Appalachian Adventure Racing Camp
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Scene 9 — Lindsey
Lindsey went downstairs and marked them down for Slot 4 on the board and waved to the ladies from Team 4, they seemed really cool. Her plan crystallized in her brain with the extra minute to think. She felt herself blushing again, thinking about her proposal. ‘Oh well, at least this time I won’t be exposing myself’ she thought. The bourbon gave her a bit of extra courage.
“Alright,” she said, returning to the room and closing the door, “just to be safe let’s turn the shower on so nobody can hear us planning.” They walked into the bathroom and turned on the shower, the whole scenario felt bizarre to both - having drinks in the bathroom with the shower running - especially with their damp underwear laying around.
“I like your idea of creating a diversion. So I’m thinking we attack at the first bridge using the black paint you found. Everyone will assume that’s our main attack; we’re using a substance that’s really valuable and I bet we’ll be the only team to attack at the worst spot for an attack. They’ll think we’re being creative after the rep we earned today. Assuming we don’t get incredibly lucky with the attack, we run off in the same direction shouting to each other about a back up plan. I think there’s a pretty high chance at least one pair will pursue to keep themselves between us and the HVT. If we’re lucky maybe both pairs do.”
Lindsey felt anxious about this next part, she felt herself getting flush again, but Cal smiled encouragingly, which helped.
“Ok,” she continued, “so something you don’t know about me yet is I’m actually a pretty strong swimmer. I’m not sure if you noticed, but if we run towards the undergrowth away from the camp the stream is somewhat close to the first bridge, then angles up to where bridge two crosses it. I’m pretty sure if I can slip into the stream without anybody noticing I can get to the second bridge underwater without needing to come up for air so nobody will notice. That would leave me one on one with the personal protector to get to the HVT. I think I can hide in the mud pit and use that to attack them and hopefully win.”
Cal pondered this, trying to be objective. The idea of Lindsey swimming in the dirty creek and hiding in the mud pit was rather enticing, but he was serious about trying to win.
“I think it’s a good plan overall, I see a couple weaknesses,” he said. “The first is that everything is contingent on most of them pursuing us, if they just stick to the trail we’re screwed. The second is, we don’t know how much damage the first three teams will do, just throwing some mud at the HVT may not be enough to win. The last thing, and not trying to be weird here, is that you are going to have to get absolutely covered in mud to avoid detection. Are you sure you’re ok doing that?”
Lindsey cringed a bit internally, “Yep, I’m aware of that,” she said, looking downcast. “Good news is I do have black leggings and a black shirt I can wear, so that will help.”
“Ok nice, good day to be a brunette I guess,” Cal added.
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