Camp Shenanigans, Wednesday, August 8, 2018

[sith_happened]

There was a giant stage in the middle of the park today. Are you worried, people whose names were about to be called?

Good.

"Today, inspired by the public service announcements you see in PE class," Anakin began, "you lucky chosen ones will get to write and perform an informational puppet show with sock puppets you create yourselves! Since you were so good at the instruments last week."

They were not that good at the instruments last week.

"You will be paired up and then spin the wheel of topics--" he waved his hand helpfully at a giant wheel in front of the stage, "and then perform before all of us. The second most impressive skit--by whatever metric I choose to use to measure that--wins the fish."

He waved his hand and the fish, now resplendent in a steampunk top hat and jetpack, flew into his hand, still warbling the Beastie Boys. He winced slightly. "Maybe by the time you pick it up, it will have stopped singing 'I'm a Little Teapot' directly into your brain."

He didn't sound that optimistic.

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Listen for your partner's name and spiiiiiiin youuuuur topic

[sith_happened]

"The teams are as follows," Anakin said through the bullhorn, "Sparkle and Uma; Amaya and Verity; Paris and Rosa; Theron and Sidon; Rey and Cara; Astrid and Sabine; Kathy and Beaker; and Norman and Brooke."

The wheel had the following topics of Grave Fandom Importance to spin and win:
Oh No! You're in Alot of Danger (Yes, With the Alots.)
How to Apologize When You Were Evil Last Weekend
Getting out of the Library's Restricted Section
Rickshaw Safety and You!
De-escalating Roommate Warfare
So It's Raining Sharks Today
Fosse Insists You Dance, Now What?
Teal Dear Care and Feeding
Why Am I Naked? Disorientation and Animal Transformations

...and stuck onto the wheel with a stickie note and superglue, in squirrel handwriting: The Dire Consequences of Stealing Anakin's Hair Products. Anakin glared at that one.

[OOC: RNG your amazing topic! Or pick one and lie about it. We can't check.]

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[myownface]

"Ohmygod," Sparkle whispered. "This is the best most stupid one yet."

He had gone to school for costume design and had taken workshops in acting. Of course sock puppet theatre was going to be his jam.

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[refused2berescued]

"Sock puppets?"

At least Uma knew what those were! All the dolls on the Isle had been made from abandoned scraps and things.

"...At least ours are gonna be the best dressed of the lot."

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[myownface]

"Either the best dressed or the most naked, depends on the spin, I guess," Sparkle laughed. "So, you wanna do the honours?"

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[always_someone]

Besides a slightly itchy (and thus slightly twitchy) nose, Norman was back to normal today after a day of randomly turning into things every time he went through a door at work yesterday. But he was pretty game for this sock puppet thing, sure.

"This looks like it's going to be at least kind of educational," he hedged. "Maybe?"

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[gobrookeyourself]

"Is it the education anyone really wants, though?" Brooke asked.

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[always_someone]

"Around here, it's probably the education everyone kinda needs," Norman pointed out. "I can pick out a few I would've liked to have when I was new."

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[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meep meep!" Beaker said excitedly.

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[spin_kick_snap]

"I'm sorry, I don't, umm, think I got all that?" Kathy said. "Could we maybe try that again, but, err, slower?"

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[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meep," Beaker said, gesturing to the wheel.

Maybe Kathy would like to spin?

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[revengenotebook]

"I do wield a mean glue gun," Paris said, squinting at the wheel's options.

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[died8yearsago]

These things weren't too bad if she wound up paired up with other adults, but when it turned into lowkey babysitting is when Rosa took umbrage with it.

"You're not actually...gonna want to win that thing, are you?" she ventured, eying the girl for a moment before perusing the wheel. "What the hell kind of stupid topics are these, anyway?"

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[revengenotebook]

"I do want to win this thing, but my dramatic skills are...not my strength," Paris said. "And the topics are extremely dumb. You spin it."

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine got her roommate, so this worked out. "So I want to be able to repaint the fish but I absolutely don't want to have it for a week. Deal?"

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[white_oleander]

Yes! Not an adult male! Which, really, it wasn't like Astrid hadn't been paired up with her peers at all, but it seemed an exception more than anything else.

It also helped that it was Sabine.

"Deal," Astrid nodded, but there was actually a faint grin there, "as long as I get to make a Captain America puppet."

You knew it was a big deal if Astrid was insisting on something.

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Agreed." She hadn't had a class with him yet, but she trusted Astrid there. "Would you like to do the spinning honors?"

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[thatwaslucky]

"So this should be a disaster," Rey said, though she was getting used to that.

Still trying to fly under Skywalker's radar, though.

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[wrongkindofsith]

Considering that Cara was eyeing off that squirrel added option, disaster was putting it mildly. "Once upon a time I wouldn't have known what most of those options meant."

Saner times.

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[thatwaslucky]

"I still don't. What's a teal deer?"

So Rey was not a huge talker?

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

"Theron!" Sidon called out to his partner, waving his arm so that he didn't miss him trying to get his attention. Because that would be hard to miss...a giant...red...sharkman...calling your name. And bouncing. "Oh, wonderful, this should be interesting, at the very least! Would you like the honors of spinning, partner, or shall I?"

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[midichlorianfail]

"That one's all yours, buddy." Sidon was so excited about the whole thing, after all.

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon was pretty much excited about everything, including this news, so...

He flashed a grin, bowed his head slightly in gratitude, and took to giving the wheel a good wrench.

Too good. Honestly, it was a little surprising the thing didn't just go flying off its center with the oomph in which Sidon had unwittingly bestowed upon it.

"Now that's a spin!" he declared proudly.

A spin that eventually settled Oh No! You're in Alot of Danger (Yes, With the Alots.)

"Oh. Oh, dear, I don't think I know what that is, though I feel I've heard alot about them."

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[arboreal_priestess]

Verity was more interested in what crafting supplies she could smuggle out to the mice. They were tiny little black holes when it came to cheese, cake, and crafting.

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[special_rabbit]

Whatever she managed to slip away, Amaya would politely not notice, because better the mice got them here than in her store or something.

"Well," she stated, folding her arms and tilted her head thoughtfully at the wheel, "this should at least be interesting."

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[arboreal_priestess]

She'd say they knew better, but sometimes they got a little...enthusiastic.

"You're a carpenter, right?" Verity asked, remembering the radio. "Can you make an awesome puppet theater or anything?"

Look, Verity wasn't particularly creative when it wasn't weaponry or free-running, so she figured they'd be able to use all the help they could get.