Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, May 26, 2021

[sith_happened]

When everyone arrived in the park, they would notice that the observation bleachers had been moved to the center of the area and the rest of it was covered in what seemed to be a squirrel-sized Ninja Warrior obstacle course.

Surely this would end well.

Anakin--Beaker was nowhere to be found--was standing behind the folding table that normally had a number of terrible t-shirts for the teams to wear. This week the shirts seemed...strangely tiny...but that was probably nothing to worry about, nor was the piles of brightly colored fake rabbits' feet, nor was the ray gun propped up against the table leg.

Anakin was from space, after all. Maybe today he brought a ray gun?

"We already did an obstacle course around town," Anakin began, yelling through the megaphone, "and one with mud last summer. So this year, to save money, I made this physically difficult course smaller--" sure, "--and will simply shrink you all to fit into it!"

...wait.

"Thank you to Barry for your assistance in this matter. The gun works as intended and is completely safe, right Beaker?"

Beaker, squirrel-sized, saluted from on top of his pile of t-shirts. "Meep!"

And if you can't trust Beaker for scientific safety, who could you trust? "You will be in six teams of four. Each of you must make a complete circuit around the course, though you may assist each other in figuring out how to get through the various obstacles. Your brains and mouths still work, after all. Listen for your names and then come down to get zapped--" technical term--"and receive your accessories." He did not say anything about not using powers this week.

TEAM SQUIRREL VICTORY
Alara
Troy
Tahani
Iris

TEAM BIRD FEEDER
Cait
Sidon
Harry
Ben

TEAM SQUIRREL YOGA
Beaker
Dwight
Clare
Ignis

TEAM SQUIRRELS RUN THE WORLD
Jessica
Summer
Astrid
Prompto

TEAM PROTECT YOUR NUTS
Lana
Belle
Nina
Duke

TEAM HAWAIIAN SQUIRRELS
Stark
Cara
Steve M.
Tisarwat

Comments

Arrive and Mingle

[sith_happened]

Get some moddable snacks! Wonder what fresh hell awaits you this week!

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[badassprodigy]

If you didn't think Barry wasn't showing up to watch this, you were all so wrong.

Besides if anything went wrong he wanted to make sure no one melted.

Not that was a danger to anyone. Really.

Honest.

Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[sith_happened]

PS: those aren't rabbits' feet. They are synthetic squirrel tails on belts for you to wear. There are also headbands with ears. Think this, but with a shirt, too.

Voluntolds, get oh-so-handwavily and without any mishaps shrunk, grab your shirts, tails, and ears, and complain to anyone who will listen. Anakin will not be listening.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[craic_killer]

"I'm already not tall," Clare squeaked from eight inches off the ground, "so this is just ridiculous."

She paused and looked at her shirt. "The clothes are cute, though?"

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[grenadesandohana]

Steve was going to be laughing for a long time about his extremely hideous squirrel themed aloha shirt. He wondered if Chin had one of these already.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[stykera]

Look, a tiny alien in a tiny Hawaiian shirt glaring in Anakin's direction!

"Why."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[x_discospider_x]

Guess who kept looking down and noticing the squirrel on his shirt, getting midly startled and freaking out a little and trying to brush the squirrel off it?

If you guessed Troy, congratulations! You guessed right!

Seriously. You'd think after the third time or so he'd start catching on, but why they gotta make him look so realistic??

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

"Fantastic!" Sidon proclaimed, getting a load of himself with all the same proporitions before looking around at the world that suddenly seemed so much larger in every respect. "Oh, this is wonderful! So this is how it must feel for you all on a regular basis!"

Sidon.

He chuckled a little to himself. "Marvelous!"

He was so tiny! It was so novel! He still didn't really care much for the whole wearing a t-shirt of it all, but he was always a good spirit regardless, and this was just...

Why, he hadn't felt so smoll in almost a century! Brilliant!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Yeah, right," Summer snorted as she looked at her shirt. "In their dreams."

Oh, Summer, you had no idea, did you?

But whatever, she was here to totally represent it for Team All L.S. Plus One.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[betterthanaplan]

“Are we sure this shirt won’t give the radio squirrels ideas?”

Don’t mock the squirrels when you were squirrel-sized, Duke.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[momslilassassin]

"Sometimes I really worry about his brain," Ben said, looking down at his very personalized "Your Name Here" squirrel bird feeder shirt.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[chef_chocobro]

When Ignis wasn't looking at the so-called shirt he was apparently expected to wear, he was looking over at Prompto with a very firm expression that made it very clear that he was not particularly pleased about getting roped into this.

This being more so the shirt than the being roped into being shrunked down and made to run an obstacle course. That felt almost a little par for the course from what he could expect from this place, and, honestly, the whole thing was giving him some ideas that he might impliment wiht Gladio for their own training back home.

