We completed the mission!

We were able to send the allies home! (Or, at least, we discovered how so that they could get home anyway). Diego, Noriko, Mei Hui, Markus, and Lucie have returned to their home worlds and James has traveled to find Toria (he got a tattoo that reads "Trovu Toria"). Ariadne is still here.

In addition, Gaea kicked butt at the Multiversal Olympics (we took all the medals!) Dav Flamerock and Team San Francisco got silver in both the 3 Circuit and 7 Circuit competitions. Congrats!

~Hikaro

Congrats!

Good job Team Agonothetai! We've completed the mission that was tattooed on the Six's arms: we trovis la ringon perditan. We found the lost ring and have the info we need to send 'em home! We found all the chapters of the Codex. We've won against TheO and stole the five Rings before they knew what was happening! We've helped reduce the number of worlds by synchronizing by competing in the lost sport and doing personal labyrinths. In one summer we've assembled Olympic-class labyrinth runners, breaking the training records the omphaputer gave us even though we're up against athletes who've been running labyrinths forever! In fact, Dav Flamerock is going to be the runner for Team San Francisco in the Multiversal Olympics! Congrats!

Now all that remains is to compete and then send the Six home (well, actually, Eli and the Six minus Alex (Ariadne)! Does anyone have a copy of the transcript of the Lost Ring chat where they actually deciphered the 5 rings to find it? The file Alex provided is corrupted, and I'm confused as to what the Lost Ring actually said. :P

Sorry that Chapter 2 of the Agonothetai696 podcast isn't up. Dav sent me the file but it wouldn't work on my computer.

~Hikaro

So Ends The Reign Of Pangaea

That's right--we beat Pangaea at the seven-circuit labyrinth. 1:25.25. Team Wellington never ceases to amaze.

A World I'd Rather Not Live In

On the day after the Summer Solstice, June 22, Cineball and I were going to meet at Grace Cathedral and do a personal labyrinth together. Much to our chagrin, however, Cineball had serious MUNI trouble (MUNI is the San Francisco bus) and thus didn't arrive until after I had to leave. However, each of us DID do a personal labyrinth. I made a video of me explaining it, but my computer seems to have decided to reject my video camera as of late, so I haven't been able to get it to work. I'll try to get it to work but I'll probably just end up writing it all out here in the meantime. Check back soon for a full writeup--I've run out of time for blogging.

Competition

I don't know if you've seen it yet, but over at http://www.thelostsport.co.nz/ the Wellington team videotaped their most recent run... and of course their resident runner, Atalanta, has beaten me by a good 1.35 seconds, setting the record at somewhere around 14.09 seconds. I now officially challenge the Wellington runner Atalanta to a friendly competition that will last until the closing ceremony of the Olympics. May the best... runner win.

I said this several posts ago. Of course I didn't blog it at the time, but only a few days later someone in London beat both of us, setting the Gaea world record to 13.59 seconds. Am I going to ever beat that?

Upon learning about the Multiversal Competition Ladder, located on the SECRET SITE at http://164.109.150.213/, we also have the times of the other worlds--and I'm happy to say that we're annihilating the competition in the 3-circuit labyrinth. Unfortunately, we're losing depressingly at the 7-circuit, since the highest time (other than ours) is 1:50... and we're still up at 2:15. We somehow need to get it under 1:30. Looks like I know what I'm shooting for now. Seven-circuit labyrinths, here I come.

James Mission, Parto Tri

Yes, I know I finished this a long time ago, but whatever. Here's the third part of the James Mission, wherin James tells us about TheO.





In the end the mission was a resounding success. We got the Codex page, we got the maps of TheO cities, and we got James on our side. I'm totally psyched about the final Omph strength--we've only got 6 knots and our strength is already 86.3. At this rate, we'll be able to send everyone, even James, Kai, Renata, Larissa, Kentaro... everyone. This is going to be one summer Theo will NEVER forget.

lern 2 blog

And if there was ever any doubt why I'm not a blogger, it's gone now. Hah, I really need to remember to keep up with the blogging. I KNOW I'll steal a trick from a friend of mine. Someone needs to poke me in a week so I post again. I'll see if I can get posts up on Thursdays, because otherwise I'll put it off forever. Which isn't a good thing.

So I suppose now I'll blast my way through like three or four overdue posts. Here goes nothing.