1.04 Choose Your Own Adventure

Order

1.05

Status

::MOCKUP::

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 midi 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.

We might include some Buffy/cheerleader pictures in his "shrine"...not sure...

Might also (just for fun) include a poster board or notebook of Wesley's really big invention ideas. These will all be things that turned out to be big hits (Twitter, Google, etc.), but each is crossed out with some derisive comment ("144 characters messages?--too short!"). The only one that remains is enthusiastically circled at the bottom, "time machine!"

Short Description

"Choose your own adventure" book, inspired by "Caves Of Time." Yields a security password.

Puzzle XXXX

Password = "BUFFYROCKS"

Credits

Dwight - concept and prototype.

Manager

Sean

Hints

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Response to Correct Answer

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To Do

Unify the currently disparately-themed pages into a single coherent narrative. Retain flavor of episodes where possible, culture references. Add plot exposition that more closely mimics the solution method, as an extra hint for slow players (retain "You will visit me again" conclusion, expand on that idea for entire book).

Re-flow visual layout and size to more closely match the appearance of actual Choose Your Own Adventure books.