Practical Crisis Problem Solving - Danger Shop, Tuesday, Period 3 (11am-12pm)

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Upon walking through the doors of the Danger Shop, it was completely understandable if the fine students of Practical Crisis Problem Solving (which the Doctor preferred to call "Staying Out of Trouble Badly") were very confused. They were in the park. Yes, the park, the one in Fandom just outside and down the road. Fandom all around them looked normal, at least as far as the beach. Then the water and everything beyond it was all hazy. The sky was an odd shade of red too.

"Hello!" the Doctor said, looking very smart in his tweed jacket and bow tie. There were other clothes too (including pants), but those were the two articles worth mentioning. "I'm the Doctor. You are all in Staying Out of Trouble Badly." See, with the calling the class the wrong name. "Which might be on your little schedule spreadsheets as something to do with problem solving. If you're not supposed to be here," he added with a smile, "stay anyway. Have some fun. Today we're going to get the creative juices flowing." He frowned. "No, I don't like the sound of that. It sounds too...moist. Doesn't matter." He switched back on track. "You might be wondering why the sky is red. Or orange. Burnt sienna? Would we call it that? Maybe Sinopia instead. The colour, not the planet. I had a point somewhere.

The sky. Yes. The sky is red because the entire island," he turned around in a circle and pointed in every direction for emphasis, "is surrounded by a shield. You can't penetrate it and you can't transport out of it, sorry if that's your thing. The reason for this a species called the Atraxi have tracked a criminal here to the very pretty Fandom Island. Prisoner Zero is its name. If Prisoner Zero doesn't give itself up in an hour, the Atraxi are going to incinerate everything and everyone inside the shield. They don't do things by halves.

I don't expect you to find Prisoner Zero today, but before the hour is up, each of you is to come up with a plan. Brainstorm. That's what we're here for today. Brainstorm a plan. Talk to me. Talk to each other. Let's get some ideas on how to find Prisoner Zero, stop the Atraxi from burning us all to a crisp and save Fandom. Your name might be useful too, if you don't mind telling me it. Oh, and if you do have higher brain function and can understand what I'm saying, please raise your hand so I can identify anyone who doesn't and can't."


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Re: Brainstorm

[ashockingbitch]

"I generally would consider not dying stupidly on a deadline to be more important than whether or not the twit who put my life in danger in the first place really deserves to be hauled back to prison," Jenny said bluntly, "but then I'm rather annoyed by the prospect of dying because someone else just so happens to be in the vicinity. We don't even know what this Prisoner Zero's supposed to have done, after all. Perhaps the Atraxi consider walking on the grass a capital offense."

Re: Brainstorm

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

"Prisoner Zero didn't put our lives in danger," Hiccup pointed out. "Sounds to me like that honour goes to the Atraxi, you know, the ones threatening to incinerate the island if we don't find some guy and hand him over. I'm all for not dying, a hundred percent behind that idea, but let's all be annoyed at the right twit. Twits."

Re: Brainstorm

[ashockingbitch]

Jenny frowned at him. "We wouldn't be in this situation if it weren't for Prisoner bloody Zero. You're assuming that Prisoner Zero didn't know the Atraxi would do exactly what they've done when they finally managed to track it down when it decided to hole up in a populated area, and decide to try to use us as shields or something. But we really don't have time to argue motivations here," she reminded herself. "We're on a deadline, tick tick fiery death. We need a plan."

Re: Brainstorm

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

He held up his hands. "Good point, excellent point, well made. Not dying, very important. We could talk to the Atraxi, maybe buy ourselves some time, maybe convince them to go away, maybe get them to tell us something about Prisoner Zero besides his name, because that's not all that helpful."