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Nov. 20th, 2011 07:45 pmTitle: The One Time Things Didn't Go Wrong
Summary: Amy and the Doctor actually listen to Rory for once.
Rating: G
Characters/pairings: The Doctor, Amy, Rory. Possibly pairings, but I don't mention them in-fic.
Author's notes: I'm aware it's fairly OOC. The Doctor and Amy would never actually listen to me. Let's call it speculative fiction.
“Come along, Ponds,” he said, taking the stairs three at a time, “off we go to sand and sun, sort of, two suns, two and a half technically but no one really cares about the half a sun, if you—what?”
This was in response to Rory standing with his arms folded in front of the door. Amy was already standing in front of him, glaring at him.
“He won’t move,” she said.
“Look,” said Rory, speaking as quickly as he could. It looked like Amy might kick him in the knee if he wasn’t fast about it. “Can we not rush into this one? For once can we check what’s outside, not split up, and all walk out together as a group? Please? Especially as this is another vacation-y sort of place and that never turns out well.”
“Roooory,” said the Doctor. He was very fond of Rory’s name. “Rory Pond. Rory the Roman. Roman Rory. You’re sucking the fun out of EVERYTHING.”
“Yeah,” said Amy. “What he said. Stop being an idiot.”
“Please?” said Rory. “You never listen to me. Can you listen to me just this one time?”
The Doctor and Amy looked at each other and went into a huddle.
“Fine,” said Amy, coming out of it. “Just this once. But it’s still stupid.”
“And don’t press any weird buttons,” said Rory.
“Fine,” said the Doctor.
“And don’t open any doors that say ‘Do Not Open’ on them.”
“Aaamyyy,” whined the Doctor. “Your husband’s mad with power. Stop him.”
Amy kicked Rory in the knee.
But in the end, they followed Rory’s directions. They didn’t walk into any horrendous pits of doom, they didn’t have any life-threatening encounters with the locals, and best of all, none of them died. It was a wonderful vacation.
***R&R. I made do without a beta, but I'm still on the lookout for one. If I get a good enough response, I might even write another one.
Summary: Amy and the Doctor actually listen to Rory for once.
Rating: G
Characters/pairings: The Doctor, Amy, Rory. Possibly pairings, but I don't mention them in-fic.
Author's notes: I'm aware it's fairly OOC. The Doctor and Amy would never actually listen to me. Let's call it speculative fiction.
***
As the TARDIS juddered to a stop in what was presumably the middle of the Space Bahamas, the Doctor banged a few more switches on the console. It was probably for show.“Come along, Ponds,” he said, taking the stairs three at a time, “off we go to sand and sun, sort of, two suns, two and a half technically but no one really cares about the half a sun, if you—what?”
This was in response to Rory standing with his arms folded in front of the door. Amy was already standing in front of him, glaring at him.
“He won’t move,” she said.
“Look,” said Rory, speaking as quickly as he could. It looked like Amy might kick him in the knee if he wasn’t fast about it. “Can we not rush into this one? For once can we check what’s outside, not split up, and all walk out together as a group? Please? Especially as this is another vacation-y sort of place and that never turns out well.”
“Roooory,” said the Doctor. He was very fond of Rory’s name. “Rory Pond. Rory the Roman. Roman Rory. You’re sucking the fun out of EVERYTHING.”
“Yeah,” said Amy. “What he said. Stop being an idiot.”
“Please?” said Rory. “You never listen to me. Can you listen to me just this one time?”
The Doctor and Amy looked at each other and went into a huddle.
“Fine,” said Amy, coming out of it. “Just this once. But it’s still stupid.”
“And don’t press any weird buttons,” said Rory.
“Fine,” said the Doctor.
“And don’t open any doors that say ‘Do Not Open’ on them.”
“Aaamyyy,” whined the Doctor. “Your husband’s mad with power. Stop him.”
Amy kicked Rory in the knee.
But in the end, they followed Rory’s directions. They didn’t walk into any horrendous pits of doom, they didn’t have any life-threatening encounters with the locals, and best of all, none of them died. It was a wonderful vacation.
***
||12|| [Video]
Jun. 25th, 2011 12:36 am[There's a boy and a girl walking down the road, hand in hand. They're young - too young, really, to be out at this time. Just after the video clicks on, the girl lets go of the boy's hand and frowns at him.]
Rory. Why are you holding my hand?
[She looks around, then.] And where are we?
[The boy--Rory--looks around, and then does a bit of biting of his lip. He looks slightly like he might cry.]
