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

[theharperisgood.livejournal.com]

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."

[ooc: OCD threads coming are up! Post away!]
[Workshop Information]
[HARPER HAS LEFT THE BUILDING! There will be tags when I'm conscious again Back.]

Comments

Re: Q&A - Rev (Kludge - Wk2)

[janet_fraiser]

"I see," said Janet carefully. "And from what I can gather from your earlier discussions, the hosts do not survive the larvae's maturation. Why sentient species?"

Re: Q&A - Rev (Kludge - Wk2)

[theharperisgood.livejournal.com]

"Magog larva incorporate part of our hosts DNA," Rev replied. "Sentient hosts make for more intelligent Magog."

Re: Q&A - Rev (Kludge - Wk2)

[janet_fraiser]

Janet resisted the urge to take a step back. Hologram, remember? "Yes, I can see why a cow wouldn't work for your species' purposes," she said. "You said that you choose not to follow this path. Why not?"

Re: Q&A - Rev (Kludge - Wk2)

[theharperisgood.livejournal.com]

"Because I discovered the Way," Rev said. "And in it I percieved the chance to become something better than myself."

Re: Q&A - Rev (Kludge - Wk2)

[janet_fraiser]

"So you deliberately place yourself among sentient beings while ignoring biologically-driven urges to feed and reproduce?" asked Janet. Oh, boy.

Re: Q&A - Tyr (Kludge - Wk2)

[theharperisgood.livejournal.com]

"I do not claim it is easy," Rev replied. "But with the aid of the Divine I am able to persevere."

Re: Q&A - Tyr (Kludge - Wk2)

[janet_fraiser]

"I didn't say that you were making that claim," said Janet, frowning at the mention of the divine. Because it wasn't as if she had bad experiences with false gods time and again, nope. "Thank you for your explanations."

With that, she moved on to question the other two aliens.