1.08 Send Me Back
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 How To Give To Teams
- 13 Puzzle Answer
- 14 Puzzle Solution
- 15 Budget
- 16 Credits
- 17 Manager
- 18 Hints
- 19 Response to Correct Answer
- 20 To Do
- 21 Other Notes
Order
1.07
Status
::MOCKUP::
Location Status
Done deal
GC Point of Contact
Allen
Location Notes
Park outside Letterman Digital Arts Center in Presidio
Type
Mandatory Puzzle
Plot Setup
With the players' help, Prof. Chronus has repaired and re-calibrated the time machine, and thus can lock in on Doctor When -- both to view him through the View-O-Scope and to send him somewhere else by projecting a "return time wormhole portal archway."
Props
Short silent movie of Doctor When pantomiming his desired new destination. But the movie is chopped up into pieces that the players need to put back into the right order. (Provided on DVD, with Javascript application)
Plot Point to Convey
- The View-O-Scope can be focused into sort of a "live feed."
- The Doctor may have caused the beginning of the universe (not vital the players pick up on this one)
- The "portable tachyon detector" lets the traveler know when the View-O-Scope is focused on him/her.
- The Doctor doesn't want to be returned to 2012 quite yet...he wants to go to "Paine Memorial" (whatever that is) at 2:00 PM on May 31, 1986 first.
- The Doctor is in some danger from the Big Bang.
- The Big Bang also causes signal interference.
Short Description
Garbled silent video message from Doctor When instructing where to send him.
Detailed Description
The video is presented through a Javascript app that allows players to rearrange the pieces and play back the sequence. Once the video is reconstructed, Doctor When's pantomime must be interpreted into a message.
How To Give To Teams
Lab Assistant at site tells team (script, p. 15),
- Welcome! From this location you can tune in to live feed from the Temporal View-O-Scope. Just use the program that the Long Now mechanics gave you and enter access code XXXX. Call the Institute on speakerphone when you're done.
After they see the video, the Lab Assistant tells them (script, p. 15),
- I saw the remote feed, too. We have to help Doctor When fix the timeline! You need to decode his final message. Then call Prof. Chronos on your speakerphone.
Puzzle Answer
SEND ME TO PAINE MEMORIAL MAY 31 1986 2:00
Puzzle Solution
Prototype was playtested. Test video presented in 15 segments, each about 2 seconds long. Playback starts at segment 1, then proceeds smoothly to segment 2, and so on. Initial sequence is scrambled, and players must swap segments until they are in the right order.
Revised design proposals include: divide the video spatially into a grid; run each clip in a loop, but each synced to a different starting offset.
Budget
Credits
Sean: prototype
Manager
Sean
Hints
Response to Correct Answer
The team calls in to the Institute:
- PROF. CHRONOS (O.C.)
- Hello again. Are you on a speakerphone...can your whole group hear?
- VISITOR 1
- Yes, we are. You're not going to believe this, but he wants us to send him to Paine Memorial High School on May 31, 1986 at 2 PM.
- PROF. CHRONOS (O.C.)
- I just can't imagine what he would want back there. I guess it has something to do with fixing the timeline. But what an odd date--that was the date of our high school science fair.
IF GOING TO NEXT MANDATORY (RETRIEVE THE LETTER)
- PROF. CHRONOS (O.C., CONT'D.)
- All right...the machine has opened a portal for him just before we lost contact and is sending him back to school!
- Enter code YYYY in the View-O-Scope remote access program and then we can see if it worked. I'll hang up now and watch myself. When you're done speak with the lab assistant at your location.
Then the team views the next video. After figuring out where the Doctor lost the envelope, they speak to the local lab assistant:
- VISITOR 1
- We think it somehow fell out of his pocket at Ft. Point in San Francisco.
- LAB ASSISTANT
- Yes! We've noticed some tachyon disturbance in that area at coordinates ___________. Let's hope that by some miracle it's still there.
- If you find it, give it to one of the other lab assistants at that location to rush back to Prof. Chronos. Now go!
IF GOING TO AN OPTIONAL PUZZLE
To Do
- Sean to determine final message & pantomime encoding.
- Filming on next shoot date, probably 1/29/2012.
- Christian to get footage to Sean.
- Sean to create Javascript & to edit appropriately.
- Sean to get bundle to Dan for inclusion in disk.
Other Notes
Wei-Hwa has a copy of the prototype to tinker with it, also.
