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storytellers (aka. leading team)!
{ @moosywoosy / mildred ⟡ she/they | est }
{ @ziqing11 / sunny ⟡ she/her | cet }
{ @cinammcnx / mabel ⟡ she/her | mars time (n/a) }

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cabin to-dos!
basic cabin setup ⟡ due oct 1
cabin colors ⟡ complete!
cabin relationships ⟡ due nov 1 (i think)
cabin storyline + activities ⟡ due nov 1

mildred's to-do list
nothing…for now!

sunny's to-do list
nothing…for now!

conumbertwo's to-do list
nothing…for now!

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general cabin stuff
cabin symbol ⟡ complete!
- potential symbols: ᯓ , ʚ , ✿ , ღ
cabin blurb ⟡ complete!
- mildred: A cabin focused on camper’s personal writing goals and cabin storyline, all while encouraging friendly competition and completion of camp activities, plus making bonds with other campers.
- sunny: An inclusive, welcoming cabin with an interactive and immersive storyline, focused on creating lasting bonds and fostering friendship, all while maintaining a competitive aspect.
- mabel: Enjoy a generally laid back cabin, with an interactive and thrilling storyline full of plot twists. Encouraging friendly competition while creating bonds that’ll last forever.
cabin description ⟡ due oct 1
cabin colors ⟡ complete!
- ◼︎#544057 ◼︎#aa6f74 ◼︎#93848a ◼︎#718d99 ◼︎#597388 ◼︎#758471
cabin currency ⟡ due nov 1
cabin pfps/signatures/banners ⟡ due nov 1
cabin guide ⟡ not required, but preferably done by nov 7
aesthetic set ⟡ not required, done by nov 1 perhaps

storyline
someone has rewritten the fairy tales and gave all of them a bad ending, taking away their happily ever after! the campers will then have to traverse through the storybook in order to change the events of the stories and give the characters their happily ever after. the campers will be guided by the leaders, who act as ‘storytellers’. after fixing all the endings, campers will then go on their own journey to discover just who it was behind all of the rewritten endings…and prevent them from doing it again

to-do:
decide storyline activities ⟡ due nov 1
flesh out the plot ⟡ due nov 1
figure out the ending ⟡ due no1

plans:
every week, the campers will enter a different fairy tale in order to fix the ending. in the last week, campers will go on a journey to discover who was rewriting the endings.

week 1 -
activities:

week 2 -
activities:

week 3 -
activities:

week 4 -
activities:

subplot: discover who's rewriting the stories!
activities:
- find clues sprinkled throughout the other activities

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hello sunny! atm I think we should work on general cabin things before we work on the cabin storyline! so feel free to share your ideas for:

- cabin symbol
- cabin colors
- cabin currency

is there also any cabins you'd want to be allies/enemies with since cabin relationships is another thing we want to figure out :eyes:

also, our cabin blurb. here are the cabin atmospheres me and you put in our app:

yours: An inclusive, welcoming cabin with an interactive and immersive storyline, focused on creating lasting bonds and fostering friendship, all while maintaining a competitive aspect.

mine: A cabin focused on camper’s personal writing goals and cabin storyline, all while encouraging friendly competition and completion of camp activities, plus making bonds with other campers.

I think both of our cabin atmospheres work really well together, so it'll be easy to merge them together for our blurb. we'll just have to wait on our second co so we can incorporate their cabin atmosphere into our blurb as well!

EDIT: ahhh I didn't see your previous post hang on-
EDIT2: ahh okay good I read it now I'll give a few ideas for a colour palette - lemme play around a lil bit haha

HIII I'M HERE!!! Mildred the storyline sounds so epic oh my goodness this is going to be absolutely awesome <3

Here are a few ideas for our cabin symbol? ᯓ , ʚ , ✿ , ღ ? I feel like they sorta give fairy tale vibes idk? XD

As for the cabin plans it sounds totally awesome! I just think that, since cabin storyline tasks aren't always completed by campers, perhaps we should give them something that allows for a more flexible time frame? For example, instead of having the final task (finding who's modifying the fairy tales) released on the final week, perhaps we could design this as a lengthier task that would stretch all the way from the start of the session to the end of it?

Meaning we will sort of have two simultaneous parts of the storyline running:
- the first one is restoring the fairy tales' happily ever afters
- the second one is finding out who was rewriting the stories

Lemme know what you think Mildred!!

Also, have you got a spreadsheet or a doc of some sort set up for the cabin? For tracking word counts and stuff ^^

wait I love that idea!! the ‘discovering who is rewriting the fairy tales’ could be like a subplot to the rest of it, so as they enter the storybook to fix the fairytales, they'll find clues as to who was behind it all that was left behind inside the stories!

anyways, after school ends for me I'll get to setting up spreadsheets and stuff for the cabins!

speaking of, do we want to have one wcg, or multiple wcgs for each member of our leadership team?

