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Re: I've been waiting for kickoff long enough!
I've already began.
As everyone knows, everything Dave Lavery touches has a game hint in it. However, picking game hints off of stuff like skin (shaking hands) or a piece of paper would simply not be cool enough to be embedded with a GREAT game hint. So we crafty folk at 1714 planned the biggest trap possible: We got him to sign our robot. After this, we took the Sharpie and the chunk of polycarbonate and had them chemically analyzed. It was a tricky operation, as the piece of poly is critical to our robot's structural integrity, but we managed to patch it together on Thursday in Atlanta. Unfortunately, it took a few weeks, so we just got our information back a few weeks ago.
When we got it back, the pen had an imprinted message with the words "water game", so we knew that was a fake. The robot, however, had a much more valuable game hint, which I will not reveal as I do not want to spoil the game. When you put the pen marks under a microscope, you'll find that imprinted in the line is a microscopic message that was "written" in clear, surrounded by black to make it hard to find. It not only revealed the game piece, it revealed the manufacturer.
From there, I personally snuck down to Nerf Inc (yes, it's made by Nerf!) and broke into their boardroom. After cutting a hole in the floor under their table, I snuck in a tape recorder and then rappelled out the skyscraper window. They're having a meeting about the game in 2 weeks, where they will explain everything about it in order to pitch to Nerf the idea of using their product at a discounted price. I'll report back to you then.
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I wonder if we sang songs to Bill Miller if that would get TIMS opened sooner, like the way it worked to wring game hints out of Dave Laverly. - rsisk [more] 
17-05-2009, 23:45
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