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There's all sorts. I'm sure you'll be able to find something you like.

Where in America are you visiting?

~Neshomeh

The console beeps louder. You check the fic -- a Doctor Who fic slashing Susan Foreman with Jenny.

Wait for your partner to return.
Go in now to get the fic over with.
Scream at the Flowers.

Well, maybe there's a party going on down at the cafeteria, or something. Anyway, it's a good chance to get some peace and quiet for a change. You settle down with a good book, and get reading.

Several minutes later, the silence is broken by a piercing, terror-filled scream echoing down the corridor. You jump to your feet - what was that?

What do you do?

-Leave your RC and run towards the scream to find out who made it, and why.
-Close the door and hide. Everybody knows what happens to people who go and investigate strange noises.
-Call a Flower and try to figure out what the heck's going on.

You turn back, looking for the empty RC where you heard the BEEP. Since you are still relatively new at the PPC, you make the mistake of trying to retrace the way you took.

This, of course, takes you back to your own RC.

How convenient.

But wait... it's empty too! Where's your partner? What is going on here?


What do you do?

-Sit down and wait for something to happen.
-Check to see if anyone's in the RC next door.
- Call a Flower. Something's wrong.

*sniffle*

Well, have fun.

... but I just can't bring myself to drink tea. Any kind - black, green, white, herbal, fruit, whatever. No thanks.

Or coffee. Makes my consciousness-rollercoaster even worse. And I only have hot chocolate at night, because if I was to drink it during the day I'd never stop and I should really ease up my sugar consumption.

What this means is that I drink water, fruit juice, and vast, VAST quantities of instant soup. I mean, vast. I have three boxes of it sitting beside me right now that my sister purchased for me to take to university next week, and I guarantee you they'll all be gone by Wednesday.

Hmm. People who live in America - will I be able to get instant soup there when I go there in a week's time?

that Kirk should have been castrated for galactic security?

... Spock has to do things, uh, methodically ...

Look, it's not my fault, I'm a Kirk/Bones girl all the way, but Pads wanted a Kirk/Spock story, and I took it so far and then she took over and it's turned into another one of our cowrites of Doom ...

I'm not sure which is the worst. The egg puns I'm writing for Chapter Fifty, the Night of the Living Bread parody, that tentacle sex you said I should attempt to write, or my Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Teletubbies crossover.

Though if it 'creeps' to soap opera levels, I smack it back down with a vengeance. In fact, given that my Pokémon series is growing rapidly darker, I've decided that, to counteract it, every fifty or so chapters, I'll have a completely off the wall chapter. The first one will have far, far, far too many egg jokes because of this guy: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Exeggcute

It just creeps in, doesn't it.

All of my stories barring my Night of the Living Bread parody series have an angst aspect in them at some point. It's kinda annoying sometimes.

a completely wacko romance story between him and his commanding officer, I'm thinking hetero so that there's a "will any children have it or not" aspect. 'cause angst, why not?

So I say go the angst!

Well in that case you've got the luxury of deciding whether it would be better for the plot of your story for him to be a hetero- or homozygote :D

agenttrojie.livejournal.com?

And yeah, I just found that article. Here's the character I'm writing about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofcharactersinMassEffect#Jeff.22Joker.22_Moreau

He's only got Vrolik's syndrome in his legs (and I have no idea if he's hetero or homozygote). In the ME universe, it's possible to treat, but not cure Vrolik's.

Which if I remember my genetics correctly suggests to me that heterozygotes (people with one copy of the gene) will display the syndrome.

Which means that if one parent is a heterozygote and one parent is a non-sufferer, their children have a fifty fifty chance of having it. If one parent is a homozygote (has two copies of the gene) then all their children will have it.

Wiki seems to have a very comprehensive article on the subject here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteogenesis_imperfecta which should probably all be taken with a pinch of salt, but if you want any biological terms explicated and wiki doesn't have a nice link to a page for them, feel free to PM me on LJ. You have my LJ, right?

The main thing being, is it hereditary after it appears? Will any children (if they can even have children) have it?

And could bring myself up to speed with little trouble. Why?