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Summer Shenanigans, June 3, 2026

Anakin was back in the park, surrounded by stations.

The good news was that none of them looked messy.

The bad news was that his shirts this week were especially hideous.

"Today you will complete seven tasks," Anakin yelled through his megaphone. "When you touch a task envelope in any way, you must complete it before looking inside another envelope. Fastest wins! Listen for your names:

Stark
Steve R.
Vi
Hannibal
Henry
Steve M.
Jonathan
Aphra
Rey
Flint
Sairis."

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As one does!

Those shirts are a lot.

1. Complete the jigsaw.
2. Hide all the jigsaw pieces around the garden.
3. Put this wheelbarrow under the jungle gym on the other side of the park. The wheelbarrow must stay under the jungle gym for the rest of the task.
4. Put 20 things all bigger than a tennis ball in the wheelbarrow.
5. Roll the bowling ball from behind the rope next to the pond, so it knocks over at least one of the pins in front of the pond. If you miss, fetch the ball from the pond.
6. Build a tower of bricks on this red circle. The tower must be at least 26 inches high and must remain standing until all the tasks are complete.
7. Place one of your hands on your hips and keep it there until you have completed all of the tasks.

You must complete the tasks in this order: 6,5,3,4,7,1,2.

You must complete the tasks in this order: 7,6,3,5,1,2,4.

You must complete the tasks in this order: 2,6,1,3,7,5,4.

You must complete the tasks in the following order: 3,6,4,1,5,7,2.

You must complete the tasks in the following order: 5,3,7,6,2,1,4.

You must complete the tasks in the following order: 2,1,4,7,6,3,5.

You must complete the tasks in this order: 5,3,2,6,7,4,1.

You must complete your tasks in the following order: 5,1,3,7,2,6,4.

You must complete your tasks in the following order: 2,7,3,4,1,6,5.

You must complete the tasks in the following order: 6,3,7,2,4,1,5.

You must complete the tasks in the following order: 4,1,3,6,2,5,7.

Possibly about the stupid, ugly shirts.

whee!

"Wow," Steve said, blinking at his hippo-faced monstrosity. "These are...wow."

Steve ripped open the second task first and spent a gleeful few minutes hiding the jigsaw pieces all over the park, then opened the first task.

"Son of a bitch."

Now he had to remember where he'd put all the damn pieces.

It was harder than it should be to build a tower of bricks while keeping one hand on his hip, but Steve was making good progress.

That looked two feet tall, right? Maybe he needed a few more bricks...

Flint made quick work of the brick tower, then moved the wheelbarrow across the park and stuffed it under the jungle gym. He frowned as he was forced to put one hand on his hip, and frowned more as he hid the jigsaw pieces.

"Well, the tower's finished," he muttered to himself as he moved the brick one hand at a time, over to the wheelbarrow. It just wasn't 25 things...

"What's wrong with its teeth?" Vi asked, not putting the shirt on.

Unlike some people, Vi actually was in the habit of remembering where she hid things so that was a less painful task than it could have been.

"So many things," Steve said, shuddering.

The task didn't say anything about having to hide the pieces separately, so Aphra just tossed her completed jigsaw in the pond. Take that jigsaw!

"Nice," Flint said approvingly. With his hand on his hip. Stupid game.

"I vote for it being a no shirt day," Vi said, having sincere concerns about the shirt trying to eat her if she tried wearing it.

"I vote for taking them off the island before they come to life and chase us through the streets," Steve muttered. "But if it happened on Monday, it'd give me something to do at work..."

Steve, no.

Yeah, no.

"Mondays are busy enough as is," Vi said as she looked for somewhere to conceal the shirt.

Stark had been trying to avoid the park. He knew better. But he'd been dragged by some persistent squirrels in that general direction and he was probably doomed now.

Steve nodded at a thick bush perfect for stuffing shirts into. "What keeps you busy on Monday?" he asked.

Stark groaned. And sighed. And then stared in horror at the shirt.

