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.]

Comments

Re: Group Six

[special_rabbit]

"Only one way to find out," said Amaya, shrugging as reached for a hot glue gun. "We can always glue 'em, then wrap 'em with the rubber bands, tight enough to maybe hold 'em in a little more. We'll probably want to thicken 'em up a bit, otherwise these sticks'll snap before we even roll this thing out."

Re: Group Six

[thatwaslucky]

Rey copied Amaya, picking up a glue gun and watching her carefully to start gluing sticks. "So you just- OW."

Amazingly, when you grew up starving in the desert in another galaxy you didn't have much access to hot glue guns, and you had to learn the hard way.

Re: Group Six

[special_rabbit]

"Careful," Amaya said cheerfully, a bit too late, "it's hot!"

Re: Group Six

[futurespacemom]

"Thanks for the warning," Hera said wryly. Forewarned, she picked up her own sticks and gun and started in on it. "What sorts of shapes do we need for this?"

Re: Group Six

[in_sidon_we_trust]

"Yes," said Sidon, "excellent question. I'm afraid I still don't quite understand what it is we're trying to make, despite the rather good effort to explain." He smiled, nodding in genuine gratitude toward Rey. Still, he, too, started to grab sticks and a gun, of which there were apparently plenty, and followed suite. "This part seems easily enough, though; with all of us at it, in no time, we'll have enough glued together to make anything imaginable, I'd wager!"

Re: Group Six

[thatwaslucky]

"I have no mental image in my head, I'm just gluing," Rey admitted. "Ow!"

Re: Group Six

[futurespacemom]

"More glue, less fingers," Hera said, amused but sympathetic. "Maybe if you hold the stick you're gluing down with another stick?"