Bug-a-lympics

[abugslife]

[A few days after the vacations, the delegation from the Gebian Ministry of Health arrives. Which means it's time for the event we've been planning for some time! An impromptu sports field has appeared on the edge of Alhambra base, where volunteers (grand majority of them members of Unity Group) can participate in various games and disciplines. Some of them are common, others strange and exotic! And while this goes on, the delegation (as well as various other random onlookers) watches - a group of insectoid Gebian aliens who all look way too similar to an untrained eye. It's even hard to tell which one is the minister! But she has to be here, right? Hetepheres is, at least - the general seems to spend most of the time playing guide for the visitors.]

[This is an open log, but one thread per sports discipline please. No limitations on what disciplines go, as long as they're something that's really played in real life! You can participate in more than one event if you want to.]

Comments

[herodrawing]

Uwoooh!

Captain HAAAWK!

[Izuru runs through the grass and kicks a soccer ball... was it meant to go towards someone else or just off into the distance, is unknown. It goes wildly astray either way.]

Umm. Can someone pick that?

[cloningblues]

A war cry won't improve your accuracy, you know.

[Asagi gets the ball and kicks it to someone else.]

[ugyuuya]

[Yuuya stops the ball rather cleanly with the inside of his right knee and dribbles the ball briefly down the field.]

Tell that to some of the South American players, I can't believe how rowdy they get in some of their games.

[Yuuya flips the ball up behind him with his feet allowing it to arch to the front/side of him and catches it with his foot to arch to another player.]

[herodrawing]

They get rowdy? I thought it's not a contact sport...

[Izuru hits the ball with his head... sending it flying high into the air. It'll be a while before it comes down.]

[cloningblues]

Have you ever seen soccer on TV?

[Asagi watches the ball fly all the way up. It doesn't look like he's eager to get it again.]

[herodrawing]

Sometimes...

[Looks like the players are more busy bantering than kicking the ball.
Let's hope Gebians will think it's a part of the game.]

[ugyuuya]

[Yuuya watches the ball come down and manages to get underneath it cleanly enough to bounce it off of his forehead towards the appropriate goal. Before it hits the ground Yuuya hooks his foot underneath it and hooks it towards the goal.]

Well that's probably enough banter let's try to get the game back with a bit of action.

[herodrawing]

Ah, it's going to score! Who's the goalkeeper?!

Banjou: Football... Murican Football (not soccer)

[blackhole_sunattack]

Banjou is geared up in jersey pads and a helmet, smacking a ball between his hands as he waits for others to get to the field.

Garrison has a referee's shirt on while Reika and Beauty (with Toppo in tow) are ready to cheer both teams. At least seeing them should draw an audience.

[glorystargo]

I'm surprised we found a....

[Toby is armored heavily, he looks around the battlefield.]

Well, maybe not a whole team, but enough for a game anyway!

[blackhole_sunattack]

"Enough to play is all that matters. We're here to impress some ambassadors, so I'm expecting some good plays and hard hits."

[majestic_keiki]

[As Kei had foreseen she found herself standing next to Tamaki in a pair of tight uniforms with short skirts, though sensibly also short tights underneath to prevent any indecency, carrying a pompom in each hands. She's trying to look enthusiastic, but it's clear she's uncomfortable, unlike the far more energetic girl next to her.]

[star_of_sad]

G... good luck, everyone!

Hang in there!

[It's a mystery who managed to rope Setsuko into the cheerleading team.

Yet, there she is. Her cheers sound rather desperate.]

[ugyuuya]

[Stella joined the cheer leading squad for at least a short while between events. Helping to encourage the other more nervous girls and dragging Tarisa out despite the smaller Nepalese woman complaining constantly under her breath about size not being everything.]

[majestic_keiki]

[During a break in the cheering, Kei can be found nodding slightly at Tarisa's complaints. Even if they kind of miss the main point.]

[ships_full_of_missiles]

Yeah! What she said!


I'm not even sure why I agreed to do this...


Hey, if we do well, maybe some cute guys will notice us!

[Shammy and Kim get back into it with tamaki-level enthusiasm, though Shammy pretty quickly slips and falls flat on her butt.]

[ugyuuya]

[Stella keeps up the cheering in traditional good cheer but as the lines begin to fill with more cheerleaders Tarisa sneaks closer and closer towards the exit.]

Nobody is going to miss me here anyways, I've got better things to do now than this.

[With one final big play Tarisa successfully sneaks away.]

[dolorous_sensei]

Hooray, yoohoo. Go team.

*Said Walt from the sideline with a flat voice, as he flaps a small plastic flag.*

[ben_dixon]

*And rolling from on top of a steep hill is a big wheel of cheese Behind it is Kakizaki, chasing after it with a rugby uniform for some reason.*

Go get that cheese!

[star_of_sad]

How... do you even play that?

[cloningblues]

Catch the cheese, obviously!

[Said while running.]

...I can't believe I signed up for this event.

[tiger_ken]

It's... A thing... in Britain!

[Ken races down after the cheese as well, oddly familiar with the strange competition. Why is he doing this? Because considering the risk of injury, its perfect for his training!]

Uoooooh!