Ooh yess the clues along the way sounds so cool :00

And alright that sounds great for me!!

As for WCGs I don't have much of a preference as I only co-lead once previously. I'm good with both!!

EDIT: also Mildred, do you have any specific vibes you were aiming for (for the whole cabin and the colour palette)? Like- soft, pastel colours, vivid colours, dark colours, etc

i think i want to go for colors like purple, pink, blue, and green, yknow “fairytale” colors, but seeing as we're doing ‘twisted’ fairytales, perhaps the colors could be more on the duller side, and i think they could be in the middle of dark and light if ykwim

moosywoosy wrote:

i think i want to go for colors like purple, pink, blue, and green, yknow “fairytale” colors, but seeing as we're doing ‘twisted’ fairytales, perhaps the colors could be more on the duller side, and i think they could be in the middle of dark and light if ykwim

Ooh yess that sounds great :00 lemme whip something up real quick…- though Mildred you are the art specialist here so the ultimate decision should be yours

EDIT: How about this:
◼︎#544057 ◼︎#aa6f74 ◼︎#93848a ◼︎#718d99 ◼︎#597388 ◼︎#758471
link here

:00 I actually love all of those colors, so we could totally go for that!

hey mabel! once you come here, we want to get general cabin things out of the way before working on our cabin's storyline activities. feel free to share your ideas for anything in our cabin to-do list in the main post!

what are your thoughts on what our cabin symbol should be, and the cabin colors we currently have? additionally, do you have any thoughts on what our cabin currency should be? also, do you prefer having separate WCGs or one big wcg?

lastly, are there any specific cabins you want to be allies/enemies with? I can reach out to their leaders if there is!

be sure to read the main post when you get the time to, as it has a lot of information regarding planning!

edit: I went ahead and made a studio for fairy tales so be sure to accept the invite!

YAY WELCOME MABEL!!! Our cabin is going to be so awesome omgg <33

I don't have any preferences regarding cabin relationships, frankly all cabins look amazing and it'd be wonderful to be siblings / allies / enemies with any!!

I know you said that we should focus on general cabin things first before the storyline, Mildred, but I feel like it would help if we had a (slightly more detailed than it is now) rough outline of our storyline. For instance, which fairy tales we want for it can impact elements in studio descriptions / thumbnails / cabin atmospheres, etc, so it would be lovely to dig a little more into the storyline before we start! (not sure I made myself clear, I mean- having a slightly more in-depth overview of our storyline could influence our decisions regarding ‘general’ cabin things) <3

I've been wanting to ask a few things (about the storyline) and it'd be amazing if you guys could answer them!
1. What fairy tales do we want to use for the storyline? How many should we have?
2. How would figuring out the culprit (the person who's altering the fairy tales' endings) work? Do we want to have volunteers for a potential list of suspects, should it be between us three (meaning one person within the fairy tales leadership team is the culprit)?
3. What is the general vibe we want for the cabin? (I think this is especially helpful for designs, storyline details, …)

And then maybe we should figure out how we'd distribute the tasks (pfps, banners, studio descs, etc…)? <3


EDIT: Also NOTE!! I know I said this already in my leader app but I will say this here again as I want to get this really clear </3 Unfortunately my activity will be largely reduced from the 16 October to the 3 November (especially during the first two weeks) as I will be travelling (I'm going to the US aksdjfalhad) and will have limited/no access to internet for large chunks of times. I will however be very free for the first two weeks of travel meaning I will be able to dedicate TONS of time to SWC – but the downside is I might not be able to access the internet very often.
This is why I'm hoping we can figure out a solution so that I can continue working for fairy tales despite not being able to be online very much. I was thinking of doing something that wouldn't require so much cooperation so I can sort of work alone on it and then check with you guys when I have internet…? But I can't think of anything that would fit the requirements :sob:
I feel so bad for being (close to) inactive during that period because that's basically where most of cabin setup is done T-T I hope you guys understand </3
And this is also why it might feel like I'm rushing things maybe? Because I really hope we can get most of the things done before mid-October so I can help the most :')

ziqing11 wrote:

I've been wanting to ask a few things (about the storyline) and it'd be amazing if you guys could answer them!
1. What fairy tales do we want to use for the storyline? How many should we have?

