Xavier's School Field Days
2010 - 2011 School Year
The field days are a competition between the students in the different Xavier's School training squads: Double Helix, Deviants, and Exiles. Each event is designed to test the students' teamwork, problem-solving abilities, and mastery of their physical, mental, and mutant powers. Teams are awarded points upon completion of each task, with an extra bonus going to the winners.
Scavenger Hunt
2009-2010 School Year
The field days are a competition between the students in the different Xavier's School training squads: The Pack?, Generation X?, and Double Helix?. Each event is designed to test the students' teamwork, problem-solving abilities, and mastery of their physical, mental, and mutant powers. Teams are awarded points upon completion of each task, with an extra bonus going to the winners.
Day One: Orienteering Challenge
Winners: Generation X? and Double Helix? (7.5 points each)
Runner-up: The Pack? (5 points)
Participants
Log: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/xmr-logs/message/474
The students arrived in the woods behind the school to find a table with survival packs and instructions explaining the task: to find their way through five checkpoints in the woods using a map and compass. At each checkpoint, the teams would retrieve a flag to prove they'd been there.
The Pack? had a tremendous turnout; Generation X? and Double Helix?, less so. To even out the numbers, the smaller teams joined forces and recruited the unassigned Simon?, agreeing to split the victory points if they won.
The Pack? drew straws to with the first start. While waiting the required five minutes, Generation Double HeliX started discussing their plans, and quickly decided that the outdoorsy Adam and the scholarly Ralph would have a tremendous advantage at learning to orienteer on the fly.
To even the odds, they decided to skip the compass and send the invisible Simon? ahead to follow the Pack and leave markers for the rest of the team to follow. As Nikki justified it to a reluctant Rahne, "It's more like we're coming up with solutions that play to our strengths, not really cheating...I think that's part of the game."
Now the competition was between the Pack's ability to orienteer, and Generation Double HeliX's ability to spy on them. The ruse served the allied teams well, until Bernie and Adam figured out the trick. By that time, the two teams were close enough for GDH to track the Pack directly, so Nikki recalled the spy, and the game became a cross-country race.
But the Pack had a few tricks of their own. After crossing a ravine on a makeshift bridge, Skyler crafted an illusion of fire to deter the pursuit. The allied teams lost time trying to fight the fire and puzzling out why their efforts weren't having any effect.
The Pack made it to the finish line first, but because they had a head start, needed a margin of at least five minutes to win. However, their pursuers appeared just two and a half minutes behind them. In a desperate attempt to convince their competitors not to cross the finish line, Skyler crafted another illusion: he transformed himself into a stern Xavier and reprimanded the competition for their underhanded methods. (Adam got to play the wheelchair.)
The deception nearly worked: Simon? passed out, and Rahne and Nikki ended up close to tears. Suddenly, Nikki noticed that Xavier's wheelchair had left bear tracks leading into the woods, and Adam was nowhere to be seen. With only seconds to burn, she ran across the finish line, winning the competition by a tiny margin.
After the ensuing taunting died down a bit, the teams agreed not to raise a stink about each other's "creative" methods. No sense getting everybody in trouble, now is there?
Day Two: Water Challenge
Winner: Generation X? (10 points)
Runners-up: The Pack? and Double Helix? (5 points each)
Participants
Log: (link)
(event summary)
Day Three: Construction Challenge
Winner: The Pack? (10 points: 5 participation + 5 for 'Tallest Freestanding Structure')
Runners-up: Generation X? (7 points: 5 participation + 1 point Creativity + 1 point Aesthetics)
Participants
- For The Pack: Adam, Skyler
- For Generation X: Rahne, Topaz, Tyson
- For Double Helix: None/Forfeit (Simon? came but had to leave not long after the event began).
Log: (link)
(event summary)
Day Four: Sporting Challenge
Winner: Double Helix (18 points)
Runners-up: The Pack (13 points) and GenX (10 points).
Participants
- For The Pack: none
- For Generation X: none
- For Double Helix: none
Log: none
Because of a lack of turnout, we used +pick to find the scores and distributed them to bring the squad rankings closer together instead of RPing it out.
Day Five: Crazy Race Challenge
Winner: The Pack and Double Helix (7.5 points each)
Runners-up: GenX (5 points)
Participants
Log: (link)
In this race, the squads were supposed to race from one end of the grounds to the other, only allowing a certain number of hands and feet (determined by team size) to touch the ground at any time. In order to be allowed to keep more than one foot and one hand on the ground, the Pack and Double Helix banded together. With four-person squads, two hands and two feet were allowed for each.
At first it seemed that this teamwork would be unnecessary, as Bobby? created an ice sled to transport his entire team across the finish line in one fell swoop. But Nikki had other plans, using her vibration powers to create a harmonic dissonance that shattered the sled completely. The other team tumbled onto the course, exceeding the hands/feet limit and forcing them to start over.
Nikki started running for the finish line, but Bobby? froze her hands and feet in solid blocks of ice. The weight on her arms caused her to collapse, and the chill left her limbs completely numb even after she managed to shatter the blocks as she had the sled. This left her stumbling and slowed her down.
Meanwhile, the Helix Pack regrouped at the starting line and tried another tactic: Adam shifted to bear mode and the other three rode on his back. Even slowed down as he was, the grizzly nearly made up Nikki's head start. She crossed the finish line and made a loud church bell sound to signal the rest of her team, but even Rahne's sprinting ability wasn't enough to beat Adam and the Helix Pack.
Weekend: Puzzle Challenge
Winner: GenX (70 points)
Runners-up: The Pack (59 points) and Double Helix (25 points)
Participants
- For The Pack: all
- For Generation X: all
- For Double Helix: all
Log: none
(event summary)
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