Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 10, 2020

[sith_happened]

"Good morning, everyone!" Anakin called through his bullhorn. "Welcome to another fun-filled team-building activity!"

Is everyone excited? No? Ahhh, you're learning.

There were laundry baskets out, along with scooters, and roughly 3,000 plastic balls in the center of the blacktop that totally existed, shhh.

"Today we're playing Hungry, Hungry Hippos," Anakin announced. "Without actual hippos."

Which needed to be pointed out around here. "Because they are mean and not into team sports."

Because he'd called a few zoos to find out.

"We'll have three teams today, of six members each. One member each round will lay stomach down, clutching the laundry basket. The second team member will use their legs to push them into the balls at the center of the arena."

Blacktop. Whatever.

"The team with the most number of balls at the end of six rounds win."

"Listen for your names and retrieve your shirts:

TEAM CINNAMON SMELL
Wayne
Alara
Amaya
Stark
Astrid
Mae

TEAM WHAMP
Sidon
Shuri
Danny
Tahani
Shunsui
Alexis

TEAM RED DRESS
Steve
Duke
Beaker
Sabine
Kitty
Tony"

Comments

Arrive and Mingle

[sith_happened]

Get snacks! Have a bad feeling about this! Hide up on the bleachers and hope Anakin doesn't notice you!

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[somethingwithturquoise]

You know what? Summer was completely okay with not having her name called out for this one, yes, and it was going to be nice to just kick back and enjoy the show and take notes on anyone in particular who deserved several free jello shots at the bar that evening.

...as if any of them every came in to take advantage of it, but, y'know, whatever.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[betterthanaplan]

Why did Duke keep coming here? He knew he was going to get dragged into the game. He knew he was going to be at best irritated by what they were supposed to do in said game. He'd gotten nothing out of coming except a handful of ugly t-shirts and a gremlin-bite-shaped scar (on his psyche, not his wrist). And yet here he was.

Well. It wasn't like he had anything better to do.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat had tea, she had a seat in the bleachers, and she had a name that had not been called. As much as she liked to participate in these things, at the moment, she was thinking that was pretty much a perfect Wednesday right there.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[imafuturist]

Tony had been tricked into coming to this. Tricked by the man that he loved! Which was why he was clutching his coffee in a miserable little huddle, glaring at Steve the whole time Skywalker was talking.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[hatesparadise]

Danny was literally only there in case something nuts happened again and he needed to be there in an official capacity. Or it was funny.

He was down with things being funny.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[firstofitskind]

Liam was, for once, not involved in whatever was going on this week.

Which was just fine, because, ugh. Touching people. Gross.

But laughing while other people had to push each other around on little skateboard scooter things? That was fine.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[hashtag_chocobro]

So Prompto was...not planning on actually being here this week, but, after not having been able to find Nina last week and then not being able to get through to her despite countless texts and calls and emails, he was....a little worried. And really hoping that he was just overreacting and she was really just taking a whole damn week to recover from this whole break-up thing (let's be honest, it would not be unlike Nina to do something like that). And he figured the easiest way to find someone who might be able to help him out would be at the activity...

....or just that Nina would be there, ready to throw herself into whatever the game was this week with her cheerfulness and energy amped up full-force in an attempt to prove it to everyone that she was fine, really, she was fine, look at how fine she was!

Look, Nina, he knew how you worked, dammit. But he wasn't seeing her, and the sinking feeling in his stomach just kept getting deeper and deeper...

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[canlendanear]

At this point Alara knew by now that by coming to this every Wednesday, there was a reasonable chance her name was going to be called but she actually didn't mind participating and quite enjoyed it.

Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[sith_happened]

Yes, Team Red Dress, your t-shirts are black. It's a mystery.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[betterthanaplan]

Duke looked at the t-shirt. He looked over at Anakin.

"You were dropped on your head a lot as a child, weren't you."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[sake_shinigami]

Shunsui supposed he should try to stay positive to keep with the spirit of things, but he had to admit he was dreadfully disappointed that his luck seemed to have run out on being able to avoid having to actually participate. But he was finding it difficult, and it didn't help that their team color hardly hit his whole...aesthetic.

