fandomhigh | Roving the Galaxy - Friday, Period 4 (Week 6)

There was a handwavy note to all of the students today to meet in the park. The TARDIS was nearby, but today the workshop was being held out in the open where you could look around and breathe in the fresh air. That is, if you managed to get to the park without getting lost.

"As much as I hate to admit it," the Doctor said once the students had gathered, "every now and then things don't go according to plan. No matter what you do, no matter how clever you are, sometimes you'll find yourself in a situation you can't get out of. Most of the time that will involve being stuck wherever you happen to be at the time with no way to get home. Today isn't about finding a way out. It's about preparing yourself for the possibility that there is no way out.

You're all stuck on a planet on the distance side of the galaxy from your home. The people are nice enough, if a bit simple because their technology is hasn't developed to your standards yet. There's definitely no space travel and aliens are unheard of. But you look close enough to the native population to fit in and you've found yourself a community where people won't ask too many questions.

What do you do? Do you keep fighting until your dying day to get home? Do you make a new home for yourself? What kind of work would you look for? Will you buy a house? Find someone? Fall in love and settle down? You may not have the choice of whether or not you can leave, but everything else is up to you.

Also, back here next week. Field trip. Wear comfortable clothing so you can fit in. We'll be putting what you learned into practice in a real setting with very real consequences, so I expect you to all be ready and on time. We'll be back by the end of the period."

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What would you do if you were stuck on a planet far, far away with no possible way home? Tell the class. You can be as general or detailed as you'd like.

He'll be around after class too.

Settle down with a nice blonde with a house that has a white picket fence. Or, y'know, not.

Andrew Wiggin

Karal Austreben

"It would depend if Altra were with me or not." The 'cat's ears flattened and he lashed his tail, demonstrating his opinion of not being with Karal. "Which I'm sure he would be. No matter what, I will still be a priest, but I doubt I could support myself that way. The only other thing I know enough about to work at it is horses, well, and books, but that would only help if I could read the language," he noted.

"I guess I would try and find work in a stables, or whatever the world had that was similar, and act as a priest when it was needed. If I truly could not find a way home, I would have to believe that Vkandis Sunlord had a reason for me to be there, so I would find a way to make a new life."

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Helen Haras-Uquara

"I have actually been in that very situation before. A number of times. Though when Walking the Bounds you are shifted randomly from world to world, staying on each one an indeterminate amount of time, always hoping that perhaps the next one will be home."

She stared off into the distance. "We tried to fit in as best we could, get jobs, take care of ourselves, but we always knew we wouldn't stay."

"What if this time you were to stay?"

"Here you mean?" she asked looking surprised. Because, yes, in a way she really did think of this as a strange world she was trapped in with possibly no way of ever getting home. Not for good anyhow.

"I'm trying to make a life for myself, I suppose. But I haven't giiven up hope of returning home someday."

Teddy Altman

Hoshi Sato

Peter Petrelli

Peter didn't want to think about being stuck somewhere without Nathan. It was too horrible to contemplate.

Marco

"I've actually been in a kinda situation sorta like this? And get a radio signal out to more advanced civilization. Or just blend in." Marco lamely finished.

Sokka

Sokka pondered the question. "Well... I got nothin'. I mean, there's nothing I could do to get me home, so... I'd just have to sit and wait to be rescued. After a couple of weeks, or months, or whatever, it would just be time to settle in and make a life of it. House, job, wife, kids..." He shrugged. "But, I mean, this is Fandom. Someone'd come after me."

Don't assume that Sokka's stupid just because he's wearing really loud ugly shorts today. Or, you know, because he often acts stupid.

He bit his lip worriedly as he approached the Doctor. "So... Are you really stuck here?"

Sam Winchester

"It would depend on who I was stuck with," Sam said, thinking of what happened with the angels. "If I was all by myself, I think I'd keep fighting to get home until the very end. I might try to settle in a little, because I don't think I'd want to be alone. But if I got stuck away from my family...I don't know if I could make a new one where I'd ended up. Falling in love and starting over and all that, I mean. I'd find a way to get back, or die trying."

"Me? Nah." The Doctor shook his head. "I thought I was for a while, but all fixed, ready to go whenever I want. There've been a couple of times, though, where it looked like I was stuck. It's a very real possibility when you're off adventuring around. Sometimes you can never go home."

Sokka nodded. "And sometimes, no matter how much you miss it, you don't really want to go home."

He shook his head to clear it. "I mean, hooray for getting it fixed! Fandom does that to people, sometimes. It's just a thing."

"Not with my ship. This is new. Still, not the end of the world. Got it up and running, good as new. Well, almost. Well, good as it can be after all this time."

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