[semi-open] Ain't no party like a team-bonding party

[starfruitfrog]

Characters: Metokkori R and Hikan Cafe employees (and passers-by)

Location: Shibusen City Park

Rating: PG (full disclosure is important when you organize a camping trip, kids.)

Time: March 23rd (back-dated), mid-afternoon > March 24th, morning

Description: The team at Metokkori R and Hikan Cafe have a camping trip complete with marshmallows, curry and an unknown enemy attacking them in the middle of the night.






'Work is important, but what is just as important is to have fun, de arimasu. The team that plays and works together, stays together, de arimasu!'

Was what Keroro said right before announcing their first annual team-bonding camping trip.

The site was chosen as the park, simply because it was free and open. That and Keroro just wasn't all that interested in going out in the desert and being carried away by vultures.

Now get to bonding! What do you think he's giving you guys a half day off for?!

Comments

[closed to employees] Late afternoon:

[starfruitfrog]

[Put your backs into it, peons employees! The camp-site isn't going to build itself!]

[closed to employees] Team-building exercise:

[starfruitfrog]

[The only thing Keroro built by himself is this much-too-complicated obstacle race, complete with tires, nets and hurdles you either jump over or fall over. Oh, did he remember to mention that you've now been blind-folded as well as hand-cuffed to one of your fellow employees?

Have fun with Operation 'The Blind Leading The Blind, Race to the Finish with Your Hearts as One'!]

(ooc: The race can be run multiple times with different partners!)

[closed to employees] Dinner:

[starfruitfrog]

[Nothing tastes better than food cooked out in the open. Just stay away from Keroro's deceptively adorable green dumplings unless you like spinach-pork-chocolate flavour. (Hey, it is practically a three-course meal by itself.)]

[closed to employees] Dead of night:

[starfruitfrog]

[PLEASE TELL ME THAT SCARY SOUND WAS YOU.]

(ooc: Giroro is the attacker, but feel free to scare each other!)

[closed to employees] Morning:

[starfruitfrog]

[Finally, it's over.]

[open to anyone] Wandering by, whenever:

[starfruitfrog]

[Move along, nothing to see here!]

EVERYONE IS A TARGET

[this_is_keron]

[This was Keroro's idea of a training camp? How naive.

Giroro will show you guys what a real training camp is like...and it will involve paint-ball guns.

Some of you might here the occasional rustle outside, but beside that, he's pretty quiet. Good luck, guys: you'll need it.]

Re: [closed to employees] Team-building exercise:

[anpan_tan]

Did you get these cuff legally, Boss-san?

[Once a policeman, always a policeman.Yamazaki hopes he's not handcuffed to Saya. It would kill him.]

[sayatakagi]

[Saya will help to set up the camp.

And you better not be slacking, none of you, else Saya will give you a ear-full.]

[sayatakagi]

I refuse! [no handcuffs!]

[starfruitfrog]

Maybe I wasn't clear, Saya-dono, but refusal isn't one of the choices, de arimasu.

[starfruitfrog]

Of course, de arimasu!

[How mean of Yamazaki to even imply that he'd gotten these illegally. He bought them and everything!]

[sayatakagi]

It is now!

March 23rd, Late Afternoon

[vintage_magic]

[After already having to deal with Mr. Annoying Sorcerer trying to plant mystery seeds in the park that morning, Lily was more than ready to finish work and go home. Just as soon as she hauled this bag of weeds and hedge clippings to a dumpster...]

[But then she walked into an open area and saw the tents. And tires and hurdles strewn haphazardly about. And stared at the mess. She hadn't been informed of any special events being in the park that day.]

What in tarnation is going on here?!

March 24th, Morning

[vintage_magic]

[The park's gardener was back again and she didn't look very happy about those colored splotches all over the ground...]

Who's responsible for this mess? [Lily's hand was clenched around the small gardening sickle she had recently purchased and she used her sweetest voice, the one that meant she was about to lose her temper.]

Re: [closed to employees] Team-building exercise:

[thorny]

This feels a bit counterproductive to the stated end goal.

[aka she's pretty sure she's going to smash her partner into a tree at some point, either on purpose or by accident]

[starfruitfrog]

It isn't, de arimasu.

[Now he's going to attempt to get one side of these handcuffs on her.]

[starfruitfrog]

Think of it this way, Rose-dono, by the end of this [if any of you actually make it through] you will be able to trust your fellow employees, knowing that you've been through thick and thin, blindfolded and handcuffed together, de arimasu!

[Again, if you somehow make it through.

Don't ask why Keroro's exempt. (It's because he's the one who came up with this idea.)]

[thorny]

The implication that you're expecting scenarios to arise in the future where my working colleagues are going to be the only shield I have from an untimely death is more unsettling than the improvised obstacle course.

[a pause as her gaze flicks over to it again]

And that's saying something.

[starfruitfrog]

That's because you can never be too prepared, de arimasu! Danger can come from everywhere, whether it's in the form of a giant, laser-shooting, parasitic space plant or a dissatisfied customer that is actually a Viper in disguise, de arimasu.

[Training is serious business, Rose.]

[thorny]

[eyebrow raise]

In that case you may want to look into combat training for those employees on the floor rather than fervently hoping that your backroom workers will miraculously stem the tide of chaos.

[starfruitfrog]

Rose-dono.

[Crossing his arms just to show you how serious this topic is.]

It's the responsibility of every employee to be prepared, de arimasu. No matter where they are, de arimasu.

[thorny]

That's quite obvious, of course. [equally serious face. god who knows how far she'll get before cracking but SHE MUST REMAIN STRONG]

I'm merely advocating a more rigorous program for what constitutes as our first line of defense.

[starfruitfrog]

Actually...


That's a really good idea, de arimasu. Maybe we could make them run the obstacle course backwards, de arimasu. [No one is going to thank them for this...]

[starfruitfrog]

[Keroro doesn't even look up from what he's doing (eye-contact can be incriminating.)]

Giroro.