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Try Not to Die, Thursday, May 13, 2021

"Hello," Anakin said, smiling in front of the Portalocity Office as he stood next to a redheaded man in a pair of jeans and a dark hoodie. "Welcome to Try Not to Die, which I am running this session with my grandson, Ben."

Ben gave everyone a way. "Welcome," he said in a faint ~~British~~ Coruscanti accent. "I'm here to make sure Granddad doesn't actually kill you."

Anakin gave him a bit of a look. "This class is all about thinking on your feet as you explore new places throughout this planet," he said, "which we pick though a highly scientific method," he said.

"We drink a shot of whiskey and throw a dart at a map," Ben said helpfully. "So this week we're all going to Paraguay!" He almost got that pronunciation right.

"You will complete a series of tasks and the first person to find us wins the thrill of finding us first," Anakin said. "Ready, steady, go!"

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Traveling!

Troy Barnes

Enola Holmes

Harry Potter

Alara Kitan

Juillenne Milone (and Camden)

Elli

Nell Ingram

Arabella Baylor

Welcome to Cateura, the landfill of Asunción, the capital of Paraguay! Are you regretting this class immediately?

Your task is to make a cello out of recycled material for the Recyled Orchestra of Cateura to play.

So. Hopefully you know what a cello looks like.

[OOC: RNG says it goes:
1. Julius Heartstriker
2. Alara Kitan
3. Arabella Baylor
4. Harry Potter
5. Troy Barnes
6. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)
7. Elli
8. Enola Holmes
9. Nell Ingram]

Troy definitely thought he knew what a cello looked like. He worked in a music store; he should know what a cello looked like! But he, like an idiot, started making a bass instead!

That was gonna cost him!

Knowing what a cello was quite different from making one. And Enola spent a good amount of time trying to ensure that it actually worked than just looked like one.

Harry knew what a cello was. It was the big one, right?

How he managed to actually put something playable together without coming in dead last was a shock even to him.

Alara really only had the faintest idea on what a cello was and was surprised she was able to complete the task as quickly as she did.

Elli did know what a cello was. They had one at church.

That did not in any way, shape, or form give her the slightest idea of how to put one together.

She... she was going to be here for a good while. But not dead last!

And super grateful that this was a non-dangerous task. She liked the task, even if she wasn't the best at it.

Nell actually had no idea what a cello looked like. In fact, she'd have been hard pressed to say what a cello was.

This was not going to end well.

Arabella had spent a lot of her childhood helping her grandma out in the garage, so making something out of recycled materials wasn't a problem for her. What was a problem was how fuzzy her recollection of what a cello looked like was. She had to make some adjustments to her initial product, okay? It was fine.

In Stack Your Melons, you make you way to Plaza O'Leary and stack watermelons into a 10-by-10 pyramid to receive their next clue. In Use Your Melon, you make your way to Estacion Central del Ferrocarril and perform a traditional Paraguayan bottle dance without dropping the bottle off of the top of your head.

[OOC: RNG sayeth:
1. Elli
2. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)
3. Alara Kitan
4. Troy Barnes
5. Enola Holmes
6. Harry Potter
7. Julius Heartstriker
8. Arabella Baylor
9. Nell Ingram]

Unfortunately Enola thought using your melon meant solving a problem. Doing a dance and keeping a bottle on her head was more than challenging.

But she did enjoy it.

Harry was absolutely not dancing. Sure, the watermelon stacking didn't go especially well, but it was better than if he'd chosen the other thing!

Alara decided to try stacking the watermelons, it took a bit longer than normal because she kept breaking them as she tried to stack them but she still managed to complete the task relatively quickly.

Being no stranger to hard work, Elli chose to stack her melons, and she thought that, while he was no longer here, that Wayne would've been pleased by how very efficiently and effectively she got through the task.

First done! How wonderful!

It's not that Nell was terrible at stacking melons, it's just that she was already so ridiculously far behind that there wasn't a hope in the world that she'd come in anything other than dead last - no matter how fast she stacked them.

Maybe Arabella should have done the bottle dancing thing instead, because her stupid melon pyramid kept collapsing and rolling all over the place. Uuuuugh.

But before you do, you have to stop and use a mortar and pestle to make enough tereré to fill up a thermos, which you then have to bring to Anakin and Ben.

And then you get to drink it! Yay, traditional foods!

[OOC: And the final results are:
1. Arabella Baylor
2. Enola Holmes
3. Troy Barnes
4. Nell Ingram
5. Harry Potter
6. Julius Heartstriker
7. Elli
8. Alara Kitan
9. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)]

For all her detours and bad dancing, Enola made up her timing by making that odd looking beverage. Upon learning she had to drink it however she had second thoughts.

But drink it she did, making a bit of a face. "Mmm. Bracing," she said, struggling to find words.

"It is a thing you have tried," Anakin agreed with a little smile. "You're second today."

"Oh. Was that a race?" Enola said looking for anything else to drink. "I'll have to remember that next time."

Alara lost considerable ground with the last challenge because she kept breaking the mortar but eventually she did fill up the thermos and make her way to the finish line.

She didn’t really have a problem with drinking it, so that part she could at least do quickly.

"You're eighth today," Ben said with a little smile.

This took her a while--and it wasn't because the mortar and pestle were hard to use, she was used to that--but because Elli got herself a bit turned about and couldn't find either of her teachers for a little bit.

Well, at least she wasn't last?

"I actually think this tastes pretty good," Elli admitted, once she'd tried her drink.

"I haven't tried it," Anakin admitted.

This was actually pretty easy. Nell was well versed in the use of a mortar and pestle and quickly had made enough to move on. If she hadn't already been so far behind she might just have come in first.

She made her way over and drank the terere. "Not bad," she said consideringly. "I don't think I'll be switchin' over to this anytime soon, but it's not terrible."

Did Arabella use super strength to speed up the mortar and pestle business after that whole fiasco with the melons? Maybe. You couldn't prove it though.

God, I miss traveling.

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Try Not to Die, Thursday, May 13, 2021

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Road Block: Ooooh, Trash!

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Detour: Stack Your Melons or Use Your Melon

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