The Kludge's Guide to the Universe | Dangershop, Wednesday Afternoon (Week 2)

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Wednesday afternoon once again found Harper in the dangershop, with his feet up and a can of Sparky.

After the class had signed in and found places to sit or lean, Harper stood up. "All right, last week we studied team-building. Today comes the important collaterally to team building, a little thing I like to call threat recognition."

"Now you don't want any team you might build to be made of people who'll throw you to the Magog the first chance they get. Unfortunately, in this big, bad, universe, people don't go around wearing signs proclaiming their back-stabbing abilities. In fact they'll go to great lengths to hide it until they can take advantage of you. For example the hot babe charmed by your wit might really be a phase-shifting, tesseracting, servant of evil, or your ship's avatar's slimy new robot boyfriend might really be a psychotic High Guard warship, intent on wiping out all spacefaring life from the universe." Harper did not sound the least bit bitter of those two examples. Really.

"Clearly, if you want to survive, and not end up dead or worse, you have to find a way to uncover the level of threat someone poses to you," Harper said. "Which brings me to the lesson."

Harper fiddled with his remote and three people appeared at the front of the room.

The first was a furry, batfaced creature, with nasty sharp pointy teeth and large claws, dressed in a robe.

The second was a tall, muscular man with a stern expression, laden with weapons. An astute observer would have notice three nasty looking bone spurs sticking out of each forearm.

The third was…purple. And bouncy. With a forked tail.



"These are Rev, Tyr, and Trace," Harper said, pointing at each in turn. "Your job today is to determine who exactly out of these three is the most dangerous, and why."

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Comments

Re: Q&A (Kludge - Wk2)

[janet_fraiser]

"Gardening for food, or decorative plants?" asked Janet. "I tried growing tomatoes one summer, and it was a disaster. Were you usually taken along on expeditions, or did they leave you behind to watch the ship?"

Re: Q&A (Kludge - Wk2)

[theharperisgood.livejournal.com]

"Both, plus they help with the life support systems," Trance said. "Some missions I go along, some I stay behind it all depends on what the A story mission is."

Re: Q&A (Kludge - Wk2)

[janet_fraiser]

"Yes, I imagine they would," said Janet. "What sorts of missions do they take you on? It sounds like you tend towards a more preservative, rather than destructive, role."

Re: Q&A (Kludge - Wk2)

[theharperisgood.livejournal.com]

"Well, there was that goodwill mission Harper and I went on that one time, distributing samples of a temporarily extinct plant."

Re: Q&A (Kludge - Wk2)

[janet_fraiser]

"If there were samples of the plant elsewhere, then it wasn't extinct, was it?" asked Janet. "It was simply extinct in the area you went distributing samples to, right? And that sounds like an interesting mission. Where did you go?"

Re: Q&A (Kludge - Wk2)

[theharperisgood.livejournal.com]

"Actually it was extinct in the galaxy at large, the only surviving samples were trapped in the event horizion of blackhole for three hundred years."

Re: Q&A (Kludge - Wk2)

[janet_fraiser]

"Ah, I see," said Janet, nodding knowingly. "That sort of situation can just mess with standard definitions, not to mention the laws of physics as we understand them."

Re: Q&A (Kludge - Wk2)

[theharperisgood.livejournal.com]

"Well, it also helped Harper figure out a method of matter teleportation," Trance said, then frowned. "Poor Walter."

Re: Q&A (Kludge - Wk2)

[janet_fraiser]

"Well, matter teleportation is a difficult sort of thing to figure out, from everything I can tell," said Janet. "It's not exactly my specialty. And, uh, my sympathies?"