Summer Shenanigans, May 25, 2022

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The park today looked like an insane person with a ridiculous love of bunting had been allowed to go absolutely nuts setting up mazes.

(In related news, Beaker had been consulted for ideas.)

There were four main areas of concern: a maze with four wheelie recycling bins set before it; a series of folding tables with a variety of fruit and implements on top of them; two large fences with roughly 300 rubber ducks perched on top of them (and a velvet rope 100 feet away from it); and a final maze of bunting with a chair in the center of it.

In the center of all of this mess was a large shed with a closed door.

Anakin looked extremely pleased with himself as he leaned against the Table o' Terrible T-Shirts.

"Welcome back!" he yelled into his bullhorn. "I am pleased to see such enthusiasm for our weekly community building activities."

Sure, let's go with that interpretation. "Today we have several new obstacles for you to master! The specifics of each shall be made clear-" well. Clear-ish. "--as we move to them. The team with the most number of points wins! Listen for your names:"

TEAM NIGHTMARE CLOWNS
Steve R
Steph
Graham
Jo
Scott
Lana
Danny

TEAM 'MERICA
Clare
Tony
Sakaki
Connor
Goose
Vi
Liz

TEAM CHICKEN ON THE BEACH
Libby
Margo
Duke
Cara
Billy
Miguel
Irene

TEAM UNICORN BATTLE CAT
Travis
Sidon
Beaker
Rey
Summer
Stark
Steve M

Comments

Oh God, Anakin Why

[sith_happened]

His was an evil laugh.

Part 1: WHEELIE BINS

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This is your first team activity! The first three team members of each group (Steve R, Steph & Graham; Clare, Tony & Sakaki; Libby, Margo & Duke; and Travis, Sidon & Beaker) must decide which of the three of them will be put into the wheelie bin.

The other two get blindfolds. The one in the wheelie bin is giving directions through the maze (think a bank teller line but more festive!), with two stops through the course: one to break a balloon and one to high five each other.

HOWEVER. The person in the wheelie bin giving directions is not allowed to speak English.

So. This should be an adventure. Fastest on through the course wins!

[OOC: RNG says:
1. Chicken on the Beach
2. 'Merica
3. Unicorn Battle Cat
4. Nightmare Clowns]

Re: Part 1: WHEELIE BINS

[kawaii_complex]

Sakaki wasn't sure if this would be helpful, but she considered the rules and her teammates, and ventured, "Do either of you know Japanese?"

Re: Part 1: WHEELIE BINS

[craic_killer]

Clare shook her head. "I only speak English and French."

Both with a thick Derry accent. "How about you, sir?"

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[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep mee!" Beaker said and jumped into the wheelie bin in an attempt to be helpful. He didn't speak English anyway, right?

"Meep."

"Meep meep meep."

Being too short see out of the wheelie bin was probably a disadvantage?

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

"Indeed!" agreed Sidon, despite not knowing what Beaker had said at all. "And I'm certainly not going to fit in there anyway!"

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[betterthanaplan]

Duke looked at the wheelie bins. Then looked at his partners.

"Hi," he said, because he hadn't met either of them before. "I'm Duke. And I'm thinking . . . code words for left, right, stop, and go?"

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[outofthequiver]

Libby nodded a little. "Code words sounds like a good idea," she agreed. "And also, I'm not very strong, but pretty small and good at giving directions. You kind of have to be, with as many siblings as I got running around all the time. So I don't mind being in the barrel unless either of you want to."

Said while looking at both of them with obvious dubiousness of either of them taking that position for...a variety of assumptions.

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[heroic_jawline]

"I should probably be a pusher rather than a pushee," Steve said to his partners.

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[pun_king]

"I don't mind being the pushee!" Graham said, with eagerness and excitement. "Or the pusher! Whatever works, really!"

Graham, you had arms like spaghetti, you weren't pushing anyone, let's be real.

Part 1: JUICE A FRUIT WITH A THING

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There are four different fruits on the table: grapes, a lime, a pineapple, and a coconut. There are also three different implements that could be used to juice a thing if you squint: a shoe, a hammer, and some tweezers.

"If you get the same tool as someone else, you must juice blindfolded," Anakin announced. "If you get the same fruit as someone else, you must juice one-handed. If you get the same fruit and tool as someone else, you must juice blindfolded, one-handed and bouncing up and down." He held up two fishbowls with pieces of paper in them. "I will choose your fruit and tool at random. You have one minute after we're set up. Whoever makes the most juice wins."

Jo: Juicing a lime with a shoe. You are juicing blindfolded because you got the same tool as Cara and Connor.
Connor: Juicing a coconut with a shoe. You are juicing blindfolded because you got the same tool as Jo and Connor.
Cara: Juicing grapes with a shoe. You are juicing blindfolded and with one hand behind your back because you go the same tool as Connor and Jo and the same fruit as Rey.
Rey: Juice grapes with a hammer. You are juicing with one hand behind your back because you got the same fruit as Cara.

