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[krmvgivv]

Who: The kids of Wonderland! And NO GROWN-UPS!
Where: The outskirts of the woods
When: 5/20
Rating: PG probably
Summary: Time to grab a sleeping bag, ditch the grown-ups, grab some marshmallows, and throw an awesome camping party!
The Story:

[Early Friday morning anyone under 20 (or who appears under 20 since Dipper doesn't always know) will find a flyer shoved under their door. Dipper's been keeping track, and now he's putting that knowledge to use. There's going to be a camping trip. It's going to be awesome. And it's going to be 100% lacking in adult supervision.]



[The camping site has been prepared ahead of time, tents set up in a circle around a fire pit ringed with stones. There are bags of marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers for smores, plus various other snack foods and soda and and activities. And, of course, when it gets darker, there are ghost stories to be told. With the variety of worlds, some of them are even true. Good luck sleeping....]

Comments

Early evening mingling!

[krmvgivv]

[Get to know your fellow campers, claim a tent, play with matches!]

Dipper - ota

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper has already claimed a tent for him and Mabel since he's the one who set them all up, so he's mostly sitting up against a rock reading when people start showing up. He'll look up if anyone wants to chat, though. Even he acknowledges that socializing usually doesn't involve having a book in front of your face.]

[powerofmabel]

[Mabel can understand Dipper reading before people show up, but not so much after, so once she's made her rounds as Good Campfire Hostess, she plops down on the rock her brother is leaning against.] Bro-bro, you're the one who put this together, and you're still gonna read while there's so much mingling to be done?

Rose ][ OTA

[littledhampir]

[ Rose might not be the kind of person who needs to live in pampered comfort but there's a big difference between a crappy dorm room and sleeping in a tent. She hasn't even decided if she's sticking around, let alone thought about claiming one.

She's here anyway, to at least check things out. Her hands stuffed into the deep pockets of her hoodie. A log by the fire pit claimed before anyone else comes along. From the looks of things, she's here for the smores and while they can be deceiving in most peoples cases? Not so much in Rose's.]

[krmvgivv]

[Hey it's that girl who keeps making fun of Mabel's scrapbooks. Dipper, who has finally put down his book, ambles over and sits next to her.]

You're not here to enjoy yourself, are you? Cause that would go against your solemn vow to be angry forever and never have fun.

Arya | OTA, prose or brackets

[needlebearer]

Arya weaves in and out of all the tents, trying to figure out which is closest to the fire, even if it's only by a few inches. She'd be happy to sleep outside, she's had to do it enough times before, but there seems something quite special and exciting in sharing a tent, simultaneously being part of the wilderness - or as close as they can get in Wonderland's grounds - and sheltered from it in a little canvas bubble.

She pokes the marshmallows uncertainly a couple of times before deciding they're food, then after trying one and liking it she shoves so many in her mouth that she looks like a hamster with stuffed cheeks.

[henrydaniel]

Henry grins when he sees Arya with a mouth full of marshmallows, moving closer. "There's this game called 'Chubby Bunny' where you try to say those words 'chubby bunny' as clearly as possible, adding more and more marshmallows to your mouth. Wanna play?"

[fulllifeconsequences]

Golly! Here's a familiar face! And one that's positively full to bursting with marshmallows, too.

Chara knows, of course, how sticky and chewy marshmallows are. How difficult it is to talk with your mouth full. How rude it is, how awkward and embarrassing it is. Naturally, that means they sit down not too far from her, smile brightly, and immediately begin talking to her. Purely because they figure it'll be funny to see what she does, no better reason than that.

"Arya Stark of Winterfell! Long time no see! Enjoying yourself?"

Sirius - OTA, any style

[goodwoofjames]

1. [Sirius is used to spending time out in the wild. It's just that he's not usually a strapping young man so much as a slightly-too-large black mutt. So he'll be spending quite a bit of the evening in his animagus form, enjoying pets and treats and playing quite enthusiastically with anyone who wishes to pay him attention. He's, er, usually pretty good at picking up on when he's frightening people who aren't all that into dogs.]

