Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, May 11, 2022

[sith_happened]

Good morning, everyone! It's time for another summer of Anakin Skywalker Thinks This Teaches Team Building and Also Amuses Himself (Mostly the Second Thing) but "Shenanigans" Is Easier!

The bleachers for viewing were set up in the park backed up to the pond and near the Belthazor Commemorative Divot. Food vendors, remembering how this worked, had arrived with hot dog, popcorn, and rum for the squirrels. And coffee. Just...so much coffee. Huge flatscreens were set up facing the bleachers, which gave people a hint that today's event would not just stay inside the park, and the cameras were trained at...well, ankle height or the sky for now because squirrels and rum.

Anakin and his bullhorn were standing behind a folding table stacked high with brightly patterned shirts and people who had been here before knew that just because the shirts were free, it never, ever meant you wanted to wear them.

"GOOD MORNING!" he boomed through the bullhorn when enough people were gathered. "Welcome to another summer of team building activities!"

He might be waiting for a while if he was expecting cheers, just saying.

"Today, as has become tradition, we shall conduct a relay race around the island to acquaint you newcomers with where things are!" he said. "Please listen as your name is called and then come up for your festive t-shirts. We shall have four teams of eight."

TEAM CAT-DOLPHINS
Tony
Irene
Liz
Ulysses
Hannibal
Guillermo
Tahani
Graham


TEAM SPACE PIZZA
Watts
Jaskier
Lana
Vi
Jon
Wanda
Summer
Rey

TEAM TACO CAT
Steve M.
Sakaki
Libby
Steph
Clare
Buck
Miguel
Tisarwat

TEAM SLOTH LLAMA
Goose
Isabela
Alara
Beaker
Will
Stark
Jo
Jaina

Comments

LEG 2

[sith_happened]

Carrying the bellyboard and wearing the shark hat, the third team member (Liz, Lana, Libby, Alara) runs up Sphinx Street, turns onto Loon Drive and stops at Chilly Boulder.

They must then order and consume a large chocolate milkshake as quickly as possible. Will you get a brain freeze? Oh yeah.

[OOC: RNG says Taco Cats, Space Pizza, Sloth Llamas and then Cat-Dolphins!]

Re: LEG 2

[outofthequiver]

Oh, wow, okay, Libby could do this! Ice cream was a very, very rare treat in her household, but in jeans, she was a good runner, and she was determined to try her best, not for herself, but for her team.

Would the brain freeze and upset stomach be worth it? Only time would tell, but she was definitely coming out of that with regrets and being thankful she'd read up on how to treat thus sort of thing recently!

Re: LEG 2

[unusual_sith]

The running was easy. If Lana used the Force, it had the extra benefit of moving too quickly for anybody to actually see the shark hat.

The milkshake did slow her down a little, but she felt she made a decent showing.

Re: LEG 2

[flamesburned]

Liz was extremely sleep deprived and she was blaming that for how slow she was as she tried to complete the run to Chilly Boulder.

To try and make up for how long it took her, Liz drank her milkshake extremely fast and the brain freeze stopped her from going any further for a few moments while she tried to settle.

At least the milkshake wasn't vanilla so she didn't run the risk of bursting into tears while she was doing it either.

Re: LEG 2

[canlendanear]

Alara was feeling rather tired from a lack of sleep so she was trying to not break the bellyboard when she carried it and was a bit slower than she normally was.

She was able to drink the milkshake pretty quickly though and the brain freeze wasn't too bad but she still wasn't as quick as she would have liked to be.