The San Francisco Connection
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General
- In most literal terms, this is a new link which is to connect Perplex City to Earth; specifically, the link will connect to San Francisco, California, USA.
- In a more pragmatic sense, this will be a live event in San Francisco, and will be similar to the London PCAG event.
- The event will take place August 12th, 2006.
- For information available pre-event, see: SFCon:pre-event
Website Information
- http://emergency.perplexcity.com/
- became available after a mass mailing/plea on Friday.
- http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/main.php
- Became available on Saturday, around 10:45 PDT
Meetups
As a game, Perplex City has but one rule: Any occassion with more than 2 cube hunters must involve alcohol. In this vein, a number of meet-ups and organized gathering of masses have been planned, both pre- and post- event. As follows:
- A clearinghouse of event coordination is at the unForums.
- Mind Candy is having a "post-event thingie down near the Palace."
- From the event page:
Q: Will there be any social activities afterwards?
A: We are currently considering organising something afterwards. We're well aware that players will want to get a drink or meet up somewhere, and so at the closing presentation we will at least let all players know about possible places to go.
- Endgame - map - link
- Sunday, August 13th, 10-5
- Right around the corner from the 12th Street/City Center BART station (red/yellow lines).
What is Known
On the Ground
As per usual with live events, reports from the scene are slow to come in. Here's what we know:
Running around the city
Many of the players ran off to all points in the city, to sove sundry puzzles and riddles.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Back at home-base, a large multi-page maze was presented.
Another topic should it be needed right away
Another topic should it be needed right away
On-Line
In IRC
"To aid your progress, it would be wise to collaborate with your fellow helpers. In order to do this, you should join the chat room called #pxcsflive on irc.chat-solutions.org. If you don't have an IRC program, you can connect online here by typing "pxcsflive" into the channel box."
That is largely in-game. Meta and spec can take place in #pxcsflivespec also on irc.chat-solutions.org.
Hits
The page http://emergency.perplexcity.com/main/main.php requires a large number (250?) of unique website hits before another batch of 'clues' will go active. At this point, there have been 7 sets of clues. Now only UNSOLVED clues are shown.
Clues
Once the page went active, we were given, on-line, a number of qestions and numbers. Questions were in the fForm of:
- 674303 - Real life web slinger entangles Manhattan with what?
- 676817 - When is Scarlett Kiteway's birthday? (ddmm)
- 688743 - How many millions did ROgers Communications Inc pay for a comma?
Answers were to be typed in on the same page (/clues.html)
Unsolved questions
Please Please Please PLEASE, for the love of god, keep this page current:
The_San_Francisco_Connection:_Unsolved_Questions
As anyone solves any question, REMOVE it from the list.
Also .. User Geist on the unforums started a completed list of solves clues here:
Send him private messages either on IRC, or uF here:
He seems to not be keeping it as up to date as it could be .. but it'll do too.
Results
When a correct answer is submitted fFor the fFirst time, the message given is:
- Congratulations! The answer you entered was correct.
- Your contribution has been added to the group's progress. Keep at it, you are important in reactivating the link.
When a correct answer is submitted the second time onward, the following is given:
- Congratulations! The answer you entered was correct.
- Someone else has managed to solve this before you, but keep going and you should get a first solve soon.
When any incorrect answer is given, this is the result:
- Sorry, your answer was incorrect.
- Please try again, the connection won't open without you!
Another topic should it be needed right away
References
- The Perplex City Sentinel
- news in brief, 22-JUN-06 "Academy Mum on New Link"
- article, 13-JUL-06 "Iona Interviews... Adrian Hon" (link)