[OOC: RNG says:
1. Unicorn Battle Cat
2. 'Merica
3. Chicken on the Beach
4. Nightmare Clowns]

Re: Part 1: JUICE A FRUIT WITH A THING

[wrongkindofsith]

It was a shoe. Who juiced anything with a shoe, Anakin?

Cara did her best, because she was that much of a perfectionist, then the second their time finished the blindfold was off and the shoe was sailing through the air towards Anakin's head.

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[anomaly_research_nerd]

Connor stared at the shoe and the coconut.

"Really mate? Seems ya setting me up to fail intentionally here with this one!"

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[thatwaslucky]

If you were juicing grapes you probably didn't want to just smash them with the hammer, so Rey was very carefully pressing down on them to get juice out. Was she steadying them with the Force? You couldn't tell if she was!

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[onlyajones]

Jo didn’t understand anything about this at all but at least it wasn’t a water based activity.

She still tried her best even though it still proved to be a bit of a challenge completing it blindfolded and it took her a lot longer to complete.

This definitely wouldn’t have happened at Malory Towers.

Part 3: DUCK DESTRUCTION

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There is a velvet rope in front of the next two team members on each team (Scott & Lana; Goose & Vi; Billy & Miguel; and Summer & Stark) and 300 plastic duck toys on two pieces of fencing (and a smaller brick retaining wall thing) roughly 200 feet, 100 feet, and 75 feet away from you.

"You must make all of the rubber ducks fall down," Anakin said, "and you must do it from behind the velvet rope. You make not use telekinesis. You may use whatever you find in that Shed of Holding over there," he said pointing. "The time starts when the first duck falls down. Fastest team to knocking them all over wins."

[OOC: The Shed of Holding will have rope, elastic, bowling balls, tennis balls, tennis rackets, plastic chicken hats, and etc., for your modding needs. The RNG says it goes:
1. Chicken on the Beach
2. Unicorn Battle Cat
3. Nightmare Clowns
4. 'Merica]

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[giveittoyoursister]

Rather than go for anything fancy, Vi had just grabbed a bucket of tennis balls and was throwing them at the ducks. She actually a good enough eye that every ball hit a duck, but this was going to take a while.

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"I guess it would be too much hoping there were guns in there," said Summer, with a sigh as she emerged from the shed, "but I did find some frisbees!"

She'd have had this in a heartbeat with a good gun, dammit!

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[what_the_shock]

Miguel shrugged, shot webbing out at a duck on one end of the furthest fence, then used the duck-weighted strand to sweep the rest off.

What? He'd only said no telekinesis, not no powers at all.

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[unusual_sith]

Oh, sure. Disallow the one thing Lana could do that would be the most helpful. You were getting a dirty look for that, Anakin.

"Hm." She eyed the things in the shed. "Throw things at it, knock over the fence, or mind-control someone else into pushing them down?"

Part 4: DELIVER ANAKIN LUNCH

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There is one final maze o' bunting (like a circular corn maze with four loops) to get through: this one with a chair at the center. And in that chair sat one Anakin Skywalker.

Near the entrance was a table with a large tray of sandwiches and a glass of milk. He smiled at the final victims team members (Danny, Liz, Irene, and Steve M.). "Starting now, you must hop on one leg. You have to bring me that tray of sandwiches. Every time your foot touches the ground, you must stop and eat one of those sandwiches. Fastest time wins. Your time starts now."

[OOC: RNG says:
1. Unicorn Battle Cat
2. Nightmare Clowns
3. Chicken on the Beach
4. 'Merica]

Re: Part 4: DELIVER ANAKIN LUNCH

[hatesparadise]

"Are you serious?" Danny asked. Because he was only still here to beat Steve.

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[grenadesandohana]

Was Steve going to take this entirely too seriously?

Yes, yes he was.

He hopped over to the bunting without the tray and stared at it--about knee height, sometimes a bit more--then picked up the tray and started hopping directly to Anakin without going around the maze.

He mentally counted down for Danny's yelling in three, two--

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[begmetwice]

Amazingly -- amazingly -- this was something that was vaguely suited to Irene's skill set!

Or, at least, didn't fly in the face of it as so many shenanigans had before. She had outstanding balance! She had even worn flats, in a stroke of genius.

So while Irene was able to hop over to the tray, and managed to steadfastly stay balanced on one foot the entire way -- well. Speed was not her forte, here, and that was going to be her undoing.

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[flamesburned]

Liz ended up being completely terrible at this as she tried hoping and carrying the tray.

Her foot kept touching the ground so she was eating a lot of sandwiches and taking forever to do so.