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[indent][indent][b][color=#00d64a]“Hello, campers! Welcome one, and welcome all to another beautiful summer at Camp Red Arrow. We’re happy to have you, and believe me, we know you’re happy to be here.” [/color][/b]There was an intentional pause, as if Mike Oxmaul was waiting for a reaction. When he received none, he charged on. [b][color=#00d64a]“Some of you, I’ve seen before. Some of you I haven’t, but I’m happy to see all of you now! If you’ll look around, you’ll see that Camp Red Arrow is just as beautiful as it’s always been — this year we even have a new net for badminton…” [/color][/b]Mike Oxmaul checked his watch and tapped on it. [b][color=#00d64a]“For our twentieth anniversary, we’re going to have a fireworks show midway through the summer… there’s an ice cream freezer, but don’t eat it all. Restocking is hard.”[/color][/b]

There was another pause, before Mike shook his head, [b][color=#00d64a]“can we cut? Let’s just do the whole thing over again. That sucked.” [/color][/b]

[i]Click.[/i]

Josh flipped the [url=https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/usedphotosna/81744509_614.jpg]ancient TV off[/url], and looked at the campers and other counselors, who were gathered in the rec room for the ‘opening ceremony,’ if it could be called a ceremony. Once upon a time, it had be more… ceremonious, but now it was kind of pathetic. Which, in and of itself, was kind of pathetic. Shaking his head, Josh ripped the ‘free’ sticker that was still on the side of the TV (the last TV had an unfortunate incident with a bat, and Mike had found this on the side of the road when he was coming by the camp; all in all? A net improvement).

[b][color=#fff20c]“Yeah… That’s not the [i]best[/i] intro, but ol Mike didn’t want to come this year... so he just recorded that video like two days ago…” [/color][/b]Josh explained, shrugging his shoulders, as he crunched on a Funyun from the bag in his hand — one of the bags he’d brought along with him for the summer. Last year, the counselor stash had ran lower faster than he’d thought, and well… there were some mistakes you just didn’t make twice. [b][color=#fff20c]“I thought he re-recorded it, but I guess not? Before anyone asks, no, you can’t have the fireworks. I’m not even going to make references to where they are.”[/color][/b]

Josh knew the people he was playing with — one or two of them were people that had been coming here for a while. Joshua had no earthly idea how Camp Red Arrow got away with the shit it did, but… somehow, Mike Oxmaul pulled it off each and everytime… Of course, pulling the deception off wasn’t without effort! Mike knew what he was doing, he even created trophies for the Red Arrow Sports Tournament that they advertised, but didn’t actually exist. Every camper got one.

[b][color=#fff20c]“Look, I get it. A lot of you probably don’t wanna be here. You were sent here by your parents who didn’t wanna bother with you all summer, and they didn’t trust you to be alone, or want to pay for a babysitter. But this isn’t as bad as you think it’s gonna be trust me. There’s a lake, there’s free food… We have double the amount of ice cream we usually do, because we got a new freezer. Trust me, this is gonna go great.” [/color][/b]Well, it was no Captain America esque revitalizing speech, but it wasn’t his worst work! Besides, Josh didn’t get paid enough to try and make [i]every [/i]camper happy. That just left his closing remarks, to cover what he expected of the campers.

[b][color=#fff20c]“You guys can go to your cabins, get situated, and dinner’s at six thirty. Other than that? Don’t burn the place down, and NOBODY die. Try not to sit in the rec room all summer, it gets hot and the TV gets hot and if the backlight blows out because it’s hot we’re fucked because I don’t have another one, and I don’t think there’s a store that’s within walking distance, so… Try to play elsewhere. There’s only one rule, and that rule is ‘don’t fist fight within line of sight of a counselor.’ We don’t condone violence here at Camp Red Arrow, but we condone pretty much everything else. The people that are legacy campers? Make sure you help the newbies feel welcome.”[/color][/b]

Josh should have given the speech from the goddamn beginning. Why did he even have to play the fucking video tape? Not only was it shitty; they had to cram everyone into the tiny ass rec room. [b][color=#fff20c]“We’re gonna be stuck here for at least three months, so try, [i]please[/i] [i]try[/i] to get along. It isn’t as bad as you think it is, I promise.” [/color][/b]Josh said, before giving the group one last not-so-comforting smile (he wasn’t the best smiler), and holding both thumbs up, the bag of chips crunching in his hand as he made a fist; something he seemed to immediately regret.

The crowd of campers, was, understandably awkwardly silent at first, and Josh did what most of them were waiting for: [b][color=#fff20c]“You’re all dismissed. See you at dinner. If you’re late you can eat cold.” [/color][/b]At that, there was finally a reaction from at least [i]one[/i] camper.

[b][color=#08c7d1]“Yeah! Go Josh! Hell yeah!” [/color][/b]Ever burning with the power of positivity and overwhelming optimism, as soon as the counselor said they were dismissed, Christopher Robin exploded into applause and cheers that were perhaps too enthusiastic.
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[i][color=#b7b7b7]For your starter posts, please feel free to write your character’s arrival to the camp, and then what they do immediately after this little introduction! There are only two cabins, and they’re split by gender. Your character will get to claim either a top or a bottom bunk in the barracks-esque cabins. Find a bunkmate! It’ll be fun, I promise.[/color][/i]

[i][color=#b7b7b7]If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to @me in the OOC, PM me on the guild, DM me on Discord, or @me on the Discord server! The same goes for my two GM buddies, [@Fabricant451] and [@TootsiePop].[/color][/i][/indent][/indent]