Events / The Architect & the Urchin
When:September 19th, 2008 @ 7:30pm TO September 20th, 2008 @ 12:00am
Where:
Bughouse Square (aka Washington Square Park)
900 n dearborn, chicago, il
Enrollment
30/250
Organizer:
Dax Tran-Caffee
Description:
The Architect
designs a city to be lived in,
but does not live there.
The Urchin
is part of the city,
but not part of the design.
Your identity is your only separation from destitution. Liars, Cheaters and Thieves can take away everything, even your Name, if they catch you. The Architect designs carefully to keep the nameless from using the city, but Secrets can be found in the alleys, the open lots, and the cracks between buildings - the Urchin cannot be excluded forever...
GAME SYNOPSIS:
1) Search the city for hidden locations where you can stamp your map. 9 stamps are required to enter the finish line.
2) Steal another player's Name by tagging them. The player who accumulates the most Names before reaching the finish line wins.
full description at chicag0.org
Responses
30 Attending
- Terpsichore
- JJason Recognition
- Iaman
- Drusus Caecilius
- Dax Tran-Caffee
- Ross
- LittleMonk
- Kid A
- zer0gee
- Dela Dejavoo
- Julian Muffinbot
- meredithian
- auntie matter
- Indy
- Adam TheGreat
- Elenlin
- Non Players
- Amby D
- radcliff browniepoint
- kristy lasiesa
- Saint Alexander
- Anthony Lara
- Daniel
- Belleh Donsah
- Madeleine Norris
- Morte
- Cristos Bryer
- Creepy McFeely
- Kas
- MOnkeii
2 NOT Attending
Terms
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The game is essentially unstaffed. Architect as an absent god and all that.
I am looking for videographers and help with organizing the finish line. This will take about 10 people. You up for either of those?
This sounds very, very cool.
I am not liable to be able to play, but I'm not forgetting about it quite yet.
Tiny gears move inside JJason's head
I've decided that I'll be coming to this, regardless of anything else. I'll find a way.
Need to get new shoes.
I need to get new shoes as well. Thanks for reminding.
I would be very happy to help with the planning as well... If you haven't already picked out the places, I'd love to try and help you out with that!
"Travel by foot or train only– ABSOLUTELY NO BUSES, TAXIS, BIKES, SKATEBOARDS, ROCKET PACKS, ETC."
you left out skates. :)
Thanks. I'll update the restrictions.
:(
this is how my team won the Chiditarod.
i expect they will also restrict skates next year...
Perhaps I should just allow bikes and rocket packs. Then see how far your little skates get you.
Why do so many of the cool things happen in ChicagØ?
dear Chicago,
how much does it cost for me to visit you?
love,
ben yameen
Depends on how much time you have. The dogs will take you there and back for $300, if you're willing to spend two days on a bus each way. As the bird flies it's more like $400, but the wait is much easier.
The California Zephyr (Amtrak) is currently $290 round trip, couch class. Two nights on the rail, each way.
When we visited for Journey in April, each one-way (OAK to MDW) on Southwest was $99 (not including fees, compound interest, government theft, et c.) - and rumor has it that our favorite texan airline has a "long-term contract" to buy fuel. Thusly, I trust the prices will remain without those pesky fuel surcharges that have been popping up this summer.
sorry - summertime, eh? it's at $134 one-way.
I am signing up for this in the hope that graduate school won't have me too tied up to make it!
ohpleaseohpleaseohplease
I'm running this as part of graduate school.
You should consider attending as part of the graduate school experience.
If you have any last-minute suggestions, I would love to hear them!
Alright, finally got a legitimate website up. Much more classy. Has things like pictures.
I should make it, pending lodging and funds.
I'd like to play but I'm not sure if I can make it. I wish events had a "maybe" option. I am neither yes nor no!
(and for the record, it is the fact that the event occurs on a Friday that makes it difficult to attend.)
I am also a maybe for this, and also somebody whose odds of reaching future CG0 events go up if they happen on Saturdays instead of Fridays.
I look forward to even maybe being able to get there, though; this sounds kickass.
Apologies for the Friday. Sometimes games just have to be time-specific as well as site-specific.
I can write doctors notes. Or maybe the Doktor can do that too.
Friday is a night that makes a lot of sense for these games, I think - but it can be tricky for out-of-towners.
And in this particular instance I am more hampered by finance than timing; gas is expensive, as is eating in Chicago. But I'll try to make it anyhow.
Megabus! Megabus! Megabus!
Oh, by the way, we're coming to Journey MNØ by...
MEGABUS!
I'm going to have to modify my departure date from Chicago to ride with you guys to Journey MNØ!
It is exactly 6 weeks until The Architect & the Urchin.
Official TRAINING DAYS will be held in the coming weeks - stay posted.
1st Place Trophy completed!
It could be your's... depending on how badly you want it.
ack! a fleur? on my sculpture??
you're more thorough that i had thought!
Finalized my trip to make this and JourneyMNØ, excited!
If anybody is using lack of lodging as a reason they can't make it then fret not, any and all can stay at my place. It is plently large enough for a good 10 or 15 people. As long as those people don't mind sleeping in close proximity to others.
I have no food, nor money, but the place is uber ritzy and needs a good thrashing.
Love,
St.
Awesome offer, sir. You're a Saint.
Something I just noticed: In the official rules it says there's a safe zone at "Lincoln Ave between Southport-Wellington and Barry-Greenview. [and within the Heart of Gold]" Which is curious, considering that the Heart of Gold is a full 3 miles (as the crow flies) from Washington Square park, making it twice as far from the starting line as any of the Secrets will be (all of the secrets being within 1.5 miles of the starting line). So there's really no reason why any players would be over there.
Most curious. More curious than the Soccer Field, even.
To be honest, I just wanted to use the Heart of Gold as a staging area for the finish line, because it is the most awesome venue I have access to, and the only place I can fathom putting a couple hundred tired people after a game (seeing what a disaster the Field Museum was at Journey). It's location is not ideal in the least, concerning where the game takes place, but leaving downtown and attempting to make it to the Heart of Gold by train without getting caught is a good excuse for additional adventure, and the possibility of intentional climax/reprise in the story arc.
The soccer field, on the other hand. That's a secret.
JJason, I am rather excited that you will be returning to Chicago! Think that your blind luck at Journey will carry over?
Probably. I'm no good at trash talking.
By the way, are you still it?
Not to places in this world, sadly. :(
I frequently teleport to other worlds, though.
Military and Architectural theory. This article is disturbing in the way it pertains to what we're about to do... but as the author states, it is nothing new.
Someone reported us to the Chicago Reader.
Dammit, now I want cake.
Dax, I would prefer to assist with the planning rather than run in the game, if you need me again.