Team Ranged (Challenge of the Living Dead) CLOSED
mrtentaclenun
Posts: 174 Member
Hey Team!
This thread is going to be our main thread throughout the whole challenge so make sure to comment/bookmark it/whatever you need to do to not lose it.
I should hope by now all of you have sent acowboykid your starting weights. If you have not, please do so ASAP because we are booting people if we don't get their weights by midnight!!
First I want to welcome everyone to the team. I am glad to have all of you and hope to do my best as captain to keep you guys on track, completing your challenges (there are a lot of interesting challenges coming your way!) Make sure you add one another to help keep the support system and motivation!
The team roster is:
1. [CAPTAIN] mrtentaclenun
2. sbrown6
3. glittermouse
4. LadyTep
5. mousumi30
6. sweetseraph7
7. jenfunfur
8. WinnieX
9. egallelli
10. ladychi306
11. nikki8marie
12. ericjcook
13. SpaceMarkus
14. beckyard
15. MakinMoves
Secondly, here is the graphic for our team if you are interested (don't forget to change IMG to img):
I am only going to say this once: If I see any negative talk or anyone talking down to someone (be it for not completing a challenge or not losing weight one week) I will NOT tolerate it! You will be booted from the team, and there are plenty of people waiting to take your place. This is a positive environment (even if we are trying to escape a zombie invasion) and I want it to stay that way for everyone.
Here is the link to the main thread: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/286830-challenge-of-the-living-dead-closed
CHALLENGE FOR WEEK ONE:
Tue 07/12/11 06:00 AM
Word isn't working for me at the moment so please excuse any spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes and such because I'm not a writer lol. Its a bit long as an intro but it is to set the mood, other challenge posts will have more gore, be more exciting and much shorter unless you guys dig it. [I would like to go shorter though and not have it as story-e and much more like do ____ to survive but eh, figured this can be wordy as the first one]. I also shifted it a little because I began to think about it... I wouldn't save anyone. So I just threw all fifteen individuals into the same room instead of having half of them in one place and another half in another. Hope you kiddies don't mind.
DON'T FEEL OBLIGATED TO READ 'THE STORY'
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THE STORY --
Just under a month ago you had heard the first little bits of broken rumors of muggings and people being assaulted. It didn't take long for the rumors to evolve into riots in small villages and towns but media coverage was severely limited. Everything was hushed and because of that it was easily dismissed with the hustle and bustle of your daily life. Local news stations began to subtly warn citizens to stay indoors around dusk and after dark, to keep their windows and doors locked and to avoid people behaving strangely in the area. Eventually it shifted to avoiding those you even knew on the street. Then slowly the media began to try and dismiss the precautions as packs of wild dogs that had moved into the area suspected of carrying rabies and that all individuals behaving 'strangely' should be sent to the near by hospital. Except there were no dogs on the streets. Most of the animals you encountered in your daily life began to behave strangely. Even the wild birds in the area no longer sang or fluttered about merrily instead they watched almost uneasily from above. People even began to behave differently as well. Some individuals seemed to grow pale and sick as they tried to press on with their daily lives, others just up and disappeared while missing posters fluttered on telephone poles and the occasional street corner, even a very small percentage of people seemed to be shunning away from society and refused to speak to anyone while the majority of others, such as yourself, continued on with daily comings and goings you were accustomed to. Little did you know.
About seven days ago the news began to shift to a darker tone rather than just simply dogs and muggings. Riots were breaking out in cities nearby, police sirens sounded at all hours of the day and night. But then one day it wasn't in the news anymore, it was out on your street breaking in your front door...
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JULY 11TH
The crackling of the radio while someone attempted to tune in a channel helped dull the sound of a girl sobbing in the corner. How you ended up here in this room amongst these people trapped watching the world around you being ripped apart seemed nothing more than a blur. All fifteen of you were up trapped on the 10th story of a hotel in a large storage room with only one window that provided your only light and view looking out over the parking lot and over the city. You could see the ghouls everywhere. Screams of those not yet dead echoed through the city as the monsters ravaged them. A car's siren sounded in the distance no doubt from one of the creatures bumping into it. Occasionally their dull moans caught the wind and were carried up towards you, the sound sending shivers down your spine.
