Try Not to Die [Thursday, May 8, 2014]

[sith_happened]

Anakin met the class out in front of the Portalocity office with a cup of coffee and a slightly evil smile on his face.

You should have a bad feeling about that smile, class.

"Welcome to Try Not to Die," he said. "I'm Master Skywalker. This year, instead of exploring this planet, you will be exploring places in my own galaxy."

You lucky, lucky things. "Our first stop is the capital planet of Coruscant," he said. "While it's not the physical center of the galaxy, in every way that counts, it is. Space coordinates have even been shifted so that Coruscant is 0,0,0 and al other areas are based off of it. It has standard air and gravity, and it is home to 1 trillion official permanent members, with various beings coming and going constantly, as well as members of populations who don't especially wished to be counted, so the unofficial number of residents is probably closer to 3 trillion. It is the home to the Jedi Temple--at least in my time, that changes depending on the person from my galaxy you're talking to--the Senate and most major government offices. It is also almost entirely covered in buildings: Coruscant is divided into quadrants and zones, and then each zone has sectors depending on how high into the air it is. The further down you go, the less light you get and the shadier--literally and figuratively--the neighborhood becomes."

Anakin gave them all long looks. "Do not go into the lower levels. There are places that even I couldn't find you in." He pointed to Jessica. "This is Jessica Drew, the TA for the session. She also won't save you if you do something stupid." He slid his hands into the sleeves of his Jedi robes and nodded, satisfied that they understood his degree of seriousness. "I'm going to send you into the more populated, tourist-friendly areas. Follow the instructions, don't get hurt, and I'll see you at the checkpoint at the end."

With that, he stepped out of the way of the portal.

Comments

Sign in [5/7]

[sith_happened]

Ready to see weird aliens!

Re: Sign in [5/7]

[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

Karina Lyle

Listen to the lecture [5/7]

[sith_happened]

Anakin's not much of a coddler, huh?

Re: Listen to the lecture [5/7]

[shippedtomaine]

Emma could see so many ways this could go wrong. So many.

Re: Listen to the lecture [5/7]

[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

He wasn't, but Karina didn't... actually mind?

Which was kind of sad, really, but she was going to take comfort that this class was exactly what she'd thought it was going to be. Which was why she'd signed up for it in the first place.

She sort of hated that these were the decisions the island was forcing her to make.

Re: Listen to the lecture [5/7]

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Shit. Alien worlds?

If there was even so much of a hint of anthropology or cow-tipping aliens Barry was dropping the class.

God damn probes.

Re: Listen to the lecture [5/7]

[nolizardhere]

Okay, this sounded reasonably practical, and also a bit like Eltar. Andros thought he could handle this class.

Re: Listen to the lecture [5/7]

[doesnotkneel]

"What?"

Well. At least Edward had come back to himself some after yesterday, but--

What?

Re: Listen to the lecture [5/7]

[not_a_moonie]

Alana was getting more interested in this class by the second. It sounded like Coruscant was about as close as she'd get to going home without actually going home.

It also sounded dangerous, but that wasn't exactly a point in the negative.

Road Block!

[sith_happened]

Anakin had been very specific with the Portalocity gnomes about what version of Coruscant to send them to: he wanted the Coruscant of his mostly ill-spent teenaged years, where he knew the city and the holes in the walls that looked a little seedy but weren't completely unsafe.

With three trillion beings from more systems than even he could name and a planet-wide city that literally never slept, he didn't want to lose a student on his very first day of class. The paperwork would be endless.

So the directions for getting to the road block involved negotiating with a local cab drive and a very fast drive through Galactic City's ridiculous traffic to arrive at Dex's Diner in CoCo City:



For your roadblock, you have to eat three bowls of apple slug stew and one serving of beast yeast, which will first have to be chased around the table.

Mmmm, good eats.

Re: Road Block!

[shippedtomaine]

The name made sound disgusting, but Emma had eaten far worse than the stew. Far, far worse.

The yeast was kinda weird though.

Re: Road Block!

[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

Oh god. She was taking back every nice thing she'd ever thought about Master Skywalker. Which wasn't many things, to be sure, but she was still taking them back.

Karina managed to choke down the bowls of stew while determinedly not thinking about what the hell was in it. (And wondering why they had to have three bowls of it. Ugh.)

