fandomhigh | Wilderness Survival - Week 6 | Thursday Morning, A Clearing in the Woods

Callisto stood at the front of the class, giving no sign that she might have been up all night doing things in the wood. "Good morning class," she said. "Great news, today you get to keep your shoes. Well, some of you at least."

After giving a brief, yet highly informative, lecture on snares and pit traps, Callisto, pointed to a group of maps and several piles of rope.

"One of the more important parts of trapping is the placement, so those of you with shoes, take a map and go scout out the area to try and find suitable areas to lay snares. While they're doing that the rest of you will work on snare making."

Shoes:
Alec
Joxer
Cameron Mitchell
M Parker
Buffy Summers
Aeryn Sun

Shoeless:
Hamlet Dane Jr
Alphonse Elric
Janet Fraiser
Max Guevera
Molly Hayes
Sam Winchester

[ooc: Of course, unbeknownst to the shoes group, Cal has spent the previous night laying snares and traps of her own for them to find. I'll ping in when you stumble across one. Nothing that will actually harm more than the trappee's dignity, but in most cases you'll need help to get out.]

[ooc: OCD threads ~~coming~~ are up!]
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Parker's checking everything against the map, frowning. Wait, that doesn't look like what it says.

If Parker isn't paying too close attention to the map, she might see several suspicious piles of leaves on the path ahead of her.

Stopping to check the path against the paperwork-- and wondering where the hell she got lost, Parker looked askance at the piles of leaves. Someone raked the forest? The hell?

Looking around, she grabbed a long stick, and suspiciously poked at one.

Nothing happened.

Possibly because the leaves were like that accidently. Possibly because only every third pile had a snare under it.

Parker glared at the piles, suspicious, but not sure why. She walked around them, giving them a wide berth, then looked down at the map again.

Parker might have felt something of a sinking sensation.

Not that Callisto had at any point been bored enough to convert a fairly shallow pit trap into a fake quicksand bog.

Oh, no, wait, she was.

"Ahhhhh!"

Parker lost her map, scrambling for purchase. She screeched a bit, then tried to remember what the hell you're supposed to do-- lie flat, right? Right?

She attempted to do that. When she didn't flail.

The pit was wider than it was deep, so after a while Parker's feet should find the bottom.

Whether she's actually able to move in the mud? That's another thing altogether.

After a few moments of yelling, and being absolutely convinced she was gonna die, Parker managed to gain purchase on the bottom of the pit.

The relief was quickly followed by sheer disgust. "Oh, that's just *perfect*." She tried to push through the mud, but she might as well have been wrapped in straitjacket. A very muddy, wet, sticky, straitjacket. Her arms were free, but nothing else.

"SOMEBODY! HELP ME!"

The mud was unsurprisingly indifferent to Parker's plight.

Fuming, Parker very slowly started to wade out. Inch. By. Inch.

She looked around for a stick, or a branch, or grass to pull herself out of there, and sloooooowly started to make progress, swearing in Russian the whole time.

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