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

Comments

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...