Queen City Pitch

http://www.mainstreetenid.org/food-for-thought.html

Submitted Information:

Name
Garrett Crissup

Group, Business or Organization, if applicable
Crissup Creatives LLC

Email
crissupcreatives@gmail.com

Project Name
Enid: Queen City 

Project Description
Enid: Queen City is a transmedia storytelling, alternate reality game that uses networked narratives to capture imaginations and curiosity. 

Enid is named after a character in a popular cycle of narrative King Arthur poems called Idylls of the King.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King#Enid (akin to now day’s Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones). Queen City’s setting casts the Lady of the Lake as a Manipulator who caused the rise and fall of King Arthur’s Empire. To escape the Lady, Queen Enid and her kingdom fled to the land with no lakes...and here that hidden kingdom still thrives. 

Stage One:
Create a fake news organization called the 'Enid: Queen City Crier'. It would have a fictional tabloid feel and focus on historical fiction/fantasy, and use SciFi/Paranormal/Satire/Supernatural explanations for real life events and strange weather. Twitter is active @QueenCityCrier, website forthcoming. 

Use Social Media and Geocaching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching) to create story driven scavenger/treasure hunts.

Create a Bounty Incentive system for Art homework assignments, such as take pictures of Iconic Enid areas, Video Shorts, Graphic Design Contests, music performance. Give away Main Street Enid Gift Cards as the Prize. 

Stage Two:
Invite Participants to play as themselves or create their own alternate character/persona to play as.

Costumed Ball with side activities and battle selfies. 

Scheduled Events such as Murder Mystery/Mafia Dinner Parties, (reskinned if need be) zombie runs, landruns to capture game zones (GPS synced races).

Stage Three: 
Contract/Commission artists and Enid performers to make exhibitions and show up at random Enid activities and events.

Construct Permanent interactive structures. (Example: Alternate Audio Tour for Cherokee strip museum.)

The Story arc finale would manifest as something like an off season, alternate themed Haunted House. 

Estimated Total Budget
The beauty of this project is its relatively low entry point and scalability.

How do you plan to acquire funding for the remainder of your budget?
Websites, Blogs, Podcasts, Twitter & other social media have little to no cost. Toys and Trinkets for Geocaches can be handmade or purchased in bulk to keep spending down. 

After initial creation and setup, besides scheduled events, most of the project would be automated and require few man hours to upkeep. 

The larger the investment and budget, the more elaborate works we can create, with a greater outreach and scope of activities to present to participants...which in turn translates into more community involvement. 

Produce Income by selling Event Tickets, T-shirts, Flags, Buttons, & Electronic performances of songs & narrative story telling. We can also pass the hat around (patron app), have silent auctions, and whatnot. 

Describe any permits, licenses or approvals required. At what stage are you in obtaining such permission?
I’ve spoke to Linda Parks at the city clerk’s office, and will complete my application for a solicitor's license as soon as I get the green light (they’re time sensitive so I don’t want to waste money). I also contacted the city attorney’s office and am waiting to hear back about Enid’s Ordinance on street performing. 

Time Frame
Three Month, Season long story Arcs. 

Benefit for Downtown Enid
Inexpensive entertainment that uses Enid’s history and pre existing infrastructure, with built in networking/personal branding for the players and creators. Gift Card Bounty system that insures funds stay local, and free advertising for any businesses that choose to participate. Cash/Flash Mobs. Promote discovery and exploration of Main Street and Enid at large. 

Tell us about you!
Like the Iron Willow, my roots in Enid are deep. I was born at St. Mary's and graduated a Plainsmen. Besides living in Stillwater (Journalism, Psychology, and Early Childhood Education...GO POKES!) for a spell, I’ve lived in and loved Enid my whole freakin’ life. 

Pertinent Job History: 
Hastings Customer Service Ninja (I hesitated to list it...but it’s the Entertainment Superstore!)
YWCA daycare as soon as turned 18 and was eligible (It was called Pooh’s Corner then.).
Denny Price YMCA summer day camp in interim summers.
Public Library Intern (Children’s Library fucus, but I can do me some dewey decimal system.)

Current Projects:
I’m a contributing Writer and Editor for Pulp Alley (By David Phipps, another Enid Creative http://store.pulpalley.com/category-s/1817.htm). 
Always tinkering with my dream novel. 
‘Enid: Queen City’ I think the venture is strong enough to stand on its own, but I understand any attention amounts to free advertising for myself, Enid, and any participants. Plus, small money wisely spent can work tiny miracles.