Occasionally you'd see a living person dart across some lawn or between buildings but none seemed to survive through the city for long. The only other sign of life you saw was a building a few miles over which shined brilliantly with flickering lights as if lit up from the inside. There had to be someone there because every night it was plugged in again and every day a large bed sheet dropped from the balcony. Surely the sheet had words written on it except, unfortunately, the distance made it impossible to decipher. Other than the mysterious lights in the distance the only other sign of life had been the radio which now was mainly static. A day ago the radio was still airing one broadcast. A man claimed he was locked in there and was surrounded. Despite his desperation it was at least comforting to know that you and these people were not the the last people not being ravaged by these ghouls. Well, until a few hours ago when the man's ramblings to himself and his listeners were interrupted by a moan and cry. One of the other members of the party changed the channel before you could hear anymore.
Suddenly you all had heard the voice and they attempted to tune back into the channel. The sobbing subsided and all listened. "...you are not alone... zzztt-safety is near. Please reach us... safety... food, protection... zzzt... last chance... evacuation.... zzzzzzttttz... shhhhhhhhhhhhhh... only ten individuals... shhhhzt... shhhhhh zzzzzt ... Repeat! Last ch -shhh... final evacuation is -sszzzt- October 24th... shhhhhhhhzt...shhhhh... decontamination will leave no survi-shhhhh ztshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhzt."
Suddenly then the room erupted into conversation.
"No survivors!" someone cried.
"We can't go out there!" Shouted another.
Another collection of individuals near the window stated how it would be the only option.
"Its either stay here and die or leave and have a fighting chance!" Those words echoed through the room and everyone fell silent. Everyone knew nobody would be looking for them so the only option was to look for somebody else.
"We should find the others," a woman said and pointed out across the room to the window towards the flickering room a building away.
"No!" Snapped someone and the room erupted again into conversation.
"We can't just leave them to die."
"Everyone is dead already!" Then someone stepped up calmly and stated "There is a hunting store a couple blocks past that building, we could at least use the weapons and see if there is anyone." Murmurs continued but everyone knew that the storage room would offer little for weaponry and that that location would need to be visited regardless of if the people above would be saved or not.
After about an hour of discussion it was settled the group would leave at first light.
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THE CHALLENGE --- JULY 12TH
Alright guys, it took me long enough to come up with this little intro/back story. Here is our first challenge! Its pretty basic since all you're really doing is leaving your building and we don't know everyone's fitness level yet. Hopefully won't be too difficult for everyone so we can do fun stuff next round. So the challenge today is to climb stairs. Not the most exciting but your team is leaving your building and since this is a challenge I added a couple more steps. I figured since this is our first challenge we'll still go easy though and shoot for 300 stairs per day which results in 1800 per week (with a days break seeing as this is the first week). I initially wanted to do 400-500 flights with a couple miles thrown in there but we'll save that for a later date =] Everyone should have access to some form of stair/stair climber/flight of stairs/step up stair thing/etc and if not please contact me or mrtentaclenun.
Remember you don't have to do them all at once that day but completing your weekly stair amount faster than other makes your team look better and might just earn you bonus points. If someone does the most stairs and goes above and beyond the other survivors in the challenge then they will earn their team extra points on the challenge department!
Give me some feedback about what you guys think for challenges and how I tried to set up the scenario. I'm expecting things to get better later on once the chaos of the first week goes away. Zombie killing will begin once we begin strength challenges next week =3
WEEK 1 // ESCAPE THE BUILDING [ STAIR CHALLENGE 1 ]
Tues 300/0
Weds 300/0
Thurs 300/0
Fri 300/0
Sat 300/0
Sun 300/0
Total 1800/0
I know you will all do great, so lets get these stairs done and beat the other teams to safety!!! GO TEAM RANGED!!!!
This thread is going to be our main thread throughout the whole challenge so make sure to comment/bookmark it/whatever you need to do to not lose it.
I should hope by now all of you have sent acowboykid your starting weights. If you have not, please do so ASAP because we are booting people if we don't get their weights by midnight!!
First I want to welcome everyone to the team. I am glad to have all of you and hope to do my best as captain to keep you guys on track, completing your challenges (there are a lot of interesting challenges coming your way!) Make sure you add one another to help keep the support system and motivation!
