The whole concept sounds like an extreme game of...uhhh...the name of the gmae slips my mind right now.
Either way it sounds cool...yet expensive.
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| Author: | mypaperpast [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | geocaching |
what do you guys think about maybe a book centering around the subject of geocaching....every time i go out geocaching i never know what i'm going to find in these hidden treasures...maybe some day i'll stumble across some body parts...creepy huh? |
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| Author: | lthrby1 [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: geocaching |
Ummm.... For those of us in the dark, can you please explain what that is? |
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| Author: | sikahtik [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: geocaching |
Simply put, in geocashing someone puts a box of some sort somewhere out in the world and then posts it's coordinates online. Participants then go online and look up the coordinates and then use a gps to see if they can locate the box in the real world. Inside the boxes are usually small "treasures", items of little value that people trade out with something else when they find the boxes. There is also a logbook for people to sign, too. It's a pretty interesting phenomena, in my opinion. I have had an interest in participating before, but don't have the money or time to invest in it right now. How a story based off of it would work, I'm not entirely sure. It would be pretty horrific to stumble across body parts or something in a cache, but it'd be hard to keep the story going. Why would the characters continue on searching for more caches after finding body parts or something in one? Unless they were a cop or something, I mean. Or morbidly obsessed with body parts. Like the guy in that hand story by Lee (sorry, the title slips my mind at the moment and I'm too lazy to go look at my copy of the ushers). "Hands" or something like that? Perhaps the discovery could be used as the climax of the story or something? I don't know. I'd have to think about it for a bit. |
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| Author: | lthrby1 [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: geocaching |
Very interesting. I knew nothing about it, and had never heard of it. Could be expensive, depending on how far you'd have to travel. As far as the story goes, maybe have a husband and wife. The wife is missing. The man recieves in the mail a letter explaining that if he wants to find her, he has to find these boxes, each with little pieces of information, or an item that she was wearing at the time of her abduction. Maybe a finger or two to enrage the husband even more. Of course, the ending could be that in the last box, a body is in there. He believes it's hers, but then after going home and thinking, he realizes that it isn't her, and that not only did each box have a clue of the next clue, but also of her whereabouts. He finds her at the end, kills her kidnapper, and they live happily ever after. OR.......It could be a twist, where she devised the whole thing, is actually alive, and then kills him at the end. So many ways to go. The more you think about it though, in some ways, it's already been done. |
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| Author: | mypaperpast [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: geocaching |
yes there is a ton of ways to go with it...and probably similar stories have been written...and i'm sure that a horror novel would turn people off of the idea of geocaching which i wouldn't want...just a thought i had and thought i'd share |
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| Author: | sikahtik [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: geocaching |
I think a story that becomes well enough known about geocashing, even if it were a horror story, would more than likely turn people onto the concept rather than causing them to shy away from it. As it stands it's not all that known to many people, so it has a strong potential to ignite interest in people. It kind of reminds me of the whole thing about urban explorers. The idea that there's websites dedicated to finding old, condemned buildings for people to go and explore is fascinating to me. It's something I think we've all done from time to time. Particularly if they're supposedly haunted. |
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| Author: | mypaperpast [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: geocaching |
| Author: | brownie [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: geocaching |
The whole concept sounds like an extreme game of...uhhh...the name of the gmae slips my mind right now. Either way it sounds cool...yet expensive. |
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| Author: | mypaperpast [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: geocaching |
no it's not really expensive...it can be if you want to be the one hiding a crap load of caches...but just to go out with a $100 gps it pretty much doesn't run you anything except the gas money to get there... on another note i went out geocaching today in some thick woods in my area for a extreme 10 cache series...the second i stepped foot into the woods i was worried about ticks and crawly things....thanks to lee's slither that i'm currently reading... |
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| Author: | Edward Lee [ Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: geocaching |
Geocaching? I'd never heard of it. What a GREAT concept for a novel! Thanks for getting me thinking! Edward Lee |
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| Author: | mypaperpast [ Sat Aug 21, 2010 2:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: geocaching |
hey ed! nice to see you pop back in...on topic...geocaching has only been around for a little over 10...but it's surprisingly still underground in most areas...most people don't realize that there are at least 10 caches hidden within walking distance of their home depending on saturated your town is...and i'm glad to be able to get you thinking....good things happen when you start thinking of story lines!!!! |
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