Cantr II Discussion Forum

I'll be gone for the summer and unable to access the internet so if my characters suddenly drop dead in about a month don't be surprised. I'm still up in the air as to whether or not I'm going end this account or not and start anew at the beginning. Last summer, I had a real hard time trying to start anew with my old characters. I think it would be easier to start anew with new characters plus all of my characters are either unknown or past their prime so I don't think my characters dropping dead will affect the game at all. I'll try to clean up everything before I go away so I won't leave everything hanging.

And don't worry, I'll be back. Well unless I don't die or something but we'll look on the bright side of things and say I'll be back. Good luck everyone and have a great summer if I am not able to say so later.

Also, to staff. I'll try to clean up everything I started but I probably won't be able to start anything new unless it is a real short thing. I would hope that I can still be on staff when I return.

Well see you all later.

Will you drop an email to newlands@cantr.net with the precise status of your work there before you leave?

You said Sester Gartaf is still alive?... it would be a shame if he just droped dead after all he has been through. Believe it or not, I look up to characters like that... those who don't stand a chance at surviving because of what they do, or did.. but somehow manage to stay alive.

*cough*

Richard's going to have every boy scout in the state become a browncoat by summer's end.

That would only be Twin Rivers Council troops that happen to go to my camp (there are two residential Boy Scout Summer camps in Twin Rivers Council; Rotary Scout Reservation (mine) and Wakipominee (not mine)). Plus some troops go out of council and we usually get a troop from Maryland and one from Texas and last year we had a troop from West Virginia and we get about five troops from New York City (I guess camps in the Theodore Roosevelt Council suck).

And this year we are having a bunch of troops from council that haven't been to Rotary in about 10 to 15 years some even 20 years. So right now we have about 900 boys signed up for this summer and considering we usually gain about 100 more boys that didn't sign up we could possibly break 1000 boys. It will be one of the largest years since about 10 years ago and throw on top of that if Council decides to have an Eagle Week (a week they hold all Eagle Merit Badges) we could even top way over 1000 boys. So it won't be a quiet year.

And before someone asks if we are affiliated with the Rotary Club, I'll answer that question now. No we are not afflitiated with the Rotary Club. Yes, the Rotary Club donated the about 1000 acres over 80 years ago to Uncle Sam Council (no longer in existence) which became the foundations of Rotary Training Camp. The camp continued to grow and is now about 3500 acres (I think that is right; I have heard different numbers before). Rotary is kept on as a more for respect to the Rotary Club for donating the land 80 years. Since then Rotary has been known as Rotary Scout Camp and is now known today as Rotary Scout Reservation except it isn't really a reservation. A reservation implies that two camps exist on the same property (usually across the river from each other) and both camps may have the same purpose but both are run independently and with their seperate staffs from each other. Rotary has only oen camp and one staff. Having it Rotary Scout Reservation is in honor and respect to Stratton Mountain Scout Reservation closed in the 1980's because the state of Vermont made the land a nature preservation protected land and took it away from the scouts. So they moved everything to Rotary including many of the original buildings and other various stuff as well as the staff moved here too. So in way both staffs and camps merged together thus becoming Rotary Scout Reservation.

There is a lot of history involved in Rotary. I had two great uncles that worked on camp staff back in the 60's and 70's that I didn't even know did until after I was on staff and found some old stuff from way back. A lot of the forest in Rotary is only 100 years old which is very young for a forest. A 100 years ago the land was all farmland before the mid west became the bread basket of America so there are a lot of old abandoned farmhouses and barn on the fringes of the camp that are still standing and if not standing then foundations of what was once there including an old whorehouse that has quite a tale behind it. Also, an old road to Albany from way back in those days is still around that cuts right through the camp and right in Grafton State Park.


Here is the map of the camp;


And that is my home away from home. Note that that is the original archery shed from Stratton Mountain Scout Reservation, one of the buildings they brought to Rotary.

Well, I am out of here.

Trust me on the children issue. It is only going to fuck up Cantr. But Hell, nobody ever listens to me anyways.

You may be right Richard. We'll see. Have fun at camp.