You're welcome! :) My team is still on the fence about whether to get the cellphone or not so I'll contact you if we do manage to decide before the deadline.

I took 's one day extension as one day. As in due a few minutes ago :/

: WHAT??? It was already due tonight at 11:59 and at 12:15 this morning, 1/17/15, said she gave it a one day extension…that would mean that she extended it to 11:59 on 1/18/15, sunday night. Now I'M COMPLETELY FREAKED OUT! I MISSED THE DEADLINE!! I NEVER MISS DEADLINES!

And what the heck are we supposed to post anyway? We got all these clues, WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THEM???

I NEED MORE BACON!!

bacon makes everything better. I think we are supposed to look at all the suspect/witness statements and then compare those to what we found in the clues we just ran around collecting and trading and see if we can find any discrepancies or outright lies. As for the deadline...I don't want to put words in GRs mouth, but my team took the extension to mean that we had until midnight Subeta time on 1/17/15 to let her know which clues we had spent points on to get from other teams.

Shae is right about the deadline, but I'm not going to kill you if you're a bit late, not on this, since it was the first major trial for ALL of us at clue sharing.

Most important, thank you all, each and every one, from the bottom of my heart for testing this out for me. From what I have gleaned, most of you do like this idea, but with some modifications, so here they are as "suggested the most."

1. For WS, longer time limit. This would have happened anyway, but I'm glad for the support.

2. Posted on the thread as to who traded what, so that everyone can see more quickly.

3. Same thing for "who has what".

4. Review of procedures of "how to trade/exchange" in a small guide as part of the early materials.

All easy fixes, and great input, so all shall be done for WS3. Pinky swear! <3

You are all so terrific:

points to above quote FTW on that.

As now, as to your reward for going through all this? (I really think I should do this.) All of you have been returned to 500 points, PLUS gaining the same amount again for "suffering and suggestions." Every team now has 1000 points.

Love you guys! hugs

aw lol but we didnt spend any points. I also think with the clue swapping we might want to have it posted who is doing all the clue swapping and which group they are with, I honestly didnt know who to talk to. -hides- so I made poor Reaper do the first one and it snowballed to everyone asking her, which made me feel bad.

Team rosters being up as they are for WS would help, and I will gladly do that for this as well, although clue sharing is over for this mystery. (I honestly expected from the early signups that this would be a fairly small event--okay, slap me now!)

We love you also; we adore what you do and enjoy every moment we spend on your adventures. Your time and thought put into this is amazing.

so if we didn't spend any points do we get more or do we get the clues? yeah first run is bond to be confusing

You don't have your clues yet? I thought I sent out everything right now. If not, let me know what you wanted.

Thank you, Chookie. That means the world to me!

we just got the 3 we asked for and the one free one. we didnt trade any points at all. We have: the bear, cellphone and laptop. Used the free one for the rug

dances around nothing to see here doing double work sheesh shut it Jenn

Ah, I see---so you need a different fix...okay, can do, but next time--you DO want to swap at least one thing, or that blindfold will be totally correct!

Wow! Thank you for the points :) As for suggestions on clue sharing, I had made the suggestion to my team that we have a Captain who is responsible for posting HAs for HA contests, posting group RP if that is a required item and smailing you with our solutions on things. Then we would have somebody else as our Spokesperson. That person would be responsible for interactions with other teams, be it via smail, comments or here on the forums. The Spokesperson would also be responsible for keeping track of which teams we obtain info from and which teams we share info with and then funneling that info to the rest of our team and/or you once all sharing/trading has been completed. Divvying the responsibility up between two people seems better imo so that one person isn't burdened with the weight of taking care of and keeping track of everything. This system would also allow sharing info to be much simpler as each team would only have the one person reaching out to their counterparts on the other teams instead of what we had happen here where multiple people from teams were pinging entire other teams in hopes of finding somebody to respond and (at least in our case) having multiple people smailing people from other teams sometimes asking for the same piece of information that another teammate had already requested from another team. Having a designated funnel for all outgoing and incoming info to and from other teams I think would cut down on the confusion a lot.

Just my 2 cents on it :) I love doing these events and am more than happy to be a guinea pig for you on stuff like this if it helps make the entire process better and easier for you and us...which I feel team interaction will once the kinks are worked out.

You know us - we're always worried about those points :P

Godh I wish the Meddlesome Madams would have know we were going to get all of points back, we would have spent more and gotten the two clues we are still missing.... hmmmm didn't you say we could buy clues from you? Can we still do that? or is it too late? Sorry for all the questions but I just got home from DJing and I am a bit tired :D

Is it too late now, since all points were returned, to grab the rest of the clues we're missing from everyone?

I'd consider it a fairly successful experiment! Glad we didn't melt the place down overnight :D

hmmm to reward those who risked their points or even up the playing field, decisions decisions

Wh00t! I figured we would find a way to earn back what I spent so I bought all available clues for my team. This is like getting a refund and a rebate all in one that we didn't have to send in for, thanks doll! That's awesome!

You're the best, darling. hugs