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Shleedelie
The Fourth Challenge
The following morning, the entire festival grounds are coated in a thin layer of snow. Contestants gather, still excited from the night before, inside the tent, which has started to sag just in the slightest. While yesterday the place was full of carnival games, today it is set up like a circus! A tightrope, trapeze, and a suspiciously large cage covered in a pink and blue blanket have been set up at the center of the tent.
AceChaser's
Elvira and Flaxen's
Icarus from Team 15 look around for their missing teammate, but they are nowhere to be seen...
Fortune enthusiastically hobbles over to the group, looking just a bit bruised and battered but no less confident and ready for the day.
“Good Morning everyone and welcome to our fourth challenge, and, of course, the fourth most dangerous 88V”
“I hope you all enjoyed the circus performance last night, and learned by watching, because today you will be trying some of those tricks out yourself! It’s dangerous! I would know! So be careful... or don’t. That’s your choice.”
“You will be choosing one member of your team to try out each of the five circus feats! Our first challenge is the stilts race.”
Challenge 1: Stilts Race
Fortune points to a strange and unusual obstacle course that has been laid out around the perimeter of the tent.
“One member of each team will wear one of these wonderfully cheap discount budget houndstooth stilts. You must then navigate this course within the time limit. If you make it, your team gets 20 points. If you don’t, your team gets nothing. The place you finish in doesn’t matter, so long as you finish.”
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The teams select who they will enter into the stilts challenge:
Team 1: KairinRose's
Sea
Team 2: WanderingTurtle's
Prism
Team 3: Kvon's
Fern
Team 4: Melova's
Fortune
Team 5: V88's
Losi
Team 6: MythicalViper's
Kerendia
Team 7: SmolGhostCat's
Iris
Team 8: tigressRising's
Lola
Team 9: Evantalia's
Delta
Team 10: Sylvandyr's
Karshal
Team 11: Stasha's
Shale
Team 12: heartcrusher1's
Corona
Team 13: Cheshly's
Frost
Team 14: Ciphers's
Jaynum
Team 15: Vocalist's
Illuminati
Team 16: ReyFairchild's
Obfonteri
The contestants line up at the front, KairinRose's
Sea appears to be struggling to even walk with the stilts - a bad sign. A loud screaming hatchling marks the start of the race! WanderingTurtle's
Prism and Kvon's
Fern deftly begin to make their way over the pebble and holey bowl obstacles. Melova's
Fortune seems to be having an easy time of it, as if they walk around on stilts all the time.
V88's
Losi and MythicalViper's
Kerendia struggle a bit while trying to climb the wall of glass flasks and dodging the stuffed animals being thrown at them by Fortune himself, but seem to be doing well. SmolGhostCat's
Iris gets hung up trying to duck under a lamp that has been hung from the ceiling, but manages to get by. tigressRising's
Lola sings a little song to themselves as they make their way through, while Evantalia's
Delta appears to be attempting to navigate the obstacle course walking backwards. They insist that it’s easier for them, and it does seem to be working…
As Sylvandyr's
Karshal is trying to weave between a few mobile phones, a number of spikes fall out of their pocket, causing them to trip. They aren’t injured, but it takes a while to get up and this loses them quite a lot of time. Stasha's
Shale doesn’t seem too fussed by the challenge. They take it slow and steady, and somehow manage to whisper into the void while making their way through the course.
heartcrusher1's
Corona tries to navigate the course too quickly, tripping, falling, and crashing face first into a large stack of hotdogs. They seem to have broken a few bones, and will not be able to continue in the competition. Cheshly's
Frost breaks their Cool facade and tries to help them briefly, before eventually deciding they’d rather not lose too much time and should continue on regardless.
Ciphers's
Jaynum, Vocalist's
Illuminati, and ReyFairchild's
Obfonteri keep bumping into each other and nearly knocking each other over. They bring up the rear, and really seem to be struggling.
The loud screaming hatchling goes off again and the time is up! The following teams finished:
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Team 5
Team 6
Team 7
Team 8
Team 9
Team 11
Team 13
Challenge 2: Tightrope Walk
“This challenge is quite simple. Each team will cross the tightrope one at a time. Make it across without falling, and your team gets all 20 points! Fail, and your team gets nothing.”
The teams select who they will enter into the into the tightrope walk.
Team 1: Wildtail's
Shale
Team 2: Disillusionist's
Faustino
Team 3: JinxMoonstone's
Leap
Team 4: nightnurse's
Jasper
Team 5: catslash's
Nightwisp
Team 6: Avaros's
Zerna
Team 7: Whitefoxtails's
Outrider
Team 8: Mirna's
Leon
Team 9: Samoqueen's
Saxon
Team 10: Shakly's
Azalea
Team 11: Touhou's
Gurasvati
Team 12: Thoracosaurus's
SpicyChickenWing
Team 13: Hexi's
Tanzanite
Team 14: EmbertheSkywing's
Asher
Team 15: AceChaser's
Elvira
Team 16: Araquanid's
SewerLady
Wildtail's
Shale, Disillusionist's
Faustino, and JinxMoonstone's
Leap try their best, but are unable to balance well enough to cross. They fall, but are able to steady themselves with their wings. nightnurse's
Jasper shows them all how it’s done and prances across the tightrope with ease, even stopping to roller skate under a truck in the middle.
catslash's
Nightwisp nearly makes it to the end, but falls off at the very last stretch. Avaros's
Zerna and Whitefoxtails's
Outrider take it slow and easy and manage to make it to the other side. Mirna's
Leon is quite adept at this and crosses without too much trouble. Samoqueen's
Saxon slips and falls at the very start. Whoops.