It would only be fitting, after all. What goes around, comes around, Prompto...

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[superjoanjett]

Jessica had just returned from her trip to New York and time with Annie and was walking by when her name was called out.

"Oh. Oh hell no," she grumbled.

And then saw that involved her getting shrunk.

"This is fucked up."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[bookbeltof_love]

You know what?

Nina was okay with this! (At least until later when she was stuck in another conversation still tiny while he'd returned to normal-size.)

"Ohmygosh, like, I don't think our squirrels should have weapons!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[imawizard]

This actually did seem like something that could happen back home, at least, even if the method was all wrong. So Harry was at least resigned to this.

Because he didn't have a choice.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[noonedecidesmyfate]

This counted as an adventure, Belle decided. A very, very strange one but certainly an adventure.

She was going to try and enjoy it and not think too hard about how she was now the size of a rodent.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[unusual_sith]

Lana didn't have a master that harped about size not mattering, but she was at least familiar with the concept.

She still wasn't particularly happy about it, mind you, but there were worse fates. Just so long as this was temporary.

She actually kind of enjoyed the shirt.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[wrongkindofsith]

The island regularly turned Cara into a chipmunk, so she was much more annoyed the shirt than her size.

Everybody Race!

[sith_happened]

The course begins with you climbing up a pole to a wooden platform. The entire course takes place three feet from the ground, which isn't a big deal when you're normal sized, but it more challenging now that you're all wee. You then run across a rickety ladder which was designed to spin over and drop you on the ground. Then you run through a tall wooden maze; jump through two platforms of foam-covered tumblers designed to dump you on the ground, one vertical and one horizontal; face off against a decoy squirrel standing on a pad that will launch you into the air if you linger too longer wondering what the hell a decoy squirrel was doing on the course; then another jump to get to a bridge made of slinkees which will not hold your weight; another jump to a place to pause and get your photo taken by sticking your head through one of those tourist-trappy plywood cutout things (and Anakin is taking every. single. picture and will treasure them always); and then a six part quad step jump, where the boards are stuck at 45 degree angles and you need to jump from one to the next. If you slow down, you'll loose momentum and fall back to the ground and have to start the whole thing over.

The course ends with a birdfeeder full of nuts and rum set on a weight-sensitive platform. Each player goes through and lands on the platform, signaling that their teammate should start the course at the beginning. The first teammate who lands there after the entire team has gone through the course will trigger all of the prizes, celebratory banners, and a confetti cannon.

His is an evil laugh.

Round One

[sith_happened]

Alara, Cait, Beaker, Jessica, Lana and Stark, this is you!

RNG says the race starts off:
1. SQUIRRELS RUN THE WORLD
2. SQUIRREL VICTORY
3. PROTECT YOUR NUTS
4. HAWAIIAN SQUIRRELS
5. SQUIRREL YOGA
6. BIRD FEEDER

Mod what tripped you up! Yell at the other teams' players! Ask for help from your teammates! Make threads messy!

Round Two

[sith_happened]

Troy, Sidon, Dwight, Summer, Belle and Cara, this is you!

RNG says:
1. SQUIRREL VICTORY
2. SQUIRRELS RUN THE WORLD
3. BIRD FEEDER
4. HAWAIIAN SQUIRRELS
5. PROTECT YOUR NUTS
6. SQUIRREL YOGA

Round Three

[sith_happened]

Tahani, Harry, Clare, Astrid, Nina and Steve M!

One of the radio squirrels has replaced the squirrel decoy! You must bribe them with rum or juicy gossip or they will activate the trap door they're standing on and drop you to start the course over again.

RNG says:
1. PROTECT YOUR NUTS
2. BIRD FEEDER
3. SQUIRREL YOGA
4. HAWAIIAN SQUIRRELS
5. SQUIRREL VICTORY
6. SQUIRRELS RUN THE WORLD

FINAL ROUND

[sith_happened]

It all comes down to you, Iris, Ben, Ignis, Prompto, Duke, and Tisarwat!

The radio squirrel is still there, demanding their bribe, but if you beat the other teams to the end, fame and glory await you!

Or rum and nuts. One of those.

RNG says congratulations to: TEAM BIRD FEEDER!

The rest come in:
2. PROTECT YOUR NUTS
3. SQUIRREL YOGA
4. HAWAIIAN SQUIRRELS
5. SQUIRREL VICTORY
6. SQUIRRELS RUN THE WORLD

Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

Or glare! Or both!

Re: Talk to Anakin!

[superjoanjett]

"I want that picture. Deleted. Forever," Jessica demanded.

And hello to you too, Anakin.

OOC

[sith_happened]

That was a LOT of OCD :)

Re: OOC

[bookbeltof_love]

a) THIS IS AMAZING and b) can the voluntolds remain shrunk for the rest of the afternoon should their player choose that?