.93 Video-- Fourth Wall Day

[timesbureaucrat]

[After observing the network situation...]

This is Coord-- [Wait. He's Chancellor now. He's so used to identifying himself as belonging to the Celestial Intervention Agency that it's easy to forget that he was recently promoted out of it.] Chancellor Narvinekralonum of Gallifrey. If any Time Lords are receiving this, please respond.

((OOC:

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[answerisknives]

Narvin!

[shouted into the communicator, of course]

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[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin jumps slightly at the sudden shout, then grins.]

Leela!

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[timesbureaucrat]

[Then he remembers that he has a reputation to maintain and forces the smile away.]

What's the current status?

Wait, first, what temporal coordinates are you from? [Revise: this is Leela he's talking to.] When are you; what's the last major event you remember?

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[answerisknives]

We have just come back from the Gallifrey that has the Doctor that was not the Doctor. [a pause] Braxiatel is lost.

[there's another pause, and then she gets right back to fussing at Narvin.] Narvin, how come I can hear your voice but I cannot sense you near me?

[incapbleoferror]

I would like to know how you are able to broadcast messages to this vessel, especially with our broken AE-35 unit.

[yes. broken. definitely. it is broken. don't touch it. it can't be fixed. broken.]

[timesbureaucrat]

I'd like to know as well. Unfortunately, I don't.

[incapbleoferror]

This is highly unprecedented. I would like to speak to your superior, if that is convenient.

[timesbureaucrat]

No, it's not convenient. [Because his superior responds to most complaints with cookies.]

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[timesbureaucrat]

((OOC: So sorry; rotten timing!))

[pureblueworld]

I know who you are. You're that filthy Coordinator.

[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin blinks at the accusation. He does not know this person. But for Time Lord lives, non-linear as they sometimes are, this is not entirely unheard of.]

Whatever it is you think I did, I swear I didn't do it. [Not that Narvin knows what it is, and he quite possibly *did* do it. But protesting innocence when accused of wrongdoing is an automatic reaction.]

[pureblueworld]

Lies! Lies and treachery! I should expect no less from a reprehensible Coordinator such as yourself.

[Despite all this invective, Azrael really has no specific complaint to bring to bear. It's just the principle of the thing.] You should know your precious PLANTs will soon be nothing more than space debris. It's the end of the road for you and the rest of you genetic abominations.

[timesbureaucrat]

[Lies and treachery? Yes, that sounds like it might be him. And Time Lords have done so much genetic tinkering to themselves over the millennia that a hostile alien might indeed refer to them as "genetic abominations."]

I can assure you that your suspicions are entirely misplaced. We only want what's best for the stability of the universe.

[redo_fromstart]

Have you gentlemen not figured out why this keeps occuring? As I'm rather stumped, and if anyone can work it out, I believe 'Time Lords' are the most likely.

After myself.

[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin's pride and competitiveness is roused.]

Some sort of dimensional instability bending the communication waves seems most likely. But what kind and how to control it remains a mystery.

And just who are you? Some kind of alien scientist?

[redo_fromstart]

Then we're about as in the dark as each other.

Dr Ponder Stibbons, Unseen University. Probably an alien to you, but a wizard, thank you.

[timesbureaucrat]

Wizard? This is a technical issue, not a magical one, Dr. Stibbons.