Boyfriend Playing Games. No, Really.

Austera

OKAY GUYS I NEED YOUR HELP. ANY AND ALL SUGGESTIONS ARE APPRECIATED!

The story: So my boyfriend and I have been writing each other letters, simply because we find it sad how people don't do that anymore. Imagine looking back on your mementos when you're 60; there's a big difference between reading letters vs. MSN chatlogs. We go to the same university and basically what we do is hide our letters around campus and text each other the location.

The problem: It's all fun and dandy BUT he has been raising the bar!! Today I pulled a rope out of a hole in a frozen pond--it was tied to a bottle. The message inside led me to the actual letter in another location, buried under snow. PLUS he wrote the letters on parchment and even sealed them with those red wax seals from the 1800's. He was pretending to be "trapped in time"--referencing to the "Back to the Future" series, which he loves.

Question: HOW AM I POSSIBLY GOING TO TOP THIS?!!!!!

About him (just in case):
-loves Juno, Back to the Future
-fan of Keane, Snow Patrol, Modest Mouse, Chris Stills
-loves to cook
-gamer: Left 4 Dead, CS, etc.
-amazing writer


THANKS!

Reznik

Seeing Left 4 Dead there, what about writing something themed around the zombie apocalypse and being the last survivors?

..is... is that too ghoulish?

proXimity

I agree, a "letters from an undead invasion" theme could be really cool

ruzkin

You could use the old triangulation trick. Hide clues to messages in locations that, when you plot them on a map, point to a "final letter"?

Austera

H/A, you never fail me. That is a brilliant idea, thank you so much! Now I'll just plan it

Austera

I'll search up the triangulation idea too, Ruzkin :] Could be for the next one. Hopefully he runs out of ideas by then and we call a truce.

NotYou

hide a thumbdrive with mapquest data to a certain location, or pictures of a place. Or video of you at a place.. Spraypaint your letter on the side of a wall. Or just hide a letter...

Sentry

In order to take this to the next level... you must learn the art of Geocaching.

You haven't won till he's retrieving your letter from two states away.

cooljammer00

tie a message to a balloon a tree? that's a MM reference, I think.

mts

fill his mailbox full of tic tacs with part of the letter taped to each one so he has to then put it together?

Sheep

proXimity wrote: »

I agree, a "letters from an undead invasion" theme could be really cool

Could be journal entries. Hide them in dilapidated and run down places. Whip up some fake gore. Spent bullet casings...

Itchy itchy.

LifeVirusZERO

mts wrote: »

fill his mailbox full of tic tacs with part of the letter taped to each one so he has to then put it together?

oh god... i'd be SO pissed off

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

Well, if he likes Juno, you could pretend to have an unplanned pregnancy in letters...

No, no, I kid. You could always just keep writing letters from 'alternate dimensions', like the Watchmen alternate universe or as a pirate wench on a dread ship.

Spam

Go all Da Vinci Code / National Treasure on his ass and set up a series of cryptic clues/riddles leading from one well known landmark to another, having him traipse all over town/campus deciphering clues until he finally finds your letter at the last spot.

Bonus points if you make the end letter say something short an silly like "made you look".

EggyToast

I like the idea of one-upping him by just slapping lattitude and longitude on a piece of paper and making him figure out where to find it. Bonus points if he doesn't have a GPS and you make him do it the hard way (google maps) and have multiple steps. Bonus points if you use lat/long as an excuse for avoiding zombies because they're too dumb to use technology.

Since he loves to cook why not include a part of a recipe on each note too, and then have him cook that for you when he's done? Could be all "Let me know you're safe and uninfected by cooking me the recipe found in pieces at the bottom of each note."

Chance

I say stick with your talents. If you're artistically inclined, write the letters on a page with an ornate, vaguely romantic drawing on them. If you fancy yourself a poet, jazz it up. Trying to match things on the same level may lead to limitless one-upsmanship that will end with a balloon trip around the world and second bird flu epidemic.

delphinus

paint a Red X on the ground with a B on it.


leave the message in a brown leather backpack.
tell him to meet you at "double doors"



if he doesnt get it, he's been playing CS for a total of 5 seconds.

chaosisorder

A friend once sent me an epic long letter on recycled USGS map stationary. There was one little clue that it was a letter puzzle and after solving it, the letters I was looking for matched up to map points on the back side of the stationary. The points made the shape of an arrow and pointed to a name that was the same as a nearby park, which was where the next puzzle was. I thought it was very clever, it even had a hint taped under the address label.

I think a zombie puzzle would rock. Just be sure to to test your hunt ahead of time. My husband's proposal was a scavenger hunt and one of the places with a clue was closed that day

YourFatAuntSusan

You know if you ever break up, nobody else will ever be able to top that relationship...