Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, August 21, 2019

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"Hello again, everyone!" Anakin yelled through the megaphone from his spot on a chair where he looked a little wan, but decidedly not dead. "Welcome to the last shenanigans of the summer. To commemorate us being done--" with everything. Anakin was so done with everything, "--we are going to do a couple of different relay races."

Yay, team building!

"There are t-shirts."

Of course.

"Please listen for your names!"

TEAM PHARP
Sabine
Wayne
Peter
Ben
Hannibal

TEAM MOOP DEATH
Miguel
Iris (Ino)
Shunsui
Janet
Summer

TEAM SMITTER
Sidon
Rey
Kitty
Juillenne
Beaker

TEAM SO STONE BEIGE
Shuri
Amaya
Lana
Okuyasu
Liam

TEAM DINGLE
Paris
Aeryn
Hera
Rosa
Nina

Comments

Arrive and Mingle

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Have some food! Check in on people! Eyeball the normalish-for-Anakin t-shirt color choices!

Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

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Gather and bitch about your team names!

Team Pharp

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Re: Team Pharp

[momslilassassin]

"He's just making up words at this point, huh?" Ben asked dryly.

Team Moop Death

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Re: Team Moop Death

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Does anyone even know what a moop death even is?" asked Summer, pulling on her t-shirt and then examining the results with mild approval. "Or, better question, would I even want to know?"

Team So Stone Beige

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In shirts that are neither stone nor beige.

Re: Team So Stone Beige

[special_rabbit]

Yeah, Amaya was definitely questioning a few things that she might have thought she knew about both stones and beiga as she considered her shirt, but she also knew that trying to make sense out of anything on Wednesdays was likely to just be a waste of time.

Could be worse. It wasn't really that far off from the green she always wore, anyway. She tugged it on and gave her team a nod.

"Couple of relay races shouldn't give this team too much trouble!" she noted with approval.

Team Smitter

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Re: Team Smitter

[throughaphase]

"Smitter is not a thing," Kitty announced, donning her shirt.

Team Dingle

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Re: Team Dingle

[died8yearsago]

They had the worst possible name and the color wasn't great (no offense meant to the person on the team who actually almost matched the color), but, looking over her team, Rosa had to admit, this was easily the best one yet.

A quick glance over at So Stone Beige revealed that Amaya hadn't done too badly, but Rosa was definitely going into this week with the smug reassurance that Dingle made up for its terrible name with the sheer awesomeness of its members.

Even Gellar. She was weird and a big nerd, sure, but she knew she wasn't there to jerk around.

Relay Races!

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There are three, for the maximum amusement of Anakin, really.

Hula Hoop Hysteria

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Each team lines up in a single-file line and joins hands (except for the first and last person, naturally). The team must pass the hula hoop down the line as quickly as possible by contorting their hands, arms and entire bodies to get them through the hula hoop without letting go of each other's hands. If you let go, you have to start over again.

[OOC: RNG says the teams finish as follows: Dingle, So Stone Beige, Smitter, Pharp, and Moop Death!]

Re: Hula Hoop Hysteria

[in_sidon_we_trust]

There was a saying, in Hyrule, that was often brought up in the face of something difficult, that involved comparing its difficulty to that of trying to fit a Royal Zora through a Hula Hoop...

In about two hundred years from now, such a task would be nigh impossible, but thank goodness for Sidon's extreme youth and still being a growing Zora! It certainly took some doing, especially with his height, working around the shape of his head, and having to deal with the fact that his limbs were hardly as evenly proportioned as his teammates'. But he supposed the good thing was that he could go first, so that the extra time it took for the hula hoop to get past those extra couple feet and get a little caught on his torso fins might hopefully be made up by the rest of the chain.

Re: Hula Hoop Hysteria

[firstofitskind]

Yeah, okay, Liam was just going to look vaguely nauseous about the idea of holding hands with anyone, gloves or not.

"Anyone mind if I go first?" he asked, grabbing the hula hoop with one gloved hand and holding out the other so someone could (ugh) take hold of it.

Re: Hula Hoop Hysteria

[revengenotebook]

"Right," Paris said. "This is stupid but we can do it."

Water Bucket Relay

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You're still in the same single file line, but now there's a full bucket of water in front of the head of the line and an empty bucket at the back. Everyone has Solo cups. Your job is to pass the water back over your head and fill up the sand bucket (Anakin's not totally unreasonable) at the back of the group.

Everyone's gonna get drenched, but at least it's not kombucha this time?

[OOC: RNG says the winners go as follows: So Stone Beige, Smitter, Dingle, Moop Death, Pharp!]

Re: Water Bucket Relay

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon had nearly two feet on the person next in line (thanks, google!), so this....was going to take some doing.

And a lot of bending.

Or actually, how about he just went down on his knees? Ah, yes, that might work much better!

But again, he did have that whole 'elaborately finned to resemble a shark' head to navigate around as he tried passing the cups over it.

Good thing he would never mind getting a bit damp!

Re: Water Bucket Relay

[legionqueen]

Was it cheating to use the war-gift to make sure that the cup stayed as steady as possible?

Nobody had explicitly said she couldn't, anyway. And besides, it wasn't as if she were able to keep it perfectly still. Just still enough that maybe they wouldn't get as drenched as they might have otherwise.

Melon Madness

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And one last bit of ridiculousness for the year: Anakin hands the front of the line a greased up watermelon. You have to pass it to the back of the line by stuffing it between your knees and moving it that way without using your hands.

Anakin has extra watermelons for when this breaks.

[OOC: RNG says the results are: Pharp, So Stone Beige, Moop Death, Dingle, and Smitter!]

And We're Done!

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The real winners are the t-shirts you got along the way.

Talk to Anakin

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If you'd like to check in on how not-dead he is this week.

Re: Talk to Anakin

[can_be_more]

"You're looking better," Aeryn noted.

OOC

[sith_happened]

Thank you for making this crack work so well again :D