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]

[ Would you come out of your room knowing the person on the other side of the door wants to bash your head in with lobster crackers? ]

Haven't thought about that! I was kinda banking on winning.

[ Or at least stave off losing until better options open up. And, he figures, unless misfortune has it that one of two people in his life show up here, there is literally nothing the captain can do that will hurt him more than life already has. ]

[neverleave]

[That's incredibly reckless, but sometimes that's way you need to get any sort of breakthrough. Natsuno just met the guy, so while he'll share information Kano might want to consider, he isn't terribly invested in actually stopping him.]

And if you win? You gonna ask for a prize?

[suddenlybees]

Oh, hmm. Haven't thought too much about that either. Maybe bragging rights...?

[ What would he even ask for? He just wants to go home. But he knows better now not to expect evil entities to grant his wishes without everything else in his life going sideways in consequence. ]

What would you ask for, if we won?

[neverleave]

Ideally, that he lets us go, but I don't think he'll honor that without throwing in some awful catch.

[It will always be alone. Some good it did Jenny Storm, who won her freedom but lost her brothers and regretted it ever since.]

Maybe information on how to beat him? Or that he'd join one of his deadly excursions and face us without his magic. Right now he holds all the power, but won't it be more interesting to raise the stakes?

[suddenlybees]

[ Yeah... the captain would probably send them all home as corpses or something, wouldn't his siblings get a kick out of that? Ugh, he hates having his hands tied just because he's scared out of his wits ]

Well, there's an idea! It's not so fun playing easy mode against a bunch of kids who can't do anything. A game where your own life is on the line, I wonder if the captain has ever played anything like that?

[neverleave]

I don't think so. He told Clarke he never tried dying.

[suddenlybees]

...What does he call getting his head split open, then?

[ DID HE NOT DIE did he just glue his skull back together, that's terrifying actually ]

[neverleave]

"Fun dinner party", probably.

We don't even know what he's made of. Instead of blood he's got black void inside of him that's painful to look at.

[suddenlybees]

[ Hm, yeah. Kano nods; familiar stuff. ]

I kinda want to see that... but I'll take your word for it. It doesn't look like he's invulnerable, though— if lobster crackers can get at him, I figure other stuff can. Like, your flamethrower, maybe, or mister Moon Master's moon magic?

[neverleave]

The Moon Freak's [Just mentioning Ebalon makes him scowl, Natsuno hates him so much] magic passed right through him. And last time someone tried to use fire against him, it stayed in her hand and burned it.

[Rita's hand healed since then, but only because she died.]

Can't tell you if it's because the fire would've actually damaged him if it touched him, or because he's a sadist.

[suddenlybees]

[ Huh. And Ebalon seemed like such a polite ...wizard(?) when Kano met him. ]

It's worth a try, then, huh? If you don't want to play with him, maybe you can let me borrow it sometime? It'll be, like, good info either way.

[neverleave]

[Ebalon is the WORST don't believe a word he's saying]

And you're ready to be burned to death if it goes wrong?

[Though, Venti said the captain might have some aversion to smoke.]

I don't want the flamethrower ruined.

[Look. LOOK. He picked it from his roommate's murder scene. He kept thinking "need to give it back" on murder island. Also it's hell of a useful weapon, don't judge him.]