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[it_was_the_best]

[The Doctor flips on his communicator. It's dim, and he's looking rather unsettled.]

Hello, from the Archives. I've been told there's monsters in the fog. The red spaces on our maps. If I say Vashda Narada, does that ring a bell for anyone?

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[wordsoul]

... Aah. It wouldn't be surprising.

There's been a lot of talk about monsters since I got here. [ he scratches his chin, hmm-ing under his breath. ]

... Speaking from what I've seen, though, there haven't been any dead bodies to match your description. [ it'll be nice if it stays like that, he supposes, but with the spread of the zones through the green... ]

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[it_was_the_best]

Oh well, that's good. [The Doctor nods, and amends his statement.]

The lack of bodies. There's not much that can be done tofight Vashda Narada. I have but that was special circumstances. What have you heard about the monsters here?

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[wordsoul]

[ what has he heard. kubota smiles congenially, moves to pop a cigarette in his mouth and light it, organising his thoughts.

... funny. it seems like things burn slower than they used to, these days. his pack of seven stars is still half full. ]

About that, I haven't encountered them as much as some of the old-timers. But dealing with things like that isn't a new occurrence, it seems.

The one I shot had a tough hide. [ he smiles lazily, gives a kind of pseudo-gun shape with one hand, perpendicular to the screen. ] It's not nice, but I had to shoot it through the eye, in the end. They won't let you avoid them entirely, when they come like that.

... I don't know whether it'll be the same kind next time. That may not be much help.

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[it_was_the_best]

[The Doctor makes a face. He's not fond of guns.]

What did the one you shot look like?

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[wordsoul]

[ kubota doesn't miss that. it's not a surprising expression, considering what toting a gun around might imply of him, but it doesn't seem to faze him an awful lot. his pleasant smile remains, but he does politely re-cross his arms. ]

Well, it's been some time, and my memory isn't what it used to be... [ he taps ash off his cigarette, grinning. he can't be older than 20. ] It was humanoid, with bestial features. Larger than a human, with carnivorous teeth. It had small eyes and probably used scent to locate me.

... Ahh, it wasn't very fun; I wasted a lot of bullets. I've heard there were other kinds, but I didn't run into them.

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[it_was_the_best]

[Well, the Doctor looks like he's in his 20s and he is most definitely not. He's not making assumptions about age at the moment.]

Hmmm. That could be any number of species. Some of them quite nice, on the whole. Thank you for the information, though.

[Is that the Doctor being at his politest, in his own way? Why yes he is.]

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[wordsoul]

[ any number of species?... kubota puts his cigarette between his fingers and moves to rest his cheek in his palm, looking steadily at the fansuwoth, searching the man's face from behind his black lashes. ]

Sorry to pry. But you make this sound normal.

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[it_was_the_best]

It's a big cosmos, full of ridiculous, complicated, and sometimes frightening things. I've made an effort to see some of it. The thing that's not normal for me is that I didn't intend to come here.

[Well, part of that's a gigantic lie. He ends up places he didn't mean to all the time. He's a terrible driver and his ship has Moods. On second thought, he amends sightly.]

I didn't come here in my ship, to the best of my memory.