Summer Camp Wednesday [The Park]

[sith_happened]

Today's beautiful weather was made for sitting outside and doing craft projects, which was good, because that's what you were doing. A number of tables were set up around the park, each filled with macrame and micro macrame--which was a thing Anakin had learned this week-- supplies: cording of various colors, beads, crystals, and other bits of shiny things (though the supplies were getting depleted as the squirrels kept stealing them), and a few macrame patterns mostly for dresses and other clothing-like items.

Even more worryingly, there was a runway set out down the middle of the area, along with two chairs set aside for judges.

"Right!" Anakin said, yelling into his bullhorn again. "Today you will be working in teams under a one-hour time limit to create a piece of macrame fashionwear. It does not have to be very large--it's not going to be for any of you to wear. The dimensions are provided at your stations, and the models will be arriving shortly."

Anyone have a bad feeling about that? Good.

"This week's winners will win the highly coveted Billy the Bass singing fish--" he glanced around. "Where'd that kriffing thing get off to?" He raised his hand and the fish, propelled by its own power and shrieking Sabatoge flew in from...somewhere.

"...that was odd." He glared at the assembled crowd. "Please refrain from stealing the fish until after the winner is determined this week. Listen carefully for your name and then join your team. You will have an hour to learn how to macrame and then your models will arrive and parade down the catwalk. The winners will be determined by our fashion experts Sparkle and Brooke. Your teams are as follows:

Paris, Seivarden, and Astrid
Peter, Sabine, and Tip
Jason, Ahsoka, and Norman
Verity, Aphra, and Rosa
Bobby, Mitsutada, and Hardison
Liam, Miguel, and Uma
Hannibal, Cristina, and Rufus
Steve, Yang, and Sidon
Amaya, Kitty, and Beaker
Hera, Kanan, and Breq
Jono, Kathy, and Rey
Eliot and Ino

You may begin...now."

And a giant glowing timer that Anakin had gotten from...somewhere... began ticking down the hour.

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Arrive and Mingle

[sith_happened]

The bleachers are back for any non-participants to enjoy, and the Mooby Burger people have now been joined by the Thai restaurant and the pizza place all selling food out of rickshaws. Grab a snack! Make a friend!

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[in_sidon_we_trust]

It didn't ever take much to get Sidon excited, of course, so it shouldn't be surprising that he was excited even for what he'd decided was pretty much fancy fish nets for various purposes. However, arriving on the scene and maybe getting a bite to eat for energy, his excitement only increased as he took in the set-up and found himself curious and thrilled to discover exactly what this was leading up to. No boats in sight, so he figured he would even be able to participate in this one!

Well, technically, he could have participated last week, too, but, yes, they'd have needed quite the boat!

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[died8yearsago]

This was....not a crime scene. It might be, if certain squirrels didn't watch themselves, but Rosa had very clearly been lead here on false pretenses by a bunch of excitable little rodents, who were scurrying away before that glare could turn into something more physical.

"You know it's against the law to make false statements about a crime, right?" she called out after them, but they were gone, for now, and even if they came back, she wouldn't be able to tell one from the other, probably, so there they were. She gave a dispirited look around, having that nausea rising up in her stomach that told her she was definitely going to be roped into this.

...roped.

Goddammit.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[myownface]

Why yes, Sparkle had stuck around after last night's party, and today's festivities promised to be like a present to him, personally, even more.

He was dressed up nicely, and had done enough googling of macramé to throw together a necktie that was thematic, if absurd.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine didn't exactly mingle. But she did find a spot to watch from the bleachers until things started, so she could check out the competition.

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[notacokeperson]

Karina had stuck around after last night's party because, well, why not?

She'd found herself here out of morbid curiosity, more than anything, and took a seat on the bleachers, ready to be invariably amused at what people who weren't her had to go through.

... Yes, she was probably going to enjoy this more than she would've as a student here.

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[gobrookeyourself]

Brooke was wearing a pretty blue homemade sash that said "JUDGE" on it as she walked around before the competition, because she was just that kind of person.

There was one for Sparkle too if he wanted it. But for now she was showing off.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[deaddadsclub]

Kitty had suggested attending the Event today, and having literally nothing better to do (no matter how hard she tried to find something), Cristina was here.

"What is this, some kind of festival or something?"

At least there was food.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[intotheout]

Tip grabbed herself some spring rolls from the Thai rickshaw and went to go scope the supplies. She'd watched some macrame youtubes over the week, and was feeling pretty confident.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[white_oleander]

At least Astrid's sunglasses actually did something today other than help her not react to things. She did cast a rueful glance to the sky, though, since she actually liked the colorful rain. Once glance at the set-up and supplies, though, and she realized she wouldn't be wanting for color.