[...That and seeing the others compete probably got him riled up.]

[star_of_sad]

Good luck. Chasing after the cheese.

[Uncertain waving of pom-poms.]

[majestic_keiki]

Who wins this anyway? The one who's fastest or rolls in the straightest line? Or is it like figure skating with judges determining your cheeserolling form?

[cloningblues]

You win if you catch the cheese!

[It appears to be getting distance on Asagi, too. Outrun by cheese. That's pretty bad.]

[majestic_keiki]

Wouldn't that be cheese chasing or cheese catching, not cheese rolling?

I blame Jonny for this.

[break_the_nine]

[Now... the funny thing is Leos wasn't a part of the competition. He was just a part of the Audience. However when he saw the cheese rolling down the hill something in his mind seemed to twitch. Like a switch flipped one thought rang in his mind as he leapt out of the spectator stand for the most interesting play in audience participation ever.]

YAAAAAAAAH!

['I MUST HAVE THAT CHEEEEESE!!!!']

[Leos was downright charging past everyone else as he ran down the hill before he managed to catch it... however... soon he was rolling in the place of the cheese.]

I REGRET NOTHIIIIING!

[Leos has in his life had many ideas. Many of them bad. This? Was very much one of them.]

[ugyuuya]

[Yuuya and the rest of the Argos flight are standing on a field with Lt. Takamura and Lt. Ibrahim, the latter taking advantage as commander of the flight to arranged for a co-ed Lacrosse team.]

Respectfully Lieutenant, does anyone in the UG know how to play this game besides you? Wouldn't it have been better to arrange a swimming relay or something?

[abugslife]

[A few Gebians from Hetepheres' group are swinging lacrosse sticks enthusiastically. Apparently they didn't get the memo, because they're trying to use the nets to catch each other.]

[ugyuuya]

[Yuuya's face falls rather dramatically at the appearance of the Gebian players. His palm comes up to his face with a groan.]

Well I guess they can play throw ball now as well as roll ball, sticking and netting becomes much more of an issue though.

[caressthedarkness]

[It is very obvious that Seta has absolutely no idea what she's doing, either. Damn creator's game.

While she's going around all over the place, she also trips, falls on her face and vertically splits one of the goalposts in two with her crosse.]

...

Why...does such a confusing game exist...?

[ugyuuya]

[While Lt. Ibrahim tries to go over the rules of play and organize the sides to begin actually playing Yuuya goes over to help Seta up.]

Because people like coming up with sports for anything. They make up some rules based around them fooling around with random junk and it becomes a full fledged sport eventually.

To be fair at least it's not Jai Alai, the ball in that game could kill us and make you very uncomfortable for a bit if it hit us wrong.

[caressthedarkness]

...Thank you.

[She dusts herself off after she gets helped back up, even though there's still a lot of dirt on her face.]

Do you mean to say that...the ball in Jai Alai is some type of explosive?

[ugyuuya]

Well it's more taking a hard leather ball a little smaller than my fist at approximately 100 miles an hour can really really hurt.

Catch it in the head wrong without the right protection and it's pretty much game over.

[Yuuya takes a towel and finishes wiping Seta's face.]

For now though let's just focus on Lacrosse, it's safer and who knows it could be fun.

[genericprotagonist]

[Well, what else could a guy like Raleigh do aside from a good old fashioned game of baseball. He grins as he gives the aluminum bat in his hands a few swings to feel the weight as he moved it as he stepped up to the plate.]

Time to show the crowd how Jaeger pilots play ball.

[genericbiggerbrother]

"Damn straight!" Yancy replies loudly, stepping up to the pitcher's mount and slapping a ball into his leather catching glove. "Ready to get your jacks crackered, Raleigh?"

He leans forward.

"Let's try to avoid curve-balls and walks for the first inning, okay?" He whispers in a softer voice. "We need to wow the crowd if we're to...well, save the earth."

[genericprotagonist]

Isn't wowing a crowd our specialty? Remember that last interview we had? Saving the Earth is our job, and I think its time we swung a home run on it.

[Raleigh grins, looking as confident as he felt.]

Yancy, Yancy, Yancy... Brother of mine, you have no idea what you've started.

[genericbiggerbrother]

Yancy tenses, then relaxes. "Got a point there." Yancy replies softly. "Ain't no way we'd give them anything but a good show."

"Aye, but I know how it's going to end!" Yancy rears back on his front leg, then brings it down and whips the ball at Raleigh with a slight spin!

Volleyball!

[keep_your_dignity]

[So, as Kagura promised, she got the derpolympics a team - the six people, thee men and three women, in her Executor squad are playing in the volleyball field, taking all comers. They even got themselves proper sports clothes, still colored in the black and white and purple of Graveyard. And even without their powers, it's turning out that anyone who can survive under Kagura's training regimen is going to be in really good shape and have the reflexes of a mongoose - and they work together really well.

In the sidelines, six little fairies with half-spherical lower parts are waving tiny Graveyard flags and pompoms, cheering for their masters with happy voices and clumsy cheerleader routines]

"Executor team go!"
"Come on, show them we're the best!"
"Aw, I'm trying to make a chant but rhyming Graveyard is hard!"