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

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[doctorgingerspice]

"At least yours isn't covered in fish with their mouths all gaping open," Will griped as he finished pulling his own monstrosity on.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[firehousehimbo]

"I think you're making it work," Buck assured him. "And free clothes, man. That's never a bad thing."

You would be thankful for those hideous shirts next time the laundry goes on strike.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[doctorgingerspice]

"At least this one doesn't clash with my hair," Will had to acknowledge. "That's impressive given the range of colors on most of these."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[firehousehimbo]

"Yeah my one last week was very...loud." Sure, that was a word for it. "But it had cats and tacos on it, so automatically a keeper."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[doctorgingerspice]

“Mine was a sloth riding a llama,” Will informed him. “There also might have been pizza involved somehow?” That shirt had had a lot of very disparate elements all stuck together. Unlike this one, which at least had a theme, even if that theme was ‘ugly-ass fish’.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[firehousehimbo]

"Also cool," he said. "I'm not appreciating all of the aquatic stuff I'm being made to do though. Last week swimming in cold-ass water."

You go through one tsunami and suddenly you're not into hanging out in the water. Weird.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[doctorgingerspice]

“Not a water fan?” Will wondered. He could take or leave swimming, but then, he didn’t have tsunami trauma, so.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[firehousehimbo]

"I don't think it's a fan of me," Buck said. "We got hit by a tsunami a few years ago. It was brutal."

Kind of cool in hindsight, not so cool at the time.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[doctorgingerspice]

And knowing Buck, Will was guessing he would’ve been on the front lines.

“Ouch, yeah,” Will winced. “That’d do it.”

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[firehousehimbo]

He hadn't been a firefighter but he had been on the pier. Which was worse.

"Unlikely to happen here," Buck said. "Especially with inflatable pools."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[doctorgingerspice]

A tsunami hitting the island was a possibility (was it? Seismology wasn’t really Will’s thing), but like he was gonna point that out.

“Yeah. Today seems more about touching potentially gross stuff with your feet.” Which was a weird sentence to put out in the world but there it was.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[firehousehimbo]

"Or touching someone else's gross feet with your own." He was on a team with the Muppet, Will.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[doctorgingerspice]

“Some people are into that,” Will told him, trying to keep a straight face.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[firehousehimbo]

"Yeah, I know," Buck said. "I just hope none of my teammates are. It's not the time, place or shirts for that."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[doctorgingerspice]

“I don’t think I wanna know what the appropriate shirts for that are,” Will admitted.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[firehousehimbo]

"I'm not sure what appropriate ones are, but I know these are not it," Buck said. "Maybe that's why we're wearing them. To keep the perverts at bay."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[doctorgingerspice]

Hopefully Anakin would not overhear this conversation and decide to seek out fetish-themed Hawaiian shirts for next week. This was a public comm after all.

“If that’s the goal, I guess I can’t complain too much. Like you said, time and place.” And this wasn’t it.