fandomhigh | Summer Camp Wednesday [The Park]

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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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!

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

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.]

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!

Verity, Aphra, and Rosa!

Come get your terrifying fish, ladies.

[OOC: Thank you, RNG.]

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

"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.

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!

"An' here I'm just wishing I'd have respected everything Apu's done throughout the week a little more," Amaya noted, shaking her head, because, in retrospect, what he'd covered the store with was not only impressive, but also applicable to this moments. "Still, it's mostly just tyin' knots in artful ways, right? I never had a problem with knots."

She never tried to make them look like fancy clothes, either, but, hey, first time for everything.

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

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.

That's you! I just typoed, sorry! *fixes*

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.

"Meep meep meep meep," Beaker added thoughfully, pulling at the yellow cording and almost immediately getting it knotted up. "Meep meep!"

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..."

Excellent, thank you much. :D

Kitty looked at Beaker, then at Amaya. "Good, because we're gonna need balance there."

... 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.

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?"

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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."

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Summer Camp Wednesday [The Park]

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Meet Your Models!

Do a Little Turn on the Catwalk

And the Winner Is....

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