Amy wasn't really in a party mood. But a closed door invitation only party was good for her rep, and she could use the extra money a boost in popularity might bring, because they were an income shy on the house, now. And what finally got her moving was the thought that people popped up at Christmas. If Rory was going to reappear... it would be at a Christmas party.

So she went all out on decorations. She sent out the invitations and sent them through the Doctors. Well... River got hers directly, as would Arelene, because she didn't know if the Doctors knew her. As for Rose.... Her invitation would go through Eleven, with a note to him, that she is only invited because of what he had said, and that if Rose starts drama or trouble... she would be out on her rear in the snow.

After a talk with Ten, her plan for a dry party was changed to a very limited bar.

And on the 23rd, she'd be finishing up decorations in the afternoon, with the Eleven told that was when the party started, and told Ten and Twelve that they were welcome to help decorate at that time. Eleven, she knew, would be late, which was why he was given the earlier time.

So come noon, she was decorating a fake tree, painted Tardis blue, with bright silver tinsel and lights. The walls and hearth were already started, and the table was set with a place for everyone invited... and one for Rory, beside hers. Since it was a potluck, she didn't have to cook for everyone, thankfully. At least, not a full meal. So she made a few medium sized servings of things, enough for a few people. Yorkshire pudding, fish fingers and custard, a glazed spiral ham - which she will not admit to having bought pre-cooked and simply added honey and tossed it in the oven - and a banana coconut cream pie. That might have come from a mix. Hush. She made sure all the boxes were thrown out well before even the decorators were due.

she had the last of the food that needed to be cooked cooking, she had a christmas selection of music playing, and she was dancing around, getting everything ready.


Evening - Party time

After leaving someone else to finish the last bits, she went up to get showered and changed. And she looked splendid when she came down. Well, for a casual party, anyway. A trim snug green sweater, short skirt, long red scarf, black stockings, cute green flats. It was time to play host and start letting guests in, always looking for that one particular face every time she opened the door...

[After Rose's visit, locked to Ten, since he's the only Doctor who wouldn't know why this was a BAD idea.]

"Doctor, don't suppose you could come pick me up, just you and me? Got a favour to ask?"

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[After getting home, either late that night or the next day, locked to all of the Doctor, and River.]

"Have you guys seen Rory? Got a message here he didn't show up for work, figured he left early for work but if not....?"


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Locked to anyone who lets themselves in, action, after they realize....

Amy sat on the sofa. Trying to absorb, tears on her face. Rory was gone? How could Rory be gone?

Who: River Song and you!
What: An open log for the whole month of October! Before the Halloween plot, during and after!
Where: River is a wanderer, so if you want to find her somewhere, find her there! (During the Halloween event she's going to be in Attleton cause that's where she lives and works.
Warning: Flirting. All the flirting, emotional stuff because of her fear. Some actual River Song anger, potentially.
( Don’t get too close. It’s dark inside )

[September will find Rose increasingly more and more scarce, until she almost all but disappears until the second week of October. She went from attending as many of the 12th Doctor's lectures, and even hanging around the campus of Attleton University testing products ostensibly; but after the first week of September, she pretty much disappears for a bit. No sign of her on the network, and even around the TARDIS, or her usual haunts, she's hard to nab. Even for someone like Captain Jack Harkness who spent a good portion of a century tracking her and has a good bond link to make sure she's safe will find Rose a bit scarcer than usual. 3 years of acting like a ghost has made it a lot easier for her to be invisible in a crowd if she wants.]

[Whatever appearances in public appear to be marketing and testing related, survey, and throwing things literally into fountains or against walls or collecting data.]

[But finally she makes a small appearance on the network!]

First round of drinks is on Mirajane. All of the Doctors are required to make a presence or I'll make life hell for ya, more'n usual, yeah? [Tongue out to the side.] River, Martha, Jack, Gwen, Demyx, Koishi, Satori, Belle, Rory, Amy, and apologies to anyone I forgot. [Laughs.] You can make excuses, but I'm draggin' ya all out for at least one drink. Be there! Everything after the first drink you're on your own.

