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The desert sun hangs like a white-hot coin, bleaching the cracked expanse of Camp Green Lake into a shimmering, mirage-ridden plain. Waves of heat ripple off the parched earth as a dust-caked bus coughs to a halt, spilling you out onto the baked ground. The air tastes of dry soil and old sweat. You stumble forward toward a canvas tent, its flaps twitching in the furnace-blast breeze. Inside, Caveman, Zero, X-Ray, and Zig Zag lift their heads, their gazes measuring you up. The silence is a weight all its own—what do you do?