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| | ==Location== | | ==Location== |
| − | Any (if via video) or some local place identifiable in one of the movie clips from the Calibration puzzle (see two options below).
| + | High School, 1986. |
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| | ==Plot Setup== | | ==Plot Setup== |
| − | With the players' help, Doctor When has been sent to the right time & place: his high school right before the science fair. Neither Prof. Chronus nor the players know why he chose this time and place.
| + | The players have used the time machine to visit the high school itself in 1986. They are following instructions from a mysterious benefactor to tamper with the envelope Doctor When planted in the locker. After Act II's Chronus removes it from the locker, they must retrieve it from the rubbish bin (or wherever it ends up). |
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| − | Somehow the Doctor communicates that he lost "vital instructions" during his turbulent travels through time (see notes to previous puzzle). He asks the players to find the "instructions" and have it sent to him back in time.
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| | ==Props== | | ==Props== |
| − | The "vital instructions" will turn out to be an ancient newspaper clipping--page 1 of the the school paper from the day after the science fair (timeline 1). The headline is "Wesley When Makes Splash At Sciene Fair." The picture shows Wesley covered in slime and all the kids, including Buffy, laughing at him (Catherine looks sympathetic in the background). A hand-written note on it says, "At precisely 3:02 PM step two feet to the right and you'll win the girl of your dreams! If you don't, THIS will happen to you!" | + | The envelope, the locker, the bin. Markers for writing on the letter. |
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| − | Additionally we'll need two videos: The first will show the present-day Doctor When waiting in the empty school hallway, the recovered letter materializing in front of him, and then him slipping it into the young Doctor When's locker.
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| − | The second will show the second timeline of the Science Fair Incident (although we may never have to film the first timeline). In it, we see the young When standing in front of his science fair exhibit, reading the newspaper clipping (and Catherine noticing him doing so), intently looking at his watch, suddenly taking a measured step to the right, the stream of slime shooting towards his former position (and thus missing him). [It might be fun if there was a way we could choreograph it so that as he steps out of slime's way he accidentally knocks over Buffy. She's mad at first, but then realizes that he saved her from slime, and thus is grateful...paving the way for their improbable romance.]
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| | ==Plot Point to Convey== | | ==Plot Point to Convey== |
| − | When the players retrieve the "vital instructions" they should somehow be able to read them. Perhaps the envelop is torn or someone else framed the article.
| + | The players are taking independent action to break the infinite ping-pong loop set up by Doctor When and Prof. Chronus. Only by disobeying them can they make things truly right. |
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| | ==Short Description== | | ==Short Description== |
| − | TBD.
| + | Locate the letter after Chronus discards it. Physical challenge? |
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| | ==Detailed Description== | | ==Detailed Description== |
| − | As mentioned in the notes to the previous puzzle, the time machine's video might have indicated that there was a "loss of mass" and spit out some garbled data that gives the time/place where the letter was lost. Instead, the solution might tell players to look closely at the Calibration movie and find the exact spot where the letter gets lost (which is a scene from a movie in SF - maybe Vertigo?)
| + | Ty is present as the school janitor to monitor and guide the players. He may have just emptied all the wastebaskets, or otherwise knows how to steer players towards the letter's location. Finding the letter might require digging through trash or gaining access to the trash area. |
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| | ==Puzzle Solution== | | ==Puzzle Solution== |
| − | The time & location of the letter - or a reference to look at the Calibration movie, if we use that option above.
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| | ==Other Notes== | | ==Other Notes== |
| − | Do the players get the physical letter or merely find the time/place where it was lost? It might be more dramatic to postpone the actual finding of the _physical_ letter until Act III. If that's the case, then we _might_ make the time/place answer a little less transparent - e.g., the place is described by abstract coordinates, but in Act III they discover that the place is actually a Bay Area location. ALSO: this puzzle could be a series of puzzles that's shorter for teams that are behind; there's a puzzle for each "bounce" the letter takes through time.
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| − | We may not even have to "really" run this puzzle again. Perhaps the players merely rush off to where the they retrieved the letter the last time. And this is where the fun begins because the players have to secretly do something different.
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| | [[Category:Events]] | | [[Category:Events]] |
| | [[Category:Act3]] | | [[Category:Act3]] |
Order
3.08
Status
::UNCLAIMED::
Location
High School, 1986.
Type
Mandatory Puzzle
Plot Setup
The players have used the time machine to visit the high school itself in 1986. They are following instructions from a mysterious benefactor to tamper with the envelope Doctor When planted in the locker. After Act II's Chronus removes it from the locker, they must retrieve it from the rubbish bin (or wherever it ends up).
Props
The envelope, the locker, the bin. Markers for writing on the letter.
Plot Point to Convey
The players are taking independent action to break the infinite ping-pong loop set up by Doctor When and Prof. Chronus. Only by disobeying them can they make things truly right.
Short Description
Locate the letter after Chronus discards it. Physical challenge?
Detailed Description
Ty is present as the school janitor to monitor and guide the players. He may have just emptied all the wastebaskets, or otherwise knows how to steer players towards the letter's location. Finding the letter might require digging through trash or gaining access to the trash area.
Puzzle Solution
Puzzle Answer
Budget
Credits
Manager
Hints
To Do
Other Notes
