The Sahelian

Mission Impossible was really fun. It started with everyone going into the dining hall. Mr. Bliss read over the rules. When he was done our team got together and talked for a minute. This is the concept of the Game: There are two teams of Spies (students) and one team of Enemy Agents (staff). The first order of business is to find your team’s Pick up and Drop off point as well as bombs that are randomly hidden around campus. At the pick up point each team member receives a microfilm (and occasionally a clue to help find important bombs worth many points or a water grenade that can temporarily take out an Enemy Agent). You must then successfully deliver that microfilm to your team’s drop off point. Easy, right? Not so simple; for there are enemy agents out to catch you in the process. If you get caught by them you have to hand over your “life” (wrist band) and any other effects they ask for and go back to base to get a new “life”. To safely pass by an enemy agent, you have to dodge their ball or hit them first with one of the water balloons that are passed out to your team every 10 minutes or so at your pick up point. For the first 20 minutes or so, spies were running around in confusion. I felt like a chicken with it’s head cut off as I dodged enemy agents in search for our pick up and drop off points. Once we found them, we weren’t running crazy anymore. We ran back and forth from pick up to drop off so many times. Finally Mr. Bliss called us all in. He announced what each team had managed to secure at their drop off points and then the totals of both teams. The other team shouted for joy; they had outdone us by 9 points. ~Noah & Andrew

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