Ok, building a tower was a simple enough start. Stark could handle that. It was taller than it needed to be because even after all these years he didn't really think in inches.

He wasn't great at bowling but he could handle that as a second task.

Moving the wheelbarrow was ok though he wished he could have filled it first rather than running around after the fact to fill it up.

But at least he hadn't had to put his hand on his hip until now? Though it did make putting the jigsaw puzzle together more annoying.

Taking the puzzle apart immediately after was also annoying. And then hiding the pieces just seemed silly. He kind of just flung them around. One handed, of course.

"Right, no looking a gift horse in the mouth and everything, but..."

Apparently even Henry had found his limit.

"Well, rolling a ball can't be too hard," Henry said, optimistically.

An optimism he would retain until the wheelbarrow.

"There's whatever the fuck these are?" Flint finished for him.

Hannibal raised an eyebrow at the shirt, and then rolled it up into a sash so the only thing visible was gradients of brown and tied it around his waist.

"I may have seen something like it in a book once?"

Flint had zero idea what the shirts had on them. "Terrifying horse thing?"

"I don't think it's a horse," Henry said pensively. "Some kind of pig?"

"Horse-pig," Flint said, squinting as he thought about the terrifying crime against God that breeding experiment must have been.

Roll a bowling ball. Fine. Jon could...more or less do that, and he only got a little soaked going after the ball twice.

The wheelbarrow was easier, thank god.

Hiding jigsaw pieces? Was...odd, but not difficult.

The tower of bricks was a little more of a challenge, and honestly, one of these days he'd like to do something that didn't require fine motor control. You were getting such a stinkeye, Anakin.

Hand on hip. Got it. Hopefully nothing else required two hands.

...Right. One-handed. Well, nothing said they had to be heavy things, right? Jon's shirt, which he had refused to wear, and his shoes went in, and then his water bottle. And then...he looked around. He sighed. He reread the clue. No, nothing said the items had to stay in there. He took everything back out and put it in again. And again. And again. And again.

Only one thing left!

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me!" He went back to find all the damn pieces again.

So this shirt was horrifying. Rey tended to recycle or donate clothes when she was done with them (yes, even shenanigans shirts, have fun, Goodwill) but this needed to go in a burn pile. Immediately after this.

She debated putting it on inside out but the thought of the teeth facing her actual body was too weird.

"Got work," Vi replied, shoving the shirt into the bush. ~~Which she had totally been at despite forgetting to post, shut up.~~ "And two classes this time around."

He didn't say anything about cheating! Rey could cheat! Especially when she lost the use of her second hand on the second task!

And she didn't love hiding the puzzle pieces on the first task and having to complete it in the middle. Maybe this was what she got for not having suggestions.

Wheelbarrow under jungle gym. That was suspiciously easy.

Tower of bricks. Not difficult at all.

The difficult part was finding twenty things big enough. Hannibal's hideous shirt and the linen jacket he worn here went in, followed by a lot of bricks. He stopped, counted, and was one short. He looked around, then pulled out the food he kept in his pocket for reasons he would never admit to and lured over a flamingo, which went, squawking, into the wheelbarrow. It promptly let its displeasure be known and flailed around before flying off, somehow wearing the hideous shirt.

Jigsaws were something Hannibal occasionally did for fun, so it wasn't difficult, and at least he got to make it before hiding the pieces, unlike some people.

The bowling ball knocked down several pins the first time, because Hannibal had very good aim.

And he looked good with a hand on his hip.

It didn't even make hiding things that difficult.

Sairis had initially thought all clothes were good clothes if they were free. He was revising that opinion.

"How big is a tennis ball?" Sairis wondered.

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Summer Shenanigans, June 3, 2026

Arrive and Mingle

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Your Tasks!

Stark

Steve R

Vi

Hannibal

Henry

Steve M

Jonathan

Aphra

Rey

Flint

Sairis

Talk to Anakin

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