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==Order==
 
2.01
 
 
 
==Status==
 
==Status==
  ::MOCKUP::
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  ::FINAL-READY::
  
 
==Location==
 
==Location==
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'''Name And Address''': Peach Frontier Laboratories, actually Highlands Elementary School, 2320 Newport St, San Mateo, CA 94402
  
Peach Frontier Labs (actually the school)
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'''GC PoC''': Erik, on-site
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'''Parking''': School lot or street parking
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'''Bathroom''': Yes
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'''Food''': No
  
 
==Type==
 
==Type==
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==Plot Setup==
 
==Plot Setup==
Players think they've returned to the Doctor When's laboratory to see him rematerialize
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* Players returned to Trenchwood Institute to see Doctor When's return from his misadventures through time.
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* But when they arrived at registration it's "Peach Frontier Laboratories," not "Trenchwood Institute"
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* They don't know why
  
 
==Props==
 
==Props==
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* time machine set with sound/light/smoke special effects.
 
* time machine set with sound/light/smoke special effects.
 
* seats for players
 
* seats for players
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* portable tachyon detector
  
 
==Plot Point to Convey==
 
==Plot Point to Convey==
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==Open Time Period==
 
==Open Time Period==
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Saturday, 10 PM - 10:15 PM
  
When?
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==Staff Instructions==
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'''Your Role''': lab assistants at Peach Frontier Laboratories (plus Prof. Chronos, Doctor When, Buffy, & Tiresias)
  
==Staff Instructions==
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'''What To Wear''': lab coat + <u>Peach Frontier Laboratories</u> nametag
  
N/A
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'''What Your Character Knows''': You know nothing of Trenchwood Institute nor the hi-jinks of Act I (it never happened in this timeline!). Similarly, you've never seen the players before. You have heard of Doctor Wesley When. He is a visiting scientist (traveling with his wife Buffy).
  
==Detailed Description==
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'''Puzzles At This Site''': None during this segment
  
Prof. Chronus gives a welcoming speech to the teams, parallel to Dr. When's speech at the start of Act I.  She (and the other actors) do not acknowledge that any events from Act I happened.  At the conclusion of the speech, Prof. Chronus enters the time machine, something breaks down, and she is "lost in time".
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'''Where To Get Materials''': GC HQ
  
==How To Give To Teams==
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'''Setup Instructions''':
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* Make sure portable tachyon detector is near the door of the time machine
  
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'''Handout Instructions''':
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When all the players have completed C.R.A.P., lab assistant says
  
LAB ASSISTANT
 
 
{{quote|
 
{{quote|
 
Thank you all for completing your C.R.A.P. applications.  We know it was a lot of work so we're grateful you didn't make a stink about it.
 
Thank you all for completing your C.R.A.P. applications.  We know it was a lot of work so we're grateful you didn't make a stink about it.
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With that out of the way it is almost time to start the presentation.  Thank you for your patience.
 
With that out of the way it is almost time to start the presentation.  Thank you for your patience.
 
}}
 
}}
Doctor When enters from a side door.  He is now wearing a wedding ring...and a doomed expression.  He is closely followed by an adult Buffy.  The years have not been kind to the former beauty.  And she's not kind to Doctor When, constantly henpecking him.
 
  
BUFFY
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We then proceed with the entrance of Doctor When + Buffy, as detailed in the script.
{{quote|
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Wesley!
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'''Hints''': n/a
}}
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DOCTOR WHEN (exasperated stage whisper)
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'''Answers''': n/a
{{quote|
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What, Buffy?
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'''Site Close Down''':
}}
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n/a
BUFFY
 
{{quote|
 
Twenty years ago you dragged me away from San Mateo...
 
}}
 
DOCTOR WHEN
 
{{quote|
 
Yes, my wife.  You have mentioned that.
 
}}
 
BUFFY
 
{{quote|
 
Away from the malls and all the culture of California.  All the way to your Ivory tower zoo of geeks in freezing New England.
 
}}{{quote|
 
And now that we finally get to visit home...instead of enjoying ourselves with my cool friends, it's a weekend at "Club Nerd."
 
}}
 
Buffy makes a sweeping gesture towards all the visitors.  Doctor When meekly tries to stop her from pointing and embarrassing him in front of his scientific peers.
 
  
DOCTOR WHEN
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'''Other Instructions''':
{{quote|
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* Stay in character.
But Buffy, I ''have'' to introduce Catherine, I mean Prof. Chronos.  It's a great honor.  [Bargaining] Buffy, it will be good for my career....
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* Except ... if a team says "time out," break character and help them.
}}
 
BUFFY
 
{{quote|
 
Something has to be. Well, then, don't screw it up.
 
}}
 
Prof. Chronos enters and waits at the back.  Doctor When's eyes light up when he sees her, as do hers.  Buffy notices and glowers.
 
