Surviving Deep Space - Thursday, Period Two - 8/13

[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to keep the lecture short today because our lesson is practical."

He gestured to the doors that were arrayed behind him.

"Each one of you will be entering a simulated psimoon. Psimoons, as the name might suggest, are planetoids which react to the mind of one person, adapting their terrain to mimic the person's mental state. Your mission, and you're going to accept it if I have to shove you through the door, the lot of you, is to explore your own psimoon and return 'alive' by the end of class.

"If you like it, you can even bring some of your friends to enjoy your psimoon. Once it's locked on an individual, it stays locked."

He beamed brilliantly.

"Good luck."

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

Like you've just had to see Rimmer naked and slathered in oil.

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[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone

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[endsthegame]

Andrew Wiggin

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[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri Veila

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

Now would be the time to mutiny. Or, you know, discuss what your psimoon might be like.

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[endsthegame]

Ender looked mostly serene and totally not chatty at all. He had a fair idea of what his 'psimoon' would look like, and he'd had a taste of a reminder of it just a few weeks ago.

He'd visit, but he had no plans to take anyone with him at all.

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[weetuskenraider]

There was no actual mutiny from Tahiri's end, but the look on her face was definitely mutinous.

"No. Kriffing. Way in hell," she muttered.

She already knew her mental state was a mess. She didn't need the artistic rendering, thanks.

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[glacial_queen]

Karla glanced over to Tahiri. "Would you like to visit mine?" she asked quietly.

She couldn't guarantee it would be all unicorns and pickleberries, but it also certainly wouldn't involve Tahiri being tortured.

She raised her voice a bit to carry. "Anyone interested in visiting my head is welcome."

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[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri gave her a grateful look. If anybody knew exactly why she didn't want to do this . . . "I can't say I'd mind."

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[hes-aphantom.livejournal.com]

Danny looked... confused. "Um, I'd rather not," he grumbled under his breath, slouching at his desk.

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

"Then you'll be writing a six page paper on what you think it might look like," came the voice from behind him.

"I won't have slacking."

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[hes-aphantom.livejournal.com]

Danny turned and looked at Rimmer. "I don't want to think about what it looks like, okay? That's the reason why I don't want to go in."

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[momslilassassin]

"You have a school full of people who were in comas and living through some kind of horrifying parallel universe where they were killing each other a few weeks ago, and you want us to explore our mental states?" Ben asked aloud, looking cranky.

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

"I've been me my entire life," which, as far as Rimmer was concerned, was well enough to balance a horrifying parallel universe where they were killing each other a few weeks ago, "and I would actually think it's the perfect time. After all, this is 'Surviving' Deep Space, not prancing about and collecting space daisies in a happy little space meadow."

It didn't help that, well, in his canon, continuity was what happened to other people.

"The universe won't wait until you're feeling chipper to spring these things, after all. And I made allowances. I've definitely made allowances."

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[momslilassassin]

"How have you possibly made allowances for what lives in our heads?" Ben demanded.

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[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone just stayed nice and quiet at her desk, colored pencils flying over her notebook.

The scene that was taking shape under her pen looked remarkably like a colorful coral reef -- albeit one that had recently been hit by a tsunami. Broken and jagged edges shot through the landscape, and there was a good amount of red bleeding from some of the cracks.

She was very familiar with her own mindscape, thank you.

"Land" on your Psimoon

[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

Set it up as you like and feel free to bring others in the class there if you think it's neat.

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[endsthegame]

The configuration of Ender's surprised him in no way at all; he took a stroll, a lazy one, through the village of dwarves in the Giant's rotted body, tracing the lines of the ribs, down to the playground, and sat to stare up at the tower in thought. His legs curled underneath him, and he didn't need to look to notice that a hundred feet away or so, a stack of books had called themselves into being. It was an easy leap.

The only thing that surprised him was the perpetual layer of deep, dark mud that laid across every horizontal surface, clinging to his shoes and seeping into his pants. He didn't wonder.

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[hes-aphantom.livejournal.com]

Danny's looked remarkably like the basement of FentonWorks, except that the portal to the Ghost Zone was closed. Danny was sitting on the floor, watching that door. It was his job, after all, to take care of everyone. He could hear Desiree and Skulker, behind the door, arguing about ways to get it open.

It wasn't so much that his head was full of ghosts, it was that his head held the memories of fights with ghosts, and the knowledge of how to save people from them. Trapped inside him, like the ghosts were trapped behind that door.

He came out of the psimoon thoroughly depressed.

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[glacial_queen]

Karla stood before the door, breathing deeply and using one of the meditation techniques she'd learned.

Then she opened the door and stepped inside. Into a very familiar landscape. It was the loch on the estate, the one she used to swim in as a girl. Sunlight dappled the ground as it shone through the trees and the air smelled fresh and clean. Good. Great. This wasn't so bad. Maybe the meditation was working.

She turned and waved Tahiri and anyone else who wanted to come in through the door. "Looks like I'm in a good mood today," she said.

Rimmer

[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

Who was looking almost pleased with himself, considering.

OOC

[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

BLAAARG.

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[spring-lost.livejournal.com]

I might have been watching this episode just a few days ago.

Naked, oily Rimmer still fills me with fear.

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[uptheziggurat.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the creepy gold bits in it. And the loincloth.

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[spring-lost.livejournal.com]

Hell, I wonder how much they paid the poor handmaidens...