Wonderland - Jags

Deeper Mysteries - Approach
The Escape Game: Horror?
Overview: The characters are closet romantics who live crushingly ordinary mundane lives working for a
massive government agency. When a bleed is discovered in the old copy room, the characters begin making
plans to escape—to get out of the bleak prison of their cyclic, utterly predictable lives and to adventure and
explore.
Of course the bleed is sealed and there is a door that is very hard to open—it is the head of the organization,
they learn, who holds the golden keys to it (and holds it shut because he believes the world is better without
the Wonder aspect of Wonderland).
Act 1: Discovery
Themes: Oppression, ennui, disapproval of bosses and elders.
Description: The players play through vignettes of their dissatisfaction of their lives. Then, perhaps by
accident, they discover the door. Something about the discovery tells them that if they can get the door open,
all the way, they can find the lives of mystery and adventure they’ve been looking for (this might well involve
Episodes and Descent that take place “Beyond the door” but almost nothing can be brought back and the
excursions don’t last very long.
Act 2: Complications
Themes: Problems with authority, sneaking around, possible consequences for one’s actions. Saying
goodbye?
Description: The characters discover that the door is known by the higher-ups and that they keep it closed lest
it “infect” their workers (but they mean that in the sense of ‘giving them dreams’ not necessarily Wonderland
Infection). The characters go about making and executing a plan to get the key. They also must decide what to
do about relationships that will probably end forever if they are successful.
Act 3: na-na-na hey-hey-hey, Goodbye!
Themes: Awakening, evolution. Setting off on an adventure.
Description: The characters get the key and exit their old world becoming adventurers in a new and resplendent
one.
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