SHENANINGANS, Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

[sith_happened]

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

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Hail to the Winners!

[sith_happened]

And the winners are....

Lake of Aluminum Crab!

(Followed by Pretty in Spring Turquoise, Sweet De Crocus, and Fresh Eggplance.)

Give 'em a hand, everyone!

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[betterthanaplan]

"Hell yeah, Aluminum Crab!"

Okay, yes, he'd gotten pretty into the race. He'd really needed a distraction today.

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[firstofitskind]

"Good job, us," Liam agreed cheerfully.

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[betterthanaplan]

"Well swum, man. Couldn't have done it better myself."

He maybe could have. Duke was a very good swimmer.

. . . Though today he would have been delayed trying to send photos of it to Octavia in hopes that shark floats would be fun enough to get her to respond.

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[firstofitskind]

"Thanks," Liam laughed. "It was a little colder than I usually like, but at least I had that t-shirt?"

Which he'd promptly changed back out of as soon as he'd emerged from the water. Aluminum Crab was not his color.

(No colors were his color, honestly.)

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[betterthanaplan]

"That lovely shirt," Duke said, picking at his own (which he was still wearing). "Not sure what part about this is meant to signify either aluminum or crabs."

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[firstofitskind]

“Maybe the shirt is meant to symbolize the lake, and the aluminum crabs are all under water?” Liam tried.

Yeah, he really didn’t know.

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[betterthanaplan]

"And maybe someone grabbed random words out of a hat. Or put that Beaker guy though a translator program."

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[firstofitskind]

“I’ve known aliens with a better grasp of the English language,” Liam conceded.

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[sexy_giraffe]

"You're all terribly welcome," Tahani said humbly.

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[betterthanaplan]

Duke offered her a fist bump. "Thank you for not wiping out on those stairs."

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[sexy_giraffe]

"Especially in these shoes!"

Which were super cute, but not very practical.

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[betterthanaplan]

"Especially in those shoes," Duke agreed. "Let me guess, you had no idea you were going to do this today?"

He'd had no idea he'd be doing this today.

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[sexy_giraffe]

"I had no idea we were doing this today," Tahani said. "What even is this?"

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[betterthanaplan]

“Annual tradition. Apparently. I wasn’t actually here last summer.”

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[sexy_giraffe]

"So he does this once a year and then we all don't have to aggressively do weird sporting events?" Tahani checked. "Since we won, we don't do this again, right?"

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[legionqueen]

First Monday, and now this? If she didn't know any better, she'd say Anakin had it out for her.

(She did know better, honestly, but right now everything hurt and she didn't know how she was going to manage to drag herself back to the dorms.)

She did, at least, manage to clap for the winning team. Sure, she didn't know anyone on it except for her former teacher and the girl who'd been so scared of Camden that she'd cried, but details.

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[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Hey, are you okay?" Julius asked, stopping by his big sib in concern. "You look a little..."

Not okay.

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[legionqueen]

'Not okay' was pretty spot on, yeah.

Jules grimaced from where she lay sprawled out on the grass.

"I was poisoned last year," she said blithely. "Sometimes..." Sometimes her body liked to remind her of that fact. "Things don't work right."

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[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Here?!" Julius asked, looking around as if he could spot a poisoner lurking around in the bushes.

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[legionqueen]

And that, at least, surprised a giggle out of Juillenne?

"Oh, no, no, no," she assured him quickly. "Not here. Back home."

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[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Oh, that I get," Julius said, with a sympathetic nod. "Poison wouldn't work so well, but my family has tried a bunch of other ways for me."

Julius honey, no. This was not the bonding moment you thought it was.

"Do you need some help getting somewhere?" he offered. "I'm pretty strong. I could get you there no problem."

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[legionqueen]

The best part was, the poison hadn't even been meant for her. It had been meant for her foster sister. And was also how they'd found out Arsinoe was, in fact, immune to poison.

"Why would your family try to kill you?" she frowned. Sure, tradition dictated that Arsinoe and her sisters had to fight until there was one Queen standing, but tradition also meant no one on Fennbirn really considered the triplets to be each others' family. "If you don't mind me leaning on you on the way back to the dorms," she said with a resigned sigh. "I'd appreciate it."

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[amitragic]

Ulysses managed like, two very half-hearted claps for the winners before rubbing his hands on his face and then back through his hair.

Right, note to self: maybe avoid the park on Wednesdays...?

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[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Oh wow, second place! Julius was so used to being last that even second felt like a victory. Granted, he hadn't helped his team much, but he hadn't held them back too badly, either.