Event || Camp Curtisy Retreat

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Who: All characters
When: July 17th - 22nd
Where: Nah Nami Reserve
What: Characters go to the campgrounds to do some team building exercises and build CR.
Warnings/Notes: See prompt D for Mognet glitches



A. Arrival

[On the morning of the 17th, Mogaruru directs the outworlders and Curti Center employees who have signed up to the airship headed to the Nah Nami Reserve. Counselors hand out pamphlets with maps, general camp rules, and the week's itinerary. This place loves their pamphlets. Fortunately, most of the rules detail common sense: quiet hours are at 10pm, no smoking or alcohol, no harming the forest wildlife, no setting off fireworks.

After they touch land, the arrivals are free to pick their cabins and set up their rooms before gathering at the mess hall for lunch.]

B. Team Building

[It's not a corporate retreat without ice breakers! On the first day, every splits into groups sharing their names and one interesting fact about themselves. Throughout the day, there's all sorts of get-to-know-each-other events. Maybe Never-Have-I-Ever (alcohol is replaced with juice). A game of Truth or Dare? Trust falls? If it's meant to foster friendships, it's here.

There are also races and obstacle courses for those that want to compete as a team.

Mogaruru oversees the main activities, even leading a workshop in building paper-mache Moogle masks, encouraging everyone to find their passion.]

C. Actual Camping

[There are important life skills to be learned when living in the great outdoors. Hiking, learning about local flora and fauna, and cooking are included in the itinerary. Complaining about the sun and constant reminders about staying hydrated, too.

In the evenings, there's campfires for any type of socializing. Perhaps now is the time to have heart-to-heart chats over roasting marshmallows or swap scary stories about the Camp Lake Ira Killer.]

D. Late Night Hijinks

[After dinner, campgoers are allowed to use Mognet to catch up with news and chat with friends...though considering the glitches that occur during this event, it may prove to be less relaxing considering the glitches that occur in Kupoto's charge.

Things are fine on the 17th. On the 18th, however, messages to and from the Curti Center are delayed by 10 minutes. In an effort to fix this issue, Mognet is down at the Curti Center on the 19th. On the 20th, it's fixed...but all posts are made public. On the 21st, this is addressed, but now every subject line begins with "!Kupo".

Someone is going to have a stern talking-to when Mogaruru returns.

But that's fine. Campers are free to sneak travel outside in a group for totally legal activities. After all, no one would sneak booze or fireworks or play pranks on the other cabins, would they?

At least, if they don't get caught. Otherwise, it's cleanup duty for the rest of the trip.]

E. The Great Outdoors

[The Nah Nami Reserve boasts beautiful forests and a beach. The weather is beautiful. There are no monsters on the reserve...unless one considers the large fish living far from the beach shoreline to be monsters. Or if they are unlucky enough run into one of the larger animals in the forests. Fighting back can be overlooked as long as they don't grievously injure their opponent, ideally escaping without harm to either party. These are protect species, after all. It shouldn't be a problem if they are with Camp Curtisy counselors, but chances are there are some hiking groups that decided to explore the entire island on their own.

The beach includes a long stretch of sand, rock outcrops with tidal pools, and a net for volleyball. Some counselors have "TEAM LAVODE" shirts left from last month's Blitzball tournament, especially the Hypello lifeguards.]

F. Lessons Learned

[Now's the time for the campers to shine. Counselors lead workshops on arts, crafts, survival skills, and languages, but slots are open for all participants to lead a class of their choosing. Want to teach the history of your homeworld? Have any other skills you wish you share? This is your chance to show off what you know!]

Comments

[einspine]

That's okay. Though he'll park himself next to them, just in case they need a little extra support. The... pillow scream does make his bony brows rise in shock. Not quite enough shock for the googly eyes, but enough to give him pause before he awkwardly smiles at them. Positivity! It's important!

"WELL. IT'S NOT LIKE I'VE BEEN A COMPLETE RAY OF SUNSHINE MYSELF. THIS WORLD IS... CHALLENGING, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD."

[sassafrisk]

"I... I just don't know how to deal with it. This. I don't know!" Frisk gestures emphatically, face still beneath their pillow. "It's like... back in the Underground, I felt good about myself because I could talk my way out of most fights. But. That's just. I can't do that here and it sucks because I keep on getting reminded how shitty I used to be back home before I met you and the worst part is that I have to fight to protect people! I can't just talk at the enemy and make their problems go away when they're murderous psychopaths who have a compulsion to kill teenagers on Friday the Thirteenth! And even if I tried a class like Dancer or whatever, I'd eventually end up alone, cornered, and pretty much helpless! I just... I just want to forget about all of this and run away but then I'd feel bad and come back and do more stupid stuff for validation because I'd've abandoned people and... I just don't know, Papyrus! I just don't know." Somewhat belatedly, Frisk realizes that they've been crying, and try to conceal it by burying their face deeper in the pillow.

[einspine]

This is a lot to take in, so at first Pap remains silent. He does, however, place a hand on Frisk's shoulder. Just some way to show he's listening. He does care. It's just... there is so much to unpack here. Just... what sort of life did they lead before? He wants to ask, but how. How does he do so without seeming too nosy?

What to do...

Well, he can relate, at least. After all, the situation's been hard on him, too. He's never had to kill before. It goes against his code. And yet... murderers lurk. Monsters are feral and fierce. This is not the world they know. They... they just can't look at it the way they looked at the Underground. And it hurts, because everything he's seen suggests that they'll have to go against their principles.

"I DON'T KNOW EITHER. IT'S... TRICKY, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE JOBS I CHOSE AREN'T EXACTLY THE MOST TAILORED TO COMBAT. I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW I WOULD HAVE FARED AGAINST THAT MOOGLE ALONE.

BUT... WELL. WE AREN'T ALONE. AND WE'RE STILL HERE. WE HAVE TIME TO LEARN AND ADAPT. THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT ANY LESS SCARY, BUT THE FACT THAT YOU ARE SO TROUBLED PROVES THAT YOU HAVE A GOOD HEART. NO MATTER HOW YOU WERE BEFORE, THE FRISK I KNOW IS A GOOD PERSON. WE JUST... WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT, ALL RIGHT?

WE CAN HELP EACH OTHER."

[sassafrisk]

Frisk's sniffling subsides as Papyrus reassures them. What did they even do to deserve the ridiculous skeledork? Nothing, really. Less than nothing. They probably actively didn't deserve him. But, well, that was the point, wasn't it? Papyrus was right. They needed to adapt. They didn't have to deserve something to get it. They shouldn't be holding themself up to some stupid pacifistic self-sacrificing ideal in a world where that just wouldn't fly, where it would eventually get themself, or worse other people, killed for the sake of earning karmic brownie points.

Frisk was an expert in being dealt shitty hands at this point, and if making the best of their current one meant occasionally stabbing a monster to death instead of getting themself disemboweled while trying to play therapist for it... well, they would just have to suck it up and deal with it. Screw deserving things for not defending themself. If being selfish and violent by the Underground's standards meant surviving and saving other people here, then they'd have to be selfish and violent. Frisk tumble out of bed and into a hug with Papyrus, hoarsely whispering, "Thanks."