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first ✧ [video] ❝there's a man from outer space asking me if I will race❞

May 06, 2011 21:46

[A green light and high-pitched ringing precedes a face coming into view, too close at first, and then pulling away to reveal ridiculous floppy hair and a blue bowtie. The journal is clearly propped up against something to record.]

OOOOH! [a loud, excited voice, not a hint of fear or uncertainty] Wonderful! Working again, eh! Good, good, excellent ( Read more... )

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[video] bookworldly May 7 2011, 02:51:15 UTC

I'm sorry, I don't remember having seen a blue box. If you have any other questions though? I'll try to help you out.

Oh, have you been introduced to the guide yet?

Re: [video] <3_<3 THURSDAY NEXT I'M SO HAPPY shoutsgeronimo May 7 2011, 02:57:57 UTC

Ah, don't suppose my friends sound familiar either? Amy, Rory? Redhead and her husband. And I haven't just, yet, no. Mind explaining why there's a guide in the first place?

YOU BEING HAPPY ABOUT IT .. MAKES ME HAPPY TOO! bookworldly May 7 2011, 03:10:24 UTC

Again, I'm sorry, but I was brought here alone. As I understand it that's the way that it tends to be.

The guide [She leans in and fiddles with the journal for a moment, eventually linking the doctor to this]. Job done, she leans back into a normal sitting position. was written by one of Luceti's current residents to help newcomers become accustomed to Luceti. I for one was very grateful to be shown it very soon into arriving here.

As for why there needs to be a guide? Well, there's a lot to explain. It can be a little overwhelming. Disorienting. It would probably be best if you read that and asked me about specific points that interested you.

I LOVE THOSE BOOKS shoutsgeronimo May 7 2011, 04:30:21 UTC

Aaah, the Guide. [he rifles through it quickly; being a Time Lord has its advantages] I see, I see, someone else just sent the same thing along. Terribly wordy. Have you been here long, Miss, um...?

Oh yeah? Well, I'm rather a big Doctor Who fan, so we'll probably get along very well. bookworldly May 7 2011, 14:49:44 UTC

Thursday Next - and no, I was brought here last cycle. So that's... what? Two months? Has it really been two months already?

[She can hear the dismissive tone in his voice -- he seems about ready to give up on the guide, and of course she doesn't expect that he could have read it all by now.]

Here, I'll give you the cliff notes.

The main things you need to go to get you going are these;
You, me, and everyone who you will encounter here is hopelessly and utterly trapped. Secondly, every few weeks Luceti - this place - is subject to an experiment. The people around here call them "Shifts", the effects of which are highly varied. You could be turned into a frog or made to speak only in Spanish for however long they had the mind to make you. For the most part, though, they leave us alone. People seem to be living their lives well enough. We have food, houses, furniture... And everything here is free, so that's something.

o/ shoutsgeronimo May 10 2011, 00:44:21 UTC

[sort of just smiles patiently (or patronizingly, he gets them confused sometimes) and waits for her to finish.]

Is that so! I like free, always a bit rubbish with intergalactic currency, exchange rates fluctuate so much that I just can't be expected to keep track of it all. 'Course, the TARDIS usually takes care of that for me, but, well, problem of the moment, isn't it? But on to more interesting things--Thursday Next? But that's a wonderful name, like a name out a book.

Sorry for the delay. I'm happy to backtag this into forever, though, if you are. bookworldly May 11 2011, 23:35:25 UTC

You don't know the half of it. [She's been in books, out of them, under and around them.] My mother was Wednesday, my father... Well, I don't know what his name was. He didn't have one. Although he did. Or would have. Or has had. [Grammar and time-travel; She won't go into it - he wouldn't understand.]

goodness yes please, been a busy week shoutsgeronimo May 15 2011, 01:07:06 UTC

Oh dear. [doesn't have a name and can't pick a tense to stay in, sounds a bit familiar.] Tenses are difficult, aren't they? Wednesday and Thursday Next, eh? Brilliant. Tell me a bit more about your dad and his timey-wimey tense trouble.

Oh Thursday. You are so terrible at making friends. bookworldly May 15 2011, 14:29:01 UTC

[Speaking openly like this is all well and good within the closed quarters of the book world. Traffic to the Outland is rare, and institutions from the two keep very much to themselves - not to mention the fact that the workings of the Outland are largely mind-boggling to Book-people. Suddenly, though, someone is asking questions about her father. This has happened before - and now that she stops and thinks about it, if she can manage a book-jump, why shouldn't the Chronoguard?

