Tasks / Dead Zone
Find and document a place untouched by Current Era humans. Be prepared to support your claim.
1 to 100 players
45 points
Level 3
In the zone of: Biome
Created by Tricia Tanaka
2 completed :: 1 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
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oh nattering nabobs out there: cavers do this all the time. go spelunking and you'll fill this task with win.
My sister did just that! Mmmm, back in 2000...
Is just a matter of bodysnatch her and then travel back in time.
I dunno, BU. If a person has been IN a cave, does that count as it having been "touched" by humans in the current era? If the answer, as you seem to claim, is no, then this task ought to be quite easy.
If, on the other hand, the place being accessible and having been accessed by humans in the common era, even if they haven't damaged or otherwise changed it, constitutes being "touched, " then simple spelunking won't suffice, and folks will have to be much more creative than that.
Anyone want to take a stab on which way the praxis ought to lie in order to be valid?
I'm thinking any of the following are good:
Somewhere new. I believe the island of Hawai'i is still growing.
Somewhere previously inaccessible. For instance, a cave that had a big huge stone blocking the way that you moved.
Somewhere accessible only with modern technology. For instance, a section of cave you have to be lowered down into with a rope, that hasn't been explored modernly before.
Somewhere you can actually prove is not previously accessed. Caves aren't so hot in general because while there's plenty of completions done by spelunkers, they rarely have proof that nobody in the past two millennia went there. (The above two would of course be exceptions.)
Well, actually, wouldn't you have to document the place without touching it yourself? Being that we are all (it seems) Current Era humans?
That's also a good question, AnnaWon! I think that, if you are the first one to "spoil" it, and can prove that, that the directions don't say anything against that. The question you have to ask yourself, though, is do you want to be the one to put down that first footprint. It's one thing if you're Neil Armstrong, but something totally different if you're just Joe Smith.
No, it's not.
titanomachia! titanomachia! insatiability insatiability insatiability
indeed, just so I know. thank you for clarifying. just so you know, I mention caves because it's one way to be sure no one's ever touched it--cavers in the Black Hills told us that all the time how they'd spelunk down into a place with no footprints and no disturbances and they'd know nobody'd ever seen them.
No Indians, no thrillseekers, no damn crazy cavin' fools. Nobody. Nothin'. Til I found 'er....GOD showed her me first!
I fully support the name "Titanomachy" for the next era.
Let's see if we can get Loki to the Elder Things city.
Praxis
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In 2005, the construction of a private road near [redacted] Creek in [redacted] uncovered the left humerus of a mammoth. Field investigation using ground-penetrating radar and 37 m of backhoe trench established the depositional history of the site, ...
Be careful not to touch the place in question during the process of documentation, as this would necessarily invalidate your claim...