  
BUFFY
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==Detailed Description==
{{quote|
 
Oh, look, it's the queen of the nerds.
 
}}
 
Doctor When trudges up to the podium. DOCTOR WHEN:
 
{{quote|
 
Hello...
 
}}
 
BUFFY
 
{{quote|
 
Can't you do anything right?  Louder!
 
}}
 
DOCTOR WHEN (just a tiny bit louder)
 
{{quote|
 
Hello.
 
An expectant hush falls over the crowd.
 
}}
 
DOCTOR WHEN
 
{{quote|
 
Uh...thank you.  Welcome, my scientific colleagues, distinguished members of the press, financiers, and government officials.  I am Doctor Wesley When of the New England Institute of Extremely Hypothetical Knowledge.
 
Today it gives me great pleasure to present to you a woman ahead of her time.
 
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You may not have had much of a chance to follow her work since she has had to work apart from the mainstream scientific establishment.  But she has been my close friend ever since we went to high school together.  So I have had the rare opportunity to follow her every breakthrough.
 
}}{{quote|
 
And now it's your turn.  Without further ado, let me present the woman of the hour:  Professor Catherine Chronos!
 
}}{{quote|
 
The skeptical, slightly confused, yet expectant audience applauds politely.  Doctor When takes his seat.
 
Bulging conspicuously from Prof. Chronos's lab coat pocket is a crowbar.  She stumbles slightly as she approaches the podium, which makes the crowbar fall to the floor with a clang.
 
}}
 
PROF. CHRONOS (muttering to self)
 
{{quote|
 
Oops. Can't lose my crowbar, er, science apparatus.
 
}}{{quote|
 
She hurriedly retrieves the crowbar.
 
}}
 
PROF. CHRONOS
 
{{quote|
 
Welcome my esteemed colleagues.  Some of you I haven't seen in decades.  The rest of you I have never had the pleasure of meeting before now.  You may have wondered what I have been doing these two decades here in my isolated laboratory.  All will be revealed at this time!
 
}}{{quote|
 
Have you ever had déjà vu?  The strange feeling you've done something before?  Well as of today it's not just a creepy feeling...it's a reality!
 
}}{{quote|
 
Today I will demonstrate to you the technology that makes that possible and my life's achievement:  a time machine!
 
}}{{quote|
 
Yes, time travel is impossible.  Or at least it ''was'' until my key breakthrough:  the ''tachyon midi ether co-keypad.''  I don't think anyone else in the world could have properly fabricated one.
 
}}{{quote|
 
Now you've already met the eminent Doctor Wesley When, visiting us from the East Coast.
 
}}{{quote|
 
"Doctor Wesley When; New England Institute of Extremely Hypothetical Knowledge; inventor of the quantum chronomentometer" is displayed on the screen.  Doctor When tiredly waves to the crowd from the side of the stage.
 
}}
 
BUFFY
 
{{quote|
 
(coughs on purpose)
 
}}
 
PROF. CHRONOS
 
{{quote|
 
And we can't forget his "lovely" wife Buffy [under her breath] no matter how hard we try.
 
}}{{quote|
 
Buffy enjoys her moment of attention.
 
}}
 
PROF. CHRONOS (CONT'D.)
 
{{quote|
 
Doctor When has made several key theoretical contributions to the project that I have put into practice, such as the ''quantum chronomentometer.''  ''And'' he has been my best friend since we went to high-school together.  He'll be assisting with the demonstration.
 
}}{{quote|
 
Oh, and after the demonstration, I hope you all will join us at a celebratory reception.  The International Museum of Pretentious Art--known around the world as "the Louvre of San Mateo"--is giving us a private tour of their current exhibit, "Masters Old and New: An Artful Romp Through the History of Painting."
 
Prof. Chronos waves the exhibit's curation pamphlet and then puts it in her pocket.
 
}}
 
PROF. CHRONOS (CONT'D.)
 
{{quote|
 
But enough talk.  I will activate the machine and reappear one minute of your time from now.  But my watch will prove that no time has passed for me.
 
Now I step into the future!
 
}}{{quote|
 
Prof. Chronos unveils the machine.  It looks a little different--perhaps more feminine--than Doctor When's (in the Act I timeline).  She activates it and steps in.  It rumbles, shakes and spews smoke.
 
}}{{quote|
 
The Professor does not reappear after a minute as expected.  The lab assistants don't even bother trying to hide their panic as they scurry about the machinery trying to diagnose the problem.  A frightened Doctor When steps back up to the podium.
 
}}
 
DOCTOR WHEN
 
{{quote|
 
Great Scott!  The machine has malfunctioned.
 
}}
 
BUFFY
 
{{quote|
 
Oh, I knew it.  You broke it.
 
