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essentialsaltesHerein is public discussion of my Save Our City puzzle rally in Los Angeles.
If you are interested in the game, you can now download a PDF of the whole shebang, so that you too can Save Our City. (Thanks, Riz!) Go out and play! Have fun! (File also mirrored here
Players, please do not spoil any of the puzzles in this thread. Comments that I consider spoilers will be deleted. So keep your comments general, using words like "diabolical", "impossible", "asshole" and "evil", rather than referring directly to puzzles and locations. So it's fair to discuss your overall impressions as well as general aspects of the experience that won't be available to those playing at home (so to speak): the soundtrack, the party, the prizes, etc.
For spoiler-laden comments, please go to this thread. For those of you who haven't played the game, but might... don't read the spoiler thread, duh.
Once again, thanks are due to all the players, who generously allowed me to torment them under trying conditions. Despite the various stumbling blocks that I intentionally and unintentionally threw under your wheels, everyone seemed to be good natured about the whole thing.
Again I thank Becca who provided insight, advice, and nachos.
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notjenschiz, who offered advice and feedback on some puzzles.
And one person I forgot to thank last night, but who deserves it isaaronjv, whose ChronoAgents road rally inspired me to run my own (including the time travel theme, though I mixed in a huge dose of 12 Monkeys).
Getting teams checked in, cameras checked and modified, and teams under way was a bit frenetic, but once things got started, all 9 teams were on the road in less than 30 minutes. Total number of players I think was 33.
After that, I sat on my ass next to the phone for about an hour, before the first team called in for a clue. It was crazy going from frantic activity, to nothing. I really wanted to be riding along with each team to see how things were going.
Fielded a couple more calls before heading to the lunch location. Operation Grab Bags had arrived by the time I got there a couple minutes late (police were blocking an exit off the 105, causing thousands of Angelenos to slow down to look at the flashing lights). I got a chance to hang out with the teams as they arrived and chat a little bit, but I was still too wired, sleep-deprived and jumpy to enjoy much. Got everyone off on the afternoon/evening session and headed back to HQ, passing by the mission #11 location to see if it was still as I remembered it (it was).
Fielded many more calls after lunch for clues. Honestly, I didn't intend those puzzles to be harder - I tried to arrange things so that the morning missions would be better for daylight hours (I failed at that too, to some extent). Team Platypus tried its hardest to turn this into a LARP after all, and I got plenty of confusing communications from them. This also had the effect of pulling Becca into LARPing mode as she fielded a lot of calls in the home office of 'Mickey's Carpet Cleaning'. [In 12 Monkeys, the number to call the future appears (at one point) to be a carpet cleaners. Teams in the game called the carpet cleaners to get hints and/or abuse me.]
Team Two Wongs Don't Make a White threw in the towel around 5. They rocked the morning session, but things went sour after lunch, it appears. Although they didn't 'finish' the game (and were thus ineligible for this particular prize) Two Wongs did post the highest average speed: 21.2 mph. They hung out for a bit at HQ before moving on to greener pastures.
The other teams poured in from 8-9 pm, and I was deluged by answer sheets to check, photos to download & judge on artistic merit, etc. Oh, and order pizzas. Everyone seemed pretty happy to chat and reminisce and bitch and moan, but I apologize if it took a long time to get the results out.
I'm also sorry that I gave everyone a little too much to do... so that no one finished the final puzzle. If you still have that sheet ( or download it when I get the game up) go do that puzzle. And follow the instructions to the letter.
But anyway, here are the main results. Items with dual numbers are raw score and penalty-adjusted score:
Stamina Prize (out the longest): The Wyrd Ones (657 minutes)
Gas Guzzer award (drove the furthest): Alpha Squad 7 (166 miles)
Tortoise award (slowest average speed): The Deloreans (10.74 mph)
Most Bonus Points: Team I Went 50 Years In the Past and All I Got was Shot in an Airport (144 points, a crushing victory)
Aesthetic Award (best photos): Shades of Glory (average 8.125/10)
Leadfoot Award (completed game with fastest average speed): Alpha Squad 7 (16.04 mph)
Efficiency Award (completed game in least distance): The Deloreans (113 miles/130 miles)
Saved Our City (completed game in least time): Operation Grab Bags (616 minutes/621 minutes)
Grand Prize (best average rank in each category): Team I Went 50 Years In the Past and All I Got was Shot in an Airport (3.2)
If you are interested in the game, you can now download a PDF of the whole shebang, so that you too can Save Our City. (Thanks, Riz!) Go out and play! Have fun! (File also mirrored here
Players, please do not spoil any of the puzzles in this thread. Comments that I consider spoilers will be deleted. So keep your comments general, using words like "diabolical", "impossible", "asshole" and "evil", rather than referring directly to puzzles and locations. So it's fair to discuss your overall impressions as well as general aspects of the experience that won't be available to those playing at home (so to speak): the soundtrack, the party, the prizes, etc.
