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fandomhigh2020-05-13 10:32 am
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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
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
Fresh Eggplance!
No, Ulysses should not have been surprised. He'd spent an entire school year here, he knew signups or lack thereof meant nothing. He was still going to kind of gape his way through getting a shirt.
"'Eggplance' isn't even a word."
Re: Fresh Eggplance!
It was blue. Blue was fine.
Re: Fresh Eggplance!
'Cause he was still pulling the shirt on. (He wore too much denim of various levels of distress to not look great in blue, anyway.)
Re: Fresh Eggplance!
Sorry, Ulysses.
Re: Fresh Eggplance!
And just in time for Anakin announcing Julius for a different team.
He was not nearly as subtle about the little disappointed face he made as he would've liked to think, although he made a valiant effort at just brushing that off and soldiering on. "So what do you think we'll actually do here?"
Re: Fresh Eggplance!
Nina had caught that disappointed and she loved it and now she was just beaming at him, like a small, energetic sun.
Julius was cute and smart and kind and, like, she totally got it.
"I'm sure we'll find out," she said blithely. "You were hoping Julius would be on our team???????????????????"
Re: Fresh Eggplance!
Nice try, Uly. Truly.
Re: Fresh Eggplance!
An eye candy asset.
Re: Fresh Eggplance!
"I mean. I guess?" he said, running a hand through his curls in a way that just made him look extra awkward. "But, uh. I don't really like, know him well enough to make a call like that."
But he wanted to.