April Fools: Pranking the Professor
Released: 1st April 2015
Seasonal Time-Sensitive Quest
Seasonal Time-Sensitive Quest
Main Characters / Extra Characters:
My Characters
|
Requirements / Rewards
|
Part 1
Lisa: Professor Hunt think we’re all fools… but we’ll show him!
One afternoon, in Professor Hunt’s lecture…
Thomas Hunt: If you expect to ever have a career like mine… which, let’s be real, you shouldn’t… You’ll have to handle Hollywood’s high-pressure environment on your own. As in, without me holding your hand, day in and day out.
Danny: Hey!
Bianca: Yeah, don’t lump me in with these losers! I can handle pressure!
Thomas Hunt: Then you’ll have no trouble this week when I arrange high-stakes projects for you all to complete… Because each and every one of you desperately needs the practice. Especially you, Miss Valentine. Don’t think I’ve forgotten your quote-unquote performance at the Staples Center.
Lisa: Ugh. I mix up the national anthem lyrics with an Usher song one time, and I’m never gonna live it down.
Thomas Hunt: All I can say is, be prepared for anything. Class dismissed!
Hunt begins collecting his things to go. Beside you, Lisa groans.
Lisa: Grrr, he thinks he’s cool! I really just want to take him down a peg, just once!
Ethan: What if I told you… that you can? Or at least you can try…
From the row behind you, Ethan leans forward, a mischievous glint in his eye.
Danny: Ethan? What do you mean?
Ethan: Let’s just say there’s a tradition here at Hollywood U. Once a year, Hunt’s class goes all-out trying to prank him. The ‘mole rat in the briefcase’ came the closest… but so far, nobody’s succeeded in flustering him at all.
Lisa: Yeah, but none of those other classes had Lisa Valentine! Come on, guys! Don’t you want to give Mister Perfect a scare and show him he’s not as amazeballs as he thinks he is?
Bianca: Oh. My. God. Are you guys seriously talking about pranking Professor Hunt?!
Danny: Maybe. Maybe not. But the real question is… do you know what happens to rats?
Bianca: Please. Like I would ever stoop to something as low as snitching.
Danny: You literally snitch on me all the time.
Bianca: Well… this time’s different. This time… I want in.
Lisa: Wait… you do?
Bianca: Um, duh? Professor Hunt is the only one who annoys me even more than you people.
Ethan: Heh. The enemy of my enemy…
Bianca: What is that? Like, a stupid haiku?
Ethan: Never mind. So what about you, Danny? You up for a challenge?
Danny: Well, Professor Hunt does talk a big game when it comes to coping with pressure. It’d be fun to see if he can back it up…
Lisa: So you’re in? Please tell me you’re in!
As your friends wait for you decision with bated breath, your eyes fall on Professor Hunt, who’s just finishing packing his things…
Danny: You know what… yeah! I’m in!
Ethan: Yes! This is happening.
Lisa: We’re so gonna prank Professor Hunt!
Rewards
Soon, your class is filing out of the auditorium, Professor Hunt leading the way. When your group reaches the broad glass doors leading outside, Hunt pauses for a second. Then he pushes the door open for Lance Sergio…
Thomas Hunt: After you, Lance.
Lance Sergio: After me?! Professor… I’m straight-up honored!
Lance takes one step into the sunlight… and is instantly doused from above by a waterfall of red slime!
Lance Sergio: Bleeeuuuugh!
Danny: What the--
Hunt drops to one knee near Lance, his eyes focused.
Thomas Hunt: Yes, of course, a near-invisible trip wire… linked to a spring-tarp industrial fluids tank.
In the distance, you see several other students leap up from behind their hiding spot and take off running. Hunt shouts after them!
Thomas Hunt: You think you can Carrie me? Really?! I expected a little more ingenuity from my Thesis Lab!
Lisa: Whoa, did you see that?!
Bianca: I saw my boyfriend get totally humiliated. Ew.
Ethan: That, and Professor Hunt saw the prank coming from a mile away! How the hell are we supposed to surprise him?
Danny: We’re going to have to go big.
Part 2
Ethan: Pinpoint timing, flawless planning… this prank’s our hardest project yet!
Later that night, Lisa and Bianca swing by your dorm room to plan…
Bianca: Ew. Just one bathroom? Do you really sleep here, or am I on some reality show about squalor in America?
Lisa: Quiet! Lisa’s talking! We need to decide how we’re pranking Hunt.
Bianca: I know. Why don’t we steal all of his underwear?!
Lisa: Dumb. I’ve got a better idea. It’s simple. We frame him for murder. Now that’d make him really sweat!
Danny: This got dark faster than I expected…
Just then, someone knocks on your door in a special rhythm. You open it, and Ethan steps inside, carrying large rolled-up blueprints under his arm.
Bianca: What’s all that crap?
Ethan: Some would call it a prank. Others, a masterpiece. I’ve been planning this since the day I got here.
Ethan smooths out the blueprints on your desk, and you peer down at the diagrams…
Danny: Hang on… you want to stage a fake earthquake using special effects, trapping us underground?
Ethan: Hunt’s classes have been testing him for years. He’s seen everything. Going big-budget is the only way he won’t see it coming.
Lisa: I love it! Hunt thinks he’s so high and mighty in his little kingdom, but everyone loses it during a natural disaster!
Bianca: That’s great and everything, but how exactly do you plan on convincing Hunt there was an actual earthquake?
Danny: This is Hollywood U! We’ve got all the movie magic we could dream of at our fingertips!
Ethan: I like your attitude, Danny. Let’s make some calls…
Time - 2 hours
The next day, you, Lisa, Ethan, and Bianca walk into one of Hollywood U’s enormous film libraries, led by a remarkably chipper Professor Hunt.
Thomas Hunt: I must confess, I was surprised when you asked me for a special screening of The Trains Bear Their Burden In Silence.
Lisa nudges you. Your surreptitiously check your notes.
Danny: How could we not want to see, um, ‘the jewel of pre-Tarkovsky Soviet sci-fi agitprop’?
As Hunt leads your party through the library, Ethan, Lisa, and Bianca drop back to whisper to you…
Bianca: Ha! It’s working! He totally bought that we want to see this stupid movie.
Ethan: Danny, are you ready to lock the door to the screening room as soon as we’re inside? You have the key I duped?
You hold up a small silver key.
Danny: Check.
Lisa: And what about the effects? Is everything ready for ‘EarthPrank’? Or did we decide on ‘PrankQuake’?
You press a finger to the tiny radio tucked in your ear…
Danny: Crash, come in. The package is inbound. Is the device in place?
On the other side of campus, your friend Crash leans toward a mic in the visual effects lab, filled with student technicians…
Crash: All the effects are locked and loaded. Operation Aprankalypse is a go.
