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[rhysara]

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On May 15th, 2012 I sent an email to Team Snout. I'm fairly certain that the subject line was "a crazy proposition" and while my request was crazy, it was also quite well thought out. We wanted to run a Game and wondered if they would be willing to let us recast Wartron.

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[devjoe]

Wow this is a long post (even for 2 parts)! My long posts are never this long because I stop and post when I've written what I can in one stretch. Even then, my Mystery Hunt writeups that stretch for 5 or 6 parts don't get as long in total as these 2 posts. On the other hand, they never come this far after the event, either. Maybe this length is why it took so long?

I was involved possibly even before you knew I was, helping suggest locations to dalryaug, I knew of the tank at Irzyk Park in Salem. I never realized there were so many, though. And I suggested Fun and Games in Framingham as the arcade, not knowing yet that it was going to be rather off the route. It seems to have exactly the feel you were looking for (at least as it was described to me at the time), though. In the end, no locations I suggested were used, but I tried. And that was totally the right call to keep them pretty much outside of 128.

Game stores are great locations. They're already familiar with a lot of the crazy things people do. We had one at Famine Game too.

You found a pay phone! Good job! Seriously, in the era where just about everybody has a cell phone, pay phones are very much an endangered species. It was in 2012 when Maroon 5 released their song "Payphone" which always made me think, "Why would a modern band release a song about a pay phone in 2012, when it wasn't reminiscing about using a pay phone in the past?" (There is some reminiscing in this song, but it sounds like he's using the pay phone in the present.) And it was later in 2012 when I wrote up the solutions for the 1995 Mystery Hunt, which couldn't be completely solved, but ultimately led to the coin being taped inside the receiver in one of a bank of pay phones I remember from some of my earlier Hunts, but which was by then no longer present.

And that's so right how Shell in a Box was crap. Before I'd ever heard about the Boston version of Wartron, I was helping my other team, Mystic Fish, try to get into the west coast version, and Shell in a Box pretty much ruined the application process there. I was there (much later in the story) when you were testing your version of the application, and I had to bow out of parts I was spoiled for, but I warned you then about the problems with this software, though I guess you already knew.

LOL at two Patton Parks near each other, but so like New England.