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"

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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."

Re: Round Two

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meee?" Beaker replied, flexing his...non existant Muppet arm muscles.

Re: Round Two

[betterthanaplan]

"No," Duke said again.

He'd seen this guy in yoga. And with the water balloons last week.

"You're basically made of felt, man. It'd be like using a piece of paper to push a . . . I don't know, something way heavier than paper."

Re: Round Two

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep," Beaker said, deflating. "Meep meep? He held up one Muppety finger, then pulled an (unlit!) stick of dynamite from his pocket (as you do...), and gestured towards Duke's legs.

He'd go faster, for sure, Beaker, but. Um.

Re: Round Two

[betterthanaplan]

Duke just kind of stared for a long moment, absolutely horrified.

"Where did you even get that?!"

Re: Round Two

[meepmeepmeep]

...did your pockets not have dynamite in them, too? Beaker was confused. His lab coat was a marvel of sight gags and explosions.

"Meep?" Beaker replied.

Re: Round Two

[betterthanaplan]

“No!” Duke said, for what felt like the millionth time, and moved to snatch that dynamite from Beaker’s hand. “Bad!”

Duke would not be just artfully singed, Beaker!

Re: Round Two

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep," Beaker said sulkily.

Re: Round Two

[betterthanaplan]

Duke shoved the dynamite into his back pocket, to be carefully stored somewhere later. (What? That thing could come in handy someday.) "Look," he said, then didn't have anything to follow it up with. He rubbed his hand over his mouth. "Just . . . do your best to push, okay? Without explosives."

Re: Round Two

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep!" Beaker said, saluting jauntily.

This was going to end in tears.

Re: Round Two

[betterthanaplan]

Honestly, Duke would just be happy if it didn't end in explosions.

Re: Round Two

[hatesparadise]

"Look, I'm sure you all will have fun with this, but I'm good here," Danny said, eyeing the contraption with horror and disdain. "I'm good."

Re: Round Two

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"But this is for the glory of Team Whamp, whatever a whamp is," Shuri pleaded.

Re: Round Two

[hatesparadise]

"Whamp is nothing. It's made up." All language was made up, Danny.

Re: Round Two

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"I pushed Sidon around," Shuri said, pointing to Sidon on the wiiiiild chance that Danny had missed allllll of Sidon. "And I did it without any of this whining."

Re: Round Two

[hatesparadise]

HE HAD SUCCESSFULLY REPRESSED THAT UNTIL NOW, SHURI.

"I'm not whining." He whined. Whinely.

Re: Round Two

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"You are very definitely whining," Shuri told him. "And you a grown man."

Re: Round Two

[hatesparadise]

She earned points for not qualifying that.

"Fine. Let's just make this fast."

Re: Round Two

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"That is the point, yes," Shuri said archly.

Re: Round Two

[hatesparadise]

"Get on the stupid buggy," Danny sighed. He regretted coming her already.

Re: Round Two

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"You're good at driving, right?" Shuri checked, hopping onto the scooter thing.

Re: Round Two

[special_rabbit]

As silly as it was, Amaya had to admit, this was one of her favorites, but mostly for one reason.

"After years of pushing around the Crumbler," she noted with a faint grin at Alara, "pushing you around should be a cinch. Whenever you're ready, I am an excellent driver."