He considered it a moment before he shrugged, took off his hat to toss it aside, and then tied the shirt around his head like a bandana. That should count as wearing it, right?

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[thishouseishaunted]

"HUNGRY HIPPOS!" Mae shouted happily. And made teeth gnashing sounds at the nearest person.

She loved Wednesdays.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[throughaphase]

Kitty had spent last night doing tequila shots with Tony for basically no reason.

You don't know how much she did not like her name being called. Or how she was keeping sunglasses on for all of this.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[hatesparadise]

"Wait, no. No, no, no. I'm not part of this," Danny said, backing away from the entire thing.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[stykera]

Was the island trying to encourage Stark to socialize with these Wednesday morning activities? Was Anakin? Did he just have the kind of half-a-face that encouraged this sort of thing? Who knew?

It wasn't like he minded. Bizarre and harmless activities were fine and honestly when things weren't weird he sometimes felt out of place.

So here he was with a new colored t-shirt for the week. At least this week seemed less likely to be slimey. Or gooey.

Round One

[sith_happened]

[Alara pushes Wayne, Shuri pushes Sidon, Duke pushes Steve. RNG says it goes: Team Red Dress, Team Whamp, Team Cinnamon Smell.]

Re: Round One

[heroic_jawline]

Steve bellyflopped onto their scooter thing and bent his knees up for Duke to use his legs for steering. "This isn't the weirdest thing I've ever done," he said, grabbing the laundry basket, "but it's up there."

Round Two

[sith_happened]

[Amaya pushes Alara, Danny pushes Shuri, Beaker pushes Duke. RNG says it goes: Team Cinnamon Smell, Team Whamp, Team Red Dress.]

Re: Round Two

[betterthanaplan]

Duke looked at the scooter. He looked at Beaker.

"No."

Round Three

[sith_happened]

[Stark pushes Amaya, Tahani pushes Danny, Sabine pushes Beaker. RNG says it goes: Team Whamp, Team Red Dress, Team Cinnamon Smell.]

Re: Round Three

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep mee!" Beaker declared triumphantly even as the laundry basket he was trying to hold up was the size of his entire body.

Round Four

[sith_happened]

[Astrid pushes Stark, Shunsui pushes Tahani, Kitty pushes Sabine. RNG says it goes: Team Whamp, Team Cinnamon Smell, Team Red Dress]

Re: Round Four

[sake_shinigami]

Well, this should be interesting...but after watching a few rounds, Shunsui was feeling slightly better about an activity where half of it did involve him lying down.

He gave his partner a beaming smile, gesturing toward the scooter. "Tahani-chan~ ♥," he offered invitingly, "whenever you're ready, duckling ♥."

Round Five

[sith_happened]

[Mae pushes Astrid, Alexis pushes Shunsui, Tony pushes Kitty. RNG says it goes: Team Cinnamon Smell, Team Red Dress, Team Whamp.]

Re: Round Five

[thishouseishaunted]

"YES! Finally!" Mae had been watching the rounds so far just waiting for her turn. She looked around for Astrid. "Ready to pretend-eat some balls?"

FINAL ROUND

[sith_happened]

[Wayne pushes Mae, Sidon pushes Alexis, Steve pushes Tony. RNG says it goes: Team Red Dress, Team Whamp, Team Cinnamon Smell, but it's close.]

Re: FINAL ROUND

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae flung herself happily down onto the scooter. "LET'S DO THIS THING FOR CINNAMON SMEEEEELLLLLLLLL!!!!!"

AND THE WINNERS: TEAM RED DRESS

[sith_happened]

But only barely. Well played, teams!

Re: AND THE WINNERS: TEAM RED DRESS

[heroic_jawline]

"WHOOOO!"

Sorry, hungover members of Team Red Dress. Steve was enthusiastic.

Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

If you must!

OOC

[sith_happened]

Sorry this took forever, gang. CJ ran off down the street and I had to take a walk for an hour.

Re: OOC

[throughaphase]

Clearly everyone else on Red Dress is gonna have to step it UP.