Reality Show Event 2: Hat Shore Boot Camp Swamp Edition! (Hat Shore Participants)

[ugly_old_hat]

Clearly, the residents of Hat Shore needed something to do to keep from getting restless, much like a giant hamster ball. But once the idea of shoving everybody into a giant hamster ball had been nixed, the next best thing had been arranged: a boot camp! It would get everybody out into the open air, give everyone a chance to burn off energy, and

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(94 for Shoggies! *gasp*)

[shoggies]

The Shoggies turned their collective attention to the dueling station, where they were all mostly confused as to what to do with the pool noodles. It was only when they saw George brandishing his pool noodle that it made any sense. "Sooo cool! We're supposed to wave around the plastic tentacles and then I think we hit people with them!" announced Shoggy 11, which the others agreed was indeed 'sooo cool'.

And so, each of the Shoggies picked up a pool noodle, finding that the squeaky vinyl was unusually easy for them to get a grip on with the pseudopods they temporarily extended for the purpose. "Do we hits that guy?" Shoggy 3 asked, to which Shoggy 28 replied, "We can! We can hit that guy!" "Can I just hit you? You're right here." added in Shoggy 15, who began hitting Shoggy 28 with its pool noodle. "No, we got to hit people who are on the logs" Shoggy 21.5 managed to helpfully clarify, at which the Shoggies proceeded towards the logs as one, slipping beneath the muck as they did so.

Unless George had been watching the Shoggies, the only obvious sign of their approach beneath the surface was a slight stirring of the mud and a few flashes of colorful pool noodles. Only when they were right beneath the logs did they shoot up from the mud with startling speed, in perfect unison, all piping, "Ambush!" as they broke the mud, and launched themselves at George atop the logs, pool noodles flailing.

Re: (94 for Shoggies! *gasp*)

[tallyhopippip]

"Wha?" George said as the Shoggies launched themselves at him. His arms flailed as they attached themselves to him, whacking him and themselves with the noodles.

He shrugged. "TALLY HO!" he cried again, starting to hit the Shoggies back. He was hitting himself in the process, but who cares? This is fun!

Re: (94 for Shoggies! *gasp*)

[shoggies]

As the Shoggies rushed George, the stream-water only served to let them move faster, and the logs proved no hindrance- amorphousness did have certain advantages. "Hi there!" Shoggy 5.5 piped brightly as it whacked at George with a bright green pool noodle. "We're Shoggies!" "It's sooo cool to meets you!" added in Shoggy 3, as it's own red pool noodle flailed spastically between George and Shoggy 11. "TALLY HO!" several Shoggy voices piped in unison, George's enthusiasm having convinced them all that shouting this was part of the game. Getting whacked repeatedly with both George's and Shoggy 21.5's pool noodles didn't stop Shoggy 28 from remarking, "This is sooo cool! And you're kind of sparkly! Did you Bedazzle yourself too?" As the stream had splashed off a bit of the swamp-muck, the Shoggies were all glimmering a bit, still partly-Bedazzled from the week before.

Re: (94 for Shoggies! *gasp*)

[tallyhopippip]

"I'm George!" he said as he smacked his shoulder to get a Shoggy. "No, I didn't bedazzle myself, I sparkle in the sun!"

He held up his noodle to see Shoggies dripping off the end, a bit dissolved from acid.

"So cool!" Cause if tally ho is infectious, so is so cool.

Re: (94 for Shoggies! *gasp*)

[shoggies]

"Sooo cool!" Shoggy 28 piped in reply, whacking at George with its noodle. "It's sooo lucky to get to sparkle in the sun! Sometimes we're sort of shiny, but, it's mostly just slime. We only sparkle some now because we Bedazzled ourselves!"

"This is such a sooo cool game!" Shoggy 7 insisted, whacking Shoggy 28 with a yellow pool noodle before smacking George a few more times, with another cry of "Tally Ho!" which was echoed by the rest, including a bit of Shoggy dripping off George's pool noodle. Luckily, most of the smaller Shoggies produced by the activity didn't spawn with pool noodles of their own, and were re-enveloped by other Shoggies rather quickly so that the mun doesn't need to number and keep track of a bunch more atm. The one stuck to the end of George's pool noodle was clinging rather tightly for the time being, however, shouting, "Look! Look at me! I'm sort of flying!"

Re: (94 for Shoggies! *gasp*)

[tallyhopippip]

"Oi, get off!" George said, waving the noodle up high like some cheap He-Man knockoff.

It threw his balance enough that he fell into the water, taking some Shoggies with him.

But since there are some left, I guess it counts as a Shoggy win.

Re: (94 for Shoggies! *gasp*)

[shoggies]

"Now we're flying too!" piped Shoggy 15 as it tumbled after George, continuing to flail its pool noodle at him even after falling into the water. After a brief moment (which involved some re-combining of splattered-Shoggy into their previous Shoggies, more or less), the rest of the Shoggies were in the water, still not realizing that the game was over, and that they'd technically won. It took the Shoggies some time to actually calm down enough to realize that they'd technically won the game. When they did, they managed to figure out that they needed to move along to the next station, but before doing so assured George of just how cool he was a few more times, before waving their pseudopods in a temporary farewell and squelching off. "We gots to pal around more later!" Shoggy 3 insisted as they departed, with Shoggy 28 piping in, "We'll visits you when we're back at the house later!"

Re: (94 for Shoggies! *gasp*)

[tallyhopippip]

"Great! I look forward to it!" George said, waving and moving on.

He liked his new friends.