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[Day 237] Time-Space Shenanigans Group Therapy Mingle
[Anyone summoned to Time-Space Shenanigans Group Therapy will wander down to the Education Center in Sector 2. Specifically, to a large physics lab, which has been outfitted for a day of scientific learning. The first table, near the entrance, has pastries, cookies, endless bowls of fruit, and jugs of lemonade, water, and various sodas. There are bots hovering around the table, as they know that one (or possibly more) of their guests has an endless appetite. Just ignore them - the bots are pretty much there to re-stock the food table.

The other lab tables each have a stack of cards, with instructions to get into pairs and answer them as honestly as possible, making sure to give everyone ample time to answer questions. The tables also have demonstrations for various physics experiments on each table, though they require 2-3 people to get started. Each lab table - except for the one with food - also has a small bowl of candy hidden inside each lab experiment. Although there is no music in the background, there is a soft 'tick-tock' from multiple clocks on each of the walls. Each clock, strangely enough, reads a different time than the one next to it. Not a single one of them is in sync, despite the harmonious tick-tock sounds coming from them.]

1) People watching lab demonstrations will note that each experiment relates to the Space-Time Continuum. One demonstration would be for Schroedinger's Cat, while another would explain Einstein's Theory of Relativity, while another would give the essentials for one of Stephen Hawking's theories. All demonstrations are explained in a concise, accessible format that anyone with a middle-school education could understand.

At the end of each lab demonstration, people are instructed to ask their partners what they thought of the demo - did it remind them of a law of physics they broke back home? Did it remind them of the last world they visited or the last year they time-traveled to? Perhaps it was a popular theory of an era they were incredibly fond of. Even if they don't feel like answering, each lab demonstration is eerily set-up as so to remind people of certain situations from their homeworld. If characters performed the lab sufficiently, the lab demonstration will open up to reveal a bowl of candy. (If characters failed the lab, they receive no candy.)

2) The stack of cards would include questions such as the following:

1. Explain the Time-Space Continuum to someone the best you can. What does it mean to you or your world?
2. We all know there is life on other planets. How would you explain this phenomena to someone who has just arrived in MarinaNova?
3. Have you visited other worlds prior to arriving in MarinaNova? If so, what method of transportation did you use? Was that method legal in your world?
4. How do you perceive time and/or space? Is it a manmade invention or something innate?
5. If you are able to time-travel or visit other worlds through natural means (IE, your own superpowers), was that an acceptable practice in your world?
6. Have you broken any laws of physics governing your world? If so, how did you break them?
7. Have you indirectly experienced a broken time-stream (meeting a time-traveler, your children from the future, etc)? If so, how did you handle the experience? Were you proud of how you handled it?
8. If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would you change? Did you actually change it?
9. How would you prepare to travel through time or to visit another world? Do you perform any research or do you just wing it?
10. What was the strangest custom you encountered on your travels? Did you eventually learn to embrace the custom or do you still hate it to this day?
11. Have you ever encountered yourself in another world / another time? Were they the kind of person you wished you could have been? Or were they the exact opposite?
12. Have you ever accidentally insulted another alien race? If so, how did you make amends with them?
13. If you can time-travel, did you try to change history? If so, why?
14. Did your friends or family think your abilities were unnatural? How did you handle their reactions when they found out about your powers?
15. Your best friend has just admitted that she's a time-traveler or world traveler and broke several well-known rules on her last trip. What do you do?
16. Name a time (or place) where you felt especially proud of your being able to control your powers and/or method of transportation.
17. Do you ever get wanderlust? If so, how do you manage to curb it?
18. What advice would you give your past (or future) self? Do you have any regrets?