Orientation Orienteering - Revision history

Eforney at 23:28, 6 July 2011

2011-07-06T23:28:47Z

Xanderao at 12:29, 6 June 2011

2011-06-06T12:29:06Z

Eforney: mbritton, Maija, and Xander are around for the summer so clearly they are volunteering :)

2011-05-24T21:34:08Z

mbritton, Maija, and Xander are around for the summer so clearly they are volunteering :)

Mbritton at 17:07, 16 May 2011

2011-05-16T17:07:18Z

Bubbles: /* Route (walked and plotted by Bubbles, Broman, and eforney) */

2011-05-15T01:12:53Z

‎Route (walked and plotted by Bubbles, Broman, and eforney)

Tvaughan: /* KGB Participants */

2011-05-14T18:26:46Z

‎KGB Participants

Tbroman: /* Route (walked and plotted by Bubbles, Broman, and eforney) */

2011-05-14T17:58:32Z

‎Route (walked and plotted by Bubbles, Broman, and eforney)

Tbroman: /* Helpful Tips */

2011-05-14T17:44:47Z

‎Helpful Tips

Bubbles: /* Route (walked and plotted by Bubbles, Broman, and eforney) */

2011-05-14T11:46:59Z

‎Route (walked and plotted by Bubbles, Broman, and eforney)

Bubbles: /* Route (walked and plotted by Bubbles, Broman, and eforney) */

2011-05-14T11:43:33Z

‎Route (walked and plotted by Bubbles, Broman, and eforney)

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 *[[Maija]]
 *[[Xander]]
 ==Stickers/Recognizable Emblem==

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 *Clue the last: MM A14 (or whatever room we have next semester)
 **a message: "You've made it, but the prize isn't here yet! Come back to this room on Monday at 4:30. Be sure to mention <some silly phrase for the first member of your party to say when Bubbles asks for something uninteresting about you. Anyone have ideas for this?>"
-**the prize may or may not be FREE SKITTLES FOR EVERYONE (or maybe something else since Skittles aren't kosher and some people are diabetic &c &c eforney cares about that kinda stuff run-on sentence)
+**the prize may or may not be FREE SKITTLES FOR EVERYONE (or maybe something else since Skittles aren't kosher(actually the smaller packages are gelatin free, so they are technically not explicitly UNkosher, but they still do not have a hexcher) and some people are diabetic &c &c eforney cares about that kinda stuff run-on sentence)
 **also comrade points!

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 *[[tbroman]]
 *[[tvaughan]]
 ==Stickers/Recognizable Emblem==

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 **will say something like: ".Ascend .there Go .word thirteenth the note and sentence backwards the Read"
 ***Do we want a more direct reference to the Number Garden or are we assuming that they'll associate backwards messages with the Number Garden?
 **the backwards sentence refers to the Eddington quote prominently displayed in...

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 **will have "Orient_________________@gmail.com"
 **will say something like: ".Ascend .there Go .word thirteenth the note and sentence backwards the Read"
 **the backwards sentence refers to the Eddington quote prominently displayed in...

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 **down the Helix they go to...
-*???
+*Clue 9: Gates-Hillman, floor 3 bulletin board (near Tazza D'Oro)
 **Newell Simon to Wean to CFA to...
 **send eforney, aleibowi, and tbroman your ideas

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 **sometimes on charity!
 **sometimes on upperclassmen friends?
+*textbooks can be purchased on the cheap by looking on the cmu.misc.market bboard
 ==Route (walked and plotted by Bubbles, Broman, and eforney)==

