Summer Games [Wednesday]

[sith_happened]

A fully grown Anakin Skywalker was back in his normal spot in the park, megaphone in hand. In addition to the normal bleachers, the park had a number of tables set out with an inordinate amount of craft sticks and hot glue guns.

More worryingly, there was a giant bullseye spray-painted onto the grass.

"Welcome back!" Anakin said, absolutely blustering past the part where last week he'd been 17 years old with a deeply regrettable haircut. "Today you will be building catapults out of craft sticks and glue! It must be capable of propelling a meter tall object towards that bullseye--" he pointed to the grass helpfully. "Whichever team comes closest to hitting the buillseye gets to keep the fish for the week. Do not tank on purpose just because you don't want the fish!"

He glared at everyone to make his displeasure known about that. "You have an hour and a half to work on and complete your design! Please listen for your name to know which group you belong to! Group One: Peter, Norman, Kitty, and Paris. Group Two: Hannibal, Liam, Astrid, and Kanan. Group Three: Sabine, Rosa, Jono, and Tip. Group Four: Zack, Ahsoka, Cristina, and Verity. Group Five: Steve, Bobby, Cara, and Miguel. Group Six: Sidon, Hera, Rey, Amaya, and Uma."

[OOC: EDITED TO ADD: There are also rubber bands, rope, buckets, cloth, macrame gremlin ensembles, and other moddable stuff hiding under the tables. I totally remembered. Really. Cough.]

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Construct Catapults!

[sith_happened]

Groups, assemble here and begin your feats of construction!

If at least one person isn't horribly burned by hot glue, you're not doing it right. Freaking hot glue guns...

Group One

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Re: Group One

[always_someone]

Glue and popsicle sticks? Norman looked a little bit dubiously at the supplies set out before them, not entirely certain that this wasn't going to end horribly no matter what they tried.

But, hey, at least nobody was going to get gremlin bit?

"Honestly, I'd be more concerned about what the object weighs than how tall it is," he offered, wanting to at least attempt to be helpful.

Re: Group One

[revengenotebook]

Paris nodded. "Well, three feet--that's not a gremlin," she said, looking around for what could be about three feet tall. "It's not a cannonball either. Maybe assume 'big rock' and just hope for the best from there? Reinforce those joints, use lots of sticks glued together."

Re: Group One

[always_someone]

"I suppose if there's anywhere at all where extra sticks and glue will make up the difference enough to support a big rock..."

Norman couldn't even lift a rock that big to get it into a catapult. Maybe with a group effort?

"Then again, maybe the closest anyone will be able to get to firing something at the target will be to be able to put the thing into the basket without the whole project falling apart."

Group Two

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Re: Group Two

[uncertain_dume]

Sorry, guys. Kanan was just looking at the assignment set out for them today and trying not to laugh outright.

"At least it isn't macramé."

He didn't particularly want to end up tied to any of his teammates today.

Re: Group Two

[white_oleander]

Meanwhile, it was a good thing that Astrid didn't grow up on a lot of television, or else she'd be too busy composing a theme to My Three Summer Camp Dads. Because the irony of a fatherless fourteen year old being teamed up with three adult males was not lost on her, though perhaps maybe it should have been.

"At least I kind of knew where to begin with the macramé," she admitted dolefully.

Re: Group Two

[uncertain_dume]

"We had time to prepare for that one," Kanan agreed, frowning at the pile of supplies and scratching his cheek as he mulled this one over. "But it's a catapult. We know it has certain parts. A base that needs to be heavy and sturdy enough to support what we're firing. An arm that needs to be even more sturdy, or else it'll snap and our payload could end up anywhere."

He really didn't want to have to bust out the Force just to keep someone from being flattened by a flying, meter-tall... something.

"Some kind of frame, a spring, some rope, and a bucket."

He looked again at the items set out before them.

"Hopefully we don't have to try to figure out how to make rope and a spring out of wooden sticks and glue."

Group Three

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Re: Group Three

[furnaceface]

//Ah, yes, forgot what preschool was like, was definitely hoping for the reminder today.//

Jono picked up a popsicle stick and looked at it dubiously through his flames.

//At least we aren't gluing pasta to it, too.//

Re: Group Three

[died8yearsago]

Rosa was just going to look for a moment at the person with flames in their face thinking of handling wooden sticks and melty glue, Because that seemed like a great idea.

She then looked to the kids.

"This is all part of your weird summer camp," she noted. "I'm pretty sure we're," she wiggled a thumb between her and Jono, "are just here to supervise, make sure you don't eat the glue or whatever. So...good luck. Have fun. Don't get any splinters."

Rosa, you literally won a few weeks ago in a group of all adults. You know that's not how this works.

Re: Group Three

[furnaceface]

Jono glanced at the supplies, and then at Rosa, an eyebrow raised slightly.

He wasn't entirely certain if she was trying to duck out of this herself, or if she was concerned about the fire with the building materials, but he figured he ought to at least attempt to make himself useful.

... From away from the building materials nobody needed to know he wouldn't accidentally set on fire.

//I can look up catapult plans,// he offered, pulling out his phone. //While supervising.//

Group Four

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Re: Group Four

[puppy_fair]

"Okay, let's do this!" Zack had no idea where to begin, but never let it be said that he wasn't enthusiastic about group projects! "Who knows how to make a catapult?"

Because that was such a common life skill.

Re: Group Four

[deaddadsclub]

"It can't be that hard," Cristina said, using her phone to try to look up catapult schematics. "It's just physics."

If she was going to keep getting roped into these things, she was going to start trying to win, dammit.

Re: Group Four

[snipsnspecks]

"I do." Ahsoka raised her hand in response to Zack's question. "Long story."

One that involved Representative Binks and one of Padme's sets of good dinnerware.

Group Five

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Re: Group Five

[heroic_jawline]

"Sure," Steve said, holding up the popsicle sticks and looking dubious. "This seems doable."

Re: Group Five

[what_the_shock]

"For values of 'doable' meaning 'really unlikely', sure," Miguel said helpfully. "If we made it as a big lever and put something heavy at the other end, would that count as a catapult?"

Re: Group Five

[heroic_jawline]

Steve shrugged. "I think if it was supposed to be a super-specific definition, they would've provided blueprints, right?"

Group Six

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Re: Group Six

[special_rabbit]

"Alright!" said Amaya, who couldn't help grinning broadly when she heard the names on her team. "We should have this one in the bag!"

She'd been building catapults since she was five! Never out of hot glue and popsicle sticks, but how much more challenging could it be?

Re: Group Six

[in_sidon_we_trust]

"Yes!" Sidon exclaimed, upping Amaya's excitement significantly with double fist pumps. "A glorious team! A wonderful team! We will emerge victorious in our task to build a catapult!"

But he wilted, just slightly, shoulders sloping down.

"Er...what's a catapult?"

There was no evidence of them existing in Hyrule, OKAY??

Re: Group Six

[thatwaslucky]

"It does this," Rey said, demonstrating with her arms to show how it should move and fling something away.