vatheon | The Doctor Arrives (again)

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The Doctor Arrives (again)

Who: The Doctor and You
Where: Standard Plaza Drop
When: Late Morning, just before Noon, November 24th
Style: Brackets preferred but I'll match
Status: OPEN

[A rather damp man in a tweed dress jacket and red bow-tie suddenly appears in the plaza next to the corral.

He spins around quickly, observing and taking in the scene before him in a rush of information.

He runs his hand through his hair nervously only to discover that it is wet.]

I'm wet. [He brings his hand down from his head and inspects it. Sniffs it. Then tastes it.]

Correction. [He looks down at the rest of himself and flaps his jacket out a few times as if to get rid of the excess liquid. He begins to straighten his bow-tie.] I'm soaked... [There is a pause.] with salt-water.

And I'm inside a bubble under an ocean next to an enormous piece of coral.

Ooookay. [He claps his hands together and tilts his head to one side and then the other.]

No TARDIS in sight. [He checks his pockets.] Sonic accounted for, that's good. [He removes his sonic screwdriver and takes a reading. There is a green light and an electric buzzing noise for a few seconds. It turns off and he flips the device up to his eyes to inspect the data.]

Well I haven't mis-aimed. There is certainly something odd about this place.

[He places the sonic screwdriver back in his waterlogged pocket.]

So here's a question. [He continues to talk to himself and walks in a semi-circle around the coral.]

Why does this feel oddly familiar?

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[Hello Doctor, meet Ed. The gangly teenage girl(?) is hanging upside down from a nearby pole. She watches the new arrival with a smile. He seemed very fun! At the base of the pole is a sleeping Welsh Corgi that is currently lounging on what appears to be a computer of some variety.]

Navy blue, deja vu. That is what happens when Ed does something she thinks she already did.

[The Doctor turns, not seeing anyone except the dog at eye level. He tilts his head. Talking dogs would be new.

A bit of movement draws his attention higher. Ah. That's more like it.]

Hello! [The Doctor approaches closer to Ed's hanging place, looking up at her.]

That's some impressive acrobatics.

[She flashes a big goofy grin at him]

Thank you. Ed was bored so she went climbing.

[She drops down, landing carefully next to the sleeping dog.]

Wet. Wet. You are wet, are you new? They are always wet when the are new.

I think I am. Still trying to sort that bit out. [How could he not smile back with a grin like that?]

I take it there are a lot of people that just show up like this?

[He grabs a nearby towel.]

[She nods, enthusiastically.]

Oh yes, yes!

New people all the time. Always come in wet, it's the seawater. Edward did too, seven or so weeks ago.

This is the bubble city, It is called Vatheon. There should be a pamphlet for newcomers. Oh, and a little starfish-shaped communicator. It is yours while you are here.

[He laughs.]

You're very helpful! [A midst the drying, he pats his pockets to find the communicator. Once found, he pulls it out and inspects it.]

Splendid. [As he opens it to see what it does, he continues the conversation.]

I take it you are Edward?

Yes! Edward is me. Her full name: Edward Wong Hau Pepilu Tivrusky the Forth. Ed made it up!

[She nods sagely.]

The new person is fun. Ed is glad she got to meet him!

There will also be a tattoo. It gets you free stuff. Mostly.

[She holds up her right arm, there on her forearm is the mark placed on the visitors to Vatheon.]

Just show it to the natives and they give you stuff.

[The Doctor smiles, putting away his SFC.

He shakes a finger at her.]

That is an excellent name.

Do you know what? I made up my own name too. Well, kind of. It's a looong story.

[He begins looking for his tattoo and finds it rather quickly on his forearm.]

What kind of stuff do we get? Food, water? Things like that?

Oh! Edward likes stories! Especially for the new wet-person, especially-especially if it involves his name. Especially times three if he made up his name, like Ed.

[Edward then nods in response to his question.]

Yessie-yes! Food, Water, housing. Everything is free for the visiting people; Well, Mostly.

There are special stores in one of the sections of the bubble-place. It is called the Nostalgia Nook, yep yep. It has goods from all the different places we were taken from, but it costs starfish tokens. Those you have to earn.

You like stories hmm?

[The Doctor smiles and puts down his shirt sleeve.]

Once upon a time there was a planet, far, far, far, away from here. It was one of the most beautiful planets that you could ever see. And on that planet, lived a race of people that could control time.

[Done. Sold. He had her rapt attention.]

Really, truly? They controlled time?

Yes, they could!

Their ability to harness that power made them grow strong and powerful. They built elaborate cities that gleamed in the sun. Their's was a civilization unmatched in technology or beauty. They could bend the very nature of the universe to their wishes.

Shiny! Edward wants to see the gleamy cities! She will take the Ein-Person with her.

[He smiles a little. He just might take them - if it were possible.]

