remember playing "hide and seek" when you were a kid? My cousins and i usually played it just before dark. one kid was designated "It". While "It" covered his or her eyes (maybe) and counted out loud to 50 or 100, the rest of us scurried to our elusive hiding spots. Then "It" would try to find us before we dashed back to the safety of the "base," usually the trunk of a massive tree.