Legends of Alcatraz January Event Summary 15

From the Legends of Alcatraz event video

The reason this blog was set up was the appearance of the Legends of Alcatraz website. I decided that the lure of an ARG for this new show at such an early stage was too much to ignore.

As it turned out the event brought back lots of good memories of other events I have tried to cover live and that gave me a nice glow inside.

Our previous blog posts Ready to Rock at 6pm and Becoming Legends described a lot of what was happening as an overview, but until last week there wasn't much information on the detail.

In fact in the Ready to Rock post I added a picture of the menu from a random tweeter that was visiting Alcatraz earlier in the day, and it turned out to be part of one of the clues.

The Legends of Alcatraz website has now been updated with an official video taken on the night, but for a lot more detal you will have to look at some of the fan blog posts and photographs out there.

From the guards point of view

Jen from the House of Art website took lots of photographs on the night that can be viewed here The photos in this blog post are from Jen unless otherwise stated.

One of the best descriptions of the puzzles and their solutions can be found on Collider.com

From writeups and photographs available we know that this first part of Legends is definitely linked to the current phase of online puzzle solving. Percival Stelardson and his guard Wilford Mandenbaum are the focus of the puzzles and the end result of the event was a case file on Percival being handed out.

Clue - A matter of time

Some of the puzzles and other parts of the event had to be resolved by interacting with people posing as guards and prisoners. There are even reports that the line between performer and real guard got a little blurred.

A clue answer from the LoA official video

The final puzzle answer and a stamped pass to see the doctor

For completeness, and to go with the other answers we already have from the online puzzles 1 to 10, here are the puzzle answers from the event.

Puzzle 1 - Outlaws

Puzzle 2 - Paperclip & Inquiry

Puzzle 3 - Coffee

Puzzle 4 - Walt Whitman

Puzzle 5 - Yellow Hammer Case File

Puzzle five was made up of letters from the previous clues, but I think the significant words are definitely Yellow Hammer

Percival Stelardson Incident Report

Ok so we have solved the clues, been to visit the doctor, complete with blood transfusion / extraction equipment, what next ?

The puzzle solvers were given a case file about Percival from 16th of September 1962.

The file ends with Wilford being relieved of duty and the investigation closed and the matter being considered as resolved.

There is also an odd medical note about an escape attempt involving a self diagnosis of Polio.

The final word comes from the official video and obviously refers to the puzzles that we are currenly looking at....

The LoA official video end caption