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Advanced Survivalism, Friday, Period 1

It was another Danger Shop day in Batman's class, which was probably the first sign that he had something crazy planned. Well, second sign. The first was that he was the goddamn Batman. Still, you were entirely within your rights to be concerned when the shop appeared to be the interior of a cargo plane with a row of seats along either side of the plane. Above him was a sign that said, simply, "No pets."

"Have a seat for a moment," Batman said, standing at the front of the cabin as the students filed in. Once the class was ready, he began. "FAA regulations require flight attendants on a commercial flight to walk you through a safety routine. A loss of cabin pressure will drop oxygen masks from the ceiling. In case of a water landing, use your seat cushion as a floatation device. These instructions do not go far enough."

"What if your pilots are unable to continue the flight? Whether they've succumbed to food poisoning, snake venom, or a plot to kill you and have fled the plane, they are no longer in the picture," Batman said. "The plane itself should be fine maintaining a level flight path to give you time to act... Unless you hit turbulence." On cue, the plane started to shake. "And eventually the plane will need to land, one way or another."

"Your goal today is to get out of this plane safely," Batman announced. "And even more importantly, to help everyone else out as well. If you look out the window, you'll see that we're flying above the ocean, but there is a nearby island offering some hope. The reason we're in a cargo plane is to give you options. There are nearly enough parachutes for everyone back here, but you still have the pilot and copilot, unconscious in the cockpit to worry about. There is an inflatable raft that will not survive a fall without some ingenuity. You have twenty minutes to make it off the plane before it crashes." And then Batman took a seat. Get going, kids!

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Traveling, through the air if possible.

Korra

Gertrude Yorkes

Liara T'Soni

Emily Thorne

William Murdoch ~~whose player regrets not having icons of that episode with the plane, now, damnit~~

Marasiah Fel

Karina Lyle

Alexandra Jones

Alex Aaron

Hope nobody gets airsick!

Alex decided this was definitely her most insane class. Already they were to jump out of planes? Though, she supposed, it was a good survival skill to have?

Where we start. There are nearly enough parachutes for everyone. Nearly. Once you include the pilot and co-pilot, you're three parachutes short, so even if you abandon them to their fate, somebody is still missing out. There is also an inflatable raft, like in Temple of Doom. The physics to that stunt were sketchy, but maybe if you had a way to slow the raft's descent.... There is both a man door on either side of the plane and a mechanical cargo door. You are flying low enough to keep from bad things happening when you open one of the doors, but high enough to safely parachute.

You can use anything you find in the plane to aid your escape. If ripping the seats off of the wall will help you somehow, have at it. Just remember that this is a pretty bare bones cargo plane and you are the cargo.

Powers and teamwork are allowed as always, even if Batman didn't mention it.

~~Kim~~ Gert began by sending a quick tweet. If she was going to die, her tweeps needed to know who was responsible, okay?

Then, after a quick reapplication of her lip gloss and an examination of the result in a compact mirror, she promptly began shoving her way to the parachutes. At which point she claimed two. That's right. Two parachutes.

"Excuse me?" she demanded, waving one arm. "Like, how do I put these on?"

Batman stalked over and pointed at the diagram on the wall next to the parachutes. "Instructions," he growled. He did not look happy for some reason. Don't worry, it probably had nothing to do with her choosing to use two parachutes. Probably.

... Okay, it was almost definitely that. But he was giving her a chance to reconsider her options.

"Yeah, those pictures make zero sense," she huffed. "Can't you just explain it to me?"

Otherwise she was just going to start pulling on things. Oh, wait, she was already doing that.

"Where's the zipper?"

Batman grabbed another parachute to show Gert how buckles worked, then he dropped it back into the pile.

He didn't say a word.

"Ohhh." Thank you, Batman. "Okay, could you, like, do that to these two?" she asked, thrusting out one parachute in his direction before waving one hand in his face to explain why she couldn't do it herself. "Nails."

"Do it yourself or find a classmate to help you," Batman ordered. "And really think about what you're doing."

Gert glanced toward the rest of the students, then sighed. "Fine, I'll figure it out by myself," she groaned dramatically, and she delicately slipped one parachute pack over one shoulder and the other one over the other.

Then she got a text, so she shifted her attention to that. Because it was an important text. It was about Justin Bieber's monkey.

The pilot and copilot are passed out at the controls. They are alive, but unresponsive. You can (and probably should) try to save them. If anyone wants to try flying the plane, they will be able to stabilize it for a while before the wiring shorts out in fifteen minutes (with the last five leading to the plane's rapid descent and ocean crash). So, no real hope of landing it safely, even if you have flight experience.

Don't worry, these are not shark-infested waters. This is safe harbor (not an actual harbor). As long as you left the plane in a manner that would not definitely kill you, you will immediately appear standing on the water after leaving the plane, which should remind you that this is all fake. If you didn't leave the plane before the 20 minutes were up or did so in a way that would surely kill you, you get a little sign to wear around your neck that says, "Dead."

Meet up after the scenario and bond over the experience. Or complain about the psycho teacher. Or get yelled at for endangering everyone.

It turned out to be a good thing that Gert had taken two parachutes, because she totally lost one on the way down.

Anyway, she lived! But it wasn't all good things, because--

"I broke a nail!"

Yep.

"You purposefully sacrificed the life of a classmate," Batman shouted, coming out of nowhere. "You had every opportunity to put down one of your parachutes and you did nothing."

"Whatever, it's not like it's, like, real, right?"

Look at her nail, Batman! That was the bigger issue!

"Detention. No arguments," Batman declared.

"Yeah, right!" Gert objected. "Like you can make me go to that. My dad gives a ton of money to this school."

Noooope.

"If you don't come to detention, I'll make sure detention comes to you," Batman threatened.

She sighed dramatically. "Whatever."

Was that a yes? Was it a no? Did it matter?

Not really. She was going.

Edited 2013-06-01 15:04 (UTC)

Who works for a version of this guy. BY CHOICE.

Because Stephanie ~~who was not actually in her Robin costume during class~~ was arguably out of her mind, that was why.

She looked a little pensive today, having just thought about (not remembered, since that would imply she'd ever forgotten in the first place) how the incident that landed her in Fandom involved her disobeying orders and not jumping out of the Batplane. Kind of worked out in the end. Go figure!

If he doesn't talk back, he'll at least glare, which is still a response!

Thanks, random early wakeup! You make up for the fact that I fell asleep too early to get class written last night. And you also allow me the joy of trying to squeeze another hour or two of sleep out before I have to go to work. Bleh.

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