Student Assembly, Wednesday, October 20, 2020

[sith_happened]

Welcome back from vacation, kids, have a giant, giant maze made of hay bales and pallet crates! You'll just have to stand by the walls while your speakers explain themselves.

Anakin wove his way up to the stage and gazed out a bit at the maze, smirked slightly, and then turned to the students. "Today we're going to hear from two more of our local townspeople. You might know of them from when they had a medium-speed rickshaw chase with a sentient fox. Do not follow that example, but welcome Steve McGarrett and Danny Williams anyway. They are here to tell you about," he pulled out his notecard, "Wilderness Survival Skills."

Comments

Navigate the Maze

[grenadesandohana]

The maze is the kind of overly complicated thing you'd expect from a Navy SEAL with not enough people to arrest or things to blow up. There was exactly one way to go from North to South, and one way to go from West to East, and they met in the middle of the maze, where there was a huge trap door that would drop you into a pit filled with yesterday's pumpkins and gourds. The only way to avoid setting off the pit was to climb along the hay bales like a monkey--or a SEAL.

Other traps for turning the wrong way include trip wires that dump lukewarm pumpkin spice lattes on you, garter snakes in the hay, spiders (that the guys didn't add but...hay bales), poison ivy in corners to rub against if you're looking too closely at your compass, regular, non-PSL inducing wire to climb over, around, and under, and the sound of a giant boulder that was chasing you...but Danny wouldn't let Steve add. There were also pallets around to help you over muddy sections or to climb up onto the top of the maze to get an eagle eye's view.

There was a compass for everyone, and cell phones were mysteriously jammed inside the maze. Good luck! It should be extremely challenging.

Re: Navigate the Maze

[sexy_giraffe]

Tahani was terrible at this and was stuck about halfway through the doorway trying to figure out how to read the compass at all. "It won't stay still!" she wailed.

Re: Navigate the Maze

[sparkinyou]

Yeah, okay. It took a while to get through the navigational operation maze because Miles figured it was important to not cheat and use his abilities to get through it all. And despite taking a few turns he was not doused with PSL as he was able to avoid those. The spiders didn't bother him at all really. The snakes did freak him out a bit at first.

In the end through he finally got through the navigational operation maze but definitely wasn't the first one through it.

Re: Navigate the Maze

[legionqueen]

Know what was helpful when stuck in an overly complicated maze?

Literally being magically gifted at navigating. And unlike Miles, she felt absolutely no moral qualms about using said abilities. Of course, having to navigate while maneuvering with a crutch was at times awkward and laborious, and as a result Juillenne wasn't particularly fast at getting out of there successfully. But the point was she was, eventually, successful.