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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If you chose this detour, you get a camera, a brightly-colored autograph book, and a map of Disneyland. Your task is to find seven Disney characters, get them to sign your autograph books, and take a picture with them -- but remember that they're only at certain photo-op locations for limited amounts of time, so you'd better hurry, and find another one elsewhere if you miss one. After you get the seventh autograph, the final character will give you your next clue.

Oh, Jim had a lot of catching up to do after his fourth trip through that ride, and so help him, he wasn't going on any more rides today if he could help it. So... autographs. Those weren't so difficult to get. He didn't have his solar surfer here for this, but he could run and jump with the best of them, and while he wasn't so familiar with crowds, avoiding obstacles was something he excelled at.

Now he just had to wiggle his way to the people in the crazy costumes around the little kids who wanted to get their turn first.

Sigh.

Since she'd gotten through the first task so quickly, Annie took a little bit of time to try and work out where all the characters would be and the fastest way to get between all of them.

And then she booked it.

Finding the characters at the right time wasn't too hard with the way she'd planned it out. The hard part was trying to get through the lines and quietly sneaking ahead of people to try and get there faster. What, you thought she wouldn't try to linejump for a class assignment at the Happiest Place on Earth? She not only tried it, she succeeded, and maybe looked kind of happy in all the pictures she got taken with the characters. Except for that one where she blinked.

Sam was doing pretty well here until her fifth character. She managed to get to the photo-op just after Eeyore had already left.

And what little patience Sam had went whooshing right out of the park.

This was how Sam ended up chasing a poor cast member in a depressed donkey suit halfway across Discoveryland only to take them down with a flying tackle outside of Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast -- and would have probably gotten tossed from the park if she hadn't managed to somehow pin the blame on a nearby surly-looking ten year old.

Yeah, Sam was classy.

Spock thought the wisest course today would be not dealing with the crowds, so he opted for tracking down the characters. It took a while, especially when some of the characters tried to get him to smile for the photos, because that was not happening.

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