Immersive, Augmented Reality, Role-Play Fantasy Quest Introduction
Activity
Four young people have been chosen to seek out the monster that has been terrorising the village.
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You will collect clues along the journey that will be used to solve a word riddle. This secret word will give you more information from the Supreme Sorceress to assist you in your quest. Tell the Sorceress the password and your group will be given a magical power. The ‘Land of Remorse’ experience is the inspiration for your team story. Here, you will participate in a shared quest that will involve team work, collaboration, language building, and emotive writing.
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What is the next letter in this series – B, C, D, E, G?
Used Aurasma to create triggers for riddles using icon for each station. Each station had clues to add up to a word. Then first finished received choice of special power from Supreme Sorceress (e.g. mobilize monster, back in time etc). There were enough choices, so all who worked out quiz got some power.
After the ‘Land of Remorse’ quest, each team will decide upon a shared plot and setting, and four main characters. Each of your four group members will then use the shared ideas to write a story from their own character’s point of view. The character strengths and magical power given to you by the Supreme Sorceress will feature in your group story planning.
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Writing Stations
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Armoury: Demons and monsters lurk secretively throughout the land of Remorse. To prepare for battle against these torturous creatures, you have been recruited to the armoury to prepare for the quest. What will you take with you? What provisions, equipment, clothing, weapons, sentimental objects? ...Would you be willing to hurt someone else? Are you a pacifist or a fighter?
Try on armour - chain-mail helmet, sword
How does it feel to be on this quest?
Follow this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8IdfA5fXJs 2 mins 36 then practise in pairs
Field of Doom: Step into the unknown at the Field of Doom. Many have gone before you but not many have returned. You’ll need your wits and strengths to take on the mysterious Field of Doom.
http://www.wilderdom.com/games/descriptions/Minefield.html
Practise lance throwing http://www.tipjunkie.com/post/pool-noodles/ Fighting technique with pool noodles (cut out a handle or http://shannonmakesstuff.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/foam-sword.html ) http://rubberbootsandelfshoes.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/pool-noodle-swords.html
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Taking risks, problem solving, communication, learning from mistakes, and leadership all emerge in this unsettling challenging. How did you react to taking risks? ...In what way did you learn from your mistakes? How important was the leader's role?...Did you support and encourage each other to conquer the Field of Doom? Stone Table: ...The quest has produced a riddle challenge at the Stone Table. ..Test your tastebuds and sense of smell – you have a one in four chance of survival. Some of the foods are ‘poisoned’ and you need to determine the correct dish that does not contain poison and will sustain you on your journey.
1. Welcome the band of heroes to the Stone Table – a place of gathering across clans throughout time. It is a place of ritual and sharing food – sustenance on the journey. 2. Show example of riddles from the Hobbit youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrSXXi6lR_w 3. Riddle example from the Hobbit to discuss: Question: A box without hinges key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. Answer: Egg 4. Look and smell at the foods on the table. There is only one dish that is not ‘poisonous’. (Foods pureed/scrambled/cooked/or displayed in separate dishes). ..When you have successfully matched the riddles to their food answer, you will be given access to the last ‘survival’ riddle of the stone table. The answer to the riddle will tell you the food that you can safely eat. ..5. Riddles: example...Q: Coloured as a maiden tweaked, Time was naught when I began; Through the garden I was sneaked, I alone am the fall of man.
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Epic Citadel: Make your way from the Stone Table along the broad walkway. Turn left at the junction and stealthily approach the Epic Citadel, an abandoned castle adjoining the Blazing Battlefield. Sit at the base of the castle wall and explore inside the castle using your magic looking glass. Wonder at the craftsmanship and attention to detail evident within the castle walls, then find the exit and explore what lies beyond the walls. Beware of danger that is masked in sunshine! Approach each bend in the road with care. Why do you think this place was so hastily abandoned? Does the music hide a lurking evil presence? Turn the music down and listen for its footsteps. How did you feel as you and your companions wandered the deserted courtyards and alleyways?
Students will sit at the tables in front of the stone wall under the walkway to Colin Campbell Place, with the cobblestone area under their feet. They will use the Epic Citadel app on the iPads to explore the walled castle areas – the village, the alleyways, the castle courtyard and inside the church. They need to discover the way out of the castle area (through one of the alleyways to the left of the church steps), and then go up the hill and back inside the castle courtyard, and down the hill through the tents set up outside the castle walls. They can even go down to the river and explore down there...
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Cursed Quicksand: You have come across a giant, evil swamp. It is
Lay two ropes on the ground parallel to each other, about 10 metres apart. Have the
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too foul to swim across, and too miry to wade across. The only way to get everybody across is by using large floating lily pads. The quicksand beneath the surface of the swamp is so powerful that it sucks the lily pads down if someone is not touching them. Once they are placed in the swamp however, they become magical and cannot be moved again, so they must remain where they are placed. What are the consequences if only a few of the group make it across the swamp? How important was communication to conquer the swamp? Describe the key contributions of individuals. What were their strengths and weaknesses? 6
Fiendish Forest: Only the most brave and wise can survive the Fiendish Forest. Very few have returned to tell the tales of the horrors it contains. Howling wolves, demon spirits and other terrifying monsters lurk inside. The darkness is overwhelming and disorienting. Monsters attack from all directions with their haunting screams, and powerful weapons.
