The San Francisco Connection

Shortcut SFCon

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

• As yet,. nothing. Watch this space.

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 appears to require a large number of unique website hits before the rest of the site will go active.

"Hints"

Once the page went active, we were given, on-line, a number of qestions and related hint 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?
• 696045 - Golden Rotation: XNBB LHWCMZ JSVMB RMBB?

Answers were to be typed in on the same page (/clues.html)

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)