Lisa: Oh, right, that’s the name we settled on.
Rewards
Bianca whispers into her own earpiece…
Bianca: This thing is safe, right?
Crash: I don’t know the meaning of the word. Okay, fine, yeah, we borrowed the device from the set of San Andreas. It’s ‘perfectly calibrated for optimum resonance’ and everything.
Thomas Hunt: Ahem.
Startled, your team looks up to see Hunt waiting inside an elevator, holding the door open for you.
Thomas Hunt: Are we doing this or not?
Danny: Oh yeah. We’re definitely doing this.
Part 3
Danny: Green light. Prank commences on my mark…
After an elevator ride to the basement, Hunt opens a door into a cavernous subterranean screening room. Towering shelves are stacked high with film reels. A large silver screen waits in the dark. High above you, skylights are nearly entirely blotted out by thick blinds.
Thomas Hunt: Ahh… Screening Room H-Six. My favorite spot on campus. No one ever comes here.
Ethan: It’s like your Batcave.
Lisa: It’s the Huntcave!
Thomas Hunt: And I already regret bringing you here. Let’s just get started, okay?
As Hunt sets up the film, you lock the only door to the screening, room, slip the key back into your pocket, and nod to Ethan. Then, you whisper into the earpiece radio…
Danny: Package secured. Green light.
Across campus, in the VFX lab, Crash shouts to his team!
Crash: Time to shake and bake! But mostly shake!
One of the effects technicians triggers a sequence on her computer, sending a signal… And in the maintenance level directly beneath the screening room, a large mechanical contraption motors to life…
Thomas Hunt: Does… does anyone else feel that?
Your team looks at each other as the entire basement begins to tremble, barely perceptible at first… then stronger and stronger…
Bianca: Eaaaarthquaaaaaake!
Time - 4 hours
The library basement shakes dramatically! You and your group struggle to keep balance as desks and shelves rattle against the floor all around you!
Lisa: Whoaaaa! What the hell? Ethan, you didn’t tell me it would be this bad!
Ethan: I didn’t know either! Crash and his guys really kicked it up a notch!
Bianca: Aaaaah!
Hanging on to a wall for balance, Hunt barks at Bianca!
Thomas Hunt: Calm down! It’s not even a four-pointer! Didn’t you grow up in California?
Barely keeping balance nearby, Lisa gets your attention and points at Hunt!
Lisa: Come on, Danny, you really gotta sell this earthquake!
Wobbling over toward Hunt, you intentionally lose balance and fall into his arms!
Danny: Oh dear!
You stumble right into Hunt, who catches you in his arms, holding you up!
Danny: You saved me!
Thomas Hunt: Your grace and poise continue to astound me, Danny!
Danny: Right back at ya. Only not sarcastic.
As quickly as it began, the fake earthquake stops. You signal your team to begin the next phase, and everyone runs through the prepared script… Ethan darts to the door you locked and yanks on the doorknob…
Ethan: It’s stuck! We’re trapped down here! Help! Help, somebody!
Danny: I’m not getting any cell service! We can’t call for rescue!
Lisa: We’re doomed! We’re all gonna die down here!
Bianca: Aaaaaaaah!
Thomas Hunt: All of you, shut up! You’re all fine. No one’s injured. The gravest danger right now is your annoying voices giving me an aneurysm. Help will be here any minute, so just relax, will you?
Danny: But--
Thomas Hunt: Danny, stay off your phone. Ethan, stop pulling on the door. Conserve your strength. And Bianca, get out from under those skylights. An aftershock could shatter them.
Lisa: How are you not freaking out?! We’re trapped underground by an earthquake! This is super scary!
Ethan: Yeah! We’re in the middle of a major disaster!
Thomas Hunt: I was a production assistant on Battlefield Earth. Trust me, I’ve survived disasters.
Rewards
Thomas Hunt: Now then. I had a late night grading your papers and re-evaluating my life choices… So if you four don’t mind shutting up for once, I’m going to take this opportunity to get some rest.
Professor Hunt tucks himself into a corner and closes his eyes. Meanwhile, you, Ethan, Lisa, and Bianca regroup, whispering…
Danny: I can’t believe that didn’t work.
Ethan: Hunt didn’t even flinch. The man’s unflappable. We didn’t even match the exploding soda prank of 2013.
Lisa: What? You guys can’t just give up! We’re so close!
Bianca: Close? Hunt is literally napping through your stupid prank right now! We should’ve done my idea…
Lisa: I’m not giving up. He’s not better than us. He’s human after all. We just need to turn up the pressure.
Danny: What do you mean?
Lisa: It’s just like an earthquake. Pressure builds beneath the surface… until something finally snaps. Hunt’s only so calm because he thinks help is coming… but what if we make him think it’s not?
Bianca: And how do you suppose we do that?
Danny: Just a little more move magic…
Part 4
Lisa: We need a team to convince Professor Hunt that this just got real!
You radio Crash to have him bring Tegwen, Nyako, and Lyndsay to the VFX lab. They all gather around the mic.
Danny: Thanks for coming, everyone. You’re all ready to help us make this happen?
Tegwen: You kidding? Hunt once told me my acting was like the live-action equivalent of Jar-Jar Binks. Putting a little scare in him would be better than any award.
Nyako: He called me pretentious. Like, hello? Pot, meet kettle.
Lyndsay: What do you need from us, Danny?
Danny: We need this to have been a serious earthquake… so it’s gotta be on the news!
Nyako: A fake news segment about a fake disaster with a fake anchor? Leave that to us.
Time - 6 hours
On a soundstage across campus, Nyako sets up the hand held camera as Lyndsay puts the finishing touches on Tegwen’s makeup.
Lyndsay: A little dust here, a little grime there… perfect! Now it looks like you just survived the earthquake of the century!
Tegwen: But won’t Professor Hunt recognize me as his student?
Lyndsay: Don’t worry, he won’t. I also made you way better looking.
Tegwen: Hey now--
Nyako: Action!
A little while later, you’ve got a small wall-mounted television working.
Danny: Professor Hunt! You’re gonna want to see this!
Still napping in the corner, Hunt opens his eyes.
Thomas Hunt: Hrm. I was having the best dream ever… that I wasn’t here. What do you want?
Hunt joins you and your friends by the TV, where a breaking news graphic blitzes across the screen. The image cuts to Tegwen holding a mic, looking dirty and traumatized in front of a digitized background of rubble and smoke…
Tegwen: Coming to you from Sunset Boulevard, you’re seeing live images of the destruction from the tremendous quake that struck just moments ago!
Ethan: It looks like it was way worse than we thought, doesn’t it, Professor?
