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Try Not to Die, Thursday, July 22, 2021

"Hello, everyone," Anakin said with a small wave from in front of Portalocity. "It's very nice to see you in person."

"Today we're going someplace bright and sunny," Ben said with a small smile. "Morocco. You'll love it."

They might love it slightly less after they saw the belly dancing challenge, but that was a future problem.

"In you go," Anakin said, pointing to the portal.

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Ready to travel!

Once everyone got to the top of the American Legation Museum in their current city of Tangier, they would treated to the sight of a loudly screaming Portalocity gnome ziplining across the rooftops. "Your first task," Anakin said, looking exactly like someone who didn't care about a loudly screaming gnome, "is to find out where that gnome landed using your innate sense of direction."

"So this should go well," Ben muttered. "Once you find him, he'll give you directions to the zip line he just took. Go back to that building, take the zip line. When you land you'll get your next clue."

So, hopefully no one would get horribly lost in the maze of tiny, skinny, dead-end alleys?

[OOC: RNG says:
1. Alara Kitan
2. Chelli Aphra
3. Nell Ingram
4. Miles Morales
5. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)
6. Sakaki
7. Harry Potter
8. Arabella Baylor
9. Tahani al-Jamil]

In Drop it Off, travel to a food wholesalers' truck within Grand Socco and deliver crates of food--squash, live chickens, and oranges--by dragging them along the ground to three locations, where you will receive a receipt stamped with one of the three words in the name of the Pit Stop that they could exchange for their next clue. Once you got all three words, you could figure out where to go. In Shake it Off, you travel to the a Moroccan tourist trap restaurant, don traditional belly dancing attire, then dance among the dancers and musicians in the restaurant while searching for the three words in the name of the Pit Stop that have been hidden around the room. List them to the waiter for confirmation in order to move on!

[OOC: RNG says:
1. Arabella Baylor
2. Sakaki
3. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)
4. Nell Ingram
5. Tahani al-Jamil
6. Alara Kitan
7. Harry Potter
8. Miles Morales
9. Chelli Aphra]

Did you figure out the clue was Moulay Hafid Palace? Because if not, it could be a while until you found Ben and Anakin.

And when you got to the palace, you were stopped by a fisherman who had you help him turn his entire basket full of fresh fish so that all the heads were facing the same way. The place, back in the day, was extremely particular.

Ben, at least, was in no rush. He'd found some Moroccan mint ice cream.

[OOC: Final results:
1. Miles Morales
2. Tahani al-Jamil
3. Harry Potter
4. Chelli Aphra
5. Arabella Baylor
6. Nell Ingram
7. Juillenne Milone (and Camden)
8. Sakaki
9. Alara Kitan

I miss travel.

Sakaki

Tahani al-Jamil

Tahani did have a deeply terrible sense of direction AND she had zero interest in ziplining anywhere but the real reason she was dead last was because she'd wandered into an adorable little shop and had gotten herself kitted out in local attire.

She looked fabulous.

Alara Kitan

Alara didn’t have the best sense of direction so she was surprised by how quickly she was able to complete this task and get to the zip line.

Alara underestimated how long it would take to deliver the crates of food, even with her strength.

By the time she got the three words, she had lost quite a bit of the lead she’d managed to get earlier.

Well, she was basically in the costume already, so she was dancing away, looking for clues!

Gleeful to have made up so much time, Tahani came to a screeching halt at the fish stand. "Oh, decidedly not," she declared, reaching into her pocketbook. "How much to have you do it for me?"

Alara was completely lost by the end, she eventually figured out the clue but it took her a lot longer to arrange the fish the right way.

She hoped everyone hadn’t been waiting too long for her by the time that she made it back.

Nell Ingram

Nell was not at all used to big cities so it took her a bit to find the gnome. As for the zip-lining, she held on tight and closed her eyes most of the way.

Nell was NOT wearing one of them costumes and showing off all that skin. NOT!!

So, she ended up dragging crates around. Which wasn't all that bad. She might have been slower if she hadn't been all fired up about even the idea of wearing that little!

The clue stumped her a bit, but eventually she figured it out and then it didn't take her all that long to rearrange the fish.

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Try Not to Die, Thursday, July 22, 2021

Sign in 7/22

Road Block: Parkour!!

Detour: Drop it Off or Shake it Off

Find Anakin & Ben

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