Season 2 - Episode 1
General Summary
EASTER WEEKEND 1984 passes in a blur until we find ourselves at the start of SUMMER. We all head to the ROAD RUNNER COVE SUMMER CAMP (known for its myriad of activities). It is always prepared to host children for some outside fun. The head coordinator is KIM JOHNSON.
GLORIA’S MOM thought it was a CHRISTIAN CAMP, though it isn’t. She also has to look after her YOUNGER BROTHER. TOMMY just likes the idea of CAMP and invites CASSIUS who doesn’t really get what CAMP is but is very touched to be included.
XANTHI is sent to CAMP by her HIPPIE PARENTS who need to get rid of her to sell their PYRAMID SCHEME ESSENTIAL OILS. We all arrive in a big crowd, where we meet KIM JOHNSON. She is well dressed and is a former (failed) military officer. There are also other volunteers: JOAN SHIETY, MARIA DEMIDRAG (farmer), and MARK (a Home making teacher). The OLDER KIDS are in the LIZARD HOUSE. While, BILLIE and GRIMEY are in the FOX HOUSE, (along with GLORIA’S BROTHER, RAPHAEL). The large mass of newly arrived camp kids are all wheeling and dealing. There is even a kid from NEW YORK, named SAM! It’s a lot of chaos so CASSIUS turns to TOMMY for guidance. But TOMMY doesn’t know either and is hoping CASSIUS might know better. CASSIUS admits he has only seen one movie on the topic of summer camps but it was in Thai. So, the two of them walk over to GLORIA and ask what to do. She snorts at their incompetence and says to figure it out as she leaves to check on her lil’ bro. Confused, the two boys head back to the beds and they start fighting over the TOP BUNK. SAM and some HENCHMEN approach and try to steal the top bunks from under CASSIUS and TOMMY’S noses. CASSIUS thinks the top bunks might be important, so he is ready to fight. TOMMY backs him up and CASSIUS ends up decking SAM (who had started to get up in TOMMY’S grill). SAM says CASSIUS will be sorry, but CASSIUS still thinks all of this jostling is mostly in good fun, so he waves SAM off with jovial positivity. He and TOMMY both get nice TOP BUNKS. Meanwhile, XANTHI asserts her authority as popular and gets a top bunk, where spends some time listening to MICHAEL JACKSON. Another kid approaches her and tells her to move because their towel is already there. XANTHI talks him down, so the kid has a bit of a CHANGE of HEART and leaves, but he asks for something in return at a later date (like a muffin). XANTHI agrees saying that sweets aren’t really her thing anyway. Outside the cabin, GLORIA meets some kids who are the most ANTI-GLORIA people possible. They joyfully slap a pin on her chest, to which she grabs them and threatens them to never stick her again. The guy she grabs seems a little upset at this. GLORIA stalks off and sees her brother at the ARCHERY RANGE. RAPHAEL is struggling a little and seems annoyed GLORIA is bothering him in front of his friends. She asks him if he has everything he needs and if he has his sleeping bag set up. His embarrassment grows to the point where he messes up his shot and shoots it straight up into a nearby field. There are a few muffled screams and GLORIA teases him saying he should enjoy juvie, but no real harm was actually done. After a moment we hear a WHISTLE. KIM is handing out the SCHEDULES. Someone official comes into the CABIN- It is PATCH! He is here as a COUNCILOR! He is making about 10$ an hour. (Which we all find impressive) He asks about the NEW GIRL here with us after making small talk and explaining he needs money to fix up his CAR. XANTHI introduces herself. PATCH has a bit of a hard time with her name calling her XANAX. But checks everyone off his list, despite GLORIA clearly being absent. (He isn’t very good at his job). The day goes well, and DINNER comes quickly. During freetime, XANTHI inserts herself into the group and declares she wants to go to the CANDY STORE. CASSIUS wonders if this is part of the experience. TOMMY tells him yes and that he wants some candy too in order to feel more at home. (After all, he is left home alone often and candy is often all he knows how to ‘make’). GLORIA is equally interested, so all the OLDER KIDS head to the store. XANTHI gets an everlasting gobstopper, which seems novel to both her and CASSIUS. It’s pretty fun, until LIGHTS OUT. In the dark, XANTHI wants to play TRUTH OR DARE. CASSIUS doesn’t know it well but agrees. GLORIA says it’s