Back. Will write more later

[rhu]

Back from Hunt. (Yes, Michael, and Arisia too, but mostly Hunt.)

Starting to catch up. It will take a while.

Nutshell review of Palindrome's hunt: 'Nuff fun? Yay!

Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. Thanks to Palindrome for constructing a fun Hunt. Thanks to Immoral, Illegal, and Fattening for inviting me to solve on the team this year.

I had a great time, largely because I felt that I held my own on the team. I solved one puzzle mostly myself, was part of several successful solving pairs, and made (I think) useful contributions towards a fair number of puzzles. Sure, I also made my share of mistakes, and there were some puzzles that still frustrate me, but there were plenty of "Aha!" moments and that felt good.

Detailed writeup of the weekend will, I hope, follow.

Comments

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Glad you had fun. Will we see you at the wrapup or are you working today?

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I'm taking a long lunch. Just promise me wrapup won't run past 8pm. :-)

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Awesome: the post-mortem is always a lot of fun. And don't worry: we've planned out how long the wrapup should take the same way we did with the Hunt. ;)

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I will not be at the wrapup. But I didn't do the Hunt, I went to Arisia, so that's OK. :-)

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Oh I've got a little something to lend you -- I'll get it to you via Andrew.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Actually, if it's the item we discussed before, we've already managed to borrow it from someone else.

I happen to like time travel stories, but I thought this was going to time travel into the previous stories more, which would have been cool.

And you are so right about the toad. I couldn't stop watching.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Andrew, feel free to consider this a puzzle to solve. What are toonhead and mab talking about? :-)

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Ha! Glad you like it. If only all the puzzles were on this level of difficulty ;)