The Floor Is Lava, Thursday - Period 1

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The class had been told to meet in the Danger Shop, which was set up to look like a suitably foreboding landscape, with a large chasm filled with variously sized rocky platforms, separated by variously sized gaps, with a viscous fluid down below, glowing yellow and orange. At least one of your teachers was looking pretty pleased with herself.

Make that both teachers, really. Jane was bouncing on her toes in excitement to see how this went.

"It's not really lava, don't worry," Jane said before the class could even take it all in. "It's jello."

Which was only moderately better. Especially because someone had found the setting to make it real jello. You're welcome.

"But welcome to class! The object is very simple... don't fall in."

"The last person standing wins," Cara added. "Anything short of actually harming one another goes."

"Oh! And let's try it without powers this time?" Jane suggested. Helpfully.

"We'll supervise, to...keep it fair." And not because Cara had popcorn stashed away or anything like that.

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Ready for the laaaavaaaa

Survey the Room

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There were plenty of places to jump to, but they were a bit... precarious.

Start!

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The goal was together from one end to the other without falling in.


[RNG says...

Vi makes it to the end!

With the victims of the 'lava' in order of closest to winning to furthest from it...

1. Stark
2. Anakin Skywalker
3. Steph Gingrich
4. Charlie Gale
5. Steve McGarrett
6. Guillermo de la Cruz
7. Belle
8. Gray
9. TJ Wagner
10. Steve Rogers
11. Graham Cracker]

Talk to the Teachers

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Who might have to participate next time to really have fun here.

OOC

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I am so tired, I can't even.

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Charlie Gale

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Oh, Charlie was here and ready for the fun.

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Steph Gingrich

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Graham Cracker

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"Alright!" Graham announced, clappinv his hands together, then rubbing them together. Maybe giving his bottom a little anticipatory shake as he bolstered himself in preparation. "Let's do this! Otherside, here I come!"

With that, he lifted a leg, hopped onto the closest obstacle, missed it by a good few inches, and immediately went into the lava.

"Curses!" he cried out, clutching his chest dramatically with one hand and reaching out with his other as he sunk to his jello-y death. "This isn't over! Wait until we heat again!"

And then, limps splayed out and with one big death groan, he lay still among the lava.

After adjusting his cap to make sure it had stayed on.

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[drumsticksandd20s]

Were there advantages to being built like a stick? Maybe. Maybe not. The point was, who knew how Steph managed to hold out as long as she did? Because Steph sure didn't.

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Vi

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This mightn't have looked anything like back home, but treacherous jumps where uncertain footing could spell doom? Vi had this.

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I mean, if only she knew someone who'd been doing stuff like this almost as long as they could walk.

"Just stick with me," Vi said confidently.

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Gray

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No wings made this trickier, but Gray was doing well...for a little bit, at least, until he yawned and then unceremoniously fell over, into the 'lava,' sound asleep...and possibly slowly sinking?

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Charlie laughed delightedly at his dramatic death scene, then jumped into character.

"Oh no!" she cried, one hand to her forehead. "Not my prince! I will mourn you forever! And get to the other side in your honor!" She wouldn't, but she didn't know that yet.

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"It is within the given rules," Steph said with a grin. "Gonna be my expert guide?"

She'd seen Vi do her roof thing before.

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Like Vi cared if it was in the rules or not. "Of course, you gotta know how to do stuff like this if you want to get around the Lanes."

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[drumsticksandd20s]

Please indulge Steph's Game Master brain here, Vi.

"That explains your expertise in acrobatics, huh?" she asked, falling in step behind Vi.

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Stark

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Fine, Vi would pretend to care about the rules for Steph.

She shrugged as she hopped across a small gap and held her hand out for Steph. "After the undercity sank, it got built up towards topside, people adapted."

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[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph reached out to grab her hand, then hopped the gap after her, weighing a couple of incredibly sharp biting things to say and then saying none of them. Whatever personal information Vi was willing to share within earshot of everyone else was up to her.

"So if we ever visit your world --" if Vi could ever get back -- "I'm going to have to do some training first, is that what you're saying?"

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Anakin Skywalker

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Anakin had spent the better part of several decades (well, better as in "most of" not as in "yay this was fun") hopping from thing to thing that was on fire and having known this wasn't actually lave made it easier to concentrate.

And he almost made it, which he would have taken more gracefully if Stark hadn't been the one to beat him.