Oh Dear It's About to Go Fetal

Episode 1: **Oh Dear It's About to Go Fetal**, is the episode that officially debuted TAR:MJ - Season One.

## Summary

The first episode took place on March 18th, 2023. All 11 competing teams set off from Cotton Bowl Stadium to the first pit stop of the season - Pike Park. They had to go through three challenges, including a detour and a roadblock, with CaMSETwaFaaL being the first team of the season to get eliminated.

## Race

### 1. **Starting Line: Riddle**

* Every team started their race by solving a riddle. They needed to find a location in Find the Markers based on this riddle and answer it:

**"The words that used to be there, which the word "notice" was on a long square."**

* **ANSWER:** Corner of Spawn with the old "Notice" Signs.

### 2. **Detour: City Sign Services Co.**

* Once the riddle was solved, teams who solved it were directed to go from the Cotton Bowl Stadium to their first detour at City Sign Services Co. When they arrived, they had to decide either: **Sign Calling** or **Ball Rolling**.

* Sign Calling
* Ball Rolling

#### 2a. **Detour #1: Sign Calling**

* Teams who chose Sign Calling were tasked to unscramble 30 words into 3 sentences (see image 1). "Find", "Markerous", & "Dark" were the starting words of each of the 3 sentences.

* **Answers:**
	+ Sentence 1: find the markers is what this is based on
	+ Sentence 2: markerous is the highest difficulty in the game
	+ Sentence 3: dark markery has a cool and slightly hard boss fight to be honest

#### 2b. **Detour #2: Ball Rolling**

* Teams who chose Ball Rolling were tasked to solve a very complicated maze (see image 2). All they needed to do was to find the exit from that maze.

### 3. **Roadblock: Samuel Lynne Galleries**

* Once each team has completed their detour, they were directed to go from City Sign Services Co. to their first roadblock at Samuel Lynne Galleries. Upon arriving at the gallery, one teammate had to answer the first roadblock question:

**"Who has the keenest eye?"**

* After one of their teammates answered, they are greeted into their confessional channels for the roadblock task:

#### 3a. **Roadblock Task**

* The task of the roadblock was to count and identify markers from Find the Markers' in-game gallery based on the assigned number.
* The numbers were:
	+ #108 / #49 / #140 / #123 / #153 / #4 / #198 / #83 / #32 / #209 / #185 / #137 / #43 / #71 / #174 / #13 / #167 / #127 / #219 / #65
* Markers between Alien & all Event Markers were not counted. This was listed on March 11th, 2023 & Markers may have been changed or newly added.

#### **ROADBLOCK ANSWERS:**

* #108 -> Pebble Marker / #49 -> Grass Marker / #140 -> Candy Cane Marker / #123 -> Void Marker / #153 -> Atmosphere Marker / #4 -> Orange Marker / #198 -> Merchant Marker / #83 -> 90 Degree Marker / #32 -> Missing Texture Marker / #209 -> Cobblestone Marker / #185 -> Archer Marker / #137 -> Gingerbread Marker / #43 -> Lava Jump Marker / #71 -> Skinny Marker / #174 -> Quest Marker / #13 -> Lavender Marker / #167 -> Quartz Marker / #127 -> Black Hole Marker / #219 -> Dragon Marker / #65 -> Fire Marker

### 4. **Pit-Stop: Pike Park**

* After completing the roadbock, teams were immediately directed from Samuel Lynne Galleries to their first Pit-Stop at Pike Park. The last team that arrived there was going to be eliminated.

**Placements:**

## Episode 1 Mess-Up

The first episode was planned to be longer, with the intention that it would happen much quicker than what the host expects. The first episode took nearly 3 to 4 HOURS without factoring in the parts of what would be Episode 2 (basically two legs in one episode). The host realized that realistically it cannot be possible for teams to complete such massive legs, and made the right decision to end off Episode 1 at the Pike Park Pit-Stop.

## Episode Trivia

* Galactic Bandits and CaMSETwaFaaL never reached the finish line and were auto checked in.
	+ CaMSETwaFaaL never made it past the starting riddle. As a result, they were the first of many AFK teams to get eliminated.
* Galactic Bandits never made it past the roadblock.
* Slow and Steady took a 90-minute penalty in exchange for skipping the roadblock.
* The Bigshots took a 30-minute penalty as Geyser Marker had not checked in until the countdown timer for waiting finished.
	+ Geyser Marker immediately dropped out of the race after picking and viewing the **"Ball Rolling"** challenge, leading to Supervillain doing it all by himself.