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Boom-De-Yada Science - Danger Shop, Wednesday, Period 1 [Week 9]

The Doctor had his arms folded across his chest when the class gathered today. "I trust you all treated your guest teacher well. Though raise your hand if you didn't let your bomb explode fully knowing that you weren't in any harm other than a bit of paint." He waited. "I'm disappointed in you all. Only a little bit, because bombs are never fun when you're the one undoing them, but you all had a chance to experience something in relative safety and some of you chose not to go for the full experience. Experience. Experience. It doesn't even sound like a real word any more. Experience. In case you haven't noticed, that's a good part of the reason behind this class. You learn from experience. You can understand your world, whether it's Earth or Mars or Raxacoricofallapatorious and all of the scientific joys, through experience.

Enough about experience." He stuck out his tongue since it was tangled around the word. "It's lost all meaning. Ah yes. Now. Egypt. That's a country on the African continent that's home to the longest river on the planet, the Nile, and also home to one of the oldest and grandest civilisations in human history. It's also good fodder for horror movies about mummies. Speaking of mummies, we're inside an Egyptian pyramid, so sorry if you're claustrophobic, but there's no quick way out of here other than me pressing a button and letting you out, which isn't going to happen unless you're having a genuine panic attack.

Where was I? Yes. Mummies. Mummies are...well, here's one now." He gestured to the ancient, decrepit mummy standing at the back of the group. "We're inside one of the Egyptian pyramids. You can go to a museum and see how they got the history about them completely wrong if you need to know about them for a history course. Why are we learning about Egyptian mummies? Well, they're interesting. The mummification process is a good example of early embalming practices of societies with primitive technology. The pyramids themselves are architectural marvels. I won't spoil you by telling you who actually built them. It's a good story though. If you want to consider language a science, which it most certainly is by some standards, hieroglyphs on the walls are a fascinating example of what happens when you let inebriated people come up with your written language. At least in my universe. I can't speak for everyone's, but that was a long night and there was an awful lot of beer.

I'm going on. Sorry, Ram," he said to the mummy. "This is King Rameses. One of the King Rameses. There were a lot. It's not important. He's one of the ones that didn't make much lasting contribution to history and that annoys him. He's also been possessed by a life form known as the Krinitos who like to take preserved bodies and use them as walking, grunting shells. By the way, because of the mummification process, he doesn't have any internal organs and he wants yours. Remember what I was saying about experience? This is one of those. You're being chased by a bloodthirsty mummy who wants your guts for his own. Now would be a good time to find a way out of the pyramid. Basically, run!"

And he did just that, leaving the students alone with the staggering mummy.

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Like the Doctor just screwed you over big time.

You are in a very dimly lit pyramid after all. It probably smells a bit too. There is some air flow, though. Strange that.

The pyramid is vast and there are plenty of passages to use to escape from the mummy. Strike out on your own, pair up, group up, whatever suits your fancy. Attacking the mummy won't do much good because of the alien possession and protection (he's super strong and impervious to attacks. Magic won't do much good either since he's a hologram, so let's not do that). The pyramid is moddable, as are treasure rooms, traps, scarab beetles, rats, spiders and any mummy movie trope you can think of because the Doctor thinks he's funny sometimes.

You are, of course, welcome to find all of this out through trial and error. Lots of error.

If it's before the mummy speech, you have a chance to get out if you're genuinely claustrophobic or mummyphobic (pharaohphobic?) and don't want to deal. If it's after, you'll have to catch him first! He'll be around after the program ends at the end of class too.

Like the thread says, go for it. It's a stock standard Egyptian pyramid. The program is set up to be flexible, so run with whatever comes to mind short of the Mystery Machine gang coming to the rescue. The Doctor made the mummy basically untouchable since the purpose of the lesson is to explore the pyramid and all its (scientifically questionable) wonders, have a bit of fun, check out some hieroglyphs and figure out an escape route. The mummy is just for kicks! You can grab me on AIM at highonfandom if you have any questions or need me for anything, or ping me here and either I or one of my lovely TAs will get back to you ASAP.

Raven

Bobby McCallister

WILL NOT.

Okay, this was awesome. Well, except for that mummy part. Bobby wanted to get away from him.

He hurried through the dusty passages, looking right and left to make sure the mummy hadn't crept up on him. Maybe he should have been looking forward though, because he suddenly found himself in a dead end. With a giant spider behind him.

DAMN IT. I was going to delete this and put in a TAs thread because I forgot. Now there will be no TAs thread. ALL YOUR FAULT, BOBBY.

Raven wasn't very claustrophobic, but this place was making her feel uncomfortable. At least her shields were strong again, thanks to Anakin, so she felt more like herself than she had been for the past few days.

WELL WHY DID YOU FORGET? YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE FORGOTTEN. THE DOCTOR IS AN ELEPHANT.

After the Jhinka in Kaeleer? This was nothing. Still, Raven backed away from the mummy, attempting to reason with whatever force was controlling it. When that didn't work, she kept teleporting behind it to avoid its grasp.

You're just making it madder, Raven.

Helen Haras-Uquara

Helen shook her head and set off exploring, taking good care to keep a close eye out for the mummy.

Kitty Pryde

Bruce Wayne

Kitty maybe liked this class a tiny bit better when it was about like, sharks. After a bit of "Good mummy, why don't you just like let us all out of here with all our organs?" which totally did not work, Kitty had to take off running, keeping an eye out for anyone needed help because she was a do-gooder like that.

No kidding, my first thought was to do a drive by with Scooby and Shaggy helping Bruce out. Well played.

Peter Bishop

Bruce immediately ducked into a shadowy corner to observe his classmates for a moment. The mummy didn't seem to be especially fast, so he could pace himself by jogging. Knowing the Doctor, it was probably programmed to keep up regardless of how fast you went anyway to further the 'experience.' There was a chance there was a jewel to destroy or return to break the curse, but that didn't feel like the proper endgame.

Of course, he could just try to fight the mummy, but that seemed like sure failure and broke the spirit of the activity.

Just as Bruce was deciding that fleeing at a reasonable pace was the best way out, he heard a "Rrrraaaaaaaaaarrrr" from behind him. The chase was on.

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Let's face it, if anyone was going to show up, it's probably them!

Followed by Abbott & Costello.

Claudia Donovan

Maybe a daddy too.

Claudia ran. Aaaaaaaaaand almost immediately hit a dead end. She'd seen her old school horror movies, though, and rather than turning around to run back the way she'd come, she set about patting down the walls, looking for -- there we go, hidden door.

It was just, you know, underneath her.

She managed to take the time while falling through the suddenly opening trap door to call the Doctor a nasty name.

"Wait," Peter said, after a short run. He stopped. "If it's a mummy, shouldn't we be able to just... light him on fire and we're good? Aren't they highly flammable?"

Okay, I cannot get this line out of my head now:
"Kneel! Kneel before the might of Sutekh!"

Lindsay Weir

Bloody Osirians!

Normally, Lindsay would be excited to go exploring in an Egyptian pyramid. That was until she was told a possessed mummy wanted her organs. Running just seemed like the best option.

Christian

Christian was not a fool. He ran as fast as he could, scrambling past or around the assorted obstacles.

He would have liked time to explore, but it was not to be.

Kurt Wagner

Kurt tried picking up bits of rubble and things and hitting the mummy with them. That didn't seem to work.

He found some ceremonial weapons in a treasure chamber and tried those, but the mummy turned out to be, beyond all probability, impervious to cold bronze.

Fine, then.

He stood in front of a particularly solid-looking marble pillar and made faces at it. "COME AND GET ME!"

Clark Kent

Spock

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