Adventure Club Saves The Planet!

For Adventure Club Christmas '07, John and Jenny requested "Peace" as their gift. ZaBlanc created a choose-your-own-adventure book, which includes appearances by every AC member, for them to do it.

This is the Web version of that book.

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It was a cold and blustery evening in Manitou Springs, where the Adventure Club was holding its annual Interpretive Christmas. Several unique gifts had been exchanged when John and Jenny announced their own request.

“I asked for peace,” was the announcement.

Gazing around the room, eyes fell on the guy with the smirk slowly creeping across his face. It was ZaBlanc, for it was he who had fulfilled this particular interpretation. Dramatically, he rose.

“It is *I* who has fulfilled your request!” he exclaimed. His oblique confidence and glowing smile brought a curiosity to the rest of the group. They quickly became intrigued at what glorious idea ZaBlanc may have come up with. His slow walk to the front of the room magnified the mood – they just had to know what it was going to be.

“When I read this request, I knew immediately what I wanted to create,” he began to explain. “I didn’t want to just make up something goofy about peace; I wanted to bring you something real. Something authentic. And I’ve spent 2 months putting it together and it pleases me like nothing before to give it to you.”

Mouths agape, tensions roaring like lions having trouble finding suitable gazelles, the crowd waited. Years of Interpretive Christmas gifts had obviously not adequately prepared them for the glory of this gift. What was it going to be? They waited with baited breath…until Minka peered down to notice that the gift was already sitting in ZaBlanc’s subtly outstretched hand.

“It’s…it’s…what is that supposed to be?” she sort of wondered but asked aloud at the same time.

“It is a peace…of my mind!!!” ZaBlanc laughed aloud.

In his hand was a clump of gummi worms. He had glued them together with peanut butter and then used some food coloring and a sugary substance of some sort to give the whole mass a dull, colorless look. It was a brain.

The room was stunned. Never, ever, had they seen such a pathetic gift. Moments of silence passed until Aaron shouted, “You suck!!” ZaBlanc recoiled.

“It’s a peace of my mind…get it?” he retorted. “It’s funny!”

“How long did that take you to do, 12 minutes??” demanded Greg, the host for the evening. “Do you know how long it took me to make Kevin’s computer game last year?! At least 403.7 times that long!” he said with overwhelming accuracy.

Greg was geeky like that.

“Well, come on! The gift request was for ‘Peace’. What was I supposed to do?? I can’t very well go about creating world peace now, can I?!”

For the third time, the room fell silent.

“Well, why not?” came a small voice from the back of the room. It was Annie. “Why can’t the world have world peace? And why can’t we maybe make it happen?”

“Because it’s stupid!” blurted Kevin. He always spoke his mind. “World peace?? Let’s just move on to the next gift request and…”

“No!” interrupted Mike. “I agree with Annie. We’re the Adventure Club. THE ADVENTURE CLUB, damnit! We can do it.”

For the fourth time on this unusually melodramatic evening, the room was hushed. Silently, the group had agreed. They would bring about world peace. It was just no use arguing, and anyway, this story needs to move on so let’s just pretend that they convinced Kevin to go along with the scheme, OK?

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The room was in agreement. The Adventure Club was going to set out the following morning to help bring about world peace. Peace to the planet. A planet seemingly set on destroying itself. Yes, the Adventure Club was going to save the planet.

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