Story Post: Yggdrasil Challenge: Raising Hel
Summary: Odin has entrusted you with the task of bringing Baldr back from Hel. After he gives you Sleipnir, you ride off through the dark valleys. When you arrive at the Gjoll river, you find that Modgud is guarding the bridge. You must find some way across the bridge.
Challenge Rating: 3
Reward: You pass the bridge safely and find Hel. You are able to convince her to release Baldr on one condition: every being in the world will weep for him. Upon returning to Odin with the news, everyone weeps for Baldr except for Loki. Hel then refuses to release Baldr. For your troubles, Odin awards you 10 Acorns and 2 Experience.
Penalty: You return to Odin who is clearly unhappy with your failure. He sentences you to stay in Folkvangr until the end of the next skirmish, at which time you will be returned to your original owner.
Clucky: he/him
Oscar Wilde uses his Scholasticism to try and pass the challenge. To pass the challenge, he pulls out the Berkeley Gold Medal he earned at Trinity College and tosses it into the air. He dells the Modgud gaurding the bridge, “If I call how this medal will land when I toss it in the air, you will let me pass”. Modgud agrees.
The Berkley Gold Medal is a coin of solid gold measuring five inches in radius and half a inch think. He applies a force of 50 N in a pure upward direction and a torque of 5 N M to the coin, causing it to spin around the x-axis as it flies into the air. While it is in the air, Oscar mentally does the physics and calls out “heads”...