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

Re: LEG 5

[pun_king]

"Oh, come on," offered Graham encouragingly, with a hopeful smile and a wave of the shoes in his hands. "They're not bad! I think they're actually kind of neat!"

But, then again, he also definitely loved his shirt, too.

But all it took was one look at Tahani to see that they weren't exactly suited to her aesthetic. He put a chin to his finger thoughtfully.

"Do you think," he ventured, "we could get away with putting them on Triumph instead? Did it specify that we had to put on the shoes specifically? Or maybe we can put them on our hands! It didn't say we had to hear them on our feet, right? And we don't have to worry about carrying the bowling balls because I can just put them in my cloak!"

He held out the Cloak of Impossible Pockets out a little to demonstrate.

Re: LEG 5

[sexy_giraffe]

"Oh, God that's real?" Tahani said. "I thought I was hallucinating!"

Re: LEG 5

[pun_king]

"Oh, no," Graham assured her, "he's definitely real. He's my best friend!"

No, he did not seem the least bit embarrassed that his bestie was a giant rodent.

"Say!" he declared, as another bright idea struck him. "I bet Triumph could carry the both of us and the bowling balls pretty easily, too!"

Re: LEG 5

[sexy_giraffe]

Tahani weighed the "riding on a rodent" against the "physical exertion while wearing horrible shoes."

"Yes, let's ride the...Triumph!"