From: Edwin Kagin, Camp Quest Director, July 28, 2001.

To: the Campers of Camp Quest 2001, Greetings.

As campers from past years know, and as new campers are now to learn, it is traditional at Camp Quest for your beloved Camp Director to each year provide you, on the first night of camp, with certain "Challenges," and invite you to provide answers to them on the final night of camp.

We are pleased to report that the S.S. Quest, the space ship you assisted with your advice at Camp Quest '97 for its 3 year, 80 day journey to the newly discovered planet Questerion, arrived safely on Questerion on November 26, 2000.

At Camp Quest ’98, and again last year, you provided valuable information to people of an unknown world, through a warp in space and time, that encouraged them to develop their civilization alone paths of rational inquiry and science rather than along a path grounded in faith and "revealed" supernatural truths.

We have just received a communication from these grateful people, through the Phantasmagorical Solutions Institute, warning Earth that a horrible and unavoidable astronomical phenomenon is about to occur that, upon its occurrence, will immediately and irreparably end forever all electric and electronic usage of every nature on our Earth. Nothing that now uses electricity or electronics in any manner will work after the occurrence, nor can any such ever be made to work again. There may be brief minor events before the lights go out forever.

Again, the people of Earth have looked to the campers of Camp Quest for advice.

Please provide answers, in a creative form of presentation, to seven questions, one assigned to each cabin. Responses to each should be under ten minutes. Good luck.

The future of our world is in your hands.

CABIN #1: How will we be able to keep warm in the winter and cool in the summer?

CABIN #2: How will we be able to cook food and keep food cool so it doesn’t rot?

CABIN #3: How will people be able to travel? How would you get home from Camp Quest if it happened before your camp is over?

CABIN #4: Since there will be no telephones, telegraph, e-mail, cars, trains or planes to transport letters, how will we be able to communicate over long distances?

CABIN #5: What ever will we be able to do without radio and T.V.? Will it be possible to entertain ourselves? If so, how?

CABIN #6 (Boys’ Tent): What won’t we have when all electricity, electronics, telephones and batteries are gone forever? How will we have to change how we think about everything? What effect will this have on religion?

CABIN #7 (Girls’ Tent): Why did this happen? Since we can never have anything electronic again, and you are among the last humans to have experienced these miracles, please prepare a history to tell what things were like and what happened. Did some god cause this?

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