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 **we'll probably just have a plain old message taped up "GJ so far. E-mail us so we know how awesome you are! And then head to the Cathedral of Learning. You can use your student ID to take any bus (except the 28X) going toward that really tall phallic building over there. Just get off at Fifth/Atwood (or whatever that is). Don't forget to take the cipher to the fountain!"
 **the cipher is some mechanism using the text on the [http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y85/GriffinClaws/pittfountainplaque.jpg plaque] next to the fountain at Bigelow entrance to the Cathedral
-***Basically, we were going to have a piece of paper with the logo found on the plaque on top and underscores where each letter is on the plaque. Some of these will be red or numbered or something, and you're meant to look at the corresponding letters on the plaque to spell th message
+***Basically, we were going to have a piece of paper with the logo found on the plaque on top and underscores where each letter is on the plaque. Some of these will be red or numbered or something, and you're meant to look at the corresponding letters on the plaque to spell the message
 **we'll also have a folder with sheets with this picture and cipher stuff for them to take to...
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 *Clue 5: the "Forbes/Schenley dino bus stop" near Dippy the Diplodicus
-**(my memory is fuzzy) but I think we decided to leave another taped message telling them to take a 61-anything to...
+**There'll be a sign on the bus stop telling them to take a 61anything to Forbes and Margaret Morrison where...
 *Clue 6: the Margaret Morrison/Forbes bus stop
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 *Clue 7a: Roselawn 7
 **since KGB folk live here, they can put KGB stuff in their windows or whatever :)
-**we're thinking of getting a huge sheet/banner with our emblem to hand from the tree outside Roselawn 7
+**we're thinking of getting a huge sheet/banner with our emblem to hang from the tree outside Roselawn 7
-**some sort of device (haven't decided what yet) tells them to go to the Compass Rose near Resnik Cafe, and follow it whatever direction (North West?) as far as they can
+**some sort of device (haven't decided what yet) tells them to go to the Compass Rose near Resnik Cafe, and follow it whatever direction (North West? as marked by the compass rose, not the real, correct direction) as far as they can
 *Clue 7b: The Compass Rose pathway
 **the direction leads along the Corridor, the large sidewalk past Resnik/West Wing/UC/The Cut/Purnell and onto the Pausch bridge to Gates
-**stickers should be put at Purnell implying that they should pass Purnell, not go into Purnell
+**stickers should be put at Purnell implying that they should pass Purnell, not go into Purnell, kind of forming a path
 *Clue 8: Gates-Hillman, floor 5 bridge entrance
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 **Newell Simon to Wean to CFA to...
 **send eforney, aleibowi, and tbroman your ideas
-**or contact us if you just want to participate
+**or contact us if you just want to participate/playtest
 *Clue the last: MM A14 (or whatever room we have next semester)
-**a message: "You've made it, but the prize isn't here yet! Come back to this room on Monday at 4:30. Be sure to mention <whatever Bubbles wants participants to mention when he introduces new members>"
+**a message: "You've made it, but the prize isn't here yet! Come back to this room on Monday at 4:30. Be sure to mention <some silly phrase for the first member of your party to say when Bubbles asks for something uninteresting about you. Anyone have ideas for this?>"
 **the prize may or may not be FREE SKITTLES FOR EVERYONE (or maybe something else since Skittles aren't kosher and some people are diabetic &c &c eforney cares about that kinda stuff run-on sentence)
 **also comrade points!

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 **stickers mark two lamp posts (visible above cars)
 **stickers also mark the midpoint of these two lamp posts
-**here we can tape a slip of paper with "______________enteering@gmail.com"
+**here we can tape a piece of paper with "______________enteering@gmail.com" and an arrow pointing across Forbes to...
 *Clue 4a: the swing/picnic table/pavilion area near Doherty Apartments
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 **we'll probably just have a plain old message taped up "GJ so far. E-mail us so we know how awesome you are! And then head to the Cathedral of Learning. You can use your student ID to take any bus (except the 28X) going toward that really tall phallic building over there. Just get off at Fifth/Atwood (or whatever that is). Don't forget to take the cipher to the fountain!"
 **the cipher is some mechanism using the text on the [http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y85/GriffinClaws/pittfountainplaque.jpg plaque] next to the fountain at Bigelow entrance to the Cathedral
 **we'll also have a folder with sheets with this picture and cipher stuff for them to take to...