victory_road | CAMP ALPHA: for everyone who wanted a crossover between summercamp and Ghost Adventures

Who: Everyone who came to Camp Alph
Where: The Ruins of Alph
When: July 18th-21st
Summary: This is a log for all the camping shenanigans your heart desires! For part 2 of the event, there will be a second log to keep the ensuing seance situation separate from the all-purpose ruin-exploration adventures. Participation in part 2 will be entirely voluntary, so feel free to tag on part 1 as long as you like! For more information about this event, check out the info post over here!
Rating: PG-13
Log:

Been to the Ruins of Alph before? Are you an old hat at this stuff? Well turn everything you thought you knew UPSIDE DOWN because EVERYTHING. IS DIFFERENT NOW.

… Or at least, that’s what the flyers being passed out under a canopy of cheap Celebi balloons that are bobbing around in the breeze say.

One thing’s for sure, there sure are a lot more tents than normal. By the time most of you casuals get there, the entire picnicking area, usually quite spacious, has been turned into a small tent city. And the excited atmosphere is palpable.

The crackle of the Ruin Rangers’ walkie-talkies mingles with that of the ghost-hunting equipment toted around by excited Hex Maniacs, burbling Unown are drifting here and there to blink curiously at all the new people and Pokemon suddenly on their turf, and chatter from Legend Seekers of all ages (really, of ALL ages-- everyone from Youngsters to Veterans have apparently been swept up in the Seeker-mania!) rings out as stories and speculations are swapped.

There’s lots to do, plenty to explore, and (according to word on the grapevine), more than enough spooky rituals to perform once the night falls.

Will you solve some tile puzzles and fall into an underground chamber? Stick to the main group and make s’mores? Befriend a floating letter (or twenty-four)? Go directly against the advice of the tired-looking Rangers and play One Man Hide-and-Seek in the dark?

Or, most importantly, will you start a small-scale riot in order to keep the loud static boxes away from the tents where you’re trying to sleep?

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Whatever it is, they better have a solid plan- having no particular ghost in mind for seances is just begging for any creature to barge in.

I hear that's how many demons are accidenally summoned too.

....that might be doubtful? I mean the Legendary Seekers are pretty cool people but they don't always seem that....organized.

[He looks around.]

They do seem to have brought a lot of other people with them though. Maybe they know more about seances and can keep things in order.

The last thing this place needs is demons.

Yeah they did seem pretty cool before now. Hopefully this wasn't just a ruse to give them our money.

[Ray sighs.]

Tell me about it. Demons can be reasoned with sometimes but when they're set on something they're the worst.

Nah, if this was a ruse there'd be less tents. Or free food. Or authorities.

[He knows scams on the paranormal. He lived in one.]

Ugh, they are. They're so smug and obnoxious. And when you think you're reasoning with one, it's usually a trick.

That's a good point. It would be a lot of work just to maybe put us under a false sense of security.

[Oh good it's demon rant time.]

Yeah, if one even offers to shake your hand for any reason, just never go for it. And the only time I was able to work with one it was entirely because the demon had an ulterior motive that luckily didn't hurt anyone.

Yeah. You'd either have nothing or a bunch of stuff here to try and sell us things.

[Demon rant time!]

Yeah, already learnt that lesson the hard way. Also never make any deals with them, but really, really never make deals with them when you haven't slept for like three days straight.

[Ray is just about to tell Dipper about the hilarious time a demon begged for his help because some mortal made a really dumb deal but that last bit from Dipper catches him.]

Dipper please don't tell me you're speaking from experience.

[He's not angry, just disappointed.]

I was trying to break the password to get into the Authors laptop and it was going to shutdown and delete everything! Everything!

[That probably means nothing to Ray. But Dipper sure does remember the urgency and terror he felt. He folds his arm and looks away]

My sister was putting on this giant sock puppet opera and there were all these sock puppets lying around and he said he'd trade me the information for a puppet. And I wasn't thinking...

And....so yeah, tricked. He took my body as the puppet, broke the laptop and I had to spend a day as a ghost watching him try to destroy the journal, jab forks into my arms because pain was fun and trick everyone into thinking he was me.

I was just lucky Mabel was able to stop him. So yeah....don't underestimate demons ever. Also Bill was a jerk. It's super creepy watching yourself throw yourself down the stairs because "fun".

[Ray listens intently, and with great curiosity.

When Dipper finishes the story, he looks thoughtful, before he finally speaks.]

Oh gee, I hope he didn't break any bones in your body at least.

[Still he seems more sympathetic than anything else.]

I gotta say though, "Bill" doesn't seem like a very threatening name for a demon. Sure they do tend to present themselves as a more benevolent spirit to lure mortals into trusting them, but "Bill" is far from one of the first names that I would think of when naming a demon.]

Luckily he didn't. Just a lot of minor flesh wounds. It...uh, could have been a lot worse.

[He kind of wishes they hadn't found that note with Bill's plan to throw his body off the water tower after he was done with it.]

Yeah, he goes by Bill Cipher but who knows if that's his real name. ....Also he looked like a floating triangle with a top hat and a cane. One eye and no mouth. Also he was just really, really "friendly" at first.

[Actual air quotes used.]

But he got a lot more evil looking by the end. ...it's a long story.

[Now that gets Ray to look even more thoughtful. Even without words, it's clear that he's wondering if he's seen or heard anyone like that.]

I've never heard of a demon like that before! Most of the ones I've experienced are the very "typical" types of demons. You know: goatlike, huge horns, stuff like that.

[He quickly perks up.]

But I would love to hear more about your encounters! It's rare to hear of supernatural beings that I have zero experience with these days.

Yeah, he said he was a dream demon. He couldn't get out of the mindscape for a really long time.

[Which kinda made Dipper underestimate him a bit after the first "fight" they won.]

Really? Sure, I mean we had some of the usual things like ghosts or zombies or sea monsters that turned out to be giant robots. But there was a lot of really weird stuff, even for the paranormal.

[Ray smirks.]

Try me! I've experienced a lot of strange things in my job.

Okay...um...

[He'll think over some of the stranger things he's seen in Gravity Falls.]

Have you ever seen a gremloblin?

Aww c'mon that's cheating! You can't combine a goblin and a gremlin into a hybrid and ask if I've seen that combination.

[He's teasing, honestly.]

But I have seen a goblin and a gremlin before! Not combined, of course.

Sure I can. Lots of monsters are weird combinations of things.

Which makes it a totally separate form of monster than a goblin or a gremlin.

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