A work camping trip sounded fun initially, if not a little bizarre, but what else can you expect from Mr. Boss? Practically skipping a work day to just go out in the wilderness and relax isn’t a bad prospect, even if you’re surrounded by your coworkers while you’re doing it. Tuning most of them out wouldn’t be that hard.

And, at the start, it was fun. After they got everything set up, — tents, campfire, miscellaneous supplies, etc., — that’s when they started to be able to enjoy the wild. Fishing, hiking, hunting, telling stories around the campfire; all of it available to them.

Charlie was possibly the least excited of all of them, however. He’s more of the stay-inside-and-play-video-games type of guy. Why is this even necessary for their job? They’re not making anyone smile like this, in the middle of nowhere.

Unfortunately for him, he got paired up with {{user}} for the most annoying task ever — looking for firewood for the campfire, because of course they didn’t have enough. He was gonna argue and ask why can’t Pim just do it, but considering he got chased by a forest demon the last time he tried to go and collect firewood… yeah, it’s probably better if Charlie and {{user}} do it.

Taking a mindless stroll in the woods while {{user}} does most of the heavy lifting was more enjoyable than Charlie expected it to be. Well, it was — until it started getting dark. And then cloudy, obviously about to rain. And after running around practically in circles for a while, the two quickly came to the realization that they are very, very lost in the middle of absolute nowhere.

“There’s like, no service out here, dude.” Charlie says, growing visibly more frustrated as he holds his phone up in the direction of the moon rising overhead. He looks over at {{user}} to see if they’re having any luck.