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Try Not to Die, Thursday, June 17, 2021

"Today we're heading to Wales," Anakin said.

"Because we're doing a theme on places that are also words for something else," Ben said, grinning. "Last week, Turkey, next week, Greece!"

Anakin shrugged. "There have been worse ways to decide where to go," he admitted. "Into the portal you go. Try not to die."

"You're not going to die," Ben assured them, giving his grandfather a dubious look.

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Like you can't pronounce a single damn sign.

Take a ride on one of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct's canal boats and work with a Welsh language instructor to learn a verse of the Welsh poem "Y Sipsi!". After the 15-minute boat ride to the other side of the aqueduct was complete, you have to recite the poem verbatim from memory to a waiting linguist to receive their next clue.

If you do it poorly, back on the boat you go. This could take a while.

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

Ben was convinced Anakin had made up Boot It entirely on his own. In Shoot It, you participate in clay pigeon shooting using a 12-gauge shotgun and have to hit a total of 16 clay pigeons to receive the next clue. In Boot It, you search through a pile of Wellington boots to find a pair of either size-9 or size-11 boots. You then fill them with water and throw them along a course until they reach the finish line. At the end of the course, a "Wellie official" would confirm that you used the correct sized boot and get your next clue.

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

But first you have to pronounce the village name of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll to some locals' standards.

So. Um. Good luck with that.

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

Whee!

Troy Barnes

Alara Kitan

Nell Ingram

Nell was starting to think she'd never get this silly thing right and that she'd be going back and forth on the stupid boat for days. But finally she managed a decent enough version and off she went.

Nell intended to do Shoot-It, which she would have managed without any effort at all, but instead, somehow she had to Boot-It and this one gave her conniptions.

First try. Must have been God smiling down on her or something because there was literally no other way that could have happened!

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Try Not to Die, Thursday, June 17, 2021

Sign in 6/17

Roadblock: Poetry Time!

Detour: Shoot It or Boot It

Find Anakin & Ben

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