XANTHI’S dumb idea so she should go first. XANTHI picks TRUTH. TOMMY asks her how her parents are so rich, and she talks about the traveling sales they do. CASSIUS seemingly misunderstands and asks if they are part of BIG OIL. GLORIA picks DARE. XANTHI dares her to let her paint GLORIA’S NAILS bright pink. CASSIUS figures the DARE parameters are mostly fashion based and imagines painting nails can’t be that hard. So, he says DARE. GLORIA tells him to yell his full government name out the window. He is reluctant to disturb others, but TOMMY confirms CASSIUS can’t paint his nails because they are already painted black so this is the next best thing. After confirming, yet again, that yelling is correct, doesn’t involve hate speech, and is indeed part of an authentic camp experience, CASSIUS shrugs and heads over to the window. Unlocking it, CASSIUS yells out: “CASSIUS ZACHARIAH PIOUS LAZARUS KANE CROSS” into the night. GLORIA is a bit stunned at the frankly biblical length. Some lights in the distance turn on as some of the councils come to investigate the noise. CASSIUS yells ‘sorry’, and dives back into bed. We all pretend to be asleep, but collectively FAIL. It turns out we are terrible at hiding. KIM sees us and yells that we should be in bed. CASSIUS lies and says he thought he saw a WOLF and the others were helping him with his fright. When KIM leaves, the game continues. CASSIUS asks TOMMY who picks TRUTH. CASSIUS tries to ask a good empathy-based question but ends up asking about his greatest FEAR instead. TOMMY says it is going DEAF because then he can’t listen to music. Everyone agrees that would majorly suck and the mood falls. We all head to sleep soon after. Everyone with LOW EMPATHY STATS start having a COLLECTIVE NIGHTMARE: We are immobilized while sitting on a bench. Calming PHIL COLLINS music plays from the radio but there is a bright light. The warmth grows and the speaker’s crackle. Another song overrides the waves- it is: MORE THAN YESTERDAY. The lights flash- and a grey concrete room appears around us. There is a mirror. All the children tied down except for one, but we aren’t sure who the free one is. The ANXIETY within us grows! The lamp grows impossibly brighter until everything is WHITE. We wake up in a cold sweat. Almost immediately we can see we are in the CABIN, but it is DIFFERENT. In fact,everyone seems DIFFERENT- they are complete STRANGERS. The BARRACKS sparkle, in a way they did not before. Everything OLD suddenly looks NEW. CASSIUS, in particular, starts to panic. GLORIA and XANTHI investigate out the window and see that the councilor’s have DIFFERENT CLOTHES. Oh no! We are all nerds! XANTHI laments. We all feel and sound different so we collectively look in the mirror and see that we are, in fact, DIFFERENT PEOPLE. We have become BODY SNATCHERS! CASSIUS now has brown skin and is named SANJAY; GLORIA is still white but is a popular person named ANYA. TOMMY is a Hispanic boy named LUKE SANCHES. XANTHI becomes a nerd named CARALYN. We all spend a moment having an EXISTENTIAL CRISIS but determine we are who we are. (Especially because ‘SANJAY’ suddenly has a deep southern accent and is very distraught about issues of TIME TRAVEL). GLORIA in particular is worried about RAFAEL. We head outside to go to the FOX CABIN, but once we go outside everyone is dressed more formally. It’s still CAMP but the vibe is different. The pants are higher, and all the girls have skirts. GLORIA is suspicious of the fashion as it looks older. We get called over by a jovial councilor, so GLORIA asks incredibly casually, ‘who the president is?’ The guy says: ‘NIXON.’ (Which is decisively NOT REAGAN.) TOMMY asks about top songs and is told HONKY TONK WOMEN is top of the charts putting us firmly in 1969. The somewhat befuddled counselor directs us to go get breakfast. CASSIUS spirals a bit as TOMMY and GLORIA talk about meeting their parents and BACK TO THE FUTURE. CASSIUS is very alarmed at the idea of meeting one’s parents, especially when they look so different. GLORIA sees CASSIUS’ crisis and directs everyone to get the food because it will make them feel better. XANTHI wants to stress eat and so follows (those muffins sound pretty good after all). CASSIUS confirms that this is not part of TRUTH or DARE with some mixed emotions. At the canteen, a JOCK guy threatens ‘SANJAY.’ CASSIUS considers decking him but decides to try to play it cool and lets the guy, DAREK, have his FOOD. He is okay with this because his stomach is in knots, and he can revisit the situation at LUNCH. After DEREK leaves, CASSIUS just shrugs and says he can probably just set the guy’s bed on fire if there is a problem. TOMMY and XANTHI stand up suddenly, they aren’t having the injustice so they head over to confront DEREK! (Despite CASSIUS protests). On the way a GIRL stops TOMMY/LUKE, immediately distracting him. She wants to listen to records on the beach and he can’t say no. He is led away, but XANTHI continues to antagonize DEREK. She threatens his posse with her fists, but DEREK and his goons very suspiciously say she can go ahead. Getting cold feet she backs off. CASSIUS has his head in his hands throughout the whole botched endeavor. GLORIA goes off to the lunch line and tries to fish for information, talking about how she is from FAR AWAY and how her L.A. city also feels so FUTURISTIC. The kid she talks to is abysmally normal. She moves on to talk to ‘JANIE’ the LUNCH LADY. GLORIA asks about the bad dream. JANIE didn’t have one and wonders if GLORIAis unwell. GLORIA feigns a concussion while asking who is in charge. JANIE exclaims that she must have lost her memory too! And that she should talk to KIM JOHNSON. XANTHI tries to feed CASSIUS a bun while he reassures her that he is OKAY and they can get fiery revenge later. (He is also touched none-the-less that she would care so deeply). GLORIA comes back and recites the facts she knows. The year, the new bodies, and now the common denominator- KIM JOHNSON! CASSIUS decries BOULDER’s TIME issues and seems to take things more seriously now that they have a point of interest to focus on. GLORIA is on a roll with her investigation so we all take a moment to help her look around the room for anything else suspicious. Nothing comes up, but just as we are about to move on, A YOUNGER KIM (and other councilor’s) show up to tell us to have some fun and earn some points for our camp teams. One of the co-councillor’s whispers to KIM after the speech. We see her nod. And reach for something IMPORTANT in her BAG. GLORIA and company try to see what it is but cannot get a good look. It seems we are really in for it now.
GLORIA’S MOM thought it was a CHRISTIAN CAMP, though it isn’t. She also has to look after her YOUNGER BROTHER. TOMMY just likes the idea of CAMP and invites CASSIUS who doesn’t really get what CAMP is but is very touched to be included.
XANTHI is sent to CAMP by her HIPPIE PARENTS who need to get rid of her to sell their PYRAMID SCHEME ESSENTIAL OILS. We all arrive in a big crowd, where we meet KIM JOHNSON. She is well dressed and is a former (failed) military officer. There are also other volunteers: JOAN SHIETY, MARIA DEMIDRAG (farmer), and MARK (a Home making teacher). The OLDER KIDS are in the LIZARD HOUSE. While, BILLIE and GRIMEY are in the FOX HOUSE, (along with GLORIA’S BROTHER, RAPHAEL). The large mass of newly arrived camp kids are all wheeling and dealing. There is even a kid from NEW YORK, named SAM! It’s a lot of chaos so CASSIUS turns to TOMMY for guidance. But TOMMY doesn’t know either and is hoping CASSIUS might know better. CASSIUS admits he has only seen one movie on the topic of summer camps but it was in Thai. So, the two of them walk over to GLORIA and ask what to do. She snorts at their incompetence and says to figure it out as she leaves to check on her lil’ bro. Confused, the two boys head back to the beds and they start fighting over the TOP BUNK. SAM and some HENCHMEN approach and try to steal the top bunks from under CASSIUS and TOMMY’S noses. CASSIUS thinks the top bunks might be important, so he is ready to fight. TOMMY backs him up and CASSIUS ends up decking SAM (who had started to get up in TOMMY’S grill). SAM says CASSIUS will be sorry, but CASSIUS still thinks all of this jostling is mostly in good fun, so he waves SAM off with jovial positivity. He and TOMMY both get nice TOP BUNKS. Meanwhile, XANTHI asserts her authority as popular and gets a top bunk, where spends some time listening to MICHAEL JACKSON. Another kid approaches her and tells her to move because their towel is already there. XANTHI talks him down, so the kid has a bit of a CHANGE of HEART and leaves, but he asks for something in return at a later date (like