Camp Hyrule 2006, Day ThWii
Wednesday / 08.16.06 / 10:36PM / Joe
 Today Cabin 7 rose to third place on the Camp Hyrule leaderboard (we were in fourth yesterday.) We're still 80 points behind the first place cabin, Cabin 8 - The Sages of the Wii Republic (I wonder why they didn't go for "Wii-public"?). Cabin 9 (the Cabin at the End of the Universe) is in second, falling from first. So it's pretty much a battle between 8 and 9 at this point. I'm not confident that an 80 point gap is surmountable at this stage, especially given that 8 and 9 are so close (less than 10 points difference) and are likely psyching their rabble up to levels that are dangerous even to fanboys.
So this is Cabin 7 with the award-winning flag and mascot designs. Kind of a dumb decision to map them to the spacepod because now you can't see what the hell they are. Here they are in all their un-skewed glory:
 
The flag is clever enough, given our awful name. The mascot, although it is garish, is also in theme. This "Error" chap is an internet meme culled from some probable bad Engrish in Zelda II.
(EDIT: These were not my designs. And I forgot to note who actually did them. I am an ass.)
Today's tasks:
Zelda artwork. Do something, anything, related to the new Zelda DS game, Phantom Hourglass. They didn't even give a pixel size restriction on this one.
I'm pretty jazzed for Phantom Hourglass, based on one feature: you can write notes on your level maps. Nintendo will probably screw this up by having your notes all clear out every time you leave a dungeon.
Anyway, here's my piece:
The old Nintendo cereal was made by Ralston, formerly the human chow division of Purina.
Face painting. This is NOA_Andy, who has been around long enough that Campers all know him. Although NOA_Shaun is the one that everybody hates, and he has some kind of internal pickle joke that I don't get / don't enjoy. His cabin chose some ugly pickle thing as their mascot. ROLLING EYES SMILEY.
 
Be honest. Am I over-reaching here? Should I have just photoshopped Andy cracking out of a Yoshi egg?
Scavenger Hunt. This is a series of clues that all lead to a single word. You do not receive any points for this task, so I gave it about negative eight seconds of thought. There's not even a button to submit your answer to have it tell you Right or Wrong. It's a waste of time. I would guess that the reason it is not worth any points is because the clues have you searching random crap on the internet, which could lead to trouble. Nintendo doesn't want some Mom triggering a lawsuit because Nintendo encouraged her kid to google "burgundy tuxedo" and ended up hipdeep in porn.
By popular demand, tonight's highlights from Cabin 7 chat:
from the Go-Talk-Current-Events-On-Yahoo department:
from the Living-In-Denial department:
from the If-You-Have-To-Ask... department:
from the Get-A-Job department:
from the OH-GOD-ME-TOO department:
from the Look-Around-You department:
from the This-Is-Why-We're-Not-Winning department:
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