For spoiler-laden comments, please go to this thread. For those of you who haven't played the game, but might... don't read the spoiler thread, duh.
Once again, thanks are due to all the players, who generously allowed me to torment them under trying conditions. Despite the various stumbling blocks that I intentionally and unintentionally threw under your wheels, everyone seemed to be good natured about the whole thing.
Again I thank Becca who provided insight, advice, and nachos.
And
notjenschiz, who offered advice and feedback on some puzzles.And one person I forgot to thank last night, but who deserves it is
aaronjv, whose ChronoAgents road rally inspired me to run my own (including the time travel theme, though I mixed in a huge dose of 12 Monkeys).Getting teams checked in, cameras checked and modified, and teams under way was a bit frenetic, but once things got started, all 9 teams were on the road in less than 30 minutes. Total number of players I think was 33.
After that, I sat on my ass next to the phone for about an hour, before the first team called in for a clue. It was crazy going from frantic activity, to nothing. I really wanted to be riding along with each team to see how things were going.
Fielded a couple more calls before heading to the lunch location. Operation Grab Bags had arrived by the time I got there a couple minutes late (police were blocking an exit off the 105, causing thousands of Angelenos to slow down to look at the flashing lights). I got a chance to hang out with the teams as they arrived and chat a little bit, but I was still too wired, sleep-deprived and jumpy to enjoy much. Got everyone off on the afternoon/evening session and headed back to HQ, passing by the mission #11 location to see if it was still as I remembered it (it was).
Fielded many more calls after lunch for clues. Honestly, I didn't intend those puzzles to be harder - I tried to arrange things so that the morning missions would be better for daylight hours (I failed at that too, to some extent). Team Platypus tried its hardest to turn this into a LARP after all, and I got plenty of confusing communications from them. This also had the effect of pulling Becca into LARPing mode as she fielded a lot of calls in the home office of 'Mickey's Carpet Cleaning'. [In 12 Monkeys, the number to call the future appears (at one point) to be a carpet cleaners. Teams in the game called the carpet cleaners to get hints and/or abuse me.]
Team Two Wongs Don't Make a White threw in the towel around 5. They rocked the morning session, but things went sour after lunch, it appears. Although they didn't 'finish' the game (and were thus ineligible for this particular prize) Two Wongs did post the highest average speed: 21.2 mph. They hung out for a bit at HQ before moving on to greener pastures.
The other teams poured in from 8-9 pm, and I was deluged by answer sheets to check, photos to download & judge on artistic merit, etc. Oh, and order pizzas. Everyone seemed pretty happy to chat and reminisce and bitch and moan, but I apologize if it took a long time to get the results out.
I'm also sorry that I gave everyone a little too much to do... so that no one finished the final puzzle. If you still have that sheet ( or download it when I get the game up) go do that puzzle. And follow the instructions to the letter.
But anyway, here are the main results. Items with dual numbers are raw score and penalty-adjusted score:
Stamina Prize (out the longest): The Wyrd Ones (657 minutes)
Gas Guzzer award (drove the furthest): Alpha Squad 7 (166 miles)
Tortoise award (slowest average speed): The Deloreans (10.74 mph)
Most Bonus Points: Team I Went 50 Years In the Past and All I Got was Shot in an Airport (144 points, a crushing victory)
Aesthetic Award (best photos): Shades of Glory (average 8.125/10)
Leadfoot Award (completed game with fastest average speed): Alpha Squad 7 (16.04 mph)
Efficiency Award (completed game in least distance): The Deloreans (113 miles/130 miles)
Saved Our City (completed game in least time): Operation Grab Bags (616 minutes/621 minutes)
Grand Prize (best average rank in each category): Team I Went 50 Years In the Past and All I Got was Shot in an Airport (3.2)
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Soundtrack Thread Disc Three
Date: 2007-12-02 09:02 pm (UTC)1 divergent 0:50 (from 12 Monkeys)
2 Strange Days 4:23 The Doors Versions
3 12blueberryfinal 3:08 Fats Domino (mixes audio from 12 Monkeys, the studio version of Blueberry Hill, and an LA radio aircheck that intros and outros the song, introducing the 1984 countdown of the top songs of 1984 (aired on 12/31/84))