}}
 
DOCTOR WHEN
 
{{quote|
 
No, I had nothing to do with it...I don't think....  And now poor Catherine, I mean Prof. Chronos, is now bouncing around through time.
 
}}{{quote|
 
I don't understand what could ''possibly'' have gone wrong.  Frankly, I only work on theory.  Prof. Chronos was the one really ''driven'' to create a working machine.
 
}}{{quote|
 
But wait!  All of you are probably the greatest assembly of brilliant minds since the space race.  With your help I bet we can rescue her in no time!
 
}}{{quote|
 
The machine's core dump will tell us what went wrong.  We'll just take a quick look and....
 
}}
 
  
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Prof. Chronus gives a welcoming speech to the teams, parallel to Dr. When's speech at the start of Act I.  She (and the other actors) do not acknowledge that any events from Act I happened.  At the conclusion of the speech, Prof. Chronus enters the time machine, something breaks down, and she is "lost in time".
  
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==How To Give To Teams==
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n/a
  
 
==Puzzle Answer==
 
==Puzzle Answer==
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==Hints==
 
==Hints==
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Ask teams what they have done, probing details if necessary (often this will get a team unstuck by themselves).
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n/a
 
n/a
  

Latest revision as of 03:07, 31 March 2012

Status

::FINAL-READY::

Location

Name And Address: Peach Frontier Laboratories, actually Highlands Elementary School, 2320 Newport St, San Mateo, CA 94402

GC PoC: Erik, on-site

Parking: School lot or street parking

Bathroom: Yes

Food: No

Type

Mandatory Presentation

Plot Setup

  • Players returned to Trenchwood Institute to see Doctor When's return from his misadventures through time.
  • But when they arrived at registration it's "Peach Frontier Laboratories," not "Trenchwood Institute"
  • They don't know why

Props

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

Plot Point to Convey

The time stream has been altered. But only the players know this. The actors will deny it--from their perspectives in this timeline this is the very first time this has happened. At most they'll say that the time machine emits a low-level (almost certainly not dangerous) of chronotron radiation. Sometimes the emanations confuse people.

Prof. Chronus's high school friend, Doctor When, has flown in to assist with the unveiling of Chronos' time machine. Two of the key components of the time machine are the "midi ether co-keypads" and the "quantum chronomentometers." Prof. Chronus admonishes audience to "Never use time travel for petty personal gain." Players see that she's secretly carrying a pair of bolt cutters. Machine goes haywire.

Note that Doctor When't wife, Buffy, traveled with him to the demo. She must be a shrew and no longer the cheerleader hottie she was in high school. .

After the machine goes haywire, Doctor When explains that Prof. Chronus is bouncing around the timeline and needs help to return.

Short Description

Prof. Chronus gives a welcoming speech to the teams, parallel to Dr. When's speech at the start of Act I.

Open Time Period

Saturday, 10 PM - 10:15 PM

Staff Instructions

Your Role: lab assistants at Peach Frontier Laboratories (plus Prof. Chronos, Doctor When, Buffy, & Tiresias)

What To Wear: lab coat + Peach Frontier Laboratories nametag

What Your Character Knows: You know nothing of Trenchwood Institute nor the hi-jinks of Act I (it never happened in this timeline!). Similarly, you've never seen the players before. You have heard of Doctor Wesley When. He is a visiting scientist (traveling with his wife Buffy).

Puzzles At This Site: None during this segment

Where To Get Materials: GC HQ

Setup Instructions:

  • Make sure portable tachyon detector is near the door of the time machine

Handout Instructions: When all the players have completed C.R.A.P., lab assistant says

Thank you all for completing your C.R.A.P. applications. We know it was a lot of work so we're grateful you didn't make a stink about it.

With that out of the way it is almost time to start the presentation. Thank you for your patience.

We then proceed with the entrance of Doctor When + Buffy, as detailed in the script.

Hints: n/a

Answers: n/a

Site Close Down: n/a

Other Instructions:

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

Detailed Description

Prof. Chronus gives a welcoming speech to the teams, parallel to Dr. When's speech at the start of Act I. She (and the other actors) do not acknowledge that any events from Act I happened. At the conclusion of the speech, Prof. Chronus enters the time machine, something breaks down, and she is "lost in time".

How To Give To Teams

n/a

Puzzle Answer

n/a

Puzzle Solution

n/a

Budget

Credits

Manager

Erik and Ellen

Hints

Ask teams what they have done, probing details if necessary (often this will get a team unstuck by themselves).

n/a

Response to Correct Answer

N/A

To Do

Rough slides ready. Erik is waiting for the Peach Frontier website to be done, since he'll use the same background color (and maybe graphics) for the slide "templates".

He also needs a co-keypad diagram from Wei-Hwa (he's got a bug assigned to him on that topic).

Also need to coordinate sound with Ellen.

Other Notes