Shakly's
Azalea did not realize that they still had the radioactive dust in their pockets. Upon stumbling a bit, it all comes out in a puff of smoke, hardening their wings such that they can hardly be moved. They fall, and without the use of their wings, hit the ground quite hard. Needless to say, they will not be continuing in the competition.
Touhou's
Gurasvati and Araquanid's
SewerLady stumble their way across successfully, while all of Thoracosaurus's
SpicyChickenWing, Hexi's
Tanzanite, EmbertheSkywing's
Asher, and AceChaser's
Elvira fall and flutter down to the ground below.
Challenge 3: Trapeze
“This next challenge is quite simple… but incredibly challenging. You see in front of you three swinging trapeze. There’s… not quite enough space to go from one to the next without, you guessed it, a bit of a jump. Navigate from here, jumping twice, and then to the platform at the end, and your team will earn 20 points. Fail, and you get nothing!”
“Oh… and did I mention your wings will be shackled this time so that you can’t cheat and fly…” Fortune mutters something about it being good that wing shackles were a 3 for 1 deal this week at the festival souvenirs shop.
The teams select who they will enter into the into the trapeze challenge.
Team 1: Tagoniki's
Seledia
Team 2: Ganymede's
Cosmik
Team 3: Ragnarok42's
Vorrutyer
Team 4: pierrct's
Pharahn
Team 5: Marianette's
Mythal
Team 6: sockmonkeygerald's
Solomundee
Team 7: Thace's
Ahrima
Team 8: clm's
Hotlips
Team 9: Delcat's
Curio
Team 10: M00nKnight's
Gotham
Team 11: L1llysage's
Print
Team 12: Turstrigo's
Snowstrike
Team 13: DrZiegler's
Sara
Team 14: Katelle's
Panama
Team 15: Fereyik's
Kichiro
Team 16: Ghostxpains's
Terror
Ghostxpains's
Terror nervously approaches the trapeze. They manage to jump from one, to two, to… the ground. Fortunately, they manage to land on one of the many large hula hoops scattered along the ground below and come out with only a few minor bumps and bruises. Fereyik's
Kichiro and Katelle's
Panama have similar experiences, just barely failing the challenge.
DrZiegler's
Sara manages to miss the first jump. Getting turned around mid-air, they land on their back and have to be taken away for medical attention. They won’t be coming back anytime soon. Turstrigo's
Snowstrike, a bit unnerved by this, makes one jump, but fails the second. They hit the cold hard ground with a splat and are, also, not going to be doing much for the next few weeks. Both are eliminated from the competition.
L1llysage's
Print Also fails to complete the challenge, but lands on a nice soft balloon without harm.
M00nKnight's
Gotham makes one jump, two jump, three! The first to do it, they can’t help but scream with excitement. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA". Delcat's
Curio, clm's
Hotlips, and Thace's
Ahrima all fail, but don’t suffer from more than a few bumps and bruises.
sockmonkeygerald's
Solomundee confidently shows off by whistling in tune before attempting the jump. The succeed wonderfully, even doing a backflip in the middle jump! They must have practiced… “Yee haw!” their entire team screams in unison.
Unfortunately, Marianette's
Mythal is not so lucky, slipping off of the first bar and hitting the ground. The clearly broken wing will have them thoroughly eliminated from the competition.
pierrct's
Pharahn, Ragnarok42's
Vorrutyer, and Ganymede's
Cosmik all manage to succeed! But, of course, the streak doesn’t last, and Tagoniki's
Seledia falls. Spark's
Vile from Team 10 pulls the pillow out of the way, causing them to hit the ground instead. They are eliminated from the competition.
Challenge 4: Juggling
In this challenge, a member from each team will have to juggle three sharp metal poles until the time runs out. If any of the sharp metal poles are dropped, the team gets no points. Otherwise, it’s 20!
The teams select who they will enter into the juggling challenge.
