Challenge #1--Freaky Frogs

Selene ran back and forth ahead of the group like an excited dog, zig-zagging along the path. She paused to chase a squirrel up a tree, then crashed through the bushes on the other side after a rabbit, before looping around and returning to the rest of the team, leaves stuck in her pigtails.

"I saw a squirrel. I chased it. Are guardians big? Will we have to fight it? Will it be fun? I want it to be fun. I like having fun."

Mick quickly followed in confusion. "For the Beatles, guitar, and the Freaky Frogs!" He charged with his fellow teammates.

"Maybe I could serenade her with my awesome guitar skills?" suggested Mick. Mick continued walking down the path. "I mean even monsters adore music right?" Mick said.

Mick really had to use the restroom now and his teeth were really bothering him. He started to get an insane feeling of wanting to smash his guitar. "I must hold it in" he whispered to himself. "Not to mention my urine I also have to hold in."

"I'm sure she adores music, but we'll need a distraction a bit harder to immediately turn away from," Timothy told Mick. "Perhaps if she was a squirrel, we could have Selene attack her until we've got the mascot. Chris can't legally kill us, according to my contract at least, so once we get our mascot and win, Selene and the rest of us should all be able to return safely, right?"

He mulled over the thoughts for a few minutes before adding, "Besides, even mutated, Dakota-zoid is still going to be easier to fight than Izzy or feral Ezekiel, I imagine. She still has a shred of sanity, after all. So if Selene thinks she's a squirrel and can fight her off long enough for us to grab the mascot and go, we should win and we should all come out safe."

Timothy considered things before contributing positively, "And even if we don't win, we don't have to lose. Second place is as good as first in terms of voting someone off. And if all of the mascots are in the same cave, protected by Dakota-zoid, we'll be able to see how far the other teams are. If both of them are getting ahead of us, we fight to pull above whichever one we can."

Timothy didn't object to the idea entirely or immediately, thinking to himself. "I didn't," he informed her. "And I didn't want any of my teammates to get punished, so I didn't suggest it. We are working together, right? If someone uses their phone, Chris could punish them or the entire team for that matter. We're on camera 24/7,in case you've forgotten. So no, I didn't suggest that plan because I was hoping we could all win fairly," he told her at last, trying to keep his voice at a polite, informative tone, without snapping at her.



(OOC: I find it funny that when Cheryl left, her confessional involved letting Selene rush in and get attacked first, which is what Timothy is suggesting now, but in your post, she said that the ideas so far had been "ridiculous" and "idiotic". XD Is that just Cheryl's usual way of thinking?)

Kristopher looked at his team and sighed.He was two inches behind his team. The arguement was a lot for him to handle. He started to stress but he kept moving he cuaght up to his team he was right behind Mick.

Cheryl looked at the other teammates, leaning upon a tree that seemed reasonably safe. "And who said we were supposed to let Chris see it?" Cheryl argued. "If say, Chris did see it, then we're punished. If not, we get off scot-free. Chris can't always catch us, and in the previous seasons, several people have cheated, yet they were let off."

She sighed. "And Timothy, you're going to be no less guilty if you allowed the approval of my plan. 'Accessory' would be the correct term; one person or several assist in the committing of a crime. And if you still don't feel good about it, then you can choose to eliminate me."

"Then she'd likely kill that person when she caught up to them and realized it was fake. It's like waving a piece of plastic coated in perfume in front of a rabid dog, luring it away as far as you can, but when it finally catches you and sees that the meat is fake, it will likely attack the person who held it," Timothy pointed out to Ben, then turned back at Cheryl.

"People only managed cheating to make the game more interesting. And there have only been a few times that it was even allowed then. I'll do it if most of the team agrees, knowing the risks." He rolled his eyes and sighed, "Chris will see it. There are interns and cameras around everything. The odds we won't be seen are very slim, knowing we all agreed to be on camera 24/7.

"I believe using a cell phone could work, I just dislike the risks. We should all get a say in whether or not we use it since it could hurt us all," Timothy told her. "I hope that last bit, at least, seems reasonable to you."

Cheryl must think she was the smartest one here and was hardly listening to anyone besides herself. The plan to use a phone and get one person to take the blame if things went wrong was good,since it put someone besides herself in Dakota's path, but voicing out loud that she's okay with cheating if they could get away with it was too rash. It reminded him somewhat of Courtney, actually. Bossy, overconfident, openly willing to do whatever it takes to win, and a little rude.

He'd do it if everyone would. So that if things went wrong, everyone would be aware she had ruined the challenge, to some degree, for the team and that he had opposed the plan for the safety of everyone. And also stating that he could vote her off if he wanted was a rash move. It opens the door for everyone else to do the same if something went wrong. She clearly hadn't considered this before putting it out in front of everyone.

Soon after, he said, "What if we used Sam against her? Remember how quickly she ran off to get Sam when he was in danger in TDRI? We'd make her angry, but if she was far away at the time, no one would be hurt. She's still semi-human.? So she can understand us when we speak to her and she can be reasoned with. If we tell her that Chris buried Sam at some remote distance on the island to try and enrage her even more, she'll go after him, giving us time to win. If that fails, then we should use the cell phone plan, again, only if the majority agrees to the risks of that one. If both fail, then we slip out of the cave and give the other teams a chance. If they have her attention, we go in, get past Dakota-zoid while she's dealing with them, get our mascot, and leave. That's a Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C, if everyone agrees they're good ideas."

He was still waiting for Kristopher to respond, but this being a matter for the team, he had to keep his focus on the argument also. Besides, his statement to Kristopher allowed him to reply whenever he felt he had something share, not that he was speaking directly to him, so he could jump in anytime as Ben had.

(OOC: I think my posts are getting too long as the #1 rule on the forum etiquette thing. . .I'll have to keep my thoughts to a minimum on my next one. Sorry!! )

Ben shrugged his shoulders and shrank down, making himself look smaller. However, the constant glances at his watch were quickly explained when he addressed Timothy. "Look. Your name is Timothy, I think? Right?" He paused, then decided to push ahead instead of wait for an answer. "You just talked for two minutes and three seconds. While I'm impressed in your lung capacity, and I'd love to measure it sometime, this isn't speech class. I'm sure some other people might have ideas. Let's give them a chance." He cracked a small smile, trying to offset his words.



((OOC: I'd like to note that, to get that time, I spoke Timothy's dialogue out loud and timed it. Not just pulling a time out of my rear.))

Kristopher replied to Timothy. "Well its a good thought but I think we better figure something elese out. I don't want any of us getting punished." The country boy replied in his country accent.

"Maybe we should find the cave first and figure it out then." Mick said. "We could spend all day arguing on how to handle it but we'll just end up like the Beatles, broken up!, but I must admit that Barley's idea is much more agreeable." Mick continued to walk and looked around a lot more carefully.

"The easier plan for that would be to allow the other teams to go in for us, as. . ." he paused and glanced at Barley. "I'm sorry, I don't think I've gotten your name yet, but it was your plan. If we let them go in first, we can slip past them while whatever the guardian is deals with them. It will also give us time to see the guardian first so if we do have to deal with it, we'll be prepared ahead of time," Timothy stated.

Selene, meanwhile, had wandered into the bushes up ahead and been gone for a few minutes. She made a sudden re-appearance, crashing out of the underbrush ahead and running at her teammates full-tilt.

"RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN!"

Mick quickly turned to look at the bear. "Oh snap!" he yelled. He just froze there. "Please John Lennon in the sky help us..." Mick whispered.

"I didn't think my awesome guitar skills could attract a bear" Mick thought to himself. "I must be better than I thought."