fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 17

Well, this week the people tasked with leading shenanigans couldn't even blame Anakin for the fresh insanity that awaited the island. Because this week was all Thor's fault.

No, not that Thor. The other one.

Even Don didn’t know where he’d gotten the boats. Sometimes you had to just shrug and hope it was magic. Or maybe just the magic of Tony Stark's petty cash account for the Avengers.

“Today you’ll be competing in a relay,” Don told the assembled ‘volunteers.’ “A…Norse-themed relay.”

Jane shook her head from behind Don. Maybe out of sympathy for the class, maybe because she too couldn't believe they were doing this. "We'll split you into teams of three to complete legs of the 'race' that are… unique to say the least."

What was that ammonia smell?

“This is not our fault,” Don told everyone, even though they were the people standing here and at least one of them was a Norse god. “Uh, have fun?”

Team Skogkatt
Hannibal Lecter
Stewart
Belle

Team Tanngrisnir
Senshi
Eleanor Zarrin
Kamala Khan

Team Sleipnir
Miguel O’Hara
Dean Winchester
Arden Finch

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Arden Finch, Eleanor Zarrin, Belle

Guide a sled pulled by…the closest thing to your assigned animal Thor could round up this morning through a short course to lead them to the next leg of the race. Team Skogkatt, you have raccoons, Team Tanngrisnir has some very confused teal deer, and Team Sleipnir has an alot.

Team Sleipnir wins, followed by Team Tanngrisnir, then Team Skogkatt!

As Eleanor found herself on her sled with its bewildered teal deer, she was a little conflicted. She knew sometimes use of extra abilities were frowned on for these things,and she really hated using hers, anyway. She didn't even know if it worked on something like a deer. But they were already subjecting it to something it probably didn't want to do, and if she ordered it around, then it would be over for both of them faster.

But mostly, she was on Kamala's team and wanted to do well to impress her.

Did she want to do it like that, though? She'd see what she could do to coax the deer to pull thr sled normally, but if it started to get embarrassing, she might have to try it, just a little bit. No one would be able to tell, probably, they'd just think she was getting overly enthusiastic about it.

The demand of "Go left!!" that left her at some point, though, was clear survival instinct in an effort to not go careening into that tree.

The problem with raccoons (one problem with raccoons) was that they could be easily distracted. Perhaps they thought the awful smell was enticing? Perhaps they'd seen something shiny? Perhaps they were eager to get back to brewing beer? In any case, the raccoons pulling Belle's sled were going in all sorts of directions that were not the correct ones.

"This would have been easier if I pulled you," Belle sighed.

Arden's alot was big and strong and mostly just happy to amble on in any direction. The difficulty was getting it to move at something faster than an amble. She certainly wasn't about to hit the poor thing or scare it at all.

But maybe she could cool it down? Little by little, she plucked tiny silent chords of air, cooling it down and then wrapping it around the alot like a thin shawl of coolness around its head and neck. She kept her eyes downcast, knowing they would be glowing gold as she worked, peeking out with her peripheral vision to keep them going in the right direction.

But once she was done, her alot seemed to perk up and was willing to be goaded into a decent pace to finish up the course!

Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 17

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