Mystery Hunt 2014 roundup
Jan. 22nd, 2014 02:45 amEDIT: Ugh, LJ mangled this due to some bad syntax on my part. Managed to pretty well recreate it though.
So! Solutions are up for Mystery Hunt, and you know what that means!
This year I joined Donner Party of N for the Mystery Hunt. Despite a number of people expressing interest earlier, I didn't really get much of anyone from Truth House to help out unfortunately (though Sam and Beatrix each joined in briefly). Oh well.
The story is -- I thought Strange New Universe still existed, since I still got mail from Mystery Hunt HQ on their mailing list. But a few days before the Hunt I realized -- I'd never gotten any mail from the actual *team* on the mailing list. So I emailed Tim Black, a friend of Youlian's who'd officially put me on the team last year, and asked him what was up. I also sent an email to Kevin Carde asking if I could join his team. Well, I got a reply from Tim; SNU had dissolved he said, but I'd be welcome on Donner Party of N. And so it was. (It later turned out Kevin was also on Donner Party this year.)
Donner Party didn't have a wiki, only Google Docs, which was a bit of a pain; when Sam was trying to help out I was just like "yeah I can't figure out how to let you access the spreadsheets unfortunately". Still, it worked. It had to; most of the team was off-site, based in Chicago. Apparently we had so few people on-site that they had to make special allowances to allow us to do the runaround. (Did we even make it to the runaround? I don't know what the rules were.) Towards the end, for whatever reason, there just didn't seem to be many people around and so I was largely working solo. (Everyone working on the runaround? But there's no way we could have made it there by then.)
We ended up solving about 40 puzzles, which is apparently considered pretty good for a team our size. We hadn't unlocked the Knights round when the coin was found, and still hadn't unlocked much of the Tea Party and Mock Turtle rounds. Oh well. I tried a little bit of solving, mostly solo, after the coin was found, but not very much.
Anyway! What follows is obviously spoiler-filled, so...
( Cut for spoilers )
...and I should probably go get some actual work done now.
-Harry
So! Solutions are up for Mystery Hunt, and you know what that means!
This year I joined Donner Party of N for the Mystery Hunt. Despite a number of people expressing interest earlier, I didn't really get much of anyone from Truth House to help out unfortunately (though Sam and Beatrix each joined in briefly). Oh well.
The story is -- I thought Strange New Universe still existed, since I still got mail from Mystery Hunt HQ on their mailing list. But a few days before the Hunt I realized -- I'd never gotten any mail from the actual *team* on the mailing list. So I emailed Tim Black, a friend of Youlian's who'd officially put me on the team last year, and asked him what was up. I also sent an email to Kevin Carde asking if I could join his team. Well, I got a reply from Tim; SNU had dissolved he said, but I'd be welcome on Donner Party of N. And so it was. (It later turned out Kevin was also on Donner Party this year.)
Donner Party didn't have a wiki, only Google Docs, which was a bit of a pain; when Sam was trying to help out I was just like "yeah I can't figure out how to let you access the spreadsheets unfortunately". Still, it worked. It had to; most of the team was off-site, based in Chicago. Apparently we had so few people on-site that they had to make special allowances to allow us to do the runaround. (Did we even make it to the runaround? I don't know what the rules were.) Towards the end, for whatever reason, there just didn't seem to be many people around and so I was largely working solo. (Everyone working on the runaround? But there's no way we could have made it there by then.)
We ended up solving about 40 puzzles, which is apparently considered pretty good for a team our size. We hadn't unlocked the Knights round when the coin was found, and still hadn't unlocked much of the Tea Party and Mock Turtle rounds. Oh well. I tried a little bit of solving, mostly solo, after the coin was found, but not very much.
Anyway! What follows is obviously spoiler-filled, so...
( Cut for spoilers )
...and I should probably go get some actual work done now.
-Harry
