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 THREE

[sith_happened]

Prompto on Raft 3 to Tahani on Raft 4
Mae on Raft 3 to Shuri on Raft 4
Alexis on Raft 3 to Elli on Raft 4
Jules on Raft 3 to Freya on Raft 4]

Raft 3's balloons are half full of red Kool-Aid and half full of chocolate pudding. The chocolate pudding ones are pretty fun to throw, tbh. 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: This round goes TEAM MAST MEAN, TEAM THE BROWN, TEAM IMPACT, and then TEAM BLAME!]

Re: ROUND THREE

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae was going to keep being kind of terrible at this. Maybe Shuri could make up for it?

Re: ROUND THREE

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri was only going to be able to do so much--she was laughing too hard at the screeching from Tahani after she'd gotten hit (by Shuri...shh) with a balloon full of chocolate pudding to be paying all of her attention at Mae.

Re: ROUND THREE

[thishouseishaunted]

That was fine, Mae didn't actually feel the need to wait for her attention.

"INCOMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!" she bellowed, and launched a red kool-aid balloon at Shuri.

Re: ROUND THREE

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"Ack!" Shuri said, ducking instead of catching.

And now she was red and sticky.

Re: ROUND THREE

[thishouseishaunted]

“STRIKE ONE!” Mae cried. “How about a curveball next?”

Re: ROUND THREE

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"How about you just throw one at me when I'm paying attention?" Shuri countered.

Re: ROUND THREE

[thishouseishaunted]

“Pfft. Anyone can throw for someone who’s paying attention.”

Re: ROUND THREE

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"Try it, just for fun," Shuri wheedled.

Re: ROUND THREE

[sexy_giraffe]

"WHY AM I COVERED IN PUDDING?!" Tahani sceamed, stomping her foot and almost tipping off of the raft.

Behind her super modded mwahaha Shuri giggled.

Re: ROUND THREE

[thishouseishaunted]

"BECAUSE IT'S FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!"

Re: ROUND THREE

[dauntlessdragoon]

Balancing on her raft wasn't so much of a concern for Freya as she waited for her leg of the race; actually catching the balloons without actually popping them with her claws, however, was.

Yes, these t-shirts were a very good thing right now, she was thinking...