fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, May 25, 2022

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

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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]

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.

You could've been juicing a coconut with some tweezers! It could always get worse!

He caught the shoe and grinned. "Having fun?"

Oh, look, Cara had a whole table of various fruits to fling at Anakin. "I am now."

Anakin caught the coconut, then the lime. "Well, that's the important part."

Connor stared at the shoe and the coconut.

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

"You catch on quickly," Anakin said dryly. "You could be juicing a coconut with some tweezers. You have 45 seconds now."

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!

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.

Edited 2022-05-25 18:54 (UTC)

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