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[glorifiedtrash]

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!

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[ Every day is an invitation to learn new things, this one included. As soon as the course is set up, he would have arrived in the early morning to investigate all the commotion. Given that he doesn't eat, his main incentive for trying out the obstacle course is to just Savour The Experience.

If you're in need of a partner, he'll be at one side just watching everyone go up. Or maybe he's come up to you after you've wandered around for a bit trying to find someone else. ]

Do you require someone to go with you?

1;

[ So the two of you have come to the rope bridge! LL's the one holding it first, and his grip is extremely firm. Now that you've made it across to the other side, it's time for him to go over. And he starts.

Except... he's slow. He calculates each movement while taking into account of every swing that the bridge does, which means he's inching forward at a snail's pace.

Are you patient enough to wait for him, or would you yell at him to hurry up instead? ]

5;

[ Faced with the wall of hay, flying is the first solution that comes to him. He hasn't flown with passengers since he came here, however - and without his magic to nullify gravity, it can get messy.

So he will turn to you first, a thoughtful expression upon his demeanour. ]

Do you have any ideas?

wildcard;

[ ooc: throw me anything and I'll roll w it! Alternatively you can ping me at eonflamewing. ]

Wildcard

[endoftherepublic]

[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.]

OTA

[mithrarin]

1.

[Dust, stubborn, entered the course without hesitation -- which means people are likely to come across him stepping carefully up the ladder. He has a surprisingly good sense of balance, which has gotten him halfway, but the whole contraption is trembling beneath him as he crouches to keep his center of gravity low.]

[In one hand, a rising ball of wind slowly expands as he focuses on casting a spell. Dust has a plan...]

2.

[All right. He gets it. This is another ridiculous pairing exercise. Fine. The Sen-Mithrarin kneels at the top of the slide, glancing up.]

Just let me know when you're ready to cast that spell.

3.

[...with a chef's hat on and a grilling fork in his hand, Dust is officially waaaay out of his element. (The more so because the chef's hat is perched on top of his own hat.) He pokes the grilling meat with the fork as if that would solve everything, and since it doesn't, he looks rather pathetic. Or as pathetic as anyone with hidden eyes could look.]

I -- think it's almost done?

[He doesn't know how to beg for some help, but it comes through in his voice nonetheless...]

5.

[With a graceful flip, Dust leaps into the air, then jams his sword in about seven feet up. One hand still on the hilt, he lets himself fall from above it to below, using his momentum to swing himself up into an arc that lands him lightly on the top of the hay wall.]

[Smiling, he makes a little come-on gesture with his hand.] Grab my sword and I'll get you up here. Then we're done.