Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 26, 2023

[sith_happened]

The park had a new addition to it in honor of the World Cup.

Or Anakin had just gotten this and it was a complete coincidence. One of those things!

World Cup matches weren't generally played on what was a field-sized Slip-and-Slide with just enough moisture to make everyone fall straight onto their butts either...

"Today we play soccer-football!" Anakin announced grandly through his megaphone. "Listen for your names!"

Team Tassel:
Gray
Rey
Belle
Stark
Graham
Steve M
Sidon -- Keeper

Team Unsettling Anatomy:
Eleanor
Raiden
Libby
Summer
Sam
Kitty
Beaker -- Keeper

Comments

Arrive and Mingle!

[sith_happened]

There are snacks and a giant soccer pitch! Hopefully your name won't be called!

Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[sith_happened]

Of all the soccer kits Anakin could've found, these were definitely two of them!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meep meep mee," Beaker said, looking down at the fake muscles on his shirt.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[grenadesandohana]

"Well, compared to the other guys, I think we got off easy," Steve said, flicking at the fringe on his shirt.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Okay, so," said Summer, who clearly had opinions about this week's shirts, "as someone who has been turned inside out before, I'm allowed to actually find this very offensive, but mostly, I'm just offended because I think the tassels ones would look way cuter on me."

And once the shirt was actually on, she added, looking down at herself, "Like, seriously, I think I'm getting some PTSD right now."

Maybe she could just send Anakin her next therapy bill.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[stykera]

"You can have mine," Stark offered, looking down at his deeply silly shirt.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[outofthequiver]

Meanwhile, Libby was actually delighted with her shirt this week, to the point where her weekly selfie to Zo was accompanied with the insistence that she was going to keep this one, because she may already be thinking of how funny it would be, once she got into nursing school, to wear it to an anatomy class or something.

She was even thinking it might be funny if she wore it into her clinic shift tomorrow.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

The tassel shirt definitely made more sense for Sidon, who felt that he sort of looked like the other ones regularly, what with the coloring of his scales and his general lack of wearing clothes except in certain situations. The inflatable nature of the pool did make him a little nervous, though, considering his claws and everything, but he was pretty confident that him being assigned keeper was going to be an excellent advantage for his team, considering he was probably taller than the goal itself...

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[what_big_teeth]

Oh, this was going to be awkward, considering that these shirts were just going to wind up making Eleanor sort of want to just, you know....eat her teammates.

Maybe she could just try to convince herself that it looked like something else? Or maybe she'd just focus on the water aspects; she was always more comfortable in water, anyway, so that might actually be good for soothing some of her more carnivorous tendencies, even if it wasn't much.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[pun_king]

Oh, no. Graham was going to get super distracted with playing with the tassels on his shirt, wasn't he?

He was mostly thinking he should add tassels to his cloak, maybe, and the only thing saving him from that horrible decision was the fact that his mother made him this cloak, and he wouldn't want to mar her work.

But maybe something with tassels for Triumph...

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[throughaphase]

Kitty frowned at her shirt.

"I'm uncomfortable."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[carbsliftthespirit]

"This is kind of making me want to eat myself," Raiden mused as he looked down at his shirt. "It's like I'm meat..."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[napking]

"Ray. Ray, no. We've been over this," Gray protested, wishing he had at least two or three brothers to back him up here. "Autocannibalism is never the answer." He looked around for the snacks that accompanied Raiden everywhere and grabbed a family size bag of Cheetos. "Here, eat these instead."

Crisis averted.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[what_big_teeth]

Don't mind Eleanor really hoping that no one noticed the small whimper that escaped her thanks to being in earshot of anyone talking about eating themselves and being like meat.

But since that person was Raiden, she just sort of told herself to close her eyes and think about pizza instead.

The results of this would be...very mixed.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[but_mostly_america]

"This is unacceptable!"

Of course, Sam said that every time he was brought into this nonsense.

"I am a bird not a piece of meat!"

Certainly not red meat...

Play Ball!

[sith_happened]

Wait. That's probably not the right sport...

First Half!

[sith_happened]

Team Tassel is dominating!

Re: First Half!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Being very, very careful to not let his claw puncture the pool, Sidon eagerly took his place in front of the goal with a pump of his fist and a bright grin around the 'field.'

"Let's go, team!" he called out enthusiastically. "We can do it! I believe in you!"

Also, you know, the whole 'keeper that takes up almost the whole space in front of the goal' thing probably wasn't going to hurt, either!

Re: First Half!

[meepmeepmeep]

Beaker did not fill the goal. Beaker didn't even come close.

This was going to be a problem.

"Meep meep mee," he said nervously.

[OOC: Literally everyone will score. Come and play!]

Re: First Half!

[somethingwithturquoise]

Well. Now that she and Stark had switched teams, Summer saw absolutely nothing wrong with this set-up and this was, quite frankly, one of the better games that Anakin had ever set up, in her never-so-humble opinion.

Re: First Half!

[what_big_teeth]

Was...was this a tackle game? Eleanor was really hoping not, because tackling people right now would be very bad, so she was just going to maybe try to stick by her team's goal and try to maybe help Beaker with the goal-keeping, since, well....especially considering the other team's keeper, they were probably going to need all the help they could get.

Re: First Half!

[but_mostly_america]

Sam was trying to stay away from Beaker. And from Sidon who looked like perhaps he could swallow an eagle dressed like meat with ease.

So mostly Sam was sliding around the middle of the pitch doing absolutely nothing of use.

Second Half!

[sith_happened]

Team Tassel is still dominating, but now Anakin has added soap bubbles to the water!

Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

He's still dry, at least for the moment, but in the Maryland heat being wet is probably preferable.

OOC

[sith_happened]

Mod your own crazy today! Let the score get high! Or low!