Mysteries of the Iron Submersible

The Queue 

Located at the city center (also known as the place with the richest citizens), Discovery Port Aquatic Central, is the escape room. A large purple banner is draped over the entrance of a large romantic building. Glowing golden letters shifting and changing advertise the attraction: 

First Autonomous Unmanned Submarines! - words fade and replace with- Join the Exclusive Maiden Voyage of the Prototype Iron Submersible! 

Soon, guests go through the large maple doors into the Atrium, a glass-ceilinged expensive room, with built-in waterfalls descending down into pools inside the room. Two staircases adorn the room to provide additional queue space for busier days. Essentially, this room is designed to be a state-of-the-art gallery featuring the history of submersibles., with the newest exhibit being a celebration of the first autonomous submarines. 

After the Atrium is the Designation Chambers. After turning through a few halls, guests split up into three different hallways: Easy, Medium, and Hard. Each party may split up into at most 3 groups for different difficulties. Cast members join up different same-difficulty parties to get 5-8 players for the final group, who play the game together. the three halls then join together into the third and final hall, with ornate doors leading to the 10 escape room buildings. Each houses a different submarine, with the names of Land, Arronax, Harding, Pencroft, Fishcer, Narwhal, Nemo, Layden, and Icarus. One cast member leads each group to their buildings... which leads to 

The Attraction Experience

Guests have officially arrived at their own iron submersible! With mirrored walls, the ornate room has a balcony overlooking a small rectangular pool, housing the submersible. It is a romantic machine, featuring turn-of-the-century renascence designs. The shell is smooth and reflective nemonium iron, painted in lavish gold and having layered texture depicting artwork from various Greek mythology works. Guests go down the gangplank onto the submersible, which is really just a facade for the small show building housing the escape room.

The ride is beginning! The salon of the submarine contains a large U-shaped sofa with seatbelts. A dining table is placed in front of it, and on the right of it are two bookshelves. A coffee table is in the middle, with messy scattered papers. The light is a bright nostalgic yellow. Soon, the cast member is relaying instructions on safety to the esteemed guests, which is eerily similar to an airplane safety announcement. After all the seatbelts have been clasped on, the cast member leaves and gets the group to themselves. They announce that they will be in the other submarine, the Dakkar, which will accompany this ship on the maiden voyage. Then with a BANG! the submarine drops down gently, mimicking the idea of sinking into the sea. Through the "glass windows", guests can see the massive Discovery Cove above the water, then the vibrant coral, and then... the sea. The announcement rings in a robotic tone that guests may now dismantle their seat belts. All is going well when another BANG appears. A once-hidden monitor drops down to show the visage of a sinister-looking man. 

"May I crash the party?"

Suddenly, the lights snap out, and only a crackle can be heard. When they are switched back on, the light is a dim, daunting green. And the ship, in the robotic voice, says

"Route redirected. Now traveling to the Lao Volcano at the Mariana Trench. Expected travel time: 10 minutes"

The monitor changes to a countdown timer, ticking down 15 minutes. However, perfectly at that moment, the announcement changes.

"Hello, _____, this is the Dakkar. There seems to be a timer for 15 minutes. Our team has already broken into the control room and is redirecting back to Discovery Cove, but you will need to be resilient and do the same. Since we cannot board the ship, the game is up to you. We will try to provide as many clues as possible. Try to look at the papers on the coffee table"