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etrayalogs2025-05-16 08:18 am
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- !mission log,
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MISSION 009
 ⏵ 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.
 ⏵ 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! 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. |
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But then— he's not sure what to do. She's in some kind of pain and he can see her hand glow for just a moment, but then it's passed and Scratch is coming over. It doesn't seem like there's anything he can do, but he listens to her explanation, obviously worried. ]
And you just have to live with it?
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[She takes a shaky breath, clenches and unclenches her hand, feeling the skin stretch taught around the wound. The pain is gone, but her body still remembers it.]
But it's nothing I'm not used to. [She offers what she hopes is a reassuring look, as her other hand gives Scratch what she hopes is a reassuring ear scratch.] I'm alright now, really. It never lasts long.
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Does it happen often?
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Was it Wyll, who'd first expressed concern, or was it Karlach? The memories are a year old now and not as sharp as she wishes they were. Too much time in this place, she fears, will steal her memories as surely as Shar did.
—she'd been confounded by it. It's still confounding, to a degree, that someone else might care about her, and that she might care about them too. What a terrifyingly vulnerable thing friendship is.]
You're kind, to be concerned. But let's not let Shar spoil a pleasant day.
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Can I spoil it by asking you to get on a boat again? Not this one, and not now. I have a sailboat, I've gotten good at sailing it around Etraya. I can get a dog life vest for Scratch, and Bear can come with us too.
[ A moment's pause where he realizes she might feel obligated since he's asking about a personal gift, not just summer camp. ]
You can say no.
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Shadowheart musters a soft laugh.]
You may. And I'll even say yes, as long as you promise to stay within five hundred feet of solid ground. I can't teleport further than that.
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It's a deal. And I promise there's nothing out there but fish, and the boat is sound. Unless you're busy, I'll call you up when there's a day with good wind?
[ He's looking forward to sharing the boat with her. He wasn't sure what to do with it when Harold gave it to him, but he's found that sailing around the water is nice. It gives him something to do, even if sometimes it feels too quiet. It'll be different taking someone else with him. ]
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[There's precious little to do here when they haven't been sent on a mission. Save, of course, play with Scratch and the cats.
She watches fondly as he pets Scratch, clenching and unclenching her hand again and feeling the lingering soreness in her muscles. And she thinks back to that conversation in the kitchen, when she'd asked him to be friends with her, and his strange insistence that he's not very good at it.]
You know, whoever it is that convinced you that you don't make a very good friend really was a dreadful liar.
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She told me that people like me don't get to have things like this. She was right, mostly. The friends I have at home are all people I worked with. Mostly people like me. We don't talk like this, go canoeing, go boating.
[ Except Harold. At least until Samaritan ruined that. ]
Except Harold, until we were forced into hiding and couldn't spend time together anymore.
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[She suspects that isn't what he means. Not the whole of it, at least. That phrase, 'people like me,' is familiar to her; she's thought it of herself, in the context of what people like her deserve. 'People,' in that context, aren't clerics, or half-elves, or Baldurians, or any other trifling little epithet that might be applied to her. When she thinks of what people like her deserve, what they do or don't get, the people she's thinking of are those who have done unforgivable things.
John is so insistent he's not a hero. Does he think of himself as a villain instead? Albeit, perhaps, one on the road to redemption? She knows better than to outright ask that, but she wonders.]
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After the Army I joined a different government agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA for short. My partner and I went all over the world preventing bad things from happening back home. It ended up being a lot of making bodies disappear and torturing people for information. They said it was for a good cause, but it was the kind of work that I'll always be having to make up for.
[ So, not a soldier. Not anymore. Those days were hard, but they were nothing compared to the CIA, the things he had to do then were unforgivable. Harold said he had to do that to become someone who helps people, but he can never make up for it. ]
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Not a question she feels confident in answering.]
I know a little something of killing and torture.
[She says it quietly, her gaze drifting out across the river. She'd believed herself righteous, once, and she'd done unspeakable things for her 'righteous cause.' Her voice grows even quieter, barely above a whisper, as she watches the gentle currents ripple beneath the water. She's never said this aloud to anyone before.]
I... enjoyed it. And sometimes I think that means I don't deserve... anything, really. Him. [She gestures to Scratch.] Or you. Or any sort of friendship or kindness. Maybe I don't.
[Maybe John doesn't either. Or maybe he does. Maybe it's not a matter of deserving at all. She can't judge him one way or the other, even though she's quick to pass judgement on herself.]
But I'm glad to have days like this, nonetheless.
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Harold said... [ can he find the right way to say it to her? ] he said that I had to do that to become a person who could do the work I need to do to help people.
[ Maybe it's the same for her. Maybe she also had to walk that path to become who she is today, capable of all she is. He never enjoyed it, but Kara did and he doesn't see any of that in Shadowheart now. He's not sure that's still true for her. ]
And days like this are nice.
[ Whether he deserves it is another question, but they are nice. Sitting and talking with a friend, getting to see magic, it's all nice. ]