Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 28, 2021

[sith_happened]

"Good morning and welcome to the Fandom Pentathlon!" Anakin said through his bullhorn, surrounded by bunting and Olympic rings. "In the spirit of the Olympic games, we too will be competing in teams in fencing, shooting, cross-country running--"

Beaker beside him was looking more and more panicked. "Meep meep meep meep meep!"

Anakin put down the bullhorn. "You what?"

"Meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep--"

Anakin listened to the extensive explanation with a long sigh. "So. Slight mixup. Beaker has pulled five Olympic sports from a hat and that is what you will be competing! So: skateboarding, pairs canoe slalom, beach volleyball, archery, and equestrian jumping."

More meeping.

"Really? We could not find horses. So...alot of jumping." The alots--kind of buffalo-adjacent but made out of springs--in their pens made alot of noise. Anakin sighed again. "Here goes nothing. Listen for your names."

TOKYO 2021
Astrid
Alexis
Ben
Sam
Troy

ATHENS 2004
Miguel
Summer
Prompto
Harry
Clare

ATLANTA 1996
Stark
Alara
Rey
Sakaki
Steve M

SYDNEY 2000
Wanda
Beaker
Irene
Tahani
Dwight

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COMPETE

[sith_happened]

Oh boy.

SKATEBOARDING

[sith_happened]

Beaker had been busy construction a skate park down by the sand yesterday apparently! Put on your helmet, get on your skateboard and go up and down the slopes and onto the rails without tipping over and braining yourself! Points for jumps and landings, of course.

Astrid and then Alexis, Miguel and Summer, Stark and Alara, and Wanda and Beaker are all up!

[OOC: RNG says:
1. Stark
2. Alara
3. Astrid
4. Wanda
5. Alexis
6. Summer
7. Miguel
8. Beaker]

Re: SKATEBOARDING

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meep," Beaker muttered dubiously as he pulled his helmet on and immediately couldn't see. The perils of a chinless existance!

Re: SKATEBOARDING

[scarlet_chaos]

Oh god, this would have been Pietro's thing, not hers. Wanda managed to stay on the skateboard for a good 90 seconds before it flew out from under her. She had to use her magic to keep from eating pavement.

Re: SKATEBOARDING

[canlendanear]

Alara was amazed that she was not only able to complete the course as well as she did but stay on the skateboard without breaking it.

Re: SKATEBOARDING

[stykera]

Stark had never been on a skateboard in his life. When would Stark have had the opportunity?

There was no reason he ought to have been able to do as well as he did, here. None whatsoever. And yet here he was, making it the entire way through without falling. He was laughing, delighted, by the end.

Re: SKATEBOARDING

[lovethatjourney]

Alexis had never done this before, but she'd met a lot of sk8er bois thanks to that summer she hung out with Avril Lavigne a lot.

How slow could she go on this thing.

Re: SKATEBOARDING

[what_the_shock]

Miguel should have had an easier time of this, since he could balance on the thing just fine!

Unfortunately, he kept misjudging the timing and amount of push he needed. He did some really impressive jumps! And missed the rails and had to keep doubling back to get back on the course.

Re: SKATEBOARDING

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Skateboarding?" Summer frowned a little, as she poked a toe at her board a bit skeptically. "Seriously? Who do I look like, Avril Lavigne?"

Well. At least the year on her shirt felt more appropriate to the event, anyway.

Re: SKATEBOARDING

[white_oleander]

Astrid didn't know a whole lot about skateboarding, but, apparently, sometimes watching her school mates do it in the parking lot of her other high school to sketch their movements was enough to give her a good subconscious grasp of it.

Which surprised her a little, because she was always feeling so awkward in her body that she was certain she was going to totally biff it, but there was something surprisingly...freeing about it, and once she got out there, she just sort of felt it and it was kind of incredible?

Was she going to have to pick up skateboarding now?

