Video/Action in Genessia

[spacepeterpan]

To those who know the Doctor--and particularly this one--it's probably no surprise he's already on the move by the time he actually tries talking to someone on that phone, obviously wandering/exploring the city, by the way the background moves behind him.

"Hello, lovely holographic welcome wagon you've got, very informative, except not actually, leaves a few important questions unanswered, well, all of the important ones, really, in particular, it says 'kidnapped,' well, it happens I don't generally kidnap that easily, raises some questions, that. All the obvious ones, and, which of you know something more about it?"

He raises his eyebrows (such as they are) at the camera as though prompting anyone watching to go ahead and not be shy, smiling harmlessly. Either someone would answer with something helpful, or no one would, which would be informative, in itself; the automated gas defense that a sonic scan had revealed in the holoprojector had dissuaded him from trying to hack it, but had also raised his suspicions just a bit.

"Don't hesitate to give me a ring, might just be I can help, sort of a thing I do."

He smiles a little more at that, and clicks off.




Meanwhile, of course, anyone who happens to be in the streets of Genessia might have a chance to stumble across the fellow in the Victorian coat and bow tie, looking around like he's expecting to find... something, possibly many somethings, seemingly walking aimlessly but at quite a brisk pace. He very might well approach, though, if he spots something interestingly out-of-place or suggesting access to useful information or okay let's be honest just anything strange or interesting at all might grab his attention, at least for a moment...

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[im_with_stupid]

"Funny, I thought the most important question was where are the Ponds," [she said, teasing a bit. She was using the proper video phone at the moment, not the sonic, because for all her joking she hadn't yet tested to see if he would see her, or just her eyeball like an Atraxi. Still, she was beyond thrilled to see him. And she looked good, dark shades on, a big old smile and... was that the Tardis behind her? Sure looked like it.]

"About time you got here. I'll have to fill you in on everything, of course." [A bright smile.]

[spacepeterpan]

Amy gets to experience a particularly rare treat: the Doctor totally thrown off for more than a second or two, and he even stops walking. It's not much more than a second or two, of course, but certainly a longer-than-usual wait what moment, but he laughs and grins.

"Haha, ohhh, Amelia."

He takes another second to collect himself as he churns quickly through the likely permutations; a little too realistically flippant to be a hologram or synthetic replica intended to make him drop his guard, most other options don't fit the environment and profiles or shouldn't be any more possible than it actually being Amelia, so, timelines out of sync is most likely, which means time-traveling kidnappers. He files that away for later as he smiles, just a bit of that enigmatic look.

"Yeah, well, I know exactly where you ought to be, so, what're you doing here?"

Don't think he didn't notice that blue box, either, but he's not about to tip his hand i.e. admit to being that much out of the loop by letting himself get flustered over that just yet.

[im_with_stupid]

[Okay, that look, that moment... well, she knew his next face missed her. So... maybe he was past her time. Sad thought, but it just made his being here now all the more special.]

"Oh now that's just a long story Doctor. Short version is... we've all been kidnapped, guessing you either skipped the speech or tried to edit it or something. Please tell me you didn't take the hologram thing apart just because you could..." [she said with a groan.] "Look, I'm on my way, I'll fill you in on everything. Where are you now?"

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[sarcastass]

Sir. I hate to break this to you, you'll want to sit down.

Are you sitting?

... You've actually been kidnapped, the hologram isn't being over dramatic.

[spacepeterpan]

[The answer's prompt, and doesn't exactly sound traumatized or shocked so much as slightly peevish.]

Yeah, woke up in a silver egg in a duck pond in a cave, worked that bit out, well, could depend on what you mean by 'kidnapped,' but you sound as though you might have some more details. I heard what the hologram says, but why d'you say 'kidnapped,' though?

[Video]

[melodiouspacifist]

[He waves a little.]

Well, if it helps, for a kidnapping it's not so bad. I've been in worse places.

[He grins.]

If there's really a way back, I don't know it. I'm not sure anyone does. I'm Demyx. Who are you?

[spacepeterpan]

Ha, yeah, I'll believe that, 'cept in my experience there's always a way out, one way or another, although I gather it might be... involved, here, but don't worry about that too much, I'm sure we'll get it sorted eventually. Very nice to meet you, I'm sure, Demyx, hello, I'm the Doctor.

Video

[guitar_hero]

He's seen the video, yes he has. And has taken a moment to let it sink in. Though it doesn't take him long because, well, he's brilliant and also a bit numb to this whole thing by now. He's had a lot going on, to be honest, and another himself popping out of the woodwork isn't quite as astonishing as it might once may well have been.

So he stalks himself a bit, or rather, tracks hisself's biological signiture on the sonic sunglasses, so he's well placed and slurping at a slushee as himself strides briskly around the corner.

