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The Characters

Children were divided into three teams and each of the team had two types of roles – bachelors were group of children working in the school with the EMAPPS.COM platform. They were gaining information from the Internet and arranging information received from the second part of the team. This part of the team was composed of wanderers in the monastery area and carried out tasks given to them from platform. As a company, there was one fifteen year old pupil responsible for the technical equipment not interfering in the game. At the same time, at each task-point have been present older pupils to explain the tasks to the players and to control the process of figuring them out. In the photo you can see one of them. The heroes playing in the game were not showed in the short movie as helpers, are the monk and the Prior of the monastery.

As a company, there was one fifteen year old pupil responsible for the technical equipment not interfering in the game. At the same time, at each task-point have been present older pupils to explain the tasks to the players and to control the process of figuring them out. In the photo you can see one of them. The heroes playing in the game were not showed in the short movie as helpers, are the monk and the Prior of the monastery.

Prokop Siostrzonek, Prior of Břevnov monastery

The role of the prior was created to introduce the rules of behaving in the monastery area, at the very beginning as well as to show children important places to go.

During the game, he stepped in through one task only, where children had to record an interview with him based on questions prepared by players in advance. After the evaluation, he told children the story about life of the monastery inhabitants and told them about unknown character to be revealed by children during the day. The character of the Prior was by no means the character of “alternative reality”, because Prior was himself all the time present and was giving picture about real life in the monastery.

Martin, the Monk

Martin, the Monk was guiding children throughout the day, he was ready to communicate with them about completed tasks and let them go to the mysterious parts of the monastery, where usual visitors are not allowed to go.

His main task was to provide children with the information and important keys in order to get to the next parts of the monastery.

Unknown Monk

In the introduction short movie children could see and listen to the unknown monk, who was speaking in language of his era – middle age and was trying to persuade children to help him find his lost identity, his name.

After this, children could meet this character just during carrying out tasks in the monastery, because the story about unknown monk was connected to major number of tasks in monastery.