Try Not to Die!!, Monday, May 11, 2020

[sith_happened]

Anakin looked a little gleeful as he stood outside the Portalocity office this morning, standing in front of a world map. "Good morning, everyone," he said. "Today we are going to Malaysia because that's where the dart I threw at the map landed."

In case you were under any illusions that Anakin prepped for a long time on this class or something.

"For those of you not familiar with this class, you will go through the portal and then encounter two different challenges to perform, in addition to showing basic navigational skills and ability to think quickly on your feet in an unfamiliar location." He smiled. "Try not to get run over or get food poisoning, but just in case you do, please sign these extensive liability waivers. The school board insisted."

After those were all filled out to his standard, he clapped his hands. "First to the final meeting place wins!"

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Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

[sith_happened]

In Buddhist Tradition, you travel to the Thni Kong Than Temple and carry a series five of joss sticks (incense, not things that spoil you by killing your favorite character) to the top of the temple. Five. Times. So many steps, but if you're a Fandom vet, steps shouldn't be a problem, right? After arranging them in the proper order, you light them and received the next clue.

In Chinese Custom, you travel to the Esplanade in George Town, where you participate in the Chinese New Year tradition of balancing large flags on your forehead and running across the esplanade. After you make it across the esplanade without dropping the flag (this could take a while), you get your next clue.

[OOC: RNG says you're in this order after the first task!
1. Grog Strongjaw
2. Owen Corley
3. Nell Ingram
4. Ino (Iris) Yamanaka
5. Alexis Rose
6. Duke Crocker
7. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)
8. Astrid Magnussen
9. Beaker
10. Julius Heartstriker
11. Tisarwat
12. Alara Kitan]

Re: Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

[lovethatjourney]

Alexis was refusing to take off her heels. Otherwise she was doing pretty well at managing the stairs.

And by the third time up her legs were starting to burn? Also probably because of the heels.

Look it was her first class and she'd been trying to make a good impression.

Re: Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

[legionqueen]

Jules got off to a pretty good start, honestly, but somewhere around the second trip down the stairs, her bad leg started to ache and from there, she was losing more and more ground to her classmates as she had to force herself to slow down.

Re: Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

[betterthanaplan]

Duke headed for the temple. The stairs weren't an issue for him, but the other people were, as he kept pausing to chat. . . .

Look, he was Buddhist. This wasn't an opportunity he had every day! It took ages to sail to Malaysia!

Re: Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

[meepmeepmeep]

Beaker had chosen to balance flags, which would have been a lot easier for people not built like Muppets. The flags were easily twice his size. This....would take a while.

Re: Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

[intraspective]

Stairs were boring and easy so Iris headed for the Esplanade because that sounded like way, way more fun.

This was pretty easy too but she kept laughing and messing herself up and, since she could, she also got a few of the locals to take pictures of her while doing it so she could send them to Tseng.

Winning was nice and all but knowing you were making your husband smile?

Priceless!

Re: Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

[canlendanear]

Alara didn’t have any issues carrying the Joss Sticks but running up and down the stairs proved to be difficult and it took her quite a bit longer than normal to navigate the stairs, especially since she ended up stumbling a few times.

Re: Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

[grandpoobah]

Grog was kind of annoyed that they wouldn't let him just take all the little sticks at once, but steps were so not a problem with his long legs, and now he smelled nice too!

Re: Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Even keeping to normal human speeds, Julius made excellent time running up and down the stairs of the temple. He was definitely feeling the strain by the fourth stick - stupid not keeping in shape once official training ended - but he was pretty sure he could make it and be one of the first people out.

Disaster - at least for his score - struck on his way up with the fifth joss stick. There was an old woman struggling to climb the stairs on her own and Julius couldn't help but pause to ask her if she needed help. Not that she spoke English. But she did take his proffered arm and he escorted her up the verrrry long stairs. And then, well, he couldn't just leave her to get down by herself, could he?

Not really. So he waited politely for her to finish burning her joss stick and murmuring her prayers and then helped her all the way down again.

Welp. So much for that lead.

Re: Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

[mylandmyrules]

Nell made it up and down the temple stairs the first four times pretty easily, but she was definitely flagging by the fifth time. Still going back was downhill!