Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, May 15, 2024

[sith_happened]

Good morning, everyone! It's time for another summer of Anakin Skywalker Pretends This Teaches Team Building But Mostly Amuses Himself!

Or "Shenanigans."

The bleachers for viewing were set up in the park, close to the pond and near the Belthazor Commemorative Divot. Food vendors, remembering how this worked, had arrived with hot dogs, popcorn, and rum for the squirrels. And coffee. Just...so much coffee. Huge flatscreens were set up facing the bleachers, which the hint that today's event would not just stay inside the park, and the cameras were trained at...well, ankle height or the sky for now because squirrels and rum.

Anakin and his bullhorn were standing behind a folding table stacked high with brightly patterned shirts, and people who had been here before knew that just because the shirts were free, it never, ever meant you wanted to wear them.

"GOOD MORNING!" he boomed through the completely unnecessary bullhorn when enough people were gathered. "Welcome to another summer of team building activities!"

He might be waiting for a while if he was expecting cheers, just saying.

"Today, as has become tradition, we shall conduct a relay race around the island to acquaint you newcomers with where various stores and landmarks are!" he said. "Please listen as your name is called and then come up for your team-building clothing."

AKA: bizarre shirts.

"You will be in four teams of seven players each. You may not use your powers, should you have any, today."

TEAM DROPBEARS
Jane
Mariner
Beaker
Belle
Raiden
Senshi
Dean

TEAM BIGFOOT
Cal
Gale
Rey
Donald
Eddie
Lydia
Vi

TEAM JACKALOPES
Miguel
Steve M
Jonathan
Kamala
Stewart
Steph
Summer

TEAM TREE OCTOPUS
Lana
Steve R
Navaan
Eleanor
Stark
Mary
Arden

Comments

Re: LEG 4

[x_wondrous_x]

I'm sorry. Did you put Stewart in front of a helium machine and not expect him to use it to inhale some? And then throw up devil horns and rip oit put some good death metal screams in the squeakiest voice possible?

And then possibly then squeaking out, "Would a phallus count as an animal? Asking got a friend."

And then grinning because that was absolutely what he was going to do first.

As well as maybe shoving a handful of the balloon in his pocket to use later for....other things, don't worry about it.

Re: LEG 4

[slothbabyproductions]

"Stewart! Seriously!" Kamala whined. "Make the balloons already!"

Re: LEG 4

[x_wondrous_x]

"They're called Shenanigans, Kamala!" The helium had run out by then; that current high pitch of his voice was all Stewart, baby! "I will Shenan....again!"

But, to appease her and perhaps prevent the rest of his team from also shunning him like a complete outcast, he did toss aside his balloon phallus to get started on...

...he swore he didn't mean to just make another one! He was genuinely trying to make a rabbit, it was just very similar in shapes!

Re: LEG 4

[drumsticksandd20s]

"I mean, they don't call it a one-eyed trouser snake for nothing, right?" asked Steph, who was smirking faintly as she struggled with trying to knot some black balloons into the shape of a big cat. For her planned displacer beast, obviously. Why not aim high here?

She wasn't asking about the other balloons. Hey, not her business. Have fun, man.

Re: LEG 4

[x_wondrous_x]

Well, since her partner in shenani-crimes was obviously going low, aiming high was clearly the best way to balance it out to a good equilibrium, surely.

"A one-eyed trouser snake it shall be!" Stewart declared. It didn't take him long to finish it, and, once he did, he tucked the absurdly giant dick balloon animal under his arm to fill up another one.

Not to make another, but to such in some more helium so he could be at his squeakist in informing Steph, "Nice toque!"

And if it sounded a little sarcastic as well as squeaky, it wasn't meant to be. That was just how Stewart sounded, and,considering he himself was wearing a bowler hat under the hood of his shirt, he would hardly be in a spot to criticize anyone else's headwear.

Re: LEG 4

[drumsticksandd20s]

Even if it did sound a little sarcastic it didn't seem to bother Steph, who just bowed with a balloon animal brandishing flourish.

"Thanks." Look, you didn't spend most of your life in the PNW without learning what the Canadian term for a beanie was. "No idea if that's going to make Anakin's facial muscles twitch but it's worth a shot."

Anyway, Summer was the one who was going to have to run through the streets with these later, so maybe they should worry about that more?