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

[indigo_league]

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?

Comments

[schachmeister]

[There isn't anyone dead and gone that Armin is attached enough to make a trade like that. But still, for a boy who has always liked his taboo subjects, perhaps it is best that Alchemy just Doesn't Work here.

The little disruption gives Armin enough time to mull over Envy's words, so once Envy has his attention back to the subject at hand, he asks:]

What would be enough to trade for an entire body, mind and soul? Hypothetically speaking.

[exeggutorhead]

[The minor spat with the Legend Seeker wraps up just in time for Envy to overhear the much less offending question, and he actually has to pause to mull over what to say...of course he can make things up if he feels like, but...]

[That bit of scientist left in him briefly wars with his love of theatrics before he answers:]

Supposedly a Philosopher's Stone has enough power to surpass the ultimate laws...but creating one has a steep price all its own.

If the alchemist has the will and talent. I've seen what happens when they don't, even with that. A perfectly formed...mindless, soulless doll.

Is the Stone a legend that's happened to make it to other worlds?

[France had known about a version of the thing, and a few others he'd met over the years.]

[schachmeister]

[Armin takes a minute to think it over, going back to all the books he had read back home, but--]

I can't say I've ever heard of it. But, if it is as powerful as you say it is, that sounds like something our government would consider taboo and would probably ban from being published.

[See also, every other fun subject.]