The team roster is:
1. [CAPTAIN] mrtentaclenun
2. sbrown6
3. glittermouse
4. LadyTep
5. mousumi30
6. sweetseraph7
7. jenfunfur
8. WinnieX
9. egallelli
10. ladychi306
11. nikki8marie
12. ericjcook
13. SpaceMarkus
14. beckyard
15. MakinMoves
Secondly, here is the graphic for our team if you are interested (don't forget to change IMG to img):
I am only going to say this once: If I see any negative talk or anyone talking down to someone (be it for not completing a challenge or not losing weight one week) I will NOT tolerate it! You will be booted from the team, and there are plenty of people waiting to take your place. This is a positive environment (even if we are trying to escape a zombie invasion) and I want it to stay that way for everyone.
Here is the link to the main thread: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/286830-challenge-of-the-living-dead-closed
CHALLENGE FOR WEEK ONE:
Tue 07/12/11 06:00 AM
Word isn't working for me at the moment so please excuse any spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes and such because I'm not a writer lol. Its a bit long as an intro but it is to set the mood, other challenge posts will have more gore, be more exciting and much shorter unless you guys dig it. [I would like to go shorter though and not have it as story-e and much more like do ____ to survive but eh, figured this can be wordy as the first one]. I also shifted it a little because I began to think about it... I wouldn't save anyone. So I just threw all fifteen individuals into the same room instead of having half of them in one place and another half in another. Hope you kiddies don't mind.
DON'T FEEL OBLIGATED TO READ 'THE STORY'
----
THE STORY --
Just under a month ago you had heard the first little bits of broken rumors of muggings and people being assaulted. It didn't take long for the rumors to evolve into riots in small villages and towns but media coverage was severely limited. Everything was hushed and because of that it was easily dismissed with the hustle and bustle of your daily life. Local news stations began to subtly warn citizens to stay indoors around dusk and after dark, to keep their windows and doors locked and to avoid people behaving strangely in the area. Eventually it shifted to avoiding those you even knew on the street. Then slowly the media began to try and dismiss the precautions as packs of wild dogs that had moved into the area suspected of carrying rabies and that all individuals behaving 'strangely' should be sent to the near by hospital. Except there were no dogs on the streets. Most of the animals you encountered in your daily life began to behave strangely. Even the wild birds in the area no longer sang or fluttered about merrily instead they watched almost uneasily from above. People even began to behave differently as well. Some individuals seemed to grow pale and sick as they tried to press on with their daily lives, others just up and disappeared while missing posters fluttered on telephone poles and the occasional street corner, even a very small percentage of people seemed to be shunning away from society and refused to speak to anyone while the majority of others, such as yourself, continued on with daily comings and goings you were accustomed to. Little did you know.
About seven days ago the news began to shift to a darker tone rather than just simply dogs and muggings. Riots were breaking out in cities nearby, police sirens sounded at all hours of the day and night. But then one day it wasn't in the news anymore, it was out on your street breaking in your front door...
--
JULY 11TH
The crackling of the radio while someone attempted to tune in a channel helped dull the sound of a girl sobbing in the corner. How you ended up here in this room amongst these people trapped watching the world around you being ripped apart seemed nothing more than a blur. All fifteen of you were up trapped on the 10th story of a hotel in a large storage room with only one window that provided your only light and view looking out over the parking lot and over the city. You could see the ghouls everywhere. Screams of those not yet dead echoed through the city as the monsters ravaged them. A car's siren sounded in the distance no doubt from one of the creatures bumping into it. Occasionally their dull moans caught the wind and were carried up towards you, the sound sending shivers down your spine.
Occasionally you'd see a living person dart across some lawn or between buildings but none seemed to survive through the city for long. The only other sign of life you saw was a building a few miles over which shined brilliantly with flickering lights as if lit up from the inside. There had to be someone there because every night it was plugged in again and every day a large bed sheet dropped from the balcony. Surely the sheet had words written on it except, unfortunately, the distance made it impossible to decipher. Other than the mysterious lights in the distance the only other sign of life had been the radio which now was mainly static. A day ago the radio was still airing one broadcast. A man claimed he was locked in there and was surrounded. Despite his desperation it was at least comforting to know that you and these people were not the the last people not being ravaged by these ghouls. Well, until a few hours ago when the man's ramblings to himself and his listeners were interrupted by a moan and cry. One of the other members of the party changed the channel before you could hear anymore.
