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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Road Block: Tea Break

[sith_happened]

Everyone heads from their Detours to the Penang Tropical Spice Garden where you will meet up with a woman grinding spices for tea. Using only your sense of smell, you must recreate the spice blend she's made from the dozens of spices before you and serve your tea to the handy guru, who will hand you a clue to where to find Anakin.

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

Re: Road Block: Tea Break

[legionqueen]

This, too, had been going well- she was a naturalist, and spices had all been parts of plants, once.

And then Camden sneezed.

And Jules started all over again with a sigh.

Re: Road Block: Tea Break

[betterthanaplan]

Duke managed . . . slightly less chatting at this stop. Mostly asking about the different spices and their potential culinary uses.

Hey, it wasn't like he was anxious to beat out the kids anyway. He was just here for the adventure.

Re: Road Block: Tea Break

[meepmeepmeep]

Apparently "meep meee MEEP meep meep!" wasn't the most helpful directions Beaker's cabbie had ever received because it took him a while to find the spice garden.

So far Beaker hadn't blown a single thing up! He was so proud of himself, even if he was a decidedly middling tea-brewer.

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[lovethatjourney]

Alexis just outright sucked at this one, really.

On the third time of having to start over there may have been a "Well I'm sorry, this is nothing like making your own perfume!"

Re: Road Block: Tea Break

[intraspective]

The taxi driver had sworn he knew a shortcut that would get her there faster and, hey, why not, right?

Yeah, no. Turned out construction abounded on his 'shortcut' so it took what felt like forever to get there.

Luckily, tea and spices were something she could breeze through in her sleep, so Iris finished this in record time. It didn't make up for all the time she'd lost thanks to the 'shortcut' but, hey, whatever?

She also picked up some new teas because yes, good.

Re: Road Block: Tea Break

[canlendanear]

Alara knew she hadn’t done very well with the first challenge, so she was hoping that this one would go a lot better and she was surprised that she had an easier time with recognising the different spices and was able to do the challenge more quickly.

Re: Road Block: Tea Break

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

With his sense of smell, figuring out what spices went into the blend was nothing. But he'd spent so much time with the old woman back at the table that most of the others had left before he'd even arrived.

Still, clue in hand and guru thanked, Julius hurried on.

Re: Road Block: Tea Break

[grandpoobah]

Grog thought he had a good sense of smell, but everything just smelled like leaves, and he wasn't fast enough to sneak any of the spices into his mouth. The nice lady either felt bad for him, or just wanted him out of the place, but he finally got the right blend in the end.

Re: Road Block: Tea Break

[mylandmyrules]

Nell was actually very good at this, but she was so fascinated by the spices and blends that she got distracted and forgot that she was supposed to be moving on to the next part!