No Mario but Definitely Sonic at the Agra 10 Dork Olympics 2023 (& Knuckles)

[spinsandneedles]

WHO: Sonic & OPEN to whoever wants to deal with Sonic
WHERE: Sports Day!!!!
WHAT: Sports and Sports Accessories
WHEN: When Sports
WARNINGS:Excessive Sports

Balloon Pop

A random day of quasi-sports is probably the last thing Sonic expected to encounter after being abducted by aliens, but here we are. Definitely weird, but at least their abductors are trying to keep them entertained? Might as well roll with it and see where it goes.

He'd have an unfair advantage over most people when it came to competitions involving going fast, so he decides to branch out a bit and do some things that might use skills that he hasn't already mastered. BUT THEN, he comes across the balloon popping game and decides it would be funny to see how fast he can pop them by just curling into a ball, sitting in one place, and letting the balloons idly come into contact with his quills. See, that way it's testing his patience more than his speed, patience counts as a skill and it's one that he's kind of terrible at. Either way it proves to be a surprisingly effective balloon popping strategy, but eventually there are just a few balloons left and he does have to roll around a bit to get to them.

So. Yeah, there's a little blue spike ball covered in glitter and balloon scrap rolling around the balloon zone. Nothing weird to see here, kids. He might need help getting all the balloon scraps out of his quills when he's done.

Climbing Wall

Of course he could just run up and down the wall like it's no big deal, but where's the challenge in that? He's gonna climb this wall the way climbing walls are meant to be climbed! Which turns out to be no simple feat since a lot of the hand holds are juuust a bit out of reach for such a small dude. He can manage if he hops for some of them, but he is not progressing up the wall very quickly.

Of course, he's willing to cheat just to show up anyone else he catches cheating, he can't help that competitive streak.

Prizes

As Sonic really doesn't have any super important items from home, and hasn't taken an interest in any ot the other prizes available (Clothes?? What's he gonna do, wear pants??), he's literally just giving his points away. While taking a lunch break, he's seated on a table (Yes ON a table. Are there tables? There are now.), trying to figure out why his pizza bagel things taste like peanuts and occasionally waggling a plastic cup full of chits at people as they pass by.

"Yo, free prize point thingies! I don't really need 'em."

The chits he's giving away are mostly low value, maybe a few medium and high value depending on what games he inevitably gets pulled into. He's not really keeping track.

Whatever else

He's not super interested in team sports for himself, but if he can help other people win prizes, then he'd be happy enough to join in if asked. Three legged race might be a bit awkward? But y'know, YOLO. He's fast, he can be anywhere. Literally he's just zooming around the place looking around.

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Prizes

[doubled_speed]

Don't mind Tommy. He's just going to drop a few small value chits in the cup as he arrives in a burst of speed. Then he's moving to stretch out on the table, happily chewing on a skewer of roasted vegetables. Ones he roasted himself, so no peanut butter taste.

"You haven't thought about buying stuff for yourself? Might be able to trade the stuff later."

[spinsandneedles]

Sonic does mind Tommy! He's trying to get rid of those, quit putting more in! He looks mildly annoyed for just a moment before going back to picking the probably-pepperonis off his almost-a-pizza and sniffing them to try to determine where the goddamn PEANUT is coming from.

"I can't think of a use for any of it, and I'm kinda used to not hanging onto a bunch of stuff anyway."

[doubled_speed]

Then don't shake a cup like you're begging for change, man. You're sending mixed signals.

"I'm using most of mine to buy clothes or supplies for the diner."

[spinsandneedles]

Well maybe if Tommy would have slowed down a bit he would have heard Sonic trying to get rid of them. not that Sonic would ever complain about someone going too fast.

"You know what, I'm happy to donate these to the diner fund. So long as whoever's using it can cook better than this."

Just look at this sad pizza bagel, man. It's depressing.

[doubled_speed]

Nah, this is the literal one person on the planet he doesn't need to be slow around. Don't ask him to do it.

"Agrii have a thing for peanut butter. When they provide food, it often tastes like that. And I run the diner. I cook some, but other people do too. It's good stuff."

[spinsandneedles]

In fact, GO FASTER.

"Ugh. Ah well, I guess it's the thought that counts?"

Free food is free food, even if it's all nutty and weird.

"So, you said you run the diner? Do we have to like grow all of our own food, or do the Agrii leave stuff lying around?"

[doubled_speed]

Faster works. It's something only they could do, and he was willing to embrace it.

"You should try the burgers that taste like peanut butter. They were a nice change for from the peanut butter and peanut butter sandwich."

But he gestures in the vague direction of the greenhouse.

"Me and others manage the greenhouses. There's harvesting and preserving, and we cook too. The replicators can do some stuff, but yeah, it's all grown or hunted here. I basically started with that the moment I got here, because I need so much more food. So it just became, well, the thing I do."

[spinsandneedles]

"At least peanut butter and peanut butter is supposed to taste like peanut butter. I'll pass on the burgers, thanks."

Honestly he'll probably pass on anything peanut related for the rest of his life at this point. Anyway, greenhouse!

"Ah, crazy metabolism, huh? I feel that. Y'know, honestly it's probably for the best that this place is so self sufficient. I don't get the feeling that the Agrii are bad, but relying on them just doesn't seem like a great idea. All of this just feels too unpredictable."

