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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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Ready to get dirty!

In Hoist It, you have to use a traditional rope and pulley system to hoist five pieces of furniture up a typical Amsterdam residence. A helpful local will help you attach the furniture to the rope, but you have to pull them up.

In Hunt It, you make your way on foot several blocks to a bicycle parking lot called Fietsflat to search through thousands of bicycles for two bikes tagged with a specific color designated in your clue. After finding the bike, you have to ride five miles to an attendant who will give you your next clue.

If you get frustrated with one task, you can change your mind and try the other, but that will cost you time.

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.

After hauling or hunting and leaping and falling, ride a bakfiet to the spot where Anakin and Ben are waiting for you.

With big fluffy towels, should you need one.

The RNG speaks so:

1. Anakin Solo (TA)
2. Mercy Thompson
3. Theo Langstrom
4. Chaz Villette
5. Anna Korlov
6. Alexandra Jones
7. Gertrude Yorkes
8. Emily Thorne (TA)
9. Maddie Berry
10. Raven Darkholme
11. Victor Mancha
12. Korra
13. Liara T'Soni

Maddie Berry

Maddie knew herself well enough to know that hoisting furniture up anything was going to result in bad things, so she went for the second option. She actually didn't have a big problem finding the bikes; one she found almost accidentally right away and that was what made her figure out the clue, and then she had to hunt down the second one.

And what was a five mile bike ride, really.

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.

Oh yes, Maddie needed a towel.

"Definitely not first," she announced, like they didn't know that.

"Not last either," Ben said helpfully, holding out a towel. "You're ninth."

Alexandra Jones

Theo Langstrom

Gertrude Yorkes

Alex didn't want anything to do with riding a bike for five miles, so she chose to hoist furniture. She had a bit of trouble with the first two pieces, but once she got the hang of it, she got through the rest of the task with ease.

Theo didn't know why but he went with Hoist It because it seemed more straightforward than the other option.

Of course, as soon as he started hoisting things up and his arms (and Ange and Dev) started screaming at him, he started regretting the decision. There wasn't any real way to cut corners here like when he'd been running track but that didn't stop Dev from jabbering at him to do something.

That distraction cost him a little time but he did manage to get the furniture hoisted.

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.

Theo was caked in mud but still standing when he finally made it to the check in. He wanted one of those towels and then he wanted to shower for a few days.

Gert would rather do almost anything over riding a bike five miles, so, furniture it was.

A helpful but bemused Dutch woman in a sundress helped her tie the chairs to a rope (though she also seemed to be tweeting this) one by one, and while it proved mostly hellish, at least the exercise was mostly upper-body and not bike-induced. That was better.

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.

Great, the bike thing was mandatory anyway. This particular bakfiets would never be the same again: it was completely covered in mud by the time Gert pulled over.

She wasn't quite ready to get up off the bike, though. She was just going to sit on it. Coveting those towels.

Edited 2013-05-21 13:00 (UTC)

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.

"Well done," Anakin said, handing him a towel. "You're third today."

Alex made it to the end, though she was grumpier and muddier. Yes, she'd like one of those towels.

You're riding on bakfiets with an S, omg, which means "bike with a box on it." Oh, language.

"You're sixth today," Anakin said, handing her a towel.

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

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Detour: Hoist it or Hunt It

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