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Journey To The End Of The Night: San Francisco 2009 by SOMBREROED SEPTANINJA, Young Cain, Nola Mei, Naemi Frey, Dr. Awkward, Pirates! Attack!
November 13th, 2009 10:26 PM
So, Journey to the End of the Night can only described as pure beauty. I will divide this beauty into sections, in order for the readers to better understand it.
Before the game:
We were all meeting at people's houses and slowly inched towards the ferry building. We were a large group, larger than expected, and we kept getting bigger. We eventually got together enough arm bands (after much struggling and strife) For you SFZeroers: I declare that there should be much more supplies-- a lot of people were turned away and it REALLY ruined some people's halloweens. You could see the tears in their eyes, and it was absolutely awful. I will personally help set it all up if I have to.
To Checkpoint 1:
We got very very lost. A third of us were taken out by chasers in the first half hour, but the adredaline rush was like nothing i had ever experienced before: as a former track runner and a current gymnast, I can honestly say that I have experienced no adrenaline rush that lasted that long or made me feel that powerful. We were running in a group: as a pack of art school geeks with no P.E. class, I think we did pretty well. When we finally got to the first checkpoint, our former teammates (who we thought were chasers because they disappeared, but then turned out they were tagged in the safe zone) gave us the map, and we checked off number one, then took a break to eat candy and drink water. Yay for choco-calories!
To Checkpoint 2:
With our team a few down, we began to run to the next checkpoint: we tried to be very careful, however we lost a few more to chasers as we hurdled down stillman with a second team, inching towards the HOUSE checkpoint. Our former teammates were there, so the runner half of us went in to sign off: we had a huddle/powow afterwards. Hooting and screaming and howling: we were formidable.
To Checkpoint 3:
We were attacked by some chasers down by checkpoint three, so we hid in the safezone and only two of us went into the third checkpoint: bryce recieved a bell, and alex recieved the tie.
To Checkpoint 4:
After this point, we decided that we'd play it up a little: the runners stayed in front of the chasers in order to create an air of safety, and would run for checkpoint 4 when they saw another group of runners: at one point, we ran into a group of chasers and charged after them. Later, the runners at the checkpoint: Alex, Bryce, and I, heard a guy talk about "a mob of chasers attack his team and completely destroy it". We laughed. it was us. I didn't go into checkpoint 4: but it involved going into a darkroom and popping balloons to find the next object necessary to continue. Alex, who DID go inside the checkpoint, gave me the update on what happened exactly:
Alex:
i waited for about 20 minutes before i got to go in. when we went in, we had to use flashlights. In the dark room there was a netted in area with about 50-75 balloons. they were being blown around by a fan. we had to find a certain symbol that looked like a circle with 2 very short tails coming out of it. once we found one each, we showed the lady our bells and pipe line from the previouse checkpoint and our map with the 3 signatures. the person then stamped the unusual symbol on the area that proved that we have been to the 4th check point. We then left and ran into the crew.
After checkpoint 4
after checkpoint 4 it was eleven o'clock and I could stay out no later. Most people began to go home, and I left with Karen and Elsa. We bought burritoes and sauntered over to my house where we collapsed in a rice-and-beans exhaustion from the run.
Before the game:
We were all meeting at people's houses and slowly inched towards the ferry building. We were a large group, larger than expected, and we kept getting bigger. We eventually got together enough arm bands (after much struggling and strife) For you SFZeroers: I declare that there should be much more supplies-- a lot of people were turned away and it REALLY ruined some people's halloweens. You could see the tears in their eyes, and it was absolutely awful. I will personally help set it all up if I have to.
To Checkpoint 1:
We got very very lost. A third of us were taken out by chasers in the first half hour, but the adredaline rush was like nothing i had ever experienced before: as a former track runner and a current gymnast, I can honestly say that I have experienced no adrenaline rush that lasted that long or made me feel that powerful. We were running in a group: as a pack of art school geeks with no P.E. class, I think we did pretty well. When we finally got to the first checkpoint, our former teammates (who we thought were chasers because they disappeared, but then turned out they were tagged in the safe zone) gave us the map, and we checked off number one, then took a break to eat candy and drink water. Yay for choco-calories!
To Checkpoint 2:
With our team a few down, we began to run to the next checkpoint: we tried to be very careful, however we lost a few more to chasers as we hurdled down stillman with a second team, inching towards the HOUSE checkpoint. Our former teammates were there, so the runner half of us went in to sign off: we had a huddle/powow afterwards. Hooting and screaming and howling: we were formidable.
To Checkpoint 3:
We were attacked by some chasers down by checkpoint three, so we hid in the safezone and only two of us went into the third checkpoint: bryce recieved a bell, and alex recieved the tie.
To Checkpoint 4:
After this point, we decided that we'd play it up a little: the runners stayed in front of the chasers in order to create an air of safety, and would run for checkpoint 4 when they saw another group of runners: at one point, we ran into a group of chasers and charged after them. Later, the runners at the checkpoint: Alex, Bryce, and I, heard a guy talk about "a mob of chasers attack his team and completely destroy it". We laughed. it was us. I didn't go into checkpoint 4: but it involved going into a darkroom and popping balloons to find the next object necessary to continue. Alex, who DID go inside the checkpoint, gave me the update on what happened exactly:
Alex:
i waited for about 20 minutes before i got to go in. when we went in, we had to use flashlights. In the dark room there was a netted in area with about 50-75 balloons. they were being blown around by a fan. we had to find a certain symbol that looked like a circle with 2 very short tails coming out of it. once we found one each, we showed the lady our bells and pipe line from the previouse checkpoint and our map with the 3 signatures. the person then stamped the unusual symbol on the area that proved that we have been to the 4th check point. We then left and ran into the crew.
After checkpoint 4
after checkpoint 4 it was eleven o'clock and I could stay out no later. Most people began to go home, and I left with Karen and Elsa. We bought burritoes and sauntered over to my house where we collapsed in a rice-and-beans exhaustion from the run.
