The Escape Room

A short from 311 Entertainment Shorts: Volume 2

Production code: 207

Release date: December 17, 2016

5 girls, 1 escape room. They only have an hour to escape. Can they make it out before they get trapped forever?

Rated: 7

Cast

Owner: Hello and welcome!
Gigi: Technically we're not really in somewhere scary... this is just an office building that claims it is.
Claudia: Shut up, you're ruining the mood. I'm sorry, she's an idiot. Go on.
Owner: Where was I? Oh yeah. The 5 of you, your goal is to escape in 60 minutes, or else they might come get you.
Gigi: Technically these people don't exist...this is fictional
Claudia: Shut up! Stop being such an idiot!
Owner: I'm the room master. You are welcome to enter the room. Once you guys go inside I'll start the clock.
Clara: But what if we get stuck inside?
Vanilla: Don't worry, he and 1033Forest will give us clues.
Owner: Right. I'm going to the store right now to buy a milkshake. See you guys soon.

(Gigi opens a drawer)
Claudia: There's a meat fork in there. Wonder what we could use it for...
Clara: Oh good, I'm hungry. Let's find the meat.
Claudia: No, you're missing the point. You must find another use for this.
Gigi: But why? This game is stupid.
(Claudia gives the meat fork to Gigi)
Claudia: Stick this meat fork in the socket.
Gigi: But I'll electrocute myself. Why do you want me to do that?
Claudia: No you won't. It's part of the game. It's perfectly safe. You'll be fine.
Gigi: OK, if you say so... (does so)
Claudia: See? I told you you'd be fine.
(the lights turn off, revealing a number on the wall: 2133)
Clara: That must be the combination for the safe right here! Let's try it.
(the combination is correct so it opens, revealing a chainsaw)
Vanilla: Ooh, a chainsaw. I can use it to cut open this locked door to the next room. (cuts hole in door)
Tricia: This place is awesome.
Claudia: Come, Gigi, go through this door!
Gigi: No way, this game is crazy. I'm staying here.
Clara: I guess this means we'll all have to solve it without her...
(they enter the next room, then go back to the first room)
Claudia: Where's Gigi?
(she finds a calendar with the 28th, 24th, and 11th circled on it. The 28th is circled red, 24th yellow, and 11th blue)

(the safe is opened using combination 281124. Inside there is an ax)
(the ax is then used to chop open a coffin. Inside the coffin is a puzzle hint)
Claudia: I'm stuck!
Owner: (over speaker) I thought you were the smart one... anyways think of it as a box that rotates clockwise. With each rotation gravity causes the cubes to fall down.
(there are 5 black cubes, 4 in one row and one on top of the row)
Claudia: OK here's some paint to color the cubes. Look at this paper if you need help.
(the paper gives hints on what colors to put on the cubes, so the other participants paint the cubes as shown, which then unlocks the door to the next room)
Clara: Don't forget the umbrella before exiting!
(it gets picked up)

(there is an equalizer with a speaker and a button)
(Clara goes back to room 2, finds a picture of bats, and uses that as the hint to tone the equalizer, which unlocks another set of clues)
(it is a set of 4 clocks, 3 of them have a number, but one of them doesn't because it needs a 3-symbol code that represents a digit)
(Claudia goes back to room 2 to get the paper with codes for each digit)
(the last digit is 7, so the code for that gets entered, and a small door opens revealing a skull)
Vanilla: I hear something rattling inside but I can't get it out! The eye sockets are too small!
(Vanilla goes all the way back to room 1. She sees that the pins on the calendar have a color pattern: red, green, purple, teal)
(she then goes back to room 3 and finds another set of cubes to paint, so she paints them in the corresponding pattern of the pins)
(after painting the cubes, a safe is opened revealing a hammer)
Tricia: I found a hammer! (smashes the skull revealing a key that goes to the next and last room)

(the room is just a cable hanging across a bottomless pit that leads to the exit)
Clara: I can use the cable to get to the other side, but not with my bare hands. I have sensitive skin!
(fortunately the umbrella is big enough to hold 4 people so they all get in and ride to the exit)

Claudia: I made it out!
Clara: Yeah we did. I think I did it fast too!
Vanilla: Yep! Job well done guys.
(Owner is with 1033Forest this time)
1033Forest: Look who decided to join us...
Gigi: Yeah, we've been waiting for you an hour.
Claudia: How did you get out so fast? Why is there a photo of you hanging on the wall?
Owner: Gigi managed to get out so fast! I was out to buy a milkshake with 1033Forest, and when I got back she was already out!
1033Forest: She is also the winner of the grand prize: $1,033,000!
Claudia: She must have gotten out of the door we went in!
1033Forest: Sounds to me like someone's jealous... Tell the truth how did you get out?
Gigi: OK fine I went out from the door we got in. This place stinks anyway.
1033Forest: :O Sorry to say this. No grand prize for you.
Owner: This means you 4 will be getting it instead and you can all share it.
Claudia: (groan)