Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 1, 2022

[sith_happened]

Did anyone want to be awake for this after the kraken drill?

No.

Was that going to stop Anakin? Of course not!

The bleachers were down on the beach today, along with eight large rafts floating semi-precariously out in the water. Was this tempting a real kraken to arrive?

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe.

"Today it's really, ridiculously hot," Anakin yelled through the megaphone. "So I'm letting you get wet! You're welcome!"

Wait to hear what you're doing first before expressing your gratitude.

"You will be conducting a water balloon fight out there on the water. You will be given hand-held balloon launchers, and a bucket full of water balloons." Which may or may not contain water. "You will have teams of eight. Fastest team to pass a water balloon all the way down the line wins. You get a time penalty at the end for each balloon that breaks along the way. Listen for your names!''

TEAM MI VIDA LOCA
Stark
Scott
Amaya
Kitty
Libby
Isabela
Ulysses
Liz

TEAM HAIRY CHESTS
Rosa D.
Eliot
Buck
Jaye
Sakaki
Connor
Miguel
Steph

TEAM GYM RATS
Vi
Graham
Will
Gray
Rey
Goose
Alara
Wanda

TEAM TUXEDO CHESTS
Steve M
Eddie
Rosa O.
Annie
Diego
Tony
Watts
Lana

Comments

Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[sith_happened]

Well. They aren't Hawaiian shirts this time?

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[stykera]

"That's...different," Stark said, eyeing his shirt warily. "Very different. Not better. But different."

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[drumsticksandd20s]

"Yeah, I am literally taking continuous psychic damage from this and I absolutely cannot," Steph declared, staring in horror at the shirt for a moment or two before she held it out at arm's length and just dropped it, then kicked a little sand over it.

Maybe she was still a little sleep-deprived and cranky from the kraken drill, but it totally, logically followed that in keeping with the shirts' theme she could just, like... strip down to her sports bra, right? Because that was happening.

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[giveittoyoursister]

After the incident with the dock, Vi had taken to wearing her new swimsuit under her outer layers for this thing, and was in the middle of stripping down to it when she caught sight of Steph, and well, she'd remember to finish taking her trousers off in a moment.

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[notagoose]

Goose eyed the shirt and while he normally didn't really care, he figured it was just easier to not worry about wearing a shirt for this activity and opted to go shirtless.

Not that he really needed much incentive for that, there was just usually a lot more jello shots beforehand though.

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[pun_king]

Graham held out his shirt with a frown on his face, brow furrowed with confusion. He tilted his head to one side, then the other, tried turning the shirt upside for help, and then turned it right side back up before scratching the back of his neck.

"What is this?" he finally asked outloud. "Some kind of pizza?"

He might figure it out once he got a load of some of the other shirts and realized the theme.

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[good_for_six]

Once Isabela realised shirtlessness was an option, she wasted very little time pushing the her bodice down to waist height, giving everyone an eyeful of the bustier valiantly keeping her bosom in check.

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[knife_bender]

Diego didn't usually have opinions on this kind of stuff but...this shirt was fugly. And he just got back from the 60's so he knew fugly.

Oh well. At least they were getting into the water to combat the heat.

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[firehousehimbo]

Okay, even Buck thought these shirts were suspect. Was he going to keep it anyway? Absolutely. Had to keep the collection going.

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[what_the_shock]

"These are definitely the worst of the lot," Miguel proclaimed, eyeing the thing.

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[doctorgingerspice]

“You are welcome to add mine to your collection, not even pre-worn this time,” Will said. “Or I could just… throw it into the ocean.”

He would not. That was littering and also apparently there might be krakens out there? But he would totally get rid of it, because ugh.

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[outofthequiver]

Maybe it was just her leftover exhaustion from the kraken drill that morning, but Libby looked at her shirt with almost a sigh of resignation, like God just decided that week to really be testing her on the whole shirtlessness thing.

Which made her almost a little worried about what might be in store for her at the clinic this week.

And she was very on the fence about her weekly Ugly Shirt Selfie to Zo picture this week, too.

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[dishesonthetoprack]

"This is amazing," Scott decided. Out loud, for all to hear, because maybe someone agreed with him for some reason. Like, would he wear it anywhere else, ever? Of course not, but that didn't make it less amazing as a shirt.

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[justalittlerepressed]

"Oh, hell no." Oh, hell yes, Eddie!

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[unusual_sith]

"Welcome to the team," Lana said wryly. She eyed him. "I don't think we've met. Lana Beniko."

She was dressed in Earth clothing, and her accent could be mistaken for British, but the yellow eyes maybe gave away the Sith thing.

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[kawaii_complex]

Sakaki was a little sleep-deprived thanks to the drill, but, thankfully, not quite to bursting-into-tears over this shirt levels yet.

But it was kind of close.

She was mostly focusing instead on if she should start a petition or letter writing campaign to support more Cats on Shirts at these things, especially if it meant nothing like these ones ever again.

She might have, if she hadn't been around long enough to know that it would probably not work anyway.

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[thatwaslucky]

Rey just stared at hers for a moment. "What the hell."

Anakin.

ANAKIN.

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[doctorgingerspice]

“Oh look,” Will said drily. “We match.” He was not putting his on, for the record.

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[special_rabbit]

Amaya was...pretty sure she had...thoughts here.

She just...did not know for the life of her what those thoughts could even possibly be.

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[fates_jaye]

"This is just insulting," Jaye told her hairy chest shirt.

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[anomaly_research_nerd]

Connor sighed when he heard his name called again. He would learn his lesson, eventually, maybe.... But for now he was standing there staring in horror at the shirt in his hands.

"Oh bloody hell, no I am not wearing this thing..." he declared and opted to go for the shirtless route as well. Which only served as a reminder he had gotten a bit out of shape in the year or so since he had been running around back home chasing anomalies. He would need to start working out a bit again.

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[amitragic]

"Yeaaaah," Ulysses said slowly, looking down at the shirt, "that's gonna give me a complex."

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[existencemisspent]

"My god, why," Eliot said in an idle tone, holding up the shirt.

He was a bit disconcerted by how much it vaguely resembled his own actual bare chest, yes. Though his at least didn't have the deeply unattractive tan lines.

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[myfifthrodeo]

"You are extremely weird," Rosa informed Anakin.

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[napking]

"Aw, man, do I have to?" Gray asked, but then shrugged and stripped out of his original shirt to swap it out.