But since I'm officially quittin' after this crazy last month, I might be able to spot ya. Some.

[Grins.]

[And locked to Demyx:] First mission, find us a suitable tower. Nova city. Price is negotiable. Capacity for modifications is not.


[And indeed anyone hitting up the Fairy Tail Guild during the first round of drinks on Rose / Mirajane can probably sneak in a free drink by saying they're friends with Rose Tyler. Just might want to make sure you actually know who that is if pressed.]

[OTA Action: MINGLE]

[A deathly pale brunette could be seen wringing out her coat as Gwen Cooper comes onto the feed. But her paleness is nothing to worry about as she speaks.]

Icing on the injury cake? Its been a bad enough day since last thing I remember was sleeping off a massive headache on the couch at the Hub.

So Jack, Ianto and Rhys you guys here?

[he sitting in his office... where else would he be?...absently fingering chords on his guitar]

If anyone knows slash is, ah... [consults a notebook] David Haller or Olivia Moore, I'd like to speak to them at their convenience. Just let me know.

Anyone who is in my class, remember homework is due at the beginning of next week. I look forward to grading your essays and if you're not prepared to write eight thousand words on Shakespeare's Universal Influence you're not prepared for university so I don't want to hear any whinging.

If you have any questions or want to find me otherwise... [he gives a look to the camera as if talking to several people at once] I'm going to be playing at some Blues Bars in Nova City. And one place called a honky tonk. If anyone of me shows up wearing a cowboy hat and tries to be clever, promise not to wave at me. Anyway the list of the places is posted outside my door.


That's all I've got.

Peace out!

[v for victory sign because he is Hip and With it and signs off]

[Action for the Ponds]

[it is after midnight and anyone currently staying in the Pond House may hear faint sounds of someone quietly playing Mario Kart on a wii.]

Oh come on! That shell wasn't even fair! I know you're tired of losing at life, Luigi but the least you could do is not make it miserable for everyone else!


[ooc: anyone looking to action it up can do so in his office or one of the bars]

[When River flicks on the camera, she's sitting in her office at her desk, and she's got an antique Earth map on the wall behind her. She's holding a cup of tea, and she's smiling.]

Hello. For those of you who don't know me, I'm River Song and I'm a professor of archeology at Attleton University. Normally, I specialize in Earth and Earthen settlement archeology from a multitude of time periods. However, given that I'm going to be here for the foreseeable future, I decided I'd try my hand at some more local ruins, if there's someone who'd be willing to be a guide. If nothing else, I do so miss having my hands in some dirt.

WHO: 10th Doctor & Prompts & OTA
WHERE: Various locations
WHEN: End of August - September 3rd
WARNINGS: Update as needed

( Timey wimey )

[Have a grinning like an idiot Pond, her sunglasses pushed up into her hair.]

"He's here. Guess that's another plate to set!"

[Yes, she was just presuming they'd all know or figure out who "he" was.]

[Rory had admittedly stayed away from his so called device for a time. He just needed to wrap his head around the fact that he was not in his living room with Amy and the Doctor.

He rubbed his temples. Amy and the Doctor.... Where were they? Were they safe? Shite! why was he sitting around here? He jumped up and started roaming the cities, flipping his device on]

AMY! AMY! Where are you Amy? I didn't wait 2,000 years for you just to lose you now. I will find you!

[he is sitting in what very much looks like the office of some laid back lecturer with a helpful globe on the desk, though it looks wrong as things keep shifting around, as well as pictures on the desk, shaping away from the camera]

Right so. I lied. I am not Joe Cool. Yes everyone who guessed right gets a cookie and a nice pat yourself on the back for being so clever. Go ahead. I don't mind. Over yourselves? Excellent.

