Well, this is about the best shot I can give it with the people I
have... So, even though I haven't done the Medium one yet (and that
might take consulting a few tomes), I decided to get the Hard
Challenge out of the way and throw my mercy on the court. Some
knowledge of the end of the "Kaleido Star: New Wings" season will
probably be required to understand my approach.

And what is it with these "spores that will kill the world as we know
it" challenges? That's about the third or fourth year in the seven
years of the challenges that this has been thrown up, usually as the
Hard Challenge.

So, with that, *GULP!!*:

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New Year's Challenge 2008

Hard Challenge: Team "Wing and a Prayer": Michael Falkner (writer)
and Sora Naegino, Ken Robbins, and Yuri Killian from "Kaleido Star"

I was looking forward to this one the most.

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Sora, and I was so happy
to be able to do this again to see her.

Sorry to make you wait, but here's the ruling in fic form...

It was a dark and stormy night... wait wrong fic...

*moves away from the beagle on top of his doghouse with a typewriter*

It was one of those days I didn't like waking up. The only challenge
that I hadn't judged yet kept on staring me in the face. I'd seen the
Angel's Maneuver a few times, and had even tracked down a YouTube video
that showed how effective it might be... still, something wasn't
sitting right with me, and I decided I'd better double check what went
on. After a review of the interdimensional footage, I'd realized what
went wrong and went to go see the guy with the Zap-I-Tron 3000...

Michael: Whoa! You just appeared out of nowhere!

And, so, finally, for the first time, I think...

You have put up a New Year's Challenge that NO ONE PASSED...

Mike

On 2008-03-21 20:46:01 -0500, starcade@yahoo.com said:

Well, the main reason you didn't pass was the fact that part of the
challenge was to aid in the rounding up of everyone, and only when that
was done to cure people. I realize that you summoned only 3 ordinary,
well... non-superpowered, people, but you went straight to the cure,
and then sent them home. I hated to rule-lawyer this one, so close...

On Mar 22, 6:14 am, Bill Martin hotmail.com> wrote:

Only had a week!! And I counted on a full quarantine to take care of
that for me.

(Not realizing that the San Francisco Police Dept. is completely
incapable of realistically enforcing anything approaching "law" even
in real life...)

But is that a first? A full fail by everyone attempting a challenge??

Mike

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:33:37 -0700 (PDT), starcade@yahoo.com wrote:

No, it's actually rare for anyone to pass the Hard Challenge.

On 2008-03-23 10:30:17 -0500, robkelk@deadspam.com (Rob Kelk) said:

Not necessarily my question.

Is this the first year that all attempting players have failed a
challenge, Hard or otherwise??

Mike

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:57:25 -0700 (PDT), starcade@yahoo.com wrote:

No. Everybody failed the "threadfall" challenge in 2004.