Tegwen: Is it the end of the world? Who knows? The one thing we do know is that emergency services are overwhelmed! If you’re in need of help, perhaps trapped underground in some capacity, do not expect rescue for four days!
Bianca: Gasp! Oh no!
Lisa: I guess help isn’t coming! How will we survive? We’re going to starve to death, aren’t we, Professor? Um, Professor?
Hunt has already marched away from the television and is digging through a cabinet. He withdraws an armful of protein bars and bags of dried fruit!
Danny: Where’d you get all that?!
Thomas Hunt: I told you, this is my refuge. I come here often, so forgive me for enjoying a snack now and then. A quick calculation based on calorie content… and I’d say there’s enough here to ration among us over four days.
Lisa: Are you sure? That doesn’t seem like a lot. I think we’re still going to die.
Thomas Hunt: I once stretched a 1.2 million dollar budget across 72 shooting days and a six-month post-production cycle. This is nothing.
Rewards
While Hunt divvies up the food rations on a table, your team regroups once more…
Danny: Call it. Operation Aprankalypse is finished. Time of death: two--
Lisa: It’s not finished. We’re getting under his skin, I just know it!
Ethan: But what can we do? He had a secret snack stash here! We’re in over our heads with this guy, Lisa!
Lisa: There’s still one thing we can try. Hunt was worried about aftershocks, remember? We just hit him with another earthquake. This time… even stronger!
You touch your earpiece…
Danny: Crash? Could we run another earthquake, stronger this time?
Crash: Totally! Wait, okay, that was premature. I’m being told that the earthquake generator isn’t meant to exceed certain--
Lisa: Just do it!
Part 5
Lisa: To shock Professor Hunt, we need an aftershock!
A couple moments later, the earthquake generator stirs to life again… this time, far stronger!
Danny: Aaaah!
Ethan: Whoaaa!
Lisa: Okay, maybe this wasn’t the best idea!
Thomas Hunt: It’s an aftershock! Get out from under the skylights!
You hear glass shattering high above you! Shards of the broken skylight rain down, glinting in the column of afternoon sun!
Bianca: Aaaaiiiii!
Your group scatters, barely keeping balance, as the glass smashes into the floor where you just were! You take refuse beside a massive storage shelf of empty film reels…
Danny: Whew…
Thomas Hunt: Danny, look out!
You turn around and see the shelf toppling over toward you! You can’t run away in time!
Danny: Aaah!
Just before the shelf crashes down on you, Hunt darts toward you at full tilt and tackles you out of the way!
Thomas Hunt: Kff!
The two of you roll over each other across the trembling floor before skidding to a stop. Empty film reels skitter past you.
Ethan: Danny! Are you all right?
Danny: I’m fine… but Professor Hunt’s not moving! Professor! …Professor Hunt!
You touch your earpiece.
Danny: Crash! Stop the machine! Now!
Time - 8 hours
Immediately, the fake earthquake stops, leaving the screening room completely still. Beside you, Professor Hunt lies motionless after having tackled you away form the falling shelf. Lisa, Ethan, and Bianca gather around…
Lisa: Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap…
Bianca: Oh my god, we killed our professor! I had nothing to do with this! This is all you people!
Danny: He’s breathing still… but the shelf must have hit him as he saved me.
Ethan: Try to wake him, Danny.
Danny: I know what to do!
You lean down, pressing your lips to Professor Hunt’s exhaling into his lungs! Ethan hurriedly pulls you off him!
Ethan: What are you doing, Danny?! CPR is for when you’re not breathing! That’s the whole point!
Bianca: What, did you just want an excuse to kiss him or something?
Danny: …no comment.
Ethan: Well, trust me… if that didn’t wake him, nothing will. He’s out cold.
Lisa: We are so screwed.
Rewards
Ethan: Okay, okay, okay… think, Ethan, think… we can figure this out… no big deal…
Bianca: Not a big deal?! You knocked out our professor!
Danny: It’ll be okay, we just need to get him medical attention.
Lisa: Right! Yeah! Okay, Danny, go unlock the door!
You reach into your pocket…
Danny: Hey! The key… it’s gone!
Lisa: Gone?! No, no no, it can’t be gone!
Danny: It must have fallen out during the earthquake! Help me look!
While you, Ethan, and Lisa search the floor among the broken glass and fallen shelves, Bianca sprints toward the door, pulling futilely on the knob!
Bianca: We’re actually trapped!
Ethan: And that’s not even our biggest problem.
Ethan points to the air vents in the floor, each one spouting plumes of dark smoke into the screening room.
Lisa: What is that?!
Danny: Crash, come in! We’ve got smoke coming through the floor! What’s happening?!
Crash: Um… the tech guys are talking pretty fast… but it sounds like pushing the earthquake machine past its limits might’ve… overheated it. You’re gonna want to get out of there ASAP!
Part 6
Ethan: We’ve gotta get out of this smoke!
Smoke billows through the floor vents, starting to fill the screening room. The air grows hazy and dim…
Danny: Crash, we can’t get out. We need help! Get over here before we all suffocate!
Crash: We’re coming! Hold your breath! But not really, because it’s gonna take us some time to get there! We’re all the way on the other side of campus!
Danny: Hurry!
Ethan: There’s no way they’ll make it in time! The smoke’s coming in too fast, and there’s no other way out!
Lisa: Way to be positive, Ethan! Maybe try being constructive and think of something!
Bianca: Well, Little Miss Mermaid, maybe if you had just realized you’d failed and gone home, we wouldn’t be here!
Ethan: I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Bianca right now, but yeah! You wanted to build up the pressure, but the only thing that snapped was you!
Lisa, Bianca, and Ethan shout over each other, bickering fiercely! Meanwhile, you slowly turn, scanning your surroundings, looking for an answer through the increasingly dense smoke…
Danny: Guys, I have an idea!
But the three of them just keep screaming at one another…
Danny: Hey! Shut up!
Stunned, they all stop and look at you.
Danny: We are not dying in here. There’s still one way out.
Bianca: Where?! Tell me!
You point directly above you, where the broken skylight lets in a thin column of smoke-obscured sunlight two stories up.
Danny: There.
Rewards
Your friends stare at you through the thickening smoke…
Lisa: What?! The skylight? Oh, great, sure, let me just grow some wings, and we’ll get out no problem!
Ethan: Lisa’s right, Danny. That doesn’t help us if we can’t reach it…
Danny: But we can. By working together. Look at all these shelves! We can stack them together and build something tall enough to climb out!
Bianca: But what if--
Danny: There’s no time! Let’s get to work! Bianca, you clear off whatever’s left on the shelves. Ethan, help me set up a wide base. Lisa, you’ll climb up, and we’ll pass shelves to you to start stacking! Move it! There’s not much time!
