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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.

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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.

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.

There was no way Mercy was going to make money doing anything at this point since she didn't think people were willing to pay to watch her hurl. That left climbing the Temple steps.

She made it to the top, gasped out 547, lost her lunch at the feet of the Jedi there, and after much apologizing and cleaning up, managed to head out to find Anakin.

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Being ordered to count every single step in a temple (including the dungeons) was considered a legitimate way to make trainee Mord'Sith burn off excess energy, so climbing just the one tower was relatively straightforward in comparison.

Even if Cara thought this task should have been before making them gorge themselves.

Wesley was panting by the time he made it up the stairs. He reported the correct number, but only after second-guessing himself and redoing the last hundred.

But he got to admire the architecture, which was really quite lovely.

This was an exercise that Bruce would have adored, and Jason thought he was doing well until he got to the top and gave the wrong count. His second ascent up the stairs was much slower, especially thanks to the food in his stomach, but at least he counted right that time.

Normally, Marshall would have gone for the street-performing: he was a musician, after all, and shame wasn't really in his vocabulary. However, he didn't have a keyboard with him, obviously, and he didn't feel up to singing or telling jokes, so counting steps it was!

Luckily, Marshall had been keeping up with the running routine he'd started last term for the Zombie class, and while he had to pause a few times to help his stomach settle down, he still made swift progress up, and got the number right on his first try.

It was like getting in a nice work-out after lunch, right? Lion-o was not afraid to climb a few stairs. He also worked out a system of counting the stairs in groups of ten to better keep track of the number.

When he got the the top, he got the correct number of steps on the first try and quickly moved on.

For Zeus' sake, Nico did not do numbers!

He kept losing count, or thinking he had or transposing numbers and having to start all over after ascending four hundred steps. When he finally made it, the glare the Jedi got was probably filled with a little too much chilly rage.

With luck he could get over it before he got to Anakin.

Yeah, there was no way Seifer was going to try the Senate one, because the only thing's he was good enough at to make money on would get him thrown in prison.

Again.

So he headed for the temple and made his way up the stairs. It really wasn't that hard, and he got it on the first try.

Funnily enough, Stephanie opted for the Temple exercise for the same reasons Jason had, because this was exactly the kind of thing Bruce would make her do, and (at least for her) spin it as some kind of punishment.

The climbing wasn't the problem -- she wasn't counting the exhaustion as a problem, figuring that was about par for the course -- but the counting definitely was. By the time she'd made it back up the second time, more slowly as to get the count right, and then found out she'd been off by two freaking steps too many, she nearly fell all the way back down.

Except not, since that would be bad. But, hey. Clue in hand, and trip to the rendezvous-point-thingie underway, even though she probably wouldn't beat Bruce there again. That one time had to have been a fluke.

[OOC: NOW IN THE RIGHT PLACE SIGH.]

Bruce was a very fast walker. In no way could it be considered running, but he was still moving swiftly up the stairs. With his concentration and conditioning, he reached the Jedi quickly enough to make up some of the time he lost with the eating challenge.

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.

Jim should have taken the other option. He really, really should have. He was still pretty full after his meal, and full meant lethargic, which was way better for lazy climbing and simple counting than it was for, say, being entertaining. At least, if you were Jim.

Jim was not a singer. Or a dancer. Or a performance artist of any kind. So he just kind of sat around and whistled, terribly, until people started to pay him to shut up. By the time that particular trend caught on, however, Jim was lagging way too far behind the rest of the class for comfort.

Hey, her lack of shame was really coming in handy today!

It took Elle all of twenty minutes to make the required credits through singing. Once the trooper gave her directions, she bounced off to find Anakin.

Well, anything that involved counting was right out, so that left the second option. Unfortunately, she wasn't much of an entertainer either.

What she could do was chase down a pickpocket who'd made off with what appeared to be a rather well-to-do young lady's purse. The young lady saw fit to reward her for her quick action, and the trooper watching shrugged and decided that was good enough, waving her on. After all, the excitement of a human girl and some strange beast chasing down a criminal had entertained the crowd for at least a few minutes.

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Being the sort of girl who had very little shame -- and the ability to entertain Japanese security guards who didn't speak a word of English besides complaining of a bladder infection -- Sam headed straight for the Senate. After a few moments of watching the crowd, she decided to go for a good, upbeat tap number.

Say what you want about Sam, she was a consumate performer.

Know what Annie didn't want to spend her class period doing? Throwing up. This was why she wasn't doing that many stairs after ten of those slider things.

So it was to the Senate, where she realized she didn't know what she might do. She could sing, sure, but it was hard to just find something good to burst into song with. She could, however, do the Charleston (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0kzKm4MeZI), and it would end up making up a lot of time spent on the last thing.

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