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

Comments

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[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.

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[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.)

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[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."

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[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.

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[betterthanaplan]

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

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[firstofitskind]

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

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[betterthanaplan]

"Than Beaker? Or the designer of these shirts?"

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[firstofitskind]

“Than whoever named the shirts.”

Beaker understood English well enough, even if everything he said was ‘meep’, after all.

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[betterthanaplan]

Did he? Duke hadn't spent enough time around him to be able to tell.

"That's . . . seriously possible. You should see some of the crap they put on tshirts overseas."

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[firstofitskind]

“Yeah? Like what?” For all that he’d been everywhere, Liam also hadn’t been a lot of places, like the ones that would sell shirts with random English phrases.

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[betterthanaplan]

"Pretty much exactly the sort of thing you're seeing here," Duke said. "Or, and this was a personal favorite, there was a woman I met in Japan who was wearing a shirt that said 'you've heard of teenagers, haven't you?'"

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[firstofitskind]

“I feel like a shirt like that would actually make a certain amount of sense, here,” Liam snickered.

Re: Hail to the Winners!

[betterthanaplan]

". . . True. Less so in Tokyo, though."