Difference between revisions of "1.01 Introductory Lecture 1"

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==Order==
 
==Order==
 
1.01
 
1.01
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==Plot Setup==
 
==Plot Setup==
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Players have all come to see the Grand Unveiling of Doctor When's life's achievement
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Players see the Grand Unveiling of Doctor When's life's achievement
  
 
==Props==
 
==Props==
  
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'''Inside, for presentation''':
 
 
* PowerPoint presentation on Erik's Laptop [[File:PPT for intro speech.ppt]]
 
* PowerPoint presentation on Erik's Laptop [[File:PPT for intro speech.ppt]]
 
* projector
 
* projector
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* PA system
 
* PA system
 
* time machine set with sound/light/smoke special effects.
 
* time machine set with sound/light/smoke special effects.
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'''Outside, for registration''':
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* seats for players
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* 16 envelopes, each labeled with a team name
 
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* Lab coat (one for each staffer)
 
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* Trenchwood Institute name badge and lanyard (one for each staffer)
 
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* (optional) Bin for waivers
 
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* Spare waivers
 
  
 
==Plot Point to Convey==
 
==Plot Point to Convey==
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==Open Time Period==
 
==Open Time Period==
  
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Saturday, 8:30 AM-9:30 AM
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Saturday, 9:00 AM-9:10 AM
  
 
==Staff Instructions==
 
==Staff Instructions==
  
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'''Your Role''': You are a lab assistant at Trenchwood Institute, called away from your research tasks to be a registration clerk.
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'''Actors''':
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* PROFESSOR CATHERINE CHRONOS: Kristina Kenney
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* DOCTOR WESLEY WHEN: Dan Kurtz
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* TIRESIAS THE JANITOR: Sean Gugler
  
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'''Handout Instructions''': The interaction should go something like:
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'''Script''':
  
 
LAB ASSISTANT:
 
LAB ASSISTANT:
 
{{quote|
 
{{quote|
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Good morning. I see you're on our exclusive guest list.  Have you completed your non-disclosure agreement and liability waiver?
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Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats - the Grand Unveiling is about to begin.
 
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}}
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VISITOR:
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PROFESSOR CHRONOS meekly steps up to the nearby podium.
 
{{quote|
 
{{quote|
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Yes, here it is.
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Hello?  [clears throat]  Hello! [crowd quiets down] Uh...thank you.  My, I'm so nervous.  Welcome, my scientific colleagues, distinguished members of the press, financiers, and government officials.  I am Professor Catherine Chronos from the New England Institute of Extremely Hypothetical Knowledge.  Today it gives me great pleasure to present to you a man ahead of his time. 
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You may not have had much of a chance to observe him refining his art since he has had to work apart from the mainstream scientific establishment.  But he has been my close friend ever since we went to high school together.  So I have had the rare opportunity to watch the work of a master.
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And now it's your turn. Without further ado, let me present the man of the hour:  Doctor Wesley When!
 
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}}
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The skeptical, yet expectant audience applauds.  Prof. Chronos takes her seat, a chair at the side of the stage.
  
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The visitor hands the form to the lab assistant, who puts it in the waiver pile.
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DOCTOR WHEN strides up the aisle toward the podium.  He has a (somewhat conspicuous and prominent) large envelope in his lab coat pocket.  As he steps up to the podium he stumbles and the envelope falls out of his pocket.
  
