2.07 Art History
Contents
- 1 Order
- 2 Status
- 3 Location Status
- 4 GC Point of Contact
- 5 Location Notes
- 6 Type
- 7 Plot Setup
- 8 Props
- 9 Plot Point to Convey
- 10 Short Description
- 11 Detailed Description
- 12 Puzzle Answer
- 13 Puzzle Solution
- 14 Budget
- 15 Credits
- 16 Manager
- 17 Hints
- 18 Response to Correct Answer
- 19 To Do
- 20 Other Notes
Order
2.05
Status
::PROTO::
Location Status
Initial contact made
GC Point of Contact
Erik
Location Notes
Kaffeehaus in San Mateo; Allen made initial contact; need to negotiate deal to be open at this time.
Type
Mandatory Puzzle
Plot Setup
Prof. Chronus has bounced through time; the machine is mostly fixed but the View-O-Scope is still broken, so they can't communicate with her directly to learn where she wants to go. However, the time machine has sensed significant temporal disturbances in the vicinity of [Location]. (Interpreting time machine data to find the Location can be an optional puzzle.) Doctor When will tell the players that she probably tried to find some alternate way to communicate her request...but in a way that was likely to withstand the passage of time. And she'd want to be very subtle so as to not alter the timeline.
That location might turn out to be the Louvre. Or a series of locations that are famous around the world for works of art.
Props
Books of famous paintings altered to include Chronos (American Gothic, Mona Lisa, etc.)
Plot Point to Convey
Chronos wants to go back to... the same date & place as When did in Act I (perhaps 1 hour later).
Short Description
Prof. Chronus has managed to insert herself into famous works of art to "tell" the teams where she wants them to send her next.
Detailed Description
Prof. Chronus has, while bouncing through time, managed to insert herself into famous works of art, in order to convey a message to the teams (without risking "screwing up the time sequence" by trying to create an overt message). Examples include her face on the Mona Lisa, her standing in American Gothic, and so on. Solving the puzzle reveals where she wants to be sent - Painful Memories High School, at 3pm on June 1, 1986. The answer could just be the date & time (150006011986 or 3PMJUNE11986 or something like that), or something like HSSCIENCEFAIR3PM, or something equivalent. (Draft of puzzle completed, but it doesn't quite match our vision - in particular, Prof. Chronus isn't yet part of the art pieces, and the solution rested on an element that wasn't strictly part of the art pieces.)
Puzzle Answer
time/space coordinates almost identical to those in Fix the Time Coordinates from Act I.
Puzzle Solution
The paintings all have changed titles, each of which has the homophone of a number embedded in it. Ordering by years and using the number homophone to index into the title yields the message FOURTHWORDS.
| Title | Year | Number homophone | Number | Indexed letter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Forbearance of Caterina | 1513 | For | 4 | F |
| Woman with a Parasol to Shade Her | 1875 | to | 2 | O |
| Day at Le Moulin - Parisians Attending | 1876 | ten | 10 | U |
| Tensions Erupting | 1893 | Ten | 10 | R |
| The Courtesans Luxuriate | 1907 | ate | 8 | T |
| The Tutor of Love | 1908 | Tu | 2 | H |
| Nude Woman Descending (Amplify Verticality) | 1912 | fy Ve | 5 | W |
| Hard Work: American Basics | 1930 | sics | 6 | O |
| American Fortitude (Cathie the Carpenter) | 1943 | For | 4 | R |
| Dream in a Wonderland | 1944 | Won | 1 | D |
| Nine Katys | 1962 | Nine | 9 | S |
Each clip on the audio tour matches to a painting. The pairs are:
| 1st two words of clip | Painting |
|---|---|
| Composition, Balance | The Forbearance of Caterina |
| I am | Woman with a Parasol to Shade Her |
| Lovely details | Day at Le Moulin - Parisians Attending |
| This brilliant | Tensions Erupting |
| The young | The Courtesans Luxuriate |
| Look closely | The Tutor of Love |
| This modernist | Nude Woman Descending (Amplify Verticality) |
| Simple, plain | Hard Work: American Basics |
| Female laborers | American Fortitude (Cathie the Carpenter) |
| Realistic landscapes | Dream in a Wonderland |
| From chins | Nine Katys |
Budget
Credits
Manager
Justin
Hints
File:Female laborers File:First just File:From chins File:Its difficult File:Lovely details File:Realistic landscapes File:Simple plain File:The young File:This brilliant File:This complex File:This modernist
Response to Correct Answer
?
To Do
Other Notes
Some of the art might show her with her bolt-cutters, and some without. Also, instead of having pointers to locations, we could just have Doctor When point to a particular art history coffeetable book and say that it was her favorite--she practically memorized it.
