Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 26, 202

[sith_happened]

There was an ice skating rink set up in the center of the park, which would be nice of a day like today if center ice hadn't been ominously filled with plastic ball pit balls. There were four laundry baskets spread out equally around the circle of balls, four scooters--red, yellow, blue, and green--next to the baskets, and most disturbingly of all...four hippo costumes.

Anakin, what have you wrought?

"We're playing Hungry Hungry Hippos," Anakin announced through the unnecessary megaphone. "And by we I mean you. Listen for your names!"

TEAM RED
Lydia
Steph
Belle
Arden

TEAM BLUE
Rosa
Vi
Stewart
Beta

TEAM GREEN
Cara
Beaker
Amaya
Kamala

TEAM YELLOW
Dean
Steve M
Don
Eleanor

"You only need to wear the costume while you're retrieving the balls!" Anakin announced like that made it better. He pointed to the boring red, blue, green, and yellow t-shirts next to him. "Just wear the t-shirts for everything else."

Comments

Arrive and Mingle

[sith_happened]

Grab a seat! Grab a snack! Wonder why Anakin even had four different hippo costumes!

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[ifwebeworthy]

Don had limped (Because he had a bad leg! Totally the only reason, he would insist, like a liar who lied!) his way to the park before he realized...

"Oh, no. Oh, no, it's not Tuesday, is it?"

There was also definitely no reason to examine why he'd lost a day in there somehow.

Maybe he wouldn't be called!

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[single_man_tear]

Dean knew the odds of being called. But he was in a mood for laughing at other people today and decided to take that chance.

So he was hear. Ready to mock of be mocked.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[slothbabyproductions]

Kamala had showed up today fully expecting to be called down. It was just better to expect your fate that way.

Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[sith_happened]

Well, this should be a thing.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[ifwebeworthy]

Don would just be staring at the hippo costume he was expected to put on. For...a while.

"What the hell?" Because what the hell, Anakin?

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[grenadesandohana]

McGarrett snorted, reaching for his yellow t-shirt. "This isn't what you normally do on a Wednesday?"

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[x_wondrous_x]

On the one hand, Stewart did like the prospect of getting on the ice.

On the other hand....hippo costume.

On the...third?...hand...he did actually find it very generous and acceptable that only the person receiving the balls would be wearing the hippo costume. It also made sense from a narrative standpoint, so he couldn't really even be that annoyed or irritated by it. Honestly, if you asked him, it was an elegant solution, a very good balance between the absurd and the reasonable.

His bar on such things was very low, to be honest.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[single_man_tear]

Dean was just staring at the hippo costume. Just staring.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[ifwebeworthy]

"My thoughts exactly," Don told him.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[mustbeawitch]

Lydia had just been out for a walk in her new dress! She really didn't deserve this!

On the bright side, given the new dress, at least this didn't seem terribly messy? And the red shirt she would be expected to wear for much of the activity didn't clash too terribly with the pink of her dress...

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[giveittoyoursister]

Vi should really just stop coming to the park at all during summer. Especially when her shoulder had had a chance to seize up overnight make its complaints known about just how hard she'd pushed it yesterday.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[slothbabyproductions]

"Okay, Can I keep this?" Kamala said, now dancing around in the hippo costume. Sure it was hot but sometimes you got to embrace the weirdness.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[wrongkindofsith]

The one day, the one day she came by the park...

If looks could kill, Anakin would be a dead man.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[drumsticksandd20s]

You know, Steph couldn't even be surprised any more.

Appalled, yes. Not surprised though.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[special_rabbit]

Blame the fact that she'd been working pretty heavily on a mobility project in the shop this week, but Amaya couldn't help but try and think of ways to improve on this concept, probably with more motors and potentially rockets.

Of course, she was trying not to think about it, because it was game time, and she had a detective to destroy in the arena of silly summer games taken far, far too seriously.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[died8yearsago]

Rosa sort of had mixed feelings about the fact that she'd finally decided that she and Blackstone were overdue for a reignition of their rivalry, and....this is what they had to show for it.

She'd decided on exactly how she felt after it was over, based on whether or not she won.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[what_big_teeth]

You know, if they were really playing a game based around who could eat the most, Eleanor had a pretty good chance of winning that one for her team.

Unfortunately, it would also include likely eating her team and everyone else in the park today, so....

Let's just be glad she had no idea about the cultural reference because she didn't know the game, and, considering the bits and pieces of it put into the activity, she was thinking that was a good thing even without the additional context. It was definitely going to take her a moment to even understand what was going on today with this one.

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[no_missing_piece]

You know, Beta was just trying to cultivate a habit of getting outside more often, and this kept happening to her. Maybe she should just go back to her hermit ways.

Play Hungry Hungry Hippos!

[sith_happened]

There will be four rounds! The first player gets belly side down on the scooter and holds the laundry basket while player two pushes them by the legs. Race out and back to the middle of the ice, snagging as many balls as you can in two minutes. Then player two gets on the scooter and the whole thing repeats!

ROUND ONE

[sith_happened]

[OOC: Team Yellow wins, followed by Blue, Green, and Red]

ROUND TWO

[sith_happened]

[Yellow wins again, followed by Blue, Red, and then Green.]

ROUND THREE

[sith_happened]

[OOC: Green coming in from behind, then Yellow, Red, and Blue!]

ROUND FOUR

[sith_happened]

[OOC: Green again! Then Red, Yellow, and Blue.]

OOC

[sith_happened]

Today has already been long.