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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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.

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[sharp_man]

"That," Hannibal informed her, "is a gremlin."

Should he tell her about the bites? It might be more interesting if he didn't.

"And apparently our model."

Perhaps it could be bribed to wear their clothing.

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[deaddadsclub]

"Well, someone else can dress it. I'm not a vet."

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[sharp_man]

"Nor am I," Hannibal answered. "I don't believe it would require one, but I'm certainly not attempting to tranquilize one. Do you suppose they might be bribeable, as the squirrels are?"

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[deaddadsclub]

"Do you people even listen to yourselves when you talk?"

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[sharp_man]

"Some of us," Hannibal answered. He found a squirrel gleefully taking notes and pointed at it. "Squirrels. They report on things around here."

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[meepmeepmeep]

If Beaker had learned anything in his short but dramatic life thus far, it was that if something was going to go wrong, it was going to happen to him.

Which was why he was, inexplicably, dressed in drag and doing the hula in order to lure his model over to where Kitty and Amaya would...pounce on it, or something. That part of the plan was less clear.

"MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP" he shrieked once it drew close enough, racing across the grass back to his table.

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[throughaphase]

This was not how Kitty expected her day to go.

"Umm I'm not sure I want to know what kind of long term effects a gremlin bite can have on a kid," she warned.

Where did Beaker find those clothes?

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[meepmeepmeep]

...did everyone else not carry around various changes of clothing depending on what would be hilarious at that moment? No?

"MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP", he cried, doing another lap.

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[special_rabbit]

Is that what Beaker had meant by all those meeps? Sure, Amaya didn't understand a meep of it, but she wouldn't have in a million years have thought that was his plan. She winced, passed a worried glance over toward Kitty, and then sighed.

"If I've known I'd be catching gremlins today," she murmured, "I'd have brought the proper equipment."

But since she had just herself, she braced herself, crouched down slightly, and prepared to snag the little monster as soon as its got close enough....just praying it didn't get to Beaker first.

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[meepmeepmeep]

Oh, it totally got to Beaker first, but at least that slowed it down enough to be caught?

Beaker, on the other hand, stood up, glanced down at what he was wearing, and said in a deep, unimpressed voice, "What on Earth am I doing."

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[throughaphase]

"He has a voice!"

Priorities.

Re: Meet Your Models!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine was starting with a very important question. "Anyone know what that is?"

She knew of gremlins, but was still too new to have seen one.

Re: Meet Your Models!

[intotheout]

"That's a gremlin," Tip sighed. "And that singing fish is not worth it."

Plus, the dress was going to clash terribly with its complexion.

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[2_old_for_this]

Peter winced. "I'm immune to their venom. I can dress it." He eyed the cranky-looking gremlins. "I hope."

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Does anything distract them? Would that help?"

So she was going to be researching gremlins later today.

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[intotheout]

"As far as I know, all they want to do is bite people," Tip said. "I say let the old guy do it."

Sorry, Peter.

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[2_old_for_this]

Well, Peter couldn't dispute it.

"I like to think I look pretty good for my age," he said wryly.

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[thatwaslucky]

Rey had never been bitten by a gremlin. That did not stop her from an eyeroll and sigh of, "Of course it's gremlins."

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[furnaceface]

//Of course it's bloody gremlins,// Jono agreed, wrinkling his nose as he stared at the one that was meant to be their model. //I knew there was something dodgy about those measurements.//

He glanced at Kathy and Rey.

//So... how do we want to do this? Throw my jacket on it and pray the leather's enough to stop the teeth?//

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[thatwaslucky]

"We'll have to get it out of the jacket," Rey pointed out. "What's the worst that happens? You hallucinate for a while?"

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[furnaceface]

Jono buried his face in his hand.

//I once put on a fake beard and spent the better part of an afternoon calling myself Bjorn.//

Or something equally Scandinavian. It had been a while and a couple manufactured lifetimes since then.

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[spin_kick_snap]

"I'm fast," Kathy said weakly, already kind of hating herself for volunteering but here she was anyway. "I might have less of a chance of getting bitten."

And it wasn't like her parents were here to see her strutting around on stage like last time.

Re: Meet Your Models!

[thatwaslucky]

"If you're sure..."

This was actually saving Rey from sucking it up and volunteering and finding out if a gremlin might mistake her for a Skywalker.