CAMBRIDGE SCAVENGER HUNT: Mayweek 2019

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THE RULES

See here for The Scavenger Hunt Rules, including Safety and Conduct Rules all active participants in the Scavenger Hunt must read...

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TEAM TABLE

POSITION TEAM NAME, BANNER and ALIASES SCORE NOTES SAFER-SPACE AND CAKEFAERIE-TYPE FLAGS OF ALLEGIANCE
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DRAW ME A SHEEP

Doh, 'Trinians, Nihilism is in fact unrelated to the River Nile!

Medic-Buuugh-uck-uck Terminated with extreme prejudice

Copperhead Down

Chekhov's Hanzo Blade beats Chekhov's Salt-Loaded Shotgun.

Californian Mountain Raptor with a Medical Eyepatch subdued.

Anacondas treated with respect (not on hitlist of snakes; those are all venomous)

Crazy Eight Hundred and Eighty Eight fought to a standstill with Lego college crests on the outside and Lego safer space crests on the inside.

Reverse Ultimate Showdown, ended by Ms Kiddo in a Blood-Soaked Golden Sweater...

Ending with "Kill Tom" (Lehrer).

17842.8 Silliness

Tactical Acumen

Girl Power.

Transformation of the Bride, with Transformers: Robots in Disguise (as College Gates) flowing inevitably into the Charge of the Rohirrim into the Discworld Elephants, Descent of the Witch King, and culminating in Eowyn's heroism.

Chekhov's Hanzo Blade fuliminates the nominal section, assisted by Cadsuane's Hair Ornaments one-upping of Chekhov's Earring!

Dinosaur Extinction effectuated, Discworld done. Dodecahaedron, passable. Icosahaedron and buckyball are somewhet coarse-grained Death Stars. With 2 or 3 lasers to 1-up Chekhov's Death Star.

All four Listeny Sections down.

All three Duelly sections down.

Both Lego sections (Art and Engineering) completed, with a good spinor made out of Lego :S but only a terrible dodecahaedron, icosahaedron, buckyball or Mandelbrot set. Largest Witch King's flail by all criteria except pure length (that one goes to Spartacus' item doubling as longest bridge ^,_,^ ).

'Redoing Lobachevsky in 10 other countries' was done here in Wonderland, the Mirror World, the Discworld, Jurassic World, the Mr Men Universe, the Gulliver's Travels Universe, the Little Prince's Universe, Flatland, and Teletubbyland. And, of course, the Universe Inside John Malkovich's Head.

[Is plagiarism even possible in a Universe in which everybody is John Malkowich? Paradox points!]

Female Superheroes Only version of the Ultimate Showdown.

Completed every section, sometimes minimalistically, and excluding the first section that was 1000 points max, for which they just got the 1000 points without section completion.

To the obvious music our lyrics start with...

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep triple silence

draw me a sheeeeeeep triple silence

said a little voice a lil

voice a little voice a lil

voice a little voice a lil

voice a little voice a lil

Prince was standing-there -Extraordinaire!-

draw me a sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

aaaa sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep? ...

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9882.2 Cygriffind'or Wins!

Epic Music

Major carnage with Global-Analytic park: the Items Section on Dinosaurs cloning Mathematicians going badly wrong for the Dinosaurs. Including group picture of the Bourbakis in T-Rex form :)

Section completion on 'Chekhov's Arsenal'

All four Listeny sections presented

All three Duelly sections down.

Cheapass Transport Section Takedown.

Breaking Bad as a Chekhov Paradise, with some Game of Thrones and Harry Potter support.

Our King was Poincatheah, as slowly murdered by the Bourbakis using a pictureless, applicationless series of Mathematics Textbooks from the 1950s onward. Featuring a mixture of Mathmos, T-Rex Hybrids, Scav Hunt Team Names, and actual Kingkiller Chronicles characters. The Name of the Wind would appear to be 'Topology' and with plenty of pictures and applications too.

