บท 12: Obstacle Course Continued...
*LEFT TEAM*
Person 1: "Doesn't matter who is messing with us, the fact is that THEY ARE. Now we have to be extra careful because we don't know what the middle team is doing or if they had anything to do with this, BUT they will try to mess with us regardless. Everyone good, ready to continue? We need a scout to look around and eye the next obstacle. we need to move more carefully from now on."
Person 2: "I will check it out!"
P1: "OK while we gather ourselves you check the path ahead."
*Middle Team*
P1: "How could you screw the pole!"
P2: "Easier said than done."
P1: "Fine, we still have more chances to gather extra points. Come on lets check on the right team."
P3: "They all made it past the bridge, only because they didn't take the cart and helped each other jump across without putting all the poles down."
P1: "HMM, nice. OK lets go catch them at the 3rd obstacle."
*Right Team*
Mark: " Everyone, we are being targeted, its not only about finishing these courses the fastest, but even getting the chance to. Let's go together and scout the next course."
They all jogged for another mile when they stopped to look at what appeared to the the next course. It looked like they would need to climb a man made wall it footholds. They could see that at the top were buckets. As to the contents, they could not guess. Their scout informed them that all the three paths merged here and would need to get to the top the fastest. This would ensure them not being targeted or getting the chance to get revenge on whoever was screwing with them. The all decided to run and make it up there first. Thankfully they would all climb and had not problems with the height.
*Middle team*
P3: "Leader, we have a problem. The right team is already halfway up and it looks like we are all meeting hear. There are also buckets in the top."
P1: " Okay we can try to catch up. Leave some gear behind."
As they got closer, they noticed a control panel, they could choose 10 foot holes to be retracted. They chose 8/10 to be from the team to the right and chose the foot holes on the top most part. This would make it extremely hard for them to finish their climb and would slow them down. Enough time for them to get up there and grab those buckets and start messing with them. They escaped once, twice, but would not a third.
*Left team*
P2 scout: " The path ahead is safe if by traps you mean. However the middle team seems to be gaining on the right team who is up ahead. There seemed to be an accident where one of the foot holes at the top gave up and fell. This cause of of the right teams to almost fall down. Thankfully there was a teammate nearby who caught him. It seems some foot holes are rigged."
P1: Ok this is the plan, test each foot hole before switching your weight, and count to 2 seconds to make sure. The reason they didn't know they were faulty was because the mechanism didn't activate after 2 seconds of being touch, according to your observations. Lets hurry up them."
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The right team started to notice that after 2 seconds, faulty foot holes would retract inside the wall. They would touch all the holds and wait 2+ seconds before fully commuting to them. This slowed them down as they soon realized that at the top their path had closed down and only one path remained. They had to retract their movements and move to one of their teammates paths that was secured. They had survived various falls the first two times they were caught off guard when seemingly steady holds gave up on them and retracted inside the walls. Fortunately Mark was there to grab his teammate but later had to save himself when on his path upwards, he encountered the same scheme. They all glared and the middle team who seemed to not care about retracting foot holes/holds and were flying to get to the top.
Mark: " It's them! It has to be! look at them, they aren't worrying about falling and don't seem to be surprised out our misfortune. Let's give it to them and throw those buckets at them. Hurry! Get to the other side, one at a time and get up! GO go go gooooo!"
It seemed like a tight race. Except for the left team who soon realized what was happening and were suspicious of the middle team. They only prayed that the right team would get there in time and occupy the middle team so they could make it up before they were messed with. They only found 2 faulty stones in the beginning and nothing after.They decided to risk it all and didn't wait for 2 seconds and just raced up after getting half way up with no other faults.
As soon as Mark and his comrade were at the top, they wasted no time and pulled their third teammate up together. This saved them 4 seconds. It allowed them to get to the buckets and threw a slew of slimy and sticky stuff at the middle team who were cursing at them. unfortunately, one of them was already at the top and managed to cover that path so that it wouldn't get sticky and those holds would be clean for his team to up through. Mark saw this and then saw the left team who were verily past the had way point. He then got an idea, he would tie a rope to a tree, through it down to one of the team members on the left so that they could climb easier and not be messed up by the middle team. He would make them think it was just to help them and band together against the middle team. In reality, it was like that but actually also so that the left team so slow down the middle team or occupy them while they raced up ahead. They knew the middle team would aim their anger at them, the right team. Whether the left team took the help or not, it wasn't up to him. He did his part. They kept jogging up ahead.
*Right team*
Person: "It seems we have to walk and balance ourselves through some poles or fall in the river. then the last course seems like a 5 mile run back to camp through traps. That's all this make says."
Mark: " Ok let's get through as fast as possible through this while the other teams are occupied with each other and won't be able to through stuff at us. Also it seems like we all have to go through the same obstacles from here on. "
** Back at the climbing wall**
P1: " Darn it! William you were to darn slow! You slowed him down!" You will be the last in the shower when we get back. No, you will even wash our clothes!"
P3: " Well maybe if you hadn't taken your sweet time choosing the holds to mess with, we could've made it on time."
P2: " Calm down, that ungrateful Mark was there to help his teammates survive the falls. I saw we through some rocks at the left team and then hurry to catch with them. We still have a ways to got."
P1: "OK lets do this."
Thanks to the rope, mark left for them, the left team was able to evade most of the rocks through at them and made it quicker up the wall when they noticed the middle team left in a hurry. To their anger, the middle team got to the next obstacle, only to realize that from now on, it was just the same course and they would need to catch up to the right team who was almost at the end of the obstacle with at least one member resting on the other side. It didn't take long for them to start shooting arrows at each other and the right team running back to camp and the middle team attempting to cross the balance obstacle as fast as possible. All the teams had one of more exhausted members and the 5 mile run was fulls of traps. Stepping on a rock could trigger arrows shooting at them, pits uncovering themselves etc. Fortunately marks team was 100 meters ahead and they all happened to be super fit.
The Left team decided not to get ambushed by the middle team and put on their water gear and would take an unorthodox path back to the camp. They would ride a log down the river and paddle their way. They wouldn't let the middle team win and converse as much energy as possible so that they could run the last mile. The middle team were furious when they looked back and realized that the middle team wasn't showing up. They all started their run and hoped to meet the right team ahead.
Unfortunately for the middle team, their score wouldn't be the best. The left team managed to bet the middle team by a mile but of course, they met the right team at the end. The right team gained 5 extra points for throwing the buckets at the middle team. They went to wash up, eat, and celebrate their dominance.
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