Summer Games [Wednesday, June 20, 2018]

[sith_happened]

"Hello, and welcome to our final summer game before we go on a break next week!" Anakin yelled through his megaphone in his usual spot in the park. Around him were tables covered in just about every color of embroidery floss you could think of--heavy on the rainbow colors for Pride--as well as beads and other accessories to make things pretty. "Today you will be working together to make as many friendship bracelets as you can in a timed period. The winner gets the fish."

He reached his hand out and the Frankenfish came flying in from...wherever it had been lurking this week. It was now neon bright, with teeth and a brand-new carving and could probably be seen from space. Don't launch it there to check. "The winner will keep this amazing prize for two weeks. Please do not launch it into the sun."

He pulled out a sheet of paper. "Now listen for your group:

Teachers: Kitty, Jenkins, Kanan, Amaya
Townies: Brooke, Peter, Jono, Hera
Townies: Hannibal, Miguel, Eliot, Mitsutada
Students 1: Rey, Tip, Astrid, Aloy
Students 2: Sabine, Norman, Sidon, Paris
Students 3: Summer, Breq, Dante, Beaker"

He gestured to the tables. "There are instructions on making friendship bracelets on your tables. You have a half hour. Ready...go!"

Did this seem too easy to anyone else?

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Make Friendship Bracelets!

[sith_happened]

You have a half hour to make as many as you can! Don't get fancy, but they do need to fit around a standard wrist!

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer had had...way too many drinks at her party last night, and half of her wondered why she even bothered still coming to this thing, but her curiosity sometimes got the best of her. If it hadn't been for all those drinks, she'd have gotten here and been supremely disappointed that it was just friendship bracelets with a side of nothing crazy going on at all, but right now? Right now, just sitting there making friendship bracelets sounded awesome. She could do friendship bracelets in her sleep.

...which she might have drifted off into a few times.

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[justice_undone]

Since Summer was in her team, Breq sat down next to her.

"Are you ok?" she asked,reaching for the instructions.

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"Bleeuugghhh," said Summer in response. Which said a lot for being just a sound, really.

Still, she tried to be a little more conversational, turning toward Breq very carefully, but still wincing, because the sun was just So. Bright! Why was the sun so bright? Who turned up the sun? Why couldn't they turn it back down??

"I may have overdone it on the birthday drinks," she added groggily, holding up her fingers to indicate a small measure, "juuuust a little bit..."

A lot bit. It was a lot bit.

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[justice_undone]

"Oh, I see," Breq said, adding a smile. "I hope it was worth it."

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[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meep," Beaker said. Loudly. Which probabl didn't help.

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[somethingwithturquoise]

No. No, the meeping from Meep Kid was not helping at alllll, as Summer's pained groan might indicate, bringing her hands to cover her face as if that would help.

It kind of did? It made her able to pretend for a second like she wasn't there?

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[always_someone]

"Oh... okay... this isn't so bad," Norman said, looking at all the string and stuff. "It's kind of like macramé all over again, right?"

Which had him squinting and looking around, just in case there were secret gremlins.

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

"Not so bad at all!" Sidon chimed in brightly, of course, as he himself picked up a few strings and considered how they'd be woven together. "And I must say, I rather do like the name. Friendship bracelets! How wonderful! What in particular about them gives them such a marvelous name?"

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[always_someone]

"People trade them with their friends," Norman explained, smiling faintly. "So their friends can wear them around and think of them, I guess. I don't know, I've never really done this before."

That was actually kind of sad if you took a moment to think about it, so he hastily added, "I like the beads this time. This whole setup seems a little less ominous than the gremlin macramé, at least."

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I've never done this either," Sabine said, mostly trying to match up colors before starting. "Should I feel seven?"

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[uncertain_dume]

"More knots," Kanan sighed, reaching for the green embroidery floss. "Alright, let's see if I manage to tie myself to anybody else this time around."

Probably not. Hera wasn't in his group this week.

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[throughaphase]

"Why do we need teams to make bracelets?" Kitty said, because she didn't trust this.

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[uncertain_dume]

"Because Skywalker has something up his sleeve," Kanan decided. "I have no idea what, but if it invovles gremlins again, I'm leaving."

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[furnaceface]

Jono shrugged, sat down, and started to tie knots. Why the hell not? He didn't need to supervise anybody this time around, there weren't popsicle sticks involved, and his teammates were all grown adults? He'd consider that a win.

//I've got a friend in New York who would've loved this,// he mused. //She needs to never find out about summer camp.//

Jubilee would have had all the students making bracelets within the hour.

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[gobrookeyourself]

"How fast can she get here?" Brooke asked.

She'd totally done this as a kid, but wow had that been a while.

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[furnaceface]

//Depends on how quickly she can find a sitter,// Jono mused.

Of course, if having Lee take his place meant he'd get to watch Shogo, he'd gladly fall on that bullet. You know. For the team and not at all because he adored that kid.

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[white_oleander]

Astrid didn't have friends, so she certainly hadn't ever made friendship bracelets. She had learned how to weave bracelets from women who sold them on roadside stands and to tourists on the beach when she lived in Mexico, though, and the beads were a great touch, so that was her inspiration as she gathered a few materials, drifted toward her teammates, and set to work.

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[thatwaslucky]

""This is something people do?" asked Rey, who was trying to watch everyone else to see how they did this.

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[intotheout]

Tip hadn't exactly had a lot of friends, either, and by the time she and her mom had the money to think about sending her to summer camp, she'd felt like she was too old for it. So friendship bracelets weren't in her wheelhouse.

"Do they have to have the little knots? Or can we just braid them? Because I can definitely braid."

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[rebelseekspizza]

"You're kidding me," Dante said, staring at the string. "How does this even work?"

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[not_of_the_nora]

Braiding things? Aloy did that to her hair every day.

Her fingers practically flew as she put together one bracelet after the other.

This was dumb, but at least it was something dumb she was good at.

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[battlewithstyle]

"Why is it every time I come to these it becomes craft day?" Mitsutada joked to his group. "Are we going to skip out and go get Thai again?"

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[vdistinctive]

Eliot already had a set of colors picked out and knotted. What? He'd dated a camp counselor. He'd already established that last year.

". . . I could go for Thai food."

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[sharp_man]

"I'm fairly certain I have the ingredients at home," Hannibal answered. He had cords out and was busy making a plaid...well, it probably wouldn't be traditional, he had no idea how to make a traditional friendship bracelet, but it would be wearable and colorful?