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Continue Trying Not to Die, Friday, July 24, 2020

"Today we're going to Malawi," Anakin said, "which is a country I've never heard of, so we'll all be learning something new today!"

Wasn't that not at all terrifying, class?

"It's a country in Africa," he said, pointing to it on the map, "but we will probably not be eaten by lions!"

Way to sell this, Anakin.

"Through the portal, everyone!"

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Deeply dubious about the thought Anakin was not putting into this.

Alara Kitan

Eleanor Shellstrop

Juillenne Milone (and Camden)

Nell Ingram

You take a bicycle taxi known as a kabaza to take a customer carrying fish to one of three different destinations written on a board tied to the fish. After you drop off the customer at their required address, you head back to the bus station to trade in you earnings of MK100 (approximately US$0.66) to the kabaza dispatcher to obtain the next clue.

So...hopefully your legs can reach bike pedals. Sorry, Beaker.

[OOC: RNG says:
1. Eleanor Shellstrop
2. Rosa Diaz
3. Alexis Rose
4. Astrid Magnussen
5. Mae Borowski
6. Okuyasu Nijimura
7. Nell Ingram
8. Elli
9. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)
10. Grog Strongjaw
11. Beaker
12. Alara Kitan]

Edited 2020-07-24 15:15 (UTC)

Don't ask how Eleanor was the first to get a bicycle taxi to deliver a fish. Let's just say the Taxi driver was cute and Eleanor was highly motivated.

For those keeping score, it was about a 500 point deduction and an accountant who has to deal with "new sex things" in the afterlife had to take migraine medication.

Alara found this challenge to be rather difficult since she had never ridden this type of vehicle and it took her quite a while to finish this task so she could get the clue she needed.

This probably would have gone a lot faster if Juillenne a) had ever ridden a bicycle before and b) was not accompanied by a very hungry mountain cat.

At least she finished the task eventually?

In Dugout, you participate in the annual Lake Malawi Dugout Canoe Race and have to use the traditional canoes to paddle out to drummers on the lake before paddling back (with the drummers in your canoe, still drummer. So loud.) to shore to obtain their clue from a local fisherman.

In Lugout, you have to wade to a ferryboat on the lake and unload passengers and cargo from it by carrying them to shore. You had to unload two boxes of cabbage, two bundles of sugar cane, two bundles of brooms, one chair, one fan, and eight passengers, who expected to stay dry, before receiving their clue from the boat's porter.

[OOC: RNG says:
1. Elli
2. Rosa Diaz
3. Nell Ingram
4. Eleanor Shellstrop
5. Grog Strongjaw
6. Astrid Magnussen
7. Okuyasu Nijimura
8. Mae Borowski
9. Beaker
10. Alexis Rose
11. Alara Kitan
12. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)]

Eleanor was in front. Totally. But then the damn drummers wouldn't get in the boat no matter how many threats or coercive tactics Eleanor attempted to do.

She eventually dragged them into the dugout canoe and threatened their lives which was another point deduction in the afterlife.

Edited 2020-07-24 15:35 (UTC)

Alara decided to tackle Dugout, the actual canoe paddling part wasn’t too bad but she had underestimated how loud the drumming was and it distracted her quite a bit as she made her way to shore for the next clue.

You'd think someone raised in a fishing village would've done well at either task.

Normally, you'd be right.

Again, Jules was going to blame Camden. She didn't fit in the canoe, so that option was right out, and then her presence upset the passengers on the ferryboat, and it had taken all of Jules' patience to coax them out.

Before getting to Anakin, you need to construct the flag of Malawi (you totally know what the flag of Malawi looks like, right?) out of the giant square puzzle pieces on the ground.

No problem.

"What? Seriously?" Eleanor shouted. "I have no forking clue what the flag looks like."

She tried to do it honestly but eventually just cheated off someone else who did the flag right.

More points.

Seriously, Anakin is one of the main reasons Eleanor is going to the bad place.

(Not really but Eleanor will totally blame him when she finds out where she ended up.)

Alara was still not all that familiar with Earth geography and do it took her a bit longer to construct the Malawi flag.

She was able to make up a bit of lost time from the other challenges but it still took her a bit to finish the task.

... Somehow this was the easiest task of the day?

"Did I win?" she asked, looking around and not seeing any of her classmates.

Final results:
1. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)
2. Rosa Diaz
3. Mae Borowski
4. Okuyasu Nijimura
5. Grog Strongjaw
6. Eleanor Shellstrop
7. Alexis Rose
8. Alara Kitan
9. Nell Ingram
10. Elli
11. Beaker
12. Astrid Magnussen

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Continue Trying Not to Die, Friday, July 24, 2020

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Roadblock: Riding a Kabaza

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Detour: Dugout or Lugout

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Find Anakin!

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