Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 28, 2023

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When the poor schmucks Fandom arrived in the park on Wednesday, they would see five wooden rafts, big enough to each hold four people (or Muppets, or a Sidon), bobbing on the pond. In the center of each raft was a metal bucket full of objects. Some were balloon-shaped, some were ball-shaped, others were clearly shoes. One looked suspiciously like Intern Porg.

(Do not throw Intern Porg.)

"In honor of break week, we are doing something that didn't require much effort on my part to set up," Anakin said, which was pretty straight-forward of him. "We're doing a balloon-ish toss! Pick an object, toss it to your teammate on the next raft over. Do not miss, or break the object! Fastest team to get all the way around the circuit wins."

He grinned. "Powers may be used today. And there are plenty of objects in the buckets. No one says you have to only toss things at your own teammates."

Sometimes Anakin just liked to watch the world burn.

"Listen for your names!"

TEAM KUNG-FU ROOSTER
Jo
Stark
Gray
Steve R.
Gladio

TEAM T-REX ABE LINCOLN
Arthur
Jon
Steve M.
Belle
Eleanor

TEAM NOT AFRAID OF PATTERN BUT SHOULD BE
Graham
Raiden
Summer
Cutter
Guillermo

TEAM TROPI-OPPOSSUM
Sam
Dwight
Kurt
Sidon
Lana

Comments

And Now We Play!

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Each team member goes oh-so-handwavily to their rafts. The first raft picks a moddable object from the bucket to throw at their team member! The RNG determines how successful that throw is!

Other people on other rafts can throw whatever they want to try to disrupt the catches, or can be normal and just concentrate on their own team. Powers are allowed! Please make it messy!

Raft One to Raft Two

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Jo throws to Stark; Arthur throws to Jon; Graham throws to Raiden; Sam throws to Dwight!

RNG says the order is:
NOT AFRAID OF PATTERN BUT SHOULD BE (2 tries)
TROPI-OPPOSSUM (6 tries)
T-REX ABE LINCOLN (7 tries)
KUNG-FU ROOSTER (8 tries)

Re: Raft One to Raft Two

[but_mostly_america]

Sam, who of course had felt wings and no actual hands to speak of, reached into the bucket and came out with a fish which he flung in the general direction of the next raft.

"This is absurd!"

Re: Raft One to Raft Two

[alwaysonguard]

Dwight had been prepared for several things to possibly come flying across the water at him. but a fish was not one and he totally missed catching it.

"Ooops- Sorry!" he called across to Sam.

Re: Raft One to Raft Two

[two_idiots_one_body]

Arthur at least didn't have to look at his shirt. John assured him it was definitely something, though.

Hm. Move some of the things in the bucket. More...Ah! There. John reached in and grabbed something that, from his stance, was decently large. Now turn this way. Good. Here goes!

"Throwing now!" Arthur warned the next person as John let fly.

Re: Raft One to Raft Two

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon scrambled to try and catch whatever the brightly coloured thing coming his way was. He fumbled it, and it went off the side of the raft. "Damn!"

Re: Raft One to Raft Two

[pun_king]

"Alright!" said Graham, pumping his fist excitedly, because even though they were on rafts, he felt fine about it, because he now knew how to swim! And buoyed (GET IT??) by that confidence, he prepared himself to get a good toss across the way over to Raiden.

"Ready when you are!" he called out. "Just say the word!"

Re: Raft One to Raft Two

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Hit me!" Raiden called back.

And he presented such a large target, too.

Raft Two to Raft Three

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Stark throws to Gray
Jon throws to Steve M
Raiden throws to Summer
Dwight throws to Kurt

RNG says the order is:
T-REX ABE LINCOLN (1 try)
KUNG-FU ROOSTER (3 tries)
TROPI-OPPOSSUM (4 tries)
NOT AFRAID OF PATTERN BUT SHOULD BE (4 tries)

Re: Raft Two to Raft Three

[stykera]

Try not to fall asleep, Gray.

"Ready?" Stark asked. "I've got a...very squishy balloon to throw you."

Re: Raft Two to Raft Three

[napking]

But the motion of the raft was so...no, no, he was awake. He was awake.

He was trying to be awake.

"Any time," Gray called back. And then yawned.

Re: Raft Two to Raft Three

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Right. Jon could absolutely do this!

The Eye "helpfully" supplied the exact angle and force with which to throw the...squeaky octopus thing that Jon had finally caught. Which would be helpful if Jon had any idea how to put that into practice.

"Coming now!" he warned, just in case.

Re: Raft Two to Raft Three

[grenadesandohana]

"Got it!" Steve confirmed, snagging it out of the air. "That wasn't so hard!"

He was being nice about the seven tries from the last leg.

Re: Raft Two to Raft Three

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Alright, Raiden!" Summer called out from across the way on her own raft, and then held out her hands to show she was ready for that pitch, baby. "Let's do this!"

Re: Raft Two to Raft Three

[carbsliftthespirit]

Raiden pulled a rubber fish out of the bucket and asked Summer, "Ready?" and then just chucked it at her.

Re: Raft Two to Raft Three

[alwaysonguard]

"Alright, incoming tennis ball!" Dwight called out "in three...two...one!" and he let it go across to the other raft.

Raft Three to Raft Four

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Gray to Steve R
Steve M to Belle
Summer to Cutter
Kurt to Sidon

RNG says:
T-REX ABE LINCOLN rules again (3 tries)
NOT AFRAID OF PATTERN BUT SHOULD BE (4 tries)
TROPI-OPPOSSUM (4 tries)
KUNG-FU ROOSTER (6 tries)

Re: Raft Three to Raft Four

[grenadesandohana]

Steve waved at Belle. "Ready?" he yelled.

Re: Raft Three to Raft Four

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"I'll do my best," Belle called back uncertainly.

She didn't have much experience playing catch.

Re: Raft Three to Raft Four

[napking]

"Are you--" big yawn "--are you ready?" Gray called across to Steve.

It was so nice on the raft in the sun, he could just take a little...no, no, there was throwing of stuff to be done.

Re: Raft Three to Raft Four

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Okay, Cutter!" Summer called over to him. "Don't screw this up like you do everything else, okay, buddy?"

Very encouraging, Summer, very helpful, thanks.

But that was all the warning he was getting before she lightly toss the first balloon his way.

Raft Four to Raft Five

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Steve R tosses to Gladio
Belle tosses to Eleanor
Cutter tosses to Guillermo
Sidon tosses to Lana

And your raft is a weeeee bit lopsided becuase Sidon is on it, so that's going to affect how you can balance, non-Sidon characters!

RNG says:
KUNG-FU ROOSTER (1 try)
TROPI-OPPOSSUM (1 try)
T-REX ABE LINCOLN (3 tries)
NOT AFRAID OF PATTERN BUT SHOULD BE (4 tries)

Re: Raft Four to Raft Five

[heroic_jawline]

Steve had all the faith in the world that his toss to Gladio should go well, assuming no one threw a fish at him or something. "Ready?" he called.

Raft Five to Raft One

[sith_happened]

It's the big finish, folks! Gladio back to Jo; Eleanor to Arthur; Guillermo to Graham; Lana to Sam!

RNG says the final order is:
KUNG-FU ROOSTER (1 try)
NOT AFRAID OF PATTERN BUT SHOULD BE (2 tries)
TROPI-OPPOSSUM (2 tries)
T-REX ABE LINCOLN (4 tries)

Re: Raft Five to Raft One

[unusual_sith]

Lana hefted her toy in one hand and wrapped the Force around it; with the other, she readied a wave of water to dump on the other contestants.

"Ready?"