Fahrenheit 281?
The first Troop meeting for November coincided with a sudden drop in temperature outside, so in the interest of keeping warm, the skill session for this night was firebuilding. Led by Avery Reynolds and Steven LaCount, the skill session once again largely served more for the benefit of the younger scouts since all the older scouts should know everything that was spoken about in the lesson. That only makes it more amusing that one scout (who will not be named for Internet security reasons) tried to look like a brainiac of fire building when he began reading directly from the Scout Handbook section on firebuilding, even though the skill session was not "open note" so to speak.
When firebuilding lessons were over, the meeting shifted into planning for the infamous "color wars" campout. The main focus of Color Wars is for an intra-troop competition between all the patrols to see who is the best and is worthy of associated bragging rights up until the next Color War. The events usually change every Color War, so only the top-level Troop Officers know what to expect in terms of challenges pre-War.
Lastly, it was time for the game. While it was unsurprisingly once again dodgeball (which until recently had been a very, very rare occurance due to problems in getting the safety net up for the stage), tonight it had been "doctor" dodgeball. The difference in this version of the game is that when someone is "out", they do not go to jail. Instead, they "die" and wait for a special member of the team (designated "the Doctor", German accent optional) to tag them, thus reviving them back into the fight. However, if the doctor is taken out, then no one can be brought back into play unless the doctor gets lucky and catches a ball on the fly, allowing him to go back to "saving" his teammates. It was a nice change of pace, as the little scouts were usually made the medics as they could dodge incoming balls easier and faster than the bigger, crazier older scouts, giving the younger scouts the edge over the older scouts for once in Dodgeball. It was on that nice note that the meeting was ended.
Ben Hallenbeck, Historian
When firebuilding lessons were over, the meeting shifted into planning for the infamous "color wars" campout. The main focus of Color Wars is for an intra-troop competition between all the patrols to see who is the best and is worthy of associated bragging rights up until the next Color War. The events usually change every Color War, so only the top-level Troop Officers know what to expect in terms of challenges pre-War.
Lastly, it was time for the game. While it was unsurprisingly once again dodgeball (which until recently had been a very, very rare occurance due to problems in getting the safety net up for the stage), tonight it had been "doctor" dodgeball. The difference in this version of the game is that when someone is "out", they do not go to jail. Instead, they "die" and wait for a special member of the team (designated "the Doctor", German accent optional) to tag them, thus reviving them back into the fight. However, if the doctor is taken out, then no one can be brought back into play unless the doctor gets lucky and catches a ball on the fly, allowing him to go back to "saving" his teammates. It was a nice change of pace, as the little scouts were usually made the medics as they could dodge incoming balls easier and faster than the bigger, crazier older scouts, giving the younger scouts the edge over the older scouts for once in Dodgeball. It was on that nice note that the meeting was ended.
Ben Hallenbeck, Historian
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