2nd adventure Monday 18 July 2011:

"Red Elephant"

- Princess needs to answer a question for her homework (weak I know - was a long day at work), only the red elephant who lives on the white house has the answer

Lesson: prepare/have collection of less lame ideas available

- Question was nonsense "what is the shnubble of the woo?"
Lesson: Kids give even less of a toss about the sanity of quest hooks than WoW players

- They walk there, they pass a tree with bananas on it at Helm's deep (gap made by chair and big orange pillow)

- Do you want to take the banans? Yes

Lesson: You can pick stuff up along the way

- Get jumped by a frog for combat

Lesson: need tougher enemies

- Reach white house, it is too tall to climb

- You (players, not chars) have to build stairs (Lego Duplo) to get up the top

Lesson: increase options for using stuff

- Play out encounter with elephant (elephant wants a kiss from each for the answer, they automatically kissed with figures)

- Answer to question is "Bong"

Lesson: Man, really prepare something before

- On way back get jumped by two monkeys at helms deep

- They would have fought them right away, only pointed prompting reminded them about use of bananas

Lesson: Kids are as bad as adults when it comes to rushing into a fight

Lesson: You can use stuff you picked up

Lesson: you don't always need to fight everyone

- Once home closeout with princess

- Had forgotten answer word

Lesson: Nonsense stuff is much harder to remember

Duration = under 25 minutes