CrunchTrek - Week 2 - Lost and Found

CrunchTrek - Week 2 - "Lost and Found"

Two concussive blasts rock the ship. The turbolift stops and the doors open. The lights in the corridor are flickering on and off and emergency forcefields are in place. Looks like there's only one way to go. Your team runs down the hallway and find some open hatches. Escape pods. Room for 2 in each so you separate into teams and jump in. You sit down and buckle up quickly as the hatch closes behind you. Destination unknown but anywhere is better than a starship about to explode. The cabin fully pressurizes and the pod undocks from the ship. You take a second to look at the blue Earth below, the other escape pods floating away, and hulls of 3 burning starships off in the distance. Then, your pod's engines kick in and you're pinned to the back of your seat. The pod tilts downward toward Earth and it starts entering the atmosphere. Orange blue plasma engulfs the pod. You feel some more blasts behind you, the last of which send your pod into a tailspin and you black out from the G-forces.

You and your crewmate wake up. The landing impact cracked open the escape pod. You get out of your seat, gather your equipment, head outside, and see lights off in the distance. Civilization.

You tap your comm badge and thankfully make contact with your crew. They're all unharmed from the crash landing but no where near your location. Every team will make their way into town to find help. You start walking and in a flash...

"So, it looks like you've made it onto Terra Firma relatively unscathed. I can't say the same for some of your compatriots. Guess you'll need to figure this one out on your own."

Angrily, you ask "Did you do all of this? All those people, gone, for what?"

"Me? I'm just a mere conduit for your Trek through the Crunch. The Crunch. I'll make you a deal. Complete the mission and you go home. I'll even give you a hand." With a snap from Q, you're now standing in the middle of town. Your Captain opens comms with the Team. You need to find the artifacts and get the crew back together to go home. Your tricorder readings show that the artifacts are located in town and your Science and Engineering officers have come up with a solution, but need help.

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Week 2 Challenge:

Captain and Pilot

You've landed in Geneva. One artifact is located here in town.

Captain - you need to go into the last watch store in the City and take a picture of watches, one made in Switzerland, one made in Germany, and one made in Japan. You will then take a picture create a receipt for purchases for those watches, with the invoice billed to Max@WatchCrunch. Embedded in the 3 watches are parts of 1 artifact. [Note: You need to take pictures of watches in a real brick and mortar store, not a fake or online one.]

Pilot - your job is to commandeer transportation to rescue your crew of 6. You will take a picture of your stealing a vehicle. Once inside the vehicle, post two pictures of directions from Geneva to Berlin, then from Geneva to Tokyo. [Note: Safety first. Don't really steal a vehicle and please don't do this while really driving. This is pretend.]

Security and Medical

You've landed in Berlin. You need to retrieve one of the artifacts and find a power source strong enough to activate the combined artifacts.

Security - the artifact is located in a town square by a fountain. You need to take a picture of you with at least 5 other people in the pictures. You will then need to then take a picture of you picking up the artifact at the fountain.

Medical - you need to sneak into a medical facility to pick up radioactive isotopes. It's what your Engineer needs so you don't question the medical rationale behind it. You need to take a picture of you wearing a medical uniform (white medical robe or scrubs, stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, and a stop watch).

Engineer and Science

Your pod landed very far from the other teams and luckily made it to Tokyo. You two have come up with the brilliant plan on how to activate the combined artifacts, and hopefully stop the Crunch.

Engineer - You need to set up 3 watches, each set to Geneva, Berlin, and Tokyo time. Then you will set up a workstation with enough tools to open up a watch caseback, as if you we're doing surgery on your watch.

Science - Weirdly, the pieces of your artifact are located inside a piece of sushi, a bowl of ramen, a Pokemon, and Mario from Super Mario. You need to take a picture, examining each one with a multimeter.

The Week 2 Challenge starts today, 4/29 around 5pm Pacific Standard Time (UTC 0:00 4/30) and ends 5/4 5pm PST (UTC 0:00 5/5). I suggest you complete this challenge as soon as possible, as there will be Flash Challenges during the week, which will result in eliminations. Good Luck and Live Long and Prosper.

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Remember -

All pictures must include a watch or watches.

Time will be kept using UTC and my time zone, PST (Los Angeles time).

THIS WEEK, crew members can post their own photos as they're completed and will tag their Captain or First Officer. The Captain or First Officer will tag me once your full team has completed their pictures.

There will be only 1 winning team. No exceptions.

Q makes all rules, judgments, and final determinations. No exceptions. This is supposed to be fun.

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Rewards:

Tagging in @WatchCrunch as they will be creating a badge for the winning team. I will also add something special for the winners.

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Remaining Teams

USS Timegazer - @swim97 @Fieldwalker @Hierophis69 @Fiatjeepdriver @PaulWhaley @shiroed

USS Black Bay - @Adamasuta @Urkraft @ImNevix @TacoTimeTony @tanookisuit_ty @ericwn

USS Novaform - @Salty1 @HelenWheels @TimeOnTarget @biglove @RelativeTime @epochalanalogs

USS Double Red Dwarf - @CheapHangover @RichardQ @Okavango @Maverick5080 @solidyetti @Powwow