Meetups/RubberDucky/2025-07-20

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🦆 Rubber Ducky Guild • Meeting Archive • Template


Moderator: Ripple • Notes: Pondscum

Rubber Ducky Guild Meeting[edit]

Date: 2025-07-20, 1pm

Attendance[edit]

Ducks Present[edit]

  • Sergeant Bubbles, Admiral Quackbar, Duckminster Fuller, Virginia Wool, The Intern

Humans Present[edit]

  • Ripple, Eddy, Quorum, Lumen, Stillwater, Pondscum
  • Ken (here about the pool)

Agenda[edit]

  1. 🔧 KEN AND THE POOL — THE RESOLUTION
  2. Apologies and relief
  3. CCC Cologne summer update
  4. Slow season check-in

Discussion[edit]

🔧 KEN AND THE POOL:

Two weeks of mystery. Two weeks of suspicion. The camera debate. The accusations (unspoken but felt). The stress.

Ken showed up today. No announcement. Just appeared at the patio with a patch kit and a headlamp, even though it was 1pm.

Quorum: "Ken! You came."

Ken nodded. Knelt by the pool. Emptied it carefully into buckets (ducks temporarily relocated to a mixing bowl). Flipped it over.

Everyone gathered. Watching.

Ken pointed to the base. A tear—longer than Quorum had seen. Spreading from the impact point where the Synthwave cart hit.

Ken: "Here's your problem. Slow leak. Gets worse over time. Especially with sun exposure."

Flotsam: "So... it wasn't people?"

Ken: (not looking up, already applying adhesive) "Nope. Just physics."

Ripple: "Oh god. We've been—"

Lumen: "We almost put up cameras."

Ken: "Cameras?" (brief pause in his work) "For a duck pool?"

Eddy: "It's a long story."

Ken didn't ask for the story. He finished the repair. Applied a second patch for reinforcement. Checked the seams. Flipped the pool back over. Refilled it from the hose. Tested.

Ken: "Should hold now. Check it in a week. If it drops, there's another leak. But I don't think so."

He started packing up.

Ripple: "Ken. Thank you. Seriously. You have no idea—"

Ken stood. Looked at the ducks, now back in the pool, floating peacefully.

Ken: "Good ducks."

And then he was gone. Back inside. Fixing something else, probably.

APOLOGIES AND RELIEF:

Long exhale from everyone.

Flotsam: "I'm sorry I pushed so hard on the camera thing."

Lumen: "I'm sorry I got defensive about it."

Ripple: "I'm sorry I suspected random Noisebridgers of being chronic duck-water drinkers."

Eddy: "I'm sorry I made that 'very hydrated person' joke. It was mean-spirited."

Quorum: "I'm sorry I didn't push harder to check the leak theory earlier. I saw the tear weeks ago."

Tidepool: "I didn't do anything wrong but I'm also sorry. Solidarity."

Moment of group reflection. The ducks floated. The sun was warm. The pool was fixed.

Lumen: "We let this stress us. We forgot to be duck-like."

Ripple: "We did. But we came through it. Nobody actually put up cameras. Nobody quit. We just... got tense. And now we're not."

Eddy: "Ken is duck-like. Few words. Fixes things. Doesn't judge."

Quorum: "Should we invite him to Silent Sitting?"

Ripple: "Let's not overwhelm him. But... yeah. Maybe sometime."

The pool crisis was over. The guild had survived its first summer mystery.

CCC Cologne:

Email from Klaus. Quietscheenten-Gilde update:

  • Now 4 members, 3 ducks
  • Monthly Silent Sitting established
  • Planning to host "regional duck meetup" in fall

International network growing.

Slow season:

Ripple: "How's everyone doing with summer pace?"

General consensus: good. Needed rest after anniversary sprint. Attendance lower but quality high. Silent Sittings steady at 8-10.

Stillwater: "I like the quiet. It's more duck-like."

Quactions[edit]

  • [x] Pool fixed (KEN)
  • [ ] Respond to Klaus with encouragement

Notes[edit]

Duration: 36 min.

Ken is a man of few words and many repairs.

Snacks: Stillwater's granola. Eternal.

Submitted by: Pondscum

📝 Pool repair logged in Recent Contributions

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