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The Height of Misfortune: The Outdoor Odyssey
A Specialized Crisis Committee
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When a mistake leads to micro-sized brains and bodies, delegates will have to fight, adapt, and survive the treacherous lands of a human home. Loosely based on the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, delegates will arrive at a lively house party and guided house tour, only for a malfunctioning shrink ray to send the group hurtling into a new world: a seemingly endless backyard that’s suddenly transformed into a towering wilderness. With the help of each other and unlikely companions, the survivors will have to traverse an open yard as well as an untamed home to reverse their mini curse. Although the world may suddenly be small, the issues faced will be anything but pocket sized. Each human will have no choice but to face the consequences of their own real world actions throughout the weekend. Pollution, climate change, and invasive predators will force the room to fight to keep up with each problem leveled at them. Paired with a mini companion of either a rodent, amphibian, reptile, or insect, this RPG style crisis committee will put both creativity and problem solving to the test. Throughout the course of this journey, skills will grow through challenges on paper and in room but watch out, if the aptitude of the delegate cannot support the solution to a crisis, it will be forcibly failed. Will this band of tiny survivors get to ride their sidekicks to safety or will they fall short, just like their new bodies? In a world where every puddle is an ocean, and every patch of grass a forest, only those willing to cooperate, learn, and persevere will live on. Delegates must decide if they will rise above the consequences of humanity's transgressions or become another causality of their own mistakes. When everything is larger than life, the question isn’t whether the world is too big but if they are brave enough to face everything in it. In this life even the tiniest of heroes can change the world. So be prepared to do exactly that.
About the Committee
About the Director
Clara Roman is a third year Environmental Engineering major and UF Model UN’s head of Crisis Member Development. It’s her third year on the University of Florida's team and second time directing collegiately. Her most enjoyable and invigorating experience within this entire global organization was easily directing at the former SUNMUN IV. The creativity from both staffers and delegates made the experience unforgettable. In addition to devoting her time to competitions, she spends her free time reading manhwa and manga, as well as watching anime, and playing video games. These three forms of media were the direct inspiration for the mechanics and story of this crisis committee. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, That Time I Turned into a Slime, Balatro, and Stray occupied most of her time this past summer and made it easy to create a unique, eccentric, and adventurous room. Some may say stories get in the way of reality but she believes they only strengthen the person who lives in it. While Clara often spends her time in front of a computer, she also enjoys the outdoors and all the life it welcomes. As the final boss of touching grass, some may even joke she takes tree hugging to the next level by being a committed, decade long vegetarian. She felt it was important to add animal companions to the room to showcase the importance of all life, no matter how insignificant it may seem. To be on the same level as the very bug you saw squished an hour prior forces each delegate to learn to value the importance of nature. Being shrunken down means needing to earn the trust of each bug and rodent, same as any other regular, sentient animal. Clara believes in making the world a better place by starting from the ground up, figuratively and literally. Even the little guys of this world deserve support and what better way to give it to them than to become one yourself.