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6:30 am

empty lecture halls ✧｡⁠*ﾟ

🎧 ~ orgel by mia

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

This tentacular mask was designed for the MIT Mystery Hunt, which this year the theme was 20,000 Puzzles Under the Sea. (I was on the writing team because my team won the last year's hunt.) 

The entire weekend-long event was ocean-themed. The final bit, if a team solved all of the puzzles, was a series of activities and puzzles to be done in person on campus, and revolved around convincing the Kraken to allow you to take a piece of technological unobtanium from the Marianas Trench. 

I made the mask, while another member of the team made the rest of the super-spiky and awesome costume. 

I will be putting this design up for sale soon, but not immediately. This mask set the record for the most intricate leather piece I'd hand-cut, and I still need to take my paper template sketches for the pattern and transfer them to the computer so I can laser-cut future versions of this mask. 

But I wanted to share some photos of the costume in its final location.

For other tidbits from Hunt, check out drnautilus!