Suddenly you all had heard the voice and they attempted to tune back into the channel. The sobbing subsided and all listened. "...you are not alone... zzztt-safety is near. Please reach us... safety... food, protection... zzzt... last chance... evacuation.... zzzzzzttttz... shhhhhhhhhhhhhh... only ten individuals... shhhhzt... shhhhhh zzzzzt ... Repeat! Last ch -shhh... final evacuation is -sszzzt- October 24th... shhhhhhhhzt...shhhhh... decontamination will leave no survi-shhhhh ztshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhzt."
Suddenly then the room erupted into conversation.
"No survivors!" someone cried.
"We can't go out there!" Shouted another.
Another collection of individuals near the window stated how it would be the only option.
"Its either stay here and die or leave and have a fighting chance!" Those words echoed through the room and everyone fell silent. Everyone knew nobody would be looking for them so the only option was to look for somebody else.
"We should find the others," a woman said and pointed out across the room to the window towards the flickering room a building away.
"No!" Snapped someone and the room erupted again into conversation.
"We can't just leave them to die."
"Everyone is dead already!" Then someone stepped up calmly and stated "There is a hunting store a couple blocks past that building, we could at least use the weapons and see if there is anyone." Murmurs continued but everyone knew that the storage room would offer little for weaponry and that that location would need to be visited regardless of if the people above would be saved or not.
After about an hour of discussion it was settled the group would leave at first light.
----
THE CHALLENGE --- JULY 12TH
Alright guys, it took me long enough to come up with this little intro/back story. Here is our first challenge! Its pretty basic since all you're really doing is leaving your building and we don't know everyone's fitness level yet. Hopefully won't be too difficult for everyone so we can do fun stuff next round. So the challenge today is to climb stairs. Not the most exciting but your team is leaving your building and since this is a challenge I added a couple more steps. I figured since this is our first challenge we'll still go easy though and shoot for 300 stairs per day which results in 1800 per week (with a days break seeing as this is the first week). I initially wanted to do 400-500 flights with a couple miles thrown in there but we'll save that for a later date =] Everyone should have access to some form of stair/stair climber/flight of stairs/step up stair thing/etc and if not please contact me or mrtentaclenun.
Remember you don't have to do them all at once that day but completing your weekly stair amount faster than other makes your team look better and might just earn you bonus points. If someone does the most stairs and goes above and beyond the other survivors in the challenge then they will earn their team extra points on the challenge department!
Give me some feedback about what you guys think for challenges and how I tried to set up the scenario. I'm expecting things to get better later on once the chaos of the first week goes away. Zombie killing will begin once we begin strength challenges next week =3
WEEK 1 // ESCAPE THE BUILDING [ STAIR CHALLENGE 1 ]
Tues 300/0
Weds 300/0
Thurs 300/0
Fri 300/0
Sat 300/0
Sun 300/0
Total 1800/0
I know you will all do great, so lets get these stairs done and beat the other teams to safety!!! GO TEAM RANGED!!!!
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Good ideas! Glad to hear that negative talk won't be tolerated.
With that said, GO TEAM RANGED!
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Hey, everyone! Feel free to add me. (I'll try to send requests in the morning).
Let's kick some raggedy zombie butt
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Very awesome! I have a 4 or 5 stair step on my patio so I will be up and down those this week 0
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I know just where to get about 200 feet of stairs, too.0
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Ahh...just got back from the gym...did some great work....but NO STAIRS...hahaha...I wish I checked the challenge BEFORE I left. No worries, I'll just have to hit my stairs at home today!
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Stairs - done!! woo.. (don't know how to log it though as did it on my bottom step in the house not @ the gym!)0
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Wow WinnieX, way to knock out those stairs! Make sure you let acowboykid know you're done already, I know she was thinking of giving bonuses if you finish early. Not sure about logging, I guess just log it as stair climber?0
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300 steps on the wii fit completed, roll on tomorrow when i can fit it into my workout properly 0
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300 steps on the wii fit completed, roll on tomorrow when i can fit it into my workout properly
p.s
i'm in the UK so i'm a bit out of sync if it's monday evening what time is it with you. Confused whether i'm ahead or behind
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Just FYI for the unnamed team (you know.. the zombies...) There are about 200k calories in the average human being.0
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jenfunfur it is tuesday, 2pm for both acowboykid and myself. I guess that means your weigh ins will be sunday night? You'll have to ask acowboykid.0
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308 Steps completed for me today! Whoop!
