Camp Shenanigans [Wednesday morning, May 8, 2019]

[sith_happened]

Beaker was putting the last of the balloons in place (so...floating away. Don't worry, he'll be fine in a second) on the bleachers that had been set back up in the park in the center of town. There were also a couple of big screen televisions set up so that the crowd could watch the action when the contestents (you lucky volunteers, you!) were outside the park.

It was also a warning to the contestants that this week's game would be taking them out of the park.

"Today, we will be doing a very quick tour of the island!" Anakin yelled into his megaphone. He didn't really need the megaphone--he just liked the way everyone would wince when he made it squeal. "You will be working in teams to complete a series of obstacles I've set up around town. Fastest team to complete the course does not win a fish."

At the blank looks from some of the newbies, Anakin explained. "Last year there was an plastic fish that attained sentience and attacked us at the end of the summer. It was a thing."

Well, "explained" if it also meant "in a way that absolutely did not make it Anakin's fault."

"Listen as your teams are called and where your assingments are! I will then give you ten minutes to get into place and then Beaker--where'd he go?"

Beaker waved and meeped from a tree.

"And Beaker will shoot off the starting pistol which is not a real gun, right Beaker?" Anakin checked.

Beaker meeped affirmatively.

"Well, we'll see how that goes," Anakin muttered.

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Re: Teams Assemble!

[uncertain_dume]

"... What's puce, anyway?"

Oh, Kanan. Kanan.

Nothing could save you from puce.

Re: Teams Assemble!

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri held up one of the shirts in question. "This is puce. It even sounds like something you vomit."

Re: Teams Assemble!

[uncertain_dume]

"... Skywalker hates us all, I see."

Kanan sighed, reached for a puce shirt, and held it up, looking it over.

"I suppose it could be worse."

It could be salmon or something.

Re: Teams Assemble!

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"It could be one of those two," Shuri said, pointing at the other shirts. "These are hideous. I'm almost impressed by how terrible they are."

Re: Teams Assemble!

[overparented]

"Yeah, they're gross, what did he say about the fish?" Janet asked, finding this important.

Re: Teams Assemble!

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"Something about how it attained sentience and attacked," Shuri said. "We can ask him for more details later?"

Re: Teams Assemble!

[uncertain_dume]

"It kind of takes effort to beat this, but somehow, 'radioactive snot' and 'orange but not really trying' seem to have managed it," Kanan agreed, looking at the other two options. "Normally I'd take the green, but I almost feel like I've dodged a blaster bolt with this one."

And that was kind of saying something.

Re: Teams Assemble!

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri made another face. "I would look amazing in that green. Look how good Tip looks!...not that redhead, though."

Re: Teams Assemble!

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan took one look at Ben and broke into a little chuckle.

"Yeah, that redhead looks like he needs to find somewhere to sit down. Maybe a medcenter." He unfastened his armor and set it to the side, pulling the shirt on and tugging at it uncomfortably. "... I feel like this color couldn't make up it's mind about whether it wanted to be brown, red, or purple, and so it decided it was going to attempt to be all three."

He knew this color. This was just a few hues off from his robes back in his initiate days. This was the color you wore when you were probably going to bleed into your clothes at some point, and you didn't want it to stain.

Re: Teams Assemble!

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"And did so badly," Shuri said. "I'm Shuri. Hello."

Re: Teams Assemble!

[uncertain_dume]

"Kanan," came his reply, along with a little grin.

A little grin accompanied by puce.

Eh, it wasn't a disaster.

"Good to meet you. You're one of the new students?"