I.......don't know. [He takes a few panicked breaths.] I don't think we should be outside, though. I think it's late. I think we need....I think we need to find an official building or something.
Don't be such a girl. [The girl shakes her head and holds her hand out to him again.] Let's go explore! That's what the Doctor would do, too.
B-but Amelia, it... [He reaches over and takes her hand.] It's different. We're not the Doctor.
[Amelia resolutely starts walking, pulling Rory along with her.] We could be like him, if you weren't always so scared. C'mon. If you want to find an official building, we have to look around anyways. So there.
[Rory follows along so that he can mostly stop himself from being dragged.] Do you know how we got here? Cos I can't remember anything at all.
Maybe we were kidnapped. [Amelia sounds more excited than scared by this prospect.] Or maybe the Doctor finally came back for me. Or maybe he's in trouble and needs our help!
[They walk around a corner and then Amelia lets out a squeal - that she'll later deny - and points. There's a blue box standing not too far away from them and Amelia lets go of Rory's hand and runs towards it. Over her shoulder, she shouts.] See, I told you he'd come back for me.
[For a moment, Rory just stares, and then he runs after Amelia.] Why'd he bring us here for, though? Why didn't he just come to your house again?
Dunno. [Amelia shrugs and knocks on the TARDIS door.] Doctor! Doctor!
[ooc: So today it is tiny!Rory and Amelia time. We'll be tagging with curse journals (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
raggedystand_in , prays2santa ).]
Rory. Why are you holding my hand?
[She looks around, then.] And where are we?
[The boy--Rory--looks around, and then does a bit of biting of his lip. He looks slightly like he might cry.]
I.......don't know. [He takes a few panicked breaths.] I don't think we should be outside, though. I think it's late. I think we need....I think we need to find an official building or something.
Don't be such a girl. [The girl shakes her head and holds her hand out to him again.] Let's go explore! That's what the Doctor would do, too.
B-but Amelia, it... [He reaches over and takes her hand.] It's different. We're not the Doctor.
[Amelia resolutely starts walking, pulling Rory along with her.] We could be like him, if you weren't always so scared. C'mon. If you want to find an official building, we have to look around anyways. So there.
[Rory follows along so that he can mostly stop himself from being dragged.] Do you know how we got here? Cos I can't remember anything at all.
Maybe we were kidnapped. [Amelia sounds more excited than scared by this prospect.] Or maybe the Doctor finally came back for me. Or maybe he's in trouble and needs our help!
[They walk around a corner and then Amelia lets out a squeal - that she'll later deny - and points. There's a blue box standing not too far away from them and Amelia lets go of Rory's hand and runs towards it. Over her shoulder, she shouts.] See, I told you he'd come back for me.
[For a moment, Rory just stares, and then he runs after Amelia.] Why'd he bring us here for, though? Why didn't he just come to your house again?
Dunno. [Amelia shrugs and knocks on the TARDIS door.] Doctor! Doctor!
[ooc: So today it is tiny!Rory and Amelia time. We'll be tagging with curse journals (
raggedystand_in , prays2santa ).]
||9|| [Video]
Jun. 16th, 2011 08:05 pm[There are a lot of pointless, overhead sweeping shots of Amy, Rory and the Doctor walking through the beautiful fantasy landscape before the video finally fixes on filming the front of them as they walk. Rory has the face of a man trying very, very hard not to look smug, and failing. He has a quiver of flint arrows slung over one shoulder. Amy is behind him, pouting and looking sulky.]
Well. [The Doctor shoves some half-thrown-together thing into his pocket and looks a bit like someone who's forgotten why they decided to go somewhere.] That was easy.
It wasn't any fun though.
No, but..nobody died, and we didn't destroy their culture...and we didn't unleash an ancient evil by accident by pressing the big red button that says "Don't Press" and we got what we came for. [This has clearly been something festering in Rory for a while, because he's making frantic hand gestures by the end of it.] Asking WORKS.
Yeah, it works, and it's boring.
Rory's right! Everything went swimmingly and we might... not strictly speaking have anything to do now but when does a proper adventure start off with a checklist? [He's recovered from just a moment ago and throws an arm across Rory's shoulders.] And we've not broken anything or anyone or been stranded or I don't know, burned down a cathedral by accident when we were only trying to find some milk, or--
[He abruptly stops talking, having seen something, and bolts out of view, using Rory a bit as a springboard to do so. Rory catches himself from stumbling and looks at Amy who is frowning and looking after the Doctor.]
Where--?!
[At which point a unicorn stampedes past behind them, horn down, galloping after the Doctor. There is a moment of stunned silence, and then Amy runs after the unicorn, followed shortly by Rory.]
