3.07 Calibration Redux

Order

3.06

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

Prof. Chronus nearly has the machine working properly with the new pep rings, the password, etc. But it still needs to be "calibrated." The remote viewscreen of the machine (accessible over the Internet! Let's think of a funnier name for it. View-O-Scope?) lets her show the players the different times and places the Doctor has bounced to. (Players are seeing where the Dr. has been while they were doing the previous puzzles, by the way - it's not supposed to be "live".)

Props

see Puzzle Theme.

Plot Point to Convey

General time hijinx.

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?!")