Part 7
Danny: Come on, everyone! Up and out!
Trapped in the basement as it fills with smoke, you, Ethan, Lisa, and Bianca work together to stack shelves tall enough to reach the skylight and escape!
Bianca: This one’s ready!
Ethan: Kff! Got it! Lisa, here, got another one for ya!
Lisa: One, two, three, lift!
Danny: Bianca, move Professor Hunt away from that vent!
Bianca struggles to drag the unconscious professor farther from one of the vents spouting black smoke into the room.
Ethan: We’re almost there!
As the stack of shelves grows taller, the haze of smoke gets thicker! From the floor, you can hardly see the skylight above you!
Lisa: We’re at the top! I can climb out! Come on!
Lisa pulls herself through the skylight, and Ethan follows! Bianca struggles to lift herself!
Bianca: Agh! A little help would be nice, you know!
You climb up the stack of shelves and push Bianca through… but then the tower of shelves starts to collapse under your feet!
Danny: Whoaaa!
Falling backwards, you launch yourself up… and Ethan and Lisa catch your hands!
Ethan: Gotcha!
They pull you up, and you find yourself standing in the quad outside the library, nearly blinded by the bright sun!
Lisa: We’re alive!
Ethan: Oh, that sweet, fresh air! I missed you, baby!
Danny: We can’t just stand around! Hunt is still down there! We have to find a key for the locked door and get him out!
You turn to go back, but pause when you hear a slow clap behind you. You look around…
Thomas Hunt: Nicely done.
Danny: Professor?!
Lisa: How are… what did… how’d you get out?!
Time - 12 hours
Having just escaped the smoke-filled library through the skylight, you and your friends find yourselves face-to-face with a smirking Thomas Hunt.
Ethan: How’d you get out, Professor?! You were just down there in the smoke, out cold!
Thomas Hunt: Through the front door, of course.
Hunt reaches into his pocket and pulls out… the tiny silver key you’d lost!
Danny: You took it off me?
Thomas Hunt: Obviously. When I tackled you out of the way of that shelf.
Lisa: But why? Why would you steal it? I mean, how would you even know to steal it unless…
Ethan: Unless you knew it was us who had locked the door from the beginning.
Danny: You knew it was all a prank?
Thomas Hunt: Of course I did. You lot think so highly of yourselves, I knew you couldn’t resist taking a shot at the king. But I told you from the beginning. This week was about learning to cope with real pressure. It’s pathetic that, out of all of you, it was Danny who was the only one to show the slightest bit of leadership.
Bianca: You mean you were awake for all that? You weren’t really knocked out?
Ethan: Holy smokes… you pranked us.
Lisa: Hey! That’s not cool! We could’ve died in there!
Thomas Hunt: As if I have the time for that lawsuit. As soon as I caught wind of your plan, I simply cleared out everything valuable and installed a harmless fog machine right beside your earthquake generator. It never overheated. You were never in danger. You were simply pranked.
Ethan: Wait… if you weren’t really unconscious, then you were awake when Danny kissed— I mean, tried CPR on you.
Thomas Hunt: I… Ahem. It’s called acting, Mr. Blake. And Danny and I will discuss proper first- aid protocol soon enough…
Danny: No regrets.
Lisa: I can’t believe it, guys… maybe… maybe he is as amazeballs as he thinks he is. I mean, he pranked our prank just to teach us a lesson.
Thomas Hunt: Two lessons, Miss Valentine. First, the value of quick problem-solving under high pressure. And second… That Thomas Hunt has never been pranked… and he never will be.
Rewards
Smugly satisfied, Hunt turns to go…
Thomas Hunt: Perhaps next time you’ll be more receptive to standard lectures. Come along now.
Lisa: I can’t believe we couldn’t prank him, Danny…
Danny: We’ll get another chance one day. Maybe sooner than we think.
You’re about to follow Hunt, when you hear a staticky voice crackling over your earpiece.
Crash: Danny! Lisa! We’re here! Where are you guys?
Part 8
Crash: Helloooo! Rescue team’s got no one to rescue!
Crash: Danny! Lisa! We’re here! Where are you guys?
You peer down through the skylight and, amid the smoke, see Crash and his team of VFX techs running into the smoke-filled screening room, searching for you. You realize Hunt can’t hear them without an earpiece. An idea strikes you, and you share a quick, knowing look with Ethan and Lisa…
Danny: Just when I thought things were looking up…
Confused, Crash looks up and sees you through the open skylight! He radios back while Professor Hunt continues to walk away, unaware…
Crash: Danny! What’re you doing up there?!
Danny: Gosh, Professor, we had such big plans to prank you… but they fell through!
Crash: I feel like you’re trying to tell me something…
Lisa: Yeah, Professor Hunt caught us in the act!
Crash: Fell through? Caught us? Oh… oh!
Crash signals to his team! They take down the large projector screen and stretch it out beneath the skylight like a tarp! Meanwhile, Hunt turns to your group, impatient.
Thomas Hunt: Stop moping around and come on! You lost! Accept defeat with a little dignity!
Danny: Sorry, Professor, we’re coming… Whoops!
You intentionally trip over your shoes! You plunge through the skylight and vanish in the smoke!
Danny: Aaaaaah!
Thomas Hunt: Danny!
Time - 8 hours
You drop through the open skylight and vanish through the smoke!
Danny: Aaaaaah!
Thomas Hunt: Danny!
Crash and his team catch you with the projector screen and whisk you away through the haze… Hunt scrambles to the edge of the skylight, horrified!
Thomas Hunt: Danny! Danny! Quickly, Ethan, downstairs! We have to get--
Ethan puts a hand on Hunt’s shoulder.
Ethan: Professor… it’s too late…
Lisa: There’s no way Danny survived that fall…
Thomas Hunt: I… I… I never told Danny… how much I… why didn’t I ever say…
Danny: Say what, Professor?
Hunt whips around to see you exiting the library’s front door with Crash and his team.
Thomas Hunt: Danny! You’re… how?!
Ethan: Do my eyes deceive me? Or did Danny just successfully prank the Thomas Hunt?
Rewards
Lisa: We! Pranked! Hunt! We! Pranked! Hunt!
Ethan: Is this the proudest moment of my life? Yeah. Yeah, it is.
Thomas Hunt: No! You did not prank me. I never actually thought…
Danny: Come on, Professor. Accept defeat with a little dignity.
Hunt stews silently for a moment, clearly vanquished.
Thomas Hunt: You may have won the day, Danny… but mark my words… I always have the last word.
Lisa: Professor Hunt think we’re all fools… but we’ll show him!
- Preview!
