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STAGE 2 START!

After catching her breath, Freya took on the second stage. She had the energy of a horse as she charged through, but she faltered just at the end, as the wall lift asked too much of her. Running on pure adrenaline, Freya pushed that last wall over and hobbled to the finish, and not a moment too soon - the buzzer sounded just as she reached it.

"AIYA!" She cried out, and then flopped on the floor, spread eagle, to catch her breath again.

STAGE 1 GO!

Her hair was heavy and wet, but Junko refused to go back to the concession stand until the memory of calling out for Christof to stop fapping was completely out of her mind. Roch's laughter rang through her head and made her blush and frown as she walked up to the first platform in time to see Freya complete the course. Wow...new girl was good. It brought a small smile to her face. "Careful, Junko. I can't lift enough hair to get it out of the way."

"That's okay. It's...practice." Or something. Junko took off, jumping for the first step of the sextuple steps. She was wet and her hair was long and in the way, these factors found her nearly falling into the water on every landing. Somehow she managed to just barely get across, clinging to the rolling log without a second thought. Her hair dragged through the water and she nearly tumbled into it once the fell off the log onto the platform underneath. Oh, Jack. She didn't have much trouble with the Jumping Skitter, though again her hair was creating drag.

It was the blades of death that had her hesitating. Her hair had been up before...now her hair was down, and it was everywhere. "Go, Junko." She frowned and took off, daintily jumping from blade to blade. She didn't cut a single strand or hair. She didn't knick herself anywhere as she had last time, the small cut on her arm had stopped bleeding but was still very there. In fact except for a couple stumbles from wet shoes the attempt was nearly perfect!

She nearly fell on her face running down the warped wall, stumbling and throwing herself up to grab onto the very edge of the ledge. Stupid wet shoes! She grunted and pulled herself up, laying there on her back to catch her breath for a second before rolling onto her stomach to get up and hurry to the next obstacle. She did better with the Tarzan Rope this time, fumbling on the landing and hitting the buzzer only because she was trying to catch something to keep herself from falling into the water again.

Success!

STAGE 2 START!

Here she was. The Chain Reaction. It bested her in battle the first time but now? Oh, no. Now it was on. Junko walked up and grabbed the chain with a firm look of determination, shoving off the platform to swing...reach..grab...AH HA! YES! She made it without even so much as swaying in her landing! But the next obstacle had her wanting to shrink to the size of a bug. Her arms were so sore, no wonder everyone was coming out of this exhausted. She sighed and climbed up onto the bar only to step on her hair.

Ohhhhh that splash sounded like it hurt!

STAGE 1 GO!

The frost demon had taken a nice long break since yesterday's workout and once again returned to the obstacle course. A little bit of warming up later, the ghoul sat by at the sides to watch some of the others attempt the course. She was feeling particularly good today, much more relaxed and composed.

The buzzer sounded off and Edel flew through Stage 1, easily overcoming the warped wall this time. While she had cleared Stage 1 in all her previous attempts, this run had been the smoothest and the ghoul found herself slightly thrilled to have done so well. Her confidence in herself was growing. There may or may not have been a bounce to her step as she made her way to Stage 2.

((clear))

STAGE 3 BEGIN!

She had come to close before, but lacked the strength to overcome the final stage in her previous attempts. Realistically, the ghoul knew she only had one shot with this stage.

Grabbing onto the bars of the rumbling die, Edel made her way through the course, stumbling only with an awkward jerk of the die. She went on to make her way past the stairs and the set of bars to face the arm bikes once again. This was where she had fallen, she reminded herself, and there was a wave of apprehension that swept through her as she gripped onto the pedals. She began to cycle forward, bringing herself over the pool of water that waited below. But the frost demon was feeling a momentum building up – just keep cycling at that pace. Two metres....one metre.... and her feet touched the platform on the opposite side.

There was no time to celebrate. The ghoul stretched her arms to relieve the strain that was building up in her muscles before tackling the next component which would also prove to be very demanding on her arm strength. The Cliff Hanger was a long obstacle and by midway Edel was feeling the rush of lactic acid and the uncomfortable strain in her arms again. Just a little bit more! she told herself as she inched her way across.

Just when her arms were on the brink of failure, Edel summoned the last burst of strength and swung herself at the platform, finding firm and solid ground. She did it! She was almost there!

Grabbing the hoop, she kicked off and poised herself of the landing. Eyes fixed on the final platform, she got off at just the right time and found herself rushing towards the button that would sound off the buzzer.

Beeeeeep!

She couldn't believe it. She had made it all the way through! The excitement didn't come rushing to her immediately though, it crept to her as slowly as the feeling returned to her tired-out arms. There was no victory pose or cry whatsoever, instead, it was five minutes of stoning and staring blankly into space at the end point.

And when it finally sank in, Edel's face was glowing. She did a little jig.

And those who did not witness her feat would wonder why a frost demon was skipping past happily.

((clear, final score 229))

STAGE 2 START!

Encouraged by his success on the first stage, Petro immediately heads on over to the second stage. Again, his first order of business is to understand the rhythm necessary to swing from chain to chain and once he gets that down, he makes for a grab. He swings himself forward and grabs the next chain. And the next. And the next until he gets to the end.

With that same rhythm still moving through his body, the horse boil attacks the second obstacle. A rod huh? This was definitely a test of his upper body strength and his core muscles if he was going to hoist himself all the way up. Which he does, and he is glad he has not once shirked off any of his spars and training.

The third task was a little trickier for Petro as he would require to stick the landing. Instead of simply charging at this, he makes a rough estimate of the other student's speed and his own before he uses the rod to slide down. Just at the right time, he lets go and instinctively tucks into the roll upon impact.

Good! Up next, more walls? Huh, there was a lot of them weren't there? Ah well, no time to think. Before he loses the rhythm he has going, the horse boil launches himself at the wall, moving through it as quickly as he can before the walls shift too much and makes him completely lose his balance.

The next obstacle proves easier to manage as he grabs the chains and even wraps a length of it around his wrists for added support. He grins when he sees he's almost at the end of the second stage!

Bracing himself, Tro lifts the first wall with no problem. The second puts a little bit of strain on his muscles. The third he manages but barely. Unfortunately as he all but drops it back down and attempts to continue, he realizes he'd dropped the third wall on his loincloth. And it seems he doesn't have the strength to lift it again.

Well ********>

STAGE 1 GO!

Before she would attempt the Terrior Warrior challenge again Pepin assured herself that the monster boil who had taunted her previously was not around to see her as she struggled with the course. Unaware she was attempting to trump a knob's score, the ghost approached the course with hesitation but managed to survive the first go through.

STAGE 3 BEGIN!

The end was nigh. All that remained of the course was strength related which the ghoul was unconscious of. When she managed to succeed on the final stage of the course she stepped aside dizzily and crashed down in the grass.

"This might've been worse than Plumber Man. 8c"