fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, August 12, 2020

Today's games were not being held in the park, which should have been a red flag. Fortunately, Anakin has provided a red flag!

Twenty feet up.

At the end of a very gross-looking wooden pole.

"Today you're all out of for yourselves," Anakin yelled from the top of recycled "Let's Pretend We Can Fly" scaffolding, which had a 40-foot long greased up telephone pole balanced between it about 20 feet up. "Many thanks to our local bars and restaurants for providing the lard, grease, fish guts, Crisco and bacon fat to really lube this thing up."

Beaker, covered in said grossness, looked decidedly less grateful.

"The rules are simple," Anakin said. "Whoever gets across the pole and reaches the flag wins all you can eat at Mooby Burger for a week! You may walk, run, or slide your way across, but you may not use supernatural powers."

Whether Mooby Burger was a good prize or not was entirely up to the winners.

"And thank you in advance to the following people for volunteering!"

Which may be news to those volunteers.

"Sidon, Steve Rogers, Tisarwat, Rosa, Shuri, Stark, Prompto, Rey, Eleanor, Freya, Wayne, Shunsui, Amaya, Summer, Sabine, Steve McGarrett, and Barry! Get on up here!"

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The RNG declares that only Barry, Rosa, and Rey make it across to retrieve the flag, but you can mod how very, very close (or not at all) you got!

Sidon was not wasting any time in the pursuit of this challenge, feeling incredibly stoked to have such a fascinating physical challenge ahead of them. "Ha-ha!" he laughed, pumping his fist and flashing the other competitors a grin as he pumped his fist encouragingly. "Last one across is a frozen lizalfo!"

With that, he got to the task of getting himself up there and beginning what would surely be an arduous trek across, but one he was grateful he had these nice convenient claws for!

Barry stood at the foot of the pole and made a pretense of a yawn.

Ten seconds later a loud vrooming sound like a rocket was heard. He simply held his arms out as a rocket pack zoomed in and attached itself to Barry's back. Immediately he flew up to the top of the pole and grabbed the flag.

"You didn't say anything about technology!" Barry shouted down to Anakin.

"It's still really tacky!" Anakin yelled back.

"Does it help I'm vegetarian and don't want the burgers?" He called back waving his flag in victory.

Rey was pretty used to making her way across things like this by now, the grease was just an added complication.

So she made her way slowly across, her foot slipping a little once or twice, but never bad enough that it looked like she'd actually fall. See, this is why she was careful about things.

Also because there was food at stake.

Anakin didn't have favorites, but he was definitely watching carefully to see how Rey did on this.

He didn't want to add greased-up logs to their weekly workouts--the smell would kill them.

"No remotes!" she called down.

Just in case.

Steve, like the good tactician he was, had studied the various approaches people had been taking and he decided on keeping his shoes on and just charging across.

He got about two-thirds along the pole before he lost his footing and plunged into the water below.

He'd be smelling like fish for a while, too.

Eleanor didn't make it five feet before she slipped and fell into the water. "This is definitely my least favorite lube experience," she declared.

Steve decided on a belly-to-the pole crawling attempt which was going to be both incredibly smelly and not-as-efficient as he wanted.

He made it halfway across on his first attempt, but if you thought he wouldn't be out here practicing until he got it right, you didn't know Steve very well.

Sabine was quick and little, and she was pretty sure she could just go and be okay.

And she was.

Till about five feet away from the end when her boot caught a particularly bad lump of whatever and sent her tumbling below.

She was so mad.

Summer Shenanigans, August 12, 2020

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