October 2007 Archives

As I write this, a team of investigators are already en route to rural Pocahontas, West Virginia for a weekend trip into the backcountry with sketchy characters. Communication channels with the investigators will be a challenge, as they are headed straight for the National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000 square mile chunk of America nearly devoid of the cellular, television, radio and wireless channels we've grown so accustomed to in the modern age. Stepping back to the dawn of another century, the investigators face perils including bears, cultists, secret organizations, folklore horrors and something horrible in those mountains that screams.

What unfolds over the following days is our Halloween present to all of you. If you've been thinking about dipping your toe into the waters of Eldritch Errors, the coming days couldn't be a more interesting time -- and the Sentries might need your insights more desperately than ever before.

Keeping up with our fans' creativity ended up being far more daunting than we ever imagined. For a while there, it was raining packages like frogs and lizards. Wait. That's a package full of frogs and lizards! Michael, you SO don't want to know how much intra-team taunting there was about sending you crickets. We couldn't possibly keep up with the duties of caring for the entire Technocolor Plague, so we sent a number of the critters on for adoption to other fans.

Worse horrors were waiting for us, including a magic amulet (!), stolen office documents (!!), a tutorial on how to make puzzles from red circled words (!!!), and a puzzle that has officially stumped the team (it might involve CALCULUS!!!!) It took us weeks to construct the responses after we woke up from the temporary comas, sorry the return fun took a bit longer than we anticipated. We think the lack of memory of calculus might be a sign we suffered some brain injuries from this experience. We hope it wasn't the frogs that did it to us.