1.01 Introductory Lecture 1

Order

1.01

Status

::POLISH::

Location

Status: "Trenchwood Institute" -- Highlands Elementary School, 2320 Newport St, San Mateo, CA 94402

GC PoC: Erik Stuart, (650) 395-8463, lab@trenchwood.com

Parking: School lot, free

Notes: None Reserved

Type

Mandatory Presentation

Plot Setup

Players have all come to see the Grand Unveiling of Doctor When's life's achievement

Props

Inside, for presentation:

• PowerPoint presentation on Erik's Laptop File:PPT for intro speech.ppt
• projector
• screen
• PA system
• time machine set with sound/light/smoke special effects.

Outside, for registration:

• 16 envelopes, each labeled with a team name
• Lab coat (one for each staffer)
• Trenchwood Institute name badge and lanyard (one for each staffer)
• (optional) Bin for waivers
• Spare waivers

Plot Point to Convey

The Doctor's creation is a time machine. Tongue-in-cheek tone of game through homologous survey of others' failed time travel efforts (lots of references to time travel in pop culture). Doctor When has been working on this problem since high school and is about to demonstrate. The Doctor's high school friend, Prof. Catherine Chronos, has flown in to assist. Two of the key components of the time machine are the "midi ether co-keypad ring" and the "quantum chronomentometer," which the Professor and the Doctor were specialists in respectively. Doctor admonishes audience to "Never use time travel for petty personal gain." Dr. When is carrying an overly-conspicuous and highly recognizable envelope but makes no overt reference to it. When he enters the time machine and activates it, the machine goes haywire.

Short Description

Welcome! Doctor vanishes into time machine, which breaks.

Open Time Period

Saturday, 8:30 AM-9:30 AM

Staff Instructions

Your Role: You are a lab assistant at Trenchwood Institute, called away from your research tasks to be a registration clerk.

Handout Instructions: The interaction should go something like:

LAB ASSISTANT:

Good morning. I see you're on our exclusive guest list.  Have you completed your non-disclosure agreement and liability waiver?

VISITOR:

Yes, here it is.

The visitor hands the form to the lab assistant, who puts it in the waiver pile.

LAB ASSISTANT:

Then, here are your security badges.  Also please each take a lanyard from that pile over there to insert your badge into.  Make sure to have your badge on display at all times.  Welcome to Trenchwood Institute.  Prepare to be amazed!

Site Close Down:

• Join the presentation inside
• Make sure all the signed waivers get to Erik Stuart

Other Instructions:

• Stay in character.
• Except ... if a team says "time out," break character and help them.
• Erik and Ellen and other core GC members will be setting up the presentation inside.

Detailed Description

The players sign in, turn in their waivers and get their badges, and then get the opening presentation.

Puzzle Answer

N/A

Puzzle Solution

N/A

Credits

Everyone on GC who helped with the story.

Manager

Erik

Hints

N/A

Response to Correct Answer

N/A

To Do

Possibly get bin for waivers?