Post #3736139

2026-07-11 08:35 UTC

Hello! And welcome to Day 2 of Jet Lag: The Game - Hide + Seek: this time it’s less Bad! It’s a bright and airy 10:30am, @quixoticgeek@social.v.st, @wendy@mendeddrum.org and I are in Halle an der Saale, and it’s time for us to Go! Go! Go! Today it’s @darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net’s turn to hide, and they are somewhere with the borders of the Germany, within three hour’s train ride from here. We’ve got all day to try and find them, and we have to beat the time of 8 hours and 40 minutes it took to find me yesterday. They’ve promised us something “different” today, and we’re looking forward to finding out what that means. We know her well, so have some ideas… For those of you who missed yesterday’s thread, it’s up at https://cupoftea.social/@moof/116894408271319518. I ended up tooting a little less than I normally did yesterday, but I’ll try to do better today. I am starting the day significantly less tired, so hopefully it will do. So, wish us luck! (CW: eye contact)

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@moof@cupoftea.social 2026-07-11 09:10

You may have noticed that yesterday I was hiding in Quedlinburg, but we’re starting the morning in Halle(Saale). The official rules state that we should start from where the last hider was found. Last time we played in Germany, we worked out that starting from there wouldn’t get us around the country much. Apart from the initial ICE from Frankfurt to Erfurt, we could have played the entire game on a D-ticket. This year we’ve added a rule saying that after the player is found we should travel to the nearest station where there is a regular ICE service, and start from there. Technically speaking that would be Magdeburg, but the service is there not that regular, so we collectively decided that Halle gave the hider the most options. This did mean we had a scheduled 2.5 hour ride from Quedlinburg yesterday, and we got Deutsche Bahned on the way here, which meant we ended up having supper in Magdeburg and arriving at our hotel pretty late. But now we have a much more interesting game

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