fandomhigh | SHENANINGANS, Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

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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"Like, I ain't sayin' it's ugly," since she didn't mind the colour, "but I am sayin' that it ain't no shade of turquoise I ever heard 'bout..."

Still, she was going to toss it on, her hair pulling itself out of the t-shirt as she did so.

It looked pretty silly over her suit. Oh well.

Mae held her t-shirt up. "It's very boring turquoise," she agreed.

Then she ripped the sleeves out of her t-shirt and pulled it on.

"I'm not really sure what is happening," Julius admitted, pulling on his shirt in confusion.

"It's an island-wide game," Iris said, smiling at him. Her blue eyes lacked pupils and her blonde hair was longer than she was tall, with the ends of it curled up and floating to avoid dragging on the ground. "It's the third year they've held it. Every Wednesday peoples' names get called an' we all get split onto teams to do silly thing's. It's fun. Though the year with the fish were the best."

She missed the murder fish.

"What - what happened with the fish?" Julius asked.

Poor boy assumed they were talking about a real fish.

"It attempted to murder us all with our own nightmares 'cause it were feelin' unappreciated 'bout it's role in our game as a prize to be won and toyed with for a week," she said blithely. "It were on a plaque, see, and it were a great lot of fun to steal it from each other and make improvements to have it ruin the next winner's life a little bit more."

No, seriously, she really missed the murder fish.

"It went away peacefully once it got proper appreciation."

"..."

That. That was a lot of words. That, individually? Made sense. Strung together?

Most emphatically did not.

"I have no idea what you just said."

SHENANINGANS, Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

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