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Detention: 9/30/06

When entering the Danger Shop for detention today, the students will find themselves in a rather tranquil environment.

Tranquil, but somewhat unnatural. White void as far as the eye can see, barring the single, almost floating doors that would lead back out of the Danger Room.

The Doctor sits cross-legged on the spotless white floor, a small notepad in his lap, a pen behind one of his sizable ears.

He marks down attendance as people arrive.

Agnes Nitt
Blair Sandburg

When both students had arrived, the Doctor did not speak, but held up a simple note.

It read "Meditate".

[ooc: Sorry for the lateness. Last minute covering. EDIT: Up and Ready.]

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After folks have finished eating and the general bit of socializing, the Doctor began putting the trash away in a large plastic bag he pulled from his pocket.

"Fantastic pizza, isn't it? Now, you're wondering what we'll be doing now, aren't you. Miss Nitt, Mister Sandburg, you're about to embark on a very, very intriguins and important activity. You are about to..." He flourished his arms in a wide gesture, his smile wide. "Save the world!"

A single piece of furniture materializes, a table with two chess boards sitting on it.

"It's said that you can postpone your own demise by playing Death at chess," the Doctor said. "I defeated evil by trapping it into a logic puzzle." He gestured towards the boards.

"Come up with something you think would stump an evil from before time began. Collaborate, do your own thing, ask me questions about how ketchup tastes on the culinary delights of Betelgeuse five, just try and have fun today. Oh, and we'll have one more thing to do after this."

Blair looked down at the chess boards and then over at Agnes. "Um...do you know how to play?"

Agnes shook her head. "No. I never learned."

"Me either." Blair shrugged. "Which means we probably shouldn't challenge it to a game."

"Maybe we can try another game like Cripple Mr. Onion," Agnes suggested. "It shouldn't be which game that's important, right?"

"As long as it's a game that they'll have to spend a lot of time on, it should work. It would probably be bad to challenge them to a game that's too easy." Blair frowned. "I've never heard of Cripple Mr. Onion. How do you play it?"

Agnes briefly explained (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Mr_Onion) the basics of Cripple Mr. Onion. To go into extensive specifics would have kept them there all day.

"It wouldn't be too easy," I think.

Blair blinked and nodded slowly. "Yeah, I'm not seeing that as being too easy at all."

"It's either that or we pretend we know how to play chess and make up the rules as we go along," Agnes suggested.

Blair bounced. "Which would make it pretty impossible for Mr. Evil-From-Before-Time-Began to win, wouldn't it? That might be a good plan."

"Thwarted only by the fact that the evil is old enough that it does, in fact, know how chess is played," the Doctor interrupted.

"Neither of you has seriously played chess before?"

Blair grinned sheepishly. "I'm more of a checkers man, myself."

"It's not played much in the Ramtops," Agnes said, shaking he head.

"Well then," the Doctor said. "I think the Cripple Mr. Onion option is probably your best bet. Because even I was having trouble following it, and I'm the fellow who outwitted Fenric in the first place."

"Does that mean we passed?" Blair smiled hopefully, a little nervous about having to actually play the game.

"Yes, I suppose it does," the Doctor said, fiddling with the chess pieces.

He was hoping to show them the puzzle he'd used.

But they wouldn't understand it.

So he couldn't be all show-offy. Blast.

Agnes watched the fiddling and couldn't help smiling. Getting one up on the teacher - or detention host - was rather satisfying.

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