Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday [all day]

[sith_happened]

Today's games were not being held in the park, which should have been a red flag. Fortunately, Anakin has provided a red flag!

Twenty feet up.

At the end of a very gross-looking wooden pole danging over Serenity Cove.

"Today you're all out of for yourselves," Anakin yelled from the top of recycled scaffolding, which had a 40-foot long greased up telephone pole balanced between it about 20 feet up. "Many thanks to our local bars and restaurants for providing the lard, grease, fish guts, Crisco and bacon fat to really lube this thing up."

Beaker, covered in said grossness, looked decidedly less grateful.

"The rules are simple," Anakin said. "Whoever gets across the pole and reaches the flag wins all you can eat at Mooby Burger for a week!" Whether Mooby Burger was a good prize or not was entirely up to the winners. "You may walk, run, or slide your way across, but you may not use supernatural powers."

"And thank you in advance for volunteering!"

Which was news to those volunteers.

"Pick up your t-shirts--" Anakin did not realize that his shirts were a Philadelphia sports reference, "--and listen for your names!"

Oh boy.

"Vi, Eleanor, Beaker, Summer, Isabella, Steve R, Guillermo, Jon, Beta, Stark, TJ, Eddie, Jane, Graham, Belle, Steph, Steve M, Libby, and Alara! Come on over!"

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Run Across the Pole!

[sith_happened]

Or crawl or scooch or whatever. The RNG says that only four of you: Isabella, Eddie, Steve M, and Summer, make it across to grab the flag, but feel free to mod how far you got (or didn't!)

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[stykera]

Stark tried to crawl. Stark was successful for about half of the pole!

Then Stark was very slimy and greasy and smelly and gross and wet.

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[good_for_six]

Isabela casually strolled across the pole, picked up the flag and did a perfect swan dive off the end.

Pirate!

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[drumsticksandd20s]

Yeah, nope, Steph was just going to... go about three steps without worrying too much about trying to balance and then oh, damn, she slipped and fell in. Oh no, no more getting greasy stuff she didn't want to think about all over herself. What a loss.

This was going into an upcoming game session as a skill challenge, though, and she was already working out the mechanics of that as she made it back to shore.

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer took a moment, at the starting end of the pole, to take a deep breath and breath out and center herself and resolve to touch that pole as little as humanly possibly, which meant very daintily stepping onto it, feeling how already her feet were sliding, even in sneakers, and then she let out her breath and just fucking booked it to the other side, with her eyes focused and determined on the end goal like her life practically depended on it.

Or her reputation.

Which was way more valuable than her life, anyway.

And with that motivation at her heels, she realized she'd made it all the way across, snorted, snatched the flag and held it up as she called out, "That's right! I'm back, bitches! They don't call them Summer Shenanigans for nothing! Suck it!"

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[sith_happened]

Anakin smirked at her. "Just for today, I'll allow you to think that's why they're called Summer Shenanigans. Welcome back."

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Allow me?" Summer, in all her victorious confidence, just scoffed. "What are you, the thought police now?"

Because they may have started being called that for the season in which they took place, but they would become so much more!

Besides, it, like, wasn't even actually summer yet.

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[sith_happened]

"Yes, I am," Anakin said, staking out a truly stupid position rather than admit being wrong.

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[somethingwithturquoise]

And, really, those choices were what made Anakin truly endearing.

Summer was just going to give him a very indulgent look for a moment before asking, "Oh, yeah? Do you have a badge, then, officer?"

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[sith_happened]

"I left it at home," Anakin lied.

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[giveittoyoursister]

Vi made a go of it, for pride's sake, but she also didn't try very hard to correct to stay up when her footing started to slip.

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[no_missing_piece]

The most efficient and optimal strategy, Beta decided, was to just fall immediately into the water; no scenario she could anticipate had a different end result than that anyway.

It must be noted that she yelped the whole way down.

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Belle took one cautious step, wobbled, took another cautious step and wobbled less...and then took one less cautious step and lost her balance. She hung on to the pole for just long enough to get thoroughly disgusting before losing her grip and splashing down into the water.

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[meepmeepmeep]

How was Beaker already on fire? The world will never know.

His nose was back, though, so that was a good sign?

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[heroic_jawline]

Steve made it about halfway across, slipped, held on for far too long with an impossible grip under the pole, and finally dropped into the water.

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[grenadesandohana]

Steve had been studying this problem for the last year (did he take these games too seriously? Yes, yes did) and might have been practicing this very thing for months now (the weirdo).

He made it all the way across, snagged the flag, and grinned proudly. Fuck yeah.

Re: Run Across the Pole!

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo was feeling pretty confident after his floor is lava win and he thought he could handle this just as well.

It turned out to be completely different, Guillermo didn't even manage to make it a quarter of the way before he fell in.