This...could actually be kind of fun.

It was sure as hell a step up from Starburst wrapper bracelets, anyway.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[what_the_shock]

"That is...certainly something." Miguel eyed the fish.

Join Your Teams and Macrame!

[sith_happened]

You know how to macrame, right? How hard can it be to make knots? Decide on your fashion vision and get to work!

Re: Join Your Teams and Macrame!

[throughaphase]

"I once got macrame skills from a weird weekend where we all traded talents," Kitty said. "That should transfer over to here, right?"

Not how it worked, Kitty.

Re: Join Your Teams and Macrame!

[always_someone]

Norman was side-eyeing that fish so much.

So much. He'd been startled by it when he came home from work yesterday, and now its fishy face haunted him more than some ghosts he'd known.

Still, he was here, and game to participate. That was good, right?

"I don't really know what I'm doing," he admitted to his team, "but I have Google on my phone..."

Re: Join Your Teams and Macrame!

[furnaceface]

... Well, it looked like Jono was going to actually be participating this week. Which was... good, probably? He was, at least, fairly deft when it came to tying knots.

For reasons that he wasn't getting into, and also, shut up.

He'd wrapped his face mostly just to keep the flames out of his eyes so he could see what he was doing, and he was squinting at those dimensions, hoping that they weren't for exactly what he suspected they were for.

Re: Join Your Teams and Macrame!

[uncertain_dume]

Given some of the other people who were here today, Kanan couldn't help but grin as he looked at who he was teamed off with.

"Hey," he said, "this is already off to a promising start."

...

"So, what's macramé, anyway?"

Re: Join Your Teams and Macrame!

[revengenotebook]

Paris stalked over to her table with a giant piece of posterboard, already mapping out a timeline for maximum productivity. "Right, so, I know how to macrame because I learned over the weekend, but I'm not great with fashion. I wore a uniform to school every year of my life until here. Skywalker's only given us an hour, so we have to figure out what we're making in the next four and a half minutes or we'll already be behind."

Hi, team! Paris is a little intense.

Re: Join Your Teams and Macrame!

[heroic_jawline]

"I know how to tie knots from the Army," Steve said, "but not...artistically. How about you two?"

Re: Join Your Teams and Macrame!

[intraspective]

Ino did actually know how to do this. That wasn't going to stop her from squinting at the whole set up and wondering who their models were going to be.

"I'm voting we just cheat," she said cheerfully. "And steal the fish."

Since it seemed to be the in thing to do this summer.

Re: Join Your Teams and Macrame!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine thought this would be a solo thing, so she was glad she'd brought the cozies she'd gotten from Amaya. "I brought a sample, if we need."

Re: Join Your Teams and Macrame!

[jedigrammarians]

Aphra hadn't been aware of just how badly she needed that fish until it had smacked into Anakin's palm.

"Right, worst comes to we tackle Skywalker and make off with the fish during the winner's announcement."

Aphra, no.

Meet Your Models!

[sith_happened]

It's gremlins. Of course it's gremlins. And they do not want to be wearing macrame ensembles at allllllll. So...good luck with that.

[OOC: Gremlin bites and ridiculousness are encouraged here. So, so encouraged.]

Re: Meet Your Models!

[deaddadsclub]

"Oh now what the hell is that?!"

That was the little green thing with teeth that Jono had tried to warn you about, Cristina.

Do a Little Turn on the Catwalk

[sith_happened]

Threaten, cajole, bribe, mindwhammy...whatever. Just get your gremlin and its outfit down the catwalk for Brooke and Sparkle to make judgey comments about.

And be sure to describe its magnificance for the rest of us!

Re: Do a Little Turn on the Catwalk

[special_rabbit]

Macrame armor, it turned out, could actually be very cool and chic and well-dowe. Macrame armor done by a Medieval(ish) blacksmith, a pregnant mutant, and a hula-dancing muppet, however, turned out like this.

Yup. Including the wig. Honestly, once the gremlin managed to get the wig and a good chomp out of Beaker, it didn't take much to get the gremlin out of the runway, strutting its...er...um...fabulous stuff.

And the Winner Is....

[sith_happened]

Verity, Aphra, and Rosa!

Come get your terrifying fish, ladies.

[OOC: Thank you, RNG.]

Re: And the Winner Is....

[arboreal_priestess]

"Okay, what the hell happened to this thing?" Verity asked, poking at the fish with one cautious finger. "Dibs on not keeping it at my place. I don't wanna scare the mice."

OOC

[sith_happened]

Just like last week, slowplay this until the end of time!

Re: OOC

[myownface]

Just to clarify-- "Hera, Kadan, and Breq," is Kanan, right? Because it could just as easily be a typo of Kaidan and I want to be sure. xD