He sets the slushy aside, claps his hands and gives himself a double finger point.

"Yeeess! Yesss! Molto Bene! That look! I remember that look. That was a great look." He gets in his own way, looking him over. "That chin though. Don't remember it being able to sink small ships." Pats his cheek.

"So, short version. I'm you. Regenerated. Why? Spoilers. Shocking I know. Impossible. But not. You only get better with age. Secondly." He holds up two fingers. "Rose Tyler is here and the situation is very very very complicated in ways we don't like to deal with so if you make it worse I'll kill you."

He wouldn't really but he'd be exceedingly cross.

[spacepeterpan]

The Doctor puzzles for a moment at the old fellow giving him such a peculiar finger-point greeting, raising his eyebrows--then squints appraisingly as soon as he starts speaking.

"Whot-.."

Well, that clarification certainly answers a couple of questions and raises a dozen more, and he's actually stunned for about a second--for reasons the Twelfthish Doctor can surely understand--even raising a hand and starting to object. He certainly (predictably) has a facial reaction, at least, to the mention of Rose, but that's frankly less surprising than Twelve existing at all, and toward the end, he pulls himself upright a bit more.

"So, you're telling me, at some point, I'm going to regenerate."

He gives Twelve the most indignant, scandalized look.



"Into Sam the Eagle. Just look at you, what'd you do, get mummified? No, shut up, never mind that, Amy Pond's going to be here in about, oh"--he quickly glances at his wristwatch--"seven minutes and she'll want me to look like I'm hearing this all for the first time, so you'd best stick to the vital points: why would I make it worse, which of us d'you think you're talking to?"

...so maybe that one's not actually that vital but he's offended; how likely is he to be the problem child of the group in this respect, really?

Video

[bigbadrose]

[Quite a few things slide into place. This is obviously the Doctor. The one between Tie and Guitar to boot.]

[She's half tempted to go find him in person, but given guitar Doctor's reaction to seeing her again, it might give him a double heart attack, and that was embarrassing.]

[BESIDES WHICH: SHE IS AT WORK. And it's a relatively new job so she'd rather not fuck it up by leaving on the job.]

[So she flips on the video first and waggles fingers, voice quiet while she works in the background on gadets. If the gadgets get your interest more than her, she is going to throw them at you violently.]

Hello Doctor.

The old sign used to just say "DON'T PANIC" in all capitals, like that book reference. Weiss figured she could do better.

You're actually the third Doctor here! Your past regeneration with the tie, and your future regeneration who's gotten grey are here too. And Martha, Jack, me, Amy, River Song -- yeah no worries, I know about her, Rory, um... I feel like I'm forgetting someone, OH! The TARDIS, we're all here too. But I kinda don't wanna go back because.... well, you know why.

[spacepeterpan]

[Fortunately, he's been braced a bit by this point, although it's still a bit of a shock. Not to mention three regeneration and four-hundred years' worth of rather complicated feelings. He pauses just a fraction of a second, but a substantial fraction of a second, before he grins and laughs.]

...haha, well, Rose Tyler... ohh, it's been a while. But, yes, I know, I heard, bit complicated, even by my standards, blimey, is Jack here, too, then?

[Another brief pause and he smiles--none of the fierce brooding of her Doctors, but instead, that enigmatic look, perhaps closer to the certain expressions of the gray-haired one, despite them having possibly the greatest apparent age discrepancy she's seen on them yet.]

Sounds as though you're doing well, here, yeah? Keeping out of trouble?

[...very likely not that last part, but hey, he can hope.]

(action)

[younghero]

[Have a half-pint with a sword and shield. Link has mostly been trying to make friends with the other kids he's met, but, Hyrule is way different than most of the other worlds.

That, and trying to find a way home.

Still, it's in his nature to help when he sees someone who looks like they're searching.]

Do you need help, Mister?

[spacepeterpan]

[The Doctor pauses a moment at being approached by an elf child (look, close enough), raising his eyebrows in surprise for a second, then smiling, all amiability.]

Ah, no--yes--well, as much as any of us, I s'pose, hello, I'm the Doctor, this your city, then?

[After all, he's mostly seen humans (or near-humans, or Time Lords) and not generally children, whereas elves are relatively new, so it's not a totally wild guess that this might be a local.]

Video

[blindpuppet]

Enis was sitting at a coffee shop in Genessia when she watched the strange man rush pass the window. Her laptop was in front of her and her headsets were covering her ears. She wasn't trying to pay attention but the blur of tan caught her eye. A few seconds later she saw the face of the very same man appear on her phone.

She looked down at it and then picked it up. "Ever think that the answers aren't there because no one knows what they are." Vibrant blue eyes looked at the screen with a calculating stare.

Video->Action/Video?

