Events / Journey To The End Of The Night: Oakland
When:June 20th, 2009 @ 7:00pm
Where:
Oakland
Enrollment
34/unlimited
Organizer:
Sean Mahan
Description:
Journey To The End Of The Night returns to the Bay Area.
The city spreads out before you. Rushing from point to point, lit by the slow strobe of fluorescent buses and dark streets. Stumbling into situations for a stranger's signature. Fleeing unknown pursuers, breathing hard, admiring the landscape and the multitude of worlds hidden in it.
For one night, drop your relations, your work and leisure activities, and all your usual motives for movement and action, and let yourself be drawn by the attractions of the chase and the encounters you find there.
Get your water and your comfortable shoes ready. Details to follow.
Journey to the End of the Night was born by the Bay in 2006, run again here in 2007, and now returns to the area with an epic pursuit through Oakland, finishing by the side of Lake Merritt. As always: no skates, no bikes, no cars, no segways, just your feet, AC Transit, and BART.
The game begins at the amphitheater in Mosswood Park, about a 5 minute walk from Macarthur BART. Here it is on Google Maps. Here's a nifty little map of the same place:
More information at http://totheendofthenight.com/oakland. Eventually, I'd like to get at least a basic account of every Journey up on that site, but I've got some more coding to do before that happens.
Responses
34 Attending
- Ian Kizu-Blair
- Sean Mahan
- Orion
- Jackie H
- Yoshi
- Jason 7au
- anna one
- ananas
- xian
- Toby Licious
- Lincøln
- Spidere
- Bex.
- Herbie Hatman
- Magpie
- Myrna Minx
- Dax Tran-Caffee
- Bjørn Teuleuse
- praximity
- patty larceny
- kxaori
- Tac Haberdash
- Vox Ex Machina
- artmouse
- Anomaly
- hilary chase
- A
- Carolyn Carlson
- Von Guard
- Mata Hari
- Adam D
- Dyna Matt
- Cole Brennan
- Grizzly B
2 NOT Attending
Terms
rubinlovesitComments
Unfortunately, I'm now recovering from surgery and am still supposed to avoid exerting myself by then.
this is going to be so siiiick i am hella excited to play my Oaktown home territoryyyyy
*yesssssss*
One of our esteemed wrote this. I found it to be quite poignant.
I wish I had proofread it before I turned it into a .pdf
I thought my head was the center of the universe.
we weren't sure how to break it to you...
You start at a place in a city, and are given a map indicating six places which you must visit, in order. As you proceed through the city to the checkpoints, you are pursued by chasers, whose only goal is to tag you and make you one of them. Survive to the final checkpoint without being tagged, and receive accolades. Fall along the way, and you can still be rewarded by fulfilling your new roll well and tagging more survivng runners than your chaser compatriots can manage to tag.
There are nearly limitless variations to this theme, some of which have been tried at previous iterations of the event, in other cities. You can do a search for "Journey to the End of the Night" to get some idea of the twists you may expect to see.
Official website is up at:
totheendofthenight.com
Thanks Sean! Hooray!
Protip: the cool kids get there via ichaseyou.com
So, I'll be coming up this Thursday. Is there a friendly couch or bed or nice little spot on the floor I can curl up on? Or a bed? Or a spare room? Or a boat? Please let me know if you're willing to put a wayward traveller up for a few days. I would also like to stay in the bay until the following Tuesday or Wednesday if my accommodations will allow it. If you have the open space and the open heart, please send me a message. Thank you for your attention.
The task for this one seems to be the Chicago version of the game. I don't quite feel right posting my Praxis there...
I shall have to see if I'm able to make it to this one. Probably not, but hopefully yes.