2. [Sirius likes to consider himself open to eating just about anything, but he has to admit he hadn't realized that the s'mores Dipper had mentioned were a sort of food. When someone cries out that they should make s'mores now and people start gathering sticks and marshmallows, Sirius leans to the person next to him and says.]

...So s'mores aren't a sort of fort?

[He'd been looking forward to fort-building, actually.]

3. [Being that he's a bit older than the others, Sirius does feel a bit like a prefect keeping things in line. Should anyone be doing something on the naughty side, Sirius is likely to notice it. Although this is mostly from his years of experience with naughtiness and he might just ask to join in on the fun.]

2.

[determinedest]

They're, um, stuff you make with marshmallows and chocolate and things. I think.

[Don't look at them, they're new to this whole "being a kid without concerns" thing.]

1)

[littledhampir]

[It's not that Rose has any problem with dogs, it's that as a rule?! Animals don't like Dhampir. When you've been chased, hissed at and swooped by just about every animal you encounter, for no other reason than the fact that you... exist?! The sight of a large black dog loping towards you isn't one that generally fills her with warm and fuzzy feelings.

The s'mores she'd just spent the last five minutes getting to the perfect level of melted goes flying through the air as she lays eyes on him. The brunette vaulting over the log she'd been sitting on and leveling Sirius with a look that's more frustration than fear.]

Dog. I get it, I smell like lunch to you or whatever but can we maybe not do this in front of kids?!

1. Pretty sure she doesn't know about his doggy side

[mypartnerintime]

Max is milling about outside the circle of tents, trying to get a good view of the surrounding woods for a nice picture, when the large dog starts approaching. For a moment she thinks it must be wild or something, but then realizes one of the others must have brought a pet.

She stoops down to give the big dog some big rubs over its head. And, because no one's nearby, she feels free enough to talk to it, too. "Hey, big guy. Who's a good dog?" She grins down at him. "Goooood dog."

amethyst | ota

[brainmeme]

[Amethyst is well over 20 but definitely does not count as anything more than a teenager, okay. So that's why she can be found with a row of marshmallows all squished tight on a stick over the fire. She's burned herself multiple times checking their consistency, and she's nursing a finger in her mouth. Oh, but it will be worth it.]

Frisk | ota, will match whatever format

[determinedest]

[Frisk has just kind of assumed that they'll be sharing a tent with Chara. Is that wrong to assume? Whatever, they're used to sharing a room with them by now, complete with all the associated "quirks".

Frisk is currently struggling a little to pitch a tent. Can you tell they haven't really done this before]

Selina | ota

[littlestreetcat]

[ Considering she's more used to living without adult supervision than with it, this campout isn't as exciting for Selina as it might be for others. Still, there's something more fun about the idea of actually camping, sleeping in tents, and spending time with the other kids in Wonderland than the sleeping outside that she's done for years at home.

Having selected herself a tent already and shoved her sleeping bag inside it, she sits off to the side of the campfire with a soda in hand. Her gaze flits occasionally from camper to camper, observing quietly. At least, until she finds herself watching someone seeming to struggle to cook marshmallows. ]

You don't really look like you know what you're doing. [ Have you ever even roasted a marshmallow before? ]

Beatrice - ota

[ateherdirt]

[Beatrice is mostly here to make fun of Wirt, but she's enjoying the s'mores. She also just might be smiling more than usual. Just a little bit. She doesn't particularly like most people, but it's hard not to get caught up in the mood of the evening.]

soos | ota

[doods]

[ Oh man. Soos is absolutely gonna play with matches at some point. It's the handyman way in his natural habitat. He'll be hanging around having fun where he can, and probably keeping an eye out for anyone who might need help with tents or whatever.

