, he managed to get them down pretty quickly.

Re: Road Block [8/2]

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce wasn't much of a speed eater, although he had read up on competitive eating. So what he lacked in the ability to gorge himself, he made up for in technique. I don't really know what the hell I mean by that, but it doesn't matter. BATMAN.

As he thought it over while getting Dex's clue, he wasn't thrilled with his time, but it could have been worse.

Detour: Temple or Senate

[sith_happened]

The Temple is closer, but the task will require more physical stamina. The Senate is further away and will require you to be more shameless. Choose wisely.

Detour: Temple

[sith_happened]

Upon reaching the Temple, you will walk (there's no running in the Temple) to the staircase leaning to the highest tower of the Temple. Climb the tower and tell the Jedi at the top the number of steps (547) you climbed.

If you get the number wrong, you'll have to climb it again.

When you get it right, the Jedi will tell you where to find Anakin.

Detour: Senate

[sith_happened]

You will race to the open-air square in front of the Senate building, where you will find thousands of tourists milling around aimlessly.

Your job is to make 25 credits through some kind of performance art: either singing, dancing, playing a musical instrument, painting yourself silver and pretending to be a statue that moves...you cannot just ask people for money, though.

And don't do anything that will get you arrested by the Clone Troopers who are watching the square.

When you've made 25 credits, a trooper will tell you where to find Anakin.

Ask Tahiri or Anakin for help!

[sith_happened]

"Did you know that there's SULFUR in those sliders?" is a valid question to have.

Re: Ask Tahiri or Anakin for help!

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri definitely noticed the changes in the planet from the way she knew it; for one, it was a lot less Vongformed.

. . . part of her could understand why it had been reshaped; it made her a little twitchy.

Check in with Anakin [8/2]

[sith_happened]

Who will tell you how the RNG says you did.

Re: Check in with Anakin [8/2]

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy, well, staggered was too strong a word (though not by much!), made her way over to Anakin, and lost the rest of her lunch not quite on his shoes. "Sorry," she said miserably. "Something didn't agree with me."

She didn't care what place she'd come in, all she really wanted to do was find a corner somewhere so she could curl up and die - name of the class notwithstanding.

OOC

[sith_happened]

And the RNG sayeth:

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

Poor Wes never seems to catch a break in big cities...

Re: OOC

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

NEVER. HE'S CRYING ABOUT IT. CRYING.