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YahwehTzVaoth
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Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 18 Location: Boston, MA
Accomplishment Tokens alternative Letimarks I am writing to ask if there are any ARGs or puzzle-based games that give out realworld items for accomplishing certain things in game.
Perplex City had those little buttons (letimarks), I think if you beat Turok on the hardest setting you got a badge, and I remember a fantasy football site a few years ago that gave out keychains to sucessful players. So my question is if there is anything like this out there now.
It is probably the ex-Eagle Scout in me, but I have always thought that its a really neat to get some kind of item to signify that you have accomplished something. In addition to having the priviledge of the laurels, they can be a fun momento. Something to make you say, "Wow, killing all those dinosaurs with next to no ammo was really a pain in my butt."
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:09 pm
jjason
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Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 113 Location: St. Paul
Eldritch Errors is giving out Challenge Coins to people who participate in each chapter. Is that the sort of thing you're talking about?
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:17 pm
YahwehTzVaoth
Boot
Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 18 Location: Boston, MA
That kind of thing, but more for completing a puzzle or group of them. Not just something you get in the mail. Although that kind of thing is also very neat.
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:35 pm
myf
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Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 917 Location: Hiding from squirrels
I'm not sure that it's quite what you're on about, but people who took part in the Amy Greenford thing (to launch the latest Jasper Fforde book) got a signed postcard when it was all over. I don't know if everyone who took part got one, or just some who did certain things, but that was a cool bit of mail
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:36 pm
sidtheduck
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Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 105 Location: The Land of Milk and Rainier Beer
In Who Is Benjamin Stove , people who solved puzzles or discovered significant milestones received a piece of
Ye Olde Random Crappe
Darby Family Heirlooms . This was in addition to the end game poster which anyone could receive by signing Ben's online manifesto.
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:59 pm
mapmaker
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Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 608 Location: Providence, RI, USA
Not everyone who did got theirs.......
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:53 pm
sidtheduck
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Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 105 Location: The Land of Milk and Rainier Beer
mapmaker wrote:
Not everyone who did got theirs.......
too bad, Mappy! Mine came about 1-1/2 months to 2 months after the end game, but it still came!
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:22 am
rowan
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Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966
Mapmaker, I feel your pain as well.
Maybe we can beat some random crappe out of whomever meets us in WV
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:03 pm
enaxor
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Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395
jjason wrote:
Eldritch Errors is giving out Challenge Coins to people who participate in each chapter. Is that the sort of thing you're talking about?
Has everyone who sent a SASE gotten a coin or at least a return package?
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:08 pm
Shutaro
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Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 171 Location: Northren California
enaxor wrote:
jjason wrote:
Eldritch Errors is giving out Challenge Coins to people who participate in each chapter. Is that the sort of thing you're talking about?
Has everyone who sent a SASE gotten a coin or at least a return package?
I haven't recieved anything yet, but I procrastinated and sent in my envelope kinda late (only about 4-5 days before the next chapter/book got going). I think most of the people who sent in envelopes earlier got responses.
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:30 am
rose
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Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117
Art of the Heist gave out these great pins shaped in the logo of Nisha's detective agency.
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:28 pm
konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 8010 Location: My own alternate reality
Sammeeeees got a T-shirt from Peeps during the first game.
And there were chips from Last Call Poker Graveyard games (and many were sent out to those who could not travel to one of the live event locations).
SWAG is kewl, but not my primary motivation for immersing myself in an ARG. Tokens for accomplishments (i.e. prizes) makes some games more competative. It's fun to exchange memorbilia. And the museum has been fun to help organize for ARGFests.
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:47 pm
danteIL
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Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990
enaxor wrote:
Has everyone who sent a SASE gotten a coin or at least a return package?
I haven't received anything back yet. Maybe there are no coins sent out once the interlude is over??
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:24 pm
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