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Try Not to Die!! [Tuesday, May 10, 3rd period]

May 10, 2011 08:10

Today, Anakin was a little bit grateful for the cloak he habitually wore as he waited for his class to arrive outside on the border between Fandom and the Viking village. It was a little chilly for a guy who grew up in the desert ( Read more... )

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Road Block! sith_happened May 10 2011, 12:36:10 UTC

Everyone's clue will lead them back to the docks of Fandom, where there will find enough rowboats to take them to the Isle of Ikea. Once there, you must complete a Billy bookcase without instructions. When you're finished, an Ikea salesperson will hand you the final clue, which tells you to make your way back (via rowboat, again. Anakin believes in a lot of exercise) to the Viking village where he's waiting for you. First one back wins this day's prize!

Re: Road Block! whitequeensfire May 10 2011, 13:05:20 UTC

Angelica was horribly nervous after accidentally melting her bracelet, so she took her time with the bookcase. She had to anyway with the lack of instructions, though most of it seemed relatively intuitive? Hopefully?

She might be underestimating IKEA.

Re: Road Block! nothornlessrose May 10 2011, 13:08:34 UTC

Ok, so boats were something new for her. It took her some time to row the boat where it was supposed to go -- instead of around in circles. If she hadn't thought Professor Anakin would frown on it, she would have used Craft to make the boat do what she wanted it to do.

But the purpose of this was probably to learn something new and not take the most obvious or easy way out.

She finally got to Isle of Ikea and putting together the bookcase was a lot easier than working the boats. Thank the Darkness that Poppy was a carpenter and she had grown up watching him put things together without any written instructions at all.

By the time she fought with the boat and got back to the dock, her arms were sore.

Re: Road Block! not_a_parakeet May 10 2011, 13:21:10 UTC

Oh, man. Warren so wasn't made for this sort of thing.

The Worthingtons paid people to put together their bookcases for them! How was this supposed to work?

At least the rowing wasn't so bad. Thank you again, X-gene enhanced upper body strength. He rowed back quickly, but not nearly quickly enough to make up for the fact that he sucked at arts and crafts.

Re: Road Block! notagoose May 10 2011, 13:55:02 UTC

It took longer than what Goose would have liked at making the bookcase, finding it quite frustrating as he went about building.

Rowing on the other hand wasn't an issue, which went a lot more smoothly than the actual bookcase making.

Re: Road Block! wrongkindofsith May 10 2011, 14:15:09 UTC

The thing about rowing was you didn't have to think, so that was...okay. Okay enough that Cara spent rather more time rowing than she strictly should have.

The bookshelf itself was simple enough once you figured out where everything was supposed to go.

Re: Road Block! godgavemecable May 10 2011, 14:21:05 UTC

Toby didn't think it was cheating, exactly, to try and keep a mental 'ear' open as he assembled his bookcase in case any of his classmates happened to be really good at this bookshelf-building thing and had a plan in mind.

Re: Road Block! necroslacker May 10 2011, 14:24:04 UTC

Getting to the Isle of Ikea wasn't too bad. Sure, he turned himself around in the rowboat a few times and veered off course but the real test came when assembling the bookcase. Sam just stared and stared and stared some more.

His bookcases back home were the kitchen table, the floor and his desk. Needless to say, it took him several tries to get the damn bookcase together so it wasn't both an eyesore and a major health hazard.

Re: Road Block! exactlyaverage May 10 2011, 14:31:35 UTC

"Oh, come on!" Jack groaned. He could handle the rowboat ride but the ikea bookcase? WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONS?

"What kind of sadistic person does this," he grumbled as he put the bookcase together.

Needles to say Jack made a mess of it at first but managed to get it done with a minimum of injury.

"Stupid allen wrenches," he complained as he rowed back to the viking village.

Re: Road Block! ancientbschamp May 10 2011, 14:58:13 UTC

Gabrielle had no objection to having to row over to the Isle of IKEA; what, did you think she'd paid for those abs of hers? It was harder work rowing by herself, but with a lot of stubbornness and effort and some really comical facial expressions she pulled up to the other island and . . . managed to conk herself over the head a few times with bookshelves in the process of building. If not for that, she might have finished faster.

Hey, at least it didn't involve having to carve pegs or lash things together with strips of leather. Maybe she could suggest this to her tribe as a building alternative -- no, bad idea, Gabrielle. The Amazon village got destroyed spectacularly enough every time you were around and someone with a bone to pick with you just happened to swing through. No need to make that easier.

Re: Road Block! sedlexduralex May 10 2011, 15:37:05 UTC

This would be so much easier if the boat had a sail. A sailboat, Jocelyn could maneuver without a problem, but the rowboat? Ugh.

The bookshelf though was even worse. She came from a world of crafted objects and heavy, hand-down-through-generations furniture, not this easily breakable stuff. And it did easily break more than once as she accidentally used too much strength to try to put the pieces together.

Sigh.

Re: Road Block! daventryprince May 10 2011, 17:29:27 UTC

Rowing a boat, building a bookcase. The first Alexander found pretty easy just out of sheer pleasure for being in a rowboat, the other he found easy from years of having to fix and construct furniture, sparse as it was, around Mannanan's tower. While he didn't particularly like the idea of doing some of that stuff again, the fact that he was doing it for class and that he wouldn't be killed if he refused did wonders for his enjoyment of the thing, really.

Re: Road Block! forhisfriends May 10 2011, 18:40:52 UTC

Simon had rowed a boat before. He just hadn't had to do it all alone, and while he knew enough about the technique not to end up going around in circles, it seemed to take him forever to get to the isle. The bookcase didn't provide half the same challenge, even if he did manage to put one of the shelves in backwards on his first try.

He knew the rowing was good exercise, but his upper arms were protesting.

Re: Road Block! mathletenomore May 10 2011, 19:39:40 UTC

Lindsay was not good at rowing. It took what seemed like forever before she reached her destination. She thought for sure she was going to be last.

But then she got to the bookcase. She got through that much faster once she realized where everything was supposed to go. Her math skills helped her understand all of the dimensions.

Re: Road Block! aliceseesthings May 10 2011, 21:51:31 UTC

This part? Not so difficult for Alice, thankfully. At least until she got about halfway through and had pieces of wood that didn't seem to go together. Finally she worked it out, though. Next clue, yay!

Re: Road Block! richieryan May 11 2011, 00:33:50 UTC

While rowing to the island, Richie was wondering how exactly he'd ended up in this class.

While trying to assemble the damned bookcase he was wondering out loud. Loudly. "And there are too many pieces!" he complained, giving the pile of metal bits a dirty look.

Eventually there was a bookcase. There were still bits left over, but it was a bookcase.

And then a rather exhausted Richie was rowing AGAIN. This course was ridiculous. Just ridiculous.

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