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: River Wranglers

[drumsticksandd20s]

Given that most of her pants were skinny jeans, Steph was kind of glad she had shorts on today. Well... kind of glad, also kind of sorry she didn't have that excuse to nope out.

"Oh god, why," she groaned as she encountered something that had no business being that squelchy.

Yeah, she was leaving that alone and going for --

"A hot dog? Seriously?"

Re: River Wranglers

[stykera]

"I don't know why he's like this," Stark said, sounding almost apologetic.

Re: River Wranglers

[drumsticksandd20s]

"I mean, I enjoy being kind of evil to my players in a lot of the games I run," Steph admitted, "but this is a whole different level. Possibly a different plane, even."

She kicked the squelchy thing away because she seriously didn't want to know, and went poking around for something else instead -- which turned out to be cold and felt like metal of some kind.

"Okay," she said, lifting one foot out of the water with a very large, gaudy silver octopus belt buckle between her toes, "that's... sure as hell something."

Re: River Wranglers

[stykera]

"It's shiny?" Stark said with a shrug. "All I got was a rock so far. A pointy rock."

It wasn't even that shiny!

Re: River Wranglers

[drumsticksandd20s]

"But it still counts toward our total," Steph pointed out. "We can do this, let's go!"

God, she hoped nobody caught the goldfish, though.

Re: River Wranglers

[stykera]

Stark was not catching any goldfish, thank you very much.

"It does. And there's...I don't know what this is." He frowned, trying to pick up whatever the object was and fumbling it a few times. Picking things up with his feet was not a skill he'd honed, for some reason.

"A...spoon?" Nope. It was a metal spork. Because why not?

Re: River Wranglers

[drumsticksandd20s]

"This is so weird. Does he do this every summer?" Steph wanted to know -- and yanked her foot out of the water with a visible shudder when one of the goldfish grazed her toes.

Re: River Wranglers

[stykera]

"Different things every week, yes," Stark confirmed. "Every summer since I've been back. I don't know when it started. While I was gone, the last time. Or the time before last. I don't know if leaving this time really counted as leaving. It was just a visit that lasted longer there than here and longer than I thought it would."

He slid his foot cautiously to his left, trying to feel for something that didn't move on its own or squish when touched.

Re: River Wranglers

[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph carefully stuck her foot back into the water and prodded around experimentally for a bit before she came back up with what looked like a miniature rubber duck in a top hat.

"Does it get weirder and weirder every week?" she asked. "Because that kind of makes me want to just keep doing it."

Yes, she'd actually come down here specifically to get roped in both times so far.

Re: River Wranglers

[stykera]

"It's always weird. We were squirrel-sized one week last summer," Stark told her with an overly dramatic sigh. "I didn't like that one very much."

Re: River Wranglers

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Yeah, I don't know how into that idea I am," Steph said, frowning. "Maybe. It might be fun?"

Re: River Wranglers

[stykera]

"Don't let him hear you." Stark glanced over at Anakin. "He might get ideas."

Anakin didn't need any new ideas. Or any old ones.

Re: River Wranglers

[drumsticksandd20s]

"I feel like he's gonna get those with my help or without it," Steph said dubiously. "Like, he has a whole catalog of ideas by now as it is, it's not like he's in any danger of running out."