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[shoutsforearth]

Oi! Is anyone out there?!

[Dear passengers of the Crucible, your spheres are suddenly showing a very angry, very ginger woman sitting glaring at her sphere with her arms crossed on her bed in the Kepler Cabins, how do you react? ... On second thoughts, don't answer that question, because you won't get a chance to react for a while yet.]Is there

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[bit_impossible]

[hi there, have a very, very, very, very shocked/speechless/surprised/flummoxed/etc Time Lord! he hasn't seen her face in well over a year and the last words she said to him then didn't sound anything like that--or made his ears ring in the way she can when she shouts. and he vaguely wonders if he does that to people when he shouts as well, but that's something to ponder later.

so excuse him if he just stares for a bit, mouth gaping like a fish as he tries to form words--but honestly has no idea where to even start.]

[bit_impossible]

[dismissively] Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.

This is very important, Donna. I need you to answer me.

[shoutsforearth]

[rolls her eyes at his explanation but answers him anyway] We'd just left Midnight after we told them they needed to go and build their resort somewhere else.

[bit_impossible]

[mumbles to himself] That long ago...

[puts on a smile and sprints through "Chicago" and back into the former maze.] Good thing we left when we did!

Now, you're going to notice quite a few things. Like how we're definitely not in Kansas any more, but thankfully there's no Wicked Witch of the West and her flying monkeys after us. We're actually on an intergalactic luxury space cruiser and that lovely outfit you're in is just a regulation spacesuit.

And...you've got a barcode on one of your hands. Sorry, but that's not going to come off any time soon.

[shoutsforearth]

[sorry Doctor, she's just full of questions. Haven't you missed this? :D]

What do I need a barcode for? That isn't like some futuristic way of buying a ticket, is it? And was that just a city I saw you sprinting through there? What's a huge city like that doing on a luxury cruise liner?

[bit_impossible]

[actually, he has. he really, really has and look! he's smiling just a bit now!]

The barcode might as well be your ticket, yeah, though none of us remember buying one. It acts as your identification, door opener, are the only way to work the transportation pads--futuristic lifts, and is your source to a supposedly limitless line of credit for the shops. [he just knows her ears will perk up with that last bit.]

And yes it was a city--Chicago, in fact--well, I say Chicago, but it was more of a Faux-cago if you ask me. The time period wasn't uniform throughout and really was just a rubbish attempt at a simulation for the city.

[is now reaching the end of level 24, the chrome walls of level 23 are in sight!]

You see that Sphere in front of you? The device my hologram is talking to you in? There's a button on the side of it there that'll pull up a map of this ship if you ask it to. I need you to tell me where you are.

[shoutsforearth]

I only understood half of that, Spaceman, but if you're telling me there's shopping on this ship then I don't mind being stuck here for longer!

What sphere, you mean this thing? [she reaches up and taps it with her finger]

[bit_impossible]

[so called that one. he's missed that!]

No, the other floaty spherical-shaped communications device next to that one.

[shoutsforearth]

Alright, there's no need to get sarcastic! [reaches around for the button and presses it]

Okay, it says... "Atlas Hall, Unit 2." What does that mean, is that my room?

[bit_impossible]

Yes that is! I'll be there in a mo'!

[sprints through 23, soon sliding to a stop in front of the transportation pad.]

[shoutsforearth]

[gets up and starts looking around her room in the meantime, opening cupboards and drawers. she pulls out one of her jumpers, frowning slightly]

All my stuff is already here, that's a bit weird, isn't it?

[bit_impossible]

On a scale of slightly strange to down right enigmatic, I'd say it's somewhere in the middle. Any of those hat boxes come with you?

[steps out on level 21, glancing around for the Atlas hall]

[shoutsforearth]

[pulls one out of her wardrobe and waves it at him slightly smugly] Looks like it!

[bit_impossible]

[he's found her door! and sure enough "Donna Noble"'s written on it.

but he's afraid to knock.]

Ohhh, I'm not surprised.

[shoutsforearth]

[chucks the hat box on her bed and walks over to the door to open it]

Well don't just stand out there all day, Spaceman!

[bit_impossible]

[hesitates when he sees her, his face a mask of, well, indescribableness.]

[then he takes a step forward and pinches both her arm and his own at the same time.]