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

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

Oh look, still no exotic locations. The students walking through the Danger Shop doors found themselves in the library. Yes, that library. It was empty aside from the Doctor who was sitting on the collections desk, legs swinging over the edge. There were a few lamps on around the library and moonlight coming in the windows, suggesting it was late at night in here rather than 11am like it was outside.

Once everyone was gathered and the doors were closed, the Doctor leapt off the desk. "Sometimes," the Doctor started, pacing around in the well-lit areas, "you end up somewhere you're not expecting to be. Happens to me all the time. For some of you, even being here is somewhere you're not expecting to be. Wait. Sorry." He paused. "I forgot to say hello. Hello! Very rude of me. As I was saying, you don't always expect to walk head first into a problematic situation. Usually you won't be the only one there. Sometimes you'll be able to leave when others can't.

You have a choice." He looked around at them. "Fight or flight. You could take your leave, walk out and that's a perfectly reasonable solution to the problem. Of course, you'll be leaving everyone else to their own fate. Or you could always choose to stay, putting your life in immediate danger, but you could find out what's going on and help the people around you. Your choice. Make it now."

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[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

Like something's out to get you.

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[glacial_queen]

Karla

Listen to the Doctor or Talk Amongst Yourselves

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

One, the other or both!

Re: Listen to the Doctor or Talk Amongst Yourselves

[glacial_queen]

Karla set her jaw, listening to the Doctor's speech. She really didn't like being reminded about what happens to the people who are left behind. And the Doctor didn't really seem to think that there might be reasons you had to leave in the first place. Like how you don't actually want to go, but your stupid cousin bundles you into a Coach anyway and everyone keeps reminding you that you'll do more good later on...

Yeah, okay, Karla might still have issues. Whatever.

Re: Listen to the Doctor or Talk Amongst Yourselves

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

Oh, gods, another no-win scenario. James had his share on both decisions, never sure which was a better choice. Even if the choice made meant that he would be there to regret it later.

James did not hide his scowl. He was not wearing crankypants. They were jeans and they were helping him to blend in.

Re: Listen to the Doctor or Talk Amongst Yourselves

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Listening to the whole suggestion that one could simply walk away from trouble (and it would be trouble, wouldn't it?) had Alexander frowning deeply as he listened...and became incredibly nervous over what awaited for when he stayed.

Re: Listen to the Doctor or Talk Amongst Yourselves

[onlykindofdead.livejournal.com]

Madison was pretty sure that it wasn't that easy to walk away from trouble.

Re: Listen to the Doctor or Talk Amongst Yourselves

[momslilassassin]

Ben listened carefully, but running was never going to be an option for him. It was just how he was built.

Re: Listen to the Doctor or Talk Amongst Yourselves

[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

The Doctor said there was a choice, but to Clark, there really wasn't.

Re: Listen to the Doctor or Talk Amongst Yourselves

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

Diana gnawed on her bottom lip absentmindedly. There really wasn't much of a choice for her.

Re: Listen to the Doctor or Talk Amongst Yourselves

[gorka-wolf.livejournal.com]

Makita was annoyed. "I like a good fight," she said, accent slightly thicker than usual in her vexation. "But this is not my fight. It is not even a fight. It is a hypothetical pretend!"

Usually when you had a chance to pick between fight or flight, you had a bit more Intel to work with than a madman with no sense.

Leave

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

If you choose to leave the situation, you're free to go. Out the Danger Shop doors you go and you're done for the day.

Re: Leave

[talkstodeadppl.livejournal.com]

Yep, Miles left. That's just how he rolled.

Re: Leave

[redandblueblur.livejournal.com]

Clark left, but it wasn't really by choice, more necessity to avoid a certain girl.

