Camp Shenanigans, Wednesday, May 22, 2019

[sith_happened]

If you thought a small thing like "the entire park being covered in water" was going to stop Anakin, well, you hadn't spent much time with him.

There were rafts scattered throughout the area, some decidedly more sturdy-looking than others. A giant one was holding up the normal risers but looked pretty tippy, so Anakin had lashed a few others to it with blankets if people decided against swaying quite that much today.

There were other floats scattered around in a pattern with giant galvanized buckets and folded baby blankets on them, too. Do you have a bad feeling about them? Because you should.

"Today," Anakin yelled through the bullhorn, "we are playing Blanket Balloon Toss! We will have four teams of seven." With matching horrifying t-shirts again. Anakin had gotten such a deal, you guys. "Working in pairs--except for the first person--you will catch water balloons in your baby blankets and then launch it to your teammates on the next float. The first team to get the balloon around the circuit wins."

You were all getting drenched.

"If you are not strong swimmers, I suggest you put on a pair of water wings. The floats were built by Beaker and might not be the robust things ever."

Meaning that one would definitely start sinking.

"Listen for your names, come get your t-shirts, and then get out to your designated floats!"

Comments

Re: Part One

[built_fjord_tough]

... Sorry, Mauve. Water balloons plus Fjord's nails? It didn't matter who was on the receiving end, he needed to battle just to get the damn things into the launcher without accidentally popping them, first.

"Shit," he muttered, come the sixth attempt.

Re: Part One

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep!" Beaker meeped encouragingly from where he had been tied to the float.

Re: Part One

[uncertain_dume]

"What he said," Kanan added, jerking a thumb toward Beaker. "Try palming the thing or something?"

He was helping.

And getting such a sour look from the half-orc on the first float.

Re: Part One

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep!" Beaker said, pointing to their hideous matching shirts. Maybe use it like a sling?

Re: Part One

[built_fjord_tough]

See Fjord. See Fjord grumble, peel off his shirt (thank the gods), and wrap it around his hand, using it as a makeshift glove to get the next balloon safely from the stash of them into the launcher.

Balloons away!

Re: Part One

[meepmeepmeep]

Oh, crap, now Beaker had to catch something.

Running around on a tiny float and flailing would help, right?

Re: Part One

[uncertain_dume]

It might!

... It might also make Kanan have to work to both catch the thing and stay on the float, though.

"Hey, easy there, buddy!"

Catching things was supposed to be easy! Especially for him!

Re: Part One

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meep!" Beaker flailed as Delirium's glitter filled balloons rained down.

Re: Part One

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan was reasonably certain that the actual definition of hell was this moment. This one. Right here. He'd been dead over the weekend, probably, and purgatory was being stuck on a raft with a flailing Beaker while being pelted with falling glitter balloons.

He sighed, gave up on catching the incoming balloon from the first float, and held up a hand to deflect at least some of the falling glitter balloons using the Force, instead.

... Over on the other float, Beau had knocked Fjord into the water.

"Well," Kanan muttered, "we tried."

Re: Part One

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep," Beaker said just before falling off the float.

Which was why Anakin had attached him to the float with a rope.