Capture the Future

A halloweekend evening game of capture the flag in prospect park what would you do to know the future? We used to tell the future through stories, prophecies, reading messages in tea leaves and tarot cards. There was a community that thrived on these predictions: fortune tellers, scryers, witches in huts and The Oracle from her perch on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. But these days everyone seems to look elsewhere to tell the future. Complex machines, data centers, AI agents... All claim a role in the future-telling that used to belong to eldritch horrors and creepy women-of-the-woods. Center to this shift is the prediction market, and the tech bros running Kalshi, Polymarket, and other shady ventures in future-telling. In a night of raucuous running and curious questing, we'll gather in the Nethermead to play a giant game of capture the flag, in which three teams will take prediction markets to their dark comedic extreme, where everything gets a price, even your own survival. When…