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come_sailaway2022-06-10 12:13 am
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JUNE EVENT: CAMP
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:
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!
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!
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He follows the scent to the cave and doesn't even hesitate before going in. He can see in the dark, he regenerates, he's armed and hoooooooly shit that's a freaking sleeping BEAR.
Natsuno freezes. Did he smell the bear's latest meal? Will he regrow his arm if the bear tears it off? Why didn't he ask Clarke if her earth skills lessons covered bears - ]
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Yeeeuurgh. He sits up, stretches (flexing claws each the size of a small knife and attached to paws almost as wide as some people's chests), yawns (showing off carnivorous teeth with a set of wickedly curved canine teeth), and turns to blink at whoever walked in.
Oh. It is! It's that purple haired guy from earlier with the giant dangerous weapons. Hi, purple dude with the big dangerous weapons, he tries to say, though it comes out more as Roarrarhhghheurhg. ]
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Wait, abort everything, the bear is growling. Natsuno reaches for his gun as slowly as he can. No sudden movements, right, surely that's a rule?]
You don't want to eat me. I'll give you food poisoning.
[He's... pretty sure it's true. His blood is deadly to humans, at least.]
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He does notice that Natsuno's reaching for his gun, though he's not sure what for. Surely Natsuno isn't scared of him, right? The guy's got a gun. And an even bigger thing too, which Aiden is pretty sure is not a gun but also does something really cool. ]
Grrogugohoh. [ If it's about your gun, uh, I don't think I can help with that. He sort of gestures half-heartedly at it with a paw. ]
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So that's the new game? [Yeah, he's still talking to the bear, and he sounds amazingly calm for a teenager facing a huge red-eyed predator with a gun that's probably too small to do any real damage.] The captain made you so we'd get mauled to death if we leave the stupid camp?
[It still smells like a dead body in here. Did someone get eaten already?]
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He sits up a little better and puts his paws sort of up, grumbling out a Whoa, dude, that is a most serious turn in Bear Talk. I was just tryin' to get outta the sun. The cabins have too many windows.
And then, because he got woken up something like two minutes ago, Aiden pauses to yawn. ]
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You can understand me? [...] Nod if you can.
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Then it strikes him that Natsuno probably doesn't actually speak Bear Talk. So maybe he should turn back into a Dude and use Dude Talk? There's a sudden swirl of movement, and in a moment, one disoriented vampire in booty shorts is standing exactly where the giant grizzly bear had been. ]
So sorry, dude! I thought you spoke bear. You look like the kind of cool guy that would.
1/2
He lowers the gun.]
Of course I don't speak bear -
2/2
Oh.
You're undead.
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[ ...
He raises two fingers in a peace sign. ]
Go Taurus Cabin.
[ wooo? ]
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Why are you sleeping in a cave looking like this? I almost shot you.
[Which would've been annoying not because Aiden got hurt, but because Natsuno wasted a bullet.]
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[ Seriously, who wants to lay on cold hard dirt and stone without some serious layers of fat and fur to keep you cozy? ]
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Or a bat. [...] Can you turn into other animals? Is bat too cliched?
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[ And just to show off, he turns into several things in quick succession: a small, very fluffy, and slightly vacant-looking cat, a massive boar, a stag, a sabertooth, and a macaw, and then he's back to Aiden. ]
Kinda got a size limit on that, though. I've never been able to get bigger than a full grown grizzly.
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No parrot should ever look like this. [Just putting it out there.] You took a risk coming here. Last time wouldn't have had lots of places to hide like this.
[But once night fell... ever the optimist, all Natsuno sees is how this ability can be put to ambush and murder.]
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Sorry dude, colors ain’t my choice. Believe me, I would have wanted for people to be able to see all of the truly stupendous plumages and patterns of every creature.
Besides, I know everybody had to like… off each other last time. The poster definitely said camping, though!
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[The same freaking poster. Just to rub it in.]
So you heard what happened, and signed up anyway. The other new guy I talked to had no idea.
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...
Camping sounded like fun.
[ A beat. He kicks at the dirt. ]
'Sides, like... I saw some names I knew on the list. I guess if it was a second brawl to the bloody, gnarly death, I woulda felt like scum just sitting on the ship about it. You know?
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...yeah, I know.
[That's why he signed up again. It was awful on the island, but it would've been so much worse on the ship, knowing he can't do anything even if he tried.]
It's Yuuki, by the way.
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[ Last names are the polite thing to do, right?
This dude is very… how do you call it. Buzzkill? Well, that’s what some other frat kids would say, but Aiden tries to be a little less judgy. Aloof, maybe.
He stifles a yawn. ]
Sorry for scaring you there. What’s got you wandering into this tranquil corner of the woods?
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I was looking for animals. Figured there's something is this cave. [He shrugs.] But it's clearly another dead end, so.
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[ If there was anything in the radius of a couple of miles, he's pretty sure he would have found it by now. ]
Unless there's, like, a single cicada burrowed in the dirt or something.
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[But if the traps came out empty, and he couldn't find anything, and this guy has access to animal senses much sharper than his own - ]
Right. Don't let me keep from going back to sleep, then.
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[ Aiden begins to turn around, but stops as a thought strikes him. ]
Hey, uh... I'm gonna be around. Let me know if you do find anythin', alright?
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