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Try Not To Die!!!! [Tuesday, August 16]

Much like last week, it was only Tahiri who waited at the causeway for the students to show up this week.

"It seems Master Skywalker is still occupied this week," she told everyone once they'd assembled, sparing a frown for the students who hadn't returned yet, either. "Which is a shame, since this is the last class and I'm sure he would have enjoyed putting you all through something especially difficult."

Although given the town across the causeway, how difficult could it possibly be? Don't answer that.

"Anyway, it's my understanding that this particular time period on Earth is notable for its cultural, er . . . quirks," Tahiri continued. "Which is what you'll all be dealing with today, so have fun, possibly learn something, and try not to die."

The sweeping-arm gesture she made as she stepped away from the clue box wasn't nearly as dramatic as Anakin's might have been, but she wasn't even going to try to match that anyway.

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Monochromatically.

Your first clue leads you to a stretch of two lane highway just outside of town, and to a go-kart. Spread out along each side of the road are several sets of Burma Shave signs -- the small ones, not the larger billboards of the late 1950s and early 1960s, so you might want to be careful with your go-kart throttle.

Why? Because in order to get your next clue, you'll have to spot all the signs for two Burma Shave slogans each, and recite them back in order to the fellow by the side of the road who's been putting up said signs. Do that, and you'll get your clue.

Made it back to town? Now you get a choice: play in the park with a hula hoop, or serve up drinks in the diner.

Yes, that's right, head on over toward the playground, where you get to pick up your very own cheesy plastic hula hoop! Either manage 25 revolutions without breaking rhythm or dropping your hula hoop, or 75 revolutions in a minute or less, and the friendly hula-hoop promoter trying to drum up interest in his product will give you your next clue.

Step into the diner, and you'll be handed a tray of ten milkshakes, a uniform, and a pair of rollerskates. Get all ten milkshakes served (spill any and you'll have to go back to the counter for more) and the girl hanging out by the jukebox will give you your next clue. Oh, by the way? Yes, it's pretty busy in there. Good luck!

No, she can't do anything about the monochrome-ness.

How'd you do this week, kids?

You can all thank

sith_happened for demanding that hula hoops and go-karts be involved, and not telling me that either of the other things were bad ideas. :D Lo, hath the RNG (minus students still away on plottiness) spoken:

1) Hank Venture
2) Dana Scully
3) Jim Hawkins
4) Lion-o
5) Bruce Wayne
6) Marshall Wheeler
7) Nico di Angelo
8) Jason Todd
9) Stephanie Brown
10) Seifer Almasy
11) Mercy Thompson
12) Spock
13) Sam Puckett
14) Annie Edison
15) Cara
16) Elle Bishop

I did do this one over several times because it kept making Steph come in first. WTF. As always, SP during my day is highly likely, because no one's paying us to RP yet, sadly.

Edited 2011-08-16 04:29 (UTC)

Mwahahahahahahahahaha. Have fun kicking those sides!

Annie Edison

Spock

Gaaaaaaah so close!

Cara

Given that Cara didn't exactly know how to drive, let's all be glad she was only on a go-kart.

Thanks to good reflexes she managed not to actually hit anything.

Cara had to start over a great many times, not because she had any especial trouble keeping her balance once she got started, but she mysteriously kept 'accidentally' spilling milkshakes on obnoxious men.

Cara looked terribly happy, really she did.

Seifer Almasy

The problem wasn't Seifer finding the signs, or memorizing him. The problem was the go-carts were fun and he spent more time playing around in the cart than doing what he was supposed to.

Eventually, he came in and got his clue.

Seifer went for the hula hoops. He'd 'dated' one too many waitresses to try serving drinks.

Really, hula hoops were torture devices, but eventually, he got it.

Seifer didn't care where he came in, this class had actually been fun.

Jim Hawkins

Okay, memorization was something that was way more up Jim's alley than, say, trying to spot out-of-place things among creepy hula girl dolls.

And they gave him a go-kart to do it with?

The propulsion system was primitive, but there was a sort of rush to racing so close to the ground that definitely appealed to Jim, so he sped through at an almost ridiculous pace, slowing down whenever he spotted something that looked like a sign along the way. Years of stunting on his surfer had given him a keen enough eye to spot that sort of thing as he went.

Busy diner. Just like home. Jim normally wouldn't have opted to do the task that so closely resembled his chores back at the Benbow, but they went and sold him with a promise of wheels.

Not quite the wheels he had been expecting, but once he figured out how to stand up on them (which took a few minutes, granted), he was skating around and serving milkshakes like he'd been doing it all his life.

Which he had.

When Jim checked in and didn't see over a dozen people ahead of him, he couldn't help but grin.

"I'm not seventeenth today?"

He had to make himself one of those go-karts. It wasn't a surfer, but it was still pretty fun.

Elle Bishop

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Try Not To Die!!!! [Tuesday, August 16]

Sign In [TNTD!!!!, 8/16]

Road Block [8/16]

Detour: Hoops or Wheels

Detour: Hoops

Detour: Wheels

Ask Tahiri For Help! [8/16]

Check In With Tahiri [8/16]

OOC [TNTD!!!!, 8/16]

Re: OOC [TNTD!!!!, 8/16]

Re: Sign In [TNTD!!!!, 8/16]

Re: Sign In [TNTD!!!!, 8/16]

Re: OOC [TNTD!!!!, 8/16]

Re: Sign In [TNTD!!!!, 8/16]

Re: Road Block [8/16]

Re: Detour: Wheels

Re: Check In With Tahiri [8/16]

Re: Sign In [TNTD!!!!, 8/16]

Re: Road Block [8/16]

Re: Detour: Hoops

Re: Check In With Tahiri [8/16]

Re: Sign In [TNTD!!!!, 8/16]

Re: Road Block [8/16]

Re: Detour: Wheels

Re: Check In With Tahiri [8/16]

Re: Sign In [TNTD!!!!, 8/16]