Team 1: Geisterwolf's
Aeron
Team 2: Solanceae's
Carlysle
Team 3: Snivy88's
Caelynne
Team 4: ThisOneIsBlue's
Aleatory
Team 5: Loreka's
Ambrosia
Team 6: Rosoidela's
Blackstone
Team 7: GryffonJoi's
Panacaea
Team 8: Illume's
Pascal
Team 9: Delcat's
Curio
Team 10: Ragnell's
Helio
Team 11: Troutfish's
Druantia
Team 12: dagmarmot's
Kate
Team 13: Deladria's
Roen
Team 14: TheClassCalico's
Khuzdar
Team 15: LiveSky's
Anesia
Team 16: yyalls's
phaedrus
The juggling begins! Rosoidela's
Blackstone and dagmarmot's
Kate immediately drop theirs. GryffonJoi's
Panacaea and Ragnell's
Helio don’t last too much longer. Geisterwolf's
Aeron, Illume's
Pascal, Solanceae's
Carlysle, and Delcat's
Curio are having an easy time of it and don’t seem to be struggling in the slightest.
Unfortunately, Deladria's
Roen manages to drop one of the sharp metal poles
onto their own head. They are eliminated from the competition.
The following teams make it to the end:
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Team 5
Team 8
Team 9
Team 11
Team 14
Team 15
Team 16
Challenge 5: Beast Taming
Fortune then wheels over the suspicious cage and pulls off the sheet, revealing four terrible creatures inside! For each team, one of the four creatures will be released and that chosen member will have to safely return the beast to the cage.
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Teams 1, 5, 9, and 13 will face a jaguar.
Teams 2, 6, 10, and 14 will face a snake.
Teams 3, 7, 11, and 15 will face a unicorn.
And teams 4, 8, 12, and 16 will face a clown. (They're creepy…)
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The teams select who they will enter into the beast taming challenge.
MissMaira's
Poseidon from Team 1 struggles at first, but manages to chase the jaguar back into the cage with a mousetrap.
MistyGlowy's
Platform from Team 2 gently encourages the snake, offering statements such as “I believe in you!” and “It's now or never.” The snake happily returns to its cage!
felistopaz's
Shattersky from Team 3 tries to chase the unicorn around, but it simply ends up chasing them around instead.
Mazarine's
Cidori from Team 4 cautiously lures the clown into the cage with a bribe of fish sticks.
Autopilot's
Synthetic from Team 5 runs up to the jaguar and gives it a great big hug. They then lift it up over their head and carry it back to the cage. The jaguar flails about a bit, but doesn’t actually cause any harm in the slightest.
Ashtar's
Mnyffos from Team 6 uses themselves as bait to get the snake back into the cage.
Alanon's
Mercer from Team 7 spends too much time trying to analyze the unicorn and study its habits. By the time they start trying to get the beast into the cage, the time is up.
Aradan's
Brolach from Team 8 gently offers the clown a reward of money if it goes into the cage. It happily listens.
Haoang20082's
Cainwen from Team 9 screams and flails about so much that the jaguar is unnerved and goes to hide in the cage.
StormDragon21's
Robin from Team 10 threatens the snake with a sharp metal pole jutting out from a nearby ride. The snake is having none of that, and starts to chase them about.
Hyleoroi's
Astarot from Team 11 casually stands at the entrance to the cage and motions for the unicorn to go in. The unicorn goes to try to eat them, but is given a very disapproving stare… It decides to go into the cage instead.
Muxie's
Baneer from Team 12 lifts the cage into the air and puts the cage on the clown. Technically I guess this is an option, if unconventional.
heavylobster's
Firgen from Team 13 tries to offer the jaguar a coffee, and the jaguar comes up to investigate it. It does try to take and eat the coffee, but also tries to eat heavylobster's
Firgen as well. The numerous bitemarks from being chewed upon has left heavylobster's
Firgen unable to continue in the competition.
PinkyPearl 's
Nicole from Team 14 cautiously lures the snake into the cage with brightly colored tadhop beanie.
Kojiro's
Castor from Team 15 starts fumbling with the cage and is struggling so much that the unicorn feels bad for them and goes to sit in the cage. It also pretends to have been dramatically wounded in the process.
CherryWave's
DaJi from Team 16 screams and bounces up and down, throwing fireballs and skulls and a large plant all over the tent, successfully chasing the clown back into the cage.
And with that, all of the challenges for today are done!
Final Scores for the Fourth Event
Team 1: 40 points
Team 2: 80 points
Team 3: 60 points
Team 4: 100 points
Team 5: 60 points
Team 6: 80 points
Team 7: 40 points
Team 8: 80 points
Team 9: 60 points
Team 10: 20 points
Team 11: 80 points
Team 12: 20 points
Team 13: 20 points
Team 14: 40 points
Team 15: 40 points
Team 16: 60 points
Team 4 wins the Circus Challenge!! As a prize, they are given an enchanted scroll. What a comeback after their performance in the first event!
Team Rankings So Far
Team 8: 265 points
Team 11: 247 points
Team 2: 239 points
Team 7: 232 points
Team 15: 221 points
Team 1: 216 points
Team 9: 215 points
Team 4: 210 points
Team 6: 203 points
Team 16: 202 points
Team 3: 189 points
Team 14: 182 points
Team 5: 181 points
Team 12: 164 points
Team 13: 150 points
Team 10: 146 points
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