Clem knows the use of some good adjectives. It takes some doing. You can’t just throw “awesome” or “spooky” in there, and try to do the job. You gotta go all Lovecraftian on folks and let the words ooze into everyone’s ears…
and send them to their tents, wishing there were doors… and furniture to pile against those doors… and electricity for some nice light fixtures to turn on and drive back the night. But, y’know… TENTS. Oh, well.
Clem’s story wasn’t in tents at all!…
Some of the best stories are never fully told, letting the details come from the listeners own minds.
Tents, getting to live with the vandalism of Mom Nature and her moods, up close and personal. And there is NO sound dampening. [Event in a state park many moons ago, we were camping and near us was the cluster of college age party boys. People had had to talk to them about things over the long weekend. Then about dawn or 6 am on Sunday, half a dozen of their young galfriends showed up to serenade them with kazoos after they had really gotten hammered. Well, in the still morning mountain air, they got up the entire encampment of over a thousand. A lot of us had partied that night and weren’t in great shape between the heat, the portapotty situation, and the camp plague caused by the minerals in the local water. Ooof. Many more horror stories but, really, Kazoos at 6 am…
All they need at daylight is ‘Hairy Larry’ to give a good rendition of the BWAAK that Tweety taught him. ONE should be enough to get everyone rolled out for the last day of the event.
Well told, Clem… Well told.
I want to hear more of this story. 😛 Heh, in truth though what Clem thought in the last panel is 100% true. Sometimes the best stories are the ones left unfinished, which leaves everyone to imagine their own version of the story and create something new and never ending that can be told and retold and changed as well. That is how some legends take shape. They’re a story that has some truth to it, just retold and new things added in to it.
And thanks to Clem, the fear is truly in tents.