3.04 Choose Your Own Adventure Redux

Order

3.05

Location

Probably outside the lab, perhaps in the "home where Doctor When grew up" (room in some GC member's house, appropriately set-dressed).

Type

Mandatory Puzzle

Plot Setup

Prof. Chronus needs access to the Doctor's super secure Brain-O-Matic 2000 supercomputer, which contains key data needed to finish installing the pep ring. But she doesn't have the password. Over their years of friendship he's hinted that he always uses the same password and stored it for himself in puzzle format in case he forgot it himself.

Props

Childhood memoribilia for set dressing and foreshadowing.

Plot Point to Convey

While rumaging through the Doctor's childhood memoribilia, the players will see references to the childhood friendship with the Professor. They'll also find a large, empty picture frame...clearly something was in until recently (the high school newspaper clipping showing him being slimed--see the "Retrieve The Envelop" puzzle below), but now there's nothing to be found except Post-Its saying "not this time!" [We might also have a scale model of the science fair visible on site with weird trajectory calculations that don't make sense to the players--yet.] The solution of this puzzle will also foreshadow the Doctor's lifelong love for Buffy.

Short Description

Ideally something with an 80's reference (since he's been using the same password since the 80's). Perhaps a Rubik's Cube?

Puzzle Solution

Password = "BUFFYROCKS"

Other Notes

We may not even have to "really" run this puzzle again. Perhaps Prof. Chronus asks for the password 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?!")