History in Living Colour - Friday, Period 3 (Week 2)

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"Okay!" the Doctor said, bounding into the room when the students had gathered. "No time for chatting, let's get to it. Get to what you might ask? If you are, you didn't read your syllabus! Ask Peyton or Dick for one if you missed out. They're you're TAs and in case you've forgotten, I'm the Doctor."

There were three doors in the room. "Pick a door, any door! Well, except the one leading out of the Danger Shop. One of these three doors, which will lead you to a turning point in history. This week is all about not messing with the turning points, the important stuff, the moments in history that make today the way it is. We're going to learn by doing the wrong thing. Do whatever comes naturally to you once you're on the other side of the door. When you're done, we'll talk about what happened as a result of your actions.

We're all a part of history in some way, shape or form, and there's a lot you can get away with when you're outside of your home time period - by the way, time travel happens, get used to it - but there are some things you should never tamper with. You'll see why. Or, if you read a lot of alternate history fiction, you'll already know. Go on, pick a door." He nodded towards the doors, then commented quietly to himself, "guess we did have time for chatting after all."

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Re: Door 1

[futureclone]

Alex walked over to the Doctor and said, "Please tell me this was supposed to be the burning of Rome and not some random fire that is now the burning of Rome."

Re: Door 1

[veryarthurdent.livejournal.com]

"Does it matter?" He folded his arms across his chest. He was curious. Alex as the second person so far to not go in and help.

Re: Door 1

[futureclone]

"Rome is supposed to burn. It's not good if you're Roman, but it's supposed to happen. You can't just mess up the timeline," Alex said. "But if that guy in the cloak messed up the timeline and, I don't know, started the fire early, and I didn't fix it..." He shuddered to think what his superiors would have said if that had been the case, and hoped his teacher would be more lenient.

Re: Door 1

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"You can't always be sure. But you're a step ahead of the others in thinking that way. All you can do is be as careful as you can."