Great entries everyone.
Welcome to the challenges Todd - some really good feedback on your design too.
I started entering the challenges as a "beginner" and thanks to this amazing community have taken on board feedback and incorporated this into my designs - looking back on some of the things I produced early on is often quite cringeworthy!!
One of the tips I agree with that Linda has mentioned is to take note of what you like in a design and use this in your projects. There are so many great examples out there - I often base my designs on something I really like and the challenge in this is recreating the look and feel of the design which I have found to be really beneficial as far as then being able to use what I've learnt and be more creative.
I really like how you have animated the illustrated characters to match the dialogue, and well done on the content of the scenario.
I didn't notice the text disappearing on any of your slides - but here are a couple of things you can look for to fix this:
1. Check that each object that you want to stay on the slide right until the end has "Show until end" set (right-click the object in the timeline). When this is set on the object it will display a triangular arrow at the end of the object's timeline.
2. Check that you haven't got any exit animations set on objects - if you do, this will override the show until end setting, as in in the object will show until the end of the timeline, but then it will disappear in line with the exit animation you've set.
Here's my entry for this challenge. I have intentions of adding to this and eventually writing up a blog post on how I created it, so it's still a work in progress. You'll see what I mean when you view the demo. I'm just starting to get my head around scenarios, so this was a good opportunity to do some research and take the plunge to create my first branching scenario (that I'm comfortable sharing, anyway!)
http://bit.ly/1NKYH17