Thursday, February 20, 2025

this summer at camp I'm just going to give out quests

 long ago, the four nations of camp lived in peace. The youngers, the younger middles, the older middles, and the olders. Each took turns getting up for lunch and being dismissed for pick up. Until one day a older middle by the name of Bocephus assembled a faction that sought to rule the pool and make it so that you could only play Bad Movie Game and Bad Categories. And what that was was that in Bad Movie Game if you were the cooler you'd just say 'A' and then wait for your friends to go and no matter what they say you just say that was it, even if it doesn't even start with A. That's how bad it was. 

Ancient camp law says that if one group wins every game of Gagaball, every game of tetherball, every game of Elijahball, the Wednesday rotations, AND the Friday games AND you have the most Pokemon cards with the most legendaries and holo-rares you get to rewrite the schedule for the rest of the summer. And so Bocephus and his wicked crew of gremlins, rats, and rascals set about rigging all the games. Which mostly what that looked like was they found a sharp stick and popped all the balls so that no one could play any of the games and then they printed out a bunch of fake cards at home and traded them for all the good cards at camp. One camp named Anti-Bocephus, who funnily enough was not related to Bocephus, realized Bocephus's plan on Friday morning and mounted a desperate attempt to stop him from winning the Friday games but it was too late and a lot of the kids who Anti-Bocephus had hoped would show up on Friday morning didn't because they were too tired from losing everything on Thursday. Anyway, Bocephus was triumphant and that meant that the next week would be spent playing Bad Movie Game and Bad Categories--bad categories is where the category is lame like 'Say something cool' and then if your friend goes then you say whatever they said was cool--even if it's not cool. That's how bad it is. 

6 weeks went by of nothing but Bad Movie Game and Bad Categories. It was shaping up to be the worst summer in history. But then, a group of campers and counselors who were so bored out of their minds that they decided to read discovered an even more ancient set of camp laws that said if someone could assemble a piece of the original gaga pit, a scrap of the original Elijahball, the original tether of the original tetherball, a big bucket of fire ants, a shell from the creek, and 5 boxes of popsicles, then they would be able to throw the bucket of fire ants on the bad guys and then eat the popsicles and the day would be saved. Your mission is to assemble the camp artifacts of lore and end the reign of lameness. 

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