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.

Website Information


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:

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).


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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

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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 4 sets of clues.

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, fFor 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:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=266268#266268

Send him private messages either on IRC, or uF here:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=306

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)