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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.
