Summer of The Lost Experience
Adventure in Chocolate
Okay, a few posts ago, I talked about playing an ARG based on the TV show, LOST. I've been doing this for four months now. The basic idea is that we're helping super spy, Rachel Blake, save the world from the evil Hanso Foundation. It's actually more complicated than that, requiring science, math, history, literature, and philosophy. In other words, fun. For me, anyway.One part of the game that doesn't make sense but has been amusing is collecting Apollo candy bars. (The Apollo Company does not exist.) Most of my gameplaying has been online. For this, Becky and I participated in a Real World activity. In short, I took my teenage daughter to a bar in the city on a school night to meet people from the internet and get chocolate.Why? When it came down to it, I decided that it would be a neat memory. Becky and I could say twenty years from now, "Remember that time we took the train into DC to get the Apollo bars?" Years ago, I went to Atlantic City with my mother and my younger sister, Cathy. We had a great time, laughing at everything for three days. When my mother was in the early stages of Alzheimers, all she could remember about me was that trip to Atlantic City. She would say, "Remember when we got back to the hotel at 4 am and were talking so much we forgot to push the button on the elevator, then complained about how slow it was?" We laughed as if it just happened.So, Becky and her crazy Mom went to the ESPN Zone and took pictures of each other holding the newly acquired candy bars that will help save the world. We had a VIP pass to the special event in the bar, where we met other Lost Experience people and talked Lost for an hour. The main purpose of the event was promotion for a car, an Acura RDX, so there were free drinks and food and goody bags with cool pens, a gadget with a bottle opener in it , and a USB flash thingie on a keychain. They were giving away cars and ipods and stuff, but we didn't win. We did get back in line (against the rules) to get extra Apollo bars, which we will donate to a website that gets bars to game players around the world who don't have giveaways near them.We left home at 3:30 and were home by 7:30. No harm done. We had fun and created a story to tell years from now. Which fits my philosophy of life. Life can suck. Life can be boring. Or you can say "what the hell" and make things happen that make it less so. You never know when that silly little event will turn into a very important one.
Adventure in Chocolate
Okay, a few posts ago, I talked about playing an ARG based on the TV show, LOST. I've been doing this for four months now. The basic idea is that we're helping super spy, Rachel Blake, save the world from the evil Hanso Foundation. It's actually more complicated than that, requiring science, math, history, literature, and philosophy. In other words, fun. For me, anyway.One part of the game that doesn't make sense but has been amusing is collecting Apollo candy bars. (The Apollo Company does not exist.) Most of my gameplaying has been online. For this, Becky and I participated in a Real World activity. In short, I took my teenage daughter to a bar in the city on a school night to meet people from the internet and get chocolate.Why? When it came down to it, I decided that it would be a neat memory. Becky and I could say twenty years from now, "Remember that time we took the train into DC to get the Apollo bars?" Years ago, I went to Atlantic City with my mother and my younger sister, Cathy. We had a great time, laughing at everything for three days. When my mother was in the early stages of Alzheimers, all she could remember about me was that trip to Atlantic City. She would say, "Remember when we got back to the hotel at 4 am and were talking so much we forgot to push the button on the elevator, then complained about how slow it was?" We laughed as if it just happened.So, Becky and her crazy Mom went to the ESPN Zone and took pictures of each other holding the newly acquired candy bars that will help save the world. We had a VIP pass to the special event in the bar, where we met other Lost Experience people and talked Lost for an hour. The main purpose of the event was promotion for a car, an Acura RDX, so there were free drinks and food and goody bags with cool pens, a gadget with a bottle opener in it , and a USB flash thingie on a keychain. They were giving away cars and ipods and stuff, but we didn't win. We did get back in line (against the rules) to get extra Apollo bars, which we will donate to a website that gets bars to game players around the world who don't have giveaways near them.We left home at 3:30 and were home by 7:30. No harm done. We had fun and created a story to tell years from now. Which fits my philosophy of life. Life can suck. Life can be boring. Or you can say "what the hell" and make things happen that make it less so. You never know when that silly little event will turn into a very important one.
posted by BarbaraJay at 9:59 AM
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