1.04 Choose Your Own Adventure

Order

1.05

Status

::MOCKUP::

Location Status

Done deal

GC Point of Contact

Dwight

Location Notes

Room within Joe Freund's home in the Haight.

Type

Mandatory Puzzle

Plot Setup

Prof. Chronus needs access to the Doctor's super secure Brain-O-Matic 2000 supercomputer, which contains key data needed to finish installing the midi ring. But she doesn't have the password. Over their years of friendship he's hinted that he always uses the same password and stored it for himself in puzzle format in case he forgot it himself.

Props

Childhood memoribilia for set dressing and foreshadowing.

Might also (just for fun) include a poster board or notebook of Wesley's really big invention ideas. These will all be things that turned out to be big hits (Twitter, Google, etc.), but each is crossed out with some derisive comment ("144 characters messages?--too short!"). The only one that remains is enthusiastically circled at the bottom, "time machine!"

We could also possibly have an empty picture frame (where he used to store the newspaper clipping), possibly with a note, "not this time." We could also display cryptic trajectory calculations and diagrams (that turn out to relate to the science fair).

Plot Point to Convey

Young Wesley had the hots for young Buffy.

Short Description

"Choose your own adventure" book, inspired by "Caves Of Time." Yields a security password.

How To Give To Teams

EMAIL

(this text should be combined with the boiler plate email at the end of Co-Keypad 1 and sent out as 1 email)

Research Project Title: Password

Objective: Find password to Doctor When's Brain-O-Matic 9000 supercomputer

Location: Doctor When's childhood home, 632 Cole Street San Francisco

Upon Completion: Call lab on speakerphone and ask to speak with Prof. Chronos

Parking: Street, some metered; nearby lot at 801 Stanyan Street

Bathrooms At Location: One

Food At Location: Restaurants and cafes around the corner

Once at location, GC member playing Wesley's father gives them the book and shuffles them out to any of the local lunch establishments. (See pp. 9-10 of script.)

Puzzle Answer

Password = "BUFFYROCKS"

Credits

• Dwight - concept and prototype.
• Wei-Hwa - structural revision.
• Trisha - narrative writing.

Manager

Trisha and Wei-Hwa

Hints

?

Response to Correct Answer

Team phones Institute. Answer is verified by lab assistant (p. 10 of script)

LAB ASSISTANT (O.C.)

Hello. Trenchwood Institute. How may I direct your call?

VISITOR 1

We're the ____ team. We've cracked the password to the Brain-O-Matic supercomputer.

LAB ASSISTANT (O.C.)

Excellent! What is it?

VISITOR 1

It's _____.

Use the following lines for an incorrect answer:

LAB ASSISTANT (O.C.)

Oh, that can't be right. We tried that one already. Would you keep working on it and call back later?

VISITOR 1

Sure thing!

The call ends.

Use the following lines for a correct answer:

LAB ASSISTANT (O.C.)

We haven't tried that one yet...let me patch you though to Prof. Chronos. But first...are you on speakerphone?

VISITOR 1

Absolutely.

LAB ASSISTANT (O.C.)

Excellent. I'll connect you.

PROF. CHRONOS (O.C.)

Hello! I hope you have good news--we really need to access his supercomputer!

VISITOR 1

The password is "BUFFYROCKS"!

PROF. CHRONOS (O.C.)

Buffy? He can't still be thinking about that stuck-up, conniving, boy-stealing bimbo of a cheerleader from high school, who right now is probably a waitress in an all-night diner? Buffy? I...

Keyboard sounds in the background as Prof. Chronos types in the password.

PROF. CHRONOS (O.C., CONT'D.)

I can't believe it. I just typed it in and it works!

Let me turn you over to one of Doctor When's lab assistants who will tell you which research project you can help us out with next.

Lab assistant sends them to either optional, role-oriented puzzle or Calibration puzzle.

To Do

Wei-Hwa is updating puzzle and encoding. Trisha is re-writing to unify the currently disparately-themed pages into a single coherent narrative. Retain flavor of episodes where possible, culture references. Add plot exposition that more closely mimics the solution method, as an extra hint for slow players (retain "You will visit me again" conclusion, expand on that idea for entire book).

Rigel to draft 1 cover + 6 interior art pieces. Allen has passed specifications to her.