3.08 Send Me Back Redux

Status

::FINAL::

Location

See 3.00 Introductory Lecture 1 Reprise

GC Point of Contact

Allen

Location Notes

In the Institute.

Type

Mandatory Activity

Plot Setup

• Players have just fixed Prof. Chronus's time machine and are returning to Peach Frontier Laboratories to see her re-materialize.
• But upon returning to the lab they found it is once again Trenchwood Institute and they realized they are right back at the beginning of the Act I timeline
• The Doctor's time machine demonstration has once again gone awry.
• The visitors have instantly solved three key technical problems for fixing the time machine: unscrambling the core dump, designing a new co-keypad #34, and hacking the password to the supercomputer
• The Doctor realized the players are in an infinite time loop...which reminded him of strange poem in his high school yearbook...which he didn't understand at the time...but the players decoded to reveal instructions on how to break the loop.
• The players are going to have to go back to Paine Memorial High School in 1986 and do the newspaper-altering mission.

Props

Short movie of Doctor When delivering the letter.

Plot Point to Convey

The Doctor never lost the envelope and successfully puts it in the locker.

Short Description

Players watch a View-O-Scope image of the Doctor in 1986.

Open Time Period

When?

Staff Instructions

Your Role: Lab Assistant.

What To Wear:

What Your Character Knows:

Puzzles At This Site: none...this is just a roleplaying interaction

Where To Get Materials: n/a

Setup Instructions: n/a

Handout Instructions: Do something.

Site Close Down: n/a/ site stays open.

Other Instructions:

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

Puzzle Answer

n/a

Hints

Ask teams what they have done, probing details if necessary (often this will get a team unstuck by themselves).

Response to Correct Answer

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