JUNE EVENT: CAMP

[sailmods]

early on June 10th, Friday's morning announcements end with a request for everyone going on the latest excursion to meet her in the atrium. she seems in noticeably better spirits than she had been last time, and she leads them cheerfully to the tender. once they are all aboard, and the door is securely shut, the interior fills with gas, and, perhaps, their last thought before they slip into unconsciousness is "oh shit, not again."

passengers wake up on a rickety old school bus, driving down a dirt road surrounded by woods. what is it that they notice first? that, no matter what they were wearing before, they are now wearing a camp t-shirt and legitimately horrifyingly short shorts? the overstuffed backpack between their knees? the words "take one down and pass it around" dying on their lips? the fact that Friday is absolutely driving the bus?

or, maybe the fact that it's already slowing down, pulling up in front of a massive wooden sign, saying:

 

 

 

 

 

CAMP AION

when they get out of the bus, Friday is the one to divide them up into their cabin groups, and she is the one to give the counselors their very official-looking clipboards and whistles. she explains that they are in charge, and that she will be back to pick them up in a week, and... very little else. she responds to nothing outside of whatever is on her unseen little script, and she gets back on the bus shortly after, leaving them there.

welcome to camp. let's make some summer memories!

Comments

[suddenlybees]

[ UH. Oh. Well, that sure backfired on him. The side of the rock is decidedly not Kano's lap, but... okay. He tries not to squirm too much as he looks over Mizuki's shoulder at the game console. ]

Hu~h... I see, I see, that looks easy enough! Are you any good?

[mooninthewater]

[ It sure did. Mizuki isn't fussed about it, at least, and instead just pats the side of his console. ]

It's my all time favorite game, actually~! So, I should hope I'm good at it. I have so many hours put into it. But it's probably no fun if I just play it first, here! My favorite part of it is watching people learn how to play~.

[ He moves his hands down so Kano can properly hold the console. ]

Oh, one more thing! There's going to be some big pellets around. If you get to those, then the ghosts will become edible for a short time.

[suddenlybees]

[ Pac-Man is his favorite game... Kano has no room to judge. He doesn't play videogames too often, but he supposes it's a way to pass the time, wrapping his arms around Mizuki and making a show of fiddling with the buttons.

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Oh, I died.

[ It took 15 seconds. ]

[mooninthewater]

Well, it’s not as if I expected you to be immediately good at a game you just started playing! [ Though dying so soon is honestly kind of impressive. Even sonn my e of the other teens just introduced to it haven’t been this bad!!

He doesn’t voice this out loud. ]

You can try again!! Remember to try and not run into the ghosts, though~.

[suddenlybees]

I get to go again? Alright! I'll do my best~

[ Settling back a little, he restarts the game, humming a tuneless song underneath his breath.

He takes the exact same route that he took last time as Pac-Man, but this time... this time, the ghosts freeze a dot away from him whenever he gets too close, letting him nab the dot right in front of the ghost without getting eaten himself, the ghosts resuming their paths after he's turned around and have gotten a safe distance away. It makes for a very very boring and systematic game, but he's still humming; this is still fun to him, somehow. ]