SHENANINGANS, Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

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Good morning, Fandom! It was time for the start of the third annual Summer Shenanigans, and Anakin had been secretly prepping for this since last year! (If you think that means he had a stockpile of intensely ugly t-shirts, YOU WOULD BE RIGHT. Give yourself a prize.)

There were bleachers set up for watching the events, food vendors hoping to get you to eat a variety of things that may or may not have any business being deep-fried and put on sticks, and big screens showing various parts of the island, which was definitely a hint that the games today weren't just centered in the park today.

"WELCOME!" Anakin yelled through his bullhorn at the appointed time.

Yes, he knew how to use a bullhorn. He just preferred to make it boom and squeak like that because he was kind of mean.

"Today you will be put into four teams of seven," he said, "and you will be conducting an obstacle course around the island! When your name is called, please collect your t-shirt and briefly say hello to your team."

And complain about your t-shirt color names. Pretty in Spring Turquoise wasn't close to being turquoise and the rest of them were pretty much the same color with different names, so excellent quality control there, Anakin.

"Then you will spread out to the appointed areas. I will shoot off a flare that Beaker--" Beaker meeped and waved, "--had absolutely no part in testing, and that will be your signal for the first group to begin their task. Fastest team back to the park here wins."

There was a pause.

"You win nothing but bragging rights because we've all learned from the fish incident two years ago. If you're new, well, just trust us. No one needs to win a fish." He coughed. "Anyway! Names! Listen up!"

Team Sweet De Crocus
1. Cait
2. Grog
3. Shuri
4. Beaker
5. Alluka
6. Astrid
7. Kitty

Team Fresh Eggplance
1. Nina
2. Stark
3. Wayne
4. Juillene (and Camden)
5. Sabine
6. Alara
7. Ulysses

Team Lake of Aluminum Crab
1. Duke
2. Elli
3. Liam
4. Alexis
5. Summer
6. Freya
7. Tahani

Team Pretty in Spring Turquoise
1. Mae
2. Julius
3. Iris
4. Amaya
5. Shunsui
6. Rosa
7. Rey

Comments

Relay Races!

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LEG 1

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The first two members of each team (Cait & Grog; Nina & Stark, Duke & Elli; and Mae & Julius) must tie their legs together (good thing everyone has legs! Sorry about the hilaaaarious height differences) for a three-legged race from the starting line allll the way through the park, across Apocalypse Avenue and down to the docks to high five their next teammate. Make sure the rope stays tight! If it falls off, you have to start over.

[RNG says this ends up Lake of Aluminum Crab, Fresh Eggplance, Pretty in Spring Turquoise and then Sweet De Crocus.]

Re: LEG 1

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Hrmn.

Cait Sith looked up (and up and up and up) at his assigned partner.

"Weel, laddie," he said. "Ah be seeing some wee difficulties 'ere."

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[grandpoobah]

Grog looked dooooooown and nodded. "I feel like this is gonna end badly. I don't suppose you can just hold onto my leg while we go?"

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[betterthanaplan]

Duke was . . . very aware that he'd been recently arrested under suspicion of being a creep.

"Sooooo." He offered Elli an awkward smile. "You run one of these before?"

Re: LEG 1

[snowdroplace]

She was still sort of bemused over the lack of sign ups (she'd been intending to read!) but this?

"Oh, yes!" she said cheerfully, completely unaware of any potential awkward. "We run three-legged races every year in the summer back home!"

There was a pause as she considered all the stairs.

"With fewer stairs involved," she admitted, laughing.

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[thishouseishaunted]

How did Mae always end up in the three-legged race?

"Hey new dude. You good if I just kinda cling to you and bellow?"

She was a very short girl, okay? And very good at bellowing.

Re: LEG 1

[bookbeltof_love]

"Like, I don't know about you," Nina said, grinning at Stark. Had to be Stark, everyone else for this round was paired off already. "But I'm ready to give it a go if you are???????????????"

LEG 2

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Once the third member of your team has been high-fived successfully, they must get into shark pool floats and swim their way to Galactica Point.

So hopefully Shuri, Wayne, Liam and Iris are all strong swimmers, or this could take a bit.

[OOC: RNG says this goes Lake of Aluminum Crab, Fresh Eggplance, Sweet De Crocus, and Pretty in Spring Turquoise.]

Re: LEG 2

[intraspective]

Oh no.

Iris was not a strong swimmer. She could swim but that was for fun and mostly for playing in pools. When it came to real water like this? She usually just walked over it.

