Tasks / The Architect And The Urchin
Participants of the Chicagø street game, "The Architect & the Urchin" should post a diary of their evening here. I suggest a description of the specifics of your physical adventure, and highly encourage you to express your interpretation of the game.
If you have photographs, we would all love to see them. If you don't have photographs, consider making illustrations of your night.
Feel free to be exhaustive in your writing, as player responses are the primary source of documentation for this project.
Thank you all for being a part of this collective adventure.
Sincerely,
Dax Tran-Caffee
1 to 100 players
50 points
Level 0
In the zone of: Humanitarian Crisis
Created by Dax Tran-Caffee
7 completed :: 7 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
this task is retired
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The Architect & The Urchin Street Game Chicago - Autumn 2008 Written by: Amby D. **FORWARD** I know it's been a long 9 months or so since this event has occurred. Some of the facts may be a little fuzzy by this point, but gawds damn this pra...
We decided early on that we would play to our strengths, and that our strategy would be speed. This is partially because when we did JttEotN, we were very cautious about not getting caught, and took things slow; so we missed out on the race aspect. ...
I am much more interested in organizing street games than actually playing them, so I asked Dax if he could use my help again for Architect. We started out by taking two very long scouting walks through the areas that Dax intended to use for the ga...
I have this problem sometimes of forgetting my camera for these things. The worst part is that I really had no excuse this time. I was acting as a secret agent, so I can't blame it on needing to run. I remembered to pack it when I departed to atte...
The night started wrongly, I think. On my end, I mean, not the games. Cristos and I got off at what we thought was the closest stop to Dearborn Square, only to find that the inevitable hugeness of Chicago blocks had struck again, and we were a good 2...
note: i think I'm behind in writing this ... i totally thought i had finished this and submitted it! WOW. it was another day to wrestle at the station. a day that i wanted to end on time but still knew better. it's tough getting out of work on time...
Dax and everyone who worked on this, thanks so much. We had a terrific time. I made a map of our route with annotations here: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=107669665754999181008.00045756d797e6a74dc03&t=h&a...
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Awards Manifest:
Monkey [orange ribbon] took the first place trophy with 14 Names. Congratulations, sir. Runners up were Adam [yellow ribbon] with 9, and Eric [purple ribbon] with 8. Apologies to Indy [purple], who arrived at 12.10AM with 10 Names - rules are rules.
Meredithian, Mr. G, Allison, Nate, David, and Roman were the first six players to the finish line with all 12 Secrets. My regards for being thorough.
Saint won the photography competition with the image on the left. Evan was runner up, on the right. Thank you to everybody for helping to document this event! Please post your pictures.
Saint, Evan, Allison and Nate: We owe you trophies. You can contact me with a mailing address, or a date when we can meet under cover of darkness by the docks, I will gladly deliver you the hard-earned award. If, however, too much time goes by, I will pass the awards on to the next in line.
This was spectacular. I am in great anticipation of reading all your stories in more detail, and to hear what you thought of the experience. Thanks for a wonderful manifestation.
Yours,
Dax