- Spend 145 Diamonds
One afternoon, in Professor Hunt’s lecture…
Thomas Hunt: If you expect to ever have a career like mine… which, let’s be real, you shouldn’t… You’ll have to handle Hollywood’s high-pressure environment on your own. As in, without me holding your hand, day in and day out.
Danny: Hey!
Bianca: Yeah, don’t lump me in with these losers! I can handle pressure!
Thomas Hunt: Then you’ll have no trouble this week when I arrange high-stakes projects for you all to complete… Because each and every one of you desperately needs the practice. Especially you, Miss Valentine. Don’t think I’ve forgotten your quote-unquote performance at the Staples Center.
Lisa: Ugh. I mix up the national anthem lyrics with an Usher song one time, and I’m never gonna live it down.
Thomas Hunt: All I can say is, be prepared for anything. Class dismissed!
Hunt begins collecting his things to go. Beside you, Lisa groans.
Lisa: Grrr, he thinks he’s cool! I really just want to take him down a peg, just once!
Ethan: What if I told you… that you can? Or at least you can try…
From the row behind you, Ethan leans forward, a mischievous glint in his eye.
Danny: Ethan? What do you mean?
Ethan: Let’s just say there’s a tradition here at Hollywood U. Once a year, Hunt’s class goes all-out trying to prank him. The ‘mole rat in the briefcase’ came the closest… but so far, nobody’s succeeded in flustering him at all.
Lisa: Yeah, but none of those other classes had Lisa Valentine! Come on, guys! Don’t you want to give Mister Perfect a scare and show him he’s not as amazeballs as he thinks he is?
Bianca: Oh. My. God. Are you guys seriously talking about pranking Professor Hunt?!
Danny: Maybe. Maybe not. But the real question is… do you know what happens to rats?
Bianca: Please. Like I would ever stoop to something as low as snitching.
Danny: You literally snitch on me all the time.
Bianca: Well… this time’s different. This time… I want in.
Lisa: Wait… you do?
Bianca: Um, duh? Professor Hunt is the only one who annoys me even more than you people.
Ethan: Heh. The enemy of my enemy…
Bianca: What is that? Like, a stupid haiku?
Ethan: Never mind. So what about you, Danny? You up for a challenge?
Danny: Well, Professor Hunt does talk a big game when it comes to coping with pressure. It’d be fun to see if he can back it up…
Lisa: So you’re in? Please tell me you’re in!
As your friends wait for you decision with bated breath, your eyes fall on Professor Hunt, who’s just finishing packing his things…
Danny: You know what… yeah! I’m in!
Ethan: Yes! This is happening.
Lisa: We’re so gonna prank Professor Hunt!
Rewards
- 1500 Cash
Soon, your class is filing out of the auditorium, Professor Hunt leading the way. When your group reaches the broad glass doors leading outside, Hunt pauses for a second. Then he pushes the door open for Lance Sergio…
Thomas Hunt: After you, Lance.
Lance Sergio: After me?! Professor… I’m straight-up honored!
Lance takes one step into the sunlight… and is instantly doused from above by a waterfall of red slime!
Lance Sergio: Bleeeuuuugh!
Danny: What the--
Hunt drops to one knee near Lance, his eyes focused.
Thomas Hunt: Yes, of course, a near-invisible trip wire… linked to a spring-tarp industrial fluids tank.
In the distance, you see several other students leap up from behind their hiding spot and take off running. Hunt shouts after them!
Thomas Hunt: You think you can Carrie me? Really?! I expected a little more ingenuity from my Thesis Lab!
Lisa: Whoa, did you see that?!
Bianca: I saw my boyfriend get totally humiliated. Ew.
Ethan: That, and Professor Hunt saw the prank coming from a mile away! How the hell are we supposed to surprise him?
Danny: We’re going to have to go big.
Part 2
Ethan: Pinpoint timing, flawless planning… this prank’s our hardest project yet!
- Danny
- Lisa
- Ethan
Later that night, Lisa and Bianca swing by your dorm room to plan…
Bianca: Ew. Just one bathroom? Do you really sleep here, or am I on some reality show about squalor in America?
Lisa: Quiet! Lisa’s talking! We need to decide how we’re pranking Hunt.
Bianca: I know. Why don’t we steal all of his underwear?!
Lisa: Dumb. I’ve got a better idea. It’s simple. We frame him for murder. Now that’d make him really sweat!
Danny: This got dark faster than I expected…
Just then, someone knocks on your door in a special rhythm. You open it, and Ethan steps inside, carrying large rolled-up blueprints under his arm.
Bianca: What’s all that crap?
Ethan: Some would call it a prank. Others, a masterpiece. I’ve been planning this since the day I got here.
Ethan smooths out the blueprints on your desk, and you peer down at the diagrams…
Danny: Hang on… you want to stage a fake earthquake using special effects, trapping us underground?
Ethan: Hunt’s classes have been testing him for years. He’s seen everything. Going big-budget is the only way he won’t see it coming.
Lisa: I love it! Hunt thinks he’s so high and mighty in his little kingdom, but everyone loses it during a natural disaster!
Bianca: That’s great and everything, but how exactly do you plan on convincing Hunt there was an actual earthquake?
Danny: This is Hollywood U! We’ve got all the movie magic we could dream of at our fingertips!
Ethan: I like your attitude, Danny. Let’s make some calls…
Time - 2 hours
The next day, you, Lisa, Ethan, and Bianca walk into one of Hollywood U’s enormous film libraries, led by a remarkably chipper Professor Hunt.
Thomas Hunt: I must confess, I was surprised when you asked me for a special screening of The Trains Bear Their Burden In Silence.
Lisa nudges you. Your surreptitiously check your notes.
Danny: How could we not want to see, um, ‘the jewel of pre-Tarkovsky Soviet sci-fi agitprop’?
As Hunt leads your party through the library, Ethan, Lisa, and Bianca drop back to whisper to you…
Bianca: Ha! It’s working! He totally bought that we want to see this stupid movie.
Ethan: Danny, are you ready to lock the door to the screening room as soon as we’re inside? You have the key I duped?
You hold up a small silver key.
Danny: Check.
Lisa: And what about the effects? Is everything ready for ‘EarthPrank’? Or did we decide on ‘PrankQuake’?
You press a finger to the tiny radio tucked in your ear…
Danny: Crash, come in. The package is inbound. Is the device in place?
On the other side of campus, your friend Crash leans toward a mic in the visual effects lab, filled with student technicians…
Crash: All the effects are locked and loaded. Operation Aprankalypse is a go.
Lisa: Oh, right, that’s the name we settled on.
Rewards
- 100 Cash
Bianca whispers into her own earpiece…
Bianca: This thing is safe, right?
