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[UPDATE] New Sentinel 8th June 2005 'Holiday Fun Schedule'
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brat-sampson
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[UPDATE] New Sentinel 8th June 2005 'Holiday Fun Schedule'

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Holiday Fun Schedule
As the city gears up for celebrating the onset of summer, it can be difficult to keep track of all of the exciting activities and events taking place. Following is the City's annual guide to this year's major holiday activities, to help plan your own holiday. Direct your key to any event you are interested in for more specific information.

Academy Cube Hunt
The Academy has reinstituted its annual Cube Hunt on the Great Lawn this year. Children under 13 may search the lawn for brightly-coloured replica cubes concealed throughout the lawn, with prizes and refreshments for all. June 14. Begins at 10am and continues through the day.

Solstice Gambol
This annual ramble around the 120-mile perimeter of the city is described by its participants as "exhilarating and exhausting." The route will go down through Catbite this year, then loop around the city through the forests to the north. Bring your own camping equipment. This year, the Gambol begins at Alchemy Beach on June 11 at 9am.

Strawberry Festival
Delicious spring fun at the Artists' Quarter! The Strawberry Festival and street fair will run from June 11 clear through to June 21. The festival includes dancing, music, and of course dozens of strawberry dishes for sale by local vendors. Arts and crafts will be on display. Children are welcome.

Country Carnival
White Cow Farm, Dancing Fields Farm, and HarvestWay have joined forces to put on a traditional country carnival, June 15 through June 30. Traditional dances will be taught, and competition will be held in quilting, herding, riding, and cooking. Winners of last year's crafting competitions will be on display.

Old Town History Days
See the way our forefathers lived with this re-enactment of the Old Town as it once was. Locals dress up as ancient Academicians, with beer flowing and pie baking at nearly every street corner. Tournaments in chess and backgammon will be held.

Beach Carnival
Following the Spring Gambol this year is a week-long carnival at Alchemy Beach, June 13 through 21. The highlight will be the June 21 artists' competition, where each artist is challenged to make the best and most interesting work of art constructed solely from objects found upon the beach that morning. Food, dancing, and games will be available.

PCAG Exhibition Matches
This year, the PCAG Exhibition matches will be held in an open-air venue at Polygon Park. Tickets must be purchased for each match in advance.

Concert in the Park
The City Council is sponsoring a series of evening concerts in Azad Park. This year, performers include Roll for Damage, the PCSO, and Jam One. No tickets are required, but seating is on a first-come basis, as available.

Balloon Release
On Solstice Day, there will be a silent balloon release at Creation Park. In past years, these biodegradable balloons have been found as far as 500 miles away! This year, the balloons will be filled with wildflower seeds and small paper slips with messages of hope and peace written by city schoolchildren. Ceremony scheduled for dawn.

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Solstice Gambol
This annual ramble around the 120-mile perimeter of the city is described by its participants as "exhilarating and exhausting." The route will go down through Catbite this year, then loop around the city through the forests to the north. Bring your own camping equipment. This year, the Gambol begins at Alchemy Beach on June 11 at 9am.


120 Miles?!! Holy Crap! Bring your camping gear indeed!
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Hey, I guess that helps us to scale the mapping a little more accurately from now on...
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The Summer Solstice in the UK is also the 21st June. "Solstice... means a stopping or standing still of the sun. It is the longest day of the year and the time when the sun is at its maximum elevation."

I also googled "gambol"

play: gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly"
frolic: play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

.....pity the metric system hasn't hit Perplex City yet! Very Happy

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Leeravitz wrote:
Hey, I guess that helps us to scale the mapping a little more accurately from now on...

We currently don't know the scale of any of the pieces. We do now know that the city is approx 11 miles by 11 miles if it is square as the subway map implies. However, we don't know how to scale the subway map is ... the London tube map (upon which the style is based) is not accurate to an overland map at all.

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This artical was making a bell ring, and after a bit I thought of the tour guide page on the Sentinal site which doesn't mention any of the events talked about in this update, nor does this update mention events like:
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June 15 - 17
Perplex Yourself. PCL20 to enter, free to watch. This PCAG-style tournament is for children from 6 to 12 years of age. See the future rising stars of the PCAG before anyone else!
which occur around this 'holiday' period. Maybe they just forgot the page was there... 'ol opendesignagency.com is starting to smell a bit stale methinks. Not the hardest workin agency around...
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Also, don't forget

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Carrick Room
On the eve of the Cubist celebration of midsummer, theatre director, writer and actor Abaddon Rule will read from his play Reconstruction. The reading will be followed by refreshments on Adamek Green. Places must be reserved in advance as space is strictly limited.


from the Academy visitor page, Public Events. It also gives a more in-depth look at the history of the Easter Egg Cube hunt.

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Could someone post a link to the article as I can't find it anywhere in the sentinel. Thanks.

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If you mean todays PCS update isn't showing up when you load the page, simply refresh your browser and voila!

If you didn't mean this, then a little more specific-ness is needed Smile
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Okay, that was odd. I've been checking the Sentinel ever since the article was mentioned on the forum and it wasn't there. But it is now.
Huh.
I don't really know that much about how the internet works but if the article was posted in America would it take a while to be updated on the local servers in England?

And by America I of course actually mean Perplex City Smile

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pmc wrote:
Okay, that was odd. I've been checking the Sentinel ever since the article was mentioned on the forum and it wasn't there. But it is now.
Huh.
I don't really know that much about how the internet works but if the article was posted in America would it take a while to be updated on the local servers in England?


Nah, it was probably just a case of the cache on your computer not updating properly
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?

Or perhaps the people? posting about the article forgot to uplaod it to the perplexcity sentinel...

mooooo

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SalmonOfDoubt wrote:
Or perhaps the people? posting about the article forgot to uplaod it to the perplexcity sentinel...


sometimes people start posting here thinking they are too paranoid, cautioning other against listening to what they say.

You, my fFriend, are paranoid. You take the gold medal fFor this event.
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Re: [UPDATE] New Sentinel 8th June 2005 'Holiday Fun Schedul

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Academy Cube Hunt
The Academy has reinstituted its annual Cube Hunt on the Great Lawn this year. Children under 13 may search the lawn for brightly-coloured replica cubes concealed throughout the lawn, with prizes and refreshments for all. June 14. Begins at 10am and continues through the day.



Could we possibly be looking to start our very own cube hunt on this day too? Maybe a date for the release of the cards?
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I was thinking along the same lines as LotusFlower ref the cube hunt date, also the balloon release seemed interesting to me, should we be looking out for clues in balloons, I mean if they can travel over 500 miles!? Wink

edited to add:
Don't know if this means anything but are they doing the run in an anti clockwise direction? Looking at the tube map and the pieces we have so far, I'm thinking they start at Alchemy bay, then go anti clockwise through catbite, continuing up to the forest (newguard ruins?) to the north of the city. Does that mean that catbite is somewhere below the main bistre line? http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/Subway
Also we have clarification that Scarlett (& therefore Sente) live near Polygon Park (which I'd assumed due to the Academy's location, but its always nice to know).
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