2.10 Christmas Party

Order

2.06

Status

::POLISH::

Location

Status: Paine Memorial High School Teachers' Lounge, actually Highlands Rec Center, 1851 Lexington Ave. San Mateo

GC PoC: Erik & Melissa

Parking: Lot in front of Rec Center

Notes: Reserved

Type

Mandatory Puzzle

Plot Setup

Prof. Chronus has lost her bolt cutters and so can't get into Wesley's locker. She needs the locker combo. At a certain location a tachyonic vortex allows players to overhear snippets of conversation from the teacher's lounge.

Props

• DVD player
• 4 Speakers
• Coffee maker
• Plastic inbox trays, qty. 5
• Plant
• Audio system
• Audio data
• Door sign
• Hint sheet for Faculty Christmas Party puzzle

Short Description

Prof. Chronos needs Wesley's locker combo; ghostly voices from 1986 heard at the high school in 2011 help teams find where it might be recorded.

Open Time Period

Sunday, 4 - 7 AM

Staff Instructions

Your Role: Lab Assistant.

Site Setup:

• Set up audio system and set on repeating loop play
• Call GC

Handout Instructions: Do something.

Site Close Down: Clean up.

Other Instructions:

• Stay in character.
• Except ... if a team says "time out," break character and help them.

Detailed Description

Prof. Chronos has been sent to the right time & place, but she's lost her bolt cutters and can't get into Wesley's locker to take the envelope. She thinks the teams might be able to find the combination if they go to the school in the present day - but she doesn't know where the locker combinations are kept. At the high school, the players hear strange, disembodied voices in one room - pieces of conversations from a past Christmas party, made audible in the present by the tachyonic vibrations caused by Prof. Chronos' time travel to the school. It turns out that the voices form a classic logic puzzle (where Mr. Green sits next to a woman but not someone wearing red, etc.), and matching all elements in the puzzle yields a coincidentally useful phrase indicating where the combos are.

How To Give To Teams

Lab sends email to the teams,

Dear colleagues,

We've gotten the View-O-Scope fully working again! Enter access code 893416 into the interface and you can watch Prof. Chronos in 1986.

(Playtest note: The school location you're going to in real life is where the Grand Unveiling was. In the real game, the Grand Unveiling is going to be a different location.)

Frank Farnok

Lab Assistant

Once at site the lab assistant there says words to the effect of

Thank heavens you're here. Our detectors picked up some tachyonic radiation here so I was sent to investigate. Now I hear all these strange sounds...but my classes never covered this. Can you figure it out?

Puzzle Answer

CHECK PRINCIPALS SUITE / look in picture frame

Puzzle Solution

The logic puzzle solves to that explicit message. The conversation snippet that explains the extraction method for that phrase also gives a hint to "look at things in the right frame".

Manager

Dave S

Response to Correct Answer

n/a Teams should go off on their own to the principal's office

To Do

• Finalize the script
• Record final audio
• Master loops and burn onto DVD
• Test 4-channel loudspeaker arrangement

Other Notes

Candidate for final script:

• Media:Script_for_Christmas_Party_--_January_26.rtf

Mockup with non-final script and voices:

• Media:Overheard1_Jan19.mp3
• Media:Overheard2_Jan19.mp3
• Media:Overheard3_Jan19.mp3
• Media:Overheard4_Jan19.mp3

See idea genesis at Background Chatter