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308 Steps completed for me today! Whoop!
Go Team Ranged!
Same exact for me! (14 steps on my staircase...) hahaha
Awesome!
TEAM RANGED will be getting out of this HUGE building soon!0 -
300 steps done for day 1 (7/12). Have a question though. are we counting one way as one step or both ways? I have 4 steps on my patio I used tonight so is up and down equaling me 8 steps? or every time i go up 4 equaling 4 steps? **hope that makes sense** 0
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650/1800 steps completed, come on guys lets really push it & smash this challenge. Gotta get out of this building quick time0
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I went around at school like a crazy person, mutter to myself, scribbling notes on a piece of paper, shaking my head and scratching it out. I'd walk halfway up a set of stairs and stop and count them, sometimes backing down a set to climb up it again before making another note on my paper.
I spent the day figuring out how many steps there are between each floor in each of the two buildings. (I forgot about the stairs near the playground!) And I counted the stairs between floorst in my apartment building. (If there is another stair challenge, I am prepared!)
Also, I've decided to clip a notecard and pen to my lanyard/ID at work so I can mark off how many stairs I get in. I don't trust my memory.0 -
I love a good double post, don't you? :blushing:0
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650/1800 steps completed, come on guys lets really push it & smash this challenge. Gotta get out of this building quick time
So is that what we mean about finishing early? If we can count more than the 300 a day that will be awesome. Looking for some stadium steps today to go tomorrow 0 -
Hey guys,
In case you didn't see acowboykid's update in the main thread, the stairs only count going up them not down! So make sure you are keeping track correctly.
Keep it up team! We are ALL doing amazing, we will be done in not time!0 -
Missed doing stairs on Tuesday. Didn't see the main thread where the groups had changed. Soooo I'm going to catch up today and do 600. Did 150 before breakfast. Made myself a stair-step using books and duct tape so i don't have to spend all day outside in 100 degree heat climbing my one porch step lol0
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600 steps done, straight after spin class-- hard!!0
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Today's steps completed 300/300 0
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Got my 300 in for the day! 300/1800 so far!0
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AWESOME WORK TEAM RANGED!
For Me: Tuesday / 308, Wednesday / 468
& ONLY 1024 Stairs Left To Get Out Of This Building!!!
Side Note: This Challenge Has Already Motivated Me To Keep My Weight Loss Going...Just Imagine If I Was REALLY Running Up These Steps For My Life!
Keep Up The Great Work Everyone!!!!0 -
Tues 300/0 (couldn't start until wed. darn time zones)
Weds 300/ 243
Thurs 300/325 <-planning to get some more in tonight.
Fri 300/0
Sat 300/0
Sun 300/0
Total 1800/ 568
Hey, guys. I'm sorry I'm lagging. I'm gonna try to make up for lost time tonight. I'm thinking study for 45 minutes, 15 minutes of using my aerobic step. Repeat until bed time.
Anyone else really excited to see what the next challege will be and how the story moves forward?
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been on the step for the last 30min watching cookery programmes Todays total is 890 steps so thats 1540/1800 will be doing same again tomorrow. Team Range gonna win this! 0
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Tues 300/0 (couldn't start until wed. darn time zones)
Weds 300/ 243
Thurs 300/475
Fri 300/0
Sat 300/0
Sun 300/0
Total 1800/ 7180 -
I need to step it out here - I'm lagging behind!
I think I will do the steps tonight after the kiddies are in bed!0 -
tues 52/300
wed 350/300
thurs 398/300 <-- plan on doing more!
fri 0/300
sat 0/300
sun 0/300
tot 800/18000 -
ATTENTION: Challenge of the Living Dead members: Weigh in's are do by Monday at 9PM!!! And no later! This will not be a weekly thing, however I make the spreadsheets and track loss etc and Tuesday I fly out to Michigan and will have zero time to make/post the sheets. If I do not have you weights by the time I finish the spreadsheets you will be put as +1lb. If you cannot give it to me Monday for whatever reason, please weigh in Sunday. Also: Be sure to tell me how many stairs you did when you weigh in!! Thank you guys!!!0
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