I am the Doctor. There is another man who calls himself the Doctor and he is, in fact, me. You could ask but you'd be wasting your breath. Just don't question it and learn to live a little. Or alternatively ask someone who knows me and see what they will tell you.

Anyway, point is, I am here to help. So if there is something pressing I do have office hours posted outside the big blue police box. Please fill out your name and approximate time of the meeting. Don't hold your breath on the weekends however. If there is an emergency well. I'll find it. Believe me I always do.

However, if you are currently mad at me, that is to say, the Doctor. And by mad I mean furious, angry, want to maim or otherwise want to vent problematic elements of our current relationship, please come and see me and get it out of your system. I am the up to date operating system as it were and the other is still getting the bugs cleared out. But since I was him I can be blamed for all the himming he does.

If you vent your spleen at him instead, I shall be very cross. It's not all that easy keeping ourselves together, you know, especially when there is more than one of me in the same room so, angry as you may be, have consideration.

Anyway! [he drums his hands against the table] That's all I had to say. Staff meeting at ten. Tea at eleven. Twelve is when the fun starts. Oh, and if you know of any good indoor ice skating rinks, let me know. Provided we don't all drown in buckets of angst, it might be fun to get some lead out if you know what I mean.

Who: Ten, Belle, Lea, Amy
What: Drama
When: August 1
Where: The Bar and Belle's apartment
Warnings: Drinking and Emo language-read at your own risk-
Notes:

( Too much timey wimey )

[Okay, she watched the hologram, and wasn't quite sure what happened. She didn't remember falling asleep, and here she was, still damp from the arrival Bay. Kirika brushed her fingers through her damp hair while the feeder was still recording. Her time didn't develop cellphones like this yet and well, she was expecting someone to respond first honestly.

It was hard to read through her expression which was blank and mostly stared. This side of the line remained quiet......]

....

[...maybe a bit more longer... Her eye lids lowered a bit.]

......

[...she gave a soft sigh before she stopped the recording. Meanwhile, Kirika could be seen leaving the Bay area with a map, and possibly looked lost or confused. It was hard to tell, but watching her wonder around may had given it away.]

Who: Ten, Martha, Amy, Captain Jack, Rose, Pidge, Twelve
What: Insanity
When: July 27
Where: Genessia (on the sidewalk corner of the Police Station)
Warning: Label the subject title of your threads please if a warning is needed; use character starter threads please and thank you :3


( Welcome to the Clown Car )

Hey so, bit of a weird question. Anyone here ever heard of Torchwood, and could maybe point me how to get back to contacting the local branch? That'd be really handy, yeah?

Year and star system coordinates would also be fantastic, but I'm not holdin' my breath waitin'.

[Bites her bottom lip in thought.]

[She doesn't even know which universe this is. Much less how she got here without a dimension cannon or where everyone she was with went. Maybe they're here. But then maybe even saying their name depending on the universe is dangerous. Luckily, she's had 5+ years (give or take for literal dimension rewinds and time in the vortex) of experience in learning how to do codes.]

Here's a fairytale you've probably never heard before.

Once upon a time there was a big bad wolf. She wandered a city of metal filled with metal men. [Too dangerous to even say the world cyberman until she learned more!] She thought she was on a mission to hunt down her lost prince. But she was actually on a mission to find home. Bit like Dorothy from Wizard of Oz if you know it. And one day she met a man who wasn't a prince at all. He was a very brainy professor. There was even another man who started off as a mouse but turned into a lion full of courage, saving worlds he never even knew existed. And a really flirty captain who was probably too pretty for his own good. They weren't off to find a wizard. Just a blue box.

The big bad wolf ran away from home and her pack over and over and over again, but no matter how many times she ran, and how many new friends she made or which universe she fell into, something was always calling her back. 'Pparently you can't escape your family that easily. That or the Big Bad Wolf's mum was seriously terrifying and would fight a werewolf for diamonds and totally win.

Thanks for listening, Ta!