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Try Not to Die [Thursday, May 22, 2014]

Anakin was in a black, black mood today, students, so...sorry about that.

"You're going to Tatooine today," he began without preamble. "I'm going to wait here because there aren't enough credits in the multiverse to make me step back on that desolate rock masquerading as a planet again."

Sounds like a great place for a class, doesn't it?

"Tatooine is hot as hell and half as inviting," he continued. "There are two suns blazing overhead and so if you don't wear the ponchos I've provided you have no one but yourself to blame when you come back with a raging sunburn."

He pointed to the portal. "Now go away."

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...anxious to leave. Yikes, Anakin.

While putting on your ponchos. Or don't and get sunburned. SEE IF HE CARES.

In Rocket, you go to the Mos Espa Grand Arena head over to the Bo Charmian Racing School, where you will attempt to podrace--a sport too difficult for anyone with standard human reflexes. Fortunately, the racing school uses a sim. After you've completed three laps around the course (or died horribly five times), the Neimoidian working there will hand you the next clue.

In Rock It, you become a singer in a Mos Espa jizz (really) band. Singing in the Max Rebo band, you'll learn the lyrics to "(That Joyous Night) I Ate My Mate" and perform it live to a cantina crowd. If they hate it, they'll throw their drinks at you. If you do well, you'll get the next clue.

One of the major industries on Tatooine is moisture farming, which, yes, is about as futile as you'd think.

Take a speeder out to a moisture farm and listen to the farmer explain how to make the evaporators work. Once you have pulled a liter of water from the atmosphere (this will take a while), she will send you back to the portal.

Watch out for Tusken Raiders on your way back.

This should be delightful.

Talk to Jess. Please.

Cranky Anakin is a little too fun to write. Sorry, folks.

The RNG says:

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

Karina Lyle

Karina put on her poncho.

Mostly because their newest destination sounded terrible and it gave her something to do rather than dwell on the fact that the teacher was in a terrible mood today. That boded awfully for them.

Emma Swan

Emma managed not to mangle the song too horribly, or if she did the crowd was too drunk to care about it.

So it turned out that moisture farming was very, very boring. Emma was deeply shocked by this development.

"Moisture farming? Really?" Emma had enjoyed this class so much Anakin, really she had.

Kaylin Neya

Kaylin was in a pretty ugly mood herself. She chose the podracing and reached a new height in swearing, teaching the Neimoidian there a few choice words and picking up a few in his language.

After discovering what it would take to get past this section, she deliberately crashed the sim in increasingly horrifying ways as quickly as she could and was gone in no time, leaving the poor Neimoidian wondering what demon he'd just dealt with.

Kaylin's glare made the poor farmer talk faster and faster and eventually leave off half of the lecture before helping Kaylin get her liter from the atmosphere just to make her leave.

"Well, that was fun. Not." Kaylin said, spitting to the side in disgust.

Barry Ween

Kira Yukimura

Kira was feeling super nervous today, but she went for the podracing anyway, since the sim wouldn't kill her... probably. She figured it would be good practice for Driver's Ed, but that was before she started dying horribly. Every death was a little different though, so she figured she should at least get points for that.

Kira got a little worried as the farmer explained his job. What if people needed that moisture? What if she messed it up? She tried her best, but she was too cautious to get the job done quickly.

Kira made her way up to Anakin nervously, since he didn't seem to be in the best of moods. "Hi, I made it," she said. And hey, there were fewer people here than last week, so maybe that was a good sign?

Don't ask how Barry got Rock It instead of Rocket.

But he did.

And he cheerfully sang the song as the band threw drinks at him.

And so he had to sing it again.

And again.

And despite the drinks thrown his way he was still delightfully cheerful about it.

Barry cheerfully waited for the farmer to explain how the evaporators work even though it almost made his brain explode.

Then he spent almost an hour diagramming the device and explaining to the farmer how it could be improved.

The farmer wasn't too pleased with Barry.

That liter took a very long time to get pulled.

"That was horrible!" Barry said cheerfully. "I can't believe I took that much time! And I still smell like alien alcohol!"

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Try Not to Die [Thursday, May 22, 2014]

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Detour: Rocket or Rock It

Road Block!

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