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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Sign in 5/11

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Ready to run!

Detour: Buddhist Tradition or Chinese Culture

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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]

Road Block: Tea Break

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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]

Hello, Anakin!

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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!

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Final results are:

1. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)
2. Nell Ingram
3. Astrid Magnussen
4. Tisarwat
5. Ino (Iris) Yamanaka
6. Alara Kitan
7. Alexis Rose
8. Grog Strongjaw
9. Beaker
10. Julius Heartstriker
11. Owen Corley
12. Duke Crocker

Mod your adventures/mishaps/taxi drivers going the wrong way!

Re: Sign in 5/11

[lovethatjourney]

Alexis Rose

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[white_oleander]

Astrid Magnussen

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[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat

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.

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[legionqueen]

Juillenne Milone (and Camden)

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: 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: Hello, Anakin!

[legionqueen]

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!

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[canlendanear]

Alara Kitan

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[betterthanaplan]

Duke Crocker

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[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!

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[meepmeepmeep]

Beaker

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.

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[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: Hello, Anakin!

[betterthanaplan]

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.

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!"

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[intraspective]

Iris

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[lovethatjourney]

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."

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[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!