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

[cyan_maid]

Oh, that could prove to be very useful! While the incredibly weird things don't seem to like to happen without as many people who've come here from other worlds available to tackle it, stuff that's more mundane is very common! And I've seen Pokemon swarms cause concern and trouble before, I bet you'd be called a lot around then.

[neverstudied]

[He preens a little at the support, looking a bit too full of himself.]

Mostly my idea. Figured we might as well keep doing what we know, even if we don't have our equipment. Obviously no more proton packs for us, so we'd have to use Pokemon to wrangle most stuff, but that shouldn't be too difficult. Just battling wild Pokemon with more of a purpose.

We'd probably still try to specialize in Ghost types, and Dark and Psychic ones, but really, any Pokemon or group of Pokemon causing a disturbance. Which isn't too far from what we did back home- gremlins and trolls and Cthulhu aren't exactly ghosts, but we've handled 'em all the same. And considering the number of Pokemon that can cause huge problems for people- at least according to some of the Pokedex entries- I don't think we'd ever be hurting for business. Especially not with the swarms, like you said.

[cyan_maid]

[Listen, she will encourage all endeavours.]

...Cthulhu?

[Yes, that's the one she's stuck on.]

Hold on - do you mind elaborating? When you say Cthulhu, you mean...the very same one that's the big eldritch guy with the tentacles and whatnot?

[neverstudied]

Yep. Some cult tried summoning it and a bunch of its tentacled minions. We weren't able to permanently take it out- but we used a roller coaster to electrocute it. It'll be dormant for another 60 years or so.

Wasn't an easy job Ecto-1 had some car trouble, I nearly got dragged away by some squid-faces in a sewer, we had to look through a bunch of Ray's old comic books for help, I fell off that roller coaster - but hey, if we can handle all that, probably can handle whatever this world can throw at us.

[cyan_maid]

That's...that is certainly an impressive and rambunctious sequence of events!

[She's not sure if she 100% believes it, but if you believe it happened, Venkman, she won't challenge that.]

Hopefully someone will, ah, be around to deal with the rapscallion when he wakes up in sixty years...