2.07 Art History

Order

2.05

Status

::PROTO::

Location Status

Initial contact made

GC Point of Contact

Erik

Location Notes

Kaffeehaus in San Mateo; Allen made initial contact; need to negotiate deal to be open at this time.

Type

Mandatory Puzzle

Plot Setup

Prof. Chronus has bounced through time; the machine is mostly fixed but the View-O-Scope is still broken, so they can't communicate with her directly to learn where she wants to go. However, the time machine has sensed significant temporal disturbances in the vicinity of [Location]. (Interpreting time machine data to find the Location can be an optional puzzle.) Doctor When will tell the players that she probably tried to find some alternate way to communicate her request...but in a way that was likely to withstand the passage of time. And she'd want to be very subtle so as to not alter the timeline.

That location might turn out to be the Louvre. Or a series of locations that are famous around the world for works of art.

Props

Books of famous paintings altered to include Chronos (American Gothic, Mona Lisa, etc.)

Plot Point to Convey

Chronos wants to go back to... the same date & place as When did in Act I (perhaps 1 hour later).

Short Description

Prof. Chronus has managed to insert herself into famous works of art to "tell" the teams where she wants them to send her next.

Detailed Description

Prof. Chronus has, while bouncing through time, managed to insert herself into famous works of art, in order to convey a message to the teams (without risking "screwing up the time sequence" by trying to create an overt message). Examples include her face on the Mona Lisa, her standing in American Gothic, and so on. Solving the puzzle reveals where she wants to be sent - Painful Memories High School, at 3pm on June 1, 1986. The answer could just be the date & time (150006011986 or 3PMJUNE11986 or something like that), or something like HSSCIENCEFAIR3PM, or something equivalent. (Draft of puzzle completed, but it doesn't quite match our vision - in particular, Prof. Chronus isn't yet part of the art pieces, and the solution rested on an element that wasn't strictly part of the art pieces.)

Puzzle Answer

time/space coordinates almost identical to those in Fix the Time Coordinates from Act I.

Puzzle Solution

The paintings all have changed titles, each of which has the homophone of a number embedded in it. Ordering by years and using the number homophone to index into the title yields the message FOURTHWORDS.

Step 1

Title	Year	Number homophone	Number	Indexed letter
The Forbearance of Caterina	1513	For	4	F
Woman with a Parasol to Shade Her	1875	to	2	O
Day at Le Moulin - Parisians Attending	1876	ten	10	U
Tensions Erupting	1893	Ten	10	R
The Courtesans Luxuriate	1907	ate	8	T
The Tutor of Love	1908	Tu	2	H
Nude Woman Descending (Amplify Verticality)	1912	fy Ve	5	W
Hard Work: American Basics	1930	sics	6	O
American Fortitude (Cathie the Carpenter)	1943	For	4	R
Dream in a Wonderland	1944	Won	1	D
Nine Katys	1962	Nine	9	S

Each clip on the audio tour matches to a painting. The pairs are:

Step 2

1st two words of clip	Painting
Composition, Balance	The Forbearance of Caterina
I am	Woman with a Parasol to Shade Her
Lovely details	Day at Le Moulin - Parisians Attending
This brilliant	Tensions Erupting
The young	The Courtesans Luxuriate
Look closely	The Tutor of Love
This modernist	Nude Woman Descending (Amplify Verticality)
Simple, plain	Hard Work: American Basics
Female laborers	American Fortitude (Cathie the Carpenter)
Realistic landscapes	Dream in a Wonderland
From chins	Nine Katys

Manager

Justin

Response to Correct Answer

?

Other Notes

Some of the art might show her with her bolt-cutters, and some without. Also, instead of having pointers to locations, we could just have Doctor When point to a particular art history coffeetable book and say that it was her favorite--she practically memorized it.