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I helped staff the Dr. When game this weekend. I wish I could post pictures and be specific about how awesome it was, but they're rerunning it next weekend, so I can't. (I couldn't really say much about it when I helped playtest a month and a half ago either, other than that "it's gonna be awesome and Wei-Hwa is a genius!") I don't really write about puzzle hunts anymore, which is kinda sad. Of course, I don't really write about much of anything anymore.
But yeah, it was a great way to spend the weekend, aside from some more arm and shoulder pain on Saturday night (I was actually seriously eating dinner right-handed because my left arm was so dead by the end of the evening). I got to see a whole lot of Seattle friends -- I didn't tell them I'd be staffing, so it was a funny surprise for some. (Jeff Wallace said: "Wait a minute. Aren't you supposed to be in the hospital? Or Japan?" and I'm like "Yeah! I was! And I will be!") And of my CA friends playing, they didn't know what I'd be doing, so they were still a little surprised to see me in my roles, I think. Trust me when I say that it'll be pretty funny if/when I talk in more detail about it.
Mostly, the curious thing was that I realized that staffing California-style hunts or Games is kinda fun. I think the Seattle-style events are a lot more "sitting around in GC", and I realize that's also a component here, so I was really lucky in some ways to be trusted with player-facing roles to play. I dunno, I'd still rather play than staff, but I think in the future that when I can't get a team together to play in something here I'll definitely just be like "hey, need staff or playtesters?"
I guess I'm just glad to get involved in the community. Like, I feel like this weird nebulous outsider-but-not, if that makes any sense -- I haven't been here puzzling with everyone for a decade like some of these people have been, and don't have an established group here or anything, but since I was involved for so long in Seattle and started doing CA-Seattle mashup events several months before moving here, and helped write PH14, people seem at least a little more comfortable with me than they would be with some complete random newbie.
Also it was great to have some puzzle brainstorming/storytelling with Debbie for a few hours on Saturday night. It makes me want to start writing puzzles again. And in other shoutouts I have to say that Dan E wins the award for making me involuntarily totally break character. If I ever get around to explaining that one it'll be pretty funny.
But yeah, it was a great way to spend the weekend, aside from some more arm and shoulder pain on Saturday night (I was actually seriously eating dinner right-handed because my left arm was so dead by the end of the evening). I got to see a whole lot of Seattle friends -- I didn't tell them I'd be staffing, so it was a funny surprise for some. (Jeff Wallace said: "Wait a minute. Aren't you supposed to be in the hospital? Or Japan?" and I'm like "Yeah! I was! And I will be!") And of my CA friends playing, they didn't know what I'd be doing, so they were still a little surprised to see me in my roles, I think. Trust me when I say that it'll be pretty funny if/when I talk in more detail about it.
Mostly, the curious thing was that I realized that staffing California-style hunts or Games is kinda fun. I think the Seattle-style events are a lot more "sitting around in GC", and I realize that's also a component here, so I was really lucky in some ways to be trusted with player-facing roles to play. I dunno, I'd still rather play than staff, but I think in the future that when I can't get a team together to play in something here I'll definitely just be like "hey, need staff or playtesters?"
I guess I'm just glad to get involved in the community. Like, I feel like this weird nebulous outsider-but-not, if that makes any sense -- I haven't been here puzzling with everyone for a decade like some of these people have been, and don't have an established group here or anything, but since I was involved for so long in Seattle and started doing CA-Seattle mashup events several months before moving here, and helped write PH14, people seem at least a little more comfortable with me than they would be with some complete random newbie.
Also it was great to have some puzzle brainstorming/storytelling with Debbie for a few hours on Saturday night. It makes me want to start writing puzzles again. And in other shoutouts I have to say that Dan E wins the award for making me involuntarily totally break character. If I ever get around to explaining that one it'll be pretty funny.
