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Culture Shock, Thursday, Period 2

Hey, here was a novel change of pace, class! The Danger Shop... was not actually set up to look like a classroom this week! As a matter of fact, what students would be stepping in to find this week was something a little bit like one of those American Gladiator television shows, but... possibly a little more unhinged.

Your teachers weren't even a little bit sorry about it, either.

"Welcome to your final test," said Summer. "Between this class and actually living on this island, this shouldn't even be hard for you guys, but what lies before you is a special obstacle course designed specifically with the kind of shocking things Fandom likes to throw at you in mind. Will you ever find yourselves in a situation where overcoming this course will prove helpful? Probably not. But you can't tell me it's any less ridiculous than what this place is likely already throwing at you."

"Random kids," Kanan sighed, shaking his head. "Not complaining. Really." Kind of complaining. "But we'll be avoiding that one for this course." A pause. "And everything from the entire week before that."

Because NOPE.

Summer snorted, though, still wondering if she should have pushed a little bit harder for the 'make it through a very tight corridor filled with pollen and sexy people' part. She wouldn't have complained if she were in that class. "That's all the hints you get, though," she decided."Take a few moments, stretch up, get limber. Remember, it's just the Danger Shop, too, so the effects of anything that gets you are temporary and not even technically real."

"Which doesn't mean we're not going to make you do something exceptionally stupid if you get bitten by a fake gremlin," Kanan added, helpfully.

Because he cared.

"Which may be a good time to mention that I'm also recording all of this," Summer added, waving her phone a little, "for posterity."

Because she cared, too.

[OOC: Open!]

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In action!

Sabine Wren

Lana Beniko

It's your final! Do you have a bad feeling about this yet?

With handy subthreads!

Yes, we're kicking this one off with a classic! It's a rope that you swing across, in order to get over a gaping pit full of chomping, biting gremlins. If you get over it unscathed, congratulations, move on to the next obstacle! If you don't, you get to spend the next obstacle acting out one of the following scenarios:

- You are now a final contestant on that one show about extreme cakes and everything you do is for the glory of the cake! The cake!
- You're a figure skater, skating your way toward victory on BLADES OF GLORY!
- Crikey! You're on the lookout for a beauty of a crocodile.
- ??? profit?

This was easy enough so far. Sabine could swing over this with no problem and move on.

Lana wasn't the most graceful rope-swinger, but it wasn't a problem, so at least there was that.

It's just a straightaway stretch here, folks, except you're being pelted with pudding. Butterscotch. Which, if you fell into the gremlin pit, you get to navigate while acting out that gremlin bite of yours!

And now Sabine was annoyed. Really? She had to go to work today.

Pudding? Seriously? UGH. Lana could fend some of it off with the Force, but inevitably some of it got through, and she would be showering later.

Graduation's just around the corner, so how could Summer not bring in a nice little relic from her own last year? The next section of the course consists of several raised platforms staggered just jumping distance from them. Easy enough, right? Sure. Maybe without all the scorpions on the ground between them, just in range to hit you with a stinger that'll set off a very random ~~icon~~ reaction for your next move if you get stung.

Sabine wasn't even worried about this one when she had armor on ~~and the random icon button isn't doing anything interesting~~. She could jump. Jumping was fine.

Jumping was simple. Lana skipped most of the platforms.

Onto the part of the course that's sectioned off as a maze. It's not a terribly difficult maze, but there are spots throughout it where you can't proceed without solving a simple puzzle...lift a latch, tilt a platform, turn a few dials in a certain order. All pretty easy stuff...if you're generally humanoid, anyway. Might be a little more difficult considering that you've turned into an animal the moment you enter the maze.

Aaaand now Sabine was mad at you both!

Luckily she could fly through it fast enough, and she could figure out the puzzles, even if it was harder to actually complete them. So she'd be slower, but she'd get through. Ugh.

Lana was...growling, mostly. This was not exactly easy or fast for an akk dog.

You're getting there! The other end of the maze opens out into a kitchen that is almost comically oversized for you, almost as though it's been scaled up so that you're the relative size of a five-year-old! There's a table, there are some chairs, and waaaaay way up there, on the tallest shelf in the kitchen, there's a key for a door that'll let you into the next part of the race! Be careful, though. Chairs are wobbly, and you're probably still pretty slick with pudding.

The pudding couldn't come off after turning into a bird, huh?

