Try Not to Die, Tuesday, May 9, 2017

[sith_happened]

Anakin's workshop met outside the Travelocity office, and he greeted them in his traditional Jedi robes. "Welcome to my class," he said. He pointed to a map of the world that the Travelocity gnomes had given him. "For those of you new to this planet, we are currently here--" he poked the map, "--in Maryland, in the continent of North America. Our travels today will take us to South America, down here--" another poke of the map. "To a nation called Peru. They speak a different language there called Spanish. If you happen to speak it, that will make your lives a little easier. If you don't, well, I hope you're fluent in hand gestures."

That aren't considered rude in Peru. "You will have to complete two tasks while in Peru, and then find me at the final stop. Don't get hurt, don't get arrested, don't get lost. Ready...go."

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Sign in 5/9

[sith_happened]

...what have you done to yourselves.

Re: Sign in 5/9

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka Tano

Road Block!

[sith_happened]

You arrive via rickshaws to Playa Hermosa beach. On the beach you find three enormous sand dunes. Dig through the dunes to find plane tickets that will take you to your next destination--they leave a half an hour apart, so finding an earlier one is better, but finding one at all is more important.

: [OOC: First flight: FN-2187, Hyacinthe, Kaylin. Second flight: Rey, June, Merrill. Third flight: Jason, Ahsoka, Khadgar, Jyn. You can have found the ticket quickly, but pulled badly ;)]

Re: Road Block!

[snipsnspecks]

Who let Anakin design lessons? Who?

Ahsoka felt no reservations whatsoever in using the Force to find the closest envelope. Which of course was for the last flight.

Re: Road Block!

[cracksmostly]

Oh. Oh dear. Well, it was a good thing Merrill's magic was nature based, then. Because yes, she absolutely would be using it to search for the ticket in the sand. Not the earliest one, but she found it, which was good, right?

Re: Road Block!

[spell_chucker]

Yeah, there was no way Khadgar was digging through a dune when he could use his magic to move the sand instead... except sand was really unpleasant to move and he still couldn't find a ticket and ugh, he was going to have sand everywhere.

Re: Road Block!

[stardust_rogue]

Jyn was taken aback for more than one reason. First -- Anakin Skywalker? That couldn't be right. Second -- how had she ended up in this class and what were they supposed to be doing? She was going to kill Saw. Third -- all right, the people using what looked like magic to find tickets was pretty cool.

By the time she started digging for her own ticket, all she could find was one for the last flight.

Re: Road Block!

[thatsweirdright]

Jason was so side-eyeing everyone who had found their tickets super-quick. And then started digging.

Last flight. Of course. Ugh.

Re: Road Block!

[notamascot]

Kaylin found the ticket quickly - sheer luck really - and managed to get herself to the airport without getting herself or anyone else killed.

Re: Road Block!

[junebug1500]

June knelt down and pawed through the sand as fast as she could, ignoring the grit that flew into her eyes and mouth. She was disappointed when she realized her ticket was for the second flight, but didn't want to risk the time it'd take to find a better one.

Re: Road Block!

[thatwaslucky]

Rey was pretty neutral on sand what up, Anakin but she was used to it. She'd credit that with why she had very little problem finding a ticket, but unfortunately it wasn't the early one. Oops.

Re: Road Block!

[vrajna_kralis]

Some people probably would have thought that using the dromonde to look backwards to see where tickets had been buried was a poor use of his skill. Those people were not Tsingani, who believed in using every tactic to their advantage.

To those who didn't know what he was about, it likely looked like Hyacinthe simply sauntered over to a random section of dune, stuck his arm into the sand, and pulled out a ticket.

For the first flight. Naturally.

Re: Road Block!

[notfinnyet]

FN-2187 was good at manual labor, so the digging was no sweat--well, it was a lot of sweat but who cared about that part, really--and he found a ticket pretty quickly. And it was even a good one!

Detour: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket

[sith_happened]

Oh, if only Kuzco was still here...

Your flight lands in Huambutio, where you get to choose between two tasks: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket.

In Rope a Llama, you must rope two llamas (either one at a time, or two together if you think that will be faster) and walk them waaaay over to the farmer waiting for them, who hand you your next clue. In Rope a Basket, you first have to put on traditional hats and ponchos before lugging a 35 lb (16 kilo) basket of alphalfa two-thirds of a mile down the road to a shopkeeper that will hand you your clue.

Re: Detour: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket

[snipsnspecks]

Really, Anakin?

Given Ahsoka's only previous experiences with llamas had been Kuzco, she opted for carrying the basket.

The poncho wasn't a problem, the hat on the other hand...or montral, rather.

Re: Detour: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket

[cracksmostly]

... Yeah, Merrill opted for the llama because she could never resist animals.

It actually went better than you might think; it wasn't quite like handling halla, but she managed in a decent amount of time.

Well. Until she got distracted for a good long while by talking to the llamas.

Re: Detour: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket

[spell_chucker]

Khadgar was great with animals!

Okay, he was decent with animals and he didn't really have experience with llamas, but he still managed to make it to the farmer without too many bruises.

Re: Detour: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket

[stardust_rogue]

Jyn was really going to kill Saw.

She was used to carrying heavy weapons and was stronger than she looked despite her size, so she opted for the basket of alfalfa. The hat and poncho were a little ridiculous, though.

Re: Detour: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket

[thatsweirdright]

... Okay, the first option reminded him way too much of the Beefcake Incident, so. Nope.

He donned the hat and poncho (noting, with a certain amount of satisfaction, the prevalence of red shades), picked up that bucket of alfalfa, and made it to the shopkeeper without so much as straining a muscle. And yes, he maybe walked a little faster than most humans ought to be capable of while carrying something of that weight, but hopefully no one noticed.

It did occur to him, as he put down the bucket, to make something of a show of how tooootally tired he was after carrying something that heavy for all that way, though.

Re: Detour: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket

[notamascot]

Llamas were scary so Kaylin was having nothing to do with them. The hat and poncho nearly killed her from the heat, but she eventually managed to drag the alfalfa down the road. Walking and carrying stuff she could do.

Re: Detour: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket

[junebug1500]

June didn't like the look of the llamas, so she went with Rope a Basket. The hardest part was swallowing her pride while she put on the hat and poncho.

Re: Detour: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket

[thatwaslucky]

Neither one of these sounded like anything Rey really wanted to do, but she went for Rope a Basket since she didn't have a ton of shame and could put on a hat and poncho quickly.

She did not do too bad here!

Re: Detour: Rope a Llama or Rope a Basket

[vrajna_kralis]

Hyacinthe was good with animals. He was very good with animals. He'd gotten the llamas roped and heading placidly down the road, handing them over to the farmer with no mishaps.

Hyacinthe was also good with people. And when he spotted the farmer's pretty daughter peeking out at him from the side of the barn, well...One thing led to another, okay?

Hyacinthe was not going to be first. Hyacinthe was not even going to be in the top five.

Pit Stop!

[sith_happened]

Anakin is hiding in the stands of a local market that you had to get to via some Peruvian dude letting you ride in the back of his pickup truck. How'd you do?

Re: Pit Stop!

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka stomped straight towards Anakin like the grumpy not-so-little Togruta she was.

At least he'd have had plenty of warning she was coming.

OOC

[sith_happened]

Here's how you did!

1. Rey
2. FN-2187
3. Jason Lee Scott
4. Khadgar
5. Ahsoka Tano
6. Kaylin Neya
7. Jyn Erso
8. June Iparis
9. Merrill
10. Hyacinthe