I was thinking to have you guys help out with deciding, but I was thinking there should be 3-4 fairy tales. I think instead of doing it from week-to-week like I had originally planned I think all of the stories could have the activities to fix them up at the same time, and it’s simply up to the campers to solve them. though, perhaps we’d want to release them not all at once, but at different intervals but still allow campers to work on the previous activities perhaps? as for which fairy tales, I figured it’d make the most sense to do the most iconic ones, but also ones where I can easily see where things could go wrong. the following are some of the fairy tales I think would be a good pick, and we can pick out which ones we want:

1. Little Red Riding Hood
2. Hansel and Gretel
3. Cinderella
4. Snow White
5. Three Little Pigs
6. Goldilocks and the Three Bears

I feel like those are the most ‘iconic’ fairytales if you get what I mean, but if you have any other fairytales you’d like to do then feel free to share!

2. How would figuring out the culprit (the person who's altering the fairy tales' endings) work? Do we want to have volunteers for a potential list of suspects, should it be between us three (meaning one person within the fairy tales leadership team is the culprit)?

I think it should be volunteers. something I think that would be neat is if we get volunteers who can role play as characters from the stories that were altered, and one of the characters is the ones behind the altered stories. I think in a project can list all of the volunteers who’s playing the role of a certain character, and as they fix the stories they can get clues on which of the characters were behind it all. I was also thinking a role play activity where the campers interrogate the characters, perhaps after they fix that character’s twisted ending, to gain more clues on what happens and who it points to!

3. What is the general vibe we want for the cabin? (I think this is especially helpful for designs, storyline details, …)

They’re all meant to be twisted fairytales with a dark twist, so I feel like the overall aesthetic should be more unsettling, like the type of vibes you get from those old creepy children’s legends, but still putting in a dash of that fairytale aesthetic. I think the cabin would start off more unsettling and creepy, but as the campers do more activities and fixes more of the stories it shifts into the fairytale whimsy.

And then maybe we should figure out how we'd distribute the tasks (pfps, banners, studio descs, etc…)? <3

I’d be willing to draw pfps, unless anyone else wants to? we can figure out the rest later!

where we'll make project thumbnails is inside of the project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1038095867/editor/

moosywoosy wrote:

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OMG all that sounds absolutely epic Mildred!!!
- 3-4 fairy tales sounds great! Perhaps leaning on 4 as it's good to have some extra in case our campers are super active lol
- I love the idea of releasing the tasks one by one, as you described!
- those classic fairy tales definitely sound great, we'll choose a few when Mabel arrives <3
- ahh I absolutely love role playing <33 the idea of volunteers being fairy tale characters sounds absolutely awesome omg
- OMG THE AESTHETIC GOING FROM DARKISH/CREEPY-ISH TO WHIMSICAL IS SO SO SO COOL ASDLKFHAKLAH!!! I absolutely LOVE that idea, we should definitely do that <333 Also it might motivate campers to do the tasks ahaha
- Sounds great!! (I was hoping you'd say you'd draw pfps hehehe B) )

hii!!! <33 im super excited to be here and this all sounds so amazing so far <33 also id like to note that im personally not comfortable using anything outside scratch </3 (this includes canva + spreadsheets ^^)

what are your thoughts on what our cabin symbol should be, and the cabin colors we currently have? additionally, do you have any thoughts on what our cabin currency should be? also, do you prefer having separate WCGs or one big wcg?

ooh for symbols i love the ones sunny suggested, theres also ❀ and ♡ maybe?
omgosh i ADORE those cabin colors they are sososo pretty and definitely match the vibe
as for cabin currency, i dont have any compelling ideas at the moment </3
in the past ive preferred doing separate wcgs, but im personally fine with either!

lastly, are there any specific cabins you want to be allies/enemies with? I can reach out to their leaders if there is!

ooh i think itd be cool to possibly be siblings (if you plan on doing that!!) with fantasy maybe?

1. Little Red Riding Hood
2. Hansel and Gretel
3. Cinderella
4. Snow White
5. Three Little Pigs
6. Goldilocks and the Three Bears

these look really great, maybe rapunzel or beauty and the beast?

And then maybe we should figure out how we'd distribute the tasks (pfps, banners, studio descs, etc…)? <3

im good with you/mildred doing the pfps!! id be willing to make banners as well <3

They’re all meant to be twisted fairytales with a dark twist, so I feel like the overall aesthetic should be more unsettling.

this section sounds sooo cool :0 !! and the roleplaying sounds great

alright! seeing as mabel wouldn’t be comfortable using spreadsheets—I think it’d be best if we all had seperate wcgs?

I think all that’s left for the initial things we need to sort out is the cabin symbol and blurb! all of our blurbs are pretty similar so I think it’ll be single enough to make a blurb combining all of our cabin atmospheres!

