Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 24, 2020

[sith_happened]

Today the shenanigans were inside the Danger Room because even Anakin couldn't source enough strawberry Jello powder to make a dent on the water surrounding the island.

The unwilling victims people showing up would find themselves looking down onto a huge rec room decorated for a child's birthday, complete with streamers, balloons, and a massive pinata (easily the size of a chair) swinging from the ceiling.

And the floor was entirely covered in red liquidy-goo..stuff...because Anakin wasn't actually going to cover everything in lava.

"Welcome to the Floor is Lava!" Anakin's voice boomed out to the audience. "...my son Christopher helped this week. You will work in teams of three to get from one end of the room to the other without falling into the extremely realistic lava...stuff. The fastest team will win a lava lamp but there are prizes for all! Listen for your names. Oh, and no powers, please."

Or sit around and eat fruit gummies, popcorn, cupcake, and goldfish crackers because Christopher had assisted with snacks, too.

TEAM ONE
Liam
Duke
Freya

TEAM TWO
Shuri
Astrid
Mae

TEAM THREE
Alexis
Shunsui
Summer

TEAM FOUR
Elli
Stark
Kitty

TEAM FIVE
Prompto
Wayne
Rey

TEAM SIX
Jaye
Tisarwat
Amaya

TEAM SEVEN
Tony
Sidon
Alara

TEAM EIGHT
Steve
Beaker
Magnus

Comments

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[firstofitskind]

“Suppose it does,” Liam agreed. “Sometimes I do wonder what it would’ve been like, if they’d known about me. My parents, I mean. But that’s a thought experiment likely not worth dwelling on,” he continued with a twist of his lips into a wry little smile at the callback to their conversation earlier in the week.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[betterthanaplan]

Duke nodded. "Fair enough." He didn't spend much time thinking about what it would have been like if he'd actually been adopted instead of his mother showing back up after his father died, after all. "So. What else are you doing for your birthday today?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[firstofitskind]

A halfhearted shrug. "No real plans," he told Duke. "Might see if a friend on the mainland's free for dinner, but that's about it."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[betterthanaplan]

“Big parties are for kids, anyway,” Duke observed. “Swing by the diner sometime, though. I’ll comp you a beer or something.”

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[firstofitskind]

Only Liam had never been a kid, and thus had skipped that entirely. Not that Duke had any idea.

“Thanks,” Liam said, genuinely touched by the offer. “Only... make it a soda instead?” he asked. The other day notwithstanding, he generally avoided alcohol.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[betterthanaplan]

“Sure,” Duke said. “Whatever you want. Hence the ‘or something.’”

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[firstofitskind]

“Oh,” Liam laughed, if a little sheepishly. “Right. Yeah. I guess that would cover a number of possibilities, wouldn’t it?”

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[betterthanaplan]

“That it could. You could even go nuts and ask for a dessert.”

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[firstofitskind]

An expression that was, for lack of a better word, boyish, flitted across Liam's face for just a second.

The suggestion might have seemed like no big deal from Duke's perspective.

From Liam's? It kind of was a big deal.

"Dessert, huh? I might just."