St. Owl, Somebody, Danie, Jarvis, Cayke, Air, and others:

Hi! I've been reading this, and I like it. I also think habañeros in either AE's food and/or jelly bombs.

Just a couple ideas.

I'M BACKING DEB!!!! 

*walks away muttering* Make Puck's servers turn into Arabic. Reset her passcode. Binary bombs. Killer bunnies...

Ultron: You're starting to sound like Emerald. I really don't want two of you!!!!

Emerald's evil clone: Why, hello there. 

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! HOW DID SHE- Never mind, I don't want to know. THIS IS WAR!!!! GIMME THAT CLONING DEVICE- HEY!" 

Me: I think it's time to leave. On the way out, I'll grab some mini binary bombs, various flash drives, super chocolatey donuts...

I'm so, so sorry, Abi!
I'm going to be completely honest because in this case lying isn't a good thing. I forgot. I completely forgot that Dev and Feather and I were in the camp at all, and I'm so sorry I did and I hope you'll forgive me. In my defense, I haven't really been going to BaB or Pudding's Place very much, but I know that's no excuse and I really will check up on this now.

To answer your question, I'm definitely on Dev's team, because, well, he's Dev. Come on, Dev is pretty epic when he's angry. Flaming brussels sprouts pies were only the beginning. I mean, what he did to the Automatic Voice Message System Inc. .... yeeeah, I wouldn't want to be on the recieving side of that.

I'm on Puck's side. Usually I wouldn't take part in this and go hide my head under a pillow or something, but because Puck is fighting Dev, well... that's something else. I want to see him get his just deserts. 

EVERYONE JOIN ME! JUST WAIT TO SEE WHAT I'VE GOT PLANNED!

TOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOPTOP!!!!!!!!!

So, here's how it's going to work. Those of you who have decided, you'll be on the teams you chose. Those who have not submitted a reply for themselves (SD, Cayke, Air, Somebody, and Danie) will be consdired neutral. If they do decide a bit late, then they will be "persuaded" during the story. If they never do post, then I might just decide to sway them onto a certain team because it's boring if too many people are neutral. Also, Sydney and Spryo (the two decided neutrals): If someone tries to persuade you, I'll ask you what you'll do.

Also, if you have not, PLEASE acknowledge your decision. Thank you all, and now for the latest installment:

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A lifeguard ambled over to the campers, surveying them critically. Dev, Hotairballoon, Silvery, Cayke, Air, and Volcano quickly slipped on lifevests and joined the others. The lifeguard swept a menacing glance across the crowd and the campers (who were chattering about the latest developments) silenced swiftly. 

"Ahem," he said importantly. "Today for our afternoon activities we will be doing water sports. I will divide you all into two rotations: Canoeing and swimming." The campers nodded obediently. 

"I'll count off," he said, walking through the throng and tapping each child on the head whilst assigning them one of two numbers: Three or six hundred.

"Wouldn't it be more practical to use 'one' and 'two'?" Jarvis asked as she was made a six hundred. The lifeguard stared at her as if that was the most ridiculous question he had ever heard.

"No," he said, moving on towards Air.  Once all the campers had been appropriately tapped, another lifeguard, a woman this time, beckoned all the six hundreds towards her to go swimming and the man took the threes to the canoe storage racks.

In the canoeing group were Squeak, Somebody, Cayke, Joan, Dev, Feather, and Silvery Ink. Technically, Danie was there as well, but as she couldn't do anything but sit there in her ring, nobody counted her as a person.

Which was very frustrating, because a person is still a person even if he or she is shrunk down to miniature and trapped in a ring. 

"There will be two to a boat," the lifeguard explained, lifting four canoes off of the rack and setting them down by the water. "You are all wearing your lifevests, I trust?" They all were.

Somebody and Cayke climed into the first canoe, which was green with "CHATTERBOX CAMP" painted on the side in yellow block letters. Cayke picked up a paddle. "So, what's this for?" she asked, poking Somebody with it. Danie's ring was still on her finger, and its inhabitant flinched at the quick motions as she gazed at the dark depths of the lake below.

"It's the paddle," Somebody said, unamused.

Squeak was at the helm of the second boat (an orange one this time). Dev was standing, frozen, at the bank. What if he fell off the canoe and drowned? Dev regretted not taking the swimming lessons with Feather and St. Owl— It had seemd like a mundane waste at the time, but now, faced with the prospect of voluntarily going near water... Lake water... With possible leeches!

Dev could see the swimming group enjoying themselves at a miniature bay only a short distance away. Did everybody know how to swim but him? Puck dove off a rock and did a triple flip, landing in the water with a giant splash. She turned toward him, her wet hair floating like a halo around her shoulders, her eyes bright with glee. Dev, the only canoer not in a boat. He could almost see her mocking smile— Dev can't swim! Scaredy cat!

How humiliating. Taking a deep breath, he gingerly sat down on the back seat behind Squeak. He glanced over at Puck, but she was no longer looking. 

"Okay, gang," the lifeguard said, "let's go!" His canoe, which Silvery Ink was in (there was an odd number of campers) shot off. The others could see that Silvery's paddle lay beside her, not in use, and she folded her arms behind her head and relaxed whilst the lifeguard did all the work.

"So, uh," Feather said. "How do we do this, anyway?"

"I don't know," Joan, who was sharing a canoe with Feather, answerd, stroking her paddle through the water to no avail.

"Hmm," Cayke said. "Maybe if I..." she leaned forward slightly, trying to get more leverage behind her stroke.

"Hey!" Somebody yelled as she felt herself sliding forward. "Too far, Cayke! Too far! CAY— ACKPFTH!" The canoe flipped over, splashing water into the face of the already unhappy Dev.  

Cayke's head popped up. "Phewf!" She spat water out of her mouth and anxiously checked her finger. Fortunately, the ring was still clinging on, though farther down her digit than would have been preferrable.

Danie, inside, was not pleased. Sheesh, couldn't her friend be trusted to take good care of her? It seemed like the others were more concerned with prank wars and such than trying to rescue her. She sighed forlornly. She knew they were trying, but it seemed impossible. Would she have to live in the vile cage for all of her days?

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(Sorry for the weird ending of that post and that it's so short. I have to go practice my violin now, more coming soon!)