MISSION 009

[etrayamods]

⏵ CAMP ETRAYA ⏴ On May 16th, Aurora and the companion bots direct those not heading off to Solmara to make their way to Camp Etraya. Nestled away from everything else in a large clearing full of wildflowers and redwoods, Camp Etraya is a nostalgic summer camp experience put together just for it's residents! Cabins are assigned, scary stories are told around campfires, gossiping happens among friends on the trails surrounding the cabins - and don't be surprised when something goes awry. After all, this is still Etraya. While the rest of Etraya is still accessible and will not be blocked off, characters are discouraged from venturing far from camp for too long: Aurora will specify that they are on a mission, and that missions do require participation, but she has intentionally left them the freedom to wander. Not sleeping in their assigned cabins, not participating in events, and staying away from Camp Etraya will end with her having to take more extensive security measures, so please be on your best behavior! The last thing she wants to do is start enforcing boundaries, but she will if she has to. Camp is set up much like your generic summer camp! Each cabin is named, housing is assigned to characters as they arrive, there are camp counselors, and rotating daily tasks and chores. There are also multiple activities that characters are expected to participate in, and each activity is worth points that goes toward their camp graduation score. This score will be visible on their earpiece, and follows the A-F grading system. We are not be monitoring this, and are leaving character scores up to players. We do, however, ask that you please report your characters' camp grade HERE for rewards and demerits to be handed out after the mission itself. Cabin assignments can be found here, which also has their roles, and chores assigned to that cabin. Those who are participating in Solmara have received an assigned cabin, too, but their absence toward the beginning will not harm the cabin's ability to compete given how spread out their assignments are. ⏵ WELCOME TO CAMP ⏴ Camp life is meant to instill a sense of belonging, connection with nature, encouragement towards the creative, all on top of a firm foundation of responsibility. Upon arriving, campers will be escorted towards a table of white t-shirts and countless buckets of dye! Each Etrayan will be invited to make three Tie-Dyed shirts- as well as required to wear one as part of their summer uniform. Camp counselors must wear 80s basketball shorts or cut-off jeans. Campers may wear cargo shorts or a skort. For those with physical limitations to what they can wear, accommodations will be provided. Here, bonding is the camp runners' priority. They will be pushed into various ice-breaker activities, such as trust falls, two truths and a lie, and Never have I Ever. As the sun goes down, there will be weenies roasting over the bonfire, followed by s’mores and a sing-a-long! With the stars well-visible, it’s off to bed with campers. Each day after will start much the same: with the ringing of the bell and raising of the flag (Aurora, while unfamiliar with flag designs but an understanding of the concept, has chosen a rainbow flag for the camp. Rainbows make people happy, right?), followed by a meal at the Great Hall, morning assembly, activities with counselors, chores, free time, and then an evening winding down by the great fire. An hour after sun down, campers will be escorted back to their cabins for curfew. Camp Counselors are expected to keep track of their campers, and ensure they're all within their cabins for bedtime. This is part of their grade, too! Curfew lifts an hour before the first bell. ⏵ CAMP ACTIVITIES ⏴ As with most summer camps, Camp Etraya offers a wide variety of activities to participate in. While some of these activities may be mandatory, others are optional. We'll be leaving this up to individual player discretion: perhaps Viktor is mandated to report to arts and crafts, whilst it's optional for Silco to show. Silco, on the other hand, may be mandated to report to the archery contest. Characters are encouraged to participate in a minimum of one camp activity per day. Below is a non-exhaustive list of camp activities. Three-Legged Race - You and a partner are tied together at your ankles, and you must race others to the finish line. Those with abilities that would give them an advantage will find that the rope that ties them together hinders those abilities from functioning. Archery - This can be more traditional, magical, or include moving targets! If you're particularly unlucky, your target may even shoot back. Softball - What instills a sense of camaraderie better than a bit of team sports? Games will be held on Wednesdays, the field is otherwise available for practice. Dodge Ball - Standing diametrically opposed to Softball is dodge ball, the bully’s sport. This is a great opportunity to claim dominance or be sent to the Nurse’s Office. Obstacle Course - You are directed into a large maze with multiple obstacles for them to overcome, such as rock climbing walls, ramps, tires, and nets. Capture the Flag - Small teams are put together in order to take the flag from a particular bot, whose entire goal is to avoid being caught. Canoe Race - Canoes are placed into the rivers just off of the camp, and characters must race to the finish line. Chocobo Riding - Learn how to care for and ride these magnificent birds! Newbies will be taken around the corral, whereas more experienced riders can take the trail around the lake. Arts and Crafts - Make friendship bracelets, bead lizards, paint rocks, learn origami! Or perhaps you're tasked with putting together an enchanted necklace. Don't know how to do enchantments? Now is as good of a time as any to learn. Campfire stories - Share scary stories amongst yourselves around the campfire late into the night. If you're particularly unlucky, you may just hear the thing you were just warning others about.. ⏵ NIGHT TIME ⏴ Once campers have been put to bed, the counselors can still stay up. Unwind with hidden beers and the strumming of a guitar. Don’t get too comfortable, though, since without supervision, no one is keeping the campers in bed. After dark, should campers evade their counselors, they can go exploring in the dark. Eerie lights glimmer from the lake. There’s rumors of a headless spectre walking from the archery field to the edge of the forest. Should you behave, you still might hear a scratching at your bunk house window. And on the very last night of camp, there will be a talent show. Show off your hidden talent and bask in the excitement of wowing your fellow campers! ⏵ NOTES ⏴ Welcome to Camp Etraya! Please enjoy the s'mores and campfire songs. :) Camp will last approximately two weeks, going from May 16th to May 30th. For all questions relating to this mission, please refer to the plotting post. All other questions can be directed to the FAQ. ⏵FULL NAVIGATION⏴