You could do a lot of cool art stuff with boards, actually...

PAIRS SLALOM CANOE

[sith_happened]

Get a different helmet and a lifejacket and get ready to tip over in the rapids! Ben & Sam, Prompto & Harry, Rey & Sakaki, and Irene & Tahani, this is you!

[OOC: RNG says:
ATLANTA
ATHENS
TOKYO
SYDNEY

Re: PAIRS SLALOM CANOE

[momslilassassin]

Right. Ben was canoeing with a giant felt bird. He felt like he should be more surprised about this development.

Re: PAIRS SLALOM CANOE

[sexy_giraffe]

"My hair will be ruined!" Tahani whined.

Re: PAIRS SLALOM CANOE

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm from a desert, but all right," Rey said, strapping on the lifejacket.

Re: PAIRS SLALOM CANOE

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Okay," Prompto grinned, even as he winced as putting on that helmet was definitely going to ruin his hair, but, then again, so was the water, "so this one looks like fun!"

It helped soothe the wound that went with not getting to skateboard, that skate set-up looked awesome!

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[sith_happened]

Two players! Sandy beach! Tiiiny shorts! Go teams, go!

(Troy and Astrid v. Clare & Miguel; Steve & Stark v. Dwight & Wanda--TOKYO and ATLANTA win)

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[grenadesandohana]

"Oh, we've got this, brah," Steve said, grinning. "I've been playing volleyball on the beach since I was little."

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[scarlet_chaos]

Ah, another thing Wanda had never done. If there had been a volleyball court on the Avengers compound she had never found it.

"I don't get the point of the shorts." Surely a constant wedgie would be a hinderance? It wasn't helping her at all.

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[what_the_shock]

Miguel had no idea how this game worked with only two people, and the sun in his eyes, even through his glasses, was not helping.

Well, at least Rosa might appreciate the shorts.

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[x_discospider_x]

"🎵 ~Troy and Astrid and a vooooollleyballll~ 🎵," Troy sang out, because he kind of had to, trying his very best to not be self-conscious about his short short (Astrid also having short shorts was helping, not gonna lie! Although more for solidarity than for what you'd think! Not that that wasn't hurting, either!). "Let's make 'em eat our sand, Normal Human!"

ARCHERY

[sith_happened]

Two teammates, pointy objects, what could go wrong? Oh, right, Beaker has bows and arrows. Everyone duck.

(Alexis & Ben; Summer & Prompto; Alara & Rey; Beaker & Irene)

[OOC: And the winners are:
1. Rey
2. Ben
3. Prompto
4. Irene
5. Alexis
6. Summer
7. Alara
8. Beaker]

Re: ARCHERY

[canlendanear]

It turned out that Alara was not very good at archery and ended up accidentally breaking the bow string by pulling it to hard.

She blinked and glanced down at her broken bow, “oops,”

Re: ARCHERY

[lovethatjourney]

"Okay, this I can do at least," Alexis said, though her form was all off, and once she clipped her forearm with the string she was ready to be done with this whole thing.

Re: ARCHERY

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Ooooooh!" Summer gushed a little with a big grin toward Prompto as she found a bow. "I've been meaning to get into some archery!"

It was actually canon, and she never got to use these icons!

Unfortunately, Summer had definitely not picked it up yet, and, unlike a lot of other things she picked up, she was apparently not going to be instantly stupid good at it for no good reason.

Although that might have a lot to do with the fact that she spent more time posing with her bow than aiming it.

"What do you think? Totally rocking the archer look, right?"

ALOT OF JUMPING

[sith_happened]

Eight jumps, one into a puddle! Do alots even jump? Guess we're going to find out!

(Sam & Troy; Harry & Clare; Sakaki & Steve; Tahani & Dwight)

[OOC: And the winners go:
1. Sakaki
2. Troy
3. Steve
4. Tahani
5. Harry
6. Dwight
7. Sam
8. Clare]