L19 SCAVENGER HUNT ITEMS LIST: WEEKS 0, 1 AND 2
L19 SCAVENGER HUNT ITEMS LIST: WEEKS 0, 1 AND 2
Items are judged principally in person on weeks 1 and 2's weekends, and possibly during CakeFaerie Events or Scouty CakeFaerie raids on weekdays. % Some items can also be judged/scored by emailing them to sheilachainstory *at* gmail.com ^_^
A is for Aperitif (IceBreaker Round)
Mapping out the FaerieLiterature:
1) Name books, series, films, franchises nominally including a Faerie character [2 points each, 100 items max].
2) ... where nominal Faeries are the main theme [5 points each, 50 items max].
3), 4) are the synonymal counterparts of 1), 2) [4 points each, 50 items max].
5), 6) are the misnonymal counterparts of 1), 2) [8 points each, 25 items max].
Draw your favourite Faerie character:
7) who is nominally a Faerie [10]
8) who is synonymally a Faerie [15]
9) who is conceptually a Faerie but misnonymally referred to elsewise :) [20]
10) Explain the difference between literally and figuratively [8]
11) ... in a manner that Count Olaf would understand [16]
12) Explain point-by-point which of "Morally, Ethically; Spiritually, Physically; Positively, Absolutely; Undeniably and Reliably" are current-world common-sense attributes of an individual who may or may not be alive [32]
13) ... and which are current-world 'bureaucratically meaningful attributes... [32]
14), 15) are 12) and 13) again, but now from the point of view of bureaucratic Munchkins [64]
16), 17) are ditto, but now additionally explained unto non-bureaucratic Munchkins [64]
18), 19) are ditto, but now additionally instead explained unto bureaucratic non-Munchkins [128].
20) If the Baron Munchausen was a Munchkin, what Tall Tales would he Tell? Give a performance! [10 per participant, 5 per tall tale, 1 per individual lie or exaggeration].
21) 20) is Superlative on biggest lie, biggest exageration, most lies-and-exagerations, funniest lie, funniest exaggertation. Whereas 16), 17) are superlative on funniest, and 18), 19) on each of irony and sarcasm :)
22) What are the differences between a Good Witch and a Bad Witch? [12]
23) What are the main differences between George Martin's and L. Frank Baum's depictions of villains? [24]
24) Act out a Munchkin parade [10 points per participant, 10 points per performed song, 20 per parodied song, each with reference to the 1939 film].
25) Superlatives for 24) are highest and lowest pitch, most gelled hair on a Lollipop Guild member, and most ironic, sarcastic and current-news-relevant causes for to have such a celebratory parade in the first place :)
B is for Baking
Provide cake for start of term CakeFaerieing
1) Bought cake: 5 points per portion.
2) Self-baked cake: 10 points per portion.
3) Group-baked cake: 10 + 2 b points per portion, for b the number of other cakefaeries you baked with.
4) [Reminder 1) It's double in each case so far if you decorated the cake with Fondant. You can e.g. provide fondant animals in a tin to go with a bought cake.]
5) Determine whether the Fondant we use is Vegan. [80 points for the first correct analysis, 40 thereafter, with bonuses for finding substitutes if not; for sure, so far we've not put Fondant on our Vegan cakes :)]
6) Vegan cake is, in the interim, worth double :)
7) Show another willing Bakey how to bake Vegan [20 per willing Bakey shown]
C is for Interesting Conflicts (Duelly CakeFaeries)
0) Duel another Duelly CakeFaerie (off uni property and as per our Rules) [10 per distinct Duelly CakeFaerie, double if you cake them in the process]
In Watergun Duelling (or elsewise in attaining Hunty Items, within the Rules, and in each case additionally counting as a Superlative):
1) Outnumber [10]
2) Outrange [10]
3) Out-output [10]
4) Outburst [10]
5) Outammo [10]
6) Outconserve ammo [10]
7) Outresupply [10]
8) Outlite [15] (benefit from using better performance per unit cumber weapons, tacticals or props)
9) Outl33t in duel reports [10]
10) Outsneak [10]
11) Outcover [10]
12) Outwaif [10] (I.e. use smaller size to make better use of hide--n-sneak, cover)
13) Outinform [10]
14) Outdisinform [15]
15) Outrun
16) Outmanoeuvre
17) OutShockMob (benefit from surprisingly large amounts of some kind of mobility)
15) Outdisguise [25]
16) Outlayer (use more layers of disguise than your opponent) [20 per layer].
17) OutEnvMatch (I.e. make use of the existing layout) [5 per use]
18) OutEnvBend [50] (I.e. without breaking UK Law or the Combat Rules, tactically modify the existing layout)
19) Explain some difference between an Interesting Conflict and a Conflict of Interest [2 per point, 100 max].
