1.12 Consolidation 1

Order

1.10

Status

::POLISH::

Location

Name And Address: Schroeder's Restaurant

Parking: Free street parking after 6 PM

Bathroom: Yes

Food: Yes--and buy yourself dinner on GC!

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

Site PoC: Reservation made with Stephan

Type

Mandatory Puzzle followed by Mandatory Presentation

Plot Setup

Players have managed to help Doctor When "fix the timeline" by sending back the letter...but apparently there's one more technical fix they have to help with before Doctor When can be returned to the present.

Props

• 17 copies of Scientist Role Puzzle
• 17 copies of Government Role Puzzle
• 17 copies of Investor Role Puzzle
• 17 copies of Journalist Role Puzzle
• Team vs. Role Puzzle check off grid
• 200 blank co-keypad grids (3 per team + 152 spares)
• Wei-Hwa + his computer + his phone + USB cable
  • Video in W-H's computer
  • Puzzle software
• Any leftover sets of keypad kits
• Screen
• Projector (perhaps we can use the projector at the location)
  • Projector-to-PC cable
  • Projector remote
• Sound system (including microphone)
• 2 Lab coats (should already have from prior locations)
• 2 Trenchwood Institute name badges and lanyards (should already have from prior locations)

How To Give To Teams

Conversation with lab assistant over the phone should go something like,

Team:

Hello, Trenchwood? We found the envelope.

Lab Assistant:

You didn't just locate the envelope...you retrieved it?! That's fantastic. We need you to get it to one of our lab assistants out in the field so that they can rush it back to the Institute. From here we can use the time machine to send it to the Doctor in 1986.

I know: we have some lab assistants nearby collaborating with Herr Doktor Professor Heinrich Schroeder. Please go to his lab at 240 Front Street. Once there, the lab assistants will rush the envelope back to the Institute.

The lab is also on a very convenient temporal flux line, so you will be able to watch the live feed from the View-O-Scope as we finally rescue Doctor When. Success is in our grasp!

Call Wei-Hwa when each teams starts heading to Urbano--tell him which team is heading over (he needs to prepare for them).

SUPPLEMENTAL EMAIL

Research Project Title: View The Rescue Of Doctor When
Objective: Travel to where the View-O-Scope Computer Remote
Access Program can pick up the signal of Doctor When
finally being rescued
Location: Laboratory of Herr Doctor Heinrich Schroeder, 240 Front Street San Francisco, CA 94111
Upon Completion: Speak with any lab assistant on site
Parking: Street
Need To Park: Yes
Personnel Required: Yes
Bathrooms At Location: Yes
Food At Location: Yes

Note: This would be a good time to have dinner.

Plot Point to Convey

With the players help the Doctor has successfully changed the past...but not in quite the say the Doctor intended. In some bizarre, unintended, Rube Goldberg way it actually works and Buffy takes a shine to Doctor When. Also, the Doctor will rematerialize at 10 PM. Be back in the Institute by then.

Short Description

Final fix before Doctor can be returned to the present.

Open Time Period

When?

Staff Instructions

Your Role: Lab Assistants.

Handout Instructions:

LAB ASSISTANT:

Thanks! Somehow I knew you'd be good at that. I think that the only thing we have left before we can get the time machine restarted is these darned co-keypads. But we're making good progress. You can see the overall progress on the screen. At the rate we're going, I think we'll have enough of them fixed by 8:45 PM to finally rescue Doctor When, especially if you help.

No pressure, though, you've already done so much for us. So, feel free to grab some food if you haven't already done so, or grab another piece of CRAP and design some more co-keypads, or just chat with the other attendees here. Just make sure you're here at 8:45 when we restart the time machine and send that envelope to Doctor When.

Hints: ?

Answer: Teams are instructed (above) to enter their solutions into the GROSS online system.

After all the teams are gathered and have fixed enough co-keypads, the lab assistants act out the skit on the attached script excerpt.

Then they show videos of Act I Scenes 3 & 4 on the big screen. Then lab assistant announces:

Hooray, you've rescued Doctor When! Now it's time to return to the lab for debriefing.

Lab assistant's phone seems to get a message.

Hold it...there's a bit of residual tachyonic radiation at the lab...probably wouldn't cause sterility.

Well, those darn government regulators might object. Why don't you just let it die down a bit. We'll resume the presentation at 10...so wait to check in till at least 9:45 PM. If you haven't eaten yet Perhaps you could get yourself some dinner between now and then. Here is a good place, but there are also many other restaurants around. But definitely don't go back before 9:45 PM. We really, really, do not want to get into any trouble with government regulators; I’ve heard that filling out their forms is impossible!

Site Close Down: Packup, clean up, call GC

Other Instructions:

• Stay in character.
• Except...if a team says "time out," then break character.

Technical Setup

USE trenchwood;

• Clean out the solved puzzle table
  • Log in to mysql on wei-Hwa's server (username: laboratory, password: forscience), then run:

TRUNCATE TABLE solves;
TRUNCATE TABLE requests;
TRUNCATE TABLE released;
TRUNCATE TABLE assignments;

• Clean out the log

rm /home/www/doctorwhen/trenchwood.com/public_html/keypad/log/*

• If you need to regenerate the team information:
  • Make sure /home/whuang/public_html/nodir/doctorwhen/gross/teams.csv is correct
  • run this SQL:

TRUNCATE TABLE solvers;
LOAD DATA INFILE '/home/whuang/public_html/nodir/doctorwhen/gross/teams.csv'
 INTO TABLE solvers
 FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
 OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
 LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
  IGNORE 1 LINES (solver_id, name, role_id, passcode, present, fake);

• If you need to regenerate the puzzle information (god I hope not), this will recreate the release_info and scores tables:

 mysql -Dpeachfrontier -u laboratory --password=forscience < /home/whuang/prog/keypad/puzinfo.sql

Puzzle Answer

The event is over when all co-keypad puzzles are solved. GC will regulate the pace by having "lab assistants" artificially solve some puzzles, timing it to end shortly after the last team arrives.

Puzzle Solution

Same as Co-Keypad A event.

Manager

Wei-Hwa

Response to Correct Answer

n/a--there's no call or email into the Institute

To Do

• Test deployment with LAN.