It was the beast yeast that tripped her up. She didn't want to eat something she had to chase which meant that it took a good, long while for her to get her ass in gear to put forth the effort.

She promised herself she could go throw up after class.

Re: Road Block!

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

"Holy shit that's disgusting," Barry said making a face at the food.

And yes he did use a probe first to see if it was safe to eat.

No way he was getting the shits because of a class.

Re: Road Block!

[nolizardhere]

Slugs? Slugs. Okay. Some people ate weirder things, and their teacher wouldn't feed them anything that wasn't safe for human consumption, surely. Andros ate his stew as quickly as possible--it did seem to be a lot of it, though--and then, after a rather protracted chase, his beast yeast.

Re: Road Block!

[doesnotkneel]

Edward spent more time wandering and staring, truth be told. By the time the food entered the picture, he'd long since lost the ability to grasp things correctly.

Eating was something he could do, and he was no stranger to wrangling animals - but he was not getting any of that time back that he'd lost.

Re: Road Block!

[not_a_moonie]

The apple slug stew wasn't that bad, as long as Alana ignored the thought that it was slugs. But beast yeast? It wasn't even that she objected to hunting -- it just seemed like a lot of effort for something that didn't even taste that good.

Re: Road Block!

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

Nathan didn't even really know what the heck was going on when the class started. He picked up fairly quickly that it was a competition but he was slow to pick up on that, unfortunately.

The food in front of him didn't look that appetizing but he'd dealt with worse. He closed his eyes and ate quickly, trying not to think about it.

Re: Road Block!

[notamascot]

Kaylin had certainly eaten far worse than this, so it wasn't terribly challenging.

Re: Road Block!

[justwantedfriends]

After that terrifying cab ride, Kira didn't feel much like eating, so it took her a while to get the stew down. The beast yeast took even longer because the thought of eating something she had to chase made her feel uneasy. She was so not living up to this class title.

Detour: Fix Up or Kiss Up

[sith_happened]

In Fix Up, you take another cab to the The Works section of the planet, where you will find a Toydarian named Zloto. He will show you ten speeder bikes that need to be repaired. Once you have completed the repairs to his satisfaction, he will hand you the next clue. You will fly the speeder bike to the checkpoint.

In Kiss Up, you take a cab to the Galactic Senate, where you will serve as a page to the junior Representative from Naboo, Jar Jar Binks. Anakin was cruel. You must deliver ten messages around the massive building to ten different Senators, from ten different systems and species. Once you have completed this task, Jar-Jar will hand you the clue to tell you where to find Anakin. You must take another cab to get there.

Re: Detour: Fix Up or Kiss Up

[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

Karina took the Kiss Up option and was glad she did. No, seriously, she could cope with the strange and frustrating existence that was Jar Jar Binks.

It went much better than the beast yeast issue, all things considered, though it didn't do much to fix up her time, which she knew had to be pretty bad.

But she almost-sort of enjoyed getting to deliver messages to Senators. Karina found the existence of them to be weirdly normal, even if they were all aliens.

Re: Detour: Fix Up or Kiss Up

[shippedtomaine]

Very cruel, Anakin, but Emma really only tried to break fix things when she was stressed, so delivering messages it was.

Luckily she managed to find a directory (and someone to help her read it) so she could figure out the best order to deliver things in.

Check in

[sith_happened]

Anakin was waiting on the steps of the main building of the University of Coruscant (no reason to tempt fate and traipse too close to the Jedi Temple...).

His hood was up, just in case, and he was enjoying being back home for the first time in years, even if it wasn't exactly his home these days.

Re: Check in

[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

Karina surveyed the people who'd shown up before her with a vaguely disgusted air.

"Well," she said, "that was about what I expected, really."

Which was both terrible and nice. Her feelings were pretty conflicted on this.

Talk to Anakin or Jessica!

[sith_happened]

Bitch about beast-yeast!

Re: Talk to Anakin or Jessica!

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

Jessica had to admit, this was a pretty nice set up. Stand around, let Anakin be scary, visit different worlds. She would totally help people if they got into really bad danger, though, no matter what he threatened. How could she resist with a we swinging opportunity like this place?

OOC

[sith_happened]

The RNG speaketh, and the order of arrival today is:

1. Emma Swan
2. Kaylin Neya
3. Alana
4. Andros
5. Nathan Byrn
6. Barry Ween
7. Karina Lyle
8. Edward Kenway
9. Kira Yukimura