fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 10, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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.]

But only barely. Well played, teams!

If you must!

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

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."

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.

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."

"Really?" Duke asked, looking at Steve and trying to work out just how the hell he was supposed to kick a full grown man around after a bunch of beach balls. "Because I'm pretty sure it tops my list."

Duke looked at the scooter. He looked at Beaker.

"No."

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?

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.

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

She loved Wednesdays.

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 ♥."

"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?"

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

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.

Whatever sort of mixed feelings Astrid may have had bubbling up inside of her stomach over being paired up with Mae for this round dissipated pretty quickly (mostly); it was hard not to be infected by her enthusiasm. She grinned a little, which turned into a small laugh as she considered the scooters and the basket and her....pusher.

"Ready as I'll ever be," she said, feeling disappointed that she was involved in this so that she couldn't actually see what it was going to look like with Mae pushing her, and kneeling down to figure out the best way to actually position herself. Which wasn't at all going to make her feel even more awkward about her gangly height as it was... "Let's get those balls."

God, this was going to be a disaster, wasn't it?

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

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Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Arrive and Mingle

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Round One

Round Two

Round Three

Round Four

Round Five

FINAL ROUND

AND THE WINNERS: TEAM RED DRESS

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