Challenge #1--Toxic Butterflies

Emily bounced along happily. "Let's hope it's a giant, noticeable cave," She said. "But not too noticeable, or else we won't be the first to find it probably.

Alex followed along behind Bliss, looking and the shadowed woods on either side of the path nervously. He said very quietly, "I wonder who the guardian is...." Alex shrugged and kept walking.

(OOC: It's been five hours since I posted.)

Emily shrugged. She wasn't trying to be leader. She started climbing a tree. "Let's go with his idea," She said, pointing at the blonde guy. "Um, I don't know your name."

Bliss nodded enthusiastically and began to pull herself into a tall pine tree. She used to climb all sorts of trees and pretend to find 'matches' when she was little, so it wasn't that big of a deal. She surveyed the surrounding area, looking for an abundance of rocks or a big hole in a rock or something. Her gaze landed on a large rock that seemingly jutted out from the ground with another rock collapsed on top of it. It wasn't the type of cave that she had pictured, but it was still a cave. It was a bit of a way away though.
"Over there!" She called down to her teammates, pointing in the direction of the cave. "There's a small cave!"

Lyle held his hand happily out to help Alex get up.

Alex grabbed Lyle's hand and climbed out of the small opening. He looked at Lyle and said quietly, "I think that might be the cave, but it looks pretty small."

Victoria has been in the group the whole time even if no ones noticed her she was thinking about doing it on her own, but this was suppose to be a team challenge. So she just followed them.

((OOC: Okay, I have to step in and say something. Victoria, passive-aggressive comments like "even if no one has noticed her" are not going to do you any good.

If you want other characters to interact with you, you have to interact with other characters. Victoria hasn't said anything at all--she sighed once. Everything else was internal, and according to the rules the other characters can't read her mind. If she's not talking and she's not taking any action other than following the group and thinking, nobody has any reason to pay her any attention.

Nobody owes you attention simply because you showed up and posted: You have to give other players something to react to when you post. Say something. Do something. If you don't, the only thing they can do is ignore you.))

Dante was wheezing along at the back of the group. This whole thing was stupid and lame and "hike across the island" challenges were so completely mainstream by now. He wasn't particularly impressed with any of his team mates.

"You guys," he said, pausing to pull out his inhaler, "The cave isn't going to be some itty bitty hole in the ground. Did any of you even WATCH the show?"

He took a puff of the inhaler, then turned to look at Victoria. She had apparently traded in sighing constantly for talking at an inappropriate volume. He would've preferred the sighing. "You know, you don't have to shout. We're all standing about three feet away. What do you want?"

"Well, if your looking for a game plan, you should think as simply as possible. In the movies, the more intricate the plan, the more ways it can go wrong. I've seen enough romantic comedies to know that the most simple and strongest emotion is love. I think that everyone here has predicted Dakota to be the guardian, but another possible past contestant is Sierra.", Shane stated with the most confidence he could muster.

"The other thing that Dakota and Sierra have in common, other than being extremly scary, is that they are both in love. If we yell out Cody or Sam's name when the guardian is in hearing distance, it is a safe bet they will go looking for him. Then, we could walk right into the cave and find our mascot!"

Emily nodded in agreement. "That'll work, but should we, like, dress someone up as Sam or Cody in case they don't believe us? They could run off and distract the guardian.

OOC: Okay, I asked staff, and they totally gave us permission to do this if you guys want to.

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"We wouldn't have to dress one of US as bait," Dante said with a grin, "We just need to sneak up behind the Ducks and grab that Hector kid. He's as short as Cody is."

"If it's a bear," Emily started. "Then let's try not to hurt it, okay?" She didn't want to have to hurt an animal on the first challenge. Maybe the second, but the first one? No.

Since it seemed that everyone seemed to be in agreement on the 'ditch our morals and use a human being as bait' plan she just sighed, and scuffed the ground with her foot. "Fine. Who's gonna get him then." She asked, subdued.