[Video: Filtered to Narvin and the Seventh Doctor]

[der_umgekehrte]

[One day Stildyne will post publically. That day is not today.

ETA: All threads are filtered unless otherwise labeled]

Doctor.

Narvin. If you're feeling yourself.

Look, I need a hand with something. Time Lord protocol and culture. Only if it's rude to even ask, try to remember I'm only Fleet. We're ignorant.

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[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin's just going to pretend that that port conversation didn't happen.]

What can I help you with, Mr. Stildyne?

[der_umgekehrte]

Coordinator. [And that title-as-greeting is as much 'good to see you back to yourself' as Stildyne is going to make the man deal with.]

It's about the Lord President and his lover.

I've hit some kind of Time Lord cultural landmine. I'm not sure what. I'm hoping you or the Doctor can shed some light. Not the first time I've run afoul of a taboo I wasn't aware of. First time I've got no idea where the misstep was, though.

My conversation with the Lord President's a matter of public record. Honestly not sure why this happened.

[He shows him this conversation with Omega.]

Came to you because you're patient enough to work me through it. I'm hoping. [And because Narvin's lover isn't Stildyne's inmate, though probably better not to mention considering the tension that exists there.]

Of course don't show it about if it's sensitive. Other Time Lords should be all right.

I'll...just put this post in the thread where it's supposed to go this time

[timesbureaucrat]

I'll illuminate what I can.

[He pauses as he considers where to begin.]

Lord Rassilon deeply hates aliens. Most Time Lords are suspicious of them; we have to be since... [Wait, no, this isn't the time to justify Time Lord xenophobia.] One non-Gallifreyan acquaintance of mine accused us of despising the unalike. [Added, half to himself.] I wonder now if the non-interference policy was instituted as much to keep us away from aliens as it was to protect the web of time

[der_umgekehrte]

Frankly I wasn't surprised by how Lord Rassilon took my assignment to him. His file--well, I won't talk about it, his privacy. But yes, I know why he doesn't like me.

It's Omega that's lost me.

Overinvested, yes, I can believe. But making out from the first word as if I've got a vendetta against your whole race. That's not just the matter of a man angry his lover's been offended. That's serious politics I've got to sort out if I'm to help Lord Rassilon at all.

I'm not to make headway if his warden lover is as convinced as I am that I'm an idiot to be ordered around. Speaking frankly. So I need to know what nerve I hit to get that warm reception.

[championoftime]

How might I be of assistance? [Being a Wizard is stupid. He's trying to shake it off.]

[der_umgekehrte]

Well. I talked to Omega as you suggested

[championoftime]

[There's some swearing in some strange language that Narvin might recognize as Gallifreyan if he filter spies, sort of distantly from the communicator as he's stepped away from it.] This is why I threw mys-

[No, not him.

And he's back a moment later.]

I would say through security and persistence. Before he discovered the relationship Narvin was having with him he seemed to get along with Agent K. [The Doctor, releasing cats from bags since 1963 and various years in that region.]

But I... honestly don't know what to make of that. [Muffled sound of him pulling off his hat and running his hand through his hair.]

You can't

[der_umgekehrte]

Doctor?

[Stildyne sounds alarmed -- hadn't expected that and it confirms that there's something deeper there he's missing.]

Doctor. Are you all right.