20) Come up with tactically plausible Out-outX's in addition to the above 'out-output' :) [5 each, 10 max].
D is for Double-Scores
Whichever Scavenger Hunt Item scores double if:
1) Bakey-Double: Item is Made Out of Fondant.
2) Scouty-Double: Item is in Form of a Subsequently Delivered Cake.
3) Listeny-Double: Item is Packaged with a Subsequently Sent Kindly Note .
4) Hunty-Double: Item Heralded by Epic Music or Meme.
5) Duelly-Double: Item has an Associated Duel.
6) Silly-Double: Item has a Silly Partner.
The Default is that Doubles from this section are Not Cumulative.
They are however cumulative with unrelated doubles in other sections.
Scouty-Double only counts if the process of turning a piece of cake into an item does not render that piece of cake into an undeliverable state, and if the delivery occurs promptly after presenting the item to the Judges :)
Listeny Double's basic format is that the item comes with 1 or both of a kindly note or a Safer Space flag/insignia. [Occasionally, the kindly note will be one and the same as the Item :) Occasionally, the kindly note will be delivered without the item it was presented with to the Judges. This applies when the item is personal property rather than a gift, or if the item is not suitable for a pidge or room delivery.]
Silly Double's basic format is that either the item or the deliverer has a partner item, as follows.
A) The item could have its own little wand :)
B) The deliverer could have, and make use of, a Fluffy Sidekick. So e.g. your Plush Duck, Mouse, Octopus... participates in delivering the item to the Judges or in a room address delivery to a Silly CakeFaerie. Or e.g. your Plushie is part of the cast in acting out an item. Or drawn characters have their own accompanying Plushies... and so on :)
C) The item could come with a Silly Rhyming Couplet or Sentence of Nonsense.
Listeny and/or Silly Double's sending may occasionally be by internal mail if the item is suitable for that. In particular, poems and drawings are suitable items. However, never send edible items by internal mail. Nor valuable or frail items, or for items not fitting in a small envelope or which leave the small envelope looking like a parcel rather than an envelope. If the item is edible, frail or up to pidge sized, it should be delivered in person, including parcelling it up when going to a place where that's a necessity or a necessary precaution.
Duelly Double has the following formats (all off university Property)
A) 'Attack': The item is used, or produced, for tangible purpose during a duel. [This includes explaining after duelling a Judge that one of your shots/ruses/pieces of tactical equipment was meant to represent a named Scav Hunt Item :) Such an 'Attack' must conform to the Duelly CakeFaeries' Conduct, Safety and Security rules
B) 'Brandish': Your watergun 'wears' the item that round, e.g. your poem is strapped to it with rubber bands :) B) cannot moreover affect the watergun's safety or non-alarmingness.
C) Casus Belli: your duel is over the item in question.
Duels can of course have multiple rounds, so a duel meet-up can be used to score many items :)
If an item is Scouty-Double - cake subsequently delivered in person to another cakefaerie - and one of Bakey-Double, Listeny-Double or Silly-Double, then it is, exceptionally, triple. And quadruple if it is all four of these doubles at once.
Superlatives (Items stating "Most", "Smallest", "Longest"...) score 3 x (number of teams) + 6 in the maximal case, 6 less for second and 3 less in turn for each subsequent. To score fully, these must be handed in within three weeks of when set, i.e. they are scored for a 3-weekly list just before the next 3-weekly list is released :)
Section Completion Completing an Items List Section gives you a 20 percent bonus on points scored for that section.
E is for Anne with an 'E'
1) A straw hat [4]
2) Red hair [6]
3) A stirring dramatic reading [8]
4) Largest surface area hair bow.
5) A dress with puffed sleeves [20]
6) Draw a picture of Anne as her alter ego, Princess Cordelia [10]
7) A copy of The Lady of Shalott [4]
8) Raspberry cordial [6]
9) Recite the Atlantic Maritimes [8],
10) Double if 9) is acted out to appease a teacher with a 'dead mouse' on his lip.
11) Give a list of ways of recognizing a 'there's Gold in your town's soil' Grifter [2 points per item, 50 max].
12) Double if 11) is presented in comic strip form, and double again if this is replete with suitable Anne of Green Gables characters and decor.
13) (damnedly out of season!) apple blossoms [20]
Act out:
14) The world's most complete apology (Superlative!)
