Thursday morning seemed like any other on Drew’s campus. It was almost completely quiet except for the sounds of freshmen scurrying to their morning class while upperclassmen leisurely strolled behind them. However, the morning took a drastic turn when a power outage plunged the campus into total darkness. Well, not total darkness. It was 10:30 in the morning so it was pretty bright outside, but those in the buildings were plunged into total darkness.
Once the power went out the campus was completely silent, but mere seconds later students heard glass shatter as students began looting the C-store. After a couple of minutes, the C-store was left desolate. The only items left were the ones in the organic and healthy section.
The C-store was the first to fall, but it was not the only location raided during the power outage. Early on during the outage a mob of students charged The Commons overwhelming the staff. They left most of the food untouched but made sure to eat all of the Ice Cream before it melted. Most of The Commons raiders suffered severe brain freeze and eventually passed out from the pain, so they missed some of the true horrors that came during the power outage.
Quickly, after the first few moments of confusion, the students broke into factions. The student-athletes (Basketball, Baseball, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Volleyball, and Field Hockey), the second-class student-athletes (Tennis, Golf, Fencing, Cross Country, Track and Field, and Equestrian), Rugby, the stoners, the theater kids, acapella, STEM majors, finance bros, and the followers of Ranger Bear.
The student-athletes took control of the Simon Forum and used tennis and golf as long-range guards, the fencers were infantry and the equestrian team was the cavalry. Track and field and cross country were sent out to gather food and supplies while Rugby took control of the fields and created a safe haven for travelers.
The theater kids and acapella groups split the DoYo in half with the theater kids taking the eastern side with the Black Box Theater while acapella occupied the western half with the Concert Hall. A war broke out between the two tribes over territory in the DoYo. However, in the midst of an epic battle the theater kids were flanked by the stoners who boarded themselves into the Black Box Theater. Only a few theater kids were left standing after the onslaught. They would have been used for labor, but their major doesn’t give them any useful skills.
The stoners put all of their weed in the center and lit it on fire ceremoniously to turn the Black Box Theater into the Hot Box Theater. Additionally, the STEM majors decided to hold up in the Hall of Sciences where they trained squirrels to run on wheels and power the Hall of Sciences. The finance bros stayed in Brothers College and used their phones to go on Robin Hood and sell all of the Stock because they thought the world was ending.
The worst faction of all was the followers of Ranger Bear. These people went full Lord of the Flies following a leader who donned the hide of the old Ranger Bear. No one is sure who the leader was but, most believe that he wasn’t even a student. However, he amassed a following of outcasts who didn’t fit into the other faction. They would gather students who seemed lost and bring them to the Thunderdome (the Arboretum) and have them fight for Ranger Bear’s entertainment.
Suddenly the power is back on 20 minutes later and the students just act like nothing happened. They just act like they didn’t fight for the entertainment of a stranger wearing a stinking old mascot costume. Also, the professors didn’t even cancel class.