Introduce the idea of navigating into a forest, where it is commonly known that those who enter don’t usually return. The forest is filled with obstacles that take you by surprise and attack when you least expect it.
Write descriptive words about your survival from the Fiendish Forest.
Aim of this station is to imagine the Fiendish Forest being filled with monsters and creatures from strange places, like those in Princess Bride and ‘Anomaly’.
What did the forest look like when you first stepped inside?
Introduce that Sci Fi is a sub-genre of fantasy. Use the sci-fi graphic novel ‘Anomaly’. http://www.experienceanomaly.com/anomaly/apps Background to ‘Anomaly’: The year is 2717 and Earth is dying. Humans live in Terrariums, on off-world colonies or space stations. The Clik monsters are the first to infiltrate the human colonies. Use the Anomaly AR app to see the monsters come alive in the Fiendish Forest. See page 7 – the Clik monster appears and can be manipulated by touching the screen. .. After the Cliks are destroyed, the story reveals horrors worse than the invading Cliks.
What noises did you hear? How did these sounds make you feel? What did the monsters look like, sound like, and smell like? Why were the monsters so terrifying? What was the threat? Describe what happened when the monsters attacked. What were your feelings as you survived the terrors of the Fiendish Forest?
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student’s line up on one side of the rope, and tell them that they are looking at a giant evil swamp. They must get their entire team across the giant evil swamp, but it is too evil to swim across, and too deep to walk across. (Obviously, they cannot walk around the river, since it does not end just because the ropes do). The only way to get across is by using the large, lily pads. (laminated cardboard lily pads). Give the students about eight or nine lily pads, so that they have enough to get across with one or two left over. Advise the group that this challenge isn't about physical abilities, but rather it is about communication. Unfortunately, the current in the river is so strong that it actually sweeps the lily pads away if someone is not holding them down (with a hand, foot, or other safe appendage). Also, the lily pads will only float whilst they are being touched. Once they are placed in the river, they become magical and cannot be moved again t, so they must remain where they are placed.
View the Dark Forest scene from ‘A Princess Bride’ on you tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LziJbClPoKM
Continue the background to ‘Anomoly’: .. Read the scene, from pages 82-90.
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Eerie Escarpment: Meet the Survival Sensei who will train you in strategies to escape the death-defying situations which threaten you and your team. Take careful heed of tactical survival training as you consider other near-death situations. As you encounter great danger yourself of a monstrous and fearful kind, try to minimize your chances of death, a frequent occurrence at the Eerie Escarpment. How did your character strengths, and those of the group, assist you to escape death?
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Tunnel of Terror: As you leave the Eerie Escarpment, a challenge awaits that is not for the faint-hearted! The webs binding the leaves above your head are just a foretaste of the terrifying spiders you must befriend before you can pass on. Using your magic looking glass, calm these fearsome creatures by feeding them and playing with them, then allow them to crawl over your shoulders and back. Capture the evidence. If they do not plunge their fangs into your neck, you will be allowed to continue your journey. As you escape these alarming creatures, record your feelings. How important was teamwork in coping with these creatures?
How will the heroes escape from this dangerous situation? Watch Cliffs of Insanity from The Princess Bride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClzaP8HN2wc What was the danger? What strategies helped the heroes? Jot down ideas, words, phrases, sentences, images. Listen to excerpt from Matthew Reilly's book The Great Zoo of China where dragons are attacking the cable car. What was the danger? What strategies helped the heroes? Jot down ideas, words, phrases, sentences, images. Use Dragons ! app https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/dragon-detector-+virtual/id497446052?mt=8 (detector) (from uselesscreations.com apple) What strategies would help you to escape from the dragons?Use Dragons ! app (pet part) What different strategies would help you to escape from the dragons? Rewrite your story with this twist. Brainstorm ideas for other dangers that could occur here and strategies to cope with these. Share ideas. After the students have walked under the spider webs, they need to find a place to sit to investigate augmented reality spiders. Guinness Book of Records 2015 http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/seeit3d/ – using the GBR app on the iPads, students will need to go to page of the GBR print copy and watch the spider pop out of the page when scanned with the app.Using the Real Scary Spiders app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discovery.realscaryspiders&hl=en on the iPads, students need to choose one spider, clean its screen, check its temperature and humidity, feed it and play with it until it is happy. After that they will be able to activate the spider in augmented reality and make it crawl over their group members. Tap the augmented reality button when the spider is happy. Drape the scarf over one of the students’ backs/shoulders. This will act as an AR trigger image to make the spider move Make the spider crawl up onto their head/back.Using the camera function, take a photo of this as evidence. Students need to write about their emotions as they imagined real spiders crawling over them. .
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