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

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Oh look. They were back in the holographic version of the park. There was no real reason for it today, other than the Doctor liking the park quite a lot.

"Hello! Sky's blue again this week." The Doctor had his arms spread out like he wanted a hug, but for now he resisted the urge to actually impose a hug on anybody. "No Atraxi threatening to roast us like a Sunday dinner from their ships above. In fact," he noted, glancing around rather suspiciously of their surroundings, "everything seems perfectly normal. Except it's not. That's what 'seems' means as opposed to 'is' and usually, even if you don't always notice it, there's something going on right under your noses.


Oh, by the way, this class on Flexibility and Adaptability, but now it's not, which I suppose requires you to be both flexible and adapt to the sudden news, so it both is and isn't. There you are, Flexibility and Adaptability. Surprise! Where was I?" The Doctor looked at Toothless for the answer, which he retrieved himself before the dragon had a chance to say anything or set anything on fire. "Right under your noses! But sometimes you get a feeling. A little feeling, nothing you can put your finger on, nothing you can explain or see or hear. The feeling is that something's isn't right. Intuition, you call it. A sixth sense. It could be a low-level psychic ability, but more often than not, it's your sensory organs working too fast for the main processing part of the brain to keep up.

Sometimes it turns out to be paranoia and everything's fine and you're imagining it. But sometimes you clue in that something is amiss. And," the Doctor said with a little smile that often meant the recipients were about to find themselves in trouble, "something is amiss. I regret to inform you that about one third of the class has been replaced by parasitic organisms that hiss a noxious green gas that will disintegrate - we're doing a lot of disintegrating, aren't we? I'll change that next week - will disintegrate your entire body, melting you away into a pile of ash. You don't know who. There are no visible or psychic signs that they're anything other than who they say they are. You have nothing to go on except intuition. If you catch them out, they'll have no option but to remove you from the equation through disintegration. Two options now." The Doctor cast a few suspicious glances their way to add to the mood. "You can talk to me about what you would do if there was an invasion of the body snatchers with bad breath, or - and this could be fun - you can talk to as many of your classmates as you'd like and try to work out whether or not they've had their body repossessed. It's like being possessed, only you're not there and there's a metaphor about not paying your loans in there somewhere. Not the best day for me mentally. Headache. Pretend the metaphor worked out." He seemed disappointed that it hadn't.

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SUSPICIOUSLY!

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Cara

Listen to the Doctor and Talk Amongst Yourselves

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You know, before it's revealed that one third of you are actually hideous aliens in disguise.

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The Doctor hadn't mentioned things being set on fire this week, Cara considered that an improvement.

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Hiccup was listening closely, right up until the Doctor had his little exchange with Toothless.

"Something you want to tell me about, buddy?" he asked under his breath, nudging the dragon and tilting his head towards the Doctor.

Toothless simply looked inscrutable.

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Madison grew quite panicked as she listened to the Doctor explain what they were doing today.

What if there were psychics in the class and they outed her real secret?

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Rosalind frowned and then her eyes narrowed at the lecture went on.

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There really was a lot of disintegration in these classes. If you counted two instances 'a lot'. Peter didn't, not yet. While it did constitute one hundred percent of the classes so far, it was a pretty final way to go. It made the danger definite.

He was really starting to wonder what The Doctor did day-to-day when not teaching courses like this.

Perhaps a really talented and eccentric sci-fi writer, he mused, but dismissed the thought. He'd be clinically insane, in that explanation. That wasn't the impression he got off The Doctor at all.

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James was Not Happy about the subject matter. He had already dealt with something along those lines, albeit more 'traitor' than 'alien gas spewer'.

He looked around the class, wondering who people really were under the skin.

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[living_endless]

Things were feeling very not-quite-right to Didi today, so this was an interesting class to be in. She glanced about her fellow students, trying to work out who might be an alien.

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It was sort of interesting, noting the reactions of his fellow classmates. He almost wondered if it put him in a terribly suspicious position that he seemed unsurprised and undisturbed. But he'd spent his entire life, really, being suspicious of what others were capable of doing to him, and had ultimately grown up with 'turn a corner, get zapped by a magician' as an every day risk...So the situation, while not delible, was at least...not surprising? In an odd sort of way.

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[notagoose]

Goose was trying really hard to stay focused and not react to the class topic, he was mostly succeeding.

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Alex listened to the Doctor's lecture and eyed her classmates warily. This... was going to be an interesting class, to say the least.

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[glacial_queen]

Karla...really wasn't paying attention. It was like there was something hovering there, right out the corner of her eye, or whispering just out of hearing range, so all she could catch was a faint susurrus, but no actual words.

Add to that the confusion of her dream this morning and you had one seriously distracted witchling.

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Diana was processing what the Doctor was saying and rubbing at the back of her neck. She had the strange urge to go running.

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[momslilassassin]

For a moment, Ben thought the Doctor was talking about whatever had set his Force-senses humming yesterday, but then realized this was a hypothetical situation where Jedi powers wouldn't really help.

Unless students really had been replaced. He began looking them all over just to be sure.

Work Out Your Plan With The Doctor

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Aliens are hiding amongst you and will kill you if they find out that you've found out who they are. What do you do when you can't trust even your closest friends? (Psychically everyone will still read as normal)

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"Wait, so they won't kill us if we don't find out who they are?" Hiccup asked, craning his neck to try and watch everyone at once. "Seems like the thing to do would be to make sure we don't find aything strange. We don't notice them, they don't disintegrate us, and everyone's happy. Except, yeah, hang on." He looked at the Doctor, head tipped slightly to the side. "What happened to the people the aliens are pretending to be?"

Re: Work Out Your Plan With The Doctor

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"Well, clearly we need some way of finding out who's a parasite without getting killed in the process." Cara refrained from offering her agiels to help with that, since he'd probably start going on about how it would be "wrong" or something.

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"So, what are the aliens going to do if we don't find out who they are?" Madison asked.

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"What if you continue to trust your friends and family despite not knowing if they're infected or not?" Rosalind asked. "What are the consequences of that?"

And/Or Talk to Your Classmates

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Find out if they are who they say they are, but you'll have to do it without letting on that something is amiss because if they aren't who they say they are, you might find yourself disintegrated!

Re: And/Or Talk to Your Classmates

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Rosalind glanced speculatively around at her classmates.

This was... an interesting assignment to say the least.

Talk to the Doctor After Class

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"By the way," the Doctor declared after the doors to the Danger Shop opened to signal the end of class, "no one was really an alien. I just told you they were. Good for you being good sports and playing along!"

Even if they hadn't, he felt it best to give positive encouragement. It made up for failing on the metaphor that he was still working on in his head.

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"Sir? I want to apologize for missing class last week," Ben said, approaching the man. "I was a cat."

Talk to the TAs

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Who had a very nice ice cream non-date this past week, as was expected of them.

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Hiccup and Toothless eyed the other students suspiciously, while simultaneously trying to look helpful as befit a TA.

Well, Hiccup did, anyway. Toothless just flopped down and put his head on his front paws, watching the Doctor.

And if anyone asked, Hiccup would definitely confirm that the ice cream having was most assuredly a non-date, and that any thinking of his fellow TA in wet leathers was entirely innocent.

OOC

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No one's really an alien, but your characters don't know that! Suspicion rules the classroom today!

ETA: Sinus infection means early sleep for me. Will reply to pings tonight!