July
There is a weird vibe as you arrive at camp this year. The smell of moss is thick in the air, fog rolls off the lake, and no matter where you stand, a chill seems to follow. You feel jumpy, set on edge. Though you’re surrounded by friends and so glad to be back, you can’t help but scan the treeline. For what, you’re not totally sure.
Everything is fine, though. First day jitters are all. It’s been a whole year since this place was last occupied. Once the cobwebs are cleared and everyone decorates their bunks, the nerves will settle and things will be normal.
So get to your cabin, unpack, and meet your fellow campers around the fire pit. (Head to the Discussion Thread to view the different Cabins (Teams) available and start working on decorating your bunk.)
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After a long, exciting day, and an evening full of laughter and campfire stories, you retire to your bunk for the night. As you walk back to your cabin, the sound of a twig snapping in the woods sends your head spinning around and your hands rustling for your flashlight. You pick up the pace and are soon crossing the threshold, taking a breath as you quickly close the door behind you. That wasn’t a growl you just heard, was it? What animals even live around here? What used to be on these campgrounds? It might be interesting to find out and share the information with your fellow campers.
August
Though the first few weeks of Camp were a little unnerving, everyone settles in and the days float by, filled with fun, friendship, and creativity.
Cabin Trailblazers invites everyone on a hike in the neighboring mountains. As you make your way along the path, you can’t shake the feeling that something is nearby. And the worst part is, you think you know what it is. You catch some movement out of the corner of your eye, but when you turn to look, it’s just trees swaying in the wind. As you get back to the campgrounds, your friend approaches and shares that they also have some ideas about the weird vibes and want to see what else they can find out. You gather some other campers and hatch a plan to search the woods.
The next day, you clomp through the forest with your friends, looking for anything interesting. It’s a quiet walk, mostly trees and rocks. The camper out front finds a random pile of glitter, but says it’s probably from the cabin pride signs everyone made last week. A while later another camper finds a patch of fun fur. Your friend mentions their bunkmate lost a work-in-progress stuffie on the first day of camp, so it’s likely just from that.
You approach the bridge that leads across the lake to the adjacent campground, but you heard in town that it collapsed a week before camp started. You can’t go any farther. As you walk back to Camp, you stumble on, what looks to be, a rummaged-through backpack, strewn about and abandoned.
Your mind flashes back to something you saw at the Visitor’s Center.
