Life on Mars

[itsallovernow]

Okay, thanks to cofax7 for the link: Go to Mars on Virgin!!!

So, because this gave me such utter glee, I propose a fill in the blank/choose your own adventure writing challenge based on Question 11:

If I were to find myself a passenger on a long-haul, multi-generational voyage to a distant solar system, and deteriorating on-ship ecological conditions, steadily weakening community stability and ever-rising number of missing backgammon pieces led some colonists to revolt against the ship's government, I would:


C'mon, folks! Fill in the blanks!!

Comments

[rydra_wong]

It makes me so sad that the Google thing is an April Fool's.

I comfort myself with the thought that I'm holding out for aerostat colonization of Venus anyway. Actually possibly more feasible!

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

It makes me so sad that the Google thing is an April Fool's.

Me too. I am genuinely excited about something like that! Alas.

[cofax7]

I told google that I would hide in the infirmary until it was over.

In fact, I would make more backgammon pieces! And teach people to play tiddly-winks with the extras!

[vee-fic.livejournal.com]

This is exactly what I was going to say! How can you possibly be smart enough for the Snazzy Science Fair in the Sky if you can't come up with a way to make more Backgammon pieces! They don't even have to look different from each other the way chess pieces do, and you can lpay checkers with them.

[serrana.livejournal.com]

You make the backgammon pieces from the bones of your foes.

(What? It solves both the boardgame and political unrest problems -- and may also present a way of coping with food shortages. Soylent Green is tasty. Mmm.)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Wonder why they couldn't use extra screws to make more pieces for backgammon? Actually, I don't play backgammon, so I probably wouldn't care too much. I would probably sleep soundly in my cryo-chamber and hope that when I woke up they had already finished engineering the dragons.