Try Not to Die, Tuesday, May 30, 2017

[sith_happened]

"Today we're going to Botswana, which is in Africa," Anakin said. "Waaay down here," he added, pointing to the map. He smiled evilly. "And we're upping the difficulty level slightly today."

Think "animals that can eat you," kids. Anakin was an amazing teacher this way.

[OOC: Up early for potential baby-having shenanigans tomorrow.]

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Detour: Brains or Brawn

[sith_happened]

Now you get to travel in a "safari taxi" (Land Rover with terrible shock absorption) to Royal Tree Lodge Game Preserve where you get to pick between two activities: Brains or Brawn.

In Brains, you take a horseback safari and search the brush for metal outlines of the following animals: zebra, African buffalo, kudu, giraffe, meerkat, boomslang snake, leopard, warthog, ostrich, and hippopotamus with a heron. After completing the tour, you are given a set of tiles featuring the silhouettes of the animals. You have to place them in the order they appeared. The are tiles for animals you did not see. There is no tile representing the hippopotamus, but there was one for the heron. If you don't get the order right, out you go on the safari again. This could take hours.

In Brawn, you get to deal with even more animals because your day hasn't made you smell like goat enough. You have to fill a traditional sand sledge with firewood and then, using a carrot dangling from a stick, coax a team of donkeys to pull the sledge to a campsite over a half mile (0.80 km) away. The donkeys, needless to say, don't care about the carrot at all.

Re: Detour: Brains or Brawn

[spell_chucker]

After the ride in the Land Rover, Khadgar was pretty sure he'd get super nauseous if he went anywhere near donkeys, and he thought he was pretty smart, so he picked the Brains option.

It turned out, he wasn't as good at memorizing things as he thought, and it took way, way too long for him to get the tiles in order.

Re: Detour: Brains or Brawn

[thatsweirdright]

Jason's life had already had enough animal-herding misadventures before today, thank you. He was fairly certain cheating and just pulling the damn sledge himself wouldn't be allowed, so horseback safari it was.

Now, just because he had been a jock once upon a time, that didn't mean he was stupid, but memorization tasks weren't exactly something he enjoyed. Still, it was better than the alternative, even if it took for-goddamn-ever.

Re: Detour: Brains or Brawn

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka had been making good time with the donkeys, until something spooked them and they bolted. In the wrong direction.

When they finally did stop running, Ahsoka had to let them rest up again before turning them back the right way.

Re: Detour: Brains or Brawn

[junebug1500]

June went with Brains, because most of these animals were extinct in her world and she wasn't sure when else she'd get a chance to see them. And honestly, she had fun with it. For once, all the work she'd put into her classes at home actually paid off.

Re: Detour: Brains or Brawn

[notamascot]

There was no way Kaylin was going out to LOOK for more animals that might kill her.

So she filled the sledge, coaxed (or scared) the donkeys, and survived the day somehow.

Re: Detour: Brains or Brawn

[cracksmostly]

Merrill would actually have done quite well with the Brains exercise, because what kind of Keeper's First would she be if she wasn't any good at memorizing things?

But there were actual animals to play with handle in the Brawn option, and she went with that.

It went very poorly, to say the least, despite all her attempts to wheedle the donkeys into moving a little faster. Or in the right direction.

Re: Detour: Brains or Brawn

[stardust_rogue]

Jyn had a good memory and needed to make up time, so she took a risk and went for Brains. Somehow she managed to get it right the first time.