Tension Sanctioned Puzzle Hunt (now-July 20th)

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I SEE CLUES IN THIS VIDEO

Someone closer go do the things and report back!!!

Yes! Us outsiders need to live through you locals! I’m excited to see how everyone does!

@mkarrett- Please don’t feel bad about not being able to include everyone!

Great idea @mkarrett! I may start this evening and will report back any non-spoilery progress I make between now and the 20th.

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I’m three clues/spots in.

It’s lit

Agh, the one week I’m out of town!! This looks awesome, thank you for setting it up! Can’t wait to read the walkthrough

Non-Spoiler-y Progress Report 1

After reviewing the video, there was 1 clue I initially couldn’t pin down. I was pretty stuck on one idea, so dead set that was it seemed hopeless.
It was 1 am.
You’d think maybe I’d just sleep on it, try a different angle in the morning.
But I decided to wing it and go with what I had. After all it was 1 am. The traffic at that hour is non-existent practically.
This was obviously a brilliant move, in the vein of taking a job at that creepy lakeside summer camp where all those teens died, splitting up from the group to find Brittani in a the weird old McCready Mansion, or not heeding the warning of a well meaning but slightly demented old man.
So there I was, groping around in the dark, half expecting someone to confront me on my general weirdness, but then I remembered this is LA and you just acknowledge the general weirdness as part of the city and walk on.
After about 30 minutes I went home. It would have been more depressing if the traffic wasn’t so god damned amazing (We love to talk traffic here guys. It’s probably our biggest flaw).
I dropped a line to our puzzle creator and when I woke, it was like Tension Christmas morning, since her hint made it all make sense.
I hit the road around 7:45 and had located the first clue by 8:30.
I felt victorious and *think* I have it solved.
I’m going for Clue #2 tomorrow in the AM, in case any of you are also on that one.

Did I spy one of you looking for the first clue this morning? You were a brunette woman in sunglasses mulling around… or maybe the paranoia is already setting in.

I’ll report more as I go but so far I’m having a blast.

Non Spoiler-y Progress Report 2 & 3

I generally find I’m the great equalizer in a number of situations.
In the airport, I’m almost always double screened. I think it’s because I don’t look particularly threatening at all, and that’s the point.
TSA likes to pull me aside like,”HEY, if we’re double checking her, we’ll double check ANYONE.”
So maybe that makes me a teensy bit more prepared to answer weird probing questions. Which is why while I was on the hunt for clue 2 & 3, I had my excuses prepared if any onlookers approached me.
“These Pokemon aren’t going to catch themselves, officer!”
“I’m here to take selfies!”
“Look over there! C List Celebrities!” (runs to the Prius)
Obviously none of these alibis were needed.
These plants were placed thoughtfully, stealthily, and in such good spots that I was so off the radar of the public, I didn’t even have to use one of these. I almost hollered to passing people “I’M HERE TO BE TOTALLY NORMAL LIKE YOU! JOGGING! CALISTHENICS! OUTDOORS!”
However, I will say our puzzle master pulls no punches. You actually have to solve each of these, so try as I might to thwart the system, I had to use my brain/googling/reading power to solve these and while they weren’t all that easy (unless you’re a puzzle wizard like @rizzzoooooo), they were rewarding to complete and gave me a more full idea of what tension is offering.
I even used a library computer for this, next to an angry typist who I suspect has never met a keyboard he didn’t pummel with each keystroke for all to hear. Ah, culture!
I feel pretty positive the majority of you could start this and finish it within a day for sure, and see some rad LA sights.
I encourage anyone able to go out and try and complete these puzzles. Who knows where you’ll find yourself by the end, but I guarantee, you’ll feel pretty damn blissful about it.
Glory Be!

So awesome! Congrats on such a successful thing!

It was a blast! thanks so much @mkarrett!

Im sad I missed out on this.
I had way to much on the burner to be able to make the deadline.
Props to you for all of your hard work on this.
Thank you for sharing the details on the hunt!