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

[copsormasks]

Guess not. [It makes some sense, he supposes. If he were to give any Bruce the benefit of the doubt.

Which he is loathe to do.

Jason keeps his gaze focused on the ground and tries to determine if he can trust Chrissy.]

You could say that.

[lastonetodie]

"Specific chemicals would not be difficult to synthesize, provided we have the correct tools, materials and ratios. But such a thing only brings us back to the problem you have described."

In his tower, he was equipped with a replicator, with all the useful tools and materials it could provide - as well as what systems were left online for him to use. Such things are luxuries here; all he has now is the knowledge and principles.

Granted, that is quite a bit...

"If there are books on chemicals for this specific process in the library, that will allow me to assist you more efficiently. If not, we must rely on the most basic of methods, trial and error."

[nobraincell]

[Gorgug...you have such faith....and luckily, Chu Wenshan's campfire cooking skills aren't too bad. He looks over, sees Gorgug, and gives him a thumbs up!]

Do you want wings? Drumsticks? Chicken feet are pretty good.

[It's not a chicken, but hey, same kinda feet, right?]

[bubblegumheart]

The apartment beds are a lot nicer. [None of them are as nice as the bed she'd had at home, but she hadn't been sleeping much there, either, so it obviously doesn't matter.]

Do you think talking about it would help?

[thelightshines]

[He looks to what Deadpool was working on.] There's a point to this? [It just seems, strange that the group are split with very different objectives. He only has one mission to compare to though, and that one was anything but pleasant. So being in this relatively calm environment, while the other group are off fighting somewhere is a strange decision.

He thinks about it. Frowning.] ...I don't know what I would put in mine. [He's never had one to begin with, so maybe it's better not to overthink it.] Simple is fine.

[shadowsincryo]

This is a mission like any other and my group’s tasks are security related. It’s my shift on watch.

[He waggles a hand and puts the bird grooming kit away. He returns the how he had been standing when Knife came up, watching out away from the camp.]

We might see trouble and we might not. So far everything has been clear and quite boring.

campfire, but before he gives in to playing the icebreaker game!

[cactusy]

[It's the night that Shaw gets back from Solmara, and as luck would have it, she has also been instructed to participate in this little campfire shindig - and since she's been keeping an eye out for Carver, she decides to kill two birds with one stone and drop down next to him on his log.

She also decides to be nice and not comment on the shirt. That doesn't stop her from looking pointedly at it and grinning a little, though.]

How much are you hating this?

hedgehog cabin!!

[cactusy]

[While the Solmara team is absent from camp, one bed in Maria's cabin is left empty - until one night when it's suddenly filled without announcement or fanfare. And the next morning, Maria gets the rare opportunity to see what Shaw looks like with bedhead.]

Tell me the showers here have hot water.

[She says by way of greeting, still in her PJs (a tanktop and a pair of thin cotton stretchpants) as she drops down from her top bunk to the floor, forgoing the ladder.]

arts & crafts; towards the end of camp time

[cactusy]

[This is one of the assignments that Shaw had dodged twice already. But it keeps doggedly showing up on her schedule, and so when it rolls around for the third time, she figures that she should take the hint in the interests of not completely failing at this whole exercise. For the sake of saving her world or whatever.

(God, this is the worst.)

So here she is, sitting at a table in the arts and crafts cabin, half-heartedly painting a rock black. She's working with one surface and one color, and somehow she's still managing to do a lackluster job.

When she finishes with Black Rock #1 and her time isn't up yet (no shit, Shaw; it's been five minutes), she figures she might as well get started on Black Rock #2, and she reaches to take another from the pile - at the exact same time as Fio is also reaching for another rock. She withdraws immediately, wordlessly waving Fio forward. Go on, kid; take your pick. You seem like you're actually having fun with this, so live your dreams.]

[copsormasks]

[Jason doesn't stick around long enough at a single apartment to really care about the comfiness of their beds.]

Already tried that and it just made shit worse.

[rudelanguage]

[Just ask 80 questions at once, it's fine! Ugh! Knife growls a little irritated noise while shrinking back into the bushes to feel around and make sure they've got all the tools they pinched from the crafting supplies.]

Me? Antigone. I saw some oversized lug hogtied and dragged into the place. [not really. that was Knife, so they didn't really see themself, but, like. whatever.] I'm not looking to stick around, okay? So just, just buzz off before you draw them over!

[rudelanguage]

[bluntly:] You take bribes?

[shadowsincryo]

I don’t. Why are you considering one? [He looks at them, one eyebrow raised. He is an honest kind of man even if he is damn shady at times.]

