fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, August 9

This Wednesday, the park was not tricked out in a pizza theme. Raiden wasn't at all disappointed, really, he swore. Norse stuff was cool, too!...Just not as cool as pizza. But there was a rainbow decoration to represent the Bifrost at least. Rainbows were pretty cool.

"Well, we're filling in again," Jane said, looking much more confident this time around. Maybe because she was more familiar with this stuff. Or maybe it was just practice making perfect.

"Always happy to help!" Raiden agreed. "Jane picked our theme this week. It was only fair." And strangely, she had not picked astrophysics!

Somehow she didn't think anyone here wanted to listen to her enthusiastically lecture about the nature of wormholes for an hour. But the free shirts might have pulled them in... Next time. There was always next time.

"So, we're trying out VIking... adjacent games for you all. We'll call out your teams and you can get a shirt and some viking horns that are more cute than accurate."

Raiden was already wearing his. Over his baseball cap. "And most importantly, remember to have fun!"

TEAM CACTUS VIKING
Stark
Tony
Eleanor
Jon
Libby

TEAM RAINBOW DRAGON
Boc
Graham
Lana
Belle
Summer

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They're cultural! Sort of.

One lucky contestant must make a make a paper boat and then guide it around the pond with a stick.

The boat will spontaneously burst into flames upon making contact with the water, so you'd better hurry to complete the circuit. If your boat burns up completely before you're done, you'll have to make a new one.

Stark vs. Boc

[The winner is...Stark!]

Please ignore the startled yelp from Stark when his first attempt burst into flame. Just pretend that didn't happen.

His next attempt also burst into flame but this time it was expected and that would make all the difference. Unless it took more than two tries. That was possible.

In honor of Freyja, race in a cat-drawn chariot!

...okay, Jane and Raiden couldn't get chariots on short notice, so they had a couple of wagons, and the cats wouldn't cooperate (they were asleep in the wagons), so one member of each team would have to sub in. But it was the spirit of the thing, right?

Tony & Eleanor vs. Graham & Lana

[Winners are...Graham & Lana!]

Oh, like Graham wasn't immediately swapping the viking hat he'd swapped his adventurer's cap with for those cat ears now, too.

"Meow meow meow meow, meow!" he added, and then, helpfully, in English, "That means 'and I've been working on my Cat, too!'"

Now he could finally put it to good use on someone other than Saffron, who, of course, just ignore all his attempts to chat with her.

"If you say so; I'm afraid I don't speak it at all," Lana said. "I can help take the weight off, though, so...let's go?"

When Jane throws her fancy self-retrieving hammer, contestants will race from one end of the Bifrost slip'n'slide to the other and tag their partner, who will race back. Hurry to beat each other and Mjolnir!

Jon & Libby vs. Belle & Summer

[Winners are...Belle & Summer!]

Jon could appreciate the rainbows! He did not appreciate his shirt, and the horns kept falling off until he gratefully took them off, but he could deal with that.

Slipping and sliding was another thing, though. "Oh, for..." If he were lucky, his elbows wouldn't poke a hole in the damn thing. He was a bit too scarred to be adequately slippery.

Which was a sentence he couldn't believe he'd had to think.

Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, August 9

Let the Games Begin!

Round One - Viking Funeral Boat Race

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Round Two - Freyja's Chariot Race

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Round Three - Mjolnir Bifrost Relay Race

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