Money Is Everything
Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
CAMP OFFICE circa 10:00pm—The dust has finally begun to settle after a harrowing evening of fun activities. From 8pm to 9, all of Camp was embroiled in the camp-wide game known as Adventure Night, aka Camp Winna-Board-Game, aka Hungry Hungry Settlers of Winna-Mopoly. Campers were charged with participating in random activity sites to earn fake money, money which could be spent to roll giant dice. Each tipi was assigned a large object game piece, such as a unicycle or art easel, which they moved around a flour-drawn track circumnavigating the Tipi Circle according to dice rolls. Alternatively, campers could spend money at the Camp Map to rename areas of Camp.
“I got hit by 25 paper airplanes, but I didn’t get bruised, only paper cuts,” said Waterfront Honcho Annika Crowley. “Standing on the stilt bench helped some campers with achieving good distance, but it made retrieval more time-consuming.”
“We would do special limited-time offers where we would up the prize amount for like 60 seconds,” added Counselor Lilah Cottrill.
“The higher the stakes got, the closer the campers would try to get to the hoop,” said Lifeguard Whitney Royall. “It got to the point that they were just swarming all around and pummeling us with their paper planes. It was a planing frenzy.”
“Adventure Night went pretty good; we got third,” reported Donald, 12, of the Maroon Tipi. “Mostly the hardest part was running around between all the different sites. For the ro-sham-bo site I had an informant tell me what to throw. It was a successful strategy. The aerials one was fun too. Swinging over the lava it felt like I was in that movie Jumanji. We didn’t win but we worked hard with friendship and that’s what counts.”
“It was lit,” said Trevor, 14, of the Purple Tipi. “I got kicked out of ring toss for ‘being too good’. I did some side quests from Wizard Harmony, just brain-rot stuff like mewing and hitting the gritty. I could tell my Tipi wasn’t trying to win to just had fun with it. I started hoarding money and then I gambled it all on a ro-sham-bo game with Teen Staff Glade. I won with rock and doubled our money! Remember kids, always gamble!.”
“We decided not to rename anything and just work on getting dice rolls,” said Julianna, 9, of the Green Tipi. “I did the paper planes, rock stacking, and some quests. My advice is go as fast as you can and be good at the games. I didn’t care if we won, just if we had fun, which we did.”
“Our strategy was to have everyone in our tipi go to a different site, and then have one person, a ‘runner’, go around and collect the money,” said Sula, 14, of the Flame Tipi. “The goal is to find a site you’re really good at, and then just make as much money as possible. I mostly did wizard quests and rock stacking and a little limbo. It was pretty fun, but I was sad when it ended. It should have been longer.”
“The goal of Adventure Night is to test your limits and try new things,” said Teen Staff Star. “I was a limbo troll and I made the campers limbo into the troll tavern to find my lost reading glasses. They all ventured further than they thought they could. We kept lowering the bar until they were under their own hip height!”
“Honestly, the obstacle course was the best; it was so easy and fun,” said Veva, 12, of the Rainbow Tipi. “Our strategy was just to be fast, be the fastest you can be, and don’t entertain conversation with anyone. Talk is time, time is money, and money is everything!”
FINAL RESULTS:
4th: Lime Tipi & Gold Tipi team, double-honorable mention
3rd: Maroon Tipi, honorable mention
2nd: Flame Tipi, box of 18 bags of chips
1st: Red Tipi, 12 A&W root beers
Stay hydrated,
—J. Payseno, Editor
