fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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

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He was a cop from New Jersey! These assumptions happened. It was probably the mob. Or the Yakuza. Or the Triad. But those last two were more Hawaii things.

"And now you're here?" Well, it was as good a place as any.

"And now I'm here. No more desert heat and I don't have to listen to slot machines all night," said Mary. Plus she had a better shot at staying sober as long as she didn't keep restocking her minibar. "I own the Arms Hotel. It's a nice change of pace from what I was used to in Las Vegas."

"Definitely a plus. Danny Williams," he said, offering a hand to shake. "Somehow had that Mauvaise Chase place inflicted on me, but I'm a detective at the station in town."

For all that crime!

"Mary Connell," she said, returning the handshake. "So you work at the police station? Has anyone else in town had problems with gremlins raiding their closets, or do they just like my designer dresses?"

"Well, it's a step up from the raccoon crime spree we had a little while back," Danny granted her. "Or down. Might need to check on that for which way it's goin'."

"Raccoons? I must have missed that when I was traveling back and forth to Vegas to help a friend," said Mary. Or she missed it because she had been drinking. "What were the raccoons stealing?"

"Well, the whole town at one point." That had not been fun. "But recently just the normal petty thefts."

Of shiny things.

If Mary got her sequined dressed back, she was going to have to keep a closer eye on them.

"We haven't had any trouble with that at the hotel. Or my chef didn't tell me. Sometimes he ignores anything that isn't food-related," she said.

"You run into any, myself and my partner--" He nodded over at where Steve was preening in his ridiculous shirt. "--are at the station."

"I'll keep that in mind," said Mary. "But hopefully the raccoons will steer clear of the hotel. My little corner of town is usually pretty quiet." Except when weird things happened to the island as a whole.

Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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