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: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[solo_sword]

Jains blinked, looking over her shoulder to see if Erin was behind her. She'd been gone a while, who knew?

"Nooo?"

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[doctorgingerspice]

“Very funny,” Will rolled his eyes. “What are you doing here?”

Besides getting roped into some sort of team-building activity that involved ugly shirts?

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[solo_sword]

"My name's Jaina," she told him, guessing he was new.

She did sometimes miss when everyone knew her.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[doctorgingerspice]

New-ish! New enough that this was his first time meeting someone who shared a face with someone he knew.

He narrowed his eyes, giving her a once-over.

“… Seriously?” Although now that he was getting a good look at her, yeah, there were definitely some key differences between Jaina and what he remembered of his brother’s ex-partner. “Holy shit.”

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[solo_sword]

"Yeah, this happens. There's someone else that's been here with my face too, but I think she's gone now."

Just in case he ever needed that warning.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[doctorgingerspice]

“That is so weird,” Will shook his head, even though it wasn’t even on the list of like, top ten weirdest things about this place. “You look so much like her. My brother’s ex, I mean.”

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[solo_sword]

"Is that good or bad?" Jaina checked.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

[doctorgingerspice]

“Honestly, if this was two years ago, I’d lean towards ‘bad’?” Will admitted. “Now it’s just- another thing about this place I’ll need to get used to, I guess.”

At least it wasn’t someone wearing Natalie’s face. He genuinely didn’t know how he’d react to that.