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LAB ASSISTANT:
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DOCTOR WHEN (muttering to himself, but audible enough for the audience to hear):
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{{quote|
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Oops. Can't lose that.
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}}
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He picks up the envelope and (not so) discreetly puts it back in his lab coat pocket, and then goes to the podium.
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DOCTOR WHEN:
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{{quote|
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Today I can and will change the course not of just one man's life, but of history! You may laugh. I have been laughed at before. Laughed at for my ideas that challenged the established orthodoxy. But the laughs just spurred me on.  On to labor for two decades shunted to the fringes of science.
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}}
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{{quote|
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And finally it's my turn to laugh.
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}}
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{{quote|
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Ha!
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}}
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{{quote|
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I will reveal my life's work...my great gift to mankind:  a time machine!
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}}
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{{quote|
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The high priests of science said it couldn't be done.  That it broke the very laws of nature.
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Ha again!
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}}
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{{quote|
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But before I show you my breakthrough, let us review the missteps of my less-qualified predecessors.
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{{quote|
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Another famous doctor...who shall remain nameless...tried creating a time machine out of a police call box.  What insanity--it's just not big enough on the inside!
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}}
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{{quote|
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Professors Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esquire, learned nothing from their predecessor's folly of trying to create time machines out of telephonic devices.  I mean look at this--this critical component is flimsier than a coat hanger.
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}}
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{{quote|
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Doctor Emmett Brown took a rather stylish, but equally disastrous approach: converting a sports car into a time machine.  But it had massive, impractical energy requirements.
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}}
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{{quote|
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The list of failures goes on and on:  furniture, tunnels, and even bathing equipment.
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}}
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{{quote|
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But I have fixed their errors with a key breakthrough:  the quantum chronomentometer.
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I don't think anyone else in the world could have properly fabricated one.
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}}
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{{quote|
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Now you've already met the eminent Prof. Catherine Chronos, visiting us from the East Coast.  Not only is she a brilliant scholar of art history, she is also a visionary in the theory of temporal mechanics.  She has made several key theoretical discoveries that I have put into practice, such as the tachyon midi ether co-keypad.
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And she has been my best friend since high-school.  She'll be assisting with the demonstration.
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}}
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Prof. Chronos waves shyly to the crowd from the side of the stage.
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{{quote|
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But enough talk.  I will activate the machine and reappear one minute of your time from now.  But my watch will prove that no time has passed for me. 
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}}
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{{quote|
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Now I step into the future!
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}}
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Doctor When unveils the machine.  He activates it and steps in.  It rumbles, shakes and spews smoke.  Prof. Chronos's expression makes clear that these are not good signs. 
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The Doctor does not reappear after a minute as expected.  The lab assistants don't even bother trying to hide their panic as they scurry about the machinery trying to diagnose the problem.  A frightened Prof. Chronos steps back up to the podium.
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PROF. CHRONOS:
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{{quote|
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Gadzooks!  The machine has malfunctioned.  Poor Wesley, I mean Doctor When, is now bouncing around through time!
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}}
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{{quote|
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I don't understand what could possibly have gone wrong.  Frankly, I only work on theory.  Doctor When was the one really driven to create a working machine.
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}}
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{{quote|
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But wait!  All of you are probably the greatest assembly of brilliant minds since the Manhattan Project.  We could really use your help.
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}}
 
{{quote|
 
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Then, here are your security badges. Also please each take a lanyard from that pile over there to insert your badge into.  Make sure to have your badge on display at all times.  Welcome to Trenchwood Institute.  Prepare to be amazed!
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The machine's core dump could tell us what went wrong.
 
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}}
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Prof. Chronos pulls a single core out of the machine, segueing into [[1.02 Core Dump]]
  
 
'''Site Close Down''':
 
'''Site Close Down''':
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* Join the presentation inside
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* No close-down, scene automatically continues to [[1.02 Core Dump]]
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* Make sure all the signed waivers get to Erik Stuart
 
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'''Other Instructions''':
 
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* Stay in character.
 
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* Except ... if a team says "time out," break character and help them.
 
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* Erik and Ellen and other core GC members will be setting up the presentation inside.
 
  
 
==Detailed Description==
 
==Detailed Description==
  
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The players sign in, turn in their waivers and get their badges, and then get the opening presentation.
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See script (above) for details.
  
 
==Puzzle Answer==
 
==Puzzle Answer==
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==To Do==
 
==To Do==
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Possibly get bin for waivers?
 
  
 
==Other Notes==
 
==Other Notes==

Revision as of 13:17, 15 February 2012

Order

1.01

Status

::POLISH::

Location

Status: "Trenchwood Institute" -- Highlands Elementary School, 2320 Newport St, San Mateo, CA 94402

GC PoC: Erik Stuart, (650) 395-8463, lab@trenchwood.com

Parking: School lot, free

Type

Mandatory Presentation

Plot Setup

Players see the Grand Unveiling of Doctor When's life's achievement

Props

  • PowerPoint presentation on Erik's Laptop File:PPT for intro speech.ppt
  • projector
  • screen
  • PA system
  • time machine set with sound/light/smoke special effects.
  • seats for players

Plot Point to Convey

The Doctor's creation is a time machine. Tongue-in-cheek tone of game through homologous survey of others' failed time travel efforts (lots of references to time travel in pop culture). Doctor When has been working on this problem since high school and is about to demonstrate. The Doctor's high school friend, Prof. Catherine Chronos, has flown in to assist. Two of the key components of the time machine are the "midi ether co-keypad ring" and the "quantum chronomentometer," which the Professor and the Doctor were specialists in respectively. Doctor admonishes audience to "Never use time travel for petty personal gain." Dr. When is carrying an overly-conspicuous and highly recognizable envelope but makes no overt reference to it. When he enters the time machine and activates it, the machine goes haywire.