15) The 'misplacing' of a 'valuable brooch' [10 per cast member] Ahead by a Century:
16) Give 10 ideas already around in 1900 that were ahead by a century [4 each]
17) Ditto for 1800 [6 each]
18) Ditto albeit more speculatively for 2000 [6 each]
19) A working potato battery [20]
20) A Triumphant Procession of working potato batteries [4n^2 points for a procession of n people each with a distinct working potato battery]
F is for Fantastic Beasts...
1) General Mythical Beast Plushies [4 pts per species]
2) Harry Potter Specific-such Plushies [6 pts per species]
3) Fantastic Beasts subfranchise-specific Plushies [8 pts per species]
4) A Plush Newt [10 pts for the 1]
5) Other things MACUSA coud stand for [2 pts each, 40 Max; Superlatives on: silliest and most Rowlingesque]
Act out:
6) Apprehend Grindelwald [10]
7) Prosecute Grindelwald [14]
8) Act as Defense Counsel To Grindelwald [14]
9) Pass Sentence unto Grindelwald [10]
G is for Games
Build us a
1) Chess set
2) Battle Chess set
3) Wizard Chess set
4, 5, 6) Defeat a Judge at Chess, Battle Chess and Wizard Chess.
7) Defeat our Phearsome Rubik's Dodecahaedron!
8) Defeat a Judge at 2-minute tabletop coin rugby.
9) Defeat a Judge at Marbles.
10) Defeat a Judge at Rock, Paper, Scissors.
11) Play a game of Rock Paper Scissors Risk (or similar: win-or-lose at eah stage determined by rock-paper-scissiors rather than dice) [20 per participant]
12) Explain what usually happens if a standard squad of 10 Space Marines `bumps into' a squad of 7 Orcs with Plasma Guns according to the original Warhammer 40000 rules (At 8, 16, 24 inches). [30]
13) What numbers, and points, ratios would make this a probabilistically-fair contest? [15]
14) Disregarding terrain details, how can Space Marines in fact readily defeat an equivalent points number of plasma-gun-toting Orcs?
15) Which rule usually stops this from being possible, and what tactic does this rule turn into a means of crushing defeat?
I is for If Life Gives You Lemons...
0) Identify the film [3 points]
1) Identify who said it before the film [4 points]
2) Give the second half of the catch-phrase [2 points]
Finish the following variants: If Life Gives You
3) Lemmas...
4) Lemurs...
5) Lemmings...
6) Lemniscates...
7) Dilemmas...
8) Lemans...
9) Chlamydia...
10) Harlequins...
11) Identify the film or series 9) is from.
12) 10) makes rather more sense as an extended multipun answer. [100 points for the desired answer, up to 50 points for making up your own]
O is for Over-Qualify
0) Catch-phrases from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" [2 points each, 5 max].
Identify the series or film (6 points each)
1) Time-travelling Rival Immortal Swordsmen
2) Time-travelling English Surgeon Woman
3) Silly Self-centred Male Models
4) Female Australian Gangster Mermaids
5) to 8) Adapt up to 5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle catch-phrases for each of 1) to 4) [10 points each}
9) Over-qualify other TV shows and films [5 points each for first 10, 2 points each for next 40]
Most hyper-qualified franchise renaming with adjectives that are relevant:
10) directly
11) sarcastically
12) ironically
13) macabrely
14-17) are as 10-13), but with the 'most' applying to the quality of the directness, sarcasm, irony and macabreness rather than to the number of adjectives used, provided that the number of qualifiers in each case is at least the minimum Teenage Mutant Ninja over-qualification, i.e. 3.
U is for University Buildings Version of Mortal Engines
1) Draw your College as a Mortal Engines belligerent. [10 points]
2) Depict likewise each other Cambridge College [8 points each]
3) Allow for colleges with multiple pidge rooms to have one Mortal Engines entry per site with a different pigeonhole [15 points per extra site]
4) Allow for five of the best- and five of the worst-architecture individual buildings to have their own entries [10 points each; double if depicted in a mortal struggle with their surrounding architecture].
5) Depict likewise each Cambridge Department Building [10 pts per Department].
6) Depict a Varsity Match: Mortal Engines bouts between Oxbridge pairings of equivalent Facs and Sister Colleges [10 points each]
7) 4 point bonus for each Mortal Engines entrant above which has a Silly Name.
8) 5 point bonus again per Silly Motto (6 points if in French, 8 if in Classical Latin, 10 if in Classical Greek, 12 if in ASNaC, 14 if in tangibly ecclesiastic Latin, 16 if in any other Classical Language).
9) 6 points per standard catch phrase, `uttered often when fighting or trash-talking the opposition'.
10) 7 points per named signature "finish-em-off" move (8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 points if this has matching-language name with the entrant's Silly Motto).
11) n(n + 1)/2 points for n the total number of distinct languages used in answering 8) and 10).