Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, May 18, 2022

[sith_happened]

"Welcome back to another week of team-building!" Anakin yelled through his megaphone. "Today you will be in four teams of seven and you will be fishing with your toes for valuable prizes!"

They weren't that valuable, folks.

He gestured at the four inflatable pools located around the park with folding chairs circling them. "Working together, you have to pull 21 smallish objects from the water--" and be grateful that it's just water, "--using only your toes. And no powers. The fastest team to accomplish this wins. Listen for your name, come get your shirt and take off your shoes!"

TEAM FISH MORE WORRY LESS
Will
Liz
Eddie
Vi
Steve R
Sakaki
Aphra

TEAM RIVER WRANGLERS
Stark
Clare
Nell
Amaya
Steph
Gray
Kurt

TEAM FISHING LURES
Graham
Steve M
Rosa O
Libby
Goose
Wanda
Rosa D

TEAM RODFATHERS
Guillermo
Eliot
Rey
Tahani
Beaker
Billy
Buck

Comments

Fish More, Worry Less

[sith_happened]

Sit around on folding chairs! Chat and work together to pick up weird things with your toes!

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[heroic_jawline]

"Oh, that's some cold water," Steve said, plunging his feet into the pool.

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[kawaii_complex]

Sakaki closed her eyes tight to avoid letting out a shriek of surprise at the temperature of the water, then let out a slow breath to get over it. She could do this, it didn't sound that bad...

Tell that to the urge to jolt her foot out of the water with a shout of surprise any time one of those goldfish even came close to her feet.

And then she started to worry.

"Everyone!" she all but pleaded. "Please be careful of the goldfish!"

She would definitely be too concerned about their well-being to be any good at this.

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[giveittoyoursister]

Vi, whose shirt, like last weeks, had suffered a tragic de-sleeving, eyed the pools dubiously as she placed her feet in. "This seems like a bad idea."

Definitely not the kind of thing you wanted to be doing back home.

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[jedigrammarians]

"Nope!" Was Aphra's contribution. "He's probably put a dianoga in there!"

Aphra, even Anakin couldn't fit a dianoga in a kiddie pool.

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[heroic_jawline]

"What's a dianoga?" Steve asked.

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[jedigrammarians]

Aphra very animatedly described a big tentacely thing with her hands. "Tentacles! So many tentacles!"

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[heroic_jawline]

Like a hydra if it hadn't been drawn correctly!

"I'm not a huge tentacle fan," Steve said, looking suspiciously into the water.

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[jedigrammarians]

"And Skywalker's just the kind of person to think it'd be funny to put one in there!"

Again, even if you were right about Anakin's presumed desire to murder you with tentacles, the pool was not big enough.

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[heroic_jawline]

"Well, perhaps," Steve said. "Are they little?"

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[jedigrammarians]

"The babies are!"

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[heroic_jawline]

And that was Steve's feet up out of the water.

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[justalittlerepressed]

Eddie was only focusing on this because he wanted to win. And maybe get out of this shirt faster.

But he was also certain he'd probably had a medical emergency call with this same scenario at least once.

Re: Fish More, Worry Less

[flamesburned]

Liz winced at the impact of the cold water and found herself trying to pick up a rock with her toes and it was proving to be a lot more difficult than she thought.