So, one of my favorite games to play with a large group is called ' stealthing'.
It involves patience, calmness, and good senses.
One thing you do not ever want to see on a stealthing mission is a large group of small children.
So, to tell you how that thing got started, I need to explain the concept of Fire capture the flag.
Step 1: go into large forest. Do not go in barefoot. Your feet will thank you profusely.
Step 2: sneak around in a group of three while frantically avoiding the instructors and the other team.
Step 3: find supplies and make small fire in the woods.
This is called fun.

So, my group ended up in a rather unfortunate situation, wherein my stupidity reared up, and I took off my shoes and socks to ' be more sneaky.'
Some flaws in this plan:
1: brambles
2: more brambles
3: leaves go crunch anyways.
So, long story short, I had to stealth through blackberry thickets barefoot, and all the while the leader of the group was looking back and going ' Impulse*, are you ok?'
I was not ok, but- being very stubborn- I pretended like I didn't have any thorns embedded in my extremities.
At one point my group was caught by one of the instructors, who let us off the hook with a horrible Star Wars pun. It goes like this:
Q: what is the internal temperature of a freshly killed Tom Tom?
A: Lukewarm.
So, after that, and being sent back to our base, we stopped for lunch, and then swapped teams.

A moment of silence for the people who got me on their team.
Not ten minutes into round 2, I stepped on a mushroom and screamed.
This led my group staring at me like one would stare at a cat that just brought home a live baby rabbit, then shushing me and moving on.
Good news though, because my group found the lighter ( There was a bowdrill kit and a lighter hidden on each side of the forest.)
And so began the next stage of making a fire. Finding kindling.

This is where we learned that small children have no concept of ' sneaky'
The place I was stealthing at hosts a day camp for little kids, and there were about thirty of them in the woods that day.
So, my group was gathering kindling, ( there were about six of us) and the little ' bundles of joy' come crashing down the path. They stop in front of our hiding spot. Someone sees us.
" THERE'S A PERSON IN THE WOODS!!!!"
* internal cursing*
" WHY IS THERE A PERSON IN THE WOODS????"
And then they started counting how many of us they could see. Thanks for that kids.

After the instructor frantically explained that we were playing a stealth game, the kids quieted down and moved along, giving us the chance to hustle back to our side of the woods.
When we got there, guess what?

More brambles

My team won though, so that was nice.

* I'm gonna use 'Impulse' instead of my real name