Comments

[leastdramatic]

Not bad at all. This is your first time so it’s normal if your first shots are clumsy. You’re not used to using those muscles in those ways yet.

[To demonstrate for Mayuko, Jason slowly notches an arrow and aims]

Breathe slowly and through the nose. Focus only on the target and tune out everything else.

[A pause and then Jason fires. His arrow strikes almost in the center of the target]

Archery

[leastdramatic]

[Jason and his cabinmates are the ones tasked to monitor and maintain the archery range. Today is Jason’s turn to watch the grounds. For someone with a seemingly tough exterior, he’s being surprisingly patient teaching any novices]

Breathe slowly through your nose when you take aim.

A

[maximumlegend]

[ Does Fabian like having to do the lights out check for the cabins? Not really. Though it's not even that anything about the task in particular bothers him - it's just the fact they are doing dumb stuff like this at all. He's made his distaste for this fake camp situation very clear to just about anyone who would listen, after all.

And in this case, 'just about anyone' didn't mean the people it usually does. After all, he's forced to spend most of his time either with his cabin mates or the people who were assigned the same activities as him. Gorgug isn't even here, and he's hardly even seen Riz, and it's dumb, and it's annoying, and Fabian is frankly pretty done with all of this as he's wandering around camp, checking all the cabins to make sure the lights are out before he's supposed to return to his own.

Riz isn't easy to spot in the middle of all of that. It doesn't have anything to do with the lack of light - Fabian didn't even have the bring a flashlight when he's got darkvision, after all - but more how sneaky the other is. In fact, Fabian thinks that if it had been anyone but him patrolling during lights out today, they likely wouldn't have spotted the other. It's only the familiarity with Riz that gets Fabian to recognize his friend from his a glimpse of him.

He immediately abandons his task, wandering over to where he spotted Riz, and allowing himself to sit down next to the other - yes, even if it's in a bush, though it's not exactly Fabian's preferred rendezvous spot - with a loud sigh. ]

I should've known you'd be out here.

[thelightshines]

[He comtemplates for a moment whether to answer or just ignore her. Then again, there isn't much to say.]

I just can. [It was one of the first things he learned he could do when he woke up on Earth, much to the panic of all the humans in the room at the time. Much like everything else about himself, it was a mystery how he could. All he knows is that it just comes to him naturally like breathing air. The scientists can only connect it to chaos energy and that doesn't really tell him the how.

His gaze falls. Thinking about himself always puts him in a sour mood. Cause there's so little he knows about himself, other than he came from somewhere up there. Shaking his head, he looks back up at the stars. He doesn't want to be thinking about this right now.]

[snapp_crackle]

[ Note the dimple over his lip when he pouts, it's part
of his signature look! ]

I'm not a physical fighter at all! It's not my fault I'm bad at this!

[devota]

[She gives him a searching look, as though trying to figure out whether or not he's trying to comfort her before deciding on it being the truth.]

I imagine the the situation was still... traumatic.

[Because she's fairly certain it would traumatized her.]

[tocastashadow]

I don't remember my family, [she says softly.] What's it like, having one?

Re: s'mores!

[lordfuckleroy]

[ This is not the wierdest thing that he has ever seen when it comes to here, the talking hedgehogs may have taken the cake when it came to that. So while unusual, he does not blink an eye at the short green goblin dressed to the nines yet with the table manners of a hoodlum.

He catches the skewer end and then he regards it before he leans over to put it over the fire. ] A question, is there a non-messy way to eat them?

[brat]

To your assigned cabin, like everyone else.

