Camping Enthusiasts

The Camping Enthusiast Arc started directly after the GroupMe Arc. Arguably, this arc was the most defining of all Duckpond history.

## Beginning

   Following Feelix's message a Troop Chat was created for the Boy Scout Troop however, due to the increased member count and continued flood of memes, it quickly caught the attention of a higher power: Screenshot. The First Teaguening began and the Troop Chat was quickly wiped of all memes and the Camping Enthusiasts was made for a special select few. Screenshot Jr. was one of these select few, against the better judgement of some. He would become the catalyst for the Second Teaguening.

The bot Hall Monitor, later renamed to Rob,was created by Feelix and added to Camping Enthusiasts. Hall Monitor was made to be a tool for The Stardew Crusaders to use as regulation of the server and enforcement of rules. Hall Monitor had a few other uses as well such as hugemojis which allowed for more emojis to be used in the server than is normally allowed. During this time the bot Carl was added to Camping Enthusiasts. If asked a question, Carl would respond with a yes or no. Eventually Lm1xb asked Carl to marry them and Carl replied yes. Although Carl would have a short affair with Gene, Lm1xb and Carl would remain married until the Second Teaguening. After which the union fell apart. Later in 2018 Carl was deleted off discord resulting in his death. Another bot that allowed for members to order pizzas and have them delivered to the server was added as well. The usage of this bot was so substantial an entire separate Discord server was created for it. However, the server was deleted by Bizmo.

## Civil War

With the creation of a new, safer chat, things were looking up for a short time. However for an unknown reason, tensions between Feelix and Gene rose significantly. Some believe the tension from their GroupMe debates had carried over into Camping Enthusiasts where it eventually evolved into a Civil War. The group known as the Peaceful Pepos was created and headed by Feelix, while the Order of the Gentle Fist was created and headed by Gene.

### The Gentle Fist

The Gentle Fist was created to combat Feelix's growing tyranny. During the early days of Camping Enthusiasts, Feelix was the sole leader and slowly grew his power more and more. Gene, seeing this, created the faction of the Gentle Fist to fight against his rule and establish a Communist party. The Communist ideology made the Gentle Fist much more controversial than intended and caused many members to side with the Peaceful Pepos instead.

### The Peaceful Pepos

In response to Gene creating a combative faction against Feelix, he created his own faction known as the Peaceful Pepos. The Peaceful Pepos goal was to maintain Feelix's power and to prevent Gene from gaining any sort of influence. Some members supported the Peaceful Pepos simply because of their distaste for Gene's Communist ideology.

### End of the War

During the war private channels were created for members of each faction to discuss matters away from the enemy. Many of the attacks were carried out through verbal debates and insults thrown from each side, while in real life the members remained friends.

The war remained as a stalemate, during cool periods of the war a channel was created where everyone was reminded to be peaceful on a daily basis, aside from Mondays where insults and debates were encouraged. The war remained this way until the unceremonious end with The Second Teaguening.

## The Second Teaguening

The Second Teaguening was a catastrophic event that resulted in the wipe and deletion of Camping Enthusiasts. Even after the First Teaguening, Screenshot was not satisfied and was still dubious of the content on the server. Screenshot infiltrated the server through Screenshot Jr.'s discord account and took screenshots of jokes we had made on the server that he deemed immoral. Then stated his intention to reveal the screenshots to a higher council who had the power to punish the Crusaders.

This threat caused Feelix to wipe everything off the server and kick all the members, many of whom would never return. Disease is a Discord, It I have and! was a group chat in discord created by Zigzem for the Crusaders to join after being displaced. In this group chat the Crusaders discussed the possible punishments and repercussions that they believed could come their way. However, all their fears were dashed when Screenshot was shut down by the council themselves. This ended the last of Screenshot's influences and attacks on the Crusaders, with his defeat Zigzem created the Duckpond where the Crusaders and a select few members remain to this day.

On April 11th, 2019, Ziggy premiered a video titled "How the Camping Enthusiasts Server Died". It was a video depicting an important part of the anime Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, but with the faces of the then current Stardew Crusaders and Screenshot Teague acting as the characters. Ziggy unlisted the video after a while because the joke was only really relevant to a few people. The link to the unlisted video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqWLHLw2D7k.[1]

## The Future

While the era of Camping Enthusiasts came to a close the Stardew Crusaders remained steadfast and continued on. With the creation of the Duckpond they instated themselves as an oligarchy. To keep this server as far away from Screenshot, they recruited many members from outside of Boy Scouts. Now free of Screenshot's influence they enjoyed peace. With this massive status quo change, many new characters and adventures were awaiting the Crusaders.