Chapter 113 - 113. Gathering Information

"So I won't be the only one in the mud. That kinda makes me feel better." Jackson sounded a lot let's depressed hearing that the counselor would jump in to the mud too.

"I can't just go jumping in to a mud pit now. It would hinder me from observing the rest of your training. You have plenty of obstacles left." Dia thought this would be the perfect plan to avoid the mud. She could just fall back on needing to be a supervisor.

"Naa I'm done for now. I need dinner and some rest before I try out another training session at the elite home gym." Since Asher was planning to learn throws and body locks he wanted enough rest to be able to focus properly.

"And I'm done too. I won't get points for this anyways." Jackson had already managed to pull himself on to a stepping stone and stand. He was well covered in mud and his face was barely wiped clean enough to see properly.

Dia thought the reasoning was all too perfect. They all just happened to be done as soon as she would need to fulfill her end of the bet? How coincidental, 'they must have planned this to mess with me. I should have listened to Onyx. This year's campers are going to be evil.'

With her inner cursing done Dia knew she couldn't avoid it. "Ugh, and here I thought I was lucky and didn't fall in the pit this year." She pulled her phone and a set of keys from her pocket.

She walked to the edge of the platform where Laura also happened to be standing. "You know kid. It's not very wise to make bets while training, they always seem to come back in the end and bite you."

Dia's arms locked around Laura's waist. "What?!" The two fell in to the mud with a huge splash. Laura struggled to climb up immediately while Dia just held herself up and laughed.

"That was so cheap. I can't believe you would get me like that! We had a fair bet." Laura was looking at herself covered in mud just like Jackson.

"Well as a counselor I couldn't let you think illegal underage betting would go unpunished." Dia just tried to hold an air of wisdom over herself, however, the mud covering her made things less effective.

Asher and Jackson were laughing like fools. "She got you good. You didn't even see it coming."

"Jackson has a point, you completely missed any signal of my sneak attack." Dia saw the perfect backup to justify her trick.

"Why are you laughing Asher? You are the only victim left unscathed." Laura was already past the trickery for Dia and the comment from Jackson. She only saw one person that was not covered in mud and they were laughing at her.

"No, no, no!" Asher saw it coming but was unable to dodge with the platform he was on. The small space gave him two options. Jump in to the mud himself or get pushed in by Laura and Jackson.

He tried to dodge even though it was impossible, with a harmonious splash he had joined the group in the mud bath. "I know we can shower, but… why mud?" His melancholy voice made Laura and Jackson laugh even more. Even Dia appeared to be sharing the comedy.

"Since we are done with the spa treatment, can we all get back to clean up now?" Asher knew it was inevitable that he would end up in the mud at some point. The obstacles were sure to get harder later on and he could save them for when At and Jane got to camp.

The four made their way through the mud and on to the bank of the mud pit. Dia let out a heavy sigh, "I was supposed to put some finishing touches on the log roll today, but I guess I am heading back to the family cabin." She was not very happy to need to head back, but it was inevitable.

"That sounds cool. Having a log roll in the water to balance on like an old school lumberjack should be fun?" Jackson thought the idea sounded more like a competition instead of some form of obstacle.

"Lumberjack? No, the log roll is a new obstacle where you will roll a log up a hill. I have different weights for different sized camper." Dia just smiled through the mud and crushed Jackson's dreams of lumberjack log rolling as he had seen in cartoons.

"I think we could spend all day on this obstacle course and still not be at the end." Asher's thoughts were pretty clear and Dia was happy to hear them.

"That has been my goal since I took it over. It used to be small and only made of six obstacles. After five years I managed to double that and after another four I have almost triple." Dia was nodding her head as she bragged.

Asher sensed a chance to gain more information for when he could go through the course again. The more he knew the more points he could get along with the fact that he would look cool beating every obstacle his first try. "What is the most challenging obstacle in your opinion?"

Dia was hooked in without a problem. She had always like to brag about the obstacle course she spent hours working on. Plus she knew that the campers were trying to get more information from her, she did not mind since everything would come down to their own physical and mental capabilities anyways.

"I would saw the totem puzzle. I separated five pieces of a totem pole. At the end of the course in the field, the challenging camper needs to get the five pieces from their own miniature obstacles. Then climb the totem pole and add the pieces. I have only had seven or eight finish it. I obviously have not made it tough enough." Her self critic made Asher hope that she wouldn't change it to make it harder before he managed to get to it. He could just imagine how amazed Jane and Art would be if he completed it in front of them.