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Summer Shenanigans- Wednesday mid-morning

No Anakin today, which might make some people breathe a sigh of relief. Except instead you got his fairly similar granddaughter so you have fun with that.

Especially when there seemed to be a small obstacle course set up in the park, so.

"Welcome!" Jaina began, through a megaphone because if he got to use one, she wanted one too. "We're going to do a little obstacle course today. Nothing to be afraid of."

She read out this week's names:

Belle
Don
Gray
Hannibal
Jag
Jon
Lana
Remy
Rey
Stark

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Sure it's stupid hot and the washers and dryers aren't working but that doesn't mean you can't come down and watch!

Jag had had a very annoying day work wise, but he brought the boys out to see Jaina anyway. Sure, it was gross out, but at least they would have fun.

Stark had not been paying attention to where he was walking after leaving the radio station. Oops. Well, he might as well stay here and watch. It was safer without Anakin, right?

Jaina didn't know this was happening till it was too late to order shirts! Oh no, you would just have to do this in your regular clothes! A reprieve!

Remy had mostly stopped by to see if Harley would get roped into things.

No Skywalker (that he knew of). No shirts. No Harley.

It was a half-hearted Remy who went to go take his place amongst the voluntolds this week.

This was a betrayal.

And Jag had a decent glare going as he went down there, even if Jaina was ignoring it. At least there weren't shirts. That would have been too far.

It was not, in fact, safer without Anakin. Alas.

Stark sighed and headed towards the obstacle course.

Rey didn't mind the shirts. She also wasn't horribly offended that she wasn't getting one today.

She did not yet know that she'd really want an extra clean shirt later.

Belle was already running out of clothes for a variety of reasons and she'd rather hoped to get at least a ridiculous t-shirt out of coming out here today. Nope.

Oh well. What could go wrong?

Each player had a pole to climb in order to grab the flag at the top. It's only seven feet or so, nothing terrible. Except there is definitely something slippery on it making it hard to climb.

[RNG says:
Rey
Hannibal
Stark
Belle
Jon
Don
Jag
Remy
Lana
Gray]

Lana supposed that using the Force was probably not in the spirit of things. If it were Anakin, she might not care anyway, but so far Jaina hadn't been terrible to her.

Unless today counted.

Lana sighed and resigned herself to it.

Jon had done this before. He had Opinions on this stupid pole.

But as nobody was listening to them, he just started climbing. What he lacked in skill, he made up for in sheer stubbornness.

Hannibal had learned enough not to wear a good linen suit to these things, but he was still lamenting the fate of the designer jeans and cotton button-up he had worn. He doubted they would survive the stains that would result from sitting in this filth until the washing machine was cooperating.

Not that it slowed him down at all.

Rey had probably done this before while scavenging, though there had to have been less grease. She wasn't going to say this was easy, but she was able to get a decent grip with her feet that helped a ton.

Her poor boots.

Stark was grimly determined to do well at this. Trying to prove something to himself, maybe. He gritted his teeth and climbed.

Even he was surprised he did as well as he did though.

Belle surprised herself with her ability to get up the pole.

Belle also surprised herself with the amount of grease coating her outfit after she'd gotten back down again.

Jag was not out of shape, but he also didn't make a habit of climbing poles, let alone poles covered in whatever this was. He was determined though, because he couldn't look bad here. Just couldn't.

You have to run one at a time through a little raised runway. Easy! Except it's full of quicksand that tries pulling your feet in the more you move. It's definitely shallow and won't suck you down or anything but you may lose a shoe.

[RNG says:
Stark
Hannibal
Gray
Don
Lana
Jag
Jon
Rey
Belle
Remy]

Edited 2025-07-09 14:47 (UTC)

Hannibal abandoned his ruined shirt at the start of this, and had removed his shoes before starting on that pole, so he lost both socks by the end, leaving him in nothing but jeans.

If anyone was surprised a middle-aged gourmand was in as good shape as he was, it was their own problem for not paying better attention.

Rey dealt with quicksand a lot!

