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A Ski Lodge
You flop down onto your bed, exhausted from another long day of school. Is it really necessary for your teacher to assign you to write three essays this week? You have other stuff going on. Life. And you can’t afford to fail this class. Your academic success is hanging on a precipice, and one nudge will send it falling into an abyss so deep that it will never be found if it is lost.
The computer is open in front of you, the white, electronic pages of your word processor beckoning to you. You sit down at your desk.
And then you stand up again and go to the kitchen for a glass of water. You can’t work with a dry mouth. Then, once the water is drained, you grab an apple. It’s slightly withered, but you slice it and slowly eat. You glance over toward the counter where a digital clock squats, its red numbers blinking threateningly. 9:48. If your parents knew you were up this late on a school night, eating old apples, with three essays to write, they would go completely out of their minds.
But your parents aren’t here to boss you around at the moment, so who cares what they’d say? It’s not as if the essays were due tomorrow. At least, not all of them are. Just one.
The apple is gone, and you can no longer think of any stalling techniques. You are fighting a losing battle against yourself. It’s past ten at night, you have school tomorrow, and your teacher is expecting a nice, long essay from everyone’s favorite student.
You walk slowly back to your room and sit down at your desk. You type a few words, yawn, type a few more, open up a web browser, surf Wikipedia for a couple of minutes, yawn again. So far you have only twelve words.
You open up the CB. It’s late, you know, and no one will have posted a thing since you checked last, but maybe you can read an old ski lodge or two.
You click on Pudding’s Place, intending to look for Lake Lelilo or something, when a new thread catches your eye. A Ski Lodge, it says, in those red letters you know so well. You click on the link, and start to read.
“You flop down onto your bed, exhausted from another long day of school. Is it really necessary for your teacher to assign you to write three essays this week?”
What?
You keep reading, watching your own movements of that night laid before you in second person, right up to this very moment.
Good.
I’ve got your attention now.
My dear CBer,
You are having trouble at school. You have unwritten essays, and you don’t know what to write.
That’s okay.
We are offering you the chance of a lifetime, the chance to fix everything. Come to Camp Juniper, where you have the chance to be freed from the bonds of school. You will no longer have to study late into the night in order to pass a test. You will no longer have to struggle for hours on end in order to write a good essay. In short, we are giving you a Get Out of Jail Free card. And, if you choose not to accept this card, you will be given a free college scholarship.
There will be competitions throughout the days of camp. Each camper will have the chance to earn juniper branches. Anyone who is able to weave their branches into a wreath by the end of the camp session will earn this freedom.
Sounds nice?
We thought so.
All you have to do is fill out this form. And be prepared to die.
Name:
CBer, AE, CAPTCHA, or CAPTCHAE? (Note: CAPTCHAs, and CAPTCHAEs are not allowed):
Age:
Gender:
Companion(s) (up to 2 companions per person) (please fill out a sheet for them as well) (AEs only):
Appearance:
Personality in five words. (Any more or less and you will no longer have the privilege to eat popcorn):
Skills:
Quirks:
Brains or Brawn?:
Envy or Empathy?:
Reverie or Realism?:
Luggage, in order from most to least important:
Choose a number:
Choose a color:
Other:
We are excited to see you. And yes, we WILL see you.
Your obedient servants,
L. Reine & B. Ambrose
P.S. The popcorn is free, as well.
P.P.S. Please be prepared to participate fully, whatever this may mean.
P.P.P.S. Obviously, this is a ski lodge.
You read over the letter again. Is it worth it? You could die. . . but people always come back to life after a ski lodge. You could be a murderer. . . but who cares about that? It’s just a story. And how hard could it be to weave a few branches into a wreath?
Yes, you decide.
It’s definitely worth it.
And so, you fill out the form.
And then, you press submit.
submitted by Liberté and Basil, Camp Juniper
(October 31, 2020 - 8:09 pm)
(October 31, 2020 - 8:09 pm)
Happy All Hallow’s Eve, friends and companions! We shall now present you with:
A few small facts and rules that did not fit smoothly into the storyline or are important enough to be posted a second time:
1. We will be accepting thirteen CBers, no more, and (hopefully) no less.
2. There will be no CAPTCHAs, or CAPTCHAEs.
3. We will be starting officially on the first of December, with one or two updates from now to then, just to keep the thread alive.
4. You are welcome to guess our identities.
5. Camp Juniper cannot be held responsible for any injuries, pain, death, theft, or other activity harmful to your mind, body, and/or soul that take place on our grounds or surrounding property.
6. Please try to have all sheets posted by Friday the 13th. Partly because of the superstitions attached to that day, partly to give time for the pre-planned updates to be posted.
7. You may revise your form as many times as you want until December 1st. After that, your fate is sealed. There may be no further revisions.
