Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 22, 2020

[sith_happened]

When everyone arrived in the park, they were greeted by a huge set of scaffolding reaching 30 feet (9 meters) into the air set up right next to the pond.

"Today," Anakin intoned, "you will fly!"

Were you afraid, potential volunteers? Good.

"Working in teams, you will construct human-or-other-sentient being-made and powered flying machines. Your size in limited to around 10 meters (30 feet) in diameter and weight-limited to approximately 150 kilos (330 pounds). Your inspiration will come via your team hats, which I painstakingly collected last week."

There would be frog hats again.

"You have all of the tools you need to build your crafts that you then must fly off of this pier at the end of our time together." He smiled in what he thought was a reassuring way. "No one will die. Listen for your names!"

Team Frog Hat
Shuri
Stark
Mae

Team Pancake Hat
Tahani
Rey
Beaker

Team Paper Bag
Sabine
Alara
Freya

Team Blobfish Hat
Alexis
Duke
Steve M.

Comments

Arrive and Mingle

[sith_happened]

Eat snacks, examine the integrity of the giant pier (it's fine. Anakin's an excellent engineer).

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[thishouseishaunted]

Wednesdays were quickly becoming Mae's favorite days. Not only did she get to do something ridiculous and silly -- without getting in trouble -- the last two weeks she'd also gotten random extra cash out of it!

Which she pretty much instantly lost, sure, but that was because Mae was really bad with money. There was still joy to be found in getting it, even if she didn't keep it.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mother_forker]

Speaking of being really bad with money...

"Okay," Eleanor said slipping Mae more money. "Who's everyone betting against?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[thishouseishaunted]

"Pancake hats," Mae said immediately, hand already out for the cash. "Just look at those yahoos. Not a chance they'll make it off the ground."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mother_forker]

Money exchanged hands/paws immediately. "I like those odds. Mama needs a new platter of shrimp."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mother_forker]

Safely securing her bet on the events, Eleanor sat back in her position ready to watch people plummet to their death.

Oh yeah. She was going to enjoy people getting hurt.

That's about a 100 point deduction.

Come on Down, Voluntolds!

[sith_happened]

Get your hats! Plan out and oh-so-handwavily construct a flying contraption that matches them! Wonder at Anakin's sanity!

Team Frog Hats

[sith_happened]

Re: Team Frog Hats

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri put her frog hat on (she was working it, okay) and clapped her hands. "This will be incredible!" she said. "I love creating flying machines. Shall we make it look like a frog on a lilypad or a giant fly?"

Re: Team Frog Hats

[thishouseishaunted]

"I vote giant fly!" Mae said. Surprising no one.

Re: Team Frog Hats

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"Brilliant," Shuri said. "That one will be more of a challenge."

Re: Team Frog Hats

[stykera]

Stark had his hat on, a bit awkwardly over the mask, but still on.

"Do you build flying machines often?"

Team Pancake Hats

[sith_happened]

Re: Team Pancake Hats

[sexy_giraffe]

Tahani gave Beaker a deeply skeptical look, and the pancake hat even more of one. "Do not eat this hat," she told Beaker. "It's not food."

Re: Team Pancake Hats

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep," Beaker said, glaring as much as googly eyes could.

Of course he wasn't going to eat the hat! He wasn't Cookie Monster.

Team Paper Bags

[sith_happened]

Re: Team Paper Bags

[dauntlessdragoon]

"Back home," said Freya, who immediately got started on cutting some holes for her ears I to her paper bag hat, which did not seem to take them into account like her usual hat would, "flying machines require mist to power them, so this should be interesting.""

Team Blobfish Hats

[sith_happened]

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[grenadesandohana]

"Well, it's not a frog hat," Steve said, "but that's about all I can say about it."

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[betterthanaplan]

Duke looked at the blob hats. He looked at his teammates.

"We're all pretty much screwed on this one, aren't we."

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[lovethatjourney]

"NO."

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[grenadesandohana]

"Wear the hat," Steve told her.

Flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[sith_happened]

Tell us about your amazing contraptions and how well you fly and/or sink like a stone when you go off the pier.

Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

Who is wearing, at his daughter's insistence, a salmon maki hat.

OOC

[sith_happened]

I love these hats so much.