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: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[slothbabyproductions]

Kamala had only spent a brief moment of time with Stewart on the bus and at the air port. She might have forgotten all his strange non-dance moves.

".... Okay. Why do you have to make it weird?" Kamala asked.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[x_wondrous_x]

Stewart's grin grew, much in the way of a person who had taken an insult lobbied at him since time immemorial and fashioned it carefully into a sort of armor.

"Because weird," he informed her, "is interesting. Weird is engaging. Why not embrace the weird spirit of the mascot currently emblazoned on our uniforms?" His hands gestured toward the image on his shirt. "Did you not say go jackalopes? Is the jackalope itself not also....weird?"

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[slothbabyproductions]

"Yeah, okay but there's wearing an ugly hoodie weird and there's-"

Instead of ducking the head, Kamala did a sarcastic hair flip followed by moving her arms in a sinuous manner before making her hips sway around in circular manner while she raised her arms in the air before bring hands down to make bunny ears.

"-that kind of weird."

And then she just realized what she had just done.

"Oh, god now I'm doing it."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[x_wondrous_x]

The delighted grin on Stewart's face only grew more with each additional move in Kamala's own little dance, and that realization at the end of what had just occurred?

"Wondrous," he said.

Then, almost abruptly, he twisted his hands into horns, reached his arms to the side in a T-pose, before twirling them into circles that landed those horns on his forehead.

"Go Jackalopes!" he cried out, dropped his arms like a jack knife to his side, crossed his feet to do a little spin, then ended up, hood down, hand on his head in a bow.

"See you at the finish line, Kamala," he then stated, offing said hat and then replacing it before moonwalking smoothly away, smirking at her the whole way until bumping into Eleanor, murmuring an apology to her while patting her shoulder a little to make sure she was okay, and then much more awkwardly wandering off.