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

Arrive and Mingle

[sith_happened]

Feeling weirdly nationalistic? Get delicious food on sticks!

Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[sith_happened]

Maybe you know how to play some of these games? Hopefully?

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]

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

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)

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]

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]

Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

Please no.

OOC

[sith_happened]

Thank you for your game suggestions!

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: 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: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[scarlet_chaos]

Wanda was not even surprised when she heard her name called. She had started wearing sneakers on Wednesdays just in case.

Re: PAIRS SLALOM CANOE

[sexy_giraffe]

"My hair will be ruined!" Tahani whined.

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: 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: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[stykera]

Someday there might come a Wednesday when Stark was not in a hole and not being mildly tormented in Anakin's nonsense. Today was not that day.

He sighed, shook his head, and walked up to get his shirt.

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: 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: 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: BEACH VOLLEYBALL

[stykera]

"I have never played volleyball in my life," Stark said uncertainly. "On a beach or otherwise."

He'd done inexplicably well with the skateboard. That luck wasn't going to hold, was it?

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[thatwaslucky]

Rey did not know some of these! Sooo this should be interesting. At least the shirt was inoffensive!

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: PAIRS SLALOM CANOE

[but_mostly_america]

What, just because Sam had no thumbs he wasn't going to be a good paddling partner?

No, that was 100% true. Sam was going to make a terrible partner.

"This is absurd!"