a muffin). XANTHI agrees saying that sweets aren’t really her thing anyway. Outside the cabin, GLORIA meets some kids who are the most ANTI-GLORIA people possible. They joyfully slap a pin on her chest, to which she grabs them and threatens them to never stick her again. The guy she grabs seems a little upset at this. GLORIA stalks off and sees her brother at the ARCHERY RANGE. RAPHAEL is struggling a little and seems annoyed GLORIA is bothering him in front of his friends. She asks him if he has everything he needs and if he has his sleeping bag set up. His embarrassment grows to the point where he messes up his shot and shoots it straight up into a nearby field. There are a few muffled screams and GLORIA teases him saying he should enjoy juvie, but no real harm was actually done. After a moment we hear a WHISTLE. KIM is handing out the SCHEDULES. Someone official comes into the CABIN- It is PATCH! He is here as a COUNCILOR! He is making about 10$ an hour. (Which we all find impressive) He asks about the NEW GIRL here with us after making small talk and explaining he needs money to fix up his CAR. XANTHI introduces herself. PATCH has a bit of a hard time with her name calling her XANAX. But checks everyone off his list, despite GLORIA clearly being absent. (He isn’t very good at his job). The day goes well, and DINNER comes quickly. During freetime, XANTHI inserts herself into the group and declares she wants to go to the CANDY STORE. CASSIUS wonders if this is part of the experience. TOMMY tells him yes and that he wants some candy too in order to feel more at home. (After all, he is left home alone often and candy is often all he knows how to ‘make’). GLORIA is equally interested, so all the OLDER KIDS head to the store. XANTHI gets an everlasting gobstopper, which seems novel to both her and CASSIUS. It’s pretty fun, until LIGHTS OUT. In the dark, XANTHI wants to play TRUTH OR DARE. CASSIUS doesn’t know it well but agrees. GLORIA says it’s XANTHI’S dumb idea so she should go first. XANTHI picks TRUTH. TOMMY asks her how her parents are so rich, and she talks about the traveling sales they do. CASSIUS seemingly misunderstands and asks if they are part of BIG OIL. GLORIA picks DARE. XANTHI dares her to let her paint GLORIA’S NAILS bright pink. CASSIUS figures the DARE parameters are mostly fashion based and imagines painting nails can’t be that hard. So, he says DARE. GLORIA tells him to yell his full government name out the window. He is reluctant to disturb others, but TOMMY confirms CASSIUS can’t paint his nails because they are already painted black so this is the next best thing. After confirming, yet again, that yelling is correct, doesn’t involve hate speech, and is indeed part of an authentic camp experience, CASSIUS shrugs and heads over to the window. Unlocking it, CASSIUS yells out: “CASSIUS ZACHARIAH PIOUS LAZARUS KANE CROSS” into the night. GLORIA is a bit stunned at the frankly biblical length. Some lights in the distance turn on as some of the councils come to investigate the noise. CASSIUS yells ‘sorry’, and dives back into bed. We all pretend to be asleep, but collectively FAIL. It turns out we are terrible at hiding. KIM sees us and yells that we should be in bed. CASSIUS lies and says he thought he saw a WOLF and the others were helping him with his fright. When KIM leaves, the game continues. CASSIUS asks TOMMY who picks TRUTH. CASSIUS tries to ask a good empathy-based question but ends up asking about his greatest FEAR instead. TOMMY says it is going DEAF because then he can’t listen to music. Everyone agrees that would majorly suck and the mood falls. We all head to sleep soon after. Everyone with LOW EMPATHY STATS start having a COLLECTIVE NIGHTMARE: We are immobilized while sitting on a bench. Calming PHIL COLLINS music plays from the radio but there is a bright light. The warmth grows and the speaker’s crackle. Another song overrides the waves- it is: MORE THAN YESTERDAY. The lights flash- and a grey concrete room appears around us. There is a mirror. All the children tied down except for one, but we aren’t sure who the free one is. The ANXIETY within us grows! The lamp grows impossibly brighter until everything is WHITE. We wake up in a cold sweat. Almost immediately we can see we are in the CABIN, but it is DIFFERENT. In fact,everyone seems DIFFERENT- they are complete