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[Live Event] Undercover Action -- Cover Yourself In Grass
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 		Oh please don't cut it Thunder.... I'd love to see ALLLL the footage. I have plenty of webspace on my domain iffin you need a place to host it {if the size/webspace in the issue}.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:24 am
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Thunderwolf wrote:
Hilariously, some bemused members of the general public attempted to join in with what we were doing. - The hands on the planetarium, the crouching on the bridge....


This phenomenom has been observed in psychological research settings. Somewhere around this forum there was a thread about public response to positive group activities.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:25 am
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Olly
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konamouse wrote:
Thunderwolf wrote:
Hilariously, some bemused members of the general public attempted to join in with what we were doing. - The hands on the planetarium, the crouching on the bridge....


This phenomenom has been observed in psychological research settings. Somewhere around this forum there was a thread about public response to positive group activities.


I just tried searching for that thread, but can't find it Sad

Could you try looking for it please? I'm mightily interested in what people have posted!

PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:26 am
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Tarim
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 		Ramblings
Here are a bunch of Tarim's ramblings from the "Cover Yourself In Grass" event. Tarim has tried to skip over the bits Russell has already written about - which may make this even less coherent than it would otherwise have been. But come on - you should be used to that. Wink

Tarim arrives in Queen Square just before noon and takes a walk around. There are a couple of very suspicious looking guys there who are obviously part of the event. Tarim heads to the Hole In The Wall pub and on entering is greeted personally by a lady, obviously in charge, who informs Tarim, "We've just re-opened and today is a training day - things may be not be usual here". Tarim really wasn't expecting things to start this early! The lady in charge directs Tarim to a specific guy behind the bar who will serve him. He ever so slightly resembles Keir Jones. Tarim gets chatting to him, telling him that Tarim is meeting some friends here and hadn't realised the pub had been shut for a while. Barman comments on this being a coincidence. Tarim replies that there's no such thing as coincidence and we start on a conversation about synchronicity and philosophy (which barman studied at university). One of the staff (there are about a dozen altogether - this has a bigger budget than Tarim realised!) comes up and starts talking about their new table numbering system. There is no table 40. Table 13 is renumbered as table 93. It's also pointed out that table 93 is in somewhat of an awkward position. Tarim sits at it, leaving Venue magazine open at the article on Meigeist. The two suspicious looking guys who were wandering around outside come in and go upstairs. Barman comes over and offers Tarim a free pint as the staff have been being trained to pour them. Tarim accepts and as it arrives; his alarm goes off to warn him that he should go to the statue in Queen Square. Down pint, and dash outside. Reflect on the fact that the barman's name is Daniel, not Keir. He went to Bradford, not SRI. Never see the two characters who went upstairs for the rest of the day. Sometimes you don't need someone else to create an ARG for you - you can do it all for yourself. Wink

There are a group of seven people standing by the statue in the square. They are very obviously "in communicado". Tarim joins them and introduces himself. Bag lady arrives, wonderful character, who, after failing to get any fags from us - asks if we know anything about Psivolution and starts dishing out name tags. This seems far more usual for Bristol than the previous hour - so Tarim decides we are in for real/unreal now. She leads us towards Pero's bridge (named after a slave who was resident in Bristol in the 18th century) where we see Pat and Dave both trying to attract our attention and look inconspicuous in a way that we grow to love throughout the day.

Pat and Dave are great fun to play with - we sneak across the bridge, noticed only by absolutely everyone in the vicinity. We test the temperature of the water in the fountains; dance inconspicuously around Dave's hat in the square; feel the energy of the giant silver sphere (wonder if anyone got filming permission from At-Bristol?); cause a guy sitting on a bench to decide he has an urgent appointment and has to leave, when we all sit around him and discuss many of Pat and Dave's theories. Two of the name tags have a blue strip across the top, so Dave makes sure the people concerned hold hands, just to be safe. Some of the players seem surprised at Bristolians joining in with our antics. Having lived in Bristol for some years now; Tarim would have been surprised if they hadn't.