Crash: I don’t know the meaning of the word. Okay, fine, yeah, we borrowed the device from the set of San Andreas. It’s ‘perfectly calibrated for optimum resonance’ and everything.
Thomas Hunt: Ahem.
Startled, your team looks up to see Hunt waiting inside an elevator, holding the door open for you.
Thomas Hunt: Are we doing this or not?
Danny: Oh yeah. We’re definitely doing this.
Part 3
Danny: Green light. Prank commences on my mark…
- Danny
- Lisa
- Ethan
After an elevator ride to the basement, Hunt opens a door into a cavernous subterranean screening room. Towering shelves are stacked high with film reels. A large silver screen waits in the dark. High above you, skylights are nearly entirely blotted out by thick blinds.
Thomas Hunt: Ahh… Screening Room H-Six. My favorite spot on campus. No one ever comes here.
Ethan: It’s like your Batcave.
Lisa: It’s the Huntcave!
Thomas Hunt: And I already regret bringing you here. Let’s just get started, okay?
As Hunt sets up the film, you lock the only door to the screening, room, slip the key back into your pocket, and nod to Ethan. Then, you whisper into the earpiece radio…
Danny: Package secured. Green light.
Across campus, in the VFX lab, Crash shouts to his team!
Crash: Time to shake and bake! But mostly shake!
One of the effects technicians triggers a sequence on her computer, sending a signal… And in the maintenance level directly beneath the screening room, a large mechanical contraption motors to life…
Thomas Hunt: Does… does anyone else feel that?
Your team looks at each other as the entire basement begins to tremble, barely perceptible at first… then stronger and stronger…
Bianca: Eaaaarthquaaaaaake!
Time - 4 hours
The library basement shakes dramatically! You and your group struggle to keep balance as desks and shelves rattle against the floor all around you!
Lisa: Whoaaaa! What the hell? Ethan, you didn’t tell me it would be this bad!
Ethan: I didn’t know either! Crash and his guys really kicked it up a notch!
Bianca: Aaaaah!
Hanging on to a wall for balance, Hunt barks at Bianca!
Thomas Hunt: Calm down! It’s not even a four-pointer! Didn’t you grow up in California?
Barely keeping balance nearby, Lisa gets your attention and points at Hunt!
Lisa: Come on, Danny, you really gotta sell this earthquake!
Wobbling over toward Hunt, you intentionally lose balance and fall into his arms!
Danny: Oh dear!
You stumble right into Hunt, who catches you in his arms, holding you up!
Danny: You saved me!
Thomas Hunt: Your grace and poise continue to astound me, Danny!
Danny: Right back at ya. Only not sarcastic.
As quickly as it began, the fake earthquake stops. You signal your team to begin the next phase, and everyone runs through the prepared script… Ethan darts to the door you locked and yanks on the doorknob…
Ethan: It’s stuck! We’re trapped down here! Help! Help, somebody!
Danny: I’m not getting any cell service! We can’t call for rescue!
Lisa: We’re doomed! We’re all gonna die down here!
Bianca: Aaaaaaaah!
Thomas Hunt: All of you, shut up! You’re all fine. No one’s injured. The gravest danger right now is your annoying voices giving me an aneurysm. Help will be here any minute, so just relax, will you?
Danny: But--
Thomas Hunt: Danny, stay off your phone. Ethan, stop pulling on the door. Conserve your strength. And Bianca, get out from under those skylights. An aftershock could shatter them.
Lisa: How are you not freaking out?! We’re trapped underground by an earthquake! This is super scary!
Ethan: Yeah! We’re in the middle of a major disaster!
Thomas Hunt: I was a production assistant on Battlefield Earth. Trust me, I’ve survived disasters.
Rewards
- 100 Cash
Thomas Hunt: Now then. I had a late night grading your papers and re-evaluating my life choices… So if you four don’t mind shutting up for once, I’m going to take this opportunity to get some rest.
Professor Hunt tucks himself into a corner and closes his eyes. Meanwhile, you, Ethan, Lisa, and Bianca regroup, whispering…
Danny: I can’t believe that didn’t work.
Ethan: Hunt didn’t even flinch. The man’s unflappable. We didn’t even match the exploding soda prank of 2013.
Lisa: What? You guys can’t just give up! We’re so close!
Bianca: Close? Hunt is literally napping through your stupid prank right now! We should’ve done my idea…
Lisa: I’m not giving up. He’s not better than us. He’s human after all. We just need to turn up the pressure.
Danny: What do you mean?
Lisa: It’s just like an earthquake. Pressure builds beneath the surface… until something finally snaps. Hunt’s only so calm because he thinks help is coming… but what if we make him think it’s not?
Bianca: And how do you suppose we do that?
Danny: Just a little more move magic…
Part 4
Lisa: We need a team to convince Professor Hunt that this just got real!
- A Level 7+ Movie Star Besides Danny (Tegwen)
- A Level 7+ Director Besides Danny (Nyako)
- A Level 7+ Make-Up Artist (Lyndsay)
You radio Crash to have him bring Tegwen, Nyako, and Lyndsay to the VFX lab. They all gather around the mic.
Danny: Thanks for coming, everyone. You’re all ready to help us make this happen?
Tegwen: You kidding? Hunt once told me my acting was like the live-action equivalent of Jar-Jar Binks. Putting a little scare in him would be better than any award.
Nyako: He called me pretentious. Like, hello? Pot, meet kettle.
Lyndsay: What do you need from us, Danny?
Danny: We need this to have been a serious earthquake… so it’s gotta be on the news!
Nyako: A fake news segment about a fake disaster with a fake anchor? Leave that to us.
Time - 6 hours
On a soundstage across campus, Nyako sets up the hand held camera as Lyndsay puts the finishing touches on Tegwen’s makeup.
Lyndsay: A little dust here, a little grime there… perfect! Now it looks like you just survived the earthquake of the century!
Tegwen: But won’t Professor Hunt recognize me as his student?
Lyndsay: Don’t worry, he won’t. I also made you way better looking.
Tegwen: Hey now--
Nyako: Action!
A little while later, you’ve got a small wall-mounted television working.
Danny: Professor Hunt! You’re gonna want to see this!
Still napping in the corner, Hunt opens his eyes.
Thomas Hunt: Hrm. I was having the best dream ever… that I wasn’t here. What do you want?
Hunt joins you and your friends by the TV, where a breaking news graphic blitzes across the screen. The image cuts to Tegwen holding a mic, looking dirty and traumatized in front of a digitized background of rubble and smoke…
Tegwen: Coming to you from Sunset Boulevard, you’re seeing live images of the destruction from the tremendous quake that struck just moments ago!
Ethan: It looks like it was way worse than we thought, doesn’t it, Professor?