[doubled_speed]

Yeah, Tommy thought so. He chuckles. As for the rest of it, he nods.

"They're sorta like kids. I think part of why we're here is to teach them. They definitely aren't people who are meant to be in space. It's pretty bad, what the Atroma did to them."

[spinsandneedles]

"It really does suck, yeah. I'm not really sure what all we can actually teach them, though? Or maybe that's just me not being sure what I should actually be doing here yet. I dunno, normally when I get stuck in some kinda weird situation like this, it's pretty obvious what I need to do."

Usually that amounts to 'go fast and break lots of robots'.

[doubled_speed]

"How to be people?" Tommy suggests. That seems to be a useful plan to have at least. Not that he'd expected the most out of that.

"You could explore. Hell, we could. I haven't gone as far as I can because I've been worried no one could help if I got in trouble."

[spinsandneedles]

"So basically, just keep doing what I do. Got it." Have fun learning how to people from a giant blue hedgehog, aliens? Ah well. Sonic shrugs, but the idea of exploring has him pretty hype.

"Ah hah, now you're speaking my language! I am literally ready to go any time, just say the word!"

[doubled_speed]

Yeah, but maybe giant blue hedgehog was what they were missing in their lives. You don't know.

"Once summer comes. Easier to forage then. We can't carry all the food we need."

Balloon Pop

[newmemorywhodis]

What is that blue ball, spinning around so fast and popping all the balloons? Link can't even see what it is, really - but he is, of course, incredibly curious.

He doesn't interfere in the game. But he does stand on the sidelines, watching with an intense focus. What happens when the ball stops rolling? Can it stop? What does it look like, when its still?

Link can be patient. He'll wait for however long it takes to find out.

[spinsandneedles]

Sonic doesn't take too much longer to pop all the balloons, as he's decided to hurry things along because he's starting to get glitter up his nose and it's kind of horrible. Upon obliterating the final balloon, he hops up and uncurls, and immediately has a quick sneezing fit thanks to said nose glitter. Just give him a second, he's havin' a struggle over here.

"Ugh, geez, why did I think this was a good idea...?" Sonic sighs, rubbing at his head only to find that he's got a bunch of balloon scraps and glitter stuck in his quills. Very uncool, not even a tiny bit cool.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link watches as the blue ball becomes a...creature? Small spiky person? Whatever Sonic is, it's not like anything Link's ever seen before.

It seems that Sonic stopped rolling close to Link, however. And Link can see that there is indeed glitter and pieces of balloon stuck all over him. He reaches out with one hand, but stops about a food away to look at Sonic.

"Do you need..." he says, the hand still hovering.

[spinsandneedles]

Oh good, someone saw him being extremely uncool. SIGH, oh well. Sonic is well beyond the point of saving himself from looking like a dork, so he might as well just accept the assistance.

"Help? Yes, please. All the help I can get, I can't see what's goin' on in the general vicinity of the back of my head. Just be real careful, it's kinda sharp back there."

[newmemorywhodis]

It's okay, Sonic. Link hardly even talks at all. No one will hear of your uncoolness from him.

And indeed, Link doesn't speak. He just nods, and reaches out to pull all the pieces of balloon off of the spikes. He moves swiftly, but carefully. He doesn't doubt that they're sharp, but Link not going to let that get in his way at all.

[spinsandneedles]

Link, you're a gentleman and a pal. A true bro. A real hero.

Sonic is actually capable of holding still for longer than five minutes, and successfully does so while Link works on plucking balloon chunks out of his pointy hair.

"Thanks a lot, bud. I really owe you one. I don't usually make a habit out of rolling around in stuff that gets stuck to me so easily."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link nods in acknowledgment, before letting his hands fall back to his sides now that Sonia’s spikes are clean.

“Popping balloons is fun,” he says, with a shrug. Why wouldn’t Sonic want to roll on them? Link would, if he had spikes.

[spinsandneedles]

"Yeah, I can't argue with that."

He shakes his quills out a bit, dislodging some glitter and little prize chits in the process. He'll busy himself with picking them up while he chats.

"You need some of these little things? I don't really want 'em."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link nods. Yes, he does want more points. Because more points means more stuff, and Link always wants more stuff.

"Thank you," he says, taking them. "You don't want prizes?"

The idea of not wanting anything at all is, admittedly, a bit foreign to Link.

[spinsandneedles]

Hell yeah bro GET them points, Sonic is more than happy to donate to the 'get Link more stuff ' fund.

"Nah, I don't need 'em. I feel like having too much stuff starts to keep you rooted to one place, and I'm the kind of guy who's always on the go."

Or at least he would be if more of this particular planet was open for him to explore.

[newmemorywhodis]

"Not if you have a korok-enchanted pack," Link says.

Of course, right now Link doesn't have a korok-enchanted pack. Which, admittedly...is causing a number of issues with mobility. Who'd have thought that carrying things around could be so difficult, when you had to actually use your own hands to do so?

[spinsandneedles]

"Korok? Never heard of it, enchanted pack sounds pretty cool though."

Do Not hand Sonic a bag of holding, he'll load that shit up with chili dogs or something equally stupid. But yes, traveling with a bunch of crap amd no magic bags is the worst. Hence why Sonic tends to travel light.