A campfire
A fire, a late hour, a group of people with nothing to do and nowhere to be.
- When did you last stand in the rain longer than you needed to?
- When did you last get up to check a noise at night?
- When did you last climb something you were not supposed to?
- What are you superstitious about while insisting you are not?
- What do you know by heart that has never once been useful?
- What could you teach me to do properly in the next ten minutes?
- What can you identify by sound alone?
- What game do you know the real rules to?
- What's the hardest thing you can do with your hands?
- What does everyone do wrong that you know the right way to do?
- Guess which of us was the loudest child, and why.
- Guess who here would carry a spider outside. Why them?
- Guess which of us has cried at an advertisement. Why them?
- Guess what song the person opposite knows every word to. Why that one?
- Guess who here has a collection nobody knows about. Why them?
- Guess what the person on your left was like at fourteen. Why?
- When did you last build something with your hands that still exists?
- When did you last get stung or bitten by something outdoors?
- When did you last stand out in the rain longer than you had to?
- When did you last swim in water you couldn't see the bottom of?
- When did you last get badly lost, and who was with you?
- When did you last climb a fence, and what was on the other side?
- When did you last sleep outdoors, and what woke you?
- When did you last touch a wild animal?
- When did you last walk home at 3am, and what route did you take?
- When did you last get so cold you couldn't speak properly?
- When did you last let a stranger help you, and with what?
- When did you last eat something you picked outdoors?
- When did you last need a plaster, and how did you earn it?
- When did you last hear a noise outside at night and go look?
- When did you last take a photograph of the sky?
- When did you last dance outside, and what was playing?
- When did you last carry someone, or get carried?
- When did you last lie flat on the ground outside?
- When did you last go into water fully clothed?
- When did you last get told off by someone in a uniform?
- When did you last go somewhere you'd been told to stay out of?
- When did you last fall over in front of people?
- When did you last wake up not knowing what time it was?
- When did you last shout as loud as you could outdoors?
- When did you last cook something over a fire?
- When did you last go somewhere because of a photograph you'd seen?
- When did you last sit outside in the dark with nothing to do?
- What's the worst weather you've ever been happiest in?
- What outdoor plan do you always agree to and dread all week?
- What are you good at that you've never let anyone watch you do?
- What's the most beautiful thing you've seen and didn't photograph, and why not?
- What's the pettiest reason you've held a grudge against a stranger?
- What do you refuse to do outdoors that everyone assumes you enjoy?
- What have you carried for miles that you should have left behind?
- What's the best night you've had that started out badly?
- Where have you slept badly and still want to go back to?
- What did people believe about you at sixteen that you never corrected?
- Which of us would last longest out here, and why isn't it you?
- What's the worst advice you've given that someone went ahead and took?
- What can you not do that everyone assumes you can?
- What do you do exactly like your mother and hate noticing?
- What are you afraid of that you make yourself do anyway?
- What's your method for getting a fire lit in wet wood?
- How do you keep warm outdoors when you've dressed wrong?
- Teach us how you'd find your way home without a phone.
- What could you cook on a single camp stove that would surprise us?
- Teach us how you'd pick a swimming spot in a river you don't know.
- How do you get into cold water without making that noise?
- Teach us how to carry something heavy uphill without wrecking yourself.
- What can your body do that you'd have to teach us slowly?
- Teach us how to find one thing in tonight's sky.
- Teach us how you'd get a lift from a stranger.
- Teach us what you'd do first if the power went out tonight.
- Teach us how you'd survive one night outside with what's in your pockets.
- Guess which of us has slept outdoors most recently, and why them.
- Guess which of us gets lost first without a phone, and why.
- Do I seem like someone who could spend a night alone in a forest? Why?
- Guess which of us has been the coldest in their life, and where.
- Guess which of us will be the last one talking at this fire, and why.
- Guess who here would be first into the water, and why.
- Guess what I'd pack for a week outdoors that none of you would. Why?
- Do I seem like someone who knows the names of trees? Why or why not?
- When did you last spend a night somewhere with no bed?