Quests:

Downloadable case studies

Past quests:

• Life on the Streets
• The Harry Red Affair
• The Arthurian Legend
• The Alex Coates Affair
• The Hooch Awards
• The Trousers of Time

The last year

Christmas Parties

The Arthurian Legend

As dusk fell on a late-winter’s evening a cluster of apprehensive questers descended upon a small Clapham apartment. After the obligatory formal greetings had died down, murmurs of what lay in wait for this unsuspecting troupe began. They knew to be at that place at that time and to bring warm clothes for the weekend. Everything else was a mystery. Then the phone rang, on the other line a voice divulging little information, spurred the group into action. As they made their way down to Cornwall each team listened to the recording that had been entrusted to them on their departure. It quickly transpired that the antiquated voice that was addressing them was none other than the renowned historian and explorer Sir Chardon Froyde. Despite the barely comprehensible ramblings of the man, the frequent breaks in speech to top up his sherry and the brief interlude of tone-deaf song, he eventually explained the task in hand and the direction in which they must travel.

The next morning the three teams awoke in a country mansion four miles from the seaside town of Bude, Cornwall. Still not sure of where this day would take them, the teams set off one by one on their quest. All they had to follow was the trail left for them by their eccentric hosts Admiral Ooh and Captain Argh, two pirates on a mission to find the legendary Excalibur. And so, armed with nothing but a mode of transport, the afore mentioned warm clothes and a video camera, they set about their task.

Their brief was (at the request of Ooh and Argh), to script, perform and edit a documentary that would depict their quest for the legendary Excalibur, and serve as an immortal record of this momentous event. As the day progressed the teams gradually began to unravel the mystery.

Throughout the day the documentary film makers gathered their clues from far and wide; from the wind-swept reaches of the infamous Black Rock, from the local publican (only after a well-played hand of poker), from authentic locals, and from the pirates themselves. The denouement involved a race to the finish. All the clues pointed to the beach. Not a stone was left unturned. They scoured the cliffs, the shoreline and the caves and found what was to be the final twist in the tale.

The teams, reunited at the finishing post, laughed as they shared stories of the day. All had been on the same journey, but each had experienced a different adventure. The previous evening they had met as mere acquaintances, that night, the guests were fed and watered and our hosts for the weekend, Admiral Ooh and Captain Argh, invited all to the inaugural Oscarghs where the newly edited films were viewed and prizes awarded to those individuals who had excelled with their presentation of the weird and wonderful tale. The night was long and as the candles faded and the sun rose on the end of the weekend, the revellers could still be heard over the sounds of the Spring dawn. It was a weekend of mishap and mystery, of cunning and creativity, of astonishment and adventure. But most of all, it was a weekend that will never be forgotten.