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Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Anakin's children had outgrown a summer slide obstacle course years ago, but it didn't mean it wasn't stuck in the back of his brain as an option for ~~torture~~ team building.

When everyone arrived at the park, they'd find a rickety-on-purpose wooden bridge across the duck/flamingo pond, an entire line of inflatable hurdles being sprayed by sprinklers, some kind of ring toss with a water cannon pointed at where the participants would be standing, and a Slip 'n Slide that would really serve no purpose other than to remind adults that gravity exists and they shouldn't be on a Slip 'n Slide past the age of about ten.

"Today we're running an obstacle course!" he said. At least it was stupidly humid outside, so getting wet wasn't a hardship. "Fastest through wins! No power usage! Listen for your names!"

TEAM I PUT OUT
Beaker
Jon
Rey
Goose

TEAM FREUDIAN SLIP 'N SLIDES
Sidon
Lana
Steph
Miguel

TEAM POND HAIR DON'T CARE
Graham
Stark
Sakaki
Libby

TEAM MOIST
Steve M
Hannibal
Jo
Gray

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Maybe Fandom has learned about showing up late to not be involved in said shenanigans?

Well, the shirts weren't hideous?

Everyone loves an obstacle course, right? Right!

Edited 2022-07-27 14:15 (UTC)

Run across the rickety bridge! All four of you--Beaker, Sidon, Graham, and Steve-- together! Do not fall into the nasty pond water!

Spoiler: the bridge is designed to knock you into the pond water, especially with Sidon's weight on it. Anakin is very, very mean.

[OOC: RNG says:
FREUDIAN SLIP 'N SLIDES
MOIST
POND HAIR DON'T CARE
I PUT OUT]

Edited 2022-07-27 14:19 (UTC)

Hurdles! Once your teammate finally gets out of the pond, they smack your hand and send the next teammate--Jon, Lana, Stark, and Hannibal--jumping over fifty yards of plastic inflatable hurdles.

Easy enough, except they are placed on grass and Anakin's had the sprinkles pointed at them for a half hour. The grass is slippery, the hurdles are slippery, the sprinkles are going to get you wet...fun times for everyone! And by everyone we mean "mostly the spectators."

[OOC: RNG says:
I PUT OUT
POND HAIR DON'T CARE
MOIST
FREUDIAN SLIP 'N SLIDES]

Once your teammate slides through the hurdles, the next teammates--Rey, Steph, Sakaki, and Jo--get to try their hand at ring toss, Skywalker style.

In other words, be really worried about that water cannon. You need to toss three rings onto the ring toss...catcher thing...ten feet away. Every time you miss, you get nailed by the water cannon, which is shooting out extra soda from last week's shenanigans.

You lucky, sticky people, you.

[OOC: RNG says:
FREUDIAN SLIP 'N SLIDES
I PUT OUT
MOIST
POND HAIR DON'T CARE]

The Slip 'n Slide!

It's wet, it's going down a hill, there are definitely weirdly hard bumps underneath its plastic surface because that's just how Slip 'n Slides work.

We wish we could say that it was wet with water, but it's Anakin, so it's water and chocolate pudding. For the team building. Goose, Miguel, Libby, and Gray? He's not even that sorry, either.

[OOC: RNG says:
I PUT OUT
FREUDIAN SLIP 'N SLIDES
MOIST
POND HAIR DON'T CARE]

Give him big, sticky hugs.

There are a TON of weirdly specific joke t-shirts about being a sprinkler fitter.

Steve stripped off his normal black tee and replaced it with Team Moist.

"Well, we've had worse," he commented.

"Meep meep meep meep," Beaker said, striking what he thought was a sexy pose in his shirt.

No one should see Beaker trying to strike a sexy pose.

Summer was, of course, making an appearance to see who genuinely earned free shots that day, as well as spending another week ~~gloating~~ gloating about not having been called down yet again.

