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Anakin and Obi-Wan were in front of Portalocity again this morning. "We're going to stick with Europe today," Anakin told them, "and are going to increase the difficulty level."

Someone had taken Laura's critique of last week's class slightly personally. Sorry, everyone.

Obi-Wan sighed the sigh of someone who had had a full hour's argument over the previous party's ridiculous post-class demands and was mostly just glad Anakin had scrapped the flamethrowers from the equation. "Somewhat," he said, "at a normal and sensible pace."

He cleared his throat. "We are about to welcome you to a local festival called Oktoberfest," he said. "It appears to largely concern beverages we'd rather you not imbibe. Not that any of you would, of course."

The sarcasm was dripping, there.

"Because that would be wrong," Anakin agreed, nodding. "But mostly because none of you want detention for drinking alcohol during class. We're going to a country called Germany, which is...down and to the west of the country we were in last week."

"The festival also revolves around food," Obi-Wan continued, "Which is to say, we hope you have some expertise in the art of baking." He looked vaguely amused underneath all the facial hair. "As well as a healthy appetite."

Anakin smirked. "So get your costumes on--" he pointed to racks of lederhosen and dirndls that were not optional, "--and get ready to race."

"May the Force be with you," Obi-Wan said solemnly, bowed his head, and then turned around and walked into the portal.

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Your second challenge is much easier! ... Some. Some easier.

You can either opt to eat two (2) kilos of currywurst that has been provided to you by a nearby stand...

... or you must spend fifteen minutes tapping large steins of Weissbier for a very large mass of people currently congregating near the tap. One in four customers wants you to bring over beer for their entire five-person table, and they want it brought over, so get ready to play balance the beer steins!

Edited 2016-01-14 12:19 (UTC)

Having climbing to the Eagle's Nest, Eggsy had worked up an appetite. Which is why he picked the currywurst option. And snagged a beer or two.

You offered a teenage boy food and beer, what did you think would happen, guys?

After the incident with her Mum's curry, Alex tended to avoid curry based foods so she went with the tapping steins option.

It turned out that she was rather good at this and after a few moments of delicate balancing she was able to serve the steins of beer without dropping them.

Obi-Wan, no. Why would you let Isabela near the beer at all?

She completed the challenge without missing a beat, after 'testing' the quality of the beer. Afterwards she spent another good half-hour making sure the quality hadn't gone down any while she pouring.

Rey had been a starving person till recently, so of course she went for the food. The problem was that being starving till recently meant that she still didn't know how to eat two kilos of anything, and it went much slower than she'd have liked.

Eating all that food for a challenge seemed wasteful to Cosette, so she opted to tap the beer steins instead. She wasn't all that adept at balancing them, so that was a little bit slow, but she at least managed to charm the customers into not being upset about the delay.

Food, because Laura wasn't going to play waitress, not in that dress. Fortunately nobody got handsy and she didn't need to remove limbs either.

And she had a beer, because Germany. Oktoberfest. You can't not have a beer.

Kaylin would have been done with the whole adventure in no time flat if she hadn't dropped a couple of the steins carrying them to a table.

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