Like, not gonna lie, he totally accidentally breaks his tent later on, but he's just gonna wrap up like he's in a poncho and sleep that way anyway. It's spring, dudes, gotta take advantage of that good weather. ]

morty smith | ota

[onetruemorty]

[ Morty is wholeheartedly and unironically pleased to be a part of this whole affair, and it probably shows on his face for at least a few hours after he turns up. Just a bunch of kids all getting together to camp out in tents and have a fire and all that... all that kind of thing.

It's good, clean, relatively safe fun, is what it is. Proof that there doesn't need to be a crazy event going on for people to something interesting or fun together. They can just kick back and enjoy themselves. Maybe even make some new friends. Morty's totally down with that. As long as it doesn't turn into a 6-month stint living with primal forest people, anyway. ]

Boy, this really is-- this sure is some nice campground, huh?

CAMPFIRE TALES, single thread, no turn order

[krmvgivv]

[As the sun goes down, leaving the campsite lit only by the fire and any flashlights people brought, Dipper waves his hands for quiet, shining the flashlight under his chin for spooky mood lighting.]

So, who wants to hear a scary story?

[singloversing]

[Wirt is focused on browning his marshmallow to perfection (it's his third attempt - he zoned out and the last two caught on fire) when Dipper poses the question. And Wirt, very pointedly, does not answer the question. He just glances around at the others around the campfire to see who does answer.

This is mostly because there's no winning here. He'll get picked on if he says yes ("What, seriously? You want to hear a scary story?") and he'll get laughed at if he says no, soooo he might as well just leave the decision to someone else.]

Bedtime (or not)

[krmvgivv]

[As the embers begin to fade, it's time to go to sleep. I mean, in theory. In practice you can stay up as late as you want. No grown-ups, remember?]

Dipper - ota

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper, as always, does not really want to go to bed. He's more likely to stay up as late as he can, chatting with anyone else who's around. He still gets nightmares. Not every night, but sometimes. Ones bad enough that none of the stories shared have any affect on him, but he doesn't really want to risk waking up screaming in the middle of all his friends. So he stays up as late as he can, til he starts nodding off in front of the fire.]

Frisk | ota, will match whatever format

[determinedest]

Frisk isn't sleepy. They don't really like sleeping all that much, because it's too easy to get filled with dreams of times that...weren't as good. Mistakes. Friends cut down, monsters slaughtered, hands coated thick and white with dusty powder.

They're crouched in front of the fire, feeding sticks and kindling into it to keep it smoldering for as long as possible, heating up the occasional marshmallow - as if the sugar alone would be enough to keep them awake through the night.

For Chloe, but open to anyone who bumps into them! (Just threadjack!)

[mypartnerintime]

Well, if this isn't a classic Max and Chloe idea. It's not like Max expects to find any ghosts on their late-night hunt, but this is Wonderland after all. There's probably way more than just ghosts to be found.

For the moment, though, eveything is peaceful. Max concentrates on the sound of her feet rustling through grass and leaves, and on the light wind blowing in from the distant sea. She catches herself smiling.

Most of the time her gaze is focused on the area lit by her phone-light. Shadows dance amongst the trees as she waves the light slowly back and forth. But once in a while she glances back at Chloe, just to check that she's still there.

The mansions is far behind them by now. The campsite is closer, the orange glow of the dying fire still visible in the dark, but the sound of the others' voices has already faded away.

She glances back at Chloe again. She tries to think of something to say, to break the silence that's starting to become a little creepy.

ota catch all!

[henrydaniel]

[Henry's literally never done this before, the sad truth of Storybrooke is that he was the only kid who was growing, so...he never really had friends. But Wonderland? That's totally different, and he's ready for an awesome night of s'mores, scaring each other, and most importantly, no moms!

They better not mirror magic spy, either.

He bounces all over the place, mingling with people, eating more sugar than he probably should, and trying to think of the best, spookiest story he can think of. He may have cheated a little and checked out the book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and memorized a couple. But at least they'll be good!]