Oliver Swainson: Save the world...maybe.

Jeremy Hewson, a 16 year old male, was visiting Toronto with his family. Still in high school, he was visiting Toronto to see his older brother and get a taste of college life. He loved action and adventure movies, especially spy films. James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Solid Snake were his heroes and he followed their fictional adventures with relish. He frequently fantasized about being a lone agent or spy and sneaking into enemy headquarters to capture vital information or save the world from evil.

During his visit to Toronto his parents took him to OCAD to see his older brother, George. When he walked into the building he could hear a loud klaxon periodically going off in the main hall, intrigued, he asked his parents if he could go take a look while they went off to find George. He followed the sound of the alarms and saw an OCAD student walking out of the auditorium door looking quite proud of some accomplishment. He opened the door the student exited to take a closer look. Inside, he found that the auditorium was dark with only a single spotlight providing illumination. It was shining down on a short, black, rectangular, pedestal in the center of the floor that had a large LCD screen with a timer on it and a big red button. A couple feet in from the door there was a large yellow and black striped line on the floor separating the section of floor where he was standing at the entrance and the rest of the room including the pedestal.

Curious to get a closer look at the pedestal, Jeremy stepped forward and crossed the yellow and black caution line. Immediately a hidden speaker goes "bwoeep! bwoeep!" and the whole room is doused in red light. Another light flicks on and the whole floor appears to be gridded off into 4 by 4 foot square tiles by lines of light. The LCD screen shows 5:00:00 and starts counting down five minutes. A small red LCD on the pedestal starts steadily flashing. Jeremy immediately regrets his decision to walk forward but before getting upset a feeling of excitement comes over him. "The pedestal seems dangerous but I think that button has something to do with stopping it!" he thinks to himself. He steps forward into the next square and the counter continues to count down, and then the next one. When his foot passes into this one however, warning lights start flashing and the speaker starts going "BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEE~" the alarm stops as soon as Jeremy retracts his foot. He tries going to the square to his left. This time the alarm doesn't go off.

Square by square, Jeremy gradually makes his way around the alarm rigged invisible maze, slowly working his way closer to the pedestal. He can see his time is running out and the alarms that go off when he hits a bad square are starting to sound more frantic. With only seconds to spare on the LCD screen, Jeremy finally reaches the center square containing the pedestal and hits the big red button. The counter immediately stops, a celebration jingle plays, and the lights revert to normal. As Jeremy walks out of the room he feels a profound sense of accomplishment and relief. He may never know if the pedestal was actually dangerous or not but he still felt like he saved the world that day. What he didn't see was the trap resetting as he walked out the door of the room, waiting for it's next "agent"...