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!"

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Arrive and Mingle

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Decide against sitting on the risers, maybe? But there are snacks!

A lot of fish-themed snacks.

Teams Assemble!

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"Listen for your names!" Anakin yelled unnecessarily through the bullhorn.

TEAM MUSTARD
Beau
Kitty
Octavia
Liam
Prompto
Lana
Jules

TEAM MAUVE
Fjord
Beaker
Kanan
Kiki
Rosa
Nina
Amaya

TEAM ORANGE-RED
Miguel
Summer
Billy
Delirium
Shuri
Wayne
Pastor Carter

TEAM MAGENTA
Sidon
Tip
Iris (Ino)
Mae
Sabine
Steve
Aeryn

Meet up! Compliment each other on your eye-searing t-shirts! Plot Anakin's demise!

Play!

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Part One

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The first balloon launchers (Beau, Fjord, Miguel, and Sidon) must get onto the same 8 foot square float, get water balloons and launch them using the provided water balloon launchers.

Their teammates (Kitty & Octavia, Beaker & Kanan, Summer & Billy, and Tip & Iris) on the next float--at least fifty feet away--must catch it (unbroken) in their blanket. They can't catch someone else's balloon.

There is nothing saying they can't jump up and down to make another team miss their shot. Or push them. Or yell really loud. Or all of the above.

[OOC: I encourage this to get messy! Yell to your teammates. Smack talk to the other people on your raft. The RNG says that the order of this round is:
MUSTARD
ORANGE-RED
MAGENTA
MAUVE, so get there however.]

Part Two

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Kitty & Octavia, Beaker & Kanan, Summer & Billy, and Tip & Iris finally have an unbroken balloon in their baby blanket! Huzzah! Now they must use that blanket to fling the balloon to their teammates (Liam & Prompto, Kiki & Rosa, Delirium & Shuri, and Mae & Sabine) at the next float, 20 feet away.

That float starts listing about ten minutes into the event, so everyone either has to balance on one side or fix it!

Anakin is not hopelessly cruel, so there is a bucket of extra water balloons on the second raft if your first attempt to toss the balloon between floats ends with the balloon broken, in the water, or on someone else's head.

[OOC: Talk to your teammates, talk to your fellow float-dwellers! Teamwork! No drowning! RNG says this round goes:
MUSTARD
ORANGE-RED
MAUVE
MAGENTA.]

Part Three

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Liam & Prompto, Kiki & Rosa, Delirium & Shuri, and Mae & Sabine have their own unbroken water balloons safe in their blankets. Time to toss to the last pair (Lana & Jules, Nina & Amaya, Wayne & Pastor Carter, and Steve & Aeryn), located on a float 15 feet away!

Again, there are extra water balloons if the first couple of attempts go awry. Talk to your teammates, everyone!

[RNG says that this round goes:
MAUVE
MAGENTA
ORANGE-RED
MUSTARD]

Grand Finale

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And now the final pairs (Lana & Jules, Nina & Amaya, Wayne & Pastor Carter, and Steve & Aeryn) must launch the final balloon alllll the way back (at least 30 feet) to the teammate that started it all (Beau, Fjord, Miguel, and Sidon). They must catch the balloon in the buckets provided for that very thing.

It doesn't matter if the balloon breaks on this round, it just matters that your team is first!

[OOC: And the RNG sayeth:
MAGENTA
MUSTARD
ORANGE-RED
MAUVE!]

Celebrate!

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If you won, if you lost, if you're not on a damn tippy float any more...

Talk to Anakin!

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He's here for you. Kinda.

OOC

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This should be nice and confusing ;)

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[intraspective]

Yeah, Iris was not trusting those seats at all. She could make it work, but standing on the water in her bathing suit took far less effort. Her long, long hair was tightly braided.

This week was weird, but since her shop wasn't flooded, it really wasn't that bad. She'd have preferred it if the water was warmer, but whatever.

The set-up, though, was getting a speculative look.

Wearing her bathing suit had been definitely the right idea.

Re: Teams Assemble!

[built_fjord_tough]

"... Ah, hell. What is this?" Fjord frowned as he picked up a mauve shirt.

It was... not his color. At all.

Re: Teams Assemble!

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"This is better than puce, at least," Shuri said, ducking into her orange-red t-shirt.

Re: Teams Assemble!

[intraspective]

"Two-for-two on colours I can actually wear!" Iris laughed, shaking out her t-shirt.

Magenta? She could work with it.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[okteiviakom]

Octavia had no idea what any of this was.

But sometimes, she got curious, so... Looked like she was sticking around.

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: Teams Assemble!

[heroic_jawline]

"This isn't so bad," Steve agreed, pulling his on over his head.

A shirt that correctly fit! It was a Fandom miracle!

Re: Teams Assemble!

[following_my_fishie]

"I'll look like fire!" a floating swarm of colorful fishes exclaimed happily. "Oh." Right, need to be girl-shaped. The fish coalesced and with a pop, resumed fully clothed human form. The t-shirt was big enough she could swim - heh - in it, so she put it over everything including her leather jacket.

"I could look more like fire.." Del speculated.

From his own little raft, Barnabas barked, "NO, Delirium! Fire and water don't play well together and this is a team game!"

Del sighed, plucking at the hem of her shirt.

Re: Part One

[meepmeepmeep]

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

Re: Teams Assemble!

[okteiviakom]

Octavia had no opinion about the color. In her view, all it was was a t-shirt she didn't have to pay for, so she was already winning.

"I don't know what everyone's so annoyed about," she noted as she pulled her mustard shirt on. "Looks fine to me."

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: Teams Assemble!

[intraspective]

Shirts that fit correctly were always miracles. Iris laughed, pulling her shirt on—it was a bit too large, but most shirts people handed out tended to be, on her.

"No one will be able to miss us coming," she said whimsically. "But at least it's a good, fun colour."

Re: Part Two

[following_my_fishie]

One of the balloons landed on their raft and burst, splattering Delirium with water. "Pfleh!" Beat. "Wait, is this a water balloon fight?!"

There was a bucket of spare balloons! People were throwing balloons at her! But maybe those spare balloons were special?

She wanted people to know the balloons she was throwing were from her. She considered the playing field. She didn't want to target her own team, that would be rude.

One of her teachers was on Mauve. Good enough. She targeted them with a grin and, from out of nowhere, a legion of balloons filled with water and glitter went hurling toward anyone in a Mauve shirt, but especially toward Kanan.

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!