vatheon | 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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[He grins and aims his sonic screw driver at a nearby towel. After a few seconds it ignites and a small flame licks up from a corner.]

Fire! It can start fires too??

[She peers out around him, curious.]

I've never ever seen anything like it before.

Useful for just about any situation.

[He aims it at the towel, and the flame goes out. He aims it back at the fountain and it returns to normal.]

I never leave the TARDIS without it. One of my best inventions.

You made it yourself? Oooh. My moirail likes inventing things too! But robots usually, nothing like this.

[She finally stops hiding behind him now that there's no chance of getting sprayed with water.]

What's a TARDIS?

It's spaceship. And a time machine. A time and space ship.

[He settles on the last description.]

It stands for time and relative dimension in space. Pretty cool right?

Very cool! Did you invent it too?? It sounds like a much cooler way of travelling through space than a meteor, definitely fur sure.

No, I just uh... borrowed it for a while.

[He tries to change the subject.]

You've traveled through space on a meteor?

Uh huh! We did! Well...sort of! It wasn't exactly space, it was the Veil, but I don't really know how else to describe it.

[He takes a few steps closer looking curious and repeats himself.]

You.

traveled through space.

on a meteor.

[He smiles.]

That's brilliant.

[Nepeta preens. She's very susceptible to praise!]

Heehee, yes, yes, I suppaws that it is! And on the meteor there was this great big labratory too!

That's even better! I'm a bit partial to poking around into laboratories.

In fact, one of the best dogs I ever had came from a laboratory on a meteor.

It was a very big laboratory too! I had lots of room for my drawings on the walls and we all made great big piles in all the corners of the rooms!

...there are barkbeasts in laboratories on meteors?! [She looks very unsure about this! Dogs and kittytrolls aren't exactly on the best of terms with each other.]

Sounds quite nice.

[He smiles.]

This one never barked. In fact, he never ate or... had to deal with the end process of eating. He was a robot.

[He sighs.]

I miss him sometimes.

It was!

[She beams back at him. Really, life on the meteor hadn't been all that bad, especially after sweeps of living on her own in her cave.]

Oh, oh, I know robots! My moirail builds them. One of them's a friend of mine! His name is Roboequius and we play lots together. I brighten him up with lots of stickers and paint too...but Equius always scrape them off for him afterwards. That's okay, though, it means we can just start all over again the next time.

I gave mine a collar. [He chuckles.] Nothing so fancy as you and your decorations for... Roboequis was it?

I have to admit, I'm not quite sure what a moirail is either.

That's right! I don't think Roboequius would like a collar though. Maybe a harness! He likes ponies a lot.

A moirail is like, hmmmm, let's see...a soulmate? Someone you trust forever and who'll always look after you and you'll always look after them and keep them safe and stop them from doing things they shouldn't. They're your bestest friend ever!

Moirail. [He repeats the word to himself and smiles softly.]

I like the sound of that.

[Nepeta giggles and beams him a wide, toothy grin. Anyone who approves of moirails is good in her book!]

Moirails are the most awesome thing ever, oh yes.

I don't think we've properly met.

I'm the Doctor.

[He holds out his hand.]

It's very nice to meet you, Mister Doctor!

[She takes his hand in her small blue-gloved one, shaking it vigorously.]

I'm Nepeta!

A pleasure to meet you Nepeta.

[He returns the shake just as energetically.]

So I gather that you were taken from your lab and plopped down here in this underwater city, much like I have been.

...not purrcisely.

[Her cheerful demeanor seems to take a hit at his question.]

I died in the lab, and then I was brought here to Vatheon.

[The Doctor looks stunned for a moment then a little apologetic. Clearly the topic isn't her favorite, but his curiosity wins out.]

I'm not sure I quite understand.

This place brings you back to life if you die. A lot of my friends here died back home and I thought I'd never see them again...

Well that's just excellent!

[He looks cheery and his voice remains enthusiastic despite what he may be thinking about bringing people back to life.]

Just excellent. I suppose that makes this Vatheon place quite special to you.

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