Buses Explode, Stall and Roll Over on Selia Aisnith’s Roleplay School Camping Trip

AKA VIRTUAL — Selia Aisnith spent a roughly three-hour roleplay stream on the Narasi city server as Nova, a student on a school camping trip, and the journey to the campsite turned into a string of bus accidents. One bus exploded, another got stuck and at least one rolled over before the students reached camp.

The day began at school, where students scrambled to find blue-and-white outfits to match the dress code and were reminded that their bags could hold up to three changes of clothes. A glitch then gave several characters, Nova’s among them, the same face, and the group laughed while trying to reload their appearances. A teacher lined the students up, went over the coming internship program, and later told them another teacher was leaving to take a job abroad. Students were then sorted into buses and boarded, with organizers switching everyone to a shared radio channel.

“I’m ending the stream first, everyone, because even if I joined the games, I wouldn’t have time.” — Selia Aisnith, signing off at camp

Trouble started minutes after the group said a prayer for a safe trip: a bus ahead exploded. Later a second bus got stuck on the road. Someone on Selia’s bus remarked that theirs was the only one that had not crashed, and soon afterward it tipped over, slowly enough that those aboard said nobody was hurt. Another bus later flipped, and students climbed into the remaining ones, some carried by friends, until a teacher reminded them that carrying a passenger while driving was not allowed.

At the campsite, organizers divided the students into groups of five, handed out medicine, food and drink, and had each group line up near the bonfire for the games. Selia then said goodbye, explaining that joining in would not be possible in the time left. Chat answered with a string of farewells and praise for the roleplay.