fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 15, 2020

It was a beautiful day in the park, where a punk-looking pink chameleon with piercings and a studded net stood with Anakin. It didn't even look scary! There was just a covered cart behind them which held quite a few cages that would safely hold bugs.

"When the universe contemplates beauty, it imagines the silhouette of the long locust," Flick said, to himself but also to everyone else, before realizing he'd said it aloud. "Oh! Um. Sorry. Lost in my thoughts…"

"Is there any way you can turn off the frelling music?" Anakin asked Flick, and not for the first time. "It stopped being cheerful and started being annoying by mid-Monday."

"The only music I hear is the music of the robust cicadas," Flick answered.

So, no.

"I didn't know cicadas were such accomplished musicians," Anakin said sourly. "Welcome to our weekly meet-up, everyone! Flick here has decided to help us."

Muted meeping came from a grove of trees.

"Beaker has fallen into a hole," he added.

"Hello and welcome to the bug-off," Flick announced. "The goal is to catch as many bugs as possible in three minutes from anywhere on the island and bring them to us. Every bug you net gets you points. If you don't want them afterwards, you can sell them to me. I can pay a little extra- no price is too high for my chitinous kindred! Oh… and if you're um, interested in my art at all, just let me know, My commissions are open ok bye."

"We will work in teams," Anakin said, "and send you out to different parts of the island so everyone isn't getting smacked with a net going after the same bugs."

Which would be entertaining, but so were the holes. "To make this more interesting, Flick has planted--" he blinked, '--what did you call them again?"

"Pitfall seeds," Flick said, shrugging. "If you step on it, you'll fall in a hole."

"Meep meep MEEP meep," Beaker agreed from the hole he was in.

"So, yes. We're catching bugs for money," Anakin said. "It's not the weirdest thing I've had you do."

It was up there, though.

"Listen for your names! And thank you to the Able Sisters for their generous donation of costuming this week!"

Were you afraid? Good.

Team Astronaut
Astrid
Alara
Sabine
Miguel
Tahani

Team Sailor Suit
Steve R.
Tisarwat
Kitty
Rosa
Danny

Team Flapper
Duke
Sidon
Zoe
Tony
Alexis

Team Frog
Steve M.
Wayne
Mae
Magnus
Silver

Team Disney Princess
Jaskier
Rey
Grog
Liam
Amaya

Team Meta-For-Tron Ripoff
Barry
Yasha
Prompto
Stark
Summer

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"Not officially, but I've been stationed in more than my fair share of jungles, so I've learned out of self-preservation," Steve replied.

"Then you have more experience than I do," Silver said with a smile. "I'll count on you to lead us to victory."

"Copy that," Steve said. "We win the pride of a job well done and a lot of bugs?"

"And we get some of those bell things if we sell them," he said. "I guess currency is currency."

Steve laughed. "Bells don't seem that practical long-term, though."

Wait until you're here for soap opera weekend, Steve, and the island runs on the profits of forbidden sushi.

"If we keep having never ending pockets the bells could be long term," he said. "Though I'm trying not to think too hard on how the pockets are possible."

"I pulled two axes out of them," Steve said.

"...that's pretty impressive." All he got out of his pockets was a ladder he couldn't even use without a great deal of effort. "And now you have free axes."

"And who can't use more axes, right?" Steve said, legitimately excited about more weapons.

"I'm personally not particularly fond of them--" Seeing that's how he lost his leg. "--but it's more exciting than a ladder which is what I got."

"Well, I have two," Steve said. "I can trade you an axe for a ladder."

"You have a deal," Silver said with a smile. "And here I thought I'd get nothing out of today except bells and bugs."

Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 15, 2020

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