(I’ve sort of lost track of the bartering…)

The Sapiens are ready - they know what to do.

The Ludens are ready - they have told Twitter to talk to their mobile mini-glowboxes and have begun to head for Birmingham city centre.

At 10am @ladybird_appie’s city-wide treasure hunt/Ludens teaparty mission mashup will begin.

@ladybird_appie has the instructions, @TheLudensShow has the commentary.

yohmoh @cross_triangle by my reckoning, 4 out of 10 of your treasures have been found. I will award points at 7 out of 10.

Cross_triangle has responded this by updating the map to make it easier for Ludens (or Sapiens?) to find the remaining treasure.

cross_triangle i is try mark in mip which tres sure gorn, i not totly sure, mebbe can message meif more gorn? http://tinyurl.com/5yeo4s

Don’t forget to let someone know if you do find some. Perhaps in the comments here if you’re not one of the Ludens.

Meanwhile a few more bartered items have been retrieved and it looks like a particular treee in Can On Hillp Ark has become the new SquishUp Carp Ark as favourite place for leaving items. We think there’s still a bidge out in the wild awaiting collection from Loki, hope the squirrels don’t get to it first…

Meanwhile, nice-talking ladybird_appie has arrived at a date for the Grand Finally. Ludens from different parts of the country will be congregating in Birmingham on the afternoon of July the 5th. This has been declared In Deep End-Dance +1.

Two new missions have also been written specifically for the newly-returned Dave_the_Mouse. Will he complete his comeback by rising through the Ludic ranks before In Deep End-Dance +1?

Here is the current points tally, cross triangle is now comfortably over the 2000 barrier:

Dave_the_mouse Thanks to Loki and lepufo for being concerned about me. I got lost down the back of the sofa.

ladybird_appie Misshun for @Dave_the_mouse to document different sofas and rate them for how easy would be to get lost in them.

Document 20 different sofas and rate them for potential for getting lost down the back of.

cross_triangle @yohmoh he could try locate the cheez? i hear someone moved the cheez? create Cheeeez Mip?

Create a cheese map. Tell us where all the cheese is.

avalokitesvara @ladybird_appie 4th of JULY? maybe weMerican themed it and go invade someone?

avalokitesvara Invadin fings is called In-deep end-dance apparently

ladybird_appie @avalokitesvara end-dance? well, that seems very appropriate! how do we go about it - do I need to make any spessul arragements?

avalokitesvara need lots of plains i fink. will rees earchit

egorbeaver oh am likin forfofjuly plan - luden sa can call it work so can come do merican tressure hunt

avalokitesvara pparently in-deep end-dance is all about blowing things up, punching aleens, and smoking cigars. http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

We’ve not yet been told the details, but sounds like it’s going to take a bit of time to plan. Expectations are that it will be good.

And that’s about it really, all a bit quiet after all the activity of the Ludens’ Tea Party last night and several players graduating to Ludens Ludens, nothing much happened at all, not a lot to write about here that anyone’d be interested in.

Oh, except

Dave_the_mouse came back!

Here’s how it unfolded:

Dave_the_mouse Thanks to Loki and lepufo for being concerned about me. I got lost down the back of the sofa.

lepufo @Dave_the_mouse Hellooo! Great to see you! can you come to the treasure hunt?

aposematic (appie) ladybird_appie @Dave_the_mouse http://tinyurl.com/3u5oth

lepufo http://twitpic.com/2iog - Yipee!

Dave_the_mouse *blinks* Didn’t realise I’d caused so much trouble by being lost in the sofa. Treasure hunt?

yohmoh @Dave_the_mouse oh Dave, where to start?! http://tinyurl.com/47m2er welcome back, anyway. Glad you’re safe.

Dave_the_mouse Oh my ears and whiskers!! People were really worried. How can I make amends? Maybe there could be a mission suggestion just for me?

yohmoh @Dave_the_mouse How about decorating yourself and getting your photo taken as a starting point?

yohmoh Also we’ve found lots of new Ludens friends since you were last with us - you might want to follow them.

