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Camp Shenanigans [Wednesday, July 11, 2018]

Today the bleachers were back, but instead of tables full of terrifying craft supplies, there was a single table full of white shirts in a variety of Fandomite-appropriate sizes and a giant "Start" sign over the path into town.

"Welcome to Fandom's very first color run!" Anakin said, smiling a little evilly. "I have created a five kilometer ~~or so~~ run through the island, interspersed with fun--" if you were Anakin and not participating, for instance, "--activities to complete at various stops. Please put on your white shirt and get ready to run. The person in third place wins the fish. So there. Stop trying to not get it. You're all hurting its feelings that it probably has by now. Don't make this thing gain sentience and try to kill us all."

With that cheery thought, Anakin started the race: "And go."

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Get a snack! Get a shirt! Find a spot on the bleachers and avoid all eye contact with everyone!

Are you worried that the school is providing you clothing? You should be!

[OOC: Everyone is encouraged to participate. I will RNG the fish winner from those who signed up in the OOC post!]

After a lovely run along Loon Run (and up allllll of those stairs), the first stop, over by Galactica Point, is a nice spot to stop and rest your aching legs.

...and make your arms hurt instead. Welcome to the Funky Monkey.

After you get across this fiendish set of monkey bars, you are rewarded by getting dried blue dye dropped all over you. Yay?

You're blue, you're running, and you're ready for a new challenge! Or not, but you're getting one, so suck it up.

Welcome to the Ladder to Hell.

Not actually to Hell. In Fandom it has to be specified.

In celebration of getting over the ladder, Anakin has arranged for the NPC firepersons to spray you down with water. And then douse you in red dye. No need to thank him.

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Halfway through! Hooray! Are you hot? Well, then this will fix that immediately.

Welcome to the Arctic Enema.

And once you're finished, you get hit with orange dye!

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Do you just want to lay on the ground and never move by now?

Well, this obstacle accomplishes half of that! Crawl through the tunnels! It's Boa Constrictor time!

Anakin makes no promises about the tunnels being gremlin free. Relatedly, the dye you get hit with is green.

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It's a happy ending! You're back! You're tired, you're dyed weird colors, and you have to climb a thirty foot slide to come down into the park and then get hit with a barrage of rainbow-colored dye, but you're finished!

Well, third-placer.

"Rosa!" Anakin called, holding the fish up high. "Come get this thing."

Turns out OCDing with a toddler who refuses to be contained is a huuuuuge pain in the ass.

Psst! Your ladder to hell link goes to the monkey, too!

Thank you! Fixed!

Breq picked up a t-shirt, shrugged and pulled it over her head. Was things going to get literally messy? She could deal with that.

The best thing about the bleachers, Astrid decided, was that sitting at the top of them gave her an excellent new perspective from which to draw while she just sort of hung around before everything got started. It wasn't like she had heaps of things to do or anything, so she didn't mind coming early and just watching (and sometimes drawing) everyone else show up.

It wasn't that difficult for her, but Breq wasn't going to admit that she found it fun. Not the blue paint at the end, but considering the t-shirts, she wasn't that surprised.

So, blue and red. Breq just shrugged, having easily got across the ladder, and moved on the the next obstacle.

It had been good exercise, although she could have done without the ice bath and the colours. The shower was going to need a cleaning after this. Breq wiped her face, not that it made much of a change.

Seivarden had been bored. And hungover. That was why she was here and putting on a t-shirt, even if she was having bad feelings about it all.

"I'm going to fucking regret this," she muttered.

Getting across this was a nice kind of challenge, with a reminder that she should go to the gym more often. The hangover made it a little worse though, and then there was the...

"Dye?! Aatr's tits, you just ruined the only decent pair of gloves I have left."

Seivarden was, like everyone else, covered in dye, and quite obviously pissed off. She could deal with having to have a shower, she was going to toss the t-shirt anyway, at least her pants were black, but the gloves? They looked like something a teenager would wear in painting class.

"Where the fuck am I going to get new ones?!" She really hoped Brooke would be able to help there.

Sidon was usually a little irritated with activities that seemed to insist that he wear clothing, but in the case of just a simple t-shirt, he didn't terribly mind. The fact that everyone else was getting t-shirt just made it seem part of the festive spirit of competition and camaraderie and, out of all the human clothing he'd been forced to wear, a t-shirt was hardly offensive and actually fit without too much of an issue, even if a bit snug around his shoulders, tight as it pressed down on his gils there.

So maybe no one would mind terribly if his sleeves were rolled up to be more accommodating.

Kitty sighed, and headed for the bleachers. Maybe she could make people who didn't want to do these events participate because she wanted to and couldn't?

Ha. Please. Rosa jumped in the gross ocean every winter for the Polar Bear swim just to get out of caroling with her family. Doing it for about five seconds in mid-July was nothing.

...okay, so there was a big different between going from cold air to cold water and going from hot air to cold water, but...she wasn't going to admit that it caught her by surprise. Duh.

And it was still better than her recent unexpected plunges into the pond.

Having reneged on her deal with the squirrels about getting out of these things in exchange for doing radio, and being able to avoid their wrath last week thanks to being in Brooklyn for Boyle's barbecue, Rosa had a feeling she knew what was coming today. And with her ringing ear and her failed attempts to punch Seivarden last night, she was just going to head them at the pass and come to this thing willingly, grabbing a shirt and yanking it on before the squirrels could even think to start making one little chitter at her.

At least it would be a distraction from the pain, right? And after talking to Kitty, she almost wanted to win that damn thing.

"Kitty, watch my jacket," said Rosa, tossing said jacket onto the bleacher seat next to Kitty, then pulling her hair out from underneath the collar of the shirt she'd just put on. Her chin jerked up. "I'm gonna win that fish. For you."

Like some knight pledging allegiance at a joust to a pregnant, married princess. And because she pretty much said she might last night before all the pond drama.

She said she was going to win that fish, didn't she? It was just as easy to try to win third place as it would have been to earn first, especially with people generally probably trying not to be in that particular spot.

"Cool," she said, coming up to get the fish, taking it, and tucking it under her arm, "thanks."

And then she left.

She and this fish had plans.

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Camp Shenanigans [Wednesday, July 11, 2018]

Arrive and Mingle!

And Go!

Challenge #1: 1 kilometer in

Challenge #2: Serenity Cove

Challenge #3: The Lighthouse

Challenge #4: Abandoned Campground

Challenge #5: Back at the Park

And the Winner Is....

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