3
I am Spartacus and So Is My College's Pettingowlzoo

(is that John's, John's or John's?)

Murmilloes for Closet-Mental-Health :)

Retiarii for Rental-Wealth-Awareness :O

Escaped Scutarii for Non-Normative Survivor Awareness

7845.6 Erm, we kinda *invented* Epic Music :P

T-Rexes crossed with numerous other species.

Listeny 2 down.

Kingkiller Chronicles Cluedo, whose cards completed the Kingkiller Chronicles section. Apparently, the King in question was Torn Apart by Rival Factions of Librarians, after becoming entangled with multiple cataloguing-scrolls.

This story also got points for both "Topological Nightmare" and "Categorical Nightmare".

Our Lobachevsky including the lines

"I knew a Madamoiselle in Versailles,

who knew a Man-Mouse Cell in Marseille" :P

As well as rhyming "Universite Stella-Artois" with "Nicoise"

And

"I knew a woman at the University of Grantchester,

who knew someone doing Gender Studies at Personchester" :)

Also reworked Tom Lehrer's "Smut" using no-double-entendre Baked Goods.

4
The Order of the Phoenix

This is the Face of a Phoenix.

Reborn from the Ashes.

More than a few Safer Space peoples quite often adopt a Mythical Creature.

You've probably heard of the Trans* Unicorn, the Ace Unicorn and even maybe of further Safe Space People Unicorns.

As the Unicorn said to Alice: "Well, now that we have seen each other, if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."

Well, our Survivors here adopted the Phoenix.

We may have been the first Survivors to openly adopt a Mythical Creature.

Though in fact we adopted two.

For now, at least, we use the Phoenix's Face for our Survivors in general,

for Avoidant Survivors,

and for Survivors in Transit ( shortly to be on the blue drop of General Fluidity background).

But our Non-Normative Survivors already previously adopted the Direwolf, in a certain sense, not for themselves but for Allies to Non-Normative Survivors.

Reborn from the Ashes means in part that we have to rebuild our lives, or have had to rebuild our lives.

It means that, even if we have rebuilt our lives, we may still on occasion have flashbacks or experience triggers.

As such, Allies may still occasionally see those of us who have Healed on a Burning Day.

For others of us, who have not healed, every or almost every day is a Burning Day.

The Phoenix's face has feathers-of-flame for sure.

This is not indicatory of a Burning Day.

For Phoenices are Creatures of Fire, as well as occasionally being Reborn from the Ashes.

We wish we had Healing Tears so that All-of-Us be healed.

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Drawing the Phoenix's Face was not easy.

(It is said; we didn't draw it.)

It was to specification.

Probably more so than Saint Exupery's Little Prince's requirements for the sheep he sought.

The Smile had to be small; the Face unobjectified, and mostly Female.

To match Survivors being mostly Female.

Some are Male, and some don't ascribe to the Gender Binary.

Or are Multigender, whether simultaneously or Genderfluidly.

The flames are Fire; not plumage colour, let alone hair colour.

For All-Peoples-on-Earth contain Survivors.

Survivors can be of any Gender, Gender Presentation, Orientation...

As can be our abusers.

Avoidant Survivors are to close approximation 'the 85% that do not go to the police'

These Safer Space coined this term for the whole world to start to use.

Just don't credit us for it, because we do Not Consent to that either.

More precisely, Avoidant Survivors are 'the 80% intersection'

that don't say what happened to 'medical', 'disciplinary', 'tutorial', 'official welfare', 'rep', 'journalist'... people either.

This means that a large proportion of Survivors: Avoidant Survivors, are very little known about

Consequently, what things there are in the world that are 'supposed to be for Survivors'

were probably set up without input from (almost any) Avoidant Survivors.

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Non-normative Survivors we here define by addition:

There are many possible types of such, so the definition is a list,

and no doubt that list will keep on growing.

So, some Non-normative Survivors are sexually non-normative.

