Dropping tonight?
My logic on Barracora was hydra - multiple-heads, harpies - half human [female], half other creature. Barracora’s human face, facing front, is smiling, while the fish ones, facing sideways, are just, well, toothy and fishy. Medusa is far from friendly, although facing her/it the right way is important, and that and her snaky extra heads does fit that part of the clue better than Barracora. I hadn’t though about Medusa when I drafted the story; Perseus is the one who deals with her, not Jason. If someone had gotten the other four sooner, I probably would have done the Heart clue earlier to differentiate things.
As it was, I had no idea what the games would be until Jim told me not long before we posted this, and then I cooked this story up in under an hour to get things rolling. The presence of Argosy was the seed that got the thing started; not too bad for thinking on the fly, I hope.
We could have a demented contest some other time for “take 5 random games and cook up a trivia clue story connecting them” and see who can do the voted-best tale in a hurry.
FYI, I have a family situation to deal with, so I won’t be at INDISC on Sunday and will be skipping Main, High Stakes and broadcasting for that reason.
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Forgive me if this is a dumb question but will Assault on the Vault be a part of Safecracker scores?
sorry to hear that Bob, hope it all works out.
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There will be NO assult on the vault.
Can we win tokens? 
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Hmmmm…sure. Either keep em or turn them in for $1 million game dollars each. 
You did a good job. As someone trying to guess, it is hard to think like the person writing the free association riddle. I also really wanted a band of heros to be Aerosmith because of guitar hero Aerosmith. But at the same time didn’t really believe you would have made that association.
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I thought it was great, too. I loved how everything fit naturally into the Argonauts story. Mostly I’m stunned that I didn’t find High Speed, even after figuring out “quickly rode” and looking at every IPDB page about 500 times… 
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I was ready to guess Elvis for “promised land”
I was ready to guess GOT with the mention of Harpies…
Not that I have a great chance to make finals on Sunday but what time would they start? I’m trying to make a train to LA at 2pm
Day 3—Sunday January 13, 2019
Qualifying
- High Stakes 10AM-5:30PM
Check In
- Main A & B Finalists 8:45AM
- Kids Finalists 9:30AM
- Women’s Finalists 11:30AM
- High Stakes Finalists 6PM
Finals
- Main A & B Early Rounds 9AM-12PM
- Kids 10AM
- Women’s 12PM
- MAIN DIVISION BREAK 12PM – 3PM
- Main A & B Final Rounds 3PM
- High Stakes 6:30PM
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Putting the custom game settings on this page is brilliant. So simple, but very handy. I hope to see this become the norm.
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I don’t see a link to the standings anywhere on neverdrains.com … am I missing something ? Seems funny to not have it linked somewhere 
Yeah I found it on the Facebook event, at least it’s easy to remember! Just figured it would be on the main site somewhere
This is also very nice
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Huge thanks to the entire organizing team for this event. Great space and games, excellent work on broadcasting and TDing, outstanding quantity and quality of prizes and celebration.
Thank you!
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What did the payouts end up being per division? I heard mention of a few dollar amounts on the broadcast, but no official payout listing.