Dave_the_mouse There’s my piccy. Decorations.. hmm. Will there be a party when the game ends? I likes a good party.

yohmoh @Dave_the_mouse Great! Good to finally see you! Actually, there was a big teaparty last night (that’s why it’s so quiet here today).

yohmoh @Dave_the_mouse @ladybird_appie wants to organise a big treasure hunt/tea party in a few weeks’ time.Can you come? http://tinyurl.com/5poum2

lepufo @Dave_the_mouse yay! you has face, I wasn’t far off http://twitpic.com/23qq

So, there you go. @Dave_the_mouse is back and apparently wanting to do missions.

What mission do you give to a mouse that’s been lost down the back of the sofa for 72 days?

Here are the day’s scores:

Once upon time is nice sapien who sad about all the other sad sapiens going all “Oh I is missrable cos I has no munni” or “I is loneli and it make me cry”, so he go around trying to make evryone happy innit? But noone really get happier and he try to fink why. He fink and fink and try some good idea out but everyone still all “Why me?”

So he sit down unner a tree like he seen some other sapiens doin and wait for answer. Long long long long long time latr he forget why he sitting there, but he suddnly kno why evryone so sad and he try to splain to evryone. He manage to talk to many sapiens but only one or two gets it before he so old he lay down and not get up. Now, unlike mose other sapiens he learnd how to have a nuther go from beginning, like after GAME OVER and you pushes PLAY. See, he unnerstands PLAY is answer for sad Sapiens so can become Ludens and not have no more “Oh, poor ole me, I is so unforchoonet”. But still after many more times GAME OVER, still lots more sapiens going boohoo. So venchully he come back as summink diffrent so more peepl notices and maybe lissn. This time comes back as big blue rabbit (but can go small too for fit in pockets) cos you see it is loki has bin talk about… eternal happy bunny. Forgots original face and original name, but has new name.

Name Avalokiteśvara made up of parts: first bit ava, meaning “down”; lokita, mean to “notice, or observe”, and las bit īśvara, meanings “master”, y’know like Jedi Master in star wars or summink, but no killin involved, just lots of luvin insted. Although, could also be ending svara (“sound, noise”), which means “sound perceiver”, so maybe that cos of the big ears innit?

Any way has own song an everythink what goes OM MANI PADME HUM, nice innit?

Today was the day of egorbeaver’s tea party. 2 hours of it. A good time was had by all.

Shortly after @cross_triangle’s commentary broke off, Loki opened a shop. Go have a browse around - it’s got lots of stuff in it. This is one bunny determined to get in some bartering before The Game finishes!

Also Clivendale pulled Clivendale’s self out of the doldrums delivering public journey and Dave_the_mouse missions to earn the rank of Ludens Medius.

Helped by Lepufo and in the process of bartering for a Lepufo cape, Loki then told us a story to warm the cockles of our hearts.

Day 14

Appie continued to have problems trying to upload her graduation speech and egorbeaver had an overnight adventure.

Various Ludens started to get their tea party kits in preparation for tomorrow’s tea party. With a little bit of anxiety about what to wear. Cross_triangle solved that problem though after a little bit of assistance from quick-drawing, nice-talking ladybird_appie.

LeonHerring, after some hesitation about the lyrics, hit us with this:

emergent hat song from Leon Herring on Vimeo.

Big news of the day:

cross_triangle HIMPORTANT NOUNCEMENT, i, @cross_triangle, is try make tresure hunt!!!! http://tinyurl.com/53ouwe all tresure is same so only need 1 …

and the hunt was on…

Whilst most of the treasure will have to be found before any points can be allocated, cross_triangle’s other map of useful resources for “where buy tings fix/improve avataris” is effective straight away.

Appie was next to take up the treasure-hunting challenge: talking us through the experience of finding the first and then going on to find a second as part of a barter with LeonHerring.

The nature of the treasure and the found location remains a secret though…

LeonHerring managed to find some treasure too, so Leon and Appie are now re-negotiating their barter. Much, much, much bartering activity still going on all round between most of the avataris as it has been for the last couple of days…

Meanwhile, appie finally got the speech uploaded! Here it is:

finally, is my vehr persuasive spich from ladybird_appie on Vimeo.

um, it appears to be in some sort of code…

Here are the points for the end of day 14.
Congratulations to LeonHerring whose hard work(avoidance) over the last day or two has resulted in graduation to the rank of Ludens Excellens.