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Alexa, open Home Mystery Series.
Sure. Which type of mystery would you like to play?
You
can say, Sci-fi, escape room, murder mystery,
Encyclopedia Brown, horror, Halloween Special,
Sherlock
Holmes classic, or random.
Random.
Sure. How many people will be playing, and what is
the
age of the youngest player?
8 people playing. 11 years old.
Initiating. Please set your smart TV to the Prime
channel,
where the details of the mystery will be explained.
The TV was switched over to Prime, and a picture of
a
dead body in a space suit showed up. The lights in
the
room adjusted to a bluish space ship tone. The
microwave
set a timer counting down from 37 minutes and 23
seconds.
The captain has died mysteriously. The ship is
currently
drifting in a decaying orbit around the ice planet
Bursa 3,
and unless you, the crew, can figure out how to start
the
ships auxiliary engines, the ship will burn up in the
atmosphere in 37 minutes and 19 seconds. The first
officer
seems to have removed his locator badge, and so I
am not
able to trace his current position. He may hold the
answers. Good luck.
As we went from room to room, various connected
devices
assumed their role in the mystery. My phone
displayed a
timer until destruction and plotted our position on
the
ship. An augmented reality app showed us various
broken
ship bits we had to find to reassemble and start the
engine
controls. The furnace fluttered on and off like main
engines trying and failing to restart.
From time to time, Alexa would announce that there
had
been another murder on the ship, and a player
would be
removed from the game, or that the ship was being
hailed
by the Dorkulons, or that there were still more parts
of the
ship that were inoperable and needed repair. Alexa
would
note our progress and time as we announced our
discoveries and clues.
With 2 minutes left to spare, we had solved the
mystery of
the captains death, and restarted the engines.
Congratulations for solving the murder mystery and
repairing the ship. You may now use your microwave
to
start some popcorn for the upcoming feature film.
We flopped down on the couch, and pressed play to
watch Mission Impossible, but got bored of it. And
then the
couch disappeared entirely from underneath us.
Hmm... must be a programming glitch. Computer,
arch.
End simulation of 21st century technology.
Ryker stepped outside of the holodeck and went
across a
few corridors into Ten-Forward. Outside, the planet
Bursa
3 was looming very large...
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Definite [+] for the concept. |
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Possible [-] for the incorporation of a voice assistant, although it's not clear how it can be implemented otherwise; so, [/]. |
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Definite [-] for mentioning Pretty-Boy Riker, but counteracting [+] for spelling his name wrong, even unintentionally. |
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But compensating [+] for mentioning the Holodeck, and trying - however crudely - to implement it. |
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On balance, so far, [+] but we shall see what other bakers think of it. |
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There should probably be a safeword, otherwise it
could all get a bit "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't
do that"... |
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<sadomasochistic play with a muzzled rope
engoing>
"Alexa, Stahhh." |
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"I'm sorry, but I did not understand. Let's try again." |
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