Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 19, 2024

[sith_happened]

It was sticky and gross outside, so it was probably a relief to see four dunk tanks out in the grass by the duck pond, right?

Right?

Did it help to know they were filled with water and not pudding? Not really? Understandable.

"Today we're playing a variation on Telestrations to improve our communication skills!" Anakin declared. "Each team member will take a turn in the dunk tank. I will give them a prompt of a word or phrase they must draw in 45 seconds. They will then hand their drawing to their teammate, who will guess what they've drawn and write that on the piece of paper, and cover up the drawing. The third team member then gets 45 seconds to draw what the second team member has written, and the final team member must guess what the third team member has drawn. If it is the prompt I gave originally, no one gets wet. If not, the first team mate goes into the water. Then everyone switches places!"

If, by the end, people are just guessing badly to get people wet, Anakin would not be terribly shocked. "Listen for your names and retrieve your outfits!" That's right, there's not just a shirt this week! There's also shorts and a bucket hat. You were so lucky.

TEAM 80s NIGHTMARE
Kamala
Steve R
Stewart
Isabela

TEAM HOT DOG
Eleanor
Belle
Steph
Vi

TEAM RUBBER DUCK
Sam
Thor
Steve M
Rey

TEAM MAGIC MUSHROOMS
Gray
Arden
Kennedy
Yukari

Comments

Arrive and Mingle

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Man, it's gross out.

Voluntolds, Come on Down!

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Anakin's provided changing stations so you can be properly attired! He was a giver that way.

Play!

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Round One

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Up in the dunk tank are Kamala, Eleanor, Sam & Gray!

Your prompts are:
Kamala: Strike Out
Eleanor: Cold Feet
Sam: Elbow Room
Gray: Belly Dancer

Pass your drawings to Steve R., Belle, Thor, & Arden, who will try to guess what you drew. They'll write that word down, then Stewart, Steph, Steve M. & Kennedy will draw that word. Isabela, Vi, Rey & Yukari will write down what they think that drawing is, then show it to the person in the tank! If it's not what Anakin told them to draw, into the water they go! Everyone wins! Somehow!

Round Two

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Same system as Round One, only now the second person is in the tank and the possibly wet first person is at the back of the line.

Your prompts are:
Steve R: Cowgirl
Belle: Viking
Thor: Walrus
Arden: Kazoo

Round Three

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So much fun!

Your prompts are:
Stewart: Matzo Ball Soup
Steph: Orchestra
Steve M: Egypt
Kennedy: Blood Bank

Round Four

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Last round!

Your prompts are:
Isabela: Mad Scientist
Vi: Carsick
Rey: Rock Climber
Yukari: Strawberry Jam

Talk to Anakin!

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Give him a big, wet hug!

OOC

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Prompts taken from my game of Telestrations :)

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[what_big_teeth]

Had Eleanor had a hot dog related shirt before? She honestly wasn't sure if she had, or if it was all just blurring together for her, but she was pretty used to all this by now and just dutifully donned her new apparel and got ready for whatever this was going to be today.

And honestly? Yeah, she was definitely in favor of just doing poorly just to end up in the water, which was infinitely better than this weather...and not even because she preferred water in general.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[good_for_six]

Isabela refused to wear pants on principle! Her shirt was more than long enough.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[heroic_jawline]

"Tony is not going to be sad to have missed this outfit," Steve commented as he put his bucket hat on.

Re: Round Two

[heroic_jawline]

The problem being an artist in a game with a time limit was that Steve got so wrapped up in making the picture look nice that he didn't finish what he wanted to draw.

Here, Stewart, have this picture of a cowboy hat wearing pigtails.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[giveittoyoursister]

Vi eyed the shorts with distaste.

Mainly because they looked a lot baggier than what Steph usually wore in weather like this.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[grenadesandohana]

"Pretty sure this pattern is banned by the Geneva Conventions," McGarrett commented, staring with horror at his rubber duck shorts.

Re: Round Three

[grenadesandohana]

"I hate him so much," Steve muttered to himself, sketching out big squarish blob with his marker, slapping a triangle inside it, added a wiggly line that could be the Nile if you, you know, knew what his prompt was, and pointed an arrow at the squarish outline.

There. Egypt. Couldn't be clearer. Good luck, Rey!

Re: Round Four

[good_for_six]

Congratulations, Kamala, Isabela wasn't Solas the Dragon Age character who'd draw a halla and expect you to understand why that was the most obvious way of indicating a mad scientist.

Instead you got a very crudely drawn picture of Beaker.

Re: Round Four

[giveittoyoursister]

Look, everyone was lucky Vi even knew what a car was.

Her drawing had wheels. Wheels and a frowny face.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[x_wondrous_x]

Stewart was very tempted to just put this all on over his overalls; he had an aesthetic, people. But it really was way too hot for that, so there he was in all the horrible eighties glory.

You know, he didn't think it was all that bad, either. You know, though. Ironically.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[id_kill_him]

Very clearly, this was not at all Yukari's style, but hey! Free clothes were free clothes, she wasn't about to complain!

Not about that, anyway. Give her time, she'll find something else, though.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[momslilassassin]

If the choice was sitting in the apartment with three active kids or going out in the heat, Ben was unwisely choosing the heat.

"I'll bet we can use the tanks after the big kids are done," Ben told Val.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[fears_no_one]

"What the fuck is this?" Flint muttered to himself, stopping to watch.

Re: Round One

[what_big_teeth]

Oh! Well, this was easy! Well, sort of, Eleanor wasn't the best artist around, and it turned out that drawing a foot encased in a block of ice was a little harder to get onto paper than she expected, but that's what she was going for and it was just going to have to do as she then handed it on over to Belle.

Re: Round Three

[x_wondrous_x]

Stewart squinted a little bit at his prompt as he tried to decide if this was PC or not, but, well...

He was going to draw a bowl with a Star of David on it and make sure that the soup inside of it had lots of little lumps of balls like matzo in there and was going to draw arrows to the balls specifically to emphasize that that part was important.

Re: Round Four

[id_kill_him]

Yukari's tongue may have been peeking out of the corner of her mouth as she tried very hard to draw an absolutely adorable strawberry and put little headphones on it and drew musical notes around it and motion lines to show that it was jamming out to some music!

LOOK, IT WAS ADORABLE. FIGHT HER ABOUT IT.