Tuesday, June 14th

Today the ITs attacking us with full force! They are a lot bigger then yesterday and much more cunning, our Guard-its can do very little against this group of ITs. We the innocent interns are left out in the open with no defense. Our challenge today given to us by Phil was to create a "den" (fort), that can hold all 15 of us and be able to protect us from attacking ITs. We immediately discussed possibilities to where the den could be placed. We decided on a location that had 3 fallen trees that created a triangle and had natural defenses such as Devil's Walkingstick. We cleared out the center of the triangle, set up booby traps to catch the its, made sure we had escape routes incase things started to go downhill. We also built a roof for our den out of tarps that protected us from flying ITs. The ITs sent a small attacking force made of two old ITs to try and destroy our humble abode. The first IT made it through our first line of defense but got boxed in a clever trap that included a beautiful skylight. The second IT evaded all our defenses but our escaped routes were used to our advantage. Needless to say our den was very successful.


In the afternoon we traveled to Pea Island National Refuge, our trip was great. The sun was shining, the wind was blowing, and there was a sense of joy in the air. Little did we know that the Air and Sea ITs were creeping on us! Brave our expert IT tracker noticed them creeping about and informed us about their dangers. Phil issued a challenge to create a talisman that would deter both the Air and Sea ITs at the same time. We attacked this challenge from many different angles, some went to the top of the dunes to search for drift wood. Some took tools and attacked the sand to create a trench to protect from the Sea ITs, this also doubled as a deterrent fro the Air ITs because we placed shells to make it look like a mouth.

Working together to create the talisman

Some of us went to the beach front and created a path for the ITs to follow out of the water out towards the sand dunes and then back into the water. Doing this would confuse the small brained ITs. We also created sand people that could be used as bait. The coolest thing we created that deterred the ITs the most was a series of tall pieces of drift wood stuck into the ground and then having a pattern drawn in the sand around them. It looks like a face from the air so the Air ITs will definitely not want to attack this area. The biggest challenge we had was putting into the sand a LONG LONG piece of drift wood that was taller then any one piece of wood that I have ever seen before. It took an act of congress to get that wood into the sand.

it stands alone

After this wonderful experience we all sat in a circle along the beach and reflected, spoke freely, and enjoyed each others company. Today was absolutely wonderful, we grew together as a team, worked through two challenges that we completed with flying colors, and most importantly no one got attacked by an IT.
-Assir Abushouk