3.07 Calibration Redux

Order

3.06

Status

::UNCLAIMED::

Location

Over the Internet (we'll store the video on Youtube or somesuch). Likely out of the lab. (Erik's note: any Internet-based can also be implemented via some app, similar to what Ghost Patrol did.)

Type

Mandatory Puzzle

Plot Setup

As in Act I, once the machine is repaired it still needs to be "calibrated." But since the machine was (presumably) repaired more quickly this time, the viewoscope footage will be shorter, leading to a different solution.

Props

see Puzzle Theme.

Plot Point to Convey

Same as Act I, Doctor When must be located so he can be rescued. But also this time, that the machine was fixed before Doctor When lost his envelope. He still has it.

Short Description

Make a movie that consists of clips of other movies (Ben Hur, Land That Time Forgot, Zardoz...you get the idea) and then use blue screen to superimpose Doctor When. The funnier the situation the better. In some he could be running for his life and others he could be the King of Siam. Prof. tells the players that if they could just predict the next place he's going to bounce to she'll be able to calibrate the machine and make it fully functional.

Puzzle Solution

"BeginningOfTime"

Other Notes

For foreshadowing purposes, it may be useful to show something like the following - Dr. When briefly "spinning in a time vortex" in between each movie, and in one of these vortices, the envelope flies out of his coat pocket and is lost in the vortex.

Furthermore, we may not even have to "really" run this puzzle again. Perhaps Prof. Chronus asks for the location and they simply tell it to her (much to her surprise--"are you all industrial spies? How do you know so much? Are you from the future?!")