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Kicking Ass, Teamwork Style [Wednesday, Period 3, Week 5]

Kennedy looked as sleepy today as she had yesterday; apparently it was a busy week at her other job. Not that this was stopping her from pacing back and forth in front of the class today, a cup of coffee in one hand. The Danger Shop setup was pretty simple: just an open patch of grass scattered with trees and the occasional boulder, but most importantly several identical hourglass-shaped sand pits. Each pit was about 20 feet long and strewn haphazardly with rocks, toys, the occasional bright orange traffic cone-- various obstacles of different shapes and sizes, enough to guarantee that there was no straight-shot path from one end to the other.

"Simple one today, everybody," Kennedy told them. "Teams of four or five like last time. Your job is to get your entire team from this side of the sand to the other side, one at a time."

See? Simple.

"Couple of catches, though." Oh. Well, okay then. "Person crossing at the time is gonna be blindfolded--" Kennedy gestured to a nearby table laid out with enough blindfolds for everyone-- "and the rest of you have to guide 'em from one side to the other. Without actual hands-on guiding, got that?"

She paused for just long enough to let them process that (and to have several gulps of coffee), then went on. "Oh, yeah. Step on or bump into any of the things in the sand and you're frozen until a teammate bails you out. Which is to say, you're stuck there until one of your teammates finds the 'unfreeze ray' and tags you with it." In other words, the Nerf disc shooter that was hidden somewhere around each team's miniature obstacle course. But she'd let them try and figure that out. "Okay, enough from me. Get to it, yeah?"

On that note, she assigned people to groups and then took a step back to observe and maybe see if anyone came up with a particularly clever solution.

[[~~wait for the ocd or i will bite you.~~ ocd is up. no biting today!]]

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Without looking! Or something.

Bobby Drake

Topher Brink

Victor Mancha

Kate Daniels

Ace McShane

Cassie Blake

Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar

Karolina Dean

Surreal

Darcy Lewis

Squall Leonhart

Shira

Billy Kaplan

Marasiah Fel

Angelica Jones

Richie Ryan

Where you do that interacty thing. The non-class-related kind, anyway.

And traverse the sand pit in your assigned groups.

By the way, Kennedy laid down the rules, but she never said anything about sticking to them...

[Obstacles are moddable, along the lines of old tires, barrels, a piece of plywood, etc. Basically fairly mundane objects that won't damage anyone too badly should anyone run into them. Each sand pit (they're not deep, BTW, just a couple of inches below the ground level) is 20 feet long, 10 feet across at the wide points, and about 4 feet across in the middle. Exercise is based on this, just with FANCY DANGER SHOP TECHNOLOGY. The Nerf disc shooter "unfreeze rays" are hidden near each team's sand pit; see OCD subthreads for where.]

Your "unfreeze ray" is beneath a shrub on the left-hand edge of your sand pit.

Your "unfreeze ray" is wedged between two large rocks near the starting end of the sand pit.

"I'll go first if somebody'll tie this on for me," Ace offered, dangling a red bandanna from one hand.

She braided her own hair into that headache-just-to-look-at-it french thing; it wasn't like she couldn't tie a blindfold. She just didn't trust herself to do it properly so she couldn't see.

"I'll do it for you," Shira said, reaching out to take the bandana from Ace.

Your "unfreeze ray" is lying in a patch of tall grass, actually. Almost on the far side of the sand pit.

Victor looked across the sand, annoyed again that there was a lack of metal for him to work with.

"I can get some of the toys out of the way from here magnetically," he said, then fiddled with the collar of his shirt before he spoke. "Or ... this place is a giant computer, program, right?"

He wasn't really asking; when he tried, he could sense it pulsing around him. He was only surprised it had taken him this long to think about it.

And, once again, Sholeh felt embarrassed she had nothing concrete to offer. "I can, ummm, follow directions?"

*Is there any way we can help?* Zhahar asked, sounding anxious.

=Even if we're close to the surface, we wouldn't be able to see anything through Sholeh's blindfold.= Zeela's disappointment was almost palpable. =And even if one of us came into view, that blindfold would still be there.=

*Hmmm...* Zhahar said. *Maybe I can come up with something with a little more thought.*

::You do that,:: Sholeh said. ::I'm gonna sit here and feel useless until you do.::

Surreal looked at her group-mates, at the sand, and back at the group.

"Do we care if we do this right, or just if we do it first?"

"If first is what we're after," Victor said, "I could block the simulation's programming until we're by the unfreeze ray and then turn it back on. But it's completely a cheat, and that's not really a team way of doing it."

He ... actually did care about those last two details.

"I can walk on-air to the other side, then hold a bridge for the next person to follow me," Surreal replied, eying the distance. "The problem is, that, blindfolded, I will not be able to see where I am going. You would all need to call out directions to keep me from walking in circles."

"Someone would have to verbally direct each person that followed me, since I would need to concentrate to keep the air under them firm."

"And I could probably just jump all the way across, but I think that misses the point," Squall pointed out. " It's not that hard a task. It would probably be more interesting for all of us, and more fun, and require more teamwork, if we just do it the way we're supposed to."

Surreal just rolled her eyes at him. "That is why I asked," she pointed out. "I do not know what does or does not count as 'teamwork' since I tend to live and work alone."

"Besides, different voices shouting conflicting directions could be hilarious."

Squall shrugged. "Then we plan out a route ahead of time, so the differing directions clarify instead of conflict."

There's this nice shade-giving tree near your group's sand pit. Your "unfreeze ray" is tied to one of the branches.

Cassie didn't actually panic when the topic of blindfolds was brought up, but it was something she really didn't want to do.

When, of course, they ping in.

Bobby was here and, having listened to radio, was shooting Kennedy some oddly pensive looks. For a guy with a secret identity, he really wasn't all that great with subtle.

He was, of course, around (if a bit distracted) if anyone needed his help with something.

Squall was there, ready and willing to offer his advice to anyone who asked. And, you know, not care about anyone that didn't ask.

She's not nodding off, exactly, but wow, does she look like she'll hit you if you so much as look speculatively at that cup of coffee.

This was almost a class about how you would prepare to go into the biggest and most important fight of your life. NO REASON. I swear it made sense in my head. At about an insomiac 1 AM.

Incidentally, just to make it clear since I've been asked: if your character can and would use powers/abilities to bend the rules of the exercise, go for it.

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Kicking Ass, Teamwork Style [Wednesday, Period 3, Week 5]

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Team Up [KA,TS Week 5]

Group 1: Kate Daniels, Alex Aaron, Marasiah Fel, Thomasina Coverly

Group 2: Billy Kaplan, Richie Ryan, Ace McShane, Topher Brink, Shira

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Group 3: Victor Mancha, Squall Leonhart, Surreal, Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar

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Group 4: Bobby Drake, Angelica Jones, Darcy Lewis, Karolina Dean, Cassie Blake

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