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[LIVE EVENT] DC Tombstone Hold'em Players report in here!

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Re: [LIVE EVENT] DC Tombstone Hold'em Players report in here

[Speaker]

Legend holds that Wild Bill Hickok was shot to death during a poker game in Deadwood, South Dakota, and that the hand he held was two pair, black aces and black eights.

So pair of eights with a 3 kicker. 88.3

[mapmaker]

The journey has been started. The people in DC have found a pair of binoculars (the "extra eyes") along with the holster.

The first page of Lucky's note is here

[mapmaker]

All of Lucky's test's pages are available here on Flickr. The quality is unfortunately but understandably slightly blurry.

http://flickr.com/photos/tbridge/

[Speaker]

Update: Live Event is up to Number 4 of 9 or more items.

[MageSteff]

The first four found:

[16:03] <krystyn> "#1 Henry Ness DOD: Sept 10th 1850"
[16:03] <krystyn> "#2 Merle Freeman Born: July 27th 1892 DOD: Aug 24th 1893"
[16:04] <krystyn> "#3 Philip Johnson DOD: Feb 1st 1867"
[16:04] <krystyn> "#4: Brown."
(#4 had an additional instruction the anwer of which came from
<krystyn> "Jeffrey Alan Heiners Born Jul 6th 1954 DOD Oct 8th 1990" a photojournalist - the epitaph was "Mistah Heineh he no home" the clue: where is ne NOT?)

#5: Sarah Sanford widow of Ebenezer Eveleth. Born Dec 13th 1775 DOD Jan 17th 1862 addtional info for the question: the quote: "Never Again, Never Forget"

#6: (near the first congressman they met, someone from the Old Colony) <krystyn> "Orin Fowler DOD Sept 3rd 1852 - they think this is the one"
(find a pair of lovers, found in a walk in mausoleum) <krystyn> "James Anthony Colias and Cala Engel"

#7 <catherwood> 7- There's a tree just Northeast of the chapel at the end of L**** Road. Look under the tree's cover for the final resting place of Mr. Robert Armour's loved ones. His son's DOD _______

#8 8- Head North on Entrance Road until you come upon a brick path on your left. Follow the path and watch on your right for a leaning Madonna. Meet the man buried two graves to her left. His DOD ________

#9 <speaker> For #9) i'm pretty confident on the Keithley - A Samuel Keithley died near White Sulphur Springs in 1889 Andrew(his brother) died in 1880 both are buried in Congressional

I'm adding the LCP IRC chatroom raw text.

[ariock]

1A September 10, 1850
1B Merle Freeman

2A Feb 1, 1867
2B Brown
2C Home

3A June 3, 1860
3B September April

4A Jan 11 1855
4B angelic

5A Jan 17 1862
5B "unknown"
5C "again forever"
5D "a lifetime together"

6A Sept 3 1852
6B Lacy

7 Sept 21 1900

8A Nov 18 1866
8B LaForge

9 Oct 14, 1880

Edit: Fixed 1A

[CoffeeJedi]

CoffeeJedi reporting in!

currently i'm sitting at a poker table at Incyr and Silrn's house. At the table is Silrn, Cortana, Thunderclap8, Rowan, LouMac, Autumn, Incyr, Aliendial, and myself.

On the train back home, Krystyn called Thunder to tell him that Lucky was looking for him, and that he had a special date to remember. I beter write it down here as we've all been drinkering for a little while.

Sept 7, 1866

we think we've given you all the correct answers, Jane didn't say either way, but she seemed to accept our answers

Cortana and Lou won the Tombstone Tournament.

What else do you want to know?

[LouMac]

[aliendial]

Just a couple of pics.

Massive wet fun with everyone - great to meet everyone!

Regarding the radio broadcast - it played well enough for us to hear all of it the second time around, and I was recording it off an earbud but the quality is terrible. Here's what I can get:

...historic Washington Congressional Cemetery...congressmen already underground here. ... Now that you have the story of how I got the gun, we have to go back further. Let's find out who it killed before it ever made its way to Johnnie Whitecloud. And that means - Chicago. 1929.

Al Capone's ___, Al Capone's booze and a party that was never gonna end. So what if Al was in jail? So what if the stock market had just taken a punch in the stomach? And so what if the gun was [coming] to Union Station with a man's death already chambered inside? I'll show you some[one?] if you'll come take a look around.

[clip of Amos n' Andy]
[clip of The Shadow of Fu Manchu]
[newsclip of stock market crash]
[newsclip re lost aviator "the first man to fly across the Atlantic ocean" mentioned rescuers COMBING Newfoundland FOR (POSSIBLY HERBERT EDMUND/EDWIN/EDWARD SOMETHING), but the music suddenly got louder and while we heard the name it was not familiar, I don't remember it, and I can't hear it at all on my recording ]"In other news, the search for the the first man to fly across the Atlantic ocean continues. rescuers are combing Newfoundland for Herbert Edmund (Edwin Edward?) [last name]". (Definitely three names.) [no not Lindbergh, he flew the other way]

PS to those of you who were there and met Heather. Check Nikita's avatar.

[thunderclap8]

I had bunches and bunches of fun.

Pictures are up here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiddenpeanuts/sets/1199087/

I ended up not posting much to Flickr with my phone during the event, because I was using it to relay back and forth with Krystyn instead. Most of what's posted there are from my 'real' camera.

Even with all the craziness at the cemetery, the best part was finally being able to put some faces and voices with names. Let's not wait for another ARG to do this again.

I also highly enjoyed getting a phone call from Krystyn while returning from the event on the Metro, saying "The dealer is looking for you!"

I also want to mention how cool this cemetery is. We met with the director before we started, and learned a bit about the place's history. It is also considered a public park, and in fact we ran into a lot of dog walkers while we were there. She also offered to sell us plots So really, they were very open and welcoming to us being there.

The only problem I had was a serious case of cold and wet feet. Even INCyr's waterproof boots leaked a bit. If you're going to a future event and its been raining recently, make your decisions accordingly.

[perfect_autumn]

Had an awesome time, of course. It was just great to see everyone. Though I'm certainly sore from all that wandering about.

As for stories, I'm not sure how much we ought to tell? I mean, perhaps we ought to be "gentle" on the guilty....

[LouMac]

[krystyn]

While the DC crew were getting squishy sneakers out in the rain, many of us were keeping warm and dry (and yet still a lovely shade of green) back at our computers in our various locales.

I present to you the IRC log of that afternoon.

I cut it right as the DC crew successfully waked Lucky, and we hit 1929 Chicago at the LCP website. If you're curious, those next several minutes had us freaking out at some of the uh, I guess you could call them hairstyles of the various female avatars. Tee hee.