Whatever, Sabine was being slightly more cautious as she climbed up. She may have sent a chair tumbling, but she was already moving up and in no real danger of falling.

Because she was not going to be falling down while wearing pudding, thank you very much.

Lana rolled her eyes and pulled the key down with the Force.

You've made it through the kitchen door! Congratulations! Now you just need to get to the finish line... Which is on the opposite side of that rampaging Alot of Barricades, there. Good luck with that!

The good thing about the Danger Shop was that Sabine knee she couldn't get hurt charging towards a rampaging alot of barricades. And you know what helped when you decided at the last minute to vault over it?

Being covered in pudding.

How did an alot of barricades react to a lot of lightning?

They'll probably even miss this.

Maybe.

You might even find out when they tag in.

Kanan, for one, is contemplating not teaching through the summer so that he can put his focus on other more important things.

He's not gonna get his way, but he's contemplating it.

Anyway, he's here if anyone needs him, whether they want to talk or to yell at him for making them run through pudding.

Of course after all of that, Sabine would stand there with her hands on her hips and pudding in her hair and say, "Really?"

Kanan was a bad, bad man.

As could be evidenced by the way he was just smiling, completely innocently, and saying, "There weren't any rancors."

"Pretty sure the Danger Shop wasn't out of programmable rancors."

This was actually easier than rancors but she wouldn't have had to shower before work again with one of those.

"Sure, but I would have had to top the last time there were rancors in class," Kanan reasoned, "and five rancors would have made this obstacle course totally unreasonable."

Solid argument, right?

"And pudding was reasonable?"

She was a friend of the family, Kanan!

"It's butterscotch," Kanan replied, shrugging, as though that made it okay.

Because: Huge brat.

"Next class: so much shooting," Sabine said firmly.

"We'll see," Kanan replied, shrugging. "I was hoping to take a little time off of teaching next term. Maybe put more hours in back home. Actually get something done that means something."

Spoiler: This would not happen.

Also, there would be no shooting next class.

Some of the annoyance left at hearing that. "That is more important."

She'd kind of resigned herself to still being here by now.

Kanan nodded a little. And then, after a few moments of thought, casually mused, "I need to see what Hera thinks about getting us doing more supply drops to Lothal. There's a whole situation developing with the last few farmers resisting resettlement from Tangletown, could be something going on, there."

Since all signs seemed to keep pointing them back to Lothal already.

All signs.

"Sounds encouraging. Those little pockets would need the outside help, or they would've by little pockets," she reasoned.

Kanan nodded a little.

"We've done a supply run or two out to the resettlement zone before," he noted. "We're actually starting to build connections out that way. It's something small, but the galaxy kind of needs small gestures right now, too."

It couldn't all be saving moons.

"Good. And building connections is how you're going to be able to do more."

This did feel a little awkward when she'd resigned herself to still being here. Like hearing about a party she wasn't invited to.

Hey, now.

Friend of the family, right?

"We, hopefully," Kanan replied. "I need to get on Hera's case. Really start looking into where we might need demolitions. I'm sure her contact has something out there for you to do. And if not," he shrugged, "I'll figure something out. It can't all be shopping trips."

To be fair, she wasn't quite there yet.

"Well, if and when you do need me, I'll be there."

Until then she wasn't getting any hopes up. She didn't even know their schedules well enough to begin the time honored tradition of stowing away.

Oh, but when that day came...

"If and when," Kanan agreed, nodding. "Not that I'm hoping for this to get too big to handle, but I have a feeling the 'when' will be sooner rather than later."

Ah, feelings.

"I'm ready when it does." If. "For now, I need to wash off."

"And I won't keep you," Kanan replied, holding up his hands and grinning crookedly. "Tell you what, next time I teach, no butterscotch."

Or rancors.

Oh, Summer was definitely going to miss this. She had new fresh hells planned for the summer, too, but this was, like, definitely the apex of feeling like she'd officially met peak teacher stride now. Making the students do terrible things that she could write off as being 'clearly for their own good' and obviously something they will 'totally use in the future.'

But, yes, she (and her phone) were definitely there and enjoying this way too much.

Hey, she put in her time. She'd earned this schaudenfruede.

Purring kitty in my lap says I'm not allowed to go to work today!

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Obstacle Course!

Obstacle Course - The Gremlin Pit!

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Obstacle Course - Pudding Rain

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