To complete this task I volunteered for the Paddle Quest Adventure, Minneapolis division.


This is a community game/environment cleaning, super awesome annual event that began years ago in Wisconsin, and has expanded to the waterways of Minnesota.

Best put in the words of Matt, the event organizer, "It is random boat theatre".

There are questers, people playing the game and collecting litter from the lakes in the play area, and there are characters the questers interact with, characters that give depth to the Adventures' back story, and who send the players on mini quests that the questers can choose to finish for more points.

I volunteered to be one such character.


I played the role of Kapuna, a,local sage that guards the waterways from dimensional traveling wizards and any other threats.
I was a critical character, because I gave out phrases and magic items that the questers needed to win treasure maps, which would help them progress father in the game, and which would help them earn extra points.

It was quite difficult to take pictures with my phone whilst one handedly balancing a kayak that is afloat in the middle of a lake, but I managed to get some nice shots. They shall continue the story from here: