Dave stood in the doorway extremely underwhelmed. It was just some guy, maybe a tad disheveled and unwashed but he seemed chill enough. Definitely someone he could vibe with. "What's goin' on buddy?" Dave said with a smirk.
"Not much brother not much, you must be one of my roomies, hang on ya caught me while I'm indecent." He scampered off through the one door in the cabin. "You get settled, I'll be out in a minute!"
Dave took another step in to get a better look at the place. There were 2 bunk beds on either side of the cabin with a table against the back wall and a single door, which the as-of-yet-unnamed troll just locked himself behind. The bottom bunk where he was just laying was very clearly already in use. Snack crumbs, wrinkled clothing and... fluid stains... were already strewn about. There were also haphazardly placed clothes sticking out of the drawers that were built into the beds.
Dave walked in and John hurried past him. "I call top bunk!" He shouted racing up the ladder.
"Don't hit your head on the ceiling man, ceilings are the primary enemy of the top bunker. All high up and, uh, ceiling-y. Yeah I got no where to take this one. Anyways Karks ahoy, where you at?" He called outside.
"I'm not coming in there!" Karkat yelled from outside.
Dave looked up at John on the top bunk who looked back down and shrugged as if to say "you know him, not me". Dave sighed a bit and went back outside. Karkat had his back up against the outside wall.
"What's going on?" Dave asked. "You know that guy or something? 'Cause from where I'm standing he seems like a relatively normal dude."
Karkat looked at Dave like he was ready to have another outburst.
"Ok, screamy time I guess." Dave said as if he had been through this situation with Karkat before.
"I do know him." Karkat sighed uncharacteristically calmly. "He's the most annoying guy ever, we lived in the same troll home when we were kids."
"Troll home?" Dave cut him off.
"Yeah, where young trolls live since there are no lusii here on earth."
Dave simply looked at him still puzzled.
"Ugh, forced to sit through lecture after lecture on human history you could at least make an attempt to learn a bit about trolls you know? I bet you don't even know what planet we're from." Karkat snapped. "Anyway, he was always weird. He had this annoyingly 'chill guy' attitude kinda like a stoner even though I never saw him smoke weed, an obsession with miracles and that human band with the clowns."
"That doesn't seem so bad."
"Of course it's not, I can deal with that. Clearly if I couldn't I wouldn't have found myself enjoying the presence of someone like you."
"Aw shucks, you're gonna make me blush Karky."
"Call me that again and you're fucking done. Anyway, one day he just... I don't know... something snapped, he went insane, like 20 of the other kids ended up in the hospital, by the time I saw what happened he was being dragged away by the cops, kicking and thrashing like some kind of animal. I thought I'd never see him again but, fuuuck I guess here we are."
"Uh, that's pretty heavy but, are you sure that was the same guy from in there? I mean that would be an astronomical coincidence."
"It's him, I could never forget that face."
Meanwhile in the cabin the other troll was finished getting ready. He popped out of the bathroom with a full face of clown makeup complete with a purple nose. "Tadaaaa- oh." He turned and saw John on his bunk. "Hey, where'd that other guy go?" He asked.
"Uh, outside I guess." John said. "I'm John by the way."
The troll looked at John, then back at the door, then at the other bunks, then back at John, then at the door again, then back to John. Suddenly a light bulb went off in his head. "Oooohh, you must be teo outta 3. Come on down here and give you motherfuckin cabin mate a hug." He opened his arms.
John had never met this guy in his life, and normally that may have made him second guess this hug. But between the bus and Karkat, he was in the middle of a friend combo the likes of which he was sure the world had never seen. He practically dove off his bunk and into this strangers arms and was met with the most spine crackingly tight hug he'd ever received in his life.
"Name's Gamzee by the way." The troll said with a chuckle as he let John go.
"N-nice... to meet you... Ugh this must be how Dave felt." John stumbled a bit.
"Dave? Is that the other motherfucker what's stayin' with us?" Gamzee asked.
"Yeah, he's just outside with Karkat."
Gamzees face immediately lit up, no stoping to think, no slow gear turning, just pure joy. "You said Karkat?"
"Yeah, why? You two friends?"
"Friends?" Gamzee exclaimed. "We were moirails when we were younger! Aw I gotta see this."
"Well it could be a different Kar-" Gamzee was already out the door.
He flung it open with all his might, causing Dave and Karkat to jump. He whipped his head around to see them both standing there. "KARKALICIOUS!" H shouted.
"WE DON'T FUCKING TALK ABOUT KARKALICIOUS YOU INSECT BRAINED SHIT GUZZLING FUCKSTICK." Karkat screamed.
Gamzee laughed and ran over to Karkat, grabbing him and lifting him in the air and spinning around. "How the fuck have you been man?"
Karkat pushed against his grip. "A lot better since you got dragged away."
"Awww come on you know that was all a misunderstanding." Gamzee put him down and ruffled his hair. "Oh man it has been entirely too long." His eyes shifted to Dave. "And this guy, bring it in man." He hugged Dave, who was the most able to withstand his grip.
"What's up, I'm diggin the whole clown thing."
"Haha yeah, it's old troll religion junk but hey, if I could get reuinited with old Karkalicious here it must be fuckin true, 'cause there ain't no explainin that in any way except for mother. fuckin. miracles."
"Karkalicious?" Dave raised an eyebrow"
Gamzee started laughing. "So squirt over here was 'goin through some things' and suddenly thought he was a musician, and you know the song fergali-"
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO FUCKING MENTION KARKALICIOUS."
"Hehe, alright little man. You motherfuckers come on in and get settled, I'll put on some music, hope ya like ICP. Those two dudes get it, miracles man." Gamzee went inside.
Dave was about to follow when Karkat grabbed his wrist.
"What?" Dave said. "Hey I'm not exactly a juggalo myself either but we gotta get unpacked."
"Did you already forget what I told you?"
"Oh come on he seems fine, he said it was all a misunderstanding. No way a dude who acts like that really put 20 kids in the hospital."
"You really trust him over me?"
"Well to be fair I've only known you for like a day or so. Now I'm going inside, feel free to follow." With that Dave walked inside. Karkat groaned loudly before following.
The next 30 minutes comprised mostly of introductory chit chat and the emptying of bags. Eventually a loud booming voice erupted through the campground.
"Attention all campers. We've finished sign in. Please leave your belongings in your cabins and report to the mess hall in the center of the campground. Mr. English would like to welcome you all to Camp Paradox."