2.11 Locker Combo
Contents
- 1 Order
- 2 Status
- 3 Location
- 4 Type
- 5 Plot Setup
- 6 Props
- 7 Plot Point to Convey
- 8 Short Description
- 9 Open Time Period
- 10 Staff Instructions
- 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
2.07
Status
::FINAL::
Location
Status: Paine Memorial High School Principal's Office, actually Registration Office, Highlands Rec Center, 1851 Lexington Ave. San Mateo
GC PoC: Erik & Melissa
Parking: Lot in front of Rec Center
Notes: Somewhere that we dress up as a "principal's office".
Type
Mandatory Puzzle
Plot Setup
Prof. Chronus lost her bolt cutter, and so can't get into Wesley's locker (to retrieve the cursed letter!). But the players have learned that that principal keeps a master combo for all locks. It turns out that the paper he writes them on goes back through 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, etc. - all the way to 1987. Unfortunately, Chronos is in 1986. Players need to decode the pattern to figure out the master combo to send to Chronos.
Props
After the players send back the combo info to Chronus, they should be rewarded with a video of present-day Doctor When putting a letter into young When's locker. And then after he sneaks off, Chronos sneaks in and steals the letter out of young When's locker before he can read it.
We may also need a video of the time stream 1 version of the "Science Fair Incident." This one would show that they've eliminated Prof. Chronus's science fair trauma (but not quite tipping the hand that they've returned everything to time stream 1--although that may be obvious).
- Set dressing, including desk picture frame
- 16 copies of picture frame insert
- Painter's tape
Plot Point to Convey
After this event, Chronos can get into the locker (for whatever mysterious reason she needs to do so).
Short Description
Teams need to figure out the master locker combo from the principal's notes.
Open Time Period
Sunday, setup 4 PM, open 4:30 - 7:30 AM
Staff Instructions
Your Role: Tiresias, the school janitor (and also mysterious game fairy of the universe).
Handout Instructions: Only let one team at at time in the office. "Reset" the props after each team leaves, especially putting a new insert in the desk picture frame.
Site Close Down: Clean up all props, call GC.
Other Instructions:
- Stay in character.
- Except ... if a team says "time out," break character and help them.
Detailed Description
The teams have discovered that the principal keeps the master locker combo in his office. They go to his office and find - lo and behold - a list of locker combos hidden away. However, the combination changes each year, and the list only goes back to 1987! Undaunted, the players figure out the pattern, and deduce what the 1986 locker combo was, and convey this to Prof. Chronus.
How To Give To Teams
GC member at principal's office can only let one team in at a time. Each team will snag a copy of puzzle from the picture frame. GC must replace puzzle after each team leaves.
Puzzle Answer
1-11-9
Puzzle Solution
Budget
Credits
Manager
Sean
Hints
Response to Correct Answer
Team calls in
- LAB ASSISTANT (O.C.)
- Hello. Peach Frontier Laboratories. How may I direct your call?
- VISITOR 1
- We're the ____ team. We've got an urgent message for Doctor When.
- LAB ASSISTANT (O.C.)
- Of course. Let me patch you though. But first...are you on speakerphone?
- VISITOR 1
- Absolutely.
- LAB ASSISTANT (O.C.)
- Excellent. I'll connect you.
- VISITOR 1
- Hello, Doctor When?
- DOCTOR WHEN (O.C.)
- Great Scott! Our detectors show you at Paine Memorial High School. What are you doing there?
- VISITOR 1
- Uh...yes. Prof. Chronos asked us to go here to...uh...do a "research project" and then have you use the time machine to send the data to her in 1986.
- DOCTOR WHEN (O.C.)
- Heavy! What is the information?
- VISITOR 1
- Send her the following three numbers: 1-11-9.
- DOCTOR WHEN (O.C.)
- That sounds very technical...I'll do it!
- By the way, it's quite a coincidence that you're at Paine Memorial High School. Our instruments have detected that there's some sort of chronotonic nexus at the gym where many different timelines intersect. I have absolutely no idea why that is. But it does mean that we'll get excellent reception for the View-O-Scope at that location!
- So I sent over a lab assistant to set up a live feed. Please go to the gym now and you can watch us finally rescue Prof. Chronos!
[goes to either Restaurant Coupon or Consolidator 2]
To Do
- Acquire hint pieces for set dressing
- Playoffs chart
- posters
- basketball mugs, etc.
Other Notes
We have a time loop problem here - in this version of the world, how does the letter get into the locker in the first place? Does this matter?
