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

Re: FINAL ROUND

[chef_chocobro]

Even though Ignis definitely did not want to disappoint his team, he had to admit to being a little distracted by the course, not in its difficulty, but in its certain quirks to remember to impliment later. Actually, his movement through the course was fairly smooth, and he got a little behind at the beginning when he wanted to try to cross the bridge without simply jumping over it, but jumping was one of his strong suits, and he used it well to his advantage.

Although perhaps not enough.

Perhpas he also should have spent a little less time trash talking and goading Prompto and, at one point, going back to help him out when he reached the tumblers and was struggling with them.

Sometimes, you just couldn't turn off your Team Instincts, and, let's be honest, having to backtrack to help Prompto was pretty much just second nature at this point.

Re: FINAL ROUND

[superjoanjett]

Was that another rum bottle whizzing by Ignis' head.

Surely not.

Jessica would never do such a thing.