Legends of the Hidden Temple - Moat Race

[itsjustamike.livejournal.com]

Characters: All six teams who got picked for Legends of the Hidden Temple games
Content: The moat race!
Location: Deck 5
Time of day: Midday
Warnings: Moat-crossing shenanigans


[Mike arrives, with a microphone and wearing Indiana Jones-style clothes. Mike attempts to swing in to the front of the moat on a rope, doing his best Kirk Fogg impression...he fails somewhat at it, though, and stumbles onto the stage in front of the moat. As soon as he rights himself, he faces the six teams with a big ol' game show host smile! It's time for a temple run!]

Mike: Aaaand welcome, all you guys, to Legends of the Hidden Satellite of Love! The decks below are filled with lost treasures, which only Tom Servo knows about! Which one are we looking for today?

[Tom's voice comes over the deck loudspeakers, sounding much more booming and imposing than usual.]

Tom: The legend of the Venom Cock of Clutch Re!

Mike: Ooooh, the legend of...um...yeah, what Tom said. And one of your teams will have the chance to retrieve this artifact and win some fabulous prizes! But first, you'll have to cross the moat to get to the temple! Tom will tell us how you're gonna do it...

Tom: So, on this moat in front of you there's a bunch of rope walls suspended! Your task is to climb across the rope wall with one team member on each side of it! If any team member falls into the water, both have to go back and start again. Both team members need to be on the other side of the moat in order for you to have crossed it. Cheaters get disqualified! The first four teams to get across the moat will go on to the next round!

Mike: All right! Good luck, teams!

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[OOC: Welcome to the first round of the Legends of the Hidden Temple event! Your first task is to get your characters across the moat...you can either log prose or with action tags, whichever you prefer. The four winners of the moat race will be determined by DICE ROLL in a comment below; so you can tag appropriately if your team wins or loses! Once this log is mostly complete, the second event will go up.

Keep in mind: if your characters make it all the way to the temple run, they'll not only win prizes for themselves, but they can also win a lot of morale points!]

Comments

[game-over-pal.livejournal.com]

Falco didn't share Sora's enthusiasm over the whole deal, but as soon as they got the signal, he was off like a fucking rocket. He made short work of the rope wall, and crossing the moat didn't look too hard either.

This was like, little kid stuff. It might have been more interesting to Falco if there was, say, someone shooting rockets at them or something. Sigh.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Well, Falco didn't have nearly that sense of enthusiasm that he or Riku did, but at least he was fast and wasn't just going to slack off. Sora just about kept pace with him...he remembered doing this kind of climbing in Tarzan's world. He was thankful that they didn't have more to worry about, at least yet.

He was on the other side after Falco got there, but not that far behind. Next time, he'd had to do his best to be faster. But as he stumbled back onto dry land, he realized that they were one of the first four across!

[game-over-pal.livejournal.com]

Hooraaaaaaaay.

Falco put his hands on his hips, looking around at the other contestants.

"So, what. Did we win or somethin'?" Maybe he should have payed attention while all the rules and stuff were being explained.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, we won; we get to go to the next round!" Sora said, obviously excited at their victory. He didn't quite see if they were the first ones across, but at least they were one of the first four.

Sheesh, Falco practically looked bored. Couldn't he at least get into the spirit of the game? Sora folded his arms across his chest. "Man, don't look too excited there," he joked.

[game-over-pal.livejournal.com]

"This ain't exactly my idea of fun, kid." Falco shrugged, then put his hands back in his pockets. "But whatever, it's somethin' t'do. What's the next round, anyway? Did they mention it yet? I wasn't payin' attention."

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Heh, Falco sounded a little bit like Cloud with that kind of disinterested attitude...less angsty, though, at least as far as Sora could tell. "Well if it's something to do, may as well make it fun, right?" he suggested.

He looked past the moat area they were at, to what looked like a series of large steps ahead. "I dunno what the next round is...I think they explain it to us one at a time."

[game-over-pal.livejournal.com]

"This isn't fun. Target practice would be fun. Shooting at something would be great right now."

With an exasperated sigh, Falco glanced over in the direction Sora was looking, "Eh, fair enough. Guess we'll just have to wait and see."

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Sora thought that shooting down Heartless ships in the gummi ship could be fun (if not dangerous), but he didn't see how that was the only fun thing. That just limited your range of fun, as far as Sora was concerned. And why would you want to do that, when there was such a wide variety of things in life that could be fun?

Still, Sora decided to try ahd cheer the guy up, at least a bit, since they won. He shrugged. "Maybe one of the contests will be a shooting range kind of thing."

[game-over-pal.livejournal.com]

"I'd be okay with that, I guess." Falco shrugged and started wandering off, as if he had anywhere better to be right now.

[optimistickey.livejournal.com]

Sora thought that'd cheer him up, but Falco just shrugged and head off, not leaving him much time to say anything else. Sora crossed his arms. Yeah, they had a bit of time before the next event, but that didn't mean he just needed to wonder off. Sheesh...the rest of the temple was going to be interesting with this guy's attitude.