Last night at precisely 9:12 I got a frantic phone call from my friend Harry: "You live near Mine Hill, right???"
"...yes?"
"Do you know where Delphi Road is?"
"Umm...it sounds familiar but I'm not sure exactly---"
"Okay nevermind, I have to go!"
Then at 9:33, he called again: "Do you know where Meng or Yerger Road is?"
"Yeah, I know where those are."
"Okay, are you busy tonight?"
"Not really."
"I'm outside your house. Get out here and jump in the car."
So I did.
I got in and Jeremy was sitting in the passenger seat on the phone with Meaghan and Kaitlin. As they were frantically shouting directions to him and road names I took them to Meng Road (which, by the way, is a creepy backroad in the middle of the woods with absolutely no street lights) and we drove and drove and then saw two figures jumping up and down. It was Meaghan and Kaitlin. They ran to the car, got in, and we sped away to the high school.
I was now involved in a game called Hostage.
The rules of the game are pretty simple. There are two teams with at least four people, with two cars and blindfolds. Two members of each team get into the opposing team's car and are blindfolded so they don't know where they're going.
Both cars then drive away from the starting location (which was the high school) and have 15 minutes to get as far away and as in as remote a place as possible. The blindfolded team members are then dropped off wherever the car is when the time runs out.
Then the goal is for the teams to find their teammates who were taken "hostage" and make it back to the high school before the other team.
And one last thing...no GPS allowed.
I got picked up in Round 1, when Meaghan and Kaitlin were the hostages and dropped off in the creepy woods behind my house, and Harry and Jeremy were their teammates who had to find them.
We got back to the high school and there were a TON of people there. There were four different teams, and we did "Winners vs. Losers" after each round.
Round 2 I was in Harry's car again and our hostages were my friends Grace and Blaise. We dropped them off in a secluded area in Phoenixville, and then called Meaghan and Jeremy (our other teammates) to find out where to go pick them up. After about 15/20 minutes, we found them wandering the backroads of Skippack. Just typing it out, it sounds REALLY simple to find them, but it's REALLY hard. You're on the phone with two people who have no idea where they are and all the clues you get are, "We're in the woods...we see hills! There's a house...not really well lit. The speed limit here is 25! Oh...it changed to 35! WE FOUND A ROAD SIGN! Cressman Road? Do you know that road? Now we're on Church Road!" Thankfully we knew Cressman was off of 113 in Skippack, and then we were able to found Church Road.
Round 3 I was a hostage along with Harry and Meaghan. We got in my friend John's car (thankfully I knew everyone playing and it wasn't like total strangers), put blindfolds on, and then were raced around for 15 minutes. After the time was up, we got out of the car, and immediately sprinted our BUTTS away to find the nearest road sign or anything to ID where we were. 30 seconds into running though, Harry stopped and was like, "Guys. I know EXACTLY where we are." So then we just had to call Gerard and Tyler (the people picking us up) and let them know. Not so exciting but it's still freaky being on a dark road at around midnight and waiting for someone to come pick you up...haha.
We're getting another group together soon...I think I'm gonna be a driver next round. I know some pretty good spots to drop people... ;D
