fandomhigh | Try Not to Die!!!! [Tuesday, August 9]

There was only one Jedi waiting at the causeway for students to show up, and it wasn't Anakin.

"Hi, everyone," Tahiri said, drawing on her Jedi training to maintain a calm demeanor; no need to alarm people. "Master Skywalker can't be here today, it seems."

She gestured across the causeway to the Disney castle (then back to Fandom's castle, then back to the Disney one again with a slight shake of her head) before turning back to the students with a slight smile. "But as you might have guessed by now, that doesn't mean you won't be exploring our new location. I assure you, it's much safer than the last one." Actually, given the aggressive cheerfulness of their new neighboring locale, that might be debatable.

She cleared her throat, glanced around the group, and continued. "I advise you not to take it for granted that this will be simple, despite our surroundings, so keep that in mind, and . . ." Tahiri gestured toward the clue box as she stepped away. "Try not to die, or kill anyone else. Please."

Given some of the students in the class, and the fact that she was sending them into Disneyland, that second bit was a perfectly valid concern.

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The first clue sends you all the way through Disneyland Paris into Fantasyland, and into the ride queue for it's a small world. That's right -- you're not escaping this place without a trip around the world on the happiest cruise that ever sailed.

Once the ever-so-cheerful ride attendants have helped you into your boat, your task is to pick out the one animatronic character in each of the rooms that's glaringly out of place. Miss one or get one wrong and you get to go around the ride again!

Good luck getting the song out of your head afterward.

Luckily, Mord'Sith were used to torture, and Cara had that persistent dull throbbing in her arm to distract her from the 'music'.

And the dolls, so she had to go around again.

Oh, no.

Jim almost groaned as he went through the ride once, twice...

He had no eye for what was and wasn't out of place, here. Earth was so uniform compared to Montressor! And then after the second trip through, the song had started to grit at him, and...

He was grinding his teeth by the time he managed to get past today's roadblock. He was grinding his teeth a lot.

Seifer was used to ignoring distractions, but he still had to go through the ride a second time, because he missed one. One.

And now he was humming that damn song.

Oh, she had this one locked up. Who was going to rock out the detail-oriented challenge here? That's right, it was Annie. It also helped that she was too busy scanning all the displays for something out of place to actually notice that the ride was kind of terrifying, so it really just helped to preserve the magic of Disney for her.

She managed to get it right on the first try, and was cheerfully humming the song as she headed off to the next destination.

Easy. Mercy could smell which ones were newly placed.

Sam had never even heard of Disney -- despite being from essentially a modern day Earth dimension, but she still got the song stuck in her head the moment she got on the ride. And then she had to go around four times before she managed to catch all the out of place characters.

Oh, how she longed to beat someone here up with a sock full of butter.

The song seemed cute on the first time through. It got worse as he had to ride a second and third time until he picked out all the wrong characters.

Bruce was good at shutting out distractions and watching for minute details, so it probably wasn't a shock that he breezed through in one go.

He also started humming the song loudly as a psychological advantage if anyone were to start catching up to him as he left the road block.

Spock was looking rather like warmed-over hell today--patches were, in fact, still grey--but he was present, which was better than he'd managed yesterday. His observational skills were, under normal circumstances, excellent, but today he was not at his best.

It took him a few trips. By the last one his Vulcan calm was seriously fraying.

They got to run around the Happiest Place On Earth!!! How awesome was THAT?!?!

Hank missed a few of the characters the first time around, because he was too busy singing along with the song.

Like a little cheerfulness was going to put Stephanie off?

Not even, and the exercise was a prime opportunity to work on blocking out the distractions (though she couldn't help humming along) and spotting what was out of place.

She even managed it on a single try, which resulted in her having to apologize to the person getting out of the boat after her when her fistpump of victory clipped the woman on the side of the chin. Oooooops.

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