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Arias seemed infinitely pleased with the people he was meeting, and while he very much would have enjoyed talking more, when Kaatje announced the next task, he figured they would have to meet up again to continue the conversation later. He just smiled and said to Finn, "Thanks for the advice, I'd love to hit you up sometime and talk more about all of this. If you don’t mind!"

He then glanced to Delilah and Kinley, and wished the group good luck for the next task before he trotted off to give it a go.

Not that it was a particularly good go; he certainly wasn't performing up to his own expectations. He was exceptionally distracted while he attempted to complete the task—and how could he not be? There were knights—more than just Earth? And there were people that he could team up with—patrol with. People who had experience in other things, and knew things.

It probably didn't help that he'd used a good chunk of energy running and his body was protesting; he'd become too complacent now that he was out of school. If anything, this was all a good reminder that maybe he should get back in the game and exercise a little more because right now?

He totally sucked.

[Estelle]

Silverah

Sirene Naiads

Bo (Teamwork) is going to take more than two tries!

Oblivious to the rest of the world, Bo had continued running long after everyone else had stopped. He even missed the beginning of Kaatje's speech, but ambled over in enough time to get the gist of it: see wall? Climb wall.

"Let's do this!" Bo shouted.

He took off at a run toward the wall and leapt up, managing to hook his fingers over the edge (thanks, super tallness and basketball). Surprisingly, he even held his grip for awhile! But that was where it ended. Bo hung like a wall tapestry for a good 20 seconds before finally releasing and stumbling back to the wall. "I get the grabbing the top part," he said, "just not the get over it." He shrugged. "Well, try, try, try again!"

Bo took to repeating this dance: run, jump, hang, release. He did this 5 times before finally taking a cue from others. Borrowing the milk crate, he stood on top of it, awkwardly hooked his leg over the top, said, "I feel like a starfish!", and then managed to summon enough upper body strength to actually get to the top.

Once up there, he dangled his legs over the edge and gazed down at the others. "The world looks so small from up here," he said, lowering his voice dramatically. Then Bo stretched his arms outward, as if offering hugs, and announced, "WHO NEEDS A HAND? Or two." Smiles all around (from Bo).

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Maggie (Constitution) is going to take more than two tries!

Her partner, Paris, seemed to know a lot more of the gathered crowd than she did. Were there some senshi parties that she was missing out on? A pout sprouted on her lips involuntarily. Maggie did not like to be left out, especially from cool parties.

Brushing off her paranoia, the teenager casually trailed over to the wall, watching at the girl that Paris had called Rhiannon worked to scale it. "That looks... rough," Maggie mused. After the run, Maggie was feeling more than a little over this whole boot camp thing. Her legs were tingly, and she had bright red splotches on her cheeks and chest. And now... a wall? Yikes.

Rhiannon took a couple tries, but made relatively short work of the task. Maggie was not feeling as enthusiastic. But then -- to her joy -- the other girl offered to help her out. Maybe she would end up invited to those imagined senshi parties after this?

"Help would be AMAZING," she said quickly. "Otherwise, I'm pretty sure this is how I die. Probably."

She smiled, but stayed to the side, waiting for Paris to go first. After all, Rhiannon seemed to be her friend!

Fai grimaced as she put her hand on the wall, surprised though at her partner's words. So she did speak! A thoughtful lady then! Fai would fantasize that Rhiannon was the type that didn't have much to say because actions spoke louder then words and well...That's excatly what the other girl was doing. She squeezed the hand that took hers before letting go to watch the girl and her magic at work.

She watched her retrieve a bucket, formulating a plot in her head. It was surprising how the aid of an item had the girl soaring up on to the wall in a manner of mere moments.

She clapped her hands as Rhiannon got to the top, "Yeah! Good job team mate!" before blinking as the girl jumped down and offered her a boost. "Well..." She looked almost nervous. One part was she didn't want to hurt the girl, and the other part was what if she failed? It would be embarassing when her teammate was cheering her on.

"Okay..." She breathed in, "A true lady never turns down a challenge right?" It was a rhetorical question but...She put her foot in Rhiannon's clasped hands, using the boost up and scrambling her way to the top of the wall. She was pretty sure at one point she was gonna fall but -

"Come onnnnnnnnn...." She gritted her teeth, pulling her form up until she was laying sideways on the top. "I...I did it!" She looked back down at Rhiannon with wonder before dropping down. "Thank you so much for your help! I don't think I could've done it by myself!"

Arias did not need to consider Kinley's request for long; he was not having much success himself, but she was already half there. It didn't cross his mind at all that her offer might have been insincere, so he nodded. "Yeah, one second," he said before trotting over. "You're doing much better than I was!" he laughed, though didn't want to leave her hanging there for too long. "Here, just hold on," he said moving to kneel just a bit near the girl. He laced his fingers together tightly and put his hands under her heel to try and give her something to push off of. When he was certain he was able to provide a good, solid platform with his hands, he made sure he was balanced enough to support her on the way up.

"Tell me when you're ready," he said, prepared to give her a boost up as soon as she gave the word.

[Estelle]

Jeanne eyeballed the obstacle and frowned, placing her hands on her hips as she considered the best route to take. It would be a pretty physical challenge, but the redhead was fairly sure she could manage it.

Even if the obstacle was almost three feet taller than her, and she had to worry about getting her hair caught up in it or something. Oh well - at least Tallulah was already up there.

"A hand would be great!" She acknowledged, and as advised, she made use of the milk crates to give her a boost so she could get to Tallulah. With help, she was up and over.

"Well, that ain't so bad, 'specially not with help." Which she supposed was the lesson in a lot of what she'd been through lately.

[[Jeanne has a 6]]

Standing on the ground below, Maggie watched as various people scrambled up the wall. Her attention was fixed mostly on her partner, Paris, and the girl who was offering to help, Rhiannon. When the offer for help was extended again, Maggie beamed a smile up at them. "Absolutely," she said, "though it might also take a forklift, my arms are dead."

Maggie rubbed her hands together and follow Paris' directions and her example. She accepted the boost up and then stammered, "I-I need a... h-hand." Thankfully, Paris was there, and through a combined effort of shimmying and lots of helping hands, Maggie found herself panting and gripping the top of the wall for dear life.

"I made it!" she said, punching one fist half-heartedly up into the air. "Thanks, Paris. And Rhiannon." After another panting breath, she said, "I'm Maggie. Do I have to go back down now?" Because that seemed like another hurdle. She wasn't sure if she could handle anymore challenges.

Arias gave her a moment to get settled and then took her hand. He was careful not to let his additional weight send them both toppling back over the wall, and it took only a few short seconds before he was able to climb over the wall as well. His face lit up and he grinned at the girl. "Thanks," he said in response, breathing a sigh of relief. "I think I'm ready for this to be over. Not that it hasn't been fun, just not sure my body was expecting this sort of a workout."

He smiled; he wasn't upset, but man, he was going to need a little more exercise if he wanted to keep up with some of these people. To be fair to himself, he was proud at what he had accomplished—and Kinley, too—but all he could focus on was what he needed to do to improve.

At least he'd had fun, though—and met someone interesting!

[Estelle]

[And that's an official wrap to the RP! Feel free to continue RPing in the thread, but for reqs purposes, this is stick-a-fork-in-it a finished regular RP!! Thanks so much, guys, and be sure to check out May's installment of Order boot camp!]