[ooc: Amy, Rory, Doctor.]
Well. [The Doctor shoves some half-thrown-together thing into his pocket and looks a bit like someone who's forgotten why they decided to go somewhere.] That was easy.
It wasn't any fun though.
No, but..nobody died, and we didn't destroy their culture...and we didn't unleash an ancient evil by accident by pressing the big red button that says "Don't Press" and we got what we came for. [This has clearly been something festering in Rory for a while, because he's making frantic hand gestures by the end of it.] Asking WORKS.
Yeah, it works, and it's boring.
Rory's right! Everything went swimmingly and we might... not strictly speaking have anything to do now but when does a proper adventure start off with a checklist? [He's recovered from just a moment ago and throws an arm across Rory's shoulders.] And we've not broken anything or anyone or been stranded or I don't know, burned down a cathedral by accident when we were only trying to find some milk, or--
[He abruptly stops talking, having seen something, and bolts out of view, using Rory a bit as a springboard to do so. Rory catches himself from stumbling and looks at Amy who is frowning and looking after the Doctor.]
Where--?!
[At which point a unicorn stampedes past behind them, horn down, galloping after the Doctor. There is a moment of stunned silence, and then Amy runs after the unicorn, followed shortly by Rory.]
[ooc: Amy, Rory, Doctor.]
||7|| [Text]
Jun. 12th, 2011 01:34 pm[Filtered to Amy and the Doctor/Unhackable Except by Computer Geniuses]
I'm coming home. We need to put a plan together for this or...at least talk about it. Doctor, don't you dare run off and do this on your own.
[/filter]
I haven't been here long. Has this ever happened before? Are we being recruited as...smugglers? What's this about?
[ooc: Backdated slightly because he posted this pretty much directly after he got the deity announcement.]
I'm coming home. We need to put a plan together for this or...at least talk about it. Doctor, don't you dare run off and do this on your own.
[/filter]
I haven't been here long. Has this ever happened before? Are we being recruited as...smugglers? What's this about?
[ooc: Backdated slightly because he posted this pretty much directly after he got the deity announcement.]
||3|| [Audio/Flagged to the Deities]
May. 9th, 2011 07:29 pmHello...Deities. Hi. I'm Rory Williams.
I'm not sure if you or the City brought me here, but I might as well say that I'm new, so I don't have much firsthand knowledge, but I'm doing my best anyway. There's been a lot of stuff going on for a while, before I even got here, and some of it that just started around when I arrived. There was a clock that used to tick, apparently, and there aren't usually this many monsters about, and there have been other things, like the barrier going down and the carousel animals coming to life. So I have two questions.
First thing...do you lot know---I mean, can you stop this? Can you fix it? Because it's...sort of getting out of hand.
And if not that, then...do you at least...can you tell us why this is happening at all...cos....it'd be really helpful, knowing that.
...
...cheers.
I'm not sure if you or the City brought me here, but I might as well say that I'm new, so I don't have much firsthand knowledge, but I'm doing my best anyway. There's been a lot of stuff going on for a while, before I even got here, and some of it that just started around when I arrived. There was a clock that used to tick, apparently, and there aren't usually this many monsters about, and there have been other things, like the barrier going down and the carousel animals coming to life. So I have two questions.
First thing...do you lot know---I mean, can you stop this? Can you fix it? Because it's...sort of getting out of hand.
And if not that, then...do you at least...can you tell us why this is happening at all...cos....it'd be really helpful, knowing that.
...
...cheers.
The City is in a pandimensional nexus that somehow brings in people across the dimensions and times it has access to, which is all of them. Probably. People show up and leave fairly regularly without any apparent pattern. One of the guides (all of which I've printed out and stuck at the back, [Friar Carl p. 1]) says 'every other week' but I really haven't noticed that.
It doesn't have a name that anyone knows other than "The City", which, plus the other stuff, makes it sound like there are Time Lords involved. If there are, the Doctor either doesn't know about them, or he's not telling us, which are unfortunately equally likely scenarios. The actual nexus is bigger than the city in it, and includes a forest, a mountain, and an ocean that are reachable. Anything else in it is unknown due to a barrier surrounding the place in what is apparently a sort of dome shape, and possibly extends into a full sphere underground. I haven't asked about that yet, though.
