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HitsHerMark
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Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 1521 Location: Austin, TX
He asks us if he can count on us to be there at midnight... I think I piped up something like, "I think this morning has proven that we might not always puncutal, but we're certainly determened... So we'll be here."
And we're all kind of looking rather pouty I think, so then he says to us... "You've come this far... Go farther." And then he leaves.
I wanted to shout, "What does that even mean?!"
Either the blame or the credit goes to me I guess, I don't know which... I came up with the idea that it meant we had to go back to the party. Recon was most likely what we would come up with. But if we were very cleaver, we might be able to nab the card and hand it over to Myke at midnight... And that would have been cool...
We get to the party and target on the correct A3, which by the way is totally AWSOME looking.
Goons arrived, we were alarmed, and it was decided that we should
all go back and meet with our contact to report our findings and get a
better idea of what the plan was... Only problem, nobody appeared to
have known that the party was considered by event staff to be "off
site". The guards knew this very well it seems, and since there was
no re-entry into the venue... We were stuck. Mad rush to contact our
contact proceed... Nothing of which seems to have gotten through.
Hilarity insues .
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 9:08 pm
HitsHerMark
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Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 1521 Location: Austin, TX
One more thing...
This is my favorite picture.
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GirlInFocus
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 9:25 pm
SMG3er
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Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 134
It was such an insane night, but I think we all did our best in trying to figure out what we were supposed to do. It was just an entire series of events that made the mission not work the way it was set-up, which I think mainly stemmed from the fact the mission was taking place in such a huge and uncontrolled environment -- riots, guards that didn't know better, some that did, not having effective communicaton, etc. I certainly don't think any one thing or person can be blamed. At the end of the day, or maybe it should be start of the morning, I can say that I think we all did the best we could do given the circumstances, and that it just goes to show that chaos will always win over even the best prepared plans.
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 9:26 pm
Cookster
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Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 99 Location: Fresh out of the oven
You guys were expected to follow a script you hadn't even read, and Nisha and Ian bailed at the first sign of things not going to plan. Not a very good advert for LRR
We'll just have to see how things pan out now - it looks like Nisha is feeling pretty sheepish.
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 9:31 pm
HitsHerMark
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Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 1521 Location: Austin, TX
I was just reading the IRC chat and I notice some people were wondering about how we got into the party, so I'll clarify;
We didn't sneak into the party at all, we walked in the front enterance by showing our wristbands. The fights were going on elsewhere, the party venue itself was rather deserted. We were not the only "guests" there, but it was dead.
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 9:51 pm
fubarz
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Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 119 Location: LA
Thanks for the posts.
Was the fifth retriever press or not?
I also can't figure out why at such a large event they would not have an ingame handlers watching you. Maybe that would be to much like hearding cats.
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 10:41 pm
SMG3er
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Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 134
HitsHerMark wrote:
I was just reading the IRC chat and I notice some people were wondering about how we got into the party, so I'll clarify;
We didn't sneak into the party at all, we walked in the front enterance by showing our wristbands. The fights were going on elsewhere, the party venue itself was rather deserted. We were not the only "guests" there, but it was dead.
Yep, and I believe there was a difference between wristbands and passes, because I saw a few people flashing actual postcard sized passes to get in -- it seemed like the wristbands would get you in for sure, while the passes were questionable. I could be wrong though.
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 10:55 pm
HitsHerMark
Unfictologist
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 1521 Location: Austin, TX
If Laura had been a plant, she would have dissapeared on us when the mission was aborted.
And, as you can see from the photo, she was there when they finally kicked everybody out of the party.
As for whether or not she was press. I couldn't say.
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 10:58 pm
janemcg
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Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 63 Location: Berkeley, CA
Coachella videos Attached are some videos from the Coachella 5... I'll tell a few stories about these soon.
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Jane and Kiyash drive through the desert, 11 AM Saturday, psyched for the heist and prepared to meet Myke to pick up passes and further instructions.
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Outside Coachella main entrance, 12 Noon, first face-to-face contact with Myke: Kiyash records while I get instructions and attempt to find out more about Myke's relationship with Nisha.
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4 PM, Aversion Therapy Bike, I undertake a training exercise to develop my torture resistance skills. In case we get interrogated by Gunter or his goons. This bike is specially modified with a whip on the back wheel to lash my lower back each time I pedal
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7 PM. We haven't found Hitshermark yet, but SMG3er, Laura, Kiyash and I begin to psyche up for the heist.
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10 PM, we are scheduled for our second liaison with Myke. It should go down here at the Tesla Coil, which is a pretty intimidating electro-hectic sculpture.
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 3:31 pm
janemcg
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Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 63 Location: Berkeley, CA
photos from the Op HHM's online gallery is awesome. Here are a few more photos from the OP, and the Coachella 5's special training exercises leading up to the ops.
http://photobucket.com/albums/y197/avantgame/
I'm adding blog posts that explain some of these photos and videos above here
www.avantgame.blogspot.com
Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 3:41 pm
SMG3er
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Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 134
Re: photos from the Op Yep, I don't have anything as good as Jane or HMM, but I'll just toss in the few things I have for completeness.
Jane and Laura practicing their morse code on drums:
The team waiting:
We were trying to figure out if the intersecting spotlights were code:
The A3:
The VIN:
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 1:49 am
SMG3er
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Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 134
Re: photos from the Op Well, I got my FedEx package in the mail today from LRR.
I also got my puzzle cookies from Rowan! Yummmmmm...
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 1:39 pm
nhansard
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 159
Re: photos from the Op
SMG3er wrote:
Well, I got my FedEx package in the mail today from LRR.
I also got my puzzle cookies from Rowan! Yummmmmm...
What'd ya get?
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 1:41 pm
Wandering_Angela
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Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 108
Re: photos from the Op
SMG3er wrote:
I also got my puzzle cookies from Rowan! Yummmmmm...
Puzzle cookies!?! Do the chocolate chips spell out a message in morse code? Or do the number of chips in each cookie correspond to a factor of e? Or maybe they're cut-out cookies, and the shapes form a rebus!!!
...Yeah, I know. You probably mean cookies you got as a reward for solving a puzzle. But you have to admit that the idea of puzzle cookies is way cool. If I ever run an ARG, I'm definitely going with a sugar-laced trailhead.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 2:57 pm
SMG3er
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Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 134
Re: photos from the Op
nhansard wrote:
What'd ya get?
The typical Retriever package - Treo 650, BT headset, and the pin. I haven't had time to dig through the packaging yet though to see if there's anything hidden.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 3:58 pm
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