Attached File: Invitation to an Unwinnable Game
Queen City Facebook Inspirational Album

@QueenCityCrier

#sleeperslie

Queen City

Queen City by Garrett Crissup Oh, I come, right behind the rain

chariot athwart, crossed an infinite plain.

A’forded, I gamble, like our founders, like our kin

Wealth enough to crash markets, wealth enough to crush men

Those prone to ramble, humbled, wind-rolled

To auric o-bli-vi-on, stretch fields of gold

I eye, their exhalations, the Dragons of the East,

I sweep past, another’s questing beast.

Grand Grain Goliaths lay, In the ground, in silence.

Here I  belong, the Land of Sleeping Giants.

Oh, I come again, take heed, then enter

Enid, the Queen City: of rape and red winter.

I come to her kingdom but not to see the Queen.

The people make this place, on them I fold, I lean.

I come to this land, I come to stake my claim.

Come sister/brother...Play the unwinnable game

Her Purple Martin Majesty, the way of her star child.

Come all ye faithful, the ambitious, and the Wild.

Old Skeleton, first crick, springs, then station

Horned serpents, over under, tie this nation

On yonder southern gate, they ask not why,

Thunderhawks, makin lazy circles in the sky.

Joined they fracture-drill, macks, mud men and their mothers.

carry on yon carriers, farmers, and the others.

The trail blurs here, all tears and bloody

drive no further, far too red & muddy   

Rather Sooner, than later, a boomer, I may not be

Indian give or bust, a landruns never free

I come to her kingdom but not to see the Queen.

The people make this place, on them I fold, I lean.

I come to this land, I come to stake my claim.

Come sister/brother...Play the unwinnable game

She want blood from a stone, an Idealist’s Idyll

Be weary strange swords thrust, hands of the Idle

She built a Fairy Tale Empire, meant to fairy Fall

But Queen Enid fled, she saw the writing on the wall

Here they hid, thy kingdom come

lady of the lake, here, the land with none.

God didn't damn this land, happy endings just end

But when Change blows in, we don’t break, we just bend

Us, we Took the deal - the dust, fear, the sand

Doubt not Drought, dammed by our own hand

Pipe dreams leyn, she turned meadow to lake,

alabaster towers grow - there aint nothing they can’t take

I come to her kingdom but not to see the Queen.

The people make this place, on them I fold, I lean.

I come to this land, I come to stake my claim.

Come sister/brother...Play the unwinnable game

Those unwaken, caught in’er clause

But it will come again, what once was

Hear the siren thunder, tend the kyne

You, yon leyman, will you walk the line?

Can you take me up, can you cast me down

ahh hero they need, er will you seize the crown?

Will you take your place at that round table

Heed the call, help us tell our fable?

We can lose but we can't fail

Like the twister, winds our tale

Tribes united, we trod the Nexus splinter

Enid Queen City: of rape and red winter

-G Queen City Inspiration Album

Tron Legacy Rejigger

Tron Legacy...

Visually Stunning
Epic Soundtrack 
Jeff Bridges Voice Over

Can't form any attachment to it...
Maybe I just have too many daddy issues for the Father/Son line to real me in (see After Earth).

The obsession with the game within a game (admission: I love frame stories) just doesn't work anymore. Our games don't look like Atari games any longer, Broseph!

The Arena? The grid is not an coliseum, and part of the Light Cycle's allure is that they're hurtling forth across an infinite plane of math, the lines they produce, like competing lines on a profit/loss chart, are the only thing that matters. Fights in this place would be extremely fast  paced Gorilla Warfare, or vast reaching icing out of compromised areas of the grid.


I have the answer!


"I will create the perfect system," says the soulless construct.

 "together, we're gonna change the world, man..." says the dreamer.

I have an Enemy/Evil Plot worthy of 127 minute metaphor.

High Frequency Algorithmic Trading!  (automated trading, black-box trading, or algo trading)

A use of AI to manipulate our information and economy, both in the real world and in this aesthetically beautiful fantasy backdrop would be golden. 
From there the "badguys" would be Neon Jetbike pirates (suck it, "dark" Eldar!) with appropriate chase/action scenes.
Sam, Flynn, & Quorra's action would take the form of a heist movie, and Jeff Bridges could explain things about the world and the system (I'm telling you, his voice is awesome!) overlaid on montages of them gathering information and preparing. 

Feel Free to add as many "freedom fighters" with poignant one liners as needed

From there we can maneuver all sorts of moral grey areas personified by computer programs who point out the different ways to take advantage of the system. Flynn and Sam, even if they defeated CLU, would be found guilty of crashing the economy and manipulating the system...tie in some too big to fail/all the good ENCOM International in advancing technology. Bingo! 

