Jump Ahead Adventures Years 3 & 4: Mystery Mountain

**Jump Ahead Adventures Years 3 & 4: Mystery Mountain** is a year-based *Jump Ahead* game that was made by Knowledge Adventure on November 28, 1998 in the UK. The game is intended to teach a full years three and four curriculum.

## Quotes

(The TV screen goes up and Polly's monitor turns on.)
Polly: Oh, Snotley, you're back! I've been looking for you.
Botley: My name is Botley.
Polly: I can see you've brought help, and you've got the TransQuizzer!
Botley: (aside, to the player) She knows we need it to save the world.
Polly: Didn't my father teach you it's rude to tell secrets, Rotley? Well, I suppose he's told you his side of everything, but what does he know? Today when I was at school, the teacher handed us a surprise quiz. I already knew all the answers, and she knew I knew them. So just to have some fun, I made up my own answers to that dumb old quiz. But instead of laughing like she was supposed to, she gave me a big, fat zero! I felt faint and short of breath! No one's ever given me a zero before!
Botley: Well, that's not quite true, Polly. I remember just two weeks ago.
Polly: Be quiet, Plotley, this is my story! Anyway, after getting my first zero ever, I got the most brillant idea! Instead of settling for a bad grade, I changed history to match my answers.
Botley: So you sent 25 of your father's robots back in time to change history?! How could you do that, Polly?!
Polly: Oh, that was the easy part, since Daddy just invented that "Handy Dandy Time Machine" upstairs. Everyone should have one. I just marched those robots into the machine, pushed a few buttons, and voila! Unfortunately, there's still one more question, the extra credit question, and it's super hard! That's why I've been looking for you, Notley.
Botley: That's Botley! And I want nothin' to do with your plan, Polly, just bring those robots back! Don't you see? You could destroy us all!
Polly: (mockingly) You could destroy us all!
Polly: (normal) P-lease, Spotley, if you're so scared, why don't you just bring them back yourself? You've got my TransQuizzer; now all you need are the questions on my history quiz. To make it so easy even you can figure it out, I'll leave the disc with the first part of the test on the first floor. That's 5 questions total. Just plug that disc into the TransQuizzer, then figuring out where I sent the robots should be simple.
Polly: But I'm warning you: if I don't get 'em all back soon, I'm sending you off to do the extra-credit question.
Polly: Oh, and by the way, you have to get in the house first, and I changed the locks. Good luck!
(Polly's monitor turns off and the TV screen goes down.)
Botley: (to the player) Gosh, that's just great! How are we gonna get into the mountain?

(The TV screen goes down and Polly's monitor turns on.)
Botley: Polly, you know I've been programmed to clean up your messes, and that includes bringing back my robot pals. I know you won't tell me where they are! But how about a little hint?
Polly: Well, it just so happens, Sotley, that I realized long ago that you try to mess up your work. So I covered my tracks by hiding clues all over the mountain. Four clues total.
Polly: You and your friend will have to find and collect them all, and even if you can find them all, which I highly doubt you can, you will still have to go to daddy's time machine and figure out where I sent the robot, if you expect to beat me. Oh, by the way, you know how daddy feels about amateurs going into the time machine room, it's a very sensitive piece of equipment, you know. So, before a hunk of rusty bolts like you can get inside, you'll have to earn a bunch of invention points. A thousand of them should just about do it for starters.
Botley: Well, Polly, all right. It looks like we have no choice to play by your rules as unfair as they are. Just tell us what we need to find for this mission.
[The TV screen static sound]
Polly: Relax, Cutley, it won't be so bad. I sent Russian robot, Cosmo-Bot to put me in the center of the universe. You can get him back if you find these four clues. A pork chop, a sundial, a postage stamp, and a dollar bill. But, one messed up the good thing.
(Polly's monitor turns off and the TV screen goes up.)
Botley: Cosmo-Bot and I never used to get along, but now were pals. I can't believe Polly reprogrammed him for a selfish purposes. We have to find those clues and get Cosmo-Bot back.
Botley: Finding the clues should be a little less hopeless with my powerful sensoring device. Professor Spark cooked me up this way so I could better keep an eye on Polly. I can monitor every nook and cranny of the mountain.
Botley: SHH...! I'm gonna try to sense this area out for clues. [sensoring device blinking] Hey, we're in luck! I'm sensing a mission clue in the Painting Gallery. There's another mission clue in the Professor's virtual collection. That's in the art gallery!"

(After the player captured 25 robots and defeat Polly)
Polly: So, Rotley, you think you've foiled my plan by rescuing all those robots? Well, my test score may be zero now, but there's still that extra credit question, and Ms. Winkle says that extra credit questions always more than make up for the rest of the test. This extra credit question involves the origins of the universe. Now, we all know she's expecting me to discuss the Big Bang, but I'd rather discuss the Big Bot. Yeah, that's right, I think the universe started with a robot named Botley!
Botley: Me?! But I thought there was... I don't know... mutual respect developing between us!
Polly: Save me the schmaltz, Blotley. Daddy programmed you to obey me. So I order you to march on over to the handy-dandy Time Machine and set those dials to way, way back -- to the beginning of the universe.
Botley: But, Polly, the beginning of the universe would mean the end of me!
(Cut to the Professor's chamber)
Botley: You can't mean that!
Polly: You should never have tried to stop me, Plodley. I mean, I didn't deserve that big fat 'F' on my test. No! I really had no choice but to send those robots back to change history so I could get the 'A' I so richly deserved -- the 'A' Ms. Winkle refused to give me!
(At this point, Professor Spark enters the room and glares at Polly)
I know my father said I was never ever under any circumstances to play with his time machine. But I know in my heart that if he were here right now, he'd say "Polly, Ms. Winkle robbed you! Now go out there and change the history of the world you brave, brilliant, beautiful little girl!"
Professor Spark: Ahem.
Polly: Uh-oh!
(she turns around and smiles nervously at her father)
Botley: Professor Spark! Gosh, it's so good to see you!
Professor Spark: Hello, Botley. Hello... Polly.
Polly: So how was the annual Time-Warp Inventor's Convention, Daddy? As fun as usual?
Professor Spark: Yes, it was very informative. Very informative indeed. Funny how you think you know a thing or two about history, and then all of a sudden, it changes on you.
Polly: But, Daddy, I-I-I can explain!
Professor Spark: I'm waiting.
Polly: Um... umm... Botley made me do it! He must have a faulty chip or something. I tried to stop him, but he was out of control! Gosh, Daddy, I'm so glad you're home!
Professor Spark: Nice try, Polly, but I think Ms. Winkle might tell a different tale.
Polly: Oh, Daddy, Ms. Winkle just doesn't understand. I thought she did, but she doesn't.
Professor Spark: Fortunately, Polly, she understands enough to let you retake that quiz, right now.
(Ms. Winkle appears on another monitor.)
Ms. Winkle: Hello, Polly. I'm so glad to give you this opportunity. Of course, because you took the test once, I can't give you the same questions. So I've made up another test, just for you. I hope you've been brushing up on your Latin!
Polly: Latin? Latin?! Oh, but Daddy!
(Cut to the Robot Roost)
Botley: Good old Professor Spark. Nothing gets by him.
Polly: You just wait till next time, Snotley!
(Polly's monitor turns off and the screen goes up.)
Botley: Alright! Now that all the Robots are home safe, feel free to stay and explore the mountain all you want. But don't count Polly out just yet. She could still show up at anytime.