fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans [Wednesday mid-morning]

Good morning, everyone! The sun was shining, the weather was getting pleasantly warm and Anakin had set himself up in the park with a bullhorn and a bunch of giant plastic storage containers full of liquids. Ice water, orange soda, chocolate pudding, the leftover slime...

Surely this will end well for everybody!

"Today you will participate in the ten toes challenge!" Anakin announced. "Working in teams, you will lay on your backs and balance these containers on your socked feet. Then, going in a circle, you must each take off one sock, then the other, without tipping the liquid onto yourselves. It's about teamwork!"

And gravity. And Anakin's personal amusement.

"Come down when I call your name and get your team socks!" He grinned. "Oh, and no powers, please. That takes away the fun."

The fun for the audience.

TEAM SMILEY TOE SOCKS
Sam
Steph
Henry
Luma
Gray

TEAM CAT FEET
Steve R
Jonathan
Jaina
Arden
Quinn

TEAM SHARKS
Stewart
Raiden
Hannibal
Eleanor
Rey

TEAM SANDALS
Lydia
Belle
Remy
Flint
Vi

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

It's always worth seeing what Anakin is up to, right?

Get your socks! Hope you're on Team Shark because those are adorable.

Lay on the ground with your feet facing up. Once you're settled, Anakin will place the containers of liquid on top. Then you have to take off one sock at a time, going around the circle, and not spilling the liquid.

Spoiler: You will all spill the liquid. Some of you just spill it later than others!

[OOC: RNG says it goes: SHARKS, CAT FEET, SMILEY TOE SOCKS and SANDALS coming in last.]

Edited 2025-06-04 13:20 (UTC)

You have the ice water! RNG says that when it tips, it's Sam's fault.

You have the chocolate pudding! When it falls, it's Jaina's fault. Sorry, Jaina.

The winners, if such a game can have a winner. You have the orange soda, and when it tips, it's allllll Stewart's fault.

The first to fall! It's Remy's fault and it's gooey green slime.

Give him a big ol' pudding-y hug.

I want to do this in real life. Well, watch it.

Vi may have been plotting on how to acquire some of the other teams' socks. But not more of her teams. They were horrific.

"Those are so cursed," Steph informed her cheerfully, wiggling her individually-socked toes. "I might need to acquire some of those shark socks, though."

Why were Steph's feet looking at her? Vi did her best not to look back. "The cat ones are cute too," she said, trying to focus on something less terrifying.

Luma was absolutely giving those storage containers a withering look, but the look she was giving her sister across the way was slightly on the edge of murderous. She needed to stop agreeing to do these with her...

Sighing slightly, she looked down at her socks, and felt something of a faint smile attempting to pull through, because she honestly did think they were pretty cute, although if she even thought of claws, they were going to be absolutely ruined.

Luma doubted the logistics of this would be even relevant, but she did have to wonder, as she followed what those around her was doing and laid down, but with deep reservations about all of it:

"How exactly are powers defined? They aren't really powers if they're just what you are, are they?"

She was thinking of just gripping the damn thing with her claws when she wasn't having to take off a sock. It was just a physical thing she had! It was like saying someone couldn't use their arms or something!

"Do you think the toes give us a tactical advantage?" Steph asked idly. "Or is that cancelled out by feeling like our feet are staring at us from this angle?"

"Careful, put those on and Saffron might try to pick you up by the scruff of your neck and hide you in the storage room again," Steph replied.

It must be noted that she was pointedly not looking down at her own feet.

Obviously, the moment he got his socks, Stewart was actually putting one on his arm, and then gripping it with his other hand and shouting as if an actual shark was currently eating his arm as it flailed around slightly.

Honestly, Luma's openness about being a werewolf around here helped to make Eleanor actually a little amused by what she ended up with, even if there was always that lingering thread of feeling like she was being called out whenever she wound up being matched up with something particularly water or ocean related for these things. She knew it was probably all just coincidence, but there was always that little paranoid part of her...

Either way, she really thought these were cute and couldn't wait to show them off to Kamala and she was hoping Luma also got something good for her sock as sort of a way to ease the irritation of having to do these with her.

And no one would blame her.

"I'm definitely not planning on having Saffron bite my neck," Vi said grinning at her.

Look, it wasn't that Jon was that short, it was just that most people on this island were stupidly heroic and tall.

It did mean not much of the weight was on his feet, though.

And he did have to admit, the socks were pretty cute.

Edited 2025-06-04 14:24 (UTC)

Hannibal chuckled. "These are amusing, although I'm not certain how you would stuff the fins into shoes."

At the chuckle, Stewart stopped abruptly; there was a split second of eying Hannibal suspiciously before the motion of his arms continued, but not as a pantomime of his shark attack, but a sort of waving dance move as he pulled the sock of his arm.

"They're probably not meant to go in shoes," he pointed out. "Lounging socks. For indoors."

Of which Hannibal looked like these sharks might be the first pair of such socks that he'd owned.

Hannibal preferred silk socks and slippers, it was true.

He considered that, then shook his head. "The cats would adore them, I'm sure. I would never get more than three steps without my feet being attacked."

Impulsively, Stewart's sock did, in fact, attack his other arm again, like he couldn't hear the word without immediately being compelled to dive right back into his one-man recreation of all the best scenes in Jaws.

And he was clearly more comfortable with doing that than having actual conversations with other people, and so he eventually sort of awkwardly just added, "You have cats?"

You were doing fine, Stewart! Actual conversation!

"Two of them," Hannibal answered. "One is an old man, and one is a kitten, and has been for years."

Joni was the Peter Pan of cats.

Page 1 of 4

Summer Shenanigans [Wednesday mid-morning]

Arrive and Mingle!

Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Play!

Smiley Toe Socks!

Cat Feet!

Sharks!

Sandals!

Talk to Anakin!

OOC

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Smiley Toe Socks!

Re: Smiley Toe Socks!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Cat Feet!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!

Re: Voluntolds, Come on Dooooown!