Tegwen: Is it the end of the world? Who knows? The one thing we do know is that emergency services are overwhelmed! If you’re in need of help, perhaps trapped underground in some capacity, do not expect rescue for four days!
Bianca: Gasp! Oh no!
Lisa: I guess help isn’t coming! How will we survive? We’re going to starve to death, aren’t we, Professor? Um, Professor?
Hunt has already marched away from the television and is digging through a cabinet. He withdraws an armful of protein bars and bags of dried fruit!
Danny: Where’d you get all that?!
Thomas Hunt: I told you, this is my refuge. I come here often, so forgive me for enjoying a snack now and then. A quick calculation based on calorie content… and I’d say there’s enough here to ration among us over four days.
Lisa: Are you sure? That doesn’t seem like a lot. I think we’re still going to die.
Thomas Hunt: I once stretched a 1.2 million dollar budget across 72 shooting days and a six-month post-production cycle. This is nothing.
Rewards
- 325 Cash
While Hunt divvies up the food rations on a table, your team regroups once more…
Danny: Call it. Operation Aprankalypse is finished. Time of death: two--
Lisa: It’s not finished. We’re getting under his skin, I just know it!
Ethan: But what can we do? He had a secret snack stash here! We’re in over our heads with this guy, Lisa!
Lisa: There’s still one thing we can try. Hunt was worried about aftershocks, remember? We just hit him with another earthquake. This time… even stronger!
You touch your earpiece…
Danny: Crash? Could we run another earthquake, stronger this time?
Crash: Totally! Wait, okay, that was premature. I’m being told that the earthquake generator isn’t meant to exceed certain--
Lisa: Just do it!
Part 5
Lisa: To shock Professor Hunt, we need an aftershock!
- Lisa
A couple moments later, the earthquake generator stirs to life again… this time, far stronger!
Danny: Aaaah!
Ethan: Whoaaa!
Lisa: Okay, maybe this wasn’t the best idea!
Thomas Hunt: It’s an aftershock! Get out from under the skylights!
You hear glass shattering high above you! Shards of the broken skylight rain down, glinting in the column of afternoon sun!
Bianca: Aaaaiiiii!
Your group scatters, barely keeping balance, as the glass smashes into the floor where you just were! You take refuse beside a massive storage shelf of empty film reels…
Danny: Whew…
Thomas Hunt: Danny, look out!
You turn around and see the shelf toppling over toward you! You can’t run away in time!
Danny: Aaah!
Just before the shelf crashes down on you, Hunt darts toward you at full tilt and tackles you out of the way!
Thomas Hunt: Kff!
The two of you roll over each other across the trembling floor before skidding to a stop. Empty film reels skitter past you.
Ethan: Danny! Are you all right?
Danny: I’m fine… but Professor Hunt’s not moving! Professor! …Professor Hunt!
You touch your earpiece.
Danny: Crash! Stop the machine! Now!
Time - 8 hours
Immediately, the fake earthquake stops, leaving the screening room completely still. Beside you, Professor Hunt lies motionless after having tackled you away form the falling shelf. Lisa, Ethan, and Bianca gather around…
Lisa: Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap…
Bianca: Oh my god, we killed our professor! I had nothing to do with this! This is all you people!
Danny: He’s breathing still… but the shelf must have hit him as he saved me.
Ethan: Try to wake him, Danny.
Danny: I know what to do!
You lean down, pressing your lips to Professor Hunt’s exhaling into his lungs! Ethan hurriedly pulls you off him!
Ethan: What are you doing, Danny?! CPR is for when you’re not breathing! That’s the whole point!
Bianca: What, did you just want an excuse to kiss him or something?
Danny: …no comment.
Ethan: Well, trust me… if that didn’t wake him, nothing will. He’s out cold.
Lisa: We are so screwed.
Rewards
- 250 Cash
Ethan: Okay, okay, okay… think, Ethan, think… we can figure this out… no big deal…
Bianca: Not a big deal?! You knocked out our professor!
Danny: It’ll be okay, we just need to get him medical attention.
Lisa: Right! Yeah! Okay, Danny, go unlock the door!
You reach into your pocket…
Danny: Hey! The key… it’s gone!
Lisa: Gone?! No, no no, it can’t be gone!
Danny: It must have fallen out during the earthquake! Help me look!
While you, Ethan, and Lisa search the floor among the broken glass and fallen shelves, Bianca sprints toward the door, pulling futilely on the knob!
Bianca: We’re actually trapped!
Ethan: And that’s not even our biggest problem.
Ethan points to the air vents in the floor, each one spouting plumes of dark smoke into the screening room.
Lisa: What is that?!
Danny: Crash, come in! We’ve got smoke coming through the floor! What’s happening?!
Crash: Um… the tech guys are talking pretty fast… but it sounds like pushing the earthquake machine past its limits might’ve… overheated it. You’re gonna want to get out of there ASAP!
Part 6
Ethan: We’ve gotta get out of this smoke!
- Level Danny
- Spend 500 Cash
Smoke billows through the floor vents, starting to fill the screening room. The air grows hazy and dim…
Danny: Crash, we can’t get out. We need help! Get over here before we all suffocate!
Crash: We’re coming! Hold your breath! But not really, because it’s gonna take us some time to get there! We’re all the way on the other side of campus!
Danny: Hurry!
Ethan: There’s no way they’ll make it in time! The smoke’s coming in too fast, and there’s no other way out!
Lisa: Way to be positive, Ethan! Maybe try being constructive and think of something!
Bianca: Well, Little Miss Mermaid, maybe if you had just realized you’d failed and gone home, we wouldn’t be here!
Ethan: I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Bianca right now, but yeah! You wanted to build up the pressure, but the only thing that snapped was you!
Lisa, Bianca, and Ethan shout over each other, bickering fiercely! Meanwhile, you slowly turn, scanning your surroundings, looking for an answer through the increasingly dense smoke…
Danny: Guys, I have an idea!
But the three of them just keep screaming at one another…
Danny: Hey! Shut up!
Stunned, they all stop and look at you.
Danny: We are not dying in here. There’s still one way out.
Bianca: Where?! Tell me!
You point directly above you, where the broken skylight lets in a thin column of smoke-obscured sunlight two stories up.
Danny: There.
Rewards
- 2 Diamonds
Your friends stare at you through the thickening smoke…
Lisa: What?! The skylight? Oh, great, sure, let me just grow some wings, and we’ll get out no problem!
Ethan: Lisa’s right, Danny. That doesn’t help us if we can’t reach it…
Danny: But we can. By working together. Look at all these shelves! We can stack them together and build something tall enough to climb out!
Bianca: But what if--
Danny: There’s no time! Let’s get to work! Bianca, you clear off whatever’s left on the shelves. Ethan, help me set up a wide base. Lisa, you’ll climb up, and we’ll pass shelves to you to start stacking! Move it! There’s not much time!
