Bi-fi planning | SWC March 2025

hey wari and wild <33 welcome to the bi-fi chasm! Honestly I'm so pumped to be here because this is such a fun idea I've had for a while and I just can't wait for it to actually become a cabin!!! You guys seem so amazing and this is going to be the few months where we can get to know each other and have fun planning as I know it's going to be such a great time! I've made a to-do list of the things we need to do so it's easier to see, and we should just get started on working!

To-do List:
- Figure out a theme |❌
- Figure out colours | ❌
- Figure out cabin relationships | ❌
- Cabin | ❌
- Thumbnail | ❌
- Storyline | ❌
- Cabin Guide | February 25th (if we're doing this this is the latest it should be done)
- Figure out adding words | ❌
- Description | ❌ (I'd like to work on this by myself, but I'll be sharing a few rough drafts once I'm done!)
- Matching PFPS /Project/ (If we're doing this) | ❌

T H E M E:
So I'll just put what I wrote in my app as the baseline of the storyline and we can start brainstorming from there:

As the campers awake from a deep sleep, they find themselves in a strange surreal world, with random objects and figures floating around aimlessly. Then, they meet the leaders, who, similar to the objects, seem to be a bit distant. Their whole bodies are a collection of abstract art, and they speak in riddles. The campers are thoroughly confused, wondering if this is a dream, reality, or something in between, but the hints the leaders give are not helpful in the slightest. The month will follow with chaos and various adventures as they find their way through the ‘Chasm’, if you’d like to call it that. It’s nothing and everything at the same time! Will the campers eventually fade into nothingness/everythingness or will they find an escape to this madness?

so to sum it up, the cabin itself is a strange chasm and little is known about it. The campers find themselves there and really have no idea why, and the session will just be a bunch of random events that happen as they explore through the chasm, I was thinking some events could be going to different worlds, visiting other cabins, little competitions here and there or riddles. The end goal here is that the campers want to return back home, but they have no idea how, and so they wander around aimlessly but have fun at the same time if you understand that? We can just develop this a bit further since my idea is very broad!

Adding Schedule:
Would you like separate word counts or one studio for word counts? I'm fine with both! Honestly, it depends on how many people, but I find the one adding studio is easier, unless you want to do projects?

Cabin Relationships:
honestly no pref! any cabins you'd want to be siblings with or allies or neutrals or enemies?

Atmosphere:
This is what I had in my app:
A cabin where campers can escape from reality, have fun, and get immersed in the strange storyline! There will be an emphasis on competition, but the main point is to enjoy themselves. (184 characters)
If you want to make any suggestions for it, please do!

Studio stuff:
If any of us need to work on something that includes canva, please use this link and put your work here (I can resize it if needed as I have premium), so we can all view it! : Canva
If you'd like to volunteer to do anything, feel free to! I think I'll be doing matching signatures and cabin desc if that's fine with ya'll! You should've received a request to curate the cabin <3

I can't wait to start!

penguin-vibes wrote:

THEME: Your ideas sound really cool, especially the part about the leaders being abstract art :thinking: We could try to incorporate abstractness in the cabin's design as a whole, which could be a really cool way to do matching pfps!

ADDING WORDS: To make word counts easier, would you be interested in me making a spreadsheet to keep things organised? That way all three of us could add words, and just one of us has to update the word count studio description.

iinspirqtion wrote:

I had something similar in mind too, I think it would be really cool to spice it up and make it a bit more different! Maybe like abstract shapes making up each person of varying color and sizes?

iinspirqtion wrote:

that sounds good! last session recca shared with me a spreadsheet that moonlit made, maybe we could use that? or if you have your own version we could also use that?

iinspirqtion wrote:

I really like this symbol ◍ because it kind of represents a chasm or a hole!

iinspirqtion wrote:

I like the idea of different places, but maybe to stay in the theme of abstractness, each place is a bit inverted and strange, maybe we could incorporate the idea of like inverted colors and strange people? there should also be some uniformity to it, if you understand me, like there's a similar theme in all the different places, maybe they're all in the chasm, just differents worlds in it and as the campers adventure through the chasm itself with the leaders, they get to go to these different places?

Okay, so I'm loving the surrealist/abstract aesthetic!! Am I correct in calling it a type of liminal space, specifically a chasm in between worlds, outside of the laws of any universe? It seems to be a place that isn't really a place at all, where everything sort of blends together and causality doesn't apply.
As someone who tends to think visually, I'm trying to get an image of it in my head, and I'm getting sort of a blurred, hazy effect, possibly with the sort of geometric shapes and patterns often used in abstract art. Perspective and depth are all skewed, and the distribution of focal points is random (or pseudo-random). Is that sort of what you're going for? I want to be sure I'm on the same page with the overall gist of it before moving on.

penguin-vibes wrote:

Ohh hey this makes me think of something: like Em said about us being between worlds, what if we let our campers “slip” into other cabins? If the other leaders are cool with it, maybe we could do like camper exchanges where some of our campers go and participate in their cabin activities. They'd still add their words in our word count studio, but it could be a fun way to participate in events happening across SWC ^^ What do you think?

iinspirqtion wrote:

I think we could do that! maybe I could ask in the leader forum for 4-5 cabins that would be willing to do that, and they would slip through each cabin for each weekish?

Em wrote:

what do you guys think of the color palette I made?

Em wrote:

A cabin where campers can escape from reality, have fun, and get immersed in the strange storyline! There will be an emphasis on competition, but the main point is to enjoy themselves.

Wild wrote:

Competitive and interactive, we’ll focus on goal-setting, with an aim to help each camper make progress towards their individual ambitions—and have a great time in the process!

Wari wrote:

A welcoming space, with a focus on building connections and reaching goals. This cabin has a spark of competitiveness for those who thrive in it, as well as fun and support for everyone.

• having fun
  
• competition
  
• immersive storyline
  
• goal-setting
  

Escape reality as you venture between bizarre worlds. As you enter the Bi-Fi chasm, be prepared to band together for friendly competition, reaching your goals, and having a crazy amount of fun. ;D (196 characters)

Em wrote:

we should also start developing our own storyline! maybe to enter each cabin they have to do a puzzle of some sorts or something like that? and once they help out the cabin then the leaders could give them a clue to leave the bi-fi chasm, or if they don't want to leave it in the end, they can just have fun?

• writing prompts where you develop what it would be like to live in the cabin's storyline (like journal entries from the perspective of someone trapped in the chasm, or descriptions of what the chasm is like)
  
• puzzles (like encoded messages and clues!)
  
• collaborative writing challenges
  
• cabin-wide storyline RP
  
• weekly word/currency thresholds to move to the next stage of the storyline
  
• opportunities for campers (and (co)leaders!) to share advice about writing, including help with motivation and ideas for personal projects and weeklies and dailies