To describe yesterdays journey in one word it would be RAIN!!!
Last night I had the feeling my skin is not waterproof. I can't remember being that soaked ever before.

This is the story of Checkpoint 6.

I know quite a couple of people who can be persuaded to almost anything by simply telling them they can wear a wig while doing it. That's basically how I recruited the team. "you know, we're planning on blablabla -the cool thing is, you can wear a wig!" "Okay cool, let's do it!"

Our Checkpoint was located on a pedestrian bridge that leads over Vienna`s west-trainstation. That's the perfect checkpoint as long as it doesn't rain. If it rains it's a bit wet up there and windy. And cold. And there's no bathroom near.

The journey's theme was history preenacment so we came up with preenacting a meteorit impact in the planet system.
We were 8 agents: Mecury, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Mars.


Mars was too late cause she had academic obligations that could not be delayed.
Anyway, what we were playing with the runners was meteorit-cricket.


They had to put the meteorits into one of the black holes without harming the planets (us) that were moving around on the green on elliptic orbits.
Also we had beautiful cookies and music from Captain Future, a german cartoon from the 80ties.


Unfortunately it was raining.
The players gathered at 7pm and that was about when it started raining and being cold and it didn't stop since then. Our Checkpoint opening hours were 8.30 to 10.30. First player arrived at 10.15!! At this time all of us were soaked with rain to our bones. My fingers had wrinkles. But it was nice to see that the players were not much drier. We played meteorit-cricket with around 50 runners within the next hour and then closed down to get home and resurrected ourselfs by having a hot shower, some dry clothes and some tea. Mars then showed up and me and her went to the after-game-party where I met a couple of our runners again. It was nice to chat with them and hear about their journey-experiences.
Now, dry and warm again I can say, even though the rain and cold really sucked, l had great fun last night out on that bridge, playing cricket in the rain.

Here are some pics and a short video. More pics can be found here.

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