fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Well, Anakin's clothing options had shrunk considerably overnight, which was why he was dressed like a hipster rather than a Jedi.

At least he wasn't boiling in the robe because it was easily 100 degrees outside with humidity to match.

"Today we're combining the fun of a color run with the other fun of a tough mudder," Anakin announced into the megaphone from under his hat.

Your idea of fun might vary considerably!

"Working in teams, you will complete obstacles located around the island, and when you're finished each one, Beaker will dump dye on you."

Beaker, currently an unnatural shade of teal, meeped in what he incorrectly thought was a supportive way.

"First team across the finish line and into the water wins. Listen for your names. There are three teams of five."

TEAM ONE
Alexis
Wayne
Mae
Tahani
Elli

TEAM TWO
Iris
Rosa
Rey
Steve M.
Stark

TEAM THREE
Jules
Alara
Eleanor
Shuri
Cait Sith

Anakin looked momentarily embarrassed. "The t-shirts I had for you seem to have disappeared overnight. Apologies."

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Bitch about the heat! Complain about where your clothing has gone! Grab a swimsuit from a nearby tree, which is apparently a thing today!

Mae may not acknowledge that she looked like a black cat, but she still looked like a black cat. which meant she was extra baking out here today, and rather thinking of just ditching the shenanigans and throwing herself into the water.

But, you know. The mud looked kinda fun.

She'd been wearing the same clothes all week, but let's be real, she did that fairly regularly anyway. So she hadn't noticed her clothes disappearing, just yet. . . .

As she walked around wishing it wasn't so hot out, Eleanor finally spotted a familiar face.

"Hey! I know you! You're-"

Probably saying cat-faced girl wasn't the best way to approach this.

"Mae?" ending what was supposed to be a hello but ended up being a question.

Mae looked down at herself as though to double check, then looked back up at Eleanor. "And you're . . . Shrimp Girl."

Congrats, Eleanor, you were better at names than Mae was!

Lucky guess, really.

"Close enough," Eleanor agreed and gestured to the obstacle course in front of them. "So what's all this bullshirt about? Did the island turn into some kind of game show?"

"Every Wednesday every summer the dean makes us run around doing something stupid for his own entertainment," Mae said cheerfully. "It's fun!"

Mae's perspective was not everyone's perspective, no.

Eleanor let out a chuckle of amusement. "People in the heat falling down in the mud and making ashes out of themselves," she said happily. "It's like watching YouTube fails in person. I feel sorry for the forkers who have to go through that."

Mae, who had been at every shenanigan so far this summer and most of last year's to boot, just grinned broadly.

"Oh yeah. Those suckers are totally, uh. 'Forked'."

"Is there like a betting pool on who flops the most?" Eleanor asked.

". . . Yes," Mae said. "And I'm the bookie."

Do not give her any money, Eleanor.

Eleanor was totally giving Mae money.

"Cool."

Eleanor pulled out $20.

"I was saving this to buy underwear since most of mine is gone, but this should be an easy bet. Who am I betting against?"

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Mae looked around, and pointed to a random person. "Them. Also. . . ." Another random person. "Them. Everyone thinks the first team is going to lose."

Were there even going to be teams? Who knew? But if there were, there'd probably be a first one!

"All right. I'm trusting you on this," Eleanor said. "$20 says the first team loses."

Eleanor was never going to get her money, was she?

"Really?" Mae asked. People almost never just handed her money.

Eleanor was most definitely never getting it back.

"I mean, you want to bet on the same thing everyone else is?"

"Well, yeah!" Eleanor replied cheerfully. "Clearly if the majority of people know they're going to lose then it has to be right."

Eleanor was not what you'd call bright sometimes.

Right, this just became a "you don't know how to bet" tax.

"Okay. If you're sure."

"Abso-forking-lutely. Today everything is coming up Eleanor."

It was absolutely not.

"Oh yeah, totally." Mae nodded rapidly like she hadn't just stolen $20 from Eleanor. "Have fun!"

Steve was there because he was drawn in by the crowd. At home, that generally meant something was going to get shot at or blown up, so it was probably prudent to get eyes on the situation.

...plus there seemed to be food, and Steve was hungry. He hadn't wanted to eat all of the stuff in Danny's kitchen immediately, after all.

This being her first shenanigans, Eleanor wasn't sure what was going on. It looked like a big muddy mess that some poor sucker was supposed to run through.

So even though she looked like a hot mess in gym shorts and a Lonely Gal Margarita t-shirt, she was down with seeing people fall around in the mud.

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All of her suits were missing.

Luckily, she still had some clothes so Iris was here in a pink crop top and teeny, tiny purple shorts.

Her ridiculously, incredibly long blonde hair was up in a high ponytail.

"Ohhhhh, this looks bad."

This week actually wasn't entirely terrible for Rey, a desert girl who was used to getting by with a small wardrobe and washing things when possible.

Until she heard what the challenge was today, and now she was just facepalming.

Alara had missed last week due to being back home for the break and she was definitely missing Xeyala’s temperatures already.

She had never experienced a heatwave before and she had decided she didn’t like this weather experience all too much. Not to mention the fact that the limited amount of clothes that she had with her at Fandom had seemed to disappear.

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