Continue Trying Not to Die, Tuesday, August 1, 2017

[sith_happened]

"Today we're going to Thailand," Anakin said. "There's a lot of humidity and weird things to eat. You'll love it."

They probably would not love it.

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Sign in 8/1

[sith_happened]

Hot.

Road Block!

[sith_happened]

Fix a tuk-tuk! Anakin thought this was a total gimme of a task.

Use the given power tools to remove the transmission from a faulty engine (you know what the transmission looks like, right?). There is a tiny screwdriver inside the transmission and inside that was a tiny piece of paper giving you directions to the Detour.

...this could take a while.

[RNG says:
1. Rey
2. Kaylin Neya
3. Merrill
4. Pinkie Pie
5. Ahsoka Tano
6. Khadgar
7. Jyn Erso
8. Jason Lee Scott]

Detour: Wheel or Water

[sith_happened]

In Wheel, you take a tuk tuk to the Snooker Club. Once there, you have to play snooker until you sink a red ball. Then, you receive a bottle of milk to take to the Caturday Café, and give to the resident cats. Once the cats were fed, the café's owner gives you the next clue.

In Water, you take a water taxi to Wat Intharam Pier, where you search for Wat Klang Food Market. At the market, you must eat a thousand-year-old egg. Then, you receive a metal placard clue sending you to the Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen temple to participate in a traditional Thai prayer before receiving the next clue.

Check in!

[sith_happened]

Do you have a cat or a stomachache? Or both?

OOC

[sith_happened]

The RNG proclaims:

1. Pinkie Pie
2. Ahsoka Tano
3. Khadgar
4. Kaylin Neya
5. Rey
6. Jason Lee Scott
7. Merrill
8. Jyn Erso

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[thatsweirdright]

Jason Lee Scott

Re: Road Block!

[thatsweirdright]

You'd think, given the months Jason spent fixing up his own truck after the wreck, that he'd be able to handle this.

You'd think wrong. Billy had figured out how to do most of it; Jason had been responsible for pretty much the literal heavy lifting. Which Billy could also have handled just fine but... it was Jason's truck after all.

In any case, there was no Billy here to walk him through it so he muddled through it the best he could.

Re: OOC

[thatsweirdright]

... I kind of want Jason to come back with an actual cat that he couldn't bear to part with, now, yes. THANKS, FRY.

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[stardust_rogue]

Jyn Erso

Re: Road Block!

[stardust_rogue]

You'd think that Jyn would know how to do this easily, given her experience with vehicles in her world. You'd be wrong.

Re: Detour: Wheel or Water

[stardust_rogue]

Jyn figured she'd eaten worse than a thousand-year-old egg. But the resulting stomach-ache distracted her enough that she just couldn't get the prayer right.

Re: Check in!

[stardust_rogue]

Jyn was last. And scowling. And in need of something for her stomach.

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[sprinklesgoboom]

Pinkie Pie

Re: Road Block!

[sprinklesgoboom]

Taking apart the entire vehicle was the same as fixing it, right?

Pinkie was not mechanically minded, no.

Re: Detour: Wheel or Water

[sprinklesgoboom]

Cats or food? Cats . . . or food. . . ?

Pinkie didn't even flinch at that thousand year old egg. Mmmm, tasty!

Re: Check in!

[sprinklesgoboom]

Pinkie bounced gleefully into place, licking her lips.

"I'm totally gonna have to look up where to get those eggs at Fandom!"

She had an iron stomach, yes. Came from eating all that whipped cream.

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[thatwaslucky]

Rey

Re: Road Block!

[thatwaslucky]

Rey proved to be good at taking out a transmission, which was odd since she didn't know how to do that. But hey, she was off and running to the next thing before she knew it!

Re: Detour: Wheel or Water

[thatwaslucky]

You know what Rey wasn't good at? Snooker.

Partly because she had never even heard of snooker.

Re: Detour: Wheel or Water

[thatsweirdright]

On one hand, Jason was perfectly capable of recognizing that food from other cultures wasn't inherently gross just because it wasn't what he was used to.

On the other hand... his American white boy palate could only take so much. Plus the other option involved cute animals, soooo.

He'd just be over here, kind of getting distracted by the cats. Oops.

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[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka Tano

Re: Road Block!

[snipsnspecks]

Fixing the tuk-tuk? Easy.

Getting the tiny screwdriver open? Surprisingly hard.

Re: Detour: Wheel or Water

[snipsnspecks]

So there was that thing where Ahsoka felt no shame about using the Force to cheat at these tasks, so she was done with the snooker pretty easily.

Re: Check in!

[snipsnspecks]

"Those were some weird tookas." Someone still wasn't used to Earth cats.

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[cracksmostly]

Merrill

Re: Road Block!

[cracksmostly]

The Creators only knew how Merrill managed to do so well -- some instinct, perhaps, to try and sense the one thing that was really out of place? Because she certainly couldn't tell you what the transmission looked like, or what it had to do with an engine at all.

Re: Detour: Wheel or Water

[cracksmostly]

Merrill and water didn't get along terribly well, so she opted for the Wheel route. She actually managed to get the snooker part of it over fairly quickly, but there was a cat cafe.

Where she proceeded to forget all about how she was supposed to be getting another clue, because she was covered in cats and perfectly happy.

Re: Check in!

[cracksmostly]

Merrill had cat fur all over her clothes, and a rather woebegone expression about not getting to take all of them home with her.

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[spell_chucker]

Khadgar

Re: Road Block!

[spell_chucker]

Khadgar... had pretty much never seen anything like this before, so he had quite the learning curve to get past to complete the task.

Re: Detour: Wheel or Water

[spell_chucker]

Khadgar had no qualms about using his magic to cheat at snooker, and only got slightly distracted feeding the cats. Awww, kitties.

Re: Check in!

[spell_chucker]

"We should do more things that involve feeding small animals. Small cute, safe animals," Khadgar added quickly.

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[notamascot]

Kaylin Neya

Re: Road Block!

[notamascot]

This was ridiculous. While Kaylin was trying to pull everything apart she knocked a screwdriver to the ground and a tiny end came off with something white sticking out.

So, being the curious sort, she pulled it out and realized that she didn't actually have to finish this thing.

Re: Detour: Wheel or Water

[notamascot]

Kaylin handled the snooker easily, but then was totally distracted by the cats. She wondered again what would happen if she brought some of these back to Elantra for the Leontines, but decided against it.

Re: Check in!

[notamascot]

"The cats were wonderful," Kaylin said cheerfully, then she hesitated and decided to see what Anakin thought. "So, um... do you think that a lion like race would enjoy pet cats or maybe eat them for dinner? Because I wouldn't want that to happen, of course."