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  A Bump in the Night - First Run Through

  Oct 9, 2015

  Last night I recruited half a dozen members of Braden, my Mason Lodge, to go down to the basement and do the initial run through of the puzzle room and I think it went pretty well.  There was a technical difficulty with one item and another that wasn't ready yet so there were a couple of instances of "pretend this works", but it didn't really affect the game play. There were a few unintended red herrings that came up and one puzzle that I think I will rebuild with different materials, but then that's the point of testing. 

  The result was that i gave three or four minor hints along the way and the group managed to finish with about 10 minutes left.  I think if I had not given them any hints it would have been really close as to whether they would have finished before the hour was up.  They also had the benefit of fewer distractions going on than there will be during the real event.

  Talking with them afterwards they seemed pretty pleased with it and had a good time testing it out.  Consequently I don't foresee the need to change anything other than dressing up the room for atmosphere and the few tweaks that came up.  Now we'll focus on the atmosphere for the dinner party part.

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