Try Not to Die!!! [Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 3rd period]

[sith_happened]

Anakin and Ben were back at Portalocity. "Today we're heading to Delhi, India," Anakin said, pointing to it on a map he'd made Ben hold up. "It's very humid, very hot, and very, very crowded. Please don't get too lost during your challenges."

Though he and Ben had built in time for them to get completely turned around at least twice.

"Have fun," Ben said with a warm smile, "and, um, hope you don't love what you're wearing."

That wasn't foreboding at all, was it, class?

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Detour: Bleary Eyed or Teary Eyed

[sith_happened]

In Bleary Eyed, you follow a series of power lines, keeping mark of the numbered tags hanging from the power lines. The power lines look like this:



You report the tag numbers to a power company official and plug in a musical Ganesh statue to receive the clue that tells them where Anakin and Ben are.

In Teary Eyed, you find a specially marked store in a spice market (not easy) and transport a 40-pound (18 kg) bag of chili peppers to a location a quarter of a mile away. Then grind them into chili powder with a mortar and pestle to receive the next clue.

Re: Detour: Bleary Eyed or Teary Eyed

[failsatspirit]

Finding the stall and hauling the chillies hadn't been actually that hard, but grinding them took a bit of elbow grease.

Re: Detour: Bleary Eyed or Teary Eyed

[theoplustwo.livejournal.com]

Theo went with the bleary eyed challenged because he figured he had six sets of eyes and hopefully that would work to his advantage. Theo moved slowly and he occasionally got thrown off by Ange or Dev arguing about which line to follow but they all got on the same page eventually and Theo was able to get the statue going so he could run off.

Re: Detour: Bleary Eyed or Teary Eyed

[mummyspromdate.livejournal.com]

Maddie decided to go with the thing that required less focus today. The only thing slowing her down was finding the store, which she really thought would be easier than it was.

And grinding the peppers down was actually kind of cathartic.

Re: Detour: Bleary Eyed or Teary Eyed

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

Anakin opted for the chili pepper transportation task, since after the envelopes he wasn't in the mood to deal with tangled power lines.

That was a mistake; the chili powder really got to him, and he had to spend a while splashing his face with water (and cheating a little bit with some Force techniques) just so he could see again before he set out for the finish line.

Re: Detour: Bleary Eyed or Teary Eyed

[notyetplatypus.livejournal.com]

For once, Chaz's rule of choosing the first option no matter what came in handy. He easily followed the power line in a pattern that may have looked bizarre to anyone watching.

Re: Detour: Bleary Eyed or Teary Eyed

[tigerundercover]

Raven went for the chilis without even thinking about it too much. Of course, she got lost once in the market, and briefly considered just going native and not bothering to finish the challenge at all, but once she found the store, things went pretty smoothly from there.

Well, as smoothly as lugging around 40 pounds of anything and then having to grind it all by hand could ever go.

Re: Detour: Bleary Eyed or Teary Eyed

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy decided on following the tag numbers since she could use her sense of smell to help sort out the different lines. Plus, she figured the smells of all the chili powder would practically kill her.

It didn't take too long, though there was more than one person who stared at all the different colors she was dripping with along the way.

Re: Detour: Bleary Eyed or Teary Eyed

[reven8e.livejournal.com]

Yeah Emily was just going to follow wires and mope. A lot.

She wasn't even trying, guys.