Coming soon to Chelmsford: The Escape Network

escapenetworkHere’s an unusual one, but unusual in a fun way: The Escape Network challenge you to Uncover the mystery of the Network before the time runs out. This is an exit game that pops up, from time to time, within the Asylum nightclub of Chelmsford, which has a fine heritage for alt music of many genres. (There’s a remarkable line-up of punk bands, with appropriately aggressive names, as a charity fundraiser tonight… which is a link that this site wasn’t expecting to get the chance to post.)

The Escape Network brings real life immersive games to amazing venues. Have fun with family friends and colleagues, solve puzzles, find clues, crack codes and contribute to the investigation. Based on the popular concept of real-life escape games. There’s not a great deal more revealed about the game. From context, it may be designed to be able to pop up in other locations, but the location’s Facebook page suggests that it’s a game that hasn’t really escaped its own self-imposed Asylum yet.

Some more things can be learnt from the Facebook page. “Coming soon” might not tell the whole story as games have been popping up since June; an initial suggestion is that the first game might be called Singularity, but teams are praised for victories at White Rook and White Knight. What is coming soon – and on a regular basis, for the current run suggests two games per night will be made available every Wednesday from 28th October for at least four weeks, and who knows how long the run might last in practice – is a game called Black Knight. This will take teams of four to eight; tickets are being sold for 90-minute slots, but it’s not clear if that’s 90 minutes of game time or there are briefings and debriefings around a shorter game. The charge is £65, though the Facebook page also points to a discount being available.

So if you’ve got the power and you’ve got the might, head down to Chelmsford and face the Black Knight!

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