Summer Shenanigans, May 25, 2022

[sith_happened]

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

Re: Part 1: WHEELIE BINS

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep mee?"

Maybe if Travis said them in Korean?

Re: Part 1: WHEELIE BINS

[designateddadfriend]

Travis was all set to argue that while, yes, the words themselves were English, they were not being used in anything even remotely resembling their actual meanings, making them basically not English as a result --

And then saw that they were already far behind the other players and decided to lie.

"They're not. They just sound like English. Soup, sneeze, trout." He settled into the bin and gestured for Sidon to grab on. "Varoom."

Re: Part 1: WHEELIE BINS

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon was...doubtful, and he would have cast a questioning glance toward Anakin for some sort of confirmation if not for the blindfold, but, well, Travis seemed quite certain, and teamwork was all about trust, and so, with that nudge, he gripped onto the barrel tightly, and call out, "Then off we go!" and launched himself forward with all the power and might you'd expect from a nine foot tall sharkman pushing a firefighter in a wheeled bin.

"To VICTORY!" he called out encouragingly.

Re: Part 1: WHEELIE BINS

[designateddadfriend]

"Oh god," Travis muttered. Then "Soup. Soup!"

Re: Part 1: WHEELIE BINS

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep!" Beaker said, perched on Sidon's shoulder and triumphantly producing soup from...somewhere.

Muppets physics.

It was in a pot and steaming! Just accept these things!