Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, July 24, 2024

[sith_happened]

When the poor schmucks Fandom arrived in the park on Wednesday, they would see four wooden rafts, big enough to each hold five people (or Muppets), bobbing on the pond. In the center of each raft was a metal bucket full of objects. Some were balloon-shaped, some were ball-shaped, others were clearly shoes. One looked suspiciously like Intern Porg, desperate for a news story.

"My thanks to Don and Jane for covering for me the last two weeks. We are doing something that didn't require much effort on my part to set up," Anakin said, which was pretty straight-forward of him. "We're doing a balloon-ish toss! Pick an object, toss it to your teammate on the next raft over. Do not miss, or break the object! Fastest team to get all the way around the circuit wins."

He grinned. "Powers may be used today. And there are plenty of objects in the buckets. No one says you have to only toss things at your own teammates."

Sometimes Anakin just liked to watch the world burn.

"Listen for your names!"

TEAM KEEP COOL
Ben
Raiden
Gladio
Kamala

TEAM FIGHT
Steve M
Liliana
Don
Ignis

TEAM INCOMING
Henry
Arden
Flint
Lydia

TEAM GETTING HIGH
Steve R
Stewart
Rey
Dean

TEAM BALLOON ANIMALS
Prompto
Beaker
Vi
Eleanor

...turned out there were a limited number of water balloon themed t-shirts. Oh well.

Comments

Aboard Raft Four

[sith_happened]

Re: Aboard Raft Four

[what_big_teeth]

Eleanor was going to try her best to not be too distracted with sharing a raft with Kamala as she tried to find something that she might be able to throw easily without being too much of an embarrassment to herself.

She ended up with a rubber duckie, and only thought to shout to Prompto about when she threw it after it was already halfway there.

Re: Aboard Raft Four

[single_man_tear]

"All right!" Dean said assuming a catching pose. "Let's have it! Come on!"

Re: Aboard Raft Four

[deathsmajesty]

"Wait, is that the chair?!" Liliana yelled, pointing at something behind Dean.

Re: Aboard Raft Four

[single_man_tear]

Years of hunter’s instincts kicked in and Dean spun around to see where the impending danger was coming from.

And nearly fell off the raft.

Re: Aboard Raft Four

[deathsmajesty]

Liliana laughed, because she was the worst.

And if some of the wood went soft and rotten beneath his feet...well, who was to say how that happened. Shoddy wood purveyors. The Ea-Nasir of hardwoods, probably.

Re: Aboard Raft Four

[single_man_tear]

Damn those Ea-Nasir hardwoods. Dean stepped back right into that wood and his booted foot when right through, sending him tumbling into the water.

So now there is a wet and sputtering Dean in the pond.

Re: Aboard Raft Four

[deathsmajesty]

And Liliana was still laughing, because she was still the worst.

Don't worry, Dean. She wasn't coming through unscathed.

Re: Aboard Raft Four

[chef_chocobro]

Ignis knew he was at a significant disadvantage for this activity, especially with so much else going on. It would be easier to track what was being thrown if there weren't multiple things being thrown all at once! But he could at least lean on trusting his teammate to be ready on their raft and that he was throwing in the right direction as he found something round with a decent heft to it.

"On the way!" he called out as he gave it a lob through the air, hopefully toward Steve, though he did feel fairly confident that he'd marked everything well enough that it shouldn't be too far off.

Re: Aboard Raft Four

[grenadesandohana]

"On it!" Steve yelled back, holding Ben in a headlock with one arm and catching the object with the other.

Re: Aboard Raft Four

[mustbeawitch]

"Miss Henry!" Lydia called. "Miss Henry, catch this!" 'This' was a jelly sandal coated in...Lydia cared not to know what. She only knew she wanted it out of her hand as quickly as possible.

She did not have what one would call a natural throwing arm, but she did her best, so, uh, good luck, Henry?