Except no she didn't, she'd always been able to get over the stuff in the warehouse so she hadn't actually been in it, and it showed.

And yes, she was trying not to lose a boot.

Was it because Stark was pretty light (*snare*)? Maybe. Maybe he was still trying to prove something.

In any case he scampered across the quicksand much more quickly and easily than anyone could have predicted.

Hey Rey, maybe he wouldn't die just by walking into the warehouse after all!

Quicksand was not Belle's friend.

Unsurprising, really, since she came from a fairytale world. Quicksand was out to get here, more than likely.

This was ridiculous and Jag didn't like it. Whatever was on his shirt from the pole seemed to still be sticky. But he'd do it.

It was beginning to bother him that he seemed to be average at this.

With a bucket-like hat attached to your head with a chin strap, gremlins would launch waffle ingredients (whipped cream, fruit, and syrup) at you from a catapult for you to catch in said bucket hat. First to get all three ingredients in their hat successfully wins.

[RNG says:
Jag
Belle
Rey
Jon
Don
Lana
Remy
Hannibal
Gray
Stark

Hannibal had numerous skills. Catching things with his head was not one of them. He generally avoided running head-first into things.

He did eventually manage it, but only after being covered by whipped cream and syrup with fruit stuck in it.

Oh no this sucked. Sure, Rey got pelted in the face with catapulted berries (and she was pretty sure there was a blueberry in her bra) but it was easy enough to get them in the bucket.

The whipped cream, though, that was chaos.

Okay, Stark would die if attacked by breakfast foods though. Apparently.

The hat didn't fit too well over the mask. That was probably not the deciding factor.

In any case Stark was completely covered in whipped cream, syrup, and bits of fruit.
Brunch had betrayed him today!

Oh, this Belle was weirdly good at. She was not going to examine that too closely. She was simply going to be grateful there was more syrup in her hat than on her person.

Jag was going to have a long talk with his wife.

He hadn't liked his performance in the last two events, so he was trying a lot harder at this one, and not just because it might leave him slightly less covered in chocolate. Turns out he wasn't terrible at catching whipped cream with his head.

It's hot out! So players would get to throw themselves down the length of a slip and slide, and continue on to finally deliver the flag to Jaina.

It is actually water, yay! Did it undo the damage of the last three tasks? Absolutely not.

[RNG says:
Gray
Jon
Belle
Lana
Jag
Rey
Stark
Remy
Don
Hannibal]

Hannibal was half-dressed and covered in condiments. But that was no excuse to give himself plastic burn by sliding down this thing.

He walked carefully (and very slowly) down the slide, cupping water from near his feet to help rinse off.

How did Rey end up that much behind when she did pretty well on the last thing? It probably involved her boots.

At least the actual slip and slide part was fun.

There was not enough water here to counteract the syrup coating Stark at this point. At least sliding was kind of fun. Would have been more fun if he weren't so sticky though.

Yes, Belle did let out a little "whee" as she went sliding down. Why not? It was fun!

This was undignified, but Jag threw himself along the length of water-covered plastic. This was not the stupidest thing he'd done during all of this.

If you get her messy, she deserves it.

Jag looked thoroughly unimpressed at her. He didn't say anything. He probably didn't need to.

"Is this grounds for divorce?" Jaina asked him, trying for light.

"Twenty years, and I had no idea you had this in you," he said.

"I thought I might do the mud run one again, but this one seemed more fun when people are hot and gross," she reasoned.

"How do you figure that?" he asked, using some of the syrup from his shirt to dot the tip of her nose.

Jaina swatted at him like she had any reason to be annoyed here. "I've heard whipped cream has cooling properties?" she lied. "I gave you a slip and slide."

"Which," he said when he looked back at the little course, "it seems the twins have found."

As evidenced by the grade schooler violently throwing himself down the slide for fun.

"We can give them a few minutes," she said. "Just have to get to them before they get to the waffle thing."

Hey did you know Double Dare has a Wiki?

When I got to the bucket hat, I was all "wait, I think I've seen this somewhere. . . ." XD

Same!

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