[spacepeterpan]

The Doctor pauses a moment as he looks at his phone's screen, and ducks his head forward to peer closer at it--raising his eyebrows and smiling to at her reply as he stands upright again, the view behind him whirling a bit as he looks about for something.

"That doesn't mean the answers aren't there... just that no one's... looked in quite the right spot."

The background jostles a bit more as he takes a few more steps, turning and settling on a building as he glances over his shoulder--then pans about 180 degrees so that she's in the background, as well as her screen... which if it's showing his video feed in real-time, now has a sort of video-feedback Droste Effect, as he waves to her on it.

"Ah, like so, hello!"

[captainspain]

Jack has been warned by Amy that this Doctor was here and he can't help hunting him down watching him with a curiously wary expression on his face. "Well look at you getting younger with each regeneration Doctor," he muses quietly, "at least there is a version of you I don't have to hide things from."

[spacepeterpan]

By this point, the Doctor's already bumped into Amy (and a couple of others), but he's exploring now more for the sake of exploring. He's in the middle of scanning about with his screwdriver when he hears Jack--the Doctor's already felt him approaching, walking middle finger to causality that he is, but chooses to downplay that. After all, he'd done Jack the disservice of pushing him away over that once, already, and he's going to try at least not to repeat that sort of mistake. Instead, he acts like he's just heard him, turning toward him and grinning.

"..ha! Well, if it isn't Jack Harkness! I hear you've been kissing married women."

...it's a little hard to look completely stern when his face is so young, especially since the one in particular he's got in mind doesn't exactly need a lot of prompting to misbehave. Still, he also knows Jack wouldn't want to actually hurt any of his friends, so his disapproval is on more aesthetic than strictly moral grounds.

"...guess some things never change... lit'rally, in this case. How are you, Jack?"

[video]

[hotheadwarmheart]

Well for one thing, I know nobody can leave of their own free will. Though that kinda goes along with the whole 'kidnapping' thing. I've been here for almost two months, myself. One lady I work with has been here for years.

Some people do get sent home, but it seems to be just as random as being brought here to begin with is.

[spacepeterpan]

...years...

[He glances off to the side, making a face at that, like he's about to get a claustrophobic attack or something, but he shakes it off.]

Intr'esting, you said nobody can leave, why not, what stops them?

[polyandrist]

[ well someone is certainly quite pleased to see him and it shows in the rather large grin on her face. Not that she disliked either of the other Doctors but in her timeline this is the one that River has spent the most timeline. Now here's hoping that he's far enough in their combined time streams that the news from her parents weren't going to hurt his brain anymore than it already ha when she first told him who she was.]

Hello sweetie.

[spacepeterpan]

(((I'm assuming it's video, but just poke me and I'll fix it if you'd meant action! XD )))

[Thankfully, he's already been braced for her presence, but he still lights up a bit on seeing her, not to mention getting that characteristic greeting; that, in itself, that he doesn't seem to cringe or get defensive, likely says something about when he's from. That, and his darker coat. Being as she has an actual fashion sense, of course, it's a little harder for him to gauge exactly when she's from.]

Ahh, River, there you are, heard you were about, been keeping out of trouble?

[The last bit is almost more a joke than anything; there's no way she's keeping out of trouble more than him for long.]

[Action]

[borntolove]

[Ten, meanwhile is walking down the street with a banana smoothie with a hint of cinnamon. Who may or may not be going anywhere in particular at the moment. He does however, stumble by accident into the dashing fellow in Victorian coat and bow tie]

Sorry. So, sorry.

[Hopefully none of the smoothie splashed onto the other]

[spacepeterpan]

[Good odds it could be the Doctor's fault (or, well, obviously, but meaning this Doctor's fault), the way he's looking around by that point, obviously in full-on "absorb everything you can about this place" mode and not 100% watching where he's going. He catches himself after the collision, though, reflexively reaching out to grasp the other fellow by the arm and help stabilize him--only to freeze for a half second, and then grin as though he'd just spotted a childhood friend.

Which, in fairness, isn't completely off the mark.]

...ha! Ohhh, don't be, well, not about the smoothie, anyway, sorry, hello, when're you from, then?

[This being the second time around for him, and as he's already been warned in advance, he's maybe letting himself get carried away with the excitement (and perhaps the transgressiveness) of chatting with himself again. Of course, it could readily sound like any time traveler prone to run at the mouth, and the Victorian outfit probably doesn't much dissuade that sort of notion.]

[video];

[justwords]

Blimy. We're not gonna blow up time and space are we?

[spacepeterpan]

[He's not surprised to hear from her, at this point, having heard her name dropped a few times, but he's certainly pleased--and since it's her first time seeing him, he preens a little, adjusting his bow tie.]

Ha, well, not with any luck. Ohh, Martha Jones... where are we, then?