4 LA is My Lady 3:12 Frank Sinatra (Wait, did I leave this on there? Man, I apologize.)
5 threebucks 0:26 (from Strange Days. predicts 3 dollar a gallon gas a few years before it happened, and "nothing changes New Year's Day")
6 War Within A Breath 3:36 Rage Against The Machine ("Everything can change, on a New Year's Day")
7 Birthplace 0:07 (From Zorro the Gay Blade ... this starts to introduce more of the Divergence and slipping of the timestream that I set up for the afternoon session. In this case, we go into a Spanish speaking future)
8 Darkness Of Greed 3:47 Dragon Zaga Tributo A Rage Against The Machine (From RatM to RatM sung in Spanish)
9 California Dreamin 4:07 (I believe this is Jose Feliciano)
10 Hunterwasser 0:16 (from Blade Runner, "That's the hotel... where I live")
11 Hotel California 5:47 Gypsy Kings The Big Lebowski (sung in Spanish)
12 pederast 0:10 (from The Big Lebowski - if you listen carefully, you can hear Hotel California in the background)
13 Hollywood 3:44 Madonna
14 Because It's Midnite 2:12 Limozeen (If only I'd bought GHIII sooner, you'd've had Black Sunshine on the soundtrack rather than this track from a nonexistent 80's band)
15 SantaAnitaGemco 0:52 (Holiday ad from 1984)
16 Help Tha Police 1:53 Adam Buxton [From BBC3's Rush Hour] (an alternative version of NWA)
17 KRLA - Time After Time 4:59 Cindy Lauper (combines an aircheck from the 1984 countdown with the song. Sadly the aircheck was at a totally different pitch (stretching audio tape?) than the actual song, so I couldn't leave in the part where he talks over the start of the song)
18 squishnow 0:24 Simpsons (Okay, now you've Homered the past - so that familiar music has become unfamiliar... introducing the mashup section)
19 Over the Confluence of Giants 5:05 DJ Earworm w/ UTIOG, David Bowie, Steely Dan, Queen, Steve Miller, Common www.djearworm.com (OMFG, it mashes a whole lotta shit. But best of all is the bit that mashes Steely Dan's Do it Again against Steve Miller's Fly Like an Eagle:
"You go back jack do it again" x "Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin Into the future"
= "You go back ... into the future"
20 real and not 0:16 (from 12 Monkeys)
21 Stayin Alive in The Wall 3:16 Wax Audio www.waxaudio.com.au
22 whatyear 0:11 (from Terminator - originally this was going to be one of the bonus ones, but I thought it was too hard - instead a bunch of people missed #20, which was fucking from 12 Monkeys itself. That was a gimme!)
23 come closer 4:23 Beatles vs NIN
24 living in the future 0:21 (from 12 Monkeys)
25 PLay that Funky Music vs. Relax
26 Whole Lotta Pigs 3:19 Black Zeppelin (I added the announcer intro where I crudely turned Black Sabbath into Black Zeppelin)
27 KEARTH promoBest 0:03 KEARTH
28 Pinocchiohead On LSD 1:59 (Pinocchio vs. Creep vs. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ... maybe the Pinocchio part seems sorta holiday like, so this introduces the Holiday section)
29 Gary Owens Preparation H 1 0:44 (You can't listen to this and not laugh. This is a longer edit of what's on a previous Jackie&Andy Xmas disc)
30 Hanukkah in Santa Monica 1:48 tom lehrer (on the current Jackie&Andy Xmas disc, not that I knew it at the time)
31 merryxmas 0:15 (from 12 Monkeys (as she calls the carpet cleaners))
32 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night 1:59 Simon & Garfunkel (Depressing news vs. Silent Night, including: "In Los Angeles today, comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an overdose of narcotics.")
33 It's the End of the World as we Know it 3:54 REM (An antidote to the depressing news and the death of 5 billion people. Oh, and "Lenny Bruce is not afraid.")
Re: Soundtrack Thread Disc Three
Date: 2008-02-02 04:50 pm (UTC)I wish. I attributed those I knew, but some, all I know is that it was a mash-up of the week at mashuptown.com or some similar not quite attribution.