What an annoying experience
I’ve been following the Batman/Joker-based ARG off and on for awhile now, and thanks to a few people on my flist like thunderclap8, I was alerted to a countdown.
At the end of the countdown there were 6 addresses, one in St Clair Shores. Hell, I was about to go on lunch, it’d be tight but I could make it there in 30 minutes.
I busted my butt and got there just as a dude was getting in his car with a cake. I went in and asked for the cake for Robin Banks (get it?), and you guessed it, the other guy had it.
Well hey, fair and square, right? I go out and, after a minute, knock politely on his window. He looks up from digging in his cake and gives me the smuggest expression as he shakes his head. I can see a bag with a paper marked “EVIDENCE” in it, but little else around him. At some point I say, “Have a heart, man!”, but he ignores me.
Eventually he drives off.
What a bummer, that the guy wouldn’t even talk to me or show me what he’d found. I guess he must have thought I was going to steal his thunder. Or his cake.
EDIT: http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=13422536 <-- that's the cake. :)
aw man, so close! that guy is a moron.
Looks like the cakes have a cell phone in them.
I wasn’t sure if that was his cellphone or one he’d found in the cake.
Got a link to where the details are being reported for the cakes?
there’s the superherohype forums, but they’re hurtful to read through:
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=290339&page=69
and it looks like you already found the small unforum thread.
I did indeed!
They can’t all be beekeepers.
Mmmm, no need to crush my rampant idealism!
How hilariously rude.
that sucks….but, explain. Are you in some kinda batman scavenger hunt?
whysoserious.com is the big update we’re following now.
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=429236 has much of the detail, and my friend is maintaining a wiki on it.
This is only the first step.
Coolness.
But…it could just be me…but Ledgers Joker seems …. kinda …Crow…inspired in hair and make up…..
ah well.
probably just me
Heh.
Old!
I mean, maybe. :D
I was excited, quite a while ago, when there was an e-mail list to alert folks to potential new ARGS. I was pretty busy and didn’t have time to watch unfiction closely. Sadly, I’ve only ever gotten a few e-mails over the course of several years, so I keep missing stuff. Guess I will just need to be more vigilant.
I sent the hubby out immediately upon the update but he missed the Las Vegas cake by just a few minutes. Ecks51 was right behind the duo that got it but, like your experience, they didn’t want to share the experience either (and he said they didn’t follow any forums). Giskard posted pictures for the Boston cake here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/r_giskard/sets/72157603379344867/
Yeah, I just caught that on unfiction. Alas, maybe in the next round!
Sucks this happened here.
Just kindof saddens me that this sort of “MINE!” mentality is the first reaction, and doesn’t seem to be isolated.