[rudelanguage]

[laaaaame.]

So I can just leave.

[bubblegumheart]

Well... I don't want to make things worse.

[There's no guarantee that talking would help at all. Talking to Ms. Kelley had worked out well enough for her, considering that she was never completely honest about what was going on.]

[sophielicious]

Right? And you never run out of things to do. The city is just buzzing all the time, I absolutely adore it.

(Mmm, her turn, right? Let's see what she can cook up.)

Mmm, okay. I've been dead for the past 2 years, I help run mutant/allies relations in NYC, and I am being an individual for the first time.

[sophielicious]

(She keeps her word, at least. He will have his fashion makeover with a Cuckoo, she promises and everything.)

See? Much better.

(No hesitance in shaking his spitless hand, though. Truly a gentleman, although it doesn't save him from the gigantic eyeroll that ensues when he tells her to retract the claws. Sir??)

I'm a Frost, not Logan, thanks, can't do it.

(... But, yes, fine, he is right. Good that he knows.)

Oh, those are not really comfortable though. I mean, I am not working with the same equipment and all, but I can't imagine it being comfortable for you either.

[limiterrings]

You did break a few of its "kin".

[ break into, you know when trying to make something out of nothing, but shadow has also cause some of that misfortune towards the other for indulging such a negative practice. it can't be helped. ]

that is true... that means it has happiness and love and shouldn't be mistreated...

[limiterrings]

[ he's still holding this rock, don't worry, it remains in his palm as he looks to her and back to it, then back to her and back to...

with a sigh, the hedgehog should meet her gift with something. anything really that holds the same weight (ha!) as this thing that he has. hasn't he given her enough, too much and he'll start leaving an impression on the girl. he's already done that, but he tries not to think too hard about it. ]

Then who will watch you now if you give me this?

[ he's referring to the rock version of him, it appears that it did a good job sitting around and keeping her safe. especially with how much care she put into making it... did she make this here? with people around?

...

please don't tell him people saw her make this. ]

[limiterrings]

[ don't say cursed things. don't say cursed things. he's trying to be a grown, and mature hedgehog who doesn't need people growing on him. ]

...

[ look at the expression he's making, it's more so he's offering a glare towards the other considering the high number.

he can do it, but he doesn't want to make that many. that's more than his patience will allow. ]

And what will you do?

[sophielicious]

(Not a human, which tends to be what they prefer to terrorize, but you know? When you didn't get a chance to be a shitty teen, a shitty adult might do the trick.

She's got to make sure Gorgug can't see the ball until it comes close, so she's blocking his vision of it as she snorts, going with what Julian is doing. The illusion she casts for Gorgug's eyes is the message 'YOU'RE NEXT' in unhinged red writing.)

Pretty sure Aurora should be showering us in rewards for keeping her chicks in camp, don't you think?

[brat]

Wouldn't you like to know.

( he says, but he's not looking towards bruce. instead, he keeps the cane across his lap, and starts digging into it with his blade. )

Hank Anderson | Detroit: Become Human (feel free to swap to brackets 🫡)

[bootyshortsforoldmen]

Arts and Crafts

If there is one positive thing about this bullshit camp it’s that Connor got assigned to stay, too. Rather than venturing off to Solmara. So instead of pissing off Aurora-Echo-whoever and the little robots by clawing at the bars of their camp-enclosure, Hank is being good. Sort of.

He’s given up on the bead lizards. Ripped enough of the origami paper that he started to feel a little bad — would rather slink off than ruin the kids’ good time. There are kids here. Kids!!

So Hank has found himself a rotting stump to sit on as he attempts to figure out some sort of bracelet with the colorful string.

He has no idea what he’s doing. Help this old man — or help him suffer more, perhaps.

Night Time

Hank managed to sneak a beer — or two, or three — and tonight, he was clever enough to try to put the alcohol in a thermos so people would stop asking stupid questions. Could they still smell it? Probably, but at least it alleviated the obnoxious scolding when they saw him holding a beer bottle.

So he’s in his cabin eventually, once he damn well feels like it. Getting all cozy on his little cot. Closing his eyes as he lets his slight buzz sweep over him.

But then, of course: the scratching at the window. A tree branch? Someone trying to open the window, maybe?

Wildcard

( I am late and I do not have Starbucks. Yell at me on Plurk if you have any ideas or want something specific! giangio )

[rudelanguage]

You sliced them first. [just sayin'.]

[copsormasks]

[Jason pauses in his walk, biting the inside of his cheek as he considers Chrissy, the level of trust they built, and what he's comfortable admitting.]

I fell. I fell a really long way. Thought I was going to die.