Pleasant Dreams...even if they are only by the day.

-Garrett Crissup

On Wings of Rainbow Plume

And so, what began as a small hole,
A secluded place of comfort and calm, a place to hide,
slowly 
then faster—becomes an Abyss. So deep and dark 
there is no climbing out.
You have to fly.
On wings of rainbow plume, I ride thermals of inspiration, soar on winds of creativity, and am welcomed, once again, by the sun.

-Garrett Crissup

In my dreams http://coub.com/view/5o7vo
-Michael Qnng 

The vitamin D is flowing once again! The long winter behind us, hibernation mode deactivated.
#GareBearProblems

The Solution: Player Haters

Bush Whacking

Bush Whacking! Hybrid sport of hiking and golf!

Wear hiking boots and protective bib overalls. Gps marked teeing ground and "hole" out in the wild (public or private and don't have to water/mow). Balls give off tracking signals and/or high pitch chirp. Use a drone to scout paths, find your ball, and take cool videos. Game trails will form naturally over time, and encourage people to take a drop if they think they'll damage flora/fauna. Add guns and four wheelers if that's your bag.

TAU SNIPER

I always wanted a sweet Tau army with lots of Drones, Battle Suits, and some Mechanized infantry.

This kit could be really slick for a Pulp Alley league though: Eagle Eyed troopers and Companions    

                                                  

    The one against the many...the patient hunter

                                                      

 Nothing but respect for these calm, cold blooded killers 

                                               

My hands...far too shaky.

When we'd play shotty/snipers, I naturally lean towards the latter. Old Iron Sights or naught, the only scope I'm proficient with...the microscope. Well maybe the kaleidoscope

-Garrett Crissup

All Myths Are True!

All Myths Are True!

“All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

‪#‎sleeperslie‬

Building My Board

Greeting Gamers, 

Went to Lowe's to pick up some components to build the beginnings of my game board. It's a 3'x3' platform I'm going to use for skirmish games such as: Malifuax, Pulp Alley, and Mercs. WarmaHordes and 40k may make an appearence though. How does subtracting 6'' from deployment zones and contact with table edge counts as cover sound?

It was easy as shit, and only required some screws and the wood (you may also need a drill unless you have Popeye forearms). The table top consists of three 1'bx3' boards, screwed them into a 2'x3' board. 

I added some legs to give me this raised platform to slide lists and cards under. 

Space is limited so the idea was to be able to slide the board behind the snake habitat.

That's perilous as shit

I used eight self-stick vinyl tiles (four grey, four brown) as the base of my modular play surface.

I just peeled the paper off and stuck the different colored tile back to back to make it a little sturdier. 

We played a four-player battle royal to celebrate.

 

Special thanks to Jermy Green and Tyler Crissup for the assistance/game. I'm pretty happy how its turned out so far. I'm excited to see how things progress. 

Later Players

-Garrett

MLK weekend MTG draft

Greetings Gamers,




Over the Martin Luther King weekend, I got a chance to play a little Magic the Gathering limited. We drafted three packs of newest set, Return to Ravnica.



My opponents for this day of destiny were: Dillon Fulgium, Tony Leeper, Justin Hosey, James Fulgium, and Nick Patton.

Each of us grabbed three packs of cards. 

We opened a pack, chose one card from it, passed the remaining cards to the person setting next to us.

We kept taking one card at a time until all the cards were gone,

repeating the process with the two subsequent packs.

Dillon showing off the Vraska the Unseen he pulled.

 (He would subsequently crush me with it in a later match)

After all the cards are divvied out, 

We made forty card decks from the cards we chose and as many basic lands as we wanted. 

Look at all those wrappers, it was like Christmas!

I built a passable Blue/White/Red control deck, with a surprising amount of counter spells.
Nick and James played White/Blue/Black
Dillon played Black/Green/Red
Tony played Green/Red/Blue/White
Justing played Red/White/Blue as well and we sat next to each other, stealing each-other's picks.

I love the dynamic color struggle of drafting. I like to watch players struggle to choose colors to play as they draft. It's interesting to see people taking cards for there own decks and also pick cards specifically to keep it out of the hands of other players.

Haven't played limited Magic the Gathering in a while and I really had a great time. Is it me, or has drafting gotten way more fun? Maybe I've just been missing it. I noticed way fewer junk cards in the later picks than in the past. Besides some mana screws (we're still playing MTG after all...), I think everyone ended up with a fun, playable deck.

If you're in the Enid Ok area and would like to give it a try (or know someone who would), feel free to message me. We're going to try to draft again soonish, so I'll try to get you some information.

-Garrett