The Travelling Chicken
The Bureau makes chickens and sends them out into the world. Each one travels from one trusted person to the next, and the Bureau keeps the official record of where it has been. Here is how it works.
Register your chickenFig 1.Your chicken becomes active when you register it online. You give it a name, and it is entered into the register under your care. Its identification tag is already attached.
Set its missionFig 2.Before it goes, you set the length of its mission: 5, 10, or 25 postings. A posting is a single sighting, logged by whoever finds it. The number you choose is the number of hands it must pass through before its mission is complete - and it returns to you.
Hide it for someone you trustFig 3.Hide your chicken where someone you trust will find it: a friend, a relative, a colleague. Don’t leave it in a public place. A chicken left to strangers doesn’t travel; it just gets lost.
The finder reports the sightingFig 4.Whoever finds your chicken photographs it and tells the Bureau where it was. Once the Bureau approves the report, it joins the chicken’s official record.
Follow the journeyFig 5.Your chicken is hidden again, for the next trusted person, and on it goes. Every approved sighting appears on the Bureau’s map - the record of the journey, building one posting at a time.
It comes homeFig 6.When its mission is complete, the chicken comes home. The Bureau asks whoever holds it last to return it by post, or - if you arranged a Bureau Recovery Pack - the return label is already waiting and the homecoming is handled for you. Either way, you receive its Field Career Record: a full account of everywhere it has been, and everyone who carried it. The journey ends where it began.
There Are Chickens at Large
Some are on the map. One of them may yet find its way to you.
