Escape the Dead End of Censorship! (text version)
An ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table #BannedBooksWeek 2020 virtual escape room adventure.
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Someone is trying to save the world from dangerous ideas by censoring popular comics - but who will save our freedom to read from the censors?
Our adventure begins once upon a time, with a comic artist saving favorite comics from the destruction of censorship!
Join the team of heroes fighting for the freedom to read by solving three clues to demonstrate your knowledge of intellectual freedom.
Useful resources:
ALA Banned & Challenged Books: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund: http://cbldf.org/
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Once upon a time
Panel 1: A comic artist drawing in a sketchbook.
COMIC ARTIST: This panel is not coming out the way I hoped! I could really use some inspiration from my favorite comic storytellers.

Panel 2: A censor depicted in a hazmat suit sprays an ominous dark cloud of censorship surrounding a TV news broadcast.
TV NEWS ANCHOR: Breaking news! Censors to target popular comics to protect the world from dangerous ideas. More at 11.

Panel 3: The comic artist drawing in a sketchbook.
COMIC ARTIST: But what happens to news reporting, science, music, and stories under censorship - let alone comics?!?

Panel 4: The comic artist drawing in a sketchbook, while the censor and dark cloud of censorship loom ominously nearby.
COMIC ARTIST: Can censorship really protect us?..

Panel 5: The censor and ominous cloud of censorship darken the whole frame.
COMIC ARTIST: ...Or is censorship a dead end?

Panel 6: The comic artist drawing in a sketchbook, imagining fighting against the dark cloud of censorship.
COMIC ARTIST: We need a hero who will fight censorship!

Panel 7: A journalist reporting live from a bustling street.
JOURNALIST: This just in: I'm reporting live from the scene where a National Coalition Against Censorship is forming to fight for intellectual freedom!

Panel 8: The journalist reporting live.
JOURNALIST: To join their team, prove your knowledge of intellectual freedom and escape the dead end of censorship to find your freedom to read!

Panel 9: The comic artist drawing in a sketchbook.
COMIC ARTIST: It's up to all of us to fight censorship! But how..?

Panel 10: The journalist reporting live.
JOURNALIST: The National Coalition Against Censorship is urgently asking anyone with more information to join their censorship-fighting team!..

Panel 11: The journalist in a struggle with the ominous cloud of censorship, which is trying to take control of the microphone.
JOURNALIST: ...Before we're all trapped in the dead end of censorship!

Panel 12: The comic artist working at an easel, imagining fighting against the dark cloud of censorship.

To be continued...
Advance to join the team of heroes fighting the dead end of censorship by answering clues to demonstrate your knowledge of intellectual freedom!
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