Stay

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

After the Doctor waited an appropriate amount of time for anyone to leave, the Danger Shop doors closed again and disappeared into the simulation, leaving them in the shady library. "I regret to inform you that the choice you've made to stay has put you in imminent danger. The shadows may not be shadows." He fished a chicken drumstick out of his pocket and tossed it at a shadowy area near Special Collections. The flesh was stripped away in seconds. "You have the run of the school building (http://www.fandomhigh.net/maps/school.htm), though stay out of the shadows if you value your life. We're going to need power to make the building's lighting better - there's a generator on the third floor. We have fifty five minutes to survive, but we wouldn't normally know that. Plan like we're here for the long haul."

Re: Stay

[wrongkindofsith]

The smart thing would have been to leave, Cara was well aware of that. But if Richard or Kahlan were here neither of them would have done the smart thing, and Cara would have had to stay as well to keep them from getting killed.

And since she wouldn't be able to leave in the real world, she might as well stay now too.

Re: Stay

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

"Is there a map? A sketch, leading us up to the third floor?" There were the pictograms out in the hall with You Are Here labeled on them, but affixed to the wall.

"I assume a generator does something to the lighting; who of us knows what to do with a generator?" James did not.

"Do we have any torches to light the way?" James, not being British, referred to the light powered by fire, not batteries.

Re: Stay

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Imminent danger. Oh, what a surprise. But Alexander, who had expected such a turn, listened solemnly to exactly what sort of danger, or as much of it as was available, tense and ready.

...And then slightly paler after the tossing of the chicken bone. There might have been a small swallow, too, but it was okay. He could do this. While he was more accoustomed to moving through shadows to avoid being detected, it should be easy to just reverse that and stay out of them, right?

Oh, he hoped so. And now for a plan.

"Light," he announced obviously, looking around at the possibilities and maybe another brain to bounce off of. "We'll need plenty of light..."

Re: Stay

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Even though most of his instincts told him to leave, Peter knew that for one, it'd make him look like a jerk, and two, he evaluated the situation as if his classmates were the ones in danger. And since he liked most of his classmates, he couldn't just abandon them to any fate.

"So this week, instead of disintegration, we get angry pirahna shadows. At least this time there's something left to ship home to your family," he said.

"My vote is raiding the kitchen and then setting up in the Danger Shop," Peter said. "In there, we can simulate a wide open wintery plain with sunlight, no clouds, and no shade."

Re: Stay

[living_endless]

Didi didn't love the way the choices had been presented -- in her experience, you normally got more choices, and with more nuances to them, than straight fight or flight.

But the Doctor hadn't asked for a dissertation on the pros and cons of either; he'd asked them to make a choice based on minimal information. She stayed, and tested how far she could go into the shadows without anything grabbing at her leg. Who knew: Maybe the dangers wouldn't be all that dangerous, if someone took the time to understand them.

Re: Stay

[onlykindofdead.livejournal.com]

Considering Madison wasn't terribly concerned about the whole dying thing, she stuck around and listened to the rest of the lecture.

Shadows that stripped away flesh were not what she expected but she could handle this. Maybe.

Re: Stay

[dontvotemeout]

Jason wasn't the kind of person to run from trouble, especially if other people were in trouble too. That wasn't how Robins rolled. Of course, they didn't get a lot of flesh eating shadows in Gotham, so he was still at kind of a loss as to where to start to fight and/or get people to safety. For the moment, he was just going to slowly approach the shadows, to see how close he could get before he was in danger.

Talk to the Doctor

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

Who is staying in the light, thank you very much.

Re: Talk to the Doctor

[glacial_queen]

"Sir," Karla said, trying not to frown and failing a bit. "The way you presented the options: stay or leave...perhaps in this scenario they as cut-and-dry as you make them, but in many cases they aren't. Giving one an obvious moral value isn't--" she struggled to find a word that wasn't 'fair' "--it doesn't encompass all of the reasons that one may chose to stay or leave."

Talk to the TAs

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

They'll probably be more helpful than the Doctor today, which isn't saying a lot.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara was there, even if her palms were itching for her agiels.

OOC

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

The generator's where the Music Room is on the map. This class is mostly about banding together and dealing with the choice you've made. Try to branch out and explore, or stay in the library if you'd like. Talk, make plans like you might be here a while and run into some completely moddable shadows that will creep up on you!