Case and point, this man's uncanny personality -- It falls easily within the scope of the old adage. As the saying goes: If you want to get into SpecOps, act kind weird.]

You know, with all due respect I think I'd really rather not. I can barely remember him as it is - you know?

[She waits for his reaction anxiously, though her demeanor does not noticeably shift.]

aww shoutsgeronimo May 15 2011, 19:08:57 UTC

Oop, fair enough, don't mean to pry. [quick smile] Seemed a bit like my area, can never be too sure. As it is though, just trying to get a feel for the sort, the sort of--[he rubs his fingers together and then snaps, looking for the word] sort of pool they'll pulling from, something that links everyone. It's not time or location or ranking, it's something else, something I'm missing...

[he puckers his lips and taps his chin, thinking.]

I meant "act kinda weird" up there. But then.. you likely knew that. bookworldly May 15 2011, 21:37:34 UTC

Same thing I tried to do.

[She had expected him to push the Colonel Next point. She has never known the Chronoguard to be experts in subtlety, and this gives her pause. Not enough to trust him, but enough to question her suspicions.]

First time I showed up. If there's a common factor, though, I'm thinking it's something meta-Luceti. Or at least, meta-me. I don't mean to suggest you should give up - just don't expect a breakthrough right away.

[Literary terms. She thinks in them.]

gotcha! shoutsgeronimo May 16 2011, 03:51:29 UTC

Wait, meta--meta? [he runs both hands down his face, pulling at it as he does so, and continues to make silly, exasperated faces by squishing his cheeks in] Complicated--no TARDIS, no Ponds, a meta-world pulling everyone in willy-nilly from all space and time with zero consequences for either and somehow manages Not to rip a hole through space-time or cause a total event collapse. That's nonsense on the TimeLordy-collective scale, and that isn't even an option.

[he sighs and puffs out his cheeks.] Worst of it is, even if I leave, I won't remember a damn thing.

bookworldly May 16 2011, 04:00:07 UTC

You won't?

[A certain other space-doctor had told her as much as well - but at that time she hadn't been in a fit state to listen. She had dismissed him unfairly, but nothing without reasoning to herself that the claim involved a logical fallacy.]

What makes you so certain?

shoutsgeronimo May 16 2011, 04:14:36 UTC

No one can, that's what they say, can't all be lying. And it makes sense, sort of, maybe--if they can't remember and there's no time passed when they return, then there's no ripple, and if there's no ripple there's no detection. Simple enough to erase the memories, not so simple to erase the time itself.

bookworldly May 16 2011, 04:42:42 UTC

[So in end this man is only really working off of what other people have told him - which puts him in the same boat as her. With that said, though, the working that he is doing certainly seems convincing. He sounds very much like a ChronoGuard agent, right down to the baffling jargon. And that title... Time Lord. It could well be a ChronoGuard rank. How can she be sure without asking him out-right?]

It sounds as though you needn't worry about your friends, then, doesn't it?

I mean if you're expecting to return with no time passed then it stands to reason that they wouldn't notice you'd gone at all. More than that, though, you wouldn't notice either - what with losing your memories. All of that being true - and I'm not saying that it is - but if I'm following you?

It'd be safer for them if they didn't come here. Right?

shoutsgeronimo May 16 2011, 04:52:03 UTC

That's all well and good but I can't be sure that's how it works with the TARDIS. Maybe safer, maybe not, maybe they're all flung off into a Void somewhere and we're all done for. How do you stop time in a machine that exists on the wibbly-wobbly outside? I mean, she's a ship but she's more than a little alive, and time and space, that's her ocean. How would that work? How could that work? Who could possibly influence the TARDIS at that sort of level without me knowing?

[if it seems like he's talking to himself, well...he is! it's how he thinks, apparently, though his frustration with the lack of answers is getting increasingly obvious. He snaps his fingers]

And that's the problem. Even under some sort of mass psychosis, led into believing it's true, I would know, there's always a tell, always something, but I can't see it, and I'm slowing down. And the longer I'm here the more I'll slow down--but that's the problem! If I do leave, how do I help what I can't even remember? They said I was here before, with the, you know--[he looks ( ... )

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