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The Full experience Pack, proposes to chain our two rooms:
You start with "The Magician of Paris" and you go directly to "The funhouse".

An exclusive and unique story connects our two adventures so as not to go out of immersion and action, the two rooms follow one another as a single and unique adventure intensifying more and more before your return to the surface of Paris.

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Expérience Complète: Le Magicien De Paris & Le Palais De L’horreur [Full Experience: The Magician of Paris & The Funhouse]

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Amazing experience! The Magician half was excellently themed with puzzles similar to ones we’ve experienced in America. Funhouse was super scary and unlike anything else I’ve done—not for the faint of heart! Our game masters Enzo and Hugo were also amazing :)

Truly incredible atmosphere with some cinematic moments that rank among the most intense and immersive I have ever experienced in an escape room!

I spoke about the 2 individual games on their respective Morty entries so here I will talk about how they are packaged together.

Both the Funhouse and the Magician's apartment are situated in the City of Martyrs: represented by a dusty but beautiful ornamented corridor that connects the rooms. It gives the Full Experience a real Bioshock vibe: a failed underground city where each area tells the story of an eccentric character.

Unfortunately, what the Bioshock video game does way better than this Full Experience is stitching together these areas into a bigger story. 

For 3 or more players, the GMs explained to us that the stitching happens by forcing one of the players into the Disappearing Machine. This player is "teleported" to the Funhouse which creates the motivation for the other players to go to the Funhouse.

Unfortunately, for 2 players there is no thought put into a believable transition. A player can't enter the Disappearing Machine because the final puzzle requires 2 people, so what happens is the GM(dressed as the Martyr) goes into the machine, then exits as the Magician who quickly runs to the elevator to hastily change back into their GM clothes and rush you into the Funhouse under the guise of getting some footage for a YouTube video. It's quite bad and it almost makes the experiences better to be played separate if you are 2 people.

A much better transition that works for any number of people would be the following: The Magician steals the elevator's power source (perhaps as revenge for his Disappearance Machine) and then the players find a note saying a spare power source is in the Funhouse. This creates a much better reason for going into the Funhouse than wanting to shoot a viral YouTube video. The decision to go toe-to-toe with an insane clown should always be a reluctant one! As it stands, the full story makes the players out to be total sociopaths. The moment when the players shut down power in the Funhouse is the perfect time to grab the new power source (they grab the Funhouse's power source).

Another big improvement I would like to see is no handholding in the City of Martyrs corridor. Let the players navigate this corridor on their own terms. This would not only create more immersion and more appreciation for the environment, but coupled with the power source suggestion, imagine the dread and excitement players would feel when they figure out on their own that they are supposed to go to the Funhouse, instead of being ushered there by an immersion-breaking GM. Lead players down the linear path without letting them know it. That's the Bioshock way!

I highly recommend doing the double/full adventure. So immersive. Great fun. Sometimes terrifying. But worth every moment!

The super immersive set and story, and high production value of the room, leave no doubt about why this is on the TERPECA list.  This experience has a great balance between puzzles and immersion.  The two actors did a great job and made our visit special.

Expérience Complète: Le Magicien De Paris & Le Palais De L’horreur [Full Experience: The Magician of Paris & The Funhouse]

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Expérience Complète: Le Magicien De Paris & Le Palais De L’horreur [Full Experience: The Magician of Paris & The Funhouse]

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