As you are all aware, there has been big updates to the Season 2 ARG for Perplex City lately. I have updated Perplex City Side to explain some of the new updates, but due to being insanely busy with university, I have been a little behind, and I apologise for this!

The big news is the merge with the BBC! Apparently Perplex City has become involved with the Big Weekend (the weekend of 19th/20th May), and the 3P are going to launch an attack on the Big Weekend audience during it. We have the task to prevent this. We have managed to find a website where the 3P are launching puzzles for various 3P agents to win tickets to the Big Weekend. We enter these, and so far have managed to secure a great deal of tickets between us.

The only catch is that we need to be able to go to the pick up point to get these tickets. So far the pick up points have been in Liverpool and Bolton.  I was lucky enough to get the chance to go to pick up tickets from Bolton, which was on the 16th May. We were all given our own passcodes, and told a place to meet the guy. We had a half an hour window, and had to pick up the tickets between 7pm and 7:30pm, or we didn’t get the tickets!

I arrived at Bolton around 6:30, and met Mindez at the station. We walked to the meeting point together (in the pouring rain…), and waited for said “shifty guy” to turn up. He turned up at 7pm on the dot, and Mindez went over first. Several other people turned up. The only one I remember was Muffin. (I have a terrible memory!). When it was my turn, I walked up the steps and went up to the shifty guy.

We were directed not to initiate conversation. Just give him the passcodes, take the tickets, listen to any instructions, and then go. However, I had to be different, and needed to pick up two envelopes. The guy was really nice to me. I really appreciated that, as I was struggling to hear him, and managed to understand enough to get what I needed! We get to skip the queue on Saturday, and queue up with the competition winners, which makes me feel special! He also said that “you may be needed on Saturday”, which sounded ominous.

I then wandered back down the steps, and decided to try and take a picture of the “shifty guy”. But, I’m not good at sneekily taking pictures, so it was fairly obvious I was taking a picture of him, and he stepped forward as I took the picture XD (maybe he wanted to allow me to take a picture). Even then it didn’t come out very well at all, sadly.

I then headed back home (via a 2 hour delay at manchester!).

A very exciting evening, and I’m looking forward to finding out what happens on Saturday in Preston.

For those that are able to attend on Saturday, I will see you there (we need to organise a meet up time!), and those that are unable to go on Saturday, I will be updating when I have free time (probably the Sunday), and I will be taking pictures, as I promised.

Welcome to Season 2!

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