1.08 Send Me Back

Order

1.07

Status

::MOCKUP::

Location

Status: Letterman Digital Arts Center Park in Presidio,

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

Parking: Best parking is free lot whose entrance is on Oreilly just south of Gorgas; street parking on Gorgas, too; do not use the parking spaces underneath the buildings.

Notes: Statue of Eadweard Muybridge within the park containing the Letterman Digital Arts Center Recycled Water Pond, San Francisco; the park is bounded by Gorgas Ave., Lyon Street, Letterman Drive, and Oreilly Ave.; statue is just north of the Starbucks in Building C; probably best to go to intersection of Gorgas and Oreilly Upon Completion: Speak with the lab assistant onsite

Bathrooms At Location: In the nearby Starbucks

Food At Location: Nearby Starbucks and other restaurants in the Presidio

Type

Mandatory Puzzle

How To Give To Teams

Over the phone the lab assistant says words to the effect of,

As soon as we're done re-calibrating the time machine, I'll refocus the Temporal View-O-Scope to 13.8 billion years ago and we'll see what the Doctor is up to.

Hold it...I just remembered that I can't give you access to the Temporal View-O-Scope live feed where you're at. 

However, there is excellent access to temporal fault lines quite nearby you at the park outside the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio near the statue of Eadweard Muybridge.  Head on over and by the time you get there I'll have it set up so you can watch us retrieve the Doctor to 2012!

SUPPLEMENTAL EMAIL

Research Project Title: View The Doctor At Big Bang

Objective: Go to location where the signal is strong enough to watch Doctor When at the Big Bang through the View-O-Scope Computer Remote Access Program

Location: Statue of Eadweard Muybridge within the park containing the Letterman Digital Arts Center Recycled Water Pond, San Francisco; the park is bounded by Gorgas Ave., Lyon Street, Letterman Drive, and Oreilly Ave.; statue is just north of the Starbucks in Building C; probably best to go to intersection of Gorgas and Oreilly

Upon Completion: Speak with the lab assistant onsite

Parking: Best parking is free lot whose entrance is on Oreilly just south of Gorgas; street parking on Gorgas, too; do not use the parking spaces underneath the buildings.

Need To Park: Yes

Bathrooms At Location: In the nearby Starbucks

Food At Location: Nearby Starbucks and other restaurants in the Presidio

The rest of the handout interaction are done onsite--see Staff Instructions.

Plot Setup

With the players' help, Prof. Chronos 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

• Hint sheet for Send Me Back (hoe many copies???)
• All remaining role puzzles (should have from previous site)
• Hints for all role puzzles (should have from previous site)
• Lab coat (should have from previous site) -- WEAR THIS
• Trenchwood Institute name badge and lanyard (should have from previous site) -- WEAR THIS

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.

Open Time Period

Saturday, 3 PM - 5:30 PM

Staff Instructions

Your Role: Lab Assistant for Trenchwood Laboratories.

Handout Instructions:

Lab Assistant:

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 645639. Come back and see me when you're done with the live feed.

After they see the video, tell them:

I saw the remote feed, too. We have to help Doctor When fix the timeline! You need to decode his final message. Please use code 222076 on your View-O-Scope Computer Remote Access Program. After you have figured out where he wants us to go, call Prof. Chronos on your speakerphone.

The role puzzles are only to be handed out if a team asks for them by name (they will be instructed to do so by GC).

Site Close Down: Clean up, call GC.

Other Instructions:

• Stay in character.
• Except ... if a team says "time out," break character and help them.

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.

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.

Credits

Sean: prototype

Manager

Sean

Response to Correct Answer

The team calls in to the Institute:

PROF. CHRONOS:

Hello again. Are you on a speakerphone...can your whole group hear?

PLAYERS:

Yes, we are. The Doctor wants us to "SEND ME TO PAINE MEMORIAL MAY 31 1986 2:00," whatever "Paine Memorial" is.

PROF. CHRONOS:

"Paine Memorial" was the name of our high school. 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 science fair.

IF GOING TO NEXT MANDATORY (LOCATE THE LETTER)

PROF. CHRONOS:

All right...the machine has opened a portal for him just before we lost contact and is sending him back to school! Enter code 202751 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 call the Institute and speak with any lab assistant.

Then the team views the next video.

IF GOING TO AN OPTIONAL PUZZLE

PROF. CHRONOS:

I'll set the time machine to opening a portal for him just before we lost contact and then send him back to school! This will take a little work. So I have a task for you in the meantime. Here, I'll have you speak to a lab assistant who will give you further instructions.

Role 3 should be next

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.