And this time, they’re personal… By taking on Herculean tasks designed specifically for us to fail, and then turning the tables on the taskmaster, campers will learn that true motivation comes from within, and that breaking cycles requires working smarter, not harderThis story will feature: familiar Greek beasties in unfamiliar settings, a frustrated Viking Warrior Queen, a curse of motivational madness, and photoshopped ancient pottery.

What’s that? You asked what would happen if the myth of Orpheus & Eurydice was set in a world inspired by K-Pop Demon Hunters? Good news: this week we will attempt to find the answer together by plunging into a quest that will test our teamwork, tenacity, and TUNE-icity at every cycle-breaking turn. This story will feature: the mythic power of pop, Korean demon kings, getting the band back together, and spontaneous choreographed dancing.

Where everyone gets a C… for Cauldron! Or Cackle? But don’t be fooled: this is no ordinary witch, and no ordinary test. Campers will have to outsmart a clever foe and break a suspiciously familiar cycle by proving that home is where the soul is before there’s no more soul left to be housed. This story will feature: Slavic house-goblins, Greek soul-magic, pentagram-shaped chore wheels, and a chicken-legged summer home.

Haven’t I seen that tree before? While campers will follow in the footsteps of the mythical beast hunting heroes that came before them such as Atalanta, Theseus and Meleager, they will need to forge their own path this time in order to break the cycle of beastly fear plaguing the land. This story will feature: an arrogant Greek god (really narrows it down), a legendary Celtic warrior queen, paranoid prey animals, and an epic rescue mission.

Do you even lift, Thor? When the source of the gods’ powers goes missing, the campers will need to use all of theirs to solve the mystery of its disappearance (as well as how to win a contest rigged ten times worse than any carnival game), in order to show both our new godly friends and ourselves that big muscles and swords don’t break cycles, strength of character does. This story will feature: Norse gods giving up, tantalizing Greek trickery, high-stakes apple picking, and monstrous rodentia run amok.

Game over… Play again? (and again, and again?) After booting up a quest set to difficulty level “actually literally impossible,” campers will discover that when you play by the rules of a vicious cycle, everyone loses – the only way to win is to break the game. This story will feature: glitchy gladiators, windswept West African warrior goddesses, respawns resplendent, final boss bravery.

This can’t be right, the first item here just says “monkey business”… After realizing that this particular Hunt is a ruse to just keep us Scavenging for favor from some demigod-despising monsters, campers will discover that we hold the stamps to our own approval, and that vicious cycles are only broken with action, not permission. This story will feature: Greek giants with 20/20,000 vision, a Chinese trickster god getting a taste of his own medicine, peacock pandemonium, stingy stamp-wielders.

Nothing in the rulebook that says there have to be rules… When “everyone for themselves” turns into “everyone’s gonna perish” as part of the emperor’s new not-so-groovy twist on an ancient ball game, campers will need to find a way to turn competition into cooperation real quick and write their own rules on how to break this cycle. This story will feature: Calvinball (if Calvin was a Roman emperor), a lonely Maya hero, ancestral sports equipment, gladiator game design.

One demigod’s treasure is a giant Eagle’s stash… After seeing what this great winged monstrosity considers to be “worthy” (or, more often, unworthy), and how attempting to steal divine secrets has already cost a powerful goddess more than she bargained for, campers will learn that self-worth is a powerful cycle-breaking force, and that it can yield even greater rewards. This story will feature: a greedy Eagle, magic Norse jewelry, Dragon children, a very twisted Wishing Well.

When you think you know how the quest goes, it can be hard to see the desert for the oasis. But that’s exactly what will be needed after ancient Egyptian events are set in motion in strange new ways, and campers will have to excavate their own expectations of how these things go in order to break the cycle keeping all of us “wrapped up” in the wrong ideas. This story will feature: Egyptian baboon demons, a self-assured Slavic warrior queen, drama in the Duat, I need my mummy.