Hello, and welcome to the group's first writing challenge. This one will be easy, as it's a sort of introduction to your writing styles and gives you a chance to show off your creative side. Let's dig into it, shall we?

• Two to five characters must make their way across a country with nothing but their wit, and what they can carry with them on their backs.

• Limitations are as follows:

  • Characters don't need to be from the same race. Sending three earth ponies is fine, but you can also send a dragon, a diamond dog and a gryphon. Any combination of characters is fine.
  • Characters don't necessarily need to be friends. A husband and wife travelling cross-country can be just as interesting as two prison escapees that are chained together at the ankle.
  • The number of tools that your characters have is inverse to the number of characters you have. If you have five characters, each can have two tools. If you have two characters, each can have five tools. Three characters can have four tools each, and four characters can have three tools each.
  • Use of magic and wings is permitted, but try not to rely on them. A unicorn being able to summon any tool she needs at any moment defeats the purpose of restricting the number of tools, and a pegasus flying over and ignoring every challenge isn't interesting. Besides, teleporting from the starting point to the destination is just boring. Ingenuity is much more fun to read and write. Using magic to clean a campsite is fine, flying up a tree to pick fruit is fine.
  • At the end of the story, all characters must have either reached their destination, or be deceased. If you've ever played any of the Oregon Trail games, it's not too far off from that, but we want at least two survivors by the end of this trip.
• When you've finished your story, please submit it to the group's writing challenges folder, under the subfolder Challenge One: Camping Trip.

There is no deadline; submit your story whenever it's ready.

If you have any questions, or want to plug your story, this thread will remain open.