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

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[grenadesandohana]

Steve nodded. "Okay," he said. "Hold your hands like this," he said, demonstrating the hands up around his face gesture for 'set'. "This is called set. You push the ball back into the air and I'll do the rest of it."

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[stykera]

"That I can probably do," Stark said agreeably. So long as the ball wasn't coming at him from too far to his right.

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[grenadesandohana]

"Course you can," Steve said with a grin. "Bump, set, spike. We get three tries to get it over the net and try to make it so the other team drops the ball. They, of course, are trying to make us drop it."

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[stykera]

"Are the shorts really necessary," Stark asked. "Or is that Anakin being himself?"

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[grenadesandohana]

"Well, the shorts are regulation," Steve said, "which opens a whole other discussion of why, but they weren't Anakin in particular."

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[stykera]

"I'll still blame Anakin," Stark decided. Blaming Anakin was a hobby at this point.

Re: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[grenadesandohana]

"That's totally fair," Steve agreed.