Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 3, 2020

[sith_happened]

So the park wasn't flooded this summer but that wasn't going to stop Anakin from recreating one of his favorite shenanigans from last year--the team balloon toss on rafts.

Because, in case you hadn't figured it out, this was all about Anakin's entertainment.

There were signs directing people to the docks instead of the park today, but there were still the usual snacks and bleachers for attendees to mingle around. There were also big screens set up becuase some of the rafts were far out into the water.

There were four piles of ugly t-shirts, with definitely not matching water wings for those who needed them and/or remembered how very unseaworthy the rafts were last summer.

"Today we are doing a water balloon relay!" Anakin announced through the bullhorn that somehow had never been stolen from him. "A member of each team will be on each raft. In the center of the each raft is a bucket of balloons. The fastest way to win is to catch the balloon from the first raft and transfer it through all six team members without it breaking, but I've met you all. Therefore, if you haven't managed to catch a balloon after three attempts, the next teammate may pull one from the stash in the center of their raft and proceed."

He coughed. "Some of them may not necessarily contain water."

Because he was a bastard like that.

"First team to transfer a balloon successfully through all six teammates wins. Powers are allowed.

So that should make it nicely chaotic.

"Shooting extra balloons at opposing teammembers is encouraged, too."

ANAKIN.

"Listen for your names!"

TEAM THE BROWN
Steve
Rey
Prompto
Tahani
Beaker
Duke

TEAM IMPACT
Kitty
Liam
Mae
Shuri
Jaina
Cait

TEAM MAST MEAN
Amaya
Alara
Alexis
Elli
Astrid
Stark

TEAM BLAME
Iris
Sabine
Juillene (and Camden)
Freya
Summer
Alluka

Comments

ROUND TWO

[sith_happened]

[Rey on Raft 2 to Prompto on Raft 3
Liam on Raft 2 to Mae on Raft 3
Alara on Raft 2 to Alexis on Raft 3
Sabine on Raft 2 to Jules on Raft 3]

Raft 2's balloons are half full of water and half full of red Kool-Aid. Eww. You need to throw (or kick or levitate or whatever) your balloon to your teammate while you're dodging (and potentially they're dodging) whatever the other raft people are throwing at you. If they haven't caught your balloon after the third try, they can grab a balloon from their stash and move on.

[OOC: RNG says it goes TEAM THE BROWN, TEAM BLAME, TEAM MAST MEAN and TEAM IMPACT.]

Re: ROUND TWO

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae was into this! she was not going to be great at it, but damn if she wasn't going to have a total blast!

Re: ROUND TWO

[firstofitskind]

Yeah, telekinesis would be real useful right about now. Maybe someday he'd figure that out. For now, though? Lobbing a balloon in Mae's direction.

Re: ROUND TWO

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae missed by . . . a lot. "Too bad you can't throw, old dude!"

Or, you know, she couldn't catch.

Re: ROUND TWO

[firstofitskind]

Okay, rude, because that throw had been perfect.

His next throw, however, was made a little harder by the fact that his shoulders were shaking with suppressed laughter.

... At a joke that Mae didn't even realize she'd made, but shh.

Re: ROUND TWO

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae leaped to catch it -- and landed in the water.

Oops. Good thing she could swim.

Re: ROUND TWO

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine didn't like being on the water and if anyone knocked her off she was going to hurt them. Really, why did she keep coming to these?

"Ready?" Sabine called, already throwing a balloon so hopefully she was!