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Who: Anyone!
When: backdated 3/14
Where: Hall of Glory courtyard
What: You thought you'd just come and go normally, but no there's an obstacle course and a...barbecue...? In the courtyard...? Obstacle course log that requires TEAMWORK ~~or cheating~~ to get through!
Rating: Naked, succulent meats, but otherwise nah

The courtyard of the Hall of Glory today looks a bit different. It also smells delicious. Are those cooked meats? Sizzled vegetables? There's BBQ going on and it's all free, costs covered! The only problem? It's at the center of this damn obstacle course. You could just leave and get your own food. ...But that still involves going through the course ~~or one of the side exits of the compound, but where's the fun in that~~. Either way you should probably do as the sign helpfully pitched next to the entrance of the course says:

DON'T GO ALONE TAKE A PARTNER

I. THE ROPE BRIDGE
The entrance to the course is a ladder leading high up. When you get to the top... Congrats, a rope bridge awaits you. You can go it alone, but without someone to hold the ladder for you to keep it from flipping over you'll probably fall fifteen feet below. Onto a pile of cushions and...seagulls and cats? The cushions are covered in thrown out fish heads. Take this fall and you're going to have animals following you around all day. Probably best avoided.

II. THE SLIDE
You're doing good! Now it's time to get back down to the ground, lucky you. Your option is the slide in front of you. Just... Well. You're going to have a bad time when you reach the bottom unless your partner keeps the flames extinguished with a little ice magic (these flames will instantly re-ignite themselves once all ice has melted away, you see. Kind of a bitch). Don't know ice magic? Well that's what the helpful sign with step-by-step instructions to casting a low level ice spell is for! Time for a magic lesson!

III. THE BBQ
You reached it! Now you don't have to suffer Monday's deadly menu in the cafeteria. ...Oh. You were trying to get out? Keep pressing on, hero. Or not. Sit down. Have a bite! With a grill and a large selection of meats and vegetables to choose from along with water and juice there's plenty to go around. Maybe chitchat with the chef. Or maybe you've been conned into being the chef. There's no pay, but know you're doing your fellow heroes a great service!

IV. THE BOUNCE HOUSE
You enter a tunnel. Things get dark. And then suddenly there's flashing lights everywhere and every step your partner takes makes the floor rise beneath you, sending you flying up. You've enter the most obnoxious bounce house Caissa has to offer. Better figure out a way to walk in tandem with your partner or the two of you are going to be tumbling all over. Which isn't what you want seeing as you're not alone in here. Every bounce sends up slimy tendrils that squirm in your hair, your clothes, down your back. Isn't this obstacle course supposed to be kid friendly!? Get a good look in the strobe lights and you'll realize it's just worms. You're safe. Still disgusting though.

V. THE WALL
This is it. Then end. Finally. You can get out of this incredibly lame obstacle course. The final thing in your way? A wall of hay. Happily munching away cows included. At 15" high you can't get over this thing alone. Maybe if you stand on your partner's shoulders? Whatever it takes, now's the time to get creative because those cows sure aren't demolishing the wall any time soon at the rate they're chewing.

WILDCARD/INFO
This is just an obstacle course for fun to get characters ICly thinking about teaming up with one another and how to work together on their own terms in a safe (if...weird...) environment. Feel free to make up your own obstacles, wreck parts of the course, solve the obstacles however you like, etc. Essentially rule of funny goes!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Hux is a massive party pooper so instead of participating he'll be...watching?? He's grabbed one of the chairs and is sitting at the edge of the courtyard, watching the people who are actually going through the obstacle course rather casually. Or at least, his scrutiny seems casual. He's got an ankle propped up on the opposite knee, and there's a book, blank, open on his shin. Occasionally he makes a note in it. Under his chair lays a ginger cat, napping in the shade.

He doesn't seem particularly inclined to participate, himself...but that certainly doesn't stop him from smirking slightly if one of the Heroes takes a fall.]

[Zelos has a goal. This goal involves bothhering ~~everyone~~ Hux cause raisins. So please just ignore this redhead strolling up from behind and liberally slapping Hux on the back in an overally friendly manner!]

Feeling your age, old man? No need to be shy! There's some good kids out there. They'll take the burden of you~.

[Nice to meet you bro.]

[Hux jolts with the slap on his back, that simple gesture more than enough to put a scowl on his face. He jerks the arm closest to Zelos, doing his best to wave him away. That scowl only deepens at the words that follow.]

Hardly. Your presumptions about my age or my disposition towards social engagement are simple-minded and idiotic.

[he sniffs, settling back in his chair with a haughty air] I find it far more useful to observe the strengths and weaknesses of others.

[Well. At least this guy is nothing, but honest. Rather than be waved off Zelos has no problem at all putting an hand to his chin and regarding Hux with intense scrutiny.]

...So your dayjob is personal trainer?

[Clearly. Clearly that's what's going on here!!!]

[...why does he seem to attract the idiots.

Or, rather, why are they so plentiful here???? The corner's of Hux's mouth tightens in annoyance]

No. I am the commander of an army. And if I am going to be forced to be a part of this one, it is tactically sound for me to know its strengths and weaknesses.

But not learn to work together within it as part of an unit.

[He won't comment on how recording that information is sketch in and of itself. Hux isn't the only one. Everyone will do as their nature dictates; he doesn't expect anything more or less from them. Dropping his hand! But despite the pleasantness on his face the scrutiny is still there.]

Do you even know their names?

[You know. The people on the course. Suddenly: a pop quiz in the wild!]

That will come eventually. [Hux waves a hand idly, as if bushing off Zelo's question. However, whether he's talking about working within them as a unit or knowing their names, it's not clear.]

As of yet, I have had little time to be able to observe those here in training modules. The only chance I have had was during the massacre at the expo, and that was hardly an ideal time considering I had only arrived in Blanc on that day. Not that the primitive nature of this world doesn't allow for any sort of realistic simulations to be run. Not that our current excuse for leadership would run us through them, but...well. Hopefully that will change in the near future.

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I apologize in advance. Hello...

pls never apologize this is wonderful

omg HUX... What a treasure LMAO

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