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Jun 10, 2014 23:07

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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.

( Wartron:Boston - Part 1 )

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devjoe June 12 2014, 01:15:14 UTC

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 ( ... )

devjoe June 12 2014, 01:21:51 UTC

Oops, my comment was too long, too, so here's the second part, which is really about Famine Game.

Around the same time we were trying to get stuff finished for Wartron and I was becoming more actively involved, including a couple trips out to your place to help assemble puzzles, we were also applying for Famine Game. Of course you had a team, Luck/plugh had a team, and Mystic Fish had a team, among others, so just about everybody I knew in the puzzle community was doing this.

After solving the application puzzles very quickly, there was this part where we had to fill in our solving and game-running/constructing/test-solving experience, and we just made another page in the spreadsheet where we had collected the puzzle answers for everybody to write in this stuff. I knew we had a lot of solving experience, but it was amazing to see the amount of constructing experience we had. Two Mystery Hunts, two BAPHLs, Wartron Boston, all those Labor Day hunts Mark writes, some ARGs that sin_vraal was involved with, and a few other things, and then the ( ... )