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010: Dante ([personal profile] followyourstar) wrote in [community profile] synflux2025-12-10 06:59 pm

garfield kart not included.

WHO: Dante, Yesod, and you!
WHAT: An excuse to play party games team building exercise!
WHERE: LILITH base, in the recreation room and cafeteria
WHEN: Between all the different world tour missions!
WARNINGS: None!

1. KEEPING THINGS ORDERLY
Sometime after the announcement for Dante and Yesod's team building exercise, the recreation room is arranged to allow participants to sit where they can see the screen and access their controllers, as well as accommodate spectators and replacement players waiting for their turn. In addition to the vending machine options, a nearby table bears an assortment of convenience store snacks and beverages, all of which were selected to minimize the risk of spillage or crumbs and grease stains left everywhere. There is a stack of serviettes and a packet of alcohol wipes available nonetheless. Finally, a sheet of paper attached to a clipboard lists a few recommendations as follows — the minimum for reasonable coordination without turning the activity into the opposite of fun:

Guidelines

➤ The suggested games are [Legally Distinct Mario Party] and [Legally Distinct Mario Kart], to be played by forming randomized teams. Team members are awarded collective points per game or race won.
➤ Participation is voluntary.
➤ The primary objective is cooperation achieved in a casual, ideally enjoyable setting.
➤ Should altercations ensue, please resolve such conflict in the simulation arena.
2. EVERY TEAM NEEDS JERSEYS
Not far from the recreation room, a portion of the cafeteria has been borrowed to use as a t-shirt decoration station. One set of tables houses blank shirts of all sizes and colors. The other, covered with a large, disposable sheet to catch any stray marks or spills, has fabric makers and quick-dry fabric paint galore. There’s even glitter paint if you want it!

Though… you might not need it. It seems like someone already spilled some glitter around here? But there’s no paint to go with it. Maybe the answer lies on a counter far from the action, where a set of craft glitter containers and fabric glue sits labeled “DO NOT USE.”

3. THAT'S A PENALTY
As the night goes on and blue-ish shells fly and power rhombuses are nicked from right underneath players’ noses, it’s only natural for things to get a bit heated. While one of the hosts for the evening is doing their best to calm these arguments down and urge others to follow guideline #4 and make their way outside to discuss their differences, there’s only so much they can do.

Feel like helping out and calming things down a bit? Or maybe you don’t feel like you need to take this argument anywhere at all?

Just please don’t destroy the recreation room. Or your host.

4. TIME TO CLEAN UP
At the end, while the organizers will of course ensure that the recreation room and the cafeteria are returned to their usual state, left spotless, any helping hands are welcome. Maybe there are crumbs on the seats after all, not only packaging and supplies to gather up. Maybe a glitter mishap was unavoidable.

A box labeled “Feedback and Suggestions” sits in one corner of the recreation room table to collect all comments. A pad of suggestion box template forms and an accompanying old-fashioned pen are provided. Beside it, another clipboard holds a waiting blank sheet of paper to record the names and final scores of today’s winning team(s) for the satisfaction of effective teamwork and total points accumulated.