Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, August 21, 2024

[sith_happened]

"Today is our last team building exercise of the summer," Anakin announced to the group in the park over the sound of preschool children playing on the playground equipment. "And today I have brought in helpers!"

Oh, good.

"You will be put into teams and work your way through a series of obstacles with the help of a four year old child."

Well. "Help." Anakin knew four year old children.

"Today you will be wearing festive hats instead of shirts!" he added. "They were not at all inspired by my wife watching political conventions the last few weeks."

Lies. There was no other reason to wear a corn hat.

"Listen for your names!"

TEAM LIBERTY
Harley
Hannibal
Kamala
Raiden
Steve M
Eleanor

TEAM CHEESE
Vi
Sam
Stewart
Arthur
Stark
Lana

TEAM LOBSTA
Senshi
Flint
Navaan
Summer
Don
Belle

TEAM CORN
Miguel
Beaker
Lydia
Jon
Gray
Ben

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Challenge 2

[sith_happened]

Find that thing the child wants! Before you is a literal dumpster of stuffed animals. Each child has one they are looking for! They might change their mind about what it is halfway through! They might even want something that doesn't even exist! The second pair of teammates (Kamala & Raiden, Stewart & Arthur, Navaan & Summer, and Lydia & Jon) must climb into the dumpster and convince the child to take the toy.

RNG says: LIBERTY, LOBSTA, CORN, CHEESE

Re: Challenge 2

[slothbabyproductions]

Okay. Kamala was good with kids. Really. Because deep down she was very much a kid.

"C'mon Thor!"

Wrong Hemsworth PB, Kamala.

"Let's get this plushie!" She declared as she jumped into the dumpster.

Re: Challenge 2

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Thor?" Raiden asked, looking around in confusion. "Where?"

Re: Challenge 2

[slothbabyproductions]

“Uh? You?” Kamala said with a blink of confusion.

Re: Challenge 2

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Oh, no!" Raiden told her. "Common mistake, but I'm Raiden! I run the pizza place?" He didn't think he looked that much like Thor. He had trouble picturing that guy in a ball cap, for one thing, and Raiden would probably get all tangled up in the cape.

Re: Challenge 2

[slothbabyproductions]

Whoops! “Sorry! I thought you were just being casual. Like when Mr. Stark wears his Metallica T-shirt. Anyhow! Plushie time!”

Kamala ducked down and pulled an armful of plushies from the dumpster. “Here we go kiddo! Pick one!”

Re: Challenge 2

[two_idiots_one_body]

"Right. We can do this."

Absolutely. Let's find the best one!

Arthur climbed into the dumpster.

Oo, that one!

Re: Challenge 2

[x_wondrous_x]

Stewart, avid dumpster diver as he may be, was still glowering over the whole conceit of this week's activities.

"Why don't we just grab one," he proposed to his partner-in-diving as he stood watch over the dumpster itself to glare at more kids, "toss it to them, and tell them that's what they get, and they'll like it, or else."

Re: Challenge 2

[two_idiots_one_body]

Oh, Arthur! I have the perfect one!

"Hold on, I've got a good one!" Arthur held it out over the edge.

He probably shouldn't be trusting John's idea of perfect.

Re: Challenge 2

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon looked at the dumpster. Jon considered Lydia's outfit and her belief in ladylike ways. He sighed.

"I suppose I'll be climbing in there."

Re: Challenge 2

[mustbeawitch]

Lydia would have climbed in the dumpster, but since Jon had volunteered and all, she bent down to ask the child, "Now, darling, what kind of toy do you want? I'm sure Mr. Sims can find it for you."

Please hold while the child described an incredibly complicated toy that might or might not exist.

Re: Challenge 2

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

It would be really nice at this point if the all-knowing Eye would tell Jon where such a thing was. Or if it even existed.

No, that would be too useful of it. Jon sighed and climbed into the dumpster to start looking.

Re: Challenge 2

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer considered the task.

Summer considered her partner.

"You know," she realized, "I'm not sure the two of us together should be allowed around children."

Re: Challenge 2

[doesdoctorstuff]

"Nope!" Navaan said cheerfully. "You wanna jump into a dumpster full of toys and do drugs where the kids can't see?"