The Spirit of Camp Pinewood

Ghost stories, s’mores, a dying bonfire: it’s the last night of summer camp, and the counsellors let you stay up late. Tomorrow you’ll head home, but tonight the last few weeks of fast friends, secret crushes, and shared trials seem like everything.

Then someone spies a pale light shining deep in the off-limits forest. Could the stories that the camp is haunted be true? And will you be brave enough to find out?

I was commissioned to write this scenario for Mote, a chat-based multiplayer storytelling platform. Scenarios had to succinctly give players characters, motivations, and integrate with the platform’s affordances for forward momentum.

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