Dramatic Writing - Internet Cafe
WHERE: 721 Broadway (north side), lobby chalkboard wall
WHEN: Open 24/7
WHAT: Help our Halloween chatbot by writing the logline for a movie about saving the world from a Rogue Scientist.
Tisch is Halloween!
A Cross-Tisch Interdepartmental Halloween Adventure
October 26 - 31, 2023
Love immersive storytelling? Haunted houses? Adventure games? Or perhaps you’re just into things that go bump in the night…
Don’t miss the Cross-Tisch Halloween Adventure, running October 26–October 31, 2023. This mysterious world encompasses different locations around the school, telling a tale that chills to the marrow, tingles the spine and tickles the funny bone. The story is told through physical elements, as well as digital elements delivered through an interactive mobile app.
You can visit each location separately, or tour all of them for the complete experience!
Want a preview? Click this link to see a video showcasing all the sites!
THE STORY:
INTERDIMENSIONAL RIFTS have occurred throughout human history, with superstitious individuals believing them to be manifestations of the “Spirit Realm”. A PROFESSOR has contacted the Tisch community with an urgent mission. She is from an alternate future and a town called TWYP in which the experiments of a ROGUE SCIENTIST have led to a cataclysmic Apocalypse, which has in turn caused a dangerous incursion of that world into ours.
The mission will take you to both Manhattan and Brooklyn campuses. Along the way, you may encounter representatives from some of the other forces at play in the world of Twyp: the do-gooder FELLOWSHIP, the evil CULT, the morally ambiguous scientists of the INSTITUTE, or the mysterious subterranean denizens of the UNDERTWYP, any of whom might ask a side favor of their own.
THE TWYP DIMENSIONAL SCANNER:
This experimental tool from the future can be used to communicate through rifts in space/time.
With the Dimensional Scanner, you will be able to communicate with Twyp prior to the APOCALYPSE and track the movements of the Rogue Scientist which led to it. If you can disrupt the Rogue Scientist’s activities and alter the course of Twyp history, perhaps you can save both worlds!
Android users can download the TWYP DIMENSIONAL SCANNER on Google Play by clicking this link.
iOs users can download the TWYP DIMENSIONAL SCANNER by clicking this link. (iOs uses the TestFlight app)
Please note that the DIMENSIONAL SCANNER requires user registration and online access in order to function.
After downloading, select "Twyp 2023 (TSOA)" from the Available Games menu to start using the scanner.
Content will be added over the next few days!
The Town of Twyp
Film & TV - Movie Theater
WHERE: 721 Broadway, 9th floor lobby
WHEN: Open 24/7
WHAT: Come visit the town's haunted movie theater! Enjoy some candy, catch a scary movie on the 9th floor monitors, and watch out for spooky movie villains throughout the 9th floor.
Graduate Film - Cemetery
WHERE: 721 Broadway, 10th floor corridor
WHEN: Open 24/7
WHAT: Visit the Dia de Los Muertos altar to our loved ones.
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program & Photography and Imaging - Seaside Carnival
WHERE: 715 Broadway, 2nd floor
WHEN: Boardwalk Open 24/7, with a live event on Saturday 10/28 & Sunday 10/29 @ 6 PM - 8 PM
WHAT: Every 25 years, a traveling seaside carnival takes over the beaches of Twyp. Odd doings and sinister goings-on abound on the Kimera Beach boardwalk. Catch a glimpse of the famous Twyp Kraken, or the mysterious Mermaid* at the Aquarium.
Also, for two nights only, a seaside carnival takes over Kimera Beach, the haunted boardwalk on the outskirts of Twyp. Win a prize! Eat a succulent pie! Be transformed! Plenty of fish in the sea at the Mermaids’ Ball! (Full experience 25-30 min; breezy walkthrough 5-10 min)
* 3D Moving Image piece by Yinuo Chen titled My Body is Not My Home
IMA/ITP - Thirsty Dead Tavern
WHERE: 370 Jay Street, 4th floor, located inside the department front entrance
WHEN: Thursday 10/26, Friday 10/27, Monday 10/30 and Tuesday 10/31 @ 2-10pm (If the 4th floor door is closed and your NYU ID card doesn't unlock the door, just knock on the glass for someone to let you in.)
WHAT:
BOUNTY:100,000,000
WANTED: YOU!
Mosey on down to the Thirsty Dead Tavern ‘cross the Brooklyn Bridge— a spectral saloon where the spirits are as restless as they are bottled! Don your best cowboy boots and Stetsons, but beware — the only thing spookier than a gunslinger's draw is the haunting strum of a banjo in the dead of night.
Student Affairs - Bodega
WHERE: 726 Broadway, 2nd floor, Student Affairs conference room
WHEN: Friday 10/27, Monday 10/30, & Tuesday 10/31, 9am-5pm
WHAT: The Rogue Scientist’s Evil Bodega Cat invites you to visit his store for all your snacking needs.