The Doctor Arrives (again)

[thelastgallifreyan]

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?

Comments

[shirleyhopeful]

Yes, at least, I hope so. [She wasn't sure how to explain that back home, her people wanted to kill the Orerines off and she was the one to do it. Yeah, that's for another time]

But I think you're mistaken. I...think the people living here are a little bit different from the Ferines. I can't explain it but we're not really in charge of building this.

[thelastgallifreyan]

Oh... sorry. I just assumed... water people... underwater city...

[He intertwines his fingers as he puts his hands together and holds them in front of himself.]

Take a try. [At explaining, that is.]

[shirleyhopeful]

It's okay, I don't mind! I just don't want to take the credit for all the work they did!

[Shirley wasn't sure what he was trying to do but she's going to follow through]

Like this?

[thelastgallifreyan]

[He blinks a little... then laughs.

Taste of his own medicine!]

That's good, that's very good.

[He shakes a finger at her.]

I meant if you could try to explain what is going on down here in this lovely city if it isn't all Ferines and Orerines.

[shirleyhopeful]

Oh, how silly of me!

I don't know much about Vatheon but I do know it's controlled by a God of sorts here and that sometimes, it likes to create certain events because it's bored.

[thelastgallifreyan]

[Silly of her?! She's positively serious by comparison to the Doctor.]

A god?

[He looks a little skeptical.]

[shirleyhopeful]

Yes, they're the ones who bought you here.

[Uh...]

You don't have to believe me if you don't want to but um...

[thelastgallifreyan]

A bored god sounds a bit dangerous.

[He's been to many places where superstition has built up around powerful beings. None of them have been real 'gods'. Shirley seems like a nice girl though, and he's not going to argue.]

What kind of events are going on?

[Solving mysterious events created by gods is one of the top things on his hobby list.]

[shirleyhopeful]

It can be...

[Shirley isn't going to argue that Gods aren't real in some way but she'll keep her mouth shut]

But usually these events range from something really silly to something...really dangerous. It just depends on what he wants to do.

[thelastgallifreyan]

And you're okay with that?

[shirleyhopeful]

Well...it depends on what he wants to do really.

I'm not happy with it and I want to find an exit but...

[thelastgallifreyan]

So that's exactly what we'll do.

I can't have a giant coral controlling my life and keeping me prisoner. No matter how cool it is.

[shirleyhopeful]

Then...do you have any idea on what we should do right now?

[thelastgallifreyan]

Well... no. Not yet.

But I'm working on it! I just need to figure out what exactly is going on down here.

[He rubs his hands together in anticipation.]

[shirleyhopeful]

...It sounds like you're very excited about this kind of thing, Doctor...

[You know speaking of which]

I don't think I ever met a doctor like you before.

[thelastgallifreyan]

That's it. Just 'the Doctor'.

I do this kind of thing all the time. It's what I do.

[shirleyhopeful]

Sounds like it's quite an adventure...aren't there anything that you might be scared of? Or even worried?

[thelastgallifreyan]

Me?! Scared? Pfff. [He smiles and waves the question off. Perhaps a little too quickly and eagerly.]

Not when you've been through as much as I have.

[His casual attitude fades.]

Plenty to be worried about though.

[shirleyhopeful]

You never know, there's some things that might scare someone! I haven't seen as much as you have but I know that seeing spiders can get me a little scared!

[hur hur hur]

What do you mean?

[thelastgallifreyan]

[Her mention of spiders does seem to trigger a memory and adverse reaction.]

Ehhh, spiders. I was killed by a giant spider once. Not directly, of course. It was the radiation from the crystal web she had made. Couldn't just let it destroy everything. Come to think of it, there was another giant spider humanoid that tried to destroy Earth.

[He frowns and then looks at her.]

Probably a good idea to be scared of them.

When I say worry, there are plenty of things to worry about. Like the destruction of planets, for instance.

[shirleyhopeful]

Giant...spider...humanoid that tried to destroy the Earth. [...what] That's...certainly a creative way in trying to destroy something.

[With the mention of the destruction of planets, there was a noticeable shift from Shirley]

I don't know much about them but I know that time does stop in different worlds when you're here. So I don't think there's much to worry about? [hopefully]

[thelastgallifreyan]

[He could spend the next hour or so explaining the details, but seeing Shirley's reaction - he holds his tongue.

Instead, he brightens.]

You're right. Plenty of time for that sort of thing later.

[shirleyhopeful]

[blink blink]

Then...I guess the important thing right now is to find an exit here... [And yet...]

Do you have any idea on how?

[thelastgallifreyan]

I've only just arrived! [He sounds a bit defensive but he soon smiles.]

I've got a few ideas. The first is to figure out how we're being kept here. If it's the coral, then it needs power. If we can disrupt the power - maybe we can escape.

Of course, doing it wrong could cause the bubble to collapse, prevent anyway of us from getting sent back, and we would all die horrible watery deaths.

[He has a wry grin.]

Still a few kinks to work out.

[needsmoregreen]

[...]

You're pretty cheerful over the bubble collapsing...I don't I met someone like that before. [Well, maybe Norma]

But I suppose if we find the power, it could be something. The problem is that the coral seems to do some things that would prevent us from doing that.