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⏴

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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.]

[heavensnight]

[ah, so that was who the missing bed had belonged to. at least Maria doesn't need a big greeting. she is a morning person, bright and ready to go far quicker than most others. Maria had just come back from her own shower, dressed in her camp gear already, the too short cut off jean shorts and the tie-dyed pink crop top.]

Hey, sleeping beauty. If you wake up quick enough, sure. It was lukewarm by the time I got there.

[cactusy]

I just spent the past week and a half sleeping in the desert; you'd be a couch potato afterwards, too.

[She says it dryly but without malice, running a hand through her straw-like hair. God, she's going to be glad to be able to use conditioner again.]

Am I going to have to wear tie-dye, too?

[heavensnight]

Hey, no judgment. I'd be a couch potato if I had to do that for a single day. [she was meant to be weak so really, Shaw had her on that!]

Unfortunately. Harold made me mine. Apparently the guy's real good at it. And I made sure to bring some of my nice soap and shampoos. If that's your thing.

[cactusy]

[Shaw is no princess, but all the same, she's not not interested: being dirty and unhygienic is a necessary evil sometimes, but never something she enjoys. Wordlessly, she heads over to Maria's bunk area, ready to take a look at whatever she has to offer.]

[heavensnight]

[Maria couldn't bring a ton. simply just some exfoliating soap with nice shampoo and conditioner. obviously she brought lotion and sunscreen. that was it. she'd had to bring her make-up too after all.

but for her, this was packing light.]

[cactusy]

[It's more than enough for Shaw, who had been packing for Solmara and thus hadn't brought anything that wasn't a necessity. She plucks up the shampoo, conditioner, and soap, and with a quiet Thanks, she zips off to the shower area.

Fifteen minutes later, she'll emerge wrapped in a towel, combing her fingers through her wet hair.]

You got some good stuff. Better than the crap I hocked when I worked at a department store.

[heavensnight]

[she had been going over what her plan was for the day when Shaw came back out.]

Never had much stuff where I was from, so I indulge now, you could say. You doing okay? I heard the mission wasn't supposed to be easy. Solmara, that is.

[cactusy]

I wish I was still there.

[She says it petulantly, but she does mean it: if she were still out working a mission that she could see the point of, she'd have been up hours ago. But here, where their mission is summer camp? She's sorely tempted to just crawl back into bed.

And she might still do that yet. But first, she'll at least make an effort to dig through her bag, looking for some semi-clean clothes. Unfortunately, breaking the news about the tie-dye uniforms will have to be Maria's job.]

[heavensnight]

Not much of a camp fan? Can't say I am either. Never went as a kid and I don't think I missed out.

[one would say the woods were just not her thing.]

Got tie-dye in there? [says Maria in her pink, tie-dyed crop top.]

[cactusy]

I don't wear tie-dye.

[Shaw says, in the irritated, mildly defensive tone of someone who senses that she lost this battle before she even realized that she was fighting it.]

Where are the normal clothes?

[heavensnight]

Listen, do I look like a tie-dye kind of girl? [...] Don't answer that, you might hurt my feelings. But the answer is I'm not.

These are the normal clothes. Sorry to say.

[cactusy]

[Shaw's jaw works as she contemplates the indignity of it all. No thank you, absolutely not, she should never have come back from Solmara. She would absolutely rather be in a desert than here.

But this is the mission, and she knows that she has to suck it up. Still in her towel (which might very well undercut the effect slightly), she stalks over to the dresser near her bunk, rummaging around until she unearths a white t-shirt that's roughly her size.]

-- I'm supposed to dye it myself?

[noooooo]

What happens if I don't?

[heavensnight]

There is a little station for it, yeah. Apparently, our camp grade goes down? I'm not really even sure what mine is right now but I've been a good girl so it should be fine. I'm guessing this affects the whole 'saving the universe' thing. [which was crazy to think about, that the universe depended on them wearing tie-dye?]

Harold is pretty good at it, though. He did mine for me.

[cactusy]

[None of this information is a surprise, and though it doesn't wipe the muleish look off her face, she's clearly all talk - she, too, behaves like a good girl, and pulls a shirt out of the dresser that's approximately her size. Next comes a pair of khaki shorts that she just knows she's going to look like a knobby-kneed preteen in.]

We'd better not have an end-of-year picture show. No photographs allowed.

[heavensnight]

There goes my end of the mission idea. [Maria has no idea if her sarcasm is obvious there but she very much means this sarcastically.

and because she has no idea what she's supposed to be doing as camp counselor, and she does just want to be helpful, she gestures to her own drawer.] Prefer jean shorts? [Maria doesn't think Shaw seems like a khaki girl? what does she know though. but also Maria cut her shorts way too short so.]

[cactusy]

Maybe.

[But she still sounds highly skeptical; she has doubts that anything on offer here is going to be to her taste, and she's fully picturing baggy mom shorts in her mind.]

Show me what you got.

[heavensnight]

[Maria has cut all of her shorts to be too short and she really has to look to get Shaw something that wouldn't practically have her ass almost hanging out.

but the jean shorts she pulls put are well above the knee.]

If you're down to showing off some leg?

[cactusy]

At least they won't make me look like a PTA mom.

[She grumbles - and then she strips off the towel and starts to dress right then and there, not bothering to seek out privacy first. She's already wearing underwear, so at least there's that.]