Some were sexually Non-normative.

Some became sexually Non-normative.

But some of us are sexually normative, it was the abuse we received that wasn't.

And some of us are, were, or became socially Non-normative.

In some connection to the abuse we received.

Current-day counselling does not deign to understand

That by when one becomes a Goth (say)

One trust nobody but Goths.

Not Counsellors, but only Goth Counsellors.

And certainly not Counsellors trained soley to value legally-protected characteristics,

or maintain those to be more important thn how we define ourselves.

Imagine then how a Goth feels when raped by another Goth,

in a town only large enough to have the one Goth club.

(Though this is a theoretical example, not one of our histories.)

For the 85% Do Not Consent to our stories being detailed,

As information can be inferred from details of actual stories as to who they're about :|

3260 We all here can see, and ride, Thestrals for our Epic Music...

Our purpose is to point out that the Survivors' crest's image is the face of a Phoenix, and to regale you with a ballad of that Phoenix.

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THE GREAT REBELLION

See here for a 'team photo' :P

1820 Harmless Toy Weapons

and Sillness 'r us

Our Epic Music

Our Lyrics:

I am Adora, introduced on My Own Terms (thankyou)

and defender of CakeFaerie Lorien.

This is Spirit, my Beloved Steed.

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Fabulous CakeFaerie Secrets were revealed to Me

the day I held aloft my Waterpistol

(at 45 degrees to maximize range) and said

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"For the honor of [Redacted]Skills!".

I am She-Ra!

*Transformety-Glowing-Rainbows*

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*Silvery Spiral Glitterescent*

*Steed Enthusiastically Transforms into Swift Wind*

*La-di-da, Unicorns with Rainbow Wings!*

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Only a few others share this secret

(of MY Partly-Out Identity)

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Among these -Allies- are Light Hope

(Ethereal Rainbow-God,

I kid you not)

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Madame Razz

(Down with Discrimination

based on Age or Ocupation!)

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and Kowl (Half Koala, Half Owl,

with Rainbow EarWings,

I think you can all see where this is going...)

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Together, ME and MY friends of the Great Rebellion

vie to defend Etheria

from the Eeeevil forces of 'Hordak'.

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* Cut to pictures of, mostly, the Patriarchy:

The only thing worse than a 4-legged dude called Mantenna

would be a 3-legged dude called Mantenna...

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Leech - a 'lawyer' working for

certain 'showbiz' types...

Turncoat Facilitator 'Shadow Weaver'

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And phallic-imagery-obsessed

[Redacta]-dak-tak-tak,

whose 'hotel room invitation' I certainly refused.

Listeny, Transport, Discworld.

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GRANNY WEATHERWAX's HEADOLOGY EMPORIUM

1534 Tallest Lego structure doubling as least stable Lego structure. Fine specimens of Mobius strip and regular hexagon.

Portraits of the Judges made out of Lego.

Lego Discworld.

So far, only Lego superlatives have been tallied up so far; six Lego items here are likely to be non-Lego superlatives.

Mathmo Humour

Large amounts of Chekhov outgunning :)

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Headmistress Cleo Psychovelocirap'tor's PARTLY CROCODILE-HEADED LADIES OF ST TRINIAN'S

alias LACRIMAE NUNQUAM FALSAE SUNT

alias DOWN WITH THE THAUTHAGITHTOCRATHY *BURPS*

alias DUH, DRAW ME A SHEEP! IT IS YOU WHO ARE IN DE-NILE!

1237 Make Us worthy, make Us proud.

Teach Us not to chew too loud.

We'll try not to devour the crowd.

But We are St Trinians.

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We can't fake the Way We Feel.

We were Hatched to Keep it Real.

Hockey sticks and Jaws of Steel.

We are St Trinians.

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You bite Us, We'll Bite you Back.

Better be scared when we Croc-attack.

Pheel the Phear we're Caymaniacs.

St Trinians.

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Check out our Battle Cry.

