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Try Not to Die!!! [Tuesday, May 21, 2013]

The Skywalkers were standing in the lobby of the Portalocity office like last week, looking relaxed. "Hopefully you enjoyed last week's class," Ben began. "Today the portal's going to take you to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which is on the same continent as England last week, but in a different country."

Shh, someone had been learning about Earth geography and wanted to show off a bit.

Anakin looked dryly amused at that little aside. "Today you will have the choice of two different activities as detours, and then a roadblock that you all must complete. We will meet you at the end of the course. Remember that this is not a simulation, so if you annoy the locals, you are actually annoying locals. Avoid that. Your class begins...now."

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Partake in the traditional Frisian sport of fierljeppen: leaping over a twelve foot wide mud ditch using a giant pole!

This could get really, really messy. Blame Ben for this particular exercise.

Okay now Maddie was regretting the bike ride. She was already tired, which would probably be part of why her first attempt at this ended in her landing in mud. And of course, once she'd ended up in mud, that made it just a little harder to not fall after that, because a muddy Maddie and a pole were unmeshy things.

She just about did a dance when she finished this one.

Theo eyed the mud pit and the stick. Yeah, this wasn't going to go well.

"Give it your best shot, Theo." That was Ange's advice.

Theo grabbed the stick and ran towards the mud pit. His stick hit the ground and he leaped and...landed sideways in the mud.

Well, great. He went back to try again and eventually did make it over on his fourth attempt.

Dev was laughing at him hysterically.

What.

"Pretty sure I'm too short for this activity," Gert remarked with certainty as she surveyed the mud pit.

And she was right. She fell in a really ridiculous amount of times.

When Alex stared at the ditch, she was certain she wasn't getting out of this without getting muddy. She was right. After falling in the mud a few times, she finally made it across.

Good thing, too, because she was ready to throw the pole in frustration.

In theory, gravity warping skills should make this easy, correct? That was the theory with which Liara had tackled this challenge.

Sadly, actually using her biotics to keep up her weight on a small pole turned out to be much harder than anticipated. Not only that, but the light show was seriously confusing the local Frisians.

Not to mention the one cow eyeballing her from an adjacent field.

She tried again. And again. And again.

In the end, it was the one try fueled only by pure annoyance and exasperation - no biotics at all - that got her across. But at this point she was covered from tip to toe in dark sludge.

At least nobody could tell she was blue any longer?

Seriously?

Victor wasn't really much for track-and-field type activities, and the fact he was relatively heavy for his height made balancing with the pole even harder. He made it -- mostly by luck -- but only after getting pretty well covered by mud.

He was beginning to hate today.

Emily took her time to do the jump. She really took her time, as if she was making some weird kind of communion with the pole and the mud. In fact she was just quietly freaking out because she wasn't a fan of ruining her clothes after suffering all morning to look good in them.

Long story short, Emily did it in her first try. She ended up falling face first in the ground though, because nothing came free. At least she avoided the mud?

Yeah, Chaz was just going to keep cheating today. He did the math on the speed and angles he would need, but it still took him a few tries to actually manage the leap. He was kind of glad he had eaten the energy bar, because it would now be full of mud.

. . . and again, not much of an effort for Anakin, who'd been making jumps of much more ridiculous distances than this since he was a kid.

He even used the Force to deflect any mud splashes, and not only came out of the roadblock immaculately clean, but in a flashy somersault.

Showoff.

This part was remarkably easy, even if Korra 'accidentally' bent all that wet, wet mud at all and sundry bystanders as she landed. Maybe she made up some of that time she'd lost with the pulley?

Okay, the bike ride had been amazing, but now Raven was trying to play catch-up, and she was not impressed by the giant mud hole.

"I shouldn't have mentioned mud wrestling last week," she groaned.

Okay... Mercy stood back and considered for a moment, then, in a blur of speed, ran at the pit, planted the stick well, and went soaring over.

She didn't quite stick the landing, so there's be some bruises, but at least she wasn't covered with mud.

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