STRANGERS. The BARRACKS sparkle, in a way they did not before. Everything OLD suddenly looks NEW. CASSIUS, in particular, starts to panic. GLORIA and XANTHI investigate out the window and see that the councilor’s have DIFFERENT CLOTHES. Oh no! We are all nerds! XANTHI laments. We all feel and sound different so we collectively look in the mirror and see that we are, in fact, DIFFERENT PEOPLE. We have become BODY SNATCHERS! CASSIUS now has brown skin and is named SANJAY; GLORIA is still white but is a popular person named ANYA. TOMMY is a Hispanic boy named LUKE SANCHES. XANTHI becomes a nerd named CARALYN. We all spend a moment having an EXISTENTIAL CRISIS but determine we are who we are. (Especially because ‘SANJAY’ suddenly has a deep southern accent and is very distraught about issues of TIME TRAVEL). GLORIA in particular is worried about RAFAEL. We head outside to go to the FOX CABIN, but once we go outside everyone is dressed more formally. It’s still CAMP but the vibe is different. The pants are higher, and all the girls have skirts. GLORIA is suspicious of the fashion as it looks older. We get called over by a jovial councilor, so GLORIA asks incredibly casually, ‘who the president is?’ The guy says: ‘NIXON.’ (Which is decisively NOT REAGAN.) TOMMY asks about top songs and is told HONKY TONK WOMEN is top of the charts putting us firmly in 1969. The somewhat befuddled counselor directs us to go get breakfast. CASSIUS spirals a bit as TOMMY and GLORIA talk about meeting their parents and BACK TO THE FUTURE. CASSIUS is very alarmed at the idea of meeting one’s parents, especially when they look so different. GLORIA sees CASSIUS’ crisis and directs everyone to get the food because it will make them feel better. XANTHI wants to stress eat and so follows (those muffins sound pretty good after all). CASSIUS confirms that this is not part of TRUTH or DARE with some mixed emotions. At the canteen, a JOCK guy threatens ‘SANJAY.’ CASSIUS considers decking him but decides to try to play it cool and lets the guy, DAREK, have his FOOD. He is okay with this because his stomach is in knots, and he can revisit the situation at LUNCH. After DEREK leaves, CASSIUS just shrugs and says he can probably just set the guy’s bed on fire if there is a problem. TOMMY and XANTHI stand up suddenly, they aren’t having the injustice so they head over to confront DEREK! (Despite CASSIUS protests). On the way a GIRL stops TOMMY/LUKE, immediately distracting him. She wants to listen to records on the beach and he can’t say no. He is led away, but XANTHI continues to antagonize DEREK. She threatens his posse with her fists, but DEREK and his goons very suspiciously say she can go ahead. Getting cold feet she backs off. CASSIUS has his head in his hands throughout the whole botched endeavor. GLORIA goes off to the lunch line and tries to fish for information, talking about how she is from FAR AWAY and how her L.A. city also feels so FUTURISTIC. The kid she talks to is abysmally normal. She moves on to talk to ‘JANIE’ the LUNCH LADY. GLORIA asks about the bad dream. JANIE didn’t have one and wonders if GLORIAis unwell. GLORIA feigns a concussion while asking who is in charge. JANIE exclaims that she must have lost her memory too! And that she should talk to KIM JOHNSON. XANTHI tries to feed CASSIUS a bun while he reassures her that he is OKAY and they can get fiery revenge later. (He is also touched none-the-less that she would care so deeply). GLORIA comes back and recites the facts she knows. The year, the new bodies, and now the common denominator- KIM JOHNSON! CASSIUS decries BOULDER’s TIME issues and seems to take things more seriously now that they have a point of interest to focus on. GLORIA is on a roll with her investigation so we all take a moment to help her look around the room for anything else suspicious. Nothing comes up, but just as we are about to move on, A YOUNGER KIM (and other councilor’s) show up to tell us to have some fun and earn some points for our camp teams. One of the co-councillor’s whispers to KIM after the speech. We see her nod. And reach for something IMPORTANT in her BAG. GLORIA and company try to see what it is but cannot get a good look. It seems we are really in for it now.
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30 Jan 2023
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