Cameron: I found myself inexplicably being sent to New York for a 20-hour business trip. With flight time factored in as well as sleep, I knew I would have about 3 hours free, and needed to do some sort of task. It was just too good an opportunity. Thanks to vladypus and agentfour for suggesting the burial.

The package was culled from various sources and wrapped in black duct tape with an SF0 sticker. When I done, it looked suspiciously like a movie prop of smuggled cocaine, which nessecitated the attached note.

Once I landed in NYC, I went out to dinner with a few co-workers for an exorbitant feast. During the ensuing courses, I steathily pocketed a large fork. Very early the next morning, I ventured out into the park with my suspicious package and the stolen fork. I found a good spot in the Park, and began to claw away at the rocky soil. Once it was large enough, I dropped the package inside and stomped the dirt back down.

Once I returned I sent this cryptic message along the grapevine:

Hello. On a very recent trip to manhattan, I buried a small package on the south end of Central Park.I hope it's still there, I buried in the early morning, but I may have been seen by unfriendly forces...

Go to the intersection of 7th avenue and Central Park south, the southron border of the park. Stand on the north west corner, and procede westerly along central park south until you reach the first foot path going north into the park, less than 50 yards from the intersection.

Go north along this footpath until it forks, just a few yards in.

Take the right fork and continue for a very short while until the fence on the left side ends.

At the very first lampost on the left, stop. The pole may still bear an SF0 sticker, if rains nor miscreants have seen fit to pull it off.

Stand facing the pole, and look to the ground. From where you stand, observe the back left side of the pole.

There, the ground has been recently disturbed; 6 inches beneath the ground lies a package, wrapped in black tape and bearing the SF0 mark.

If you find it, it is yours, a souvenir of a treasured San Francisco estabishment, and a few odds and ends.

If the directions prove ungainly, I will provide you with a series of photgraphs detailing the exact path to the treasure.

Good luck, and godspeed!

welcome to the game.

and lo, everything turned out just right...

xkitnx: this was a nice surprise. i recieved instructions that the item would be buried in central park. my first reaction was horror, but then i realized it was close to the edge. then i knew it would take 10 mins, tops.

went out, followed the instructions, and found it without a problem. i was told it was buried 6 inches under, so i brought a trowel. once the location was spotted (the sf0 sticker was still on the lamp post), i dug in. it was actually more like 0.5 inches under. due to the heavy rains, the earth was completely uniform, but there were some cracks in one spot that, according to the instructions, should have been it. i hit it immediately. it came up in one go, and then i set to unwrapping. the package was quite dirt-ridden, and tape-ridden. so i unwrapped, and unwrapped, and unwrapped. got some looks from passersby. i wiped my hands on the paper towel that was under the tape and revealed the treasure.

it was this shirt, and various trinkets: a toy harpoon, a small action figure, a strongbad temp tattoo, a photobooth sticker, and of course, an sf0 sticker.

so, it was great! nobody nabbed it before i did, and it was fun to dig around in central park. thanks cameron!