(Don't think she wasn't thinking it, Anakin.)

Still, that would defeat the spirit of this stupid challenge so, still wearing her suit (with her t-shirt tossed over top of it), Iris donned the world's silliest float I want one and began the long, arduous task of swimming out to Galactica Point.

She'd been here for a bit. Sorry, team.

Re: LEG 2

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri got a little bit of a late start because Grog and Cait had...issues...with the three legged race (and then because she couldn't really stop laughing at them and that made it hard to get into her pool float), so she was definitely the last into the water, which was VERY COLD, no love for that, Anakin.

She did her very best to make up some time for her team, though, and managed to beat one other person--sorry about that, Iris.

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[firstofitskind]

Liam was a strong swimmer, as it happened! And decent at it even while saddled with a pool float.

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[howareyanow]

For once, Wayne thought it would've been good fer Sidon to be here, if only because he couldn't help wonderin' if he'd find these floats offensive.

But mebbe him just thinking that was offensive.

No matter! He wasn't even here after all, but Wayne was, and he was s'posed to be swimming, so....pitter-patter.

He felt a little bad about beating ' Shuri at it, but all's fair in love and summer shenanigans!

LEG 3

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You can't come all the way to Galactica Point and not climb up Galactica Point, right?

Anakin has helpfully provided ropes and climbing equipment. What a guy. After your third teammate arrives from the water, high five and then Beaker (oh God), Julienne, Alexis and Amaya get climbing!

[OOC: RNG says this goes Pretty in Spring Turquoise, Fresh Eggplance, Lake of Aluminum Crab, and then Sweet De Crocus.]

Re: LEG 3

[legionqueen]

... Climbing? Climbing?

Camden was going to sit this one out, thanks, leaving Juillenne to do this on her own. And thanks to pure Milone stubbornness, she even managed to come in second!

Re: LEG 3

[lovethatjourney]

Alexis was actually pretty athletic! And she knew how to climb.

She uh, also didn't know what this was beforehand so she only wore stilettos and so that was hindering her a little. She kinda rocked it otherwise though!

Re: LEG 3

[meepmeepmeep]

Well, any progress Shuri had made in the swim was completely lost on Beaker and his noodle arms.

He managed to get tangled up in the ropes not once, but four times, but at least he didn't explode?

...sorry about that time you're going to have to make up there, Alluka.

Re: LEG 3

[special_rabbit]

Oh, Amaya had this. Sure, it was against two kids and Beaker, but it was nice to put those blacksmith arms to good use for her team.

Barely even broke a sweat! If only Galactica Point could have been taller!

LEG 4

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The next team member must run up alllll the steps on Leprechaun Vista and get to Chilly Boulder, where you need to order and drink a large milkshake of whatever flavor the ice cream guy feels like giving you.

Hopefully it's not gross and hopefully you don't get a brain freeze, but...Anakin is kind of betting on at least one of those happening to you, Alluka, Sabine, Summer, and Shunsui. After you're finished, hand off the empty cup to your final teammates!

[RNG says this goes: Sweet De Crocus, Pretty in Spring Turquoise, Fresh Eggplance and Lake of Aluminum Crab.]

Re: LEG 4

[that_oldsaying]

See, now, Alluka was small and cute and spent an awful lot of money in Chilly Boulder.

(Sorry, Kathy.)

So when she came in, all big blue eyes, the large milkshake she got?

All the chocolate.

It took her absolutely no time at all to drink it all before bouncing out of the shop and running to pass her cup off to Astrid and Kitty!

Re: LEG 4

[seriesofbaddecisions]

The running was easy enough, Sabine was quick like a bunny. No, what tripped her up was what they gave her at Chilly Boulder.

"You can't give me the Skywalker in a milkshake," she told them.

They gave it to her anyway. It wasn't any bigger than a normal milkshake, but it was a lot at once.

LEG 5

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Last bit to go, gang! Nothing says "good idea" like a wheelbarrow race back to the park down a bunch of stairs on Minotaur Lane, right? Right.

Watch out for rickshaws, Astrid & Kitty; Alara & Ulysses; Freya & Tahani; and Rosa & Rey!

Re: LEG 5

[throughaphase]

"This is a terrible idea," Kitty said.

She didn't have to say it. But it also had to be said.

Re: LEG 5

[amitragic]

"Fuuuuuck," said Ulysses.

Succinctly.

Re: LEG 5

[sexy_giraffe]

"Well," Tahani said, staring at all the steps. "This looks like a lawsuit."