Part 7
Danny: Come on, everyone! Up and out!
- Danny
- Lisa
- Ethan
Trapped in the basement as it fills with smoke, you, Ethan, Lisa, and Bianca work together to stack shelves tall enough to reach the skylight and escape!
Bianca: This one’s ready!
Ethan: Kff! Got it! Lisa, here, got another one for ya!
Lisa: One, two, three, lift!
Danny: Bianca, move Professor Hunt away from that vent!
Bianca struggles to drag the unconscious professor farther from one of the vents spouting black smoke into the room.
Ethan: We’re almost there!
As the stack of shelves grows taller, the haze of smoke gets thicker! From the floor, you can hardly see the skylight above you!
Lisa: We’re at the top! I can climb out! Come on!
Lisa pulls herself through the skylight, and Ethan follows! Bianca struggles to lift herself!
Bianca: Agh! A little help would be nice, you know!
You climb up the stack of shelves and push Bianca through… but then the tower of shelves starts to collapse under your feet!
Danny: Whoaaa!
Falling backwards, you launch yourself up… and Ethan and Lisa catch your hands!
Ethan: Gotcha!
They pull you up, and you find yourself standing in the quad outside the library, nearly blinded by the bright sun!
Lisa: We’re alive!
Ethan: Oh, that sweet, fresh air! I missed you, baby!
Danny: We can’t just stand around! Hunt is still down there! We have to find a key for the locked door and get him out!
You turn to go back, but pause when you hear a slow clap behind you. You look around…
Thomas Hunt: Nicely done.
Danny: Professor?!
Lisa: How are… what did… how’d you get out?!
Time - 12 hours
Having just escaped the smoke-filled library through the skylight, you and your friends find yourselves face-to-face with a smirking Thomas Hunt.
Ethan: How’d you get out, Professor?! You were just down there in the smoke, out cold!
Thomas Hunt: Through the front door, of course.
Hunt reaches into his pocket and pulls out… the tiny silver key you’d lost!
Danny: You took it off me?
Thomas Hunt: Obviously. When I tackled you out of the way of that shelf.
Lisa: But why? Why would you steal it? I mean, how would you even know to steal it unless…
Ethan: Unless you knew it was us who had locked the door from the beginning.
Danny: You knew it was all a prank?
Thomas Hunt: Of course I did. You lot think so highly of yourselves, I knew you couldn’t resist taking a shot at the king. But I told you from the beginning. This week was about learning to cope with real pressure. It’s pathetic that, out of all of you, it was Danny who was the only one to show the slightest bit of leadership.
Bianca: You mean you were awake for all that? You weren’t really knocked out?
Ethan: Holy smokes… you pranked us.
Lisa: Hey! That’s not cool! We could’ve died in there!
Thomas Hunt: As if I have the time for that lawsuit. As soon as I caught wind of your plan, I simply cleared out everything valuable and installed a harmless fog machine right beside your earthquake generator. It never overheated. You were never in danger. You were simply pranked.
Ethan: Wait… if you weren’t really unconscious, then you were awake when Danny kissed— I mean, tried CPR on you.
Thomas Hunt: I… Ahem. It’s called acting, Mr. Blake. And Danny and I will discuss proper first- aid protocol soon enough…
Danny: No regrets.
Lisa: I can’t believe it, guys… maybe… maybe he is as amazeballs as he thinks he is. I mean, he pranked our prank just to teach us a lesson.
Thomas Hunt: Two lessons, Miss Valentine. First, the value of quick problem-solving under high pressure. And second… That Thomas Hunt has never been pranked… and he never will be.
Rewards
- 200 Cash
Smugly satisfied, Hunt turns to go…
Thomas Hunt: Perhaps next time you’ll be more receptive to standard lectures. Come along now.
Lisa: I can’t believe we couldn’t prank him, Danny…
Danny: We’ll get another chance one day. Maybe sooner than we think.
You’re about to follow Hunt, when you hear a staticky voice crackling over your earpiece.
Crash: Danny! Lisa! We’re here! Where are you guys?
Part 8
Crash: Helloooo! Rescue team’s got no one to rescue!
- Danny
Crash: Danny! Lisa! We’re here! Where are you guys?
You peer down through the skylight and, amid the smoke, see Crash and his team of VFX techs running into the smoke-filled screening room, searching for you. You realize Hunt can’t hear them without an earpiece. An idea strikes you, and you share a quick, knowing look with Ethan and Lisa…
Danny: Just when I thought things were looking up…
Confused, Crash looks up and sees you through the open skylight! He radios back while Professor Hunt continues to walk away, unaware…
Crash: Danny! What’re you doing up there?!
Danny: Gosh, Professor, we had such big plans to prank you… but they fell through!
Crash: I feel like you’re trying to tell me something…
Lisa: Yeah, Professor Hunt caught us in the act!
Crash: Fell through? Caught us? Oh… oh!
Crash signals to his team! They take down the large projector screen and stretch it out beneath the skylight like a tarp! Meanwhile, Hunt turns to your group, impatient.
Thomas Hunt: Stop moping around and come on! You lost! Accept defeat with a little dignity!
Danny: Sorry, Professor, we’re coming… Whoops!
You intentionally trip over your shoes! You plunge through the skylight and vanish in the smoke!
Danny: Aaaaaah!
Thomas Hunt: Danny!
Time - 8 hours
You drop through the open skylight and vanish through the smoke!
Danny: Aaaaaah!
Thomas Hunt: Danny!
Crash and his team catch you with the projector screen and whisk you away through the haze… Hunt scrambles to the edge of the skylight, horrified!
Thomas Hunt: Danny! Danny! Quickly, Ethan, downstairs! We have to get--
Ethan puts a hand on Hunt’s shoulder.
Ethan: Professor… it’s too late…
Lisa: There’s no way Danny survived that fall…
Thomas Hunt: I… I… I never told Danny… how much I… why didn’t I ever say…
Danny: Say what, Professor?
Hunt whips around to see you exiting the library’s front door with Crash and his team.
Thomas Hunt: Danny! You’re… how?!
Ethan: Do my eyes deceive me? Or did Danny just successfully prank the Thomas Hunt?
Rewards
- 5 Diamonds
Lisa: We! Pranked! Hunt! We! Pranked! Hunt!
Ethan: Is this the proudest moment of my life? Yeah. Yeah, it is.
Thomas Hunt: No! You did not prank me. I never actually thought…
Danny: Come on, Professor. Accept defeat with a little dignity.
Hunt stews silently for a moment, clearly vanquished.
Thomas Hunt: You may have won the day, Danny… but mark my words… I always have the last word.