‘Motivated by hate.’ Vandals trash role-playing business in Cape Breton

SYDNEY, N.S. — A group of teenage vandals is being blamed for trashing a Cape Breton business where people gather in the woods to enjoy live action role-playing dressed as warriors, wizards and all manner of medieval characters.

The camp, on private property near a secluded lake southeast of Sydney, has been spray-painted with homophobic slurs, crude images and obscene insults.

Amid smashed shelving and furniture, a tarp used for a makeshift tent has the word “nerd” sprayed in red letters.