( does robin care for the rules? absolutely not. would he follow them, without the memory of what happened on moorecroft looming over him? no. but will he ensure that this - this person knows regardless that they are breaking rules? yes. absolutely. )

[brat]

If you had taken better care of your body, you wouldn't need it.

( it's not necessarily true, but it's the statement damian is running with for now regardless. he steps out of the shadows, wearing the idiotic tye-dye shirt but also still donning his domino mask, cane in hand.

because this is normal behavior. )

Take it from me, if you want it so badly.

and she wont get upset :)!?!?

[limiterrings]

...Dusky...

[ sounds almost unbelievable as he resigns to having no feelings about the name presented to him. shadow fails to hear the fluffier part because he's rotating in his head how the other has found himself in this predicament.

what a fool, he couldn't even avoid a simple nickname. however, in shadow's case, he didn't really care, he's been called millions of things so this is just another name added to the pile on top when he hears "darkie". ]

No. I don't see.

[ it's a rock.

what's he supposed to do with it, he's even using his index finger to flip it over on the back to give a good look at both sides. ]

Give it to the other one, he'd want the silent company.

[ this is not a joke. ]

[limiterrings]

Yes.

[ he has not developed a taste, but he doesn't seem against feeding them what they're interested in. ] >

Are you able to make it?

[ even if she's not the chef, he can find some use with her doing this, and that's why he's willing to cooperate. ]

[limiterrings]

....

[ antigone are you WHY they're here in responsibility camp? ]

And what did you learn?

[ornithologist]

If you can manage an IED without blowing yourself up, you can manage to place a few cameras.

[ Harold pulls out a few remarkably but not implausibly small cameras and offers one out to Carver. ]

Let's find some places with good angles that won't be easily noticed, shall we? Some can go farther off into the perimeter as well -- they're battery-powered.

i

[jinxs]

(Aw, man, busted. Jinx is on top of their cabin, cleaning out her guns to be impossible another day when he approaches. She hardly listens to Silco, so he's probably going to need a different approach with her rather than telling her to do something. A growl leaves her mouth, eyes rolling in edgy teen fashion before she gesticulates with the weapon.)

Hah! What is time, even? Do you buy that? I don't buy that.

[badlydisarmed]

We'd be fun for a bit, but then they'd have to euthanize us all and bring in new mice.

[ The more he thinks about it, the more it makes a weird kind of sense to him. ]

[badlydisarmed]

[ He doesn't want a postcards, but actually maybe it'd be funny. He can hang it in his office at the hospital. ]

All right. Sure, I'd love a postcard.

[abit_ofboth]

No one has signed up for that position yet.

You are aware that you will not actually be murdering anyone, correct?

[Loki is very amused, and slightly concerned.]

camp life

[sophielicious]

(>Early morning
> Ready to face the day with a smile



She awakens with the Devil inhabiting her bones, the worst mood ever as she stomps her way out of her cabin, finally in tie-dye, shorts, and still high-heeled boots, because what is she, a savage? But boy, help. She moves next to Chrissy with the largest sigh on Earth, arms crossed and sunglasses on.)

How much longer is the torture lasting?

[rudelanguage]

[HEY if they were wouldn't Aurora have said so!!!]

She said I wasn't in my world, and I, I-I freaked out! [not a lie.] I thought I was being kidnapped to be, like, skinned or tortured or something so I... [their frantic energy peters out, still drained.

they exhale.]

I messed up.

[also not a lie.]

[rudelanguage]

"You chill first!" the double snaps back, bristling like a cat. They remain hunched forward, fingers just shy of the ground, knees bent and ready to bolt at the slightest sign of aggression. Uncannily similar, sure, but there's no sign of a sparking quirk to mirror Deku's. "You jumped me, remember? I was minding my own business over here!"

[rudelanguage]

What, it can only do or feel what you tell it to? Those things don't like me. [there's a judgy tone in there, overflow from the residual irritation about his false name being insinuated as precisely that. for all Knife knows, he's trying to get this bird familiar with their scent so they can send it after them to kill them later!]

[rudelanguage]

Never said it was, just sayin' what I see. [the little fox waves her hand airily, dismissive, turning on a heel and starting to walk off.]

Maybe a thousand more tries and you'll make infantry or whatever! Have fun!

[rudelanguage]

[they turn their head to look askance.]

Can't read. [how convenient that the fact suits the species they're hiding as, but...it never feels good to admit anyway. because it's true, regardless of their hide color.]

#trashpandas

[brat]

( there's a domino mask on over his eyes, even if he is wearing the tye-dyed rainbow shirt (despite loathing it, as well as the shorts. he's cooperating) and despite the irritated look on his face, robin - is holding onto a chicken, and squinting toward their 'counselor'. )

No.

( to swimming? being watched over? slapping mud under his eyes? all of the above, probably. )