A Scaly Song to Terrify.

No one can stand up to Our Sedge and Bee.

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We are the Best, so screw the rest.

We do as We Damn Well Please.

Until the end, St Trinians.

Defenders of Nile-ism.

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To the Epic Music of this link .

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Temple of Exceedingly Dangerous Fighting Cats

1185 Our Purricane Pawnado trashes your Eagle's Claw!

Two lots of Listeny

The Story of the Cat, and a Feline self-purrtrait ^.^

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GOING POSTAL

460 Drawn discworld, some Duelly, Johnny English as a Chekhov's paradise.
10 =
THE UNSEEN UNIVERSIY

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10 =
GREAT A'TUIN AND THE ELEPHANTINE PILLARS OF THE DISCWORLD

30
10 =
GUARDS, GUARDS!

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MAYWEEK HUNT'S NEWSFLASHES

In Easter Term, we release 1 Items Section around June 1st and around 30 further Items Sections shortly before Mayweek starts!

These items are things to find, and/or act out, and/or draw, photograph or video. A few involve comepeting with other teams, or solving puzzles. Some items are subject related, college related, book or film related, and a range of unusual objects.

Past examples include most unusual flavour of chocolate, largest clock, posing as Darwin outside Darwin College [other Colleges' equivalents of this are left to your imagination :) ] and building a scale model of Minas Tirith out of a portion of fudge.

To advertise this year's hunt, however, we built Minas Tirith out of Lego

since we're having an All-Day Drop-In To-Build Items-from Lego ^_^

The main points of this activity are personal interaction, cooperation, and camaraderie and solidarity between teams.

Two other days will have afternoon-long events, and each remaining day will have a 2-hour judging session.

Being CakeFaeries, Judges or their Stand-in Allies often have nice edibles to share.

Items are awarded points; it is always possible to score at least part of the points with partial efforts :)

We are a society in which why we do things matters more than what we do. So the main objectives are to meet people, make friends, and understand and support each other.

Even among dedicated Hunty CakeFaeries, the aim is to hunt well, and not 'to win'. This is reflected by two teams needing only approximately-equal score to be awarded a joint-equal place.

May 15

Great CakeFaeries and other Safer Space Custodians' announcement

"Most of this hunt's Items Lists shall be provided by Survivors.

Some of these are among our most talented scavenger hunters, for all that they didn't feel safe enough to be in scavenger hunt teams until this was reformatted for meaningful indirect participation in 2018. "

They now speak:

"Prior to that, I mentored Allies and assisted teams through my Allies. In Michaelmas, I broke the scoring system by formally scoring infinity for an item; it was then determined that anyone doing this would get max(finite score in that hunt) + 100. I'll give you + 100 more if you formally score uncountable-infinity, and + 100 on that if it's higher-aleph."

The Great CakeFaeries and other Safer Space Custodians emphasize, moroever, that first-time and part-time participation is very welcome. People can play for good-natured fun, in support of others, as part of support groups, or out of not feeling safe elsewhere in Mayweek's activities.

[Please note that these Survivors wish to interact by dreaming up items which CakeFaeries then realize. This means that writings and drawings, for instance, will generally have higher scores in this Hunt than speaking or acting. It is not ok to assume anyone present is a Survivor, unless they happen to declare that they are. Survivors interact on our own terms; almost nowhere can many of us meaningfully participate; but in CakeFaeries, we can since there is freedom to remove normativities like not providing or rating indirect participation.]

May 17

Our first Items List Section shall be called "Hailene", basically meaning Scouts and Vanguard, with specific reference to the Ever Victorious Army.

This shall consist of small sensible build-up things to do over the next 4 weeks, like publicity, recruiting, checking in on support groups, and writing kindly/silly notes for cakefaeries with exams who have requested this.

Maximum score for this section is 1000 points; three teams got the full 1000.

Opening Items List is now available here ^_^

One-upping the wall walrus with a carpenter constituted of carpet!

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