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

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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Before you can get to Anakin, you have to make stop at a specially marked coconut vendor and smack open coconuts (harder than it sounds) to find one dyed yellow on the inside. Bring it with you as you check in!

Well, at least this she managed to do correctly on the very first try? And get the dyed-yellow one, too! Maybe that'd make up for some of the ground lost on the earlier tasks?

... Made up for all of it, apparently, as she caught sight of Anakin. So sure, her hair was full of that spice blend and she was visibly limping, but she was also first. Hah!

Edited 2020-05-11 16:31 (UTC)

"You're first," Anakin confirmed. "Well done."

Her answering smile was pained due to, well, pain. But genuine nonetheless.

"So I see," she said, a little smugly.

Hopefully there'd be someplace to sit while they waited for the others.

Anakin waved towards the steps behind him. "Take a seat. We'll all head back together when everyone arrives."

Re: Hello, Anakin!

legionqueen - 2020-05-11 18:44 (UTC) - Expand

Julius saw his big sib already waiting and groaned. "I know I left you back at the spice garden!" he said.

“Just lucky, I guess,” she informed him loftily.

Honestly, she’d lost a lot of ground on the task with the spices, she didn’t really know how she’d managed to gain it back either, but she wasn’t arguing.

So it turned out the coconut vendor had a lot to say about Duke's favorite tiger shrimp recipe. And knew all the best local restaurants.

. . . It was possible someone would have to send a portal back for Duke later.

Alexis tried so hard to crack open a coconut, and was so proud when she did it.

And then realized it wasn't dyed yellow.

"God dammit."

This was super easy.

Well.

Except for finding one that was yellow inside.

That took Iris long enough that once she'd found one, she'd actually felt like she'd accomplished something.

"Master Skywalker!" she greeted. "You're lucky people ain't lobbin' coconuts at you for this!"

She wouldn't, but it had been tempting when she'd broken her fifteenth one and still hadn't found a yellow one.

Anakin laughed. "Well, we can't have the first adventure being too easy, can we?"

"And the coconuts were down to sheer luck 'less there's some power that let's you see inside 'em," she conceded, laughing herself. "Still, it were a bit frustrating when luck decides to ignore me!"

Which. Well.

Tended to happen a lot.

Anakin grinned. "It's an equalizer."

Re: Hello, Anakin!

intraspective - 2020-05-11 19:09 (UTC) - Expand

It took Alara a few times to get the coconuts open properly because the first few times she ended up completely destroying them when she smacked them too hard.

At last she was finally able to find the one that was dyed yellow and for it to still be in relatively good shape.

Beaker showed up absolutely covered in yellow dye, with his coconut in about a dozen pieces.

"Explosives?" Anakin guessed, wincing.

"Meep meep meep," Beaker confirmed.

Anakin sighed. "Well, you're ninth."

Cracking open the coconuts wasn't a problem, but luck was, and there were quite a few broken coconuts on the ground before Grog found the right one. He might have also been snacking on a normal coconut when he arrived, partly because it tasted good, and partly to get the leaf smell out of his head.

Anakin smiled. "How'd it go? You're 8th."

There was a moment where Grog tried to remember how many people had been around at the beginning, and he was pretty sure it was a whole bunch. "That's not last, right? There was a lot of stuff in that tea."

Specially marked coconut vendor. Specially marked coconut vendor.

Guess who had just gone up to a coconut vendor and started smacking them open. By the time he'd realized his mistake (and apologetically paid for the ruined coconuts out of his own, limited pocket, ouch), he'd given up hope of placing well and really just wanted to finish before it was time for the class to leave.

The real insult to injury? The first coconut he grabbed at the correct vendor was yellow.

"Hello," Anakin said. "You're tenth."

"Out of ten?" he guessed.

He hadn't actually bothered counting his classmates.

This was pretty easy. She might not be all that used to coconuts, but handling produce was something she could do in her sleep and she had the arm strength to make it easier.

She found the yellow dyed one fairly quickly and hustled it over to Anakin.

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