Alright everything sounds great!! Do we want to do two or three word count groups?

I think three wcgs would be good—though, I'm not sure what each of the wcgs would be aha.

I think that I personally like ღ as our cabin symbol the best, and if everyone agrees we can select this as our cabin symbol?

Three word count groups sounds great!! I don't know if you wanted the cabin to be set in a ‘physical’ place (storyline wise, that is), or… something else? If so we could do three different places for each of our wcg (like ‘the woods’, ‘the river’, etc)
This also reminds me of something I was wondering earlier – how would the campers restore the fairy tales' endings (again, storyline wise)? Would they be rewriting the endings ‘physically’ in books, would they actually meet the fairy tale's characters and somehow influence them, or something else? <3

EDIT: And for the cabin symbol, I'm actually fine with any lol XD I think we can choose two, one symbol for the cabin and another for the in-cabin currency?

The cabin is taking place in a magical library—its then that we read fairy tales and then discover that they have been rewritten. The campers will physically enter the book because :sparkles: magic

So in the storyline, the plan was that they'd enter the fairytales and do some roleplay activities with our volunteers playing the role of a character (so, actually meeting the characters), altering the endings by influencing them in their roleplay. I was also thinking adding some writing activities.

For example, let's say we do LIttle Red Riding Hood, and in the bad ending the wolf eats her or something.

The campers will roleplay with a volunteer playing the role of Little Red, and maybe tell her to be more careful or something like that or be wary of her grandmother when she arrives to her grandma's house. As for writing activities, I was overall just thinking they'd have to do something to progress. Like, to even find where Little Red is they have to write 500 words towards a personal writing project, and also maybe after they roleplay they can rewrite the endings themselves.

also, here's a cabin blurb I mixed up — thoughts?
With the storyline twisted—campers will now go on a journey to restore the fairy tales’ endings. In this cabin, make bonds that will last forever, and perhaps find a ‘happily ever after’ of your own.

edit: also, I think the four fairytales I want to do are Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Cinderella. I think we can cut out one if campers don't complete the activities fast enough. Feel free to pitch in any other fairy tales you'd rather do, I just feel like these stories feel the most iconic and well-known, plus I can easily see where any of them can go wrong.

edit 2: also, one idea I had that I thought would be cool was if we made a project that was like the ‘storybook’ where in it, it tells the stories of the fairytales with the bad ending. after the campers fix the ending, it would change into a version with the happily ever after. this idea /does/ feel a bit ambitious, but I'd totally be willing to make any art that's needed for it!

moosywoosy wrote:

The cabin is taking place in a magical library—its then that we read fairy tales and then discover that they have been rewritten. The campers will physically enter the book because :sparkles: magic

Yayay sounds awesome!!

moosywoosy wrote:

So in the storyline, the plan was that they'd enter the fairytales and do some roleplay activities with our volunteers playing the role of a character (so, actually meeting the characters), altering the endings by influencing them in their roleplay. I was also thinking adding some writing activities.

For example, let's say we do LIttle Red Riding Hood, and in the bad ending the wolf eats her or something.

The campers will roleplay with a volunteer playing the role of Little Red, and maybe tell her to be more careful or something like that or be wary of her grandmother when she arrives to her grandma's house. As for writing activities, I was overall just thinking they'd have to do something to progress. Like, to even find where Little Red is they have to write 500 words towards a personal writing project, and also maybe after they roleplay they can rewrite the endings themselves.

Ah alright, I get it now! Thanks for expounding <3

moosywoosy wrote:

also, here's a cabin blurb I mixed up — thoughts?
With the storyline twisted—campers will now go on a journey to restore the fairy tales’ endings. In this cabin, make bonds that will last forever, and perhaps find a ‘happily ever after’ of your own.

Ooh looks cool!! I don't really get the ‘with the storyline twisted—’ part though…? The rest is awesome!!

moosywoosy wrote:

edit: also, I think the four fairytales I want to do are Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Cinderella. I think we can cut out one if campers don't complete the activities fast enough. Feel free to pitch in any other fairy tales you'd rather do, I just feel like these stories feel the most iconic and well-known, plus I can easily see where any of them can go wrong.

Sounds great!!

moosywoosy wrote:

edit 2: also, one idea I had that I thought would be cool was if we made a project that was like the ‘storybook’ where in it, it tells the stories of the fairytales with the bad ending. after the campers fix the ending, it would change into a version with the happily ever after. this idea /does/ feel a bit ambitious, but I'd totally be willing to make any art that's needed for it!

Omg that's such a cool idea I love it so much :star-struck: I'd totally be willing to write for those stories <33