All that power grew into arrogance and complacency. They felt as though they were the over-seers of all other races, their primary directive to control and thereby protect time. They sat back, letting some races and planets die before their eyes when they could have prevented it. Their policy was to not interfere.

A few of these lords of time weren't happy to simply sit back and watch the universe turn around them. They wanted to go out and experience it, so they left.

No one is free from enemies and the more powerful you are - the more enemies you usually have.

Some grew jealous of the power these people had or angry that they did not do more to help. Others wanted that power for their own.

I said that their policy was not to interfere, but in truth they did. Only when something threatened their position would they act. They destroyed races and hampered others.

Eventually there was a war. A time war.

[She nods along as she listens to him speak. The curious young girl seems to keep moving during the story. Either bobbing up and down, or rocking back and forth. It was quite a feat that she was not walking around the area nearby.]

Oh! A war of time? Between the bad timey-people and the good timey-people? How is a war of time fought? Like the normal kind but on a broader scale? Or is it different then what Ed thinks?

[Though his story had caused him to grow more serious, at Ed's questioning - he smiles. It's rare that he gets to chat with someone as curious and enthusiastic as he is sometimes.]

Yes. A war between the bad timey-people and the good timey-people. It's a bit difficult to explain.

It's like a normal kind of war, but involved entire races. It's a war where time is used as a weapon.

Time as a weapon?

[She thinks for a second, then thinks she has it. Totally.]

Oh like...

[She puts her hand up imitating a handgun.]

Hour! Hour! Hour!

[She brings up her other hand and mimes a machine gun.]

Day Day Day Day Day Day! Day Day Day Day Day Day!

[Finally she raises her right hand up and gestures a dropping of a bomb into her left.]

WWWWWEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkk. Ka-MONTH!

[He laughs.]

Not exactly like that.

Think of it like trapping your enemies into repeating actions over and over with no way to escape - a time loop.

Or destroying them before they exist, intentional temporal paradoxes designed to unravel causality.

[He not quite sure if Ed will get the last one, but he decides to try anyway.]

[Ed laughs in response as well. As unlikely that scenario was, it was fun to mimic.]

The time-people must be really powerful to be able to manipulate time like that, yes yes yes!

[Ed can surprise someone. She is a lot smarter then she initially seems. Her crazy demeanor usually makes most people overlook her.

Edward does not know much about time travel, herself, just mostly stories and stuff. The thought of erasing someone before they can exist hurts Ed's head. Would others remember they existed, or would everyone forget? If everyone forgets would the person who erased them remember? Then if they forgot, how did the person get erased in the first place. Thoughts of time travel make Ed have so many questions.

Ed does not think she could understand. It seems like a lot to take in. The timey-people must be reaaaally smart.

They are pretty smart. Of course, they had a lot of time to get that way.

They also asked a lot of questions, good questions, like yours. I could answer them if you like.

YES!

[Questions Edward has by the bushel. Her curiosity is one of her strongest instincts.]

Though...

Ed wants to hear the rest of the story first. Who won? The good timey-people; or the bad ones? Or both? Can that happen in a war with time? Oh, or maybe they both lost...

[That's when Ed remembers its best to let the storyteller tell their own story.]

[It's her curiosity and energy that has the Doctor almost constantly smiling while talking to her.]

You remind me of me. If I were a lot younger.

[Scatter-brained awkward geniuses unite!]

Let's see, where were we? Yes - that's right. The Time War.

[He clears his throat and his mood becomes less light-hearted.]

The war became worse as it progressed. It grew in size and violence. Monsters and crimes that were speakable were unleashed by both sides to destroy each other. It became so dangerous that the entire universe was at risk of being destroyed.

There could be no winner. Only survivors. The war had to be removed from existence in order to save all other life that existed.

No one really knows how it was stopped, but the end result was clear. The once beautiful planet, as well as all of its people who could control time, were gone. Erased from the universe along with all the others who had been fighting.

The war had been stopped and the universe had been spared, but not without sacrifice.

[They should form quirky geniuses anonymous. I can think of a few others that could join.]

[And then it was back to story time, her smile still ever-present as she listens.]

So the timey-people, and the gleamy place are gone? Since they were erased, did they never exist at all? Or maybe more like they are now in a different universe? It is a sad thought, yes it is, but at least the universe exists! Edward likes the universe, it has everything Ed likes in it.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

And yes, sadly, the gleamy place no longer exists in reality. There are parallel universes, and they may exist in some form in those places. Those are almost impossible to get to though, so for practical purposes that doesn't count.

The memory of them lives on, but in time it will fade and be forgotten. Perhaps it's for the best.

Maybe it is the best, yes.

It is sad that it is gone, but there are lotsa other places that gleam! Like the cities of mars, or the water on Earth. Bebop can also gleam in the sun, or at least the windows can.

Maybe, if you see a lot of things that are a little gleamy, it would almost be like seeing the gleamy place!

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