Short Description

Welcome! Doctor vanishes into time machine, which breaks.

Open Time Period

Saturday, 9:00 AM-9:10 AM

Staff Instructions

Actors:

  • PROFESSOR CATHERINE CHRONOS: Kristina Kenney
  • DOCTOR WESLEY WHEN: Dan Kurtz
  • TIRESIAS THE JANITOR: Sean Gugler

Script:

LAB ASSISTANT:

Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats - the Grand Unveiling is about to begin.

PROFESSOR CHRONOS meekly steps up to the nearby podium.

Hello? [clears throat] Hello! [crowd quiets down] Uh...thank you. My, I'm so nervous. Welcome, my scientific colleagues, distinguished members of the press, financiers, and government officials. I am Professor Catherine Chronos from the New England Institute of Extremely Hypothetical Knowledge. Today it gives me great pleasure to present to you a man ahead of his time.

You may not have had much of a chance to observe him refining his art since he has had to work apart from the mainstream scientific establishment. But he has been my close friend ever since we went to high school together. So I have had the rare opportunity to watch the work of a master.

And now it's your turn. Without further ado, let me present the man of the hour: Doctor Wesley When!

The skeptical, yet expectant audience applauds. Prof. Chronos takes her seat, a chair at the side of the stage.

DOCTOR WHEN strides up the aisle toward the podium. He has a (somewhat conspicuous and prominent) large envelope in his lab coat pocket. As he steps up to the podium he stumbles and the envelope falls out of his pocket.

DOCTOR WHEN (muttering to himself, but audible enough for the audience to hear):

Oops. Can't lose that.

He picks up the envelope and (not so) discreetly puts it back in his lab coat pocket, and then goes to the podium. DOCTOR WHEN:

Today I can and will change the course not of just one man's life, but of history! You may laugh. I have been laughed at before. Laughed at for my ideas that challenged the established orthodoxy. But the laughs just spurred me on. On to labor for two decades shunted to the fringes of science.

And finally it's my turn to laugh.

Ha!

I will reveal my life's work...my great gift to mankind: a time machine!

The high priests of science said it couldn't be done. That it broke the very laws of nature. Ha again!

But before I show you my breakthrough, let us review the missteps of my less-qualified predecessors.

Another famous doctor...who shall remain nameless...tried creating a time machine out of a police call box. What insanity--it's just not big enough on the inside!

Professors Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esquire, learned nothing from their predecessor's folly of trying to create time machines out of telephonic devices. I mean look at this--this critical component is flimsier than a coat hanger.

Doctor Emmett Brown took a rather stylish, but equally disastrous approach: converting a sports car into a time machine. But it had massive, impractical energy requirements.

The list of failures goes on and on: furniture, tunnels, and even bathing equipment.

But I have fixed their errors with a key breakthrough: the quantum chronomentometer. I don't think anyone else in the world could have properly fabricated one.

Now you've already met the eminent Prof. Catherine Chronos, visiting us from the East Coast. Not only is she a brilliant scholar of art history, she is also a visionary in the theory of temporal mechanics. She has made several key theoretical discoveries that I have put into practice, such as the tachyon midi ether co-keypad. And she has been my best friend since high-school. She'll be assisting with the demonstration.

Prof. Chronos waves shyly to the crowd from the side of the stage.

But enough talk. I will activate the machine and reappear one minute of your time from now. But my watch will prove that no time has passed for me.

Now I step into the future!

Doctor When unveils the machine. He activates it and steps in. It rumbles, shakes and spews smoke. Prof. Chronos's expression makes clear that these are not good signs.

The Doctor does not reappear after a minute as expected. The lab assistants don't even bother trying to hide their panic as they scurry about the machinery trying to diagnose the problem. A frightened Prof. Chronos steps back up to the podium.

PROF. CHRONOS:

Gadzooks! The machine has malfunctioned. Poor Wesley, I mean Doctor When, is now bouncing around through time!

I don't understand what could possibly have gone wrong. Frankly, I only work on theory. Doctor When was the one really driven to create a working machine.

But wait! All of you are probably the greatest assembly of brilliant minds since the Manhattan Project. We could really use your help.

The machine's core dump could tell us what went wrong.

Prof. Chronos pulls a single core out of the machine, segueing into 1.02 Core Dump

Site Close Down:

Detailed Description

See script (above) for details.

Puzzle Answer

N/A

Puzzle Solution

N/A

Budget

Credits

Everyone on GC who helped with the story.

Manager

Erik

Hints

N/A

Response to Correct Answer

N/A

To Do

Other Notes

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