(October 31, 2020 - 9:10 pm)
(October 31, 2020 - 10:08 pm)
Name: Sammy Everlast
CBer, AE, CAPTCHA, or CAPTCHAE? (Note: CAPTCHAs, and CAPTCHAEs are not allowed): CBer
Age: Seemingly Immortal, but you can round that to 14 or 15.
Gender: Female
Companion(s) (up to 2 companions per person) (please fill out a sheet for them as well) (AEs only): I'll fill out a sheet for them later, but I'm bringing Ydris "Masquerade" Dìomhaireachd and Zachary Sìtheil Rìoghchad.
Appearance: Curly rainbow pastel hair, lighter skin. 5'8, and a tad muscular.
Personality in five words. (Any more or less and you will no longer have the privilege to eat popcorn): Troublemaker, Comedic, Protective, Kind, Easygoing.
Skills: Gymnastics. I ate a bagel once. First Aid. Took a survival course at a camp once. Also, my CB self has UNSPEAKABLE INFINITE POWERRRR!!! But you can give me whatever powers you want.
Quirks: I'm a fourth wall breaker.
Brains or Brawn?: I'm more on the Brawn side, but that doesn't mean I'm not, *turns on British accent* educated.
Envy or Empathy?: Empathy
Reverie or Realism?: Reverie
Luggage, in order from most to least important:
• A backpack that has literally anything I need when I reach into it. (Kinda like the Mary Poppins bag.)
• A rock with googley eyes glued onto it 'cause a therapist's too expansive.
• Secret Chocolate Stash
Choose a number: 56
Choose a color: Gold
Other: Favorite game is poker (Good luck beating me.), may ramble about my AEs and story ideas, whenever I listen to music I blast it.
(November 1, 2020 - 7:09 am)
Thank you for submitting your sheet, Sammy. We're excited to meet you at Camp Juniper!
(November 1, 2020 - 3:52 pm)
Okay, my AE sheets! Sorry this took so long!
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Name: Ydris "Masquerade" Dìomhaireachd. Nobody calls him by his real name, most of the time he's just Masquerade.
AE
Age: Little older than a teenager.
Gender: Male
Appearance: Goooood lookin' man my dudes! Extremely handsome. Wavy raven hair, fair skin. One of his eyes are emerald green, the other is a deep purple. Tall and strong.
Personality: Eccentric, charming, bipolar, temperamental, rude.
Skills: He's the head of a huge semi-illegal testing facility called The Hidden Community... So that's something.
Quirks: When he's nervous he may ramble about gruesome things, (Like the testing facility) and/or world domination.
Brains or Brawn?: Well, as a zombie once said, brains. (Who am I kidding, he's a genius.)
Envy or Empathy?: Envy
Reverie or Realism?: Lot of reverie to cover up his crippling anxiety about realism.
Luggage: I have no idea, and I'm not sure I want to know what he's bringing in his bag... *shudder*
Now Zach's...
Name: Zachary Sìtheil Rìoghochad
AE
Age: Around Ydris's age.
Gender: Male
Appearence: Dark blue eyes, with a bit of green in the center. Messy chocolate brown hair, average height, in good shape, and has a pale skin tone.
Personality: Kind, honest, Mom Friend, patient.
Skills: All animals love him, music, and First Aid.
Quirks: He's always checking his phone for a text from his little brother Alexander.
Brains or Brawn?: Brawn
Envy or Empathy?: Empathy
Reverie or Realism: He's optimistic, but Realism.
Luggage: Just regular everyday things.
(November 2, 2020 - 8:34 am)
Thank you for submitting your sheet, Ydris and Zachary. We're excited to meet you at Camp Juniper! Is there any chance you could include a color, a number, and anything else we should know? This information is important for your life and well-being. :)
(November 2, 2020 - 12:15 pm)
Ydris:
Color: Navy blue
Number: 23
Other:
He has a little brother named Yves. Yves is his only family, due to their mother dying in childbirth. Their father died in a fire started by their uncle, who was later caught. His best friend is the head scientist, Liu.
The best at gambling and playing poker.
He's usually the exact opposite of Zach.
Zachary:
Color: Turquoise
Number: 32
Other:
He pretty much dislikes most of his family, except for his little brother Alex. His mother died when he was six.
Reaaaaallly athletic.
He's usually the exact opposite of Ydris.
(November 2, 2020 - 1:16 pm)
Thank you. We appreciate it.
(November 2, 2020 - 1:43 pm)
Lovely! Another ski lodge. How I do love them.
Anyways. Time to fill out the form :D
Name: Nightfall, you can call me Night, or if you have letters adressed to me and all, call me Nf.
CBer, AE, CAPTCHA, or CAPTCHAE? (Note: CAPTCHAs, and CAPTCHAEs are not allowed): CBer, thankyouverymuch.
Age: roughly 11.
Gender: she/her (female)
Companion(s) (up to 2 companions per person) (please fill out a sheet for them as well) (AEs only): Nobody, thankyouverymuch.
