Tasks / Le Papier Bleu Et Le Poulet
Take a piece of blue notepaper and stick it on the side of a chicken. Then frighten the chicken.
1 to 20 players
40 points
Level 3
Requires BART Psychogeographical Association AND EquivalenZ AND The University of Aesthematics AND Humanitarian Crisis AND Biome
Created by Blue
1 completed :: 1 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
this task is retired
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If I could find blue notepaper, this just may happen...
Are you willing to fly over from the UK for this???
Why not just ship the chicken? Task don't say we all got to frighten it at the same time. (Though 45 points may not be worth navigating livestock import regulations. Looks like Greater London to the US is allowed with a 30 day quarantine and some fees and paperwork.)
Or, I suppose we could scare the chicken via teleconference.
Don't bring a competion down to how many points you get…
Complete a task so that the votes you get bring up the score!
I heard someone got a chicken. I want in on that party, i'm fast and wirey an I got lightnin' fingers
I have the chicken
He cost me $10
He is Amazing
We need to set up a time this weekend so that everyone can do this
I am only in SF for a few days so it has to be this weekend
I am busy Saturday Afternoon…
Can we work around that?
I've committed to doing something at an not-yet-disclosed time Saturday, but if the timing works and you're open to even more players from over-represented groups, I'd love to join in the fun.
Scraping together a player from every group may be tough, in the midst of the annual burning man exodus.
The only commitments I have for this fine holiday weekend are hanging out with the K-man, work and chilaxing by the pool with margi's on monday...great weekend...
In otherwords...count me in
Saterday and Sunday I have some minor stuff to do but I'm free for the other 99.99% of the time. I dont know the city that well where would be a good place to do this?
I'm ok with loseing the chicken, unless someone whats him as a pet
Can we possibly do it on Saturday evening before the sun goes down? I'm picnicing around noon but I can head out to the city (on BART from Berkeley the late afternoon).
Keep in mind that this is a Unilateral Completion…
So we still need a humanitarian crissis and an equivelance player
By YOUR powers combined, I am Captain Planet!
Captain Planet eh? I don't see a green mullet.
It's okay...he can borrow my mullet.
If you're willing to wait, I can post you some blue note paper...
on second thoughts I'm too skint even for that.
Date: September 1st 2007
Time: 5:35pm (that gives us a little over an hour till sundown)
Location: Door-Henge
I got the chicken someone else needs to get the blue note paper
Message me with questions, we really need a message fourm
I just noticed your event planning. Perhaps one might want to include the papered chicken with the Sunday bonfire?
Regardless, I offer up my blue paper.
Oh man...I hope I don't have to work this sunday night cause that will be lame. Maybe I can trade....or maybe I can wait till this Thursday when the schedule is posted before I freak out.....
Either way...I"M THERE!!!
Yeah, Kyle...let's put it off till Sunday...ummm...will your chicken also be requiring room and board over the weekend?? This is going to be interesting.
good call btw anna cause I was just thinking the same exact thing this morning....many many more to be had before our doors are taken down....should we put some sorta water proofing on the doors though...
*EDIT* it really bugs me that we have to discuss this here and not on the event page. there should be a message board on events darnit!
I have created a mighty event page for this epic event
Le Papier Bleu Et Le Poulet at Door Henge
I'll volunteer to cobble together a remote controlled chicken scaring device, if there's anyone not in the bay area who's willing to commit to actually using it. (In real time, probably by telephone.)
Your Herø has the unmarketable skill of making exceptionally good chicken sounds. (I learned it in high school in a misguided attempt to impress my drama-star crush. The skill did not serve its intended purpose, but perhaps Fate was simply laying the groundwork for this moment. Is this skill useful to anyone?
I feel like there has got to be a way to make that skill useful.
I'm thinking we could take it on the road. Make you a star!
That skill sounds more like a liability Bex
Oh… my… god…
Kyle may I say that is quite the nice cock you have?
What is this going to turn into???
That's a fine cock you've got there, Kyle.
i second that...fine cock indeed! I tried to explain this task to some co-workers and they all looked at me like I was nuts
my girlfriend thinks I'm crazy, go with her family to Santa Cruz for the weekend.........or go to San Francisco and scare a chicken.
I know I'm making the right choice
That's an easy choice!! I have given up trying to explain to my co-workers/family, I don't care. I love you all.
I was worried about the freeway winds scaring him so I only take surface streets, so I'm going to get some card board and board up his cage a bit so he doesn't have 65 mph winds hitting him and his cage. Plus I check his food and water a few times ever day, he seams quite happy (if chickens can express emotion) to be out of his old owners chicken pen
freeway winds being those rushing through your destroyed truck?!
i might put it in the cab, I don't want to risk hurting the poor thing
Time to start bugging all the bay area EquivalenZ people.
Either that, or it's time to convince that friend who never got around to signing up that they should do so, then bring them to the event.
But you forget that they would need to get to lvl three by tomorrow. But fear not, we got Elanor the Most on speaker phone from Minnesota right? Nothing like hearing a child yell at a chicken over a megaphoned cellphone.
Damn. I hadn't realized that every player has to be at the right level for a multilateral task. Oh well. I guess it can't hurt if some of the low level bay area Existenz folks I messaged show up anyway, even if it won't help us complete the task. Sorry, folks.
A megaphoned cell phone is a great idea. (I was picturing something unnecessarily complicated with a dtmf decoder and solenoids. . . but time is running short to hunt down parts for such a thing.)
Anyone happen to own a megaphone? Have the phone number of Elanor's household, or any other suitable player?
Besides, where does it say that, anyway? that multilateral tasks require players at the same level? if that's true, why can you sign up for a task and start typing out a proof and add a random player and then your updates page shows "ready to submit"? For example, I have signed up for O Time Thy Pyramids. I added Henry as collaborator and typed a sentence fragment into the proof. It now shows ready to submit. If I wanted the brief enjoyment of a worthless proof followed by a hammer-like flag, I'd try to hit submit. It should tell me I need a BartPA member, and if this "rule" is true, it should tell me we all need to be level 6.
However, my memory, which is pretty darn good, has it that I have been able to sign up for tasks which other, lower level players have not and provide them "cover" to be able to do it. And vice versa. I remember that as far back as The ImpEx.
I believe this is a misimpression of the rules. And if people are gonna flag tasks done with this kind of "cover", you'd best turn your eyes back over the history of old tasks...
Yeah, I always thought you could collaborate with a higher-level player to get access to higher level tasks, regardless of multi-lateral group play.
That's right, I said multi-lateral.
i have the megaphone and burn unit's phone number
Praxis
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Part of the Urban Door Installation Project How did it come to us chasing a hen with a blue piece of paper tied around her neck through Golden Gate Park? "I would have to admit to this whole thing being my fault" says Malaki. ...
Someone want to explain the reference/in-joke to me?