Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, May 29, 2024

[sith_happened]

Was anyone looking slightly worried about the pantry ingredients and refrigerated chests Anakin had hauled out the park? Good. You should be worried. There were also three cooking stations set up, and three stacks of terrible, eye-searing shirts in front of Anakin.

Someone stop him from watching food competitions shows into the early hours, gang. "Today will be a cook off!" he announced far-too-loudly through the megaphone. "As always you will work in teams. Your teams will be divided into pairs and as that pair you will work on an appetizer, then tag in the next pair to complete a main dish, and finally your third team pair will make a dessert!"

That seemed too easy.

"You will be bound together like a three-legged race."

There we go.

"And while the food supplies are overwhelming in the choices available to you, the only equipment you have will be what you would find in a typical college freshman's dorm, or in the home of a recently divorced man. Listen for your names! Don't use your powers!"

TEAM CHEESE
Belle & Lana
Kamala & Miguel
Eleanor & Rey

TEAM SHRIMP
Stark & Boc
Steph & Liliana
Stewart & Raiden

TEAM HOT DOG
Lydia & Arden
Watts & Beaker
Vi & Don

Comments

Arrive and Mingle!

[sith_happened]

Eat snacks that your fellow island residents are not making for you! Avoid eye contact with Anakin!

Re: Arrive and Mingle!

[momslilassassin]

Ben was there with the kids again. This was the best sort of free entertainment, especially if he didn't get picked.

Re: Arrive and Mingle!

[single_man_tear]

Okay, not having to participate and mock others was much better than being in the thick of it.

Dean settled back to enjoy the chaos.

Re: Arrive and Mingle!

[needsacatchphrase]

Jane stopped in to see what fresh insanity was happening here and was very very glad that her name hadn't been called.

But she was putting her money on Raiden carrying his team to victory.

Re: Arrive and Mingle!

[hasaknightjob]

Steven was there to watch and cheer on his beau. The others too, but mainly his beau.

Re: Arrive and Mingle!

[deathsmajesty]

Liliana was having a perfectly good afternoon taking Josu out for a walk in the park, occasionally animating corpses of birds and chipmunks for him to chase. You know, a totally normal, wholesome activity.

AND FUCKING YET.

Re: Arrive and Mingle!

[sharp_man]

Oh, this should be interesting. Hannibal was snacking on popcorn he'd brought from home and waiting for the fun to start.

Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[sith_happened]

These really are some shirts Anakin has found today.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[meepmeepmeep]

"Meep meep meep meep meeeeeeeeeeep," Beaker said, looking with admiration at his hot dog shirt.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[carbsliftthespirit]

As Raiden whipped off his old shirt to change into his team shirt, he wondered aloud, "Can I get the other ones in my size, too?"

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[mustbeawitch]

Lydia was very delicately holding her new shirt at arm's length, pinched between two fingers, asking of the universe, "Do I have to put this on?"

This shirt isn't even that bad, Lydia. It's just some shrimp.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[ifwebeworthy]

"You know, if nothing else these things are great for expanding my wardrobe," Don mused as he buttoned up his shirt. He was really more a t-shirts guy, but hey, a free shirt was a free shirt.

I was a cabbage lighthouse, Thor complained, and Don just laughed.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[beautiful_boc]

Since cinnamon roll Sundays had been going well and Boc was feeling generally more comfortable here, he figured he could start venturing out a little more again.

He realized his mistake as soon as he noticed all the hubbub going on in the park and remembered too late how it could be in the park sometimes.

And, of course, before he could go scampering off to the shop for safety, his name was being called and someone was janding him a terrible shirt.

"Oh," he whimpered, "bother..."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[giveittoyoursister]

Anakin needed help, Vi decided. Serious help.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[pocketpretzels]

Honestly, the things he did for love. Watts replaced his usual layers with the monstrosity that had been chosen for him.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[x_wondrous_x]

Stewart considered his shirt with carefully narrowed eyes. Shame he couldn't think of anyone who might barter for shirt with shrimps on it, because that was a person he would want to know.

Then, after some deliberation, he was unhooking his overalls so he could put the shirt on under them, before hooking them back and feeling slightly better about the whole thing that way.

Now to decide: collar popped? Or nah?

He was popping one side for now.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"I do like cheese," Belle mused as she slipped into her shirt.

"Though not necessarily enough to wear this again."

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[what_big_teeth]

You know what? It was comfortable, didn't feel in any way targeted against her, and her grandmere would have despised it. Eleanor could definitely live with this shirt.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Mmmmm," Steph said, holding the shirt up. "If I interpret these as giant space creatures or something this is way more badass."

Granted, the bar was low to begin with.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Oh for fuck's sake," Arden sighed, not even a little surprised. Disappointed yes, but not surprised.

The Dean had clearly overheard her conversation with Mr. Skywalker about him being absolutely bugfuck.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[deathsmajesty]

"I beg your pardon?" Liliana asked when she heard her name called. "You expect me to what?!"

Cook!

[sith_happened]

The full stocked food pantry (of ingredients, not anything like pizza pockets or canned stew) is located across the lawn from where the three cooking stations are set up, so each pair will have to three-legged race back and forth to get ingredients. On your stations are the following:

1 microwave
1 hot plate
1 Easy-Bake oven
1 rice cooker from 2002 with rice still burned to the bottom
1 George Foreman grill from Anakin's wedding registry
1 Swiss Army knife
1 paring knife, not sharp at all
1 small frying pan for a single-sized egg or steak
1 medium sized pot
1 small cutting board
1 fork, spoon, butter knife, plate, cereal bowl, and coffee mug
1 8-cup measuring cup with only 1-cup markings on it. Half have disappeared.
1 wooden spoon, and 1 hugely oversized metal spoon bent in a weird angle

And that's all you have.

Appetizers!

[sith_happened]

You have 30 handwavy minutes to make something you can call an appetizer! It must contain Cool Ranch Doritos. Other than that, let your imagination run wild!

Present Your Dishes!

[sith_happened]

Other people are gonna eat them so try not to give anyone food poisoning, okay? You must present them only using the pots, bowl, and cutting board you had.

Anakin is very proud of this challenge.

OOC

[sith_happened]

Mwahahaha.