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The Laboratory Notebook

Victor Frankenstein records every storm, every assistant and every grievance. His creature has started writing back. Newest pages first.

In short: Victor Frankenstein, the captor in Frankenstein Resurrection, records his stormy experiment here in a pompous hand, and the creature he wakes every hour answers back in the margins. Every page is invented for laughs, spoils no puzzle and links straight to true details about the room.

2026

9 December 2026A Christmas Party of TwelveA twelve-strong Christmas party wants Victor Frankenstein’s laboratory, which holds six on Lake Street. How the doctor divides a big group. A notebook entry.
1 November 2026After All Hallows’ EveThe morning after Halloween, Victor Frankenstein counts the costumes that came through his laboratory, including eleven of himself. A notebook entry.
21 October 2026My Notebook, PublishedVictor Frankenstein learns his private notebook is going on the Frankenstein Resurrection website and lays down some rules for readers. A notebook entry.
12 May 2026A Name in the MarginFirst-timers wake Victor’s creature at their first attempt, and the creature celebrates by choosing himself a name. The doctor objects. A notebook entry.

2025

9 December 2025Weather ReportVictor Frankenstein files a weather report on his own laboratory: smoke, total darkness and lightning flashes, and who should think twice. A notebook entry.
1 October 2025A Second Laboratory1 October 2025: Frankenstein Resurrection opens at Escape This Sydney CBD, and Victor discovers he can be in two cities at once. His notebook entry for the day.
16 August 2025Never Fewer Than ThreeVictor explains why his experiment needs three assistants, four on a Saturday, and why the laboratory on Lake Street stops at six. A comic notebook entry.
24 June 2025Strictly ThirteenA twelve-year-old tries to talk his way into Victor Frankenstein’s laboratory. Why the doctor’s 13+ rule is strict, and who gets asked for ID. Notebook entry.
15 April 2025A Note on PacemakersVictor explains why his electromagnetic contraptions and pacemakers don’t mix, and grumbles about the panic buttons he did not install. A notebook entry.
20 March 2025First Storm on Lake Street20 March 2025: Frankenstein Resurrection opens at Escape This Northbridge, and Victor greets his first unwilling assistants. His notebook entry for opening day.
18 February 2025Crates From the FactoryWeeks before opening night, Victor Frankenstein unpacks his new Northbridge laboratory crate by crate, and something is already awake. A notebook entry.

In his own hand

About the doctor

I am Victor Frankenstein: scientist, genius, keeper of the finest laboratory in two cities and the only man in either who truly understands the weather.

I like a storm that keeps its appointments, a jar with a good seal and an assistant who reads my journals without comment. I dislike tidy people, sunny afternoons and anybody who calls my creature by a name I did not give him.

I have brought the dead to life more times than any scientist in history. Every hour, in fact. It would be more impressive if he stayed awake.

— V. Frankenstein

Notes on the doctor

Writes his journals in a hand nobody else can read, on purpose
Checks the sky before breakfast and the clock before everything
Refers to his creature only as “the Subject”
Has not noticed that the Subject reads every page he writes
Would like the thunder louder, and has said so in writing
Never writes his method down here, even by accident

Out of character

The facts behind the notebook

Victor Frankenstein is the doctor in Frankenstein Resurrection, a gothic horror escape room designed, built and run by Escape This at Escape This Northbridge and Escape This Sydney CBD. He holds your group captive on a stormy night and frees you only if you help wake his creature before the last lightning strike.

Escape This makes the notebook up. Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel lends the doctor and his creature; the notebook hands the creature a pencil and lets him pick his own name. Nobody real appears in it, nothing in it really happened, and it solves nothing for you.

Whatever sits outside the doctor’s voice, from the 13+ rule and pacemaker warning to fares and how many assistants fit each laboratory, is taken from Escape This’s own booking and game systems and updated on this site.

FAQ

About the Laboratory Notebook

What is the Laboratory Notebook on the Frankenstein Resurrection site?

A comic, made-up journal kept by Victor Frankenstein, the doctor who holds your group captive in Frankenstein Resurrection, with notes in the margins from the creature he’s trying to wake. Each page pokes fun at a real part of the experiment, from the 13+ rule to the indoor storm, and sits beside the real room facts and a booking link.

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Who is scribbling in the margins of the doctor’s notebook?

The doctor’s creature, in the story. Escape This imagines him, the body under the sheet in Frankenstein Resurrection, waking each time a group succeeds, teaching himself to read from the doctor’s journals and growing more articulate with every page. He calls himself Percy; the doctor refuses to. Both are fictional, borrowed from Mary Shelley’s novel, and the margin notes are written by Escape This for fun.

Will reading the doctor’s notebook give away any Frankenstein Resurrection puzzles?

No. Victor grumbles about his storm, his jars and his assistants in the same broad strokes as the room’s story, and the creature’s margin notes are about feelings, not solutions. No page says where anything is hidden or what to do first, so your group still walks into the laboratory knowing nothing useful.

Are any of the dates in Victor Frankenstein’s notebook real?

The openings are. Frankenstein Resurrection opened at Escape This Northbridge on 20 March 2025 and at Escape This Sydney CBD on 1 October 2025, according to Escape This’s booking records, and Melbourne CBD is set for 1 March 2027. The pages for those days carry those dates; every other date was picked for the story.

How often does the doctor add a page to his notebook?

Roughly monthly. New pages of the Laboratory Notebook appear on their dates through 2027, each about a different side of Frankenstein Resurrection, such as costumes, big groups, access or hints, and the creature’s margin notes become more eloquent as the year goes on.

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