Appearance: I have a black leather jacket, and a dark gray t-shirt inside. I'm wearing white-ish jeans and black sneakers. I have silver eyes, blood-red lips, jet-black hair with a moon and star clip in it. My hair reaches to my waist. I have nails painted black with stars and moons alternating. And a silver necklace.
Personality in five words. (Any more or less and you will no longer have the privilege to eat popcorn): Introverted, pretty shy and nervous.
Skills: I'm good at fighting/defending, scaring people, and being mysterious.
Quirks: I chew on my nails when I get nervous.
Brains or Brawn?: Brains.
Envy or Empathy?: Empathy.
Reverie or Realism?: Realism
Luggage, in order from most to least important: Water, food, pocketknife, extra clothes, robot, toothbrush/hygiene things, notebook, pens, extra ink cartridges, rope, hankerchief.
Choose a number: 8.
Choose a color: Turquoise.
Other: Oh, I'm a little bit crazy.
(November 1, 2020 - 12:10 am)
Thank you for submitting your sheet, Nightfall. We're excited to meet you at Camp Juniper!
(November 1, 2020 - 3:53 pm)
Name: Ari
CBer
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Companion: Braoin (physically), The Wonderful World of JAMES AIDAN MARK EDGAR STAR (in my head)
Appearance: Short red hair to my shoulders that I keep tucked behind my ears, light blue eyes with a dark ring around them, approximately five feet in length, dark grey t-shirt, blue jeans and punky-looking belt, black all-stars, in the middle between skinny and fat, glasses
Personality in five words: Lazy, daydreamer, introverted, shy, explorer
Skills: I am never bored. I watch a lot of things and overhear conversation so I know a lot of random facts.
Quirks: If I'm thinking up a story and have a pen, I doodle all over myself/surroundings.
Brains or brawn: It depends on the problem
Envy or empathy: probably envy
Reverie or realism: reverie
Luggage: Clothing, various random things in my bag not cleaned up from the last adventure, pocketknife, notebooks, pens, chapstick, The Wonderful World of JAMES
Choose a number: 3
Choose a color: black
Other: nah
And here's Braoin's sheet:
Name: Braoin
AE
Age: ???
Gender: Male
Appearance: forgettably grey, except for beautiful purple eyes. very thin, shortish, black hoodie
Personality: quiet, antisocial, sarcastic, shy, lonely
Skills: nice handwriting, good hearing
Quirks: stares at every thing/one until told not to
brains or brawn: brains
envy or empathy: envy
reverie or realism: realism but really reverie
Luggage: a random concoction of books, art, clothing, foreign coins, screwdrivers, candy, and other odds and ends. Evolve, an Imagine Dragons CD, his most important possession. Dunno why hes taking it as CDs are dead
gotta go back later
(November 1, 2020 - 9:31 am)
Thank you for submitting your sheets, Ari and Braoin. We're excited to meet you at Camp Juniper!
(November 1, 2020 - 3:58 pm)
Now I will finish Braoin's sheet:
Choose a number: 5862
Choose a color: why do I have to...
Choose a color.
Fine, yellow.
Other: FIVE WORDS DOESN'T GIVE JUSTICE TO BRAOIN'S PERSONALITY!
Uuugh now Glass is crying because he's a CAPTCHA and can't come.
I once made a ski lodge...I never wrote it but it was beautiful! Castle Antony was a silly name though.
I think I'm gonna do someting about that.
<3<3<3
(November 2, 2020 - 12:43 pm)
ooh yeah I can also spell insanely well but I mess up my b's and d's when I'm writing all the time, but never my p's and q's, and pronunciation is considered an unnecessary footnote to a grander tale.
(November 2, 2020 - 12:48 pm)
I know I'm already in like three ski lodges, but this looks too good to resist.
Name: Sterling
CBer, AE, CAPTCHA, or CAPTCHAE? (Note: CAPTCHAs, and CAPTCHAEs are not allowed): CBer
Age: Teenager
Gender: Female, she/her
Companion(s) (up to 2 companions per person) (please fill out a sheet for them as well) (AEs only): Icarus, one of my AEs.
Appearance: Longish dark blue hair, olive skin tone, grey eyes. Wearing a white sweater, dark jeans, combat boots, and a golden necklace.
Personality in five words. (Any more or less and you will no longer have the privilege to eat popcorn): Creative, introverted, passionate, competitive, stubborn.
Skills: Procrastinating, rock climbing.
Quirks: I tend to talk to myself when I have a good idea.
Brains or Brawn?: Brains
Envy or Empathy?: I'd love to think I'd choose Empathy, but truthfully Envy.
Reverie or Realism?: Reverie!
Luggage, in order from most to least important: Clothing, sketchbook, colored pencils, books.
Choose a number: 23
Choose a color: Blue
Other: I'll put Icarus' sheet up soon.
(November 1, 2020 - 10:07 am)