The City centres around a Square, with most of the really important buildings in it. There are then 12 blocks of flats, all numbered, so that the City works something like a clock. [V p. 3] Building 12 is in the direction accepted as North in the City, but I haven't actually fiddled with a compass, yet, and I'm not even sure anything in here would correspond to magnetic north, like on Earth? There's essentially another City underneath the overground City that people call the Underground and is generally pretty big. Only when I first arrived, most of it had closed off, but I think it's gone back to normal, now.
Everyone gets a 'Network Device' when they arrive, which can look like a computer, or a tablet, or a phone, or occasionally it just fits itself into whatever device a person has on them when they show up. Like my Storm, which it actually added a button to the side of instead of just messing with the applications. Which could mean the City is just a bit backdated. The Network itself is essentially just the internet, only it's a lot smaller, due to only being formed by one city's input. Mostly, it's like a blogging network, with only a few sites. And no YouTube, which is actually more inconvenient than you think it's going to be, especially when you have a song stuck in your head.
About every two to three days, there are curses, which can change your mind or body, or your surroundings. Basically, anything can happen. They can last from one day, to three, to apparently a week. The Friar suggests having food and water on hand, presumably in case you get stuck inside, or would rather stay inside because of something awful happening outside, as well as clothing for the opposite sex (yourself, probably, curse-based), and a way to contact friends without thumbs (which sounds like a really inconvenient sort of curse) [Friar Carl p. 2]. Though, none of that matters, exactly, when I'm in the TARDIS, so I'd add a different note to keep in mind for curses, which is to have several notes for yourself around your home, explaining who you are, so that you might possibly think twice on a curse day when, for instance, you think you're a rapist. Possibly. Maybe a recorded message marked 'To Be Watched if People Are Acting Confused Around You At All'. Curses can generally be identified on the Network by devices mysteriously switching on. If someone's posted accidentally, it's either a curse or they've just arrived.
Dying is apparently impossible, sort of. You can actually physically die, but you'll always come back. At which point, you're called "City Dead" [Friar Carl, p. 3] and you're not quite alive anymore. Meaning that you CAN eat, drink and breathe but you don't have to, any injuries still heal, and you lose your heartbeat and a bit of your body temperature. Also, you can still die again. If you die at home, you can show up here, City Dead, but if you're City Dead, you can't go home.
There's a police force that enforces general sorts of...stereotypical laws, I think, so...probably murder isn't seen as all that great, or theft. But there's not actually...a real legal system? [Friar Carl, p. 5] Which probably doesn't make this place any more dangerous, really, because people who are going to break the law here are all going to do it anyway. And besides that, there's the fuzzy line of whether or not someone was cursed. Is someone really responsible for stealing if they were cursed to be a thief for the day? Basically, I don't fancy the job of anyone trying to make things a little more...lawful.
The City functions using the Gregorian calendar. And it's either actually synchronised with Amy and myself, or...about a year ahead, it's difficult to tell. TARDIS stuff. It still manages to take people from all sorts of time periods, so any synchronisation is probably pure coincidence.
Another bit that's just started up again, is the ticking. It comes from the Clock underground at the centre of the City. It's clearly relevant, as you can hear it wherever you are if you're alone, and it actually gets fiarly irritating, so it works like a sort of...socialisation device. But considering all the clock-related imagery here, there's clearly more to it than that. A lot of people seem to think that it's counting down to the end of time, but I don't think that's likely. Universes are probably always ending all over the place, and starting up again just as easily. None of that's synchronised. Or if it is, then....I'm sorry to all the other universes for what happened a few months ago. Anyway, if it's a countdown at all, it's more likely to be counting down the end of this place. And, alright, maybe this place is like a spoke in the wheel of...the multiverse and everything is going to fall apart once it's not here. But I think the multiverse is much more resilient than that.
The Deities
Locations
Events That Aren't Actually Curses
Curses
People in the City
Sources: Everyone I've talked to, for one, along with the guides of Elena, V, Lace[y], Light Yagami, and Friar Carl, and Riou's post on Exits.
It doesn't have a name that anyone knows other than "The City", which, plus the other stuff, makes it sound like there are Time Lords involved. If there are, the Doctor either doesn't know about them, or he's not telling us, which are unfortunately equally likely scenarios. The actual nexus is bigger than the city in it, and includes a forest, a mountain, and an ocean that are reachable. Anything else in it is unknown due to a barrier surrounding the place in what is apparently a sort of dome shape, and possibly extends into a full sphere underground. I haven't asked about that yet, though.
