Camp Shababadahs

Camp Shababadahs was a summer camp in the mountains above Long Lake. Founded in N.D. 480, the camp operated for a surprising 32 years before being forced to close under mounting lawsuits. During the camp's tenure some 26 children were eaten by dragons.

History

Shababadahs was doomed from the start. The lake sits in the middle of 500 acres of pristine woodland with surprisingly few uses. Dragons forbid logging within the entire High Mountain range, and the land was unsuitable for running cattle owing to it's proximately to the dragon fence. The region already has amble public lands for camping and hunting, so the Long Lake Forestry Wardens were uninterested in taking on any extra space. Since it had good access by road, the lake and surrounding acreage was sold off for resort development.

When no resort materialized, it was sold again at a steep loss to the company that would found Camp Shababadahs. Youth summer camps were all the rage in the latter half of the 4th century; as New Arendell's grew, parents were desperate for places to send their children where they could get back to nature. Most most of the prime real estate around Long Lake being taken up by the naval air station, any decent-sized body of water within a few hour's drive was fair game.

Shababadahs was constructed on the windward side of the lake(where the road went). It had about 30 permanent structures and sites for hundreds of semi-permanent tents, giving it a very good capacity. It was opened with no real direction or niche, offering a wide array of very typical camp activities. Swimming, boating, archery, crafts, sports, everything about the place was as generic as can be. The problems began in the very first season, as the heart of the camp itself covered the entire area between the lake edge and the fence, making the fence plainly visible from most of the camp. Though the first season was successful, a counselor was eaten the following season, and two campers the season after that.

In 32 years of operation, 26 children and teenagers met such a fate. The dragons, for there part, were quite insistent that they had honored the fence, and even cleared a large break in the forest immediately on the other side. It was later revealed that the campers themselves had created a secret society of "The Dragon Baiters". In order to gain admittance to the society, potential inductees had to cross the fence and place a marker on the car side of the break in the tree line. The further into the forest the marker was placed, the higher the potential score. The society carried out a number of secret rituals available to members which involved mostly sneaking around at night and skinny-dipping in the lake. Though the adults in charge of the camp had no knowledge of the society, some of the teen camp counselors were involved and later arrested.

news of the society along with four children having been eaten in one night finally brought in a wave of massive lawsuits against the camp, which collapsed under the weight and went bankrupt in N.D. 513, with that summer's session being the final one held.