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

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

[grenadesandohana]

"Oh, completely," Steve agreed. "What should our flying object look like?"

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[betterthanaplan]

"Something that won't injure us when it crashes to the ground?"

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[grenadesandohana]

"That would be ideal, yeah," Steve said. "We should probably make sure there's a parachute or two on it."

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[betterthanaplan]

". . . Or we could just . . . not try to fly in something we hack together in an afternoon."

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[grenadesandohana]

"But where's the fun in that?" Steve replied, laughing. "Let's see if there's an inflatable life raft and some chute fabric. We'll pretend it's a jellyfish."

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[betterthanaplan]

Duke sighed. "Swear to god, if you get me killed, I'm going to haunt you."

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[grenadesandohana]

"Where's your sense of adventure?" Steve asked, jamming on his blobfish hat.

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[betterthanaplan]

"Not crashing into the ocean at whatever-the-fuck miles per hour."

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[grenadesandohana]

"That's what the parachute's there to stop," Steve said reasonably.

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[betterthanaplan]

"Uh huh. And you can have fun with that."

Re: Team Blobfish Hats

[grenadesandohana]

"That's what they trained me to do," Steve agreed, grinning.

Oh good, another adrenaline junkie.