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]

Yeah, there's people like that, huh?

[ Takes one to know one... Anyways, Kano doesn't seem too upset about that, as if already resigned that it's his lot in life. ]

If that's the case, then why don'tcha all just sit around and be boring? People like that get bored real quick, y'know? Maybe he'll let you go?

[justneedsomehelp]

Your-- suggestion is really to sit around and do nothing?

[C'mon, buddy...]

Or he'll just dump some crazy shit on our laps and make us do something.

[suddenlybees]

[ It's an option! maybe not the best, but still it's one ]

Like what? I haven't been here that long, y'know? What about you? Maybe you can tell me what he's capable of?

[justneedsomehelp]

Well--

[He relents, shrugging his shoulders.]

He made everyone kill each other once, apparently. It's why everyone's a little... spooked by this outing, I guess.

[suddenlybees]

But not by controlling their bodies, though... right?

[ The illusion of choice, to kill or die, to spare or betray. No right answer either way... he thinks he gets now what the captain was talking about. ]

[justneedsomehelp]

No, but-- you know people. You give them an impossible choice, they're gonna lose their heads. They're gonna turn into animals.

[Or maybe Marc just doesn't have many high expectations when it comes to the majority of people.]

[suddenlybees]

[ He laughs ]

Yeah.

[ Haha, yeah. Those expectation are about right. It doesn't seem to distress Kano too much, though. ]

But even packs of wild animals have a leader to keep 'em all in line. Who's the leader here? You guys have one, right? Like, you can't be so disorganized that you're all just sorta doing your own thing?

[justneedsomehelp]

What? [He wrinkles his nose.] Not that I know of?

Only guy I'm responsible for is my twin. Don't care about being a leader. [Especially for a bunch of people who run around like chickens without heads.]