An attitude that you'd think would bite her in the ass next week, but only time would tell!

Edited 2022-07-27 14:44 (UTC)

Graham actually really liked the arrow on his shirt, even if he failed to see what it had to do with pond hair (hair wet from the pond? Hair made from a pond? Was it much different from a swamp mop?), but the moment he saw everything focused around the pond, he was too nervous to really care.

Sure, it didn't look that deep, but anything that reminded him that he couldn't swim was always going to add an extra layer of distress for him. He just really had to focus and hopefully it wouldn't be an issue!

Eddie was absolutely thrilled to not have his name called for this one. Even if he did snap a photo of the shirts to share with Buck as he set down his first aid kit.

Look, a slip'n'slide was just asking for cuts and bruises.

Steve stepped onto the bridge, knees bending to compensate for the wobbling. He glanced at the competition and made a silent bet about how far Beaker would fly when Sidon started to run.

"Ohno," said Graham, who was crouched down low and creeping very slowly across the rickety bridge as close to the center as he could possibly get, his arms out for extra balance, "ohno, onno, ohno..."

Fine. He was fine. This was fi--

"OH NO!"

It's like you could tell, the exact moment, when Sidon started to run.

"This is more suggestive than I like," Rey frowned, donning her shirt.

"MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE---"

And that was Beaker into the pond.

With a big, bright grin beaming across his face, as expected, Sidon was clearly stoked about this challenge and sent that sparkling smile around to his competition. "Ahhh, I see they've given us the easy one, lads!" he said with a bright laugh. "No matter! We can do it!" There was the encouraging fist bump. "I believe in you! Last one there is a rotten trout!"

And that was when the inevitable dash across the bridge began, with the full intention of using his momentum to get him as far as he could until the ricketiness became unviable, after which he full intended to launch himself into a flip in the air long enough to get him to the other side...

Which was sure to do wonders for those still left on the bridge!

Sidon didn't quite understand his shirt, though he appreciated the apparent enthusiasm from the funny little man and his slip'n'slide. As he pulled on the impressively large shirt and maneuvered it around his head fin, though, he was glancing a little nervously toward the obstacles, because a fair number of them could spell potential trouble for one with claws.

How thrilled he'd be to discover that it wouldn't be an issue for him this week!

"Oh no!" said Graham, yet again, his vocabulary clearly reduced to that very apt phrase in these moments. Instinctively, though, his first response when Beaker went flying after he himself manage to miraculously keep his low and somewhat wobbly crouch, was to reach out for him to try and save him. Of course, it was much too late for that, but that didn't seem to stop Graham from lunging forward in an effort to still grab him.

Which was, of course, when Sidon hit the launch off the bridge, and there went Graham right after Beaker.

Whenever Libby wound up with a shirt that she genuinely liked and not in a 'this is so ridiculous you can't help but like it way,' she was always just a bit suspicious that she simply wasn't in on the joke.

And, as she pulled on her shirt and then pulled out her hair from out of it and contemplated tying it back, she felt as if she was perfectly okay with that.

For a brief moment, Libby was blissfully under the impression that it was just a regular old slip'n'slide, nothing to worry about here.

It did not take her long to realize that this was, of course, a very silly assumption.

"....why?" was all she could think to ask, eyes instinctively going heavenward to wonder if this was some sort of divine punishment for one of....well, if she was honest, many recent transgressions....

Sakaki's disappointment in her shirt had nothing to do with the shirt's message, and everything to do with the fact that there wasn't even anything remotely cute about it, and therefor it felt completely pointless, but, considering the other options, she supposed that she at least wasn't missing out on anything cuter this week.

What tripped Rey up was the water cannon, and you better believe she was mad about this turn of events.

But she tried again, missed, got sprayed again, and now she was just gonna chest.

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Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Arrive and Mingle

Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Obstacle Course!

Obstacle One!

Obstacle Two!

Obstacle Three!

Obstacle Four!

Talk to Anakin!

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