2.10 Christmas Party
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
2.06
Status
::POLISH::
Location Status
Reserved
GC Point of Contact
Erik & Melissa
Location Notes
Type
Mandatory Puzzle
Plot Setup
Prof. Chronus has lost her bolt cutters and so can't get into Wesley's locker. She needs the locker combo. At a certain location a tachyonic vortex allows players to overhear snippets of conversation from the teacher's lounge.
Props
- Audio players (iPod, e.g.)
- Speakers
Plot Point to Convey
Short Description
Prof. Chronus needs Wesley's locker combo; ghostly voices from 1986 heard at the high school in 2011 help teams find where it might be recorded.
Detailed Description
Prof. Chronus has been sent to the right time & place, but she's lost her bolt cutters and can't get into Wesley's locker to take the envelope. She thinks the teams might be able to find the combination if they go to the school in the present day - but she doesn't know where the locker combinations are kept. At the high school, the players hear strange, disembodied voices in one room - pieces of conversations from a past Christmas party, made audible in the present by the tachyonic vibrations caused by Prof. Chronus' time travel to the school. It turns out that the voices form a classic logic puzzle (where Mr. Green sits next to a woman but not someone wearing red, etc.), and matching all elements in the puzzle yields a coincidentally useful phrase indicating where the combos are.
How To Give To Teams
Lab sends email to the teams,
- Dear colleagues,
- We've gotten the View-O-Scope is working again! Enter access code XXXX into the interface and you can watch Prof. Chronos in 1986.
- Frank Farnok
- Lab Assistant
Once at site the lab assistant there says words to the effect of
- Thank heavens you're here. Our detectors picked up some tachyonic radiation here so I was sent to investigate. Now I hear all these strange sounds...but my classes never covered this. Can you figure it out?
Puzzle Answer
Puzzle Solution
Budget
Credits
Manager
Dave S
Hints
Response to Correct Answer
n/a Teams should go off on their own to the principal's office
To Do
- Dave is working on version 2, to incorporate nonverbal audio cues and accommodate multiple loudspeakers.
Other Notes
See idea genesis at Background Chatter