The City centres around a Square, with most of the really important buildings in it. There are then 12 blocks of flats, all numbered, so that the City works something like a clock. [V p. 3] Building 12 is in the direction accepted as North in the City, but I haven't actually fiddled with a compass, yet, and I'm not even sure anything in here would correspond to magnetic north, like on Earth? There's essentially another City underneath the overground City that people call the Underground and is generally pretty big. Only when I first arrived, most of it had closed off, but I think it's gone back to normal, now.
Everyone gets a 'Network Device' when they arrive, which can look like a computer, or a tablet, or a phone, or occasionally it just fits itself into whatever device a person has on them when they show up. Like my Storm, which it actually added a button to the side of instead of just messing with the applications. Which could mean the City is just a bit backdated. The Network itself is essentially just the internet, only it's a lot smaller, due to only being formed by one city's input. Mostly, it's like a blogging network, with only a few sites. And no YouTube, which is actually more inconvenient than you think it's going to be, especially when you have a song stuck in your head.
About every two to three days, there are curses, which can change your mind or body, or your surroundings. Basically, anything can happen. They can last from one day, to three, to apparently a week. The Friar suggests having food and water on hand, presumably in case you get stuck inside, or would rather stay inside because of something awful happening outside, as well as clothing for the opposite sex (yourself, probably, curse-based), and a way to contact friends without thumbs (which sounds like a really inconvenient sort of curse) [Friar Carl p. 2]. Though, none of that matters, exactly, when I'm in the TARDIS, so I'd add a different note to keep in mind for curses, which is to have several notes for yourself around your home, explaining who you are, so that you might possibly think twice on a curse day when, for instance, you think you're a rapist. Possibly. Maybe a recorded message marked 'To Be Watched if People Are Acting Confused Around You At All'. Curses can generally be identified on the Network by devices mysteriously switching on. If someone's posted accidentally, it's either a curse or they've just arrived.
Dying is apparently impossible, sort of. You can actually physically die, but you'll always come back. At which point, you're called "City Dead" [Friar Carl, p. 3] and you're not quite alive anymore. Meaning that you CAN eat, drink and breathe but you don't have to, any injuries still heal, and you lose your heartbeat and a bit of your body temperature. Also, you can still die again. If you die at home, you can show up here, City Dead, but if you're City Dead, you can't go home.
There's a police force that enforces general sorts of...stereotypical laws, I think, so...probably murder isn't seen as all that great, or theft. But there's not actually...a real legal system? [Friar Carl, p. 5] Which probably doesn't make this place any more dangerous, really, because people who are going to break the law here are all going to do it anyway. And besides that, there's the fuzzy line of whether or not someone was cursed. Is someone really responsible for stealing if they were cursed to be a thief for the day? Basically, I don't fancy the job of anyone trying to make things a little more...lawful.
The City functions using the Gregorian calendar. And it's either actually synchronised with Amy and myself, or...about a year ahead, it's difficult to tell. TARDIS stuff. It still manages to take people from all sorts of time periods, so any synchronisation is probably pure coincidence.
Another bit that's just started up again, is the ticking. It comes from the Clock underground at the centre of the City. It's clearly relevant, as you can hear it wherever you are if you're alone, and it actually gets fiarly irritating, so it works like a sort of...socialisation device. But considering all the clock-related imagery here, there's clearly more to it than that. A lot of people seem to think that it's counting down to the end of time, but I don't think that's likely. Universes are probably always ending all over the place, and starting up again just as easily. None of that's synchronised. Or if it is, then....I'm sorry to all the other universes for what happened a few months ago. Anyway, if it's a countdown at all, it's more likely to be counting down the end of this place. And, alright, maybe this place is like a spoke in the wheel of...the multiverse and everything is going to fall apart once it's not here. But I think the multiverse is much more resilient than that.
The Deities
Locations
Events That Aren't Actually Curses
Curses
People in the City
Sources: Everyone I've talked to, for one, along with the guides of Elena, V, Lace[y], Light Yagami, and Friar Carl, and Riou's post on Exits.
Deities [Off-Network]
Apr. 26th, 2011 09:31 pmThe Deities are a group that are very probably in charge. And if they're not in charge of everything, they're at least in charge of some things.
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Curses [Off-Network]
Apr. 26th, 2011 01:10 amI've sorted the curses by Aspects Affected to see if there's any pattern to what sorts are most likely. Mind is if the way a person is on the inside is affected. If someone thinks they hate someone else, or if they feel oddly obliged to post something on the Network, or do something else. Body is if something related to a person's physical...nature is affected. Like being turned into the opposite sex, or even your soul being physicalised as an animal. City is either when the City's environment is affected or if a device automatically posts something without the person knowing (not including accidental posts, it has to be the point of the curse).
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