Try Not to Die, Monday, June 29, 2026

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Try Not to Die, Monday, June 29, 2026

"It's too hot here," said the guy from the desert, "but mostly because you can ring the air out like a washcloth. We're going somewhere better. Ahsoka?"

"Some place cooler," Ahsoka said. Not that that would be hard. ""But not too cold." Mostly because they'd already used the ice hotel.

"But not snowy," Anakin agreed. "Canada, but not the top?"

"The bit that looks like a lot of forest planets?"

"Yes!" Anakin said. "A nice, cool, Ewok-free forest."

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Ready to be just anywhere other than Maryland in almost-July.

Cal Kestis

Charlie Gale

Sairis

Henry of Skalitz

Beautiful Stanley Park, where the weather is balmy and cool and the throngs of World Cup tourists aren't here because Anakin paid extra.

"Don't forget to wear your hats so we can find you," he said, handing them around. "We'll see you at the check-in point."

What was "Canada Fly"? Sairis had no idea. But the hat seemed innocuous enough, if a really weird shape.

Build an Inukshuk!

Anakin and Ahsoka have dropped you on the wrong side of Stanley Park, so navigate your way to English Bay and the Inukshuk there, then make your own using the (stupidly heavy) rocks placed there for you to use. Once you're done, you'll receive your next clue.

RNG says:
Cal Kestis
Henry of Skalitz
Vi
Charlie Gale
Sairis Karkaroth
Riri Williams
Rey Skywalker

Did using the Force to move the rocks count as cheating? Hopefully not! Maybe anyone watching would just think he was really strong.

Build, flirt, build, flirt. Fun, but not fast!

Sairis was using magic, personally. How else was he supposed to do this?

In Draw It, you travel to Ten Ren's Tea & Ginseng Company, and drink a cup of green tea. Printed on the bottom of each saucer was a Chinese symbol representing one of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. You have to memorize these characters, go to the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, reproduce them with a calligraphy brush on rice paper, and give it to a calligraphy expert. If calligraphy expert was satisfied with the symbol, she give you the next clue; otherwise you start all over again with new Chinese symbols.

In Dance It, you go to the Chinese Cultural Centre and receive a list of destinations written entirely in Mandarin Chinese. You then travel to these locations in Chinatown to find the four pieces of a Chinese lion costume. You return to the Cultural Centre, where they had to put on the outfit and successfully perform a traditional lion dance in order to receive the next clue.

RNG says:
Riri Williams
Henry of Skalitz
Cal Kestis
Vi
Sairis Karkaroth
Charlie Gale
Rey Skywalker

So, dancing was not Cal's specialty, but it could have gone worse? The costume made dancing harder, but also hid his embarrassment, so that kind of balanced out.

Charlie ended up having to do a side quest for one of the Aunties midway through, but did eventually get to where she was going. And she danced very well, thank you very much!

Sairis was definitely better at drawing than dancing.

He was very good at memorizing and reproducing runes, and this wasn't that far off. It just took him a little while to get used to the type of brush.

And then he ended up in a really fascinating discussion with the calligraphy expert about runes versus Chinese letters, and might have wasted a bit of time.

They're at the Science Center, decorated like a giant FIFA soccer ball!

RNG says:
Cal Kestis
Charlie Gale
Sairis Karkaroth
Riri Williams
Henry of Skalitz
Vi
Rey Skywalker

Cal ran up grinning when he saw no one else around but Anakin and Ahsoka. "The tea was surprisingly nice considering the weather." Don't think he wasn't still getting some iced coffee back home.

How did Charlie end up here second? Well, the world was a strange and wondrous place. And also she may have cheated a little.

Sairis eventually said goodbye to the calligrapher and hurried off. To the...really odd building.

Hooooot.

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Try Not to Die, Monday, June 29, 2026

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