Pat and Dave announce that they have had an email from Frankie Francis that very morning and that there is a special PsivolUtion SymposiUm laid on for us at the Watershed. The symposium is just like a real technical symposium - free food and drink, great feeling of being "in" on something and very little actual information. Pat discovers that Frankie Francis is "Nighttime+" compatible while filming her on his video in the darkened symposium room. Somehow he seems more pleased with this than he ought to be.

We solve the questions while waiting in the queue for lunch (typical Watershed queue speed) to give us http://www.subject180287.net/uplink.html. We talk more with Pat and Dave - and find out Pat's totally insightful musings on Barclay James Harvest (like Mahler with a beat, less notes and more lyrics).

Back in the symposium we manage to upload a picture to the uplink page and learn that Frankie Francis is originally from the Netherlands - which explains her difficulty in coming to terms with UK etiquette. Unfortunately, when asked to give her thoughts on what subject180287 is, Frankie is called away urgently on a phone call and her technician informs us she has one final slide she wanted us to consider. It has the following questions on it:


  • What is subject180287?
  • How can we take control of it?
  • How can we defeat KenKon?


We go out of the symposium room, in time to hear the Geist signature tune over the bar sound system and see Eva arriving for her date, clutching Voiphe. After talking about whether we should approach her or not, Pat and Dave jump in anyway. Dave asks if Eva would like his name badge - but she seems reluctant to let him pin it to her somewhat low cut top. A birthday cake is produced by the Watershed caterers (with only 12 candles, not 20). We sing happy birthday to Eva, and a message, apparently from Keir, over the sound system causes Eva to rush off. Pat decides we should eat the cake anyway - so we do that, but then they realise we may be being watched and we have to leave in a hurry too. Tarim grabbed a candle on the way out - but forgot to check under the table to see if Eva had left Voiphe (or anything else interesting there) there - damn.

We "cover ourselves in grass" some more on the way back to the statue in Queen Square, and finally feel set free as we pretend to be aeroplanes running towards King Bill. Somehow it reminds Tarim of the scene in the last episode of The Prisoner where they are dancing in the back of the truck going along the motorway - but then Tarim had drunk several beers by then.

Pat and Dave disappear and we adjourn to the, aptly named, King William pub to drink more and chat about the day's happenings.

Later that evening, Tarim is going back to the centre of Bristol and decides to take a detour to check if the clue is still pinned up in the "comfort break room" of the Watershed. Not only is it there but the signs to the symposium are still up (though the symposium room itself is locked). The Watershed is closing so there aren't many people around - making it easy to "obtain" the sign upstairs. The one in the lobby is slightly more difficult - there is a security guard next to it. Tarim fiddles with his mobile as his plan forms. Tarim asks if the security guard knows a "Nigel" who works here? The security guard says he doesn't. Pity, if only his name was Nigel then Tarim would have been happy to have been told he couldn't have the sign (see clue 5). Tarim sets the alarm on his phone to ring in one minute and when it does, pretends to read a text. Tarim says to the security guard, "I'll just take this up with me then" as he unsticks the sign and walks back up the stairs into the Watershed with it. No-one thinks you're lifting something if you walk back into the building with it. Around the corner, out of view, Tarim rolls it up and puts it in his pocket, waits for what is probably far too short a time and heads back down the stairs. Say goodnight to the security guard and off into the night with the spoils.


All in all, a great day, and many, many thanks to everyone involved - you are all brilliant.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:54 am
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Olly
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 		Tarim you're insane mate, actually making time to go back to the Watershed then even creating a plan to steal the notice Laughing

Had a great time with you and the others, hopefully we can do it again some time!

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RothkoWoofed
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-the bag woman


-GRASS!


-Feel the energy of the planetarium...


-the, now legendary, salty stain.


-stealthy movings




-the birthday girl


cake or death?


-Pat and Dave discuss the relevance of the dung on the 'European portal' street

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Jediwannabe
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 		Awesome! Cheers Rothko!

PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:48 pm
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Simone
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 		Nice pictures!!Can`t wait to see the rest!!

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 		ok those pictures were great! even more excited to see the vids now!
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Tarim
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 		The Raw Data
The list of participants at the symposium were:

  • Geoff Bumf (Tarim. Hairy guy sometimes wearing orange and blue, knitted hat.)
  • Anne Cabbage (Olly. Silver/grey coat, blue jeans, black rucksack.)
  • Lynn Chop (Jediwannabe aka Jon. The guy with the camera stuck to his face, sideburns that are in desperate need of cutting, and a "Pirate Radio" t-shirt and razor-blade around his neck.)
  • Wendy Flapp (Pat. The tall one.)
  • Wendy Flapp (Russell_k aka Russell. The ne'er do good in the black NYC hoody.)
  • Mark Hanky (Dave. The short one.)
  • Bevis Lunt (Rothkowoofed aka Ollie. The one with the glasses and curly hair.)
  • Ian Meat (setters393 aka Lucy. Not hard to spot being a Lucy!!)
  • Melanie Ming (Thunderwolf aka Karl. Dreadlocks and huge trousers.)
  • Phil Pail ("I don't have a secret name" aka Dan.)

Two of the name tags had a blue stripe over them.

When asked about the two Wendy Flapps, Pat commented, "There's two things that could be going on here - Either there's some kind of connection between us - or someone in administration's cocked-up." Smile

The web page on screen when we first entered the symposium room:
http://www.subject180287.net/Interface/

The question sheet given to participants at the PsivolUtion SymposiUm reads:

  1. Just the ticket to get you started.
  2. Hey Chalkie! Would you eat something wearing a jacket?
  3. 'Comfort breaks' lead you to appreciate the clean walls.
  4. 'Play it again Sam' and see this lady's first initial.
  5. Near where you entered, if you ask you may get No for an answer from Nigel.
  6. The sign says you can find your last and confirm your last three by extracting DRS from the things you can't take beyond this point.


And the answers are:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):


  1. U The capital Us on the ticket.
  2. P Jacket Potatoes written on the board.
  3. L The sign in the toilet: "These loos are lovingly lathered and left litterless for you by Laura and Len Lincoln. Working together leaves us all in the loop and allows life to be lighter"
  4. I Casablanca is back at the Watershed, with Ingrid Bergman (playing Ilsa Lund).
  5. N No to Nigel. But who is Nigel? Christopher Guest is director of "For Your Consideration" showing at the Watershed. Christopher Guest also played Nigel Tufnel in This Is Spinal Tap and said No when Marti DeBergi asked to touch the guitar with the amazing sustain. Oh come on - it can't be that convoluted!
  6. K The sign says, "No DRINKS beyond this point".

This leads us to the page http://www.subject180287.net/uplink.html


The final slide said:

Our future investigations
  • Questions to take away with us today:
  • What is subject180287?
  • How can we take control of it?
  • How can we defeat KenKon?



[ Edited to add player descriptions and correct Pat's quote. ]

Here are some scans which aren't nearly as exciting as the pictures people took...
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Olly
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 		I was Anne Cabbage Razz

How did you find the information out about the 'N' riddle?
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 		So which of our Forumites are in the pics? I'd like to know who's who!

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WolfHawk wrote:
So which of our Forumites are in the pics? I'd like to know who's who!

I'm the one in the beige coloured t-shirt in the birthday cake pics.

In other news... I am very pleased to announce that the video has been edited, titled and mashed together, and is at this very moment on its way to Google Video in its entirety.

Once it has uploaded, we will probably then need to wait for a bit for it to be re-encoded by google, and then I'll post the link here.

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 		Jediwannabe, Where's the Video? You're Killing us!

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 		The Video posted on google video. Its pretty cool.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3682329866513047533&q=Jediwannabe&hl=en
that should link you to it. If not look up jediwannabe on google video.

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