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Bart Allen | Impulse (killerspeed) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-09-18 00:30:00

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:mingle, aradia megido, bart allen, geordi la forge, matt donovan, miranda lotto, number one, yvaine

[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?

[OOC: Yet another mingle! These are not all the questions - feel free to make some more up if you desire. Also, the questions and lab demonstrations are merely suggestions; if there is another topic that would fit well for you, make it a reality. Today is a day of learning ~~about the horror stories that come with messing with the 4th Dimension~~, after all.]

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	first_xo 2013-09-25 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	It may, in fact, be possible; however, I find it an unlikely prospect. [It's not that she means to start a rebellion, she just has Strong Feelings about keeping people in captivity like this. And besides, she has a ship to get back to!] I must admit, I find it somewhat surprising that attempts to escape are not more common, in spite of the obvious difficulties. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

killerspeed
2013-09-26 12:01 am UTC (link)

You've noticed how nice this place is. People try to escape initially, but the security's too good for most of us to crack initially. [Bart would know: his powers haven't worked when it came to vibrating through private Warden buildings.]

That, and compared to the other underwater prisons around here, Marina's not as bad as it could be. [If he has to go back to Squall again, it will be way too soon.]

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	first_xo 2013-09-26 09:21 am UTC (link)
	A comfortable prison is still a prison. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerspeed 2013-09-28 01:04 am UTC (link)
	I don't doubt that. I'd like my freedom back - I just don't know where I'd start rebelling against the system. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	first_xo 2013-09-29 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	It is... an impressive system. But there is a value to persistence. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerspeed 2013-10-01 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	Slow and steady wins the race, right? ... Something like that. [That's what all slow people tell him. Bart doesn't exactly think there's merit in the idea. Yet.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	first_xo 2013-10-02 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	[She smiles, very faintly, but with confidence.] Precisely. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerspeed 2013-10-06 02:27 am UTC (link)
	[He grins back at her.] Awesome. My name's Bart, by the way. I don't think I've seen you around before. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	first_xo 2013-10-06 11:33 am UTC (link)
	Lieutenant Robbins, of the Enterprise. [No one call her by her first name. Most of her crew probably forgets she has one.] I arrived on day Two-Thirty-One. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerspeed 2013-10-08 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	[Wait, she's a Lieutenant? Should he salute? What happens if he doesn't pay her the proper respect she deserves?? Bart salutes haphazardly.] Oh. Hey, Lieutenant. I've been here since... day 215? Something like that. Not that much longer than you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	first_xo 2013-10-09 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	[He's a civilian, she wouldn't hold it against him. But she's a bit charmed by the attempt, winning him a faint smile.] You seem to have acclimated fairly well in that time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerspeed 2013-10-09 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	I guess so, yeah. [He keeps the salute in place. If there's one thing Bart knows about military protocol, it's that you don't let go until they say 'at ease.'] It helps that even though it's a prison, it's still pretty similar to my world. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	first_xo 2013-10-10 10:46 am UTC (link)
	You don't need to salute, [she says, not unkindly, still faintly amused. She isn't laughing but if she were it would be with you, not at you.] While I mistrust their stated aims of rehabilitation, I'll admit I am... Surprised, at how normal routines seem to have formed in this setting. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerspeed 2013-10-11 01:39 am UTC (link)
	[He relaxes, the relief as plain as day on his face.] You are? I'm not, really. This place gives us so little control that when we can do stuff for ourselves, people jump up at the chance. Routines make it feel more like home, I think. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	first_xo 2013-10-12 10:49 pm UTC (link)
	I would expect routines from a prison; but given their reach, their unwillingness to consider extenuating circumstances, and their insistence on superseding the legal systems of other dimensions, it surprises me that the Wardens are apparently concerned with our relative comfort. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	killerspeed 2013-10-16 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	Which is why a lot of people think it's a reality show. All we're missing are the hidden cameras. [The comm devices have cameras, and he's sure some sectors do, but there's gotta be more lurking around for the 'reality show' theory to fly.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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