neadods | Pre-Squee for NYC

Emails are starting to fly around for SherlockNYC's next event, and I'm starting to get really excited for it. I'm heading up to the city tomorrow, and on Saturday I'm joining 50 fans in a photo scavenger hunt at the Natural History Museum -- the schtick is that Moriarty has replaced one of the artifacts with a fake and then given a set of clues to Sherlock and John. We're divided into teams - I'm Team Purple Shirt and will pack to dress accordingly - and we get two hours to go (quietly, respectfully) through the museum, following clues in an envelope and taking pictures of our solutions.

Then there's lunch at a burger bar, and an afterparty at a place to be determined on the day.

The whole thing will be managed, appropriately, by text message - teams text their answers, and there will be a mass text to remind us when to wrap up (the hunt runs roughly 2 hours). Possibly due to the questions about precisely where to meet at Gillette Castle, the mass email has included not just written instructions, but a Google map pin, photos of the entrance, and even a photo of the meetup point with a marked area drawn on it.

There is a prize for the winning team, with a remark that in case of tie, the winner will be determined via questions about canon. I'm assuming The Canon - Doyle - but could be wrong about that, considering this is a Sherlock BBC group. To reimburse for the prize, a very nominal fee of $5 was charged for being in the hunt; the price of lunch is each player's responsibility.

In the hopes of being an ambassador for Doyle, I'm going to have a couple of used Sherlock books and will offer them up at lunch to anyone who is interested in checking out the canon.

SherlockNYC has become a group to reckon with. I'm impressed with their energy and imagination.