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TEST DRIVE MEME Prompt 1: Arrival Your first "day" Vernos Bay - at least, you assume it's daytime. The people are all out and going about their business, walking dogs, driving cars, operating their shops. There's no sunlight, however. No wind, no weather at all. Just this weird twilight, and you, a confused stranger who has no idea where they are or how they got here. Better find someone to help you get acclimated, and fast; people are starting to stare. Prompt 2: Festivus for the Rest of Us A festival seems to have broken out in the streets in honor of one of the gods. As the day wears on, things become rowdier and more jubilant. Join in the fun or hide from the carousing multitudes. Prompt 3: Choose your own adventure! Set up your own prompt for others to tag into!

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[chaos_and_curls]

1) [well, he is quite used to people staring. Obviously overawed by his magnificent taste in style. However, he's not entirely used to ending up in somewhere strange and new without having stepped out of something first-- So, he'll find the first person he comes across]

Excuse me. Where am I? Who are you? And have you seen a blue police box around? I seem to have misplaced it.


2) [well if there's going to be a festival, he's going to enjoy it no matter where he is! He grabs you around the shoulder, smiling] Have you tried this dandelion wine? It's fabulous! Those are no ordinary dandelions they put in here let me tell you.


3) [wild card! make your own scenario]

[justanitgirl]

[Felicity focused on other things rather than the festive mood in the streets. Otherwise, she might have dragged Oliver out in it. Having a festival date sounded nice. Instead, focused on housing and how to get the natives less abrasive when they learned that people weren't from their world. That is, she was until an arm wrapped around her and a voice she was almost as used to as her own (only coming from a TV) declared something about dandelions almost in her ear. Turning her head to the side where the voice came from she's stunned, wide-eyed, to see the face she would have expected to see with that voice. A face that, to her, is completely fictitious. A face she'd grown up with. With all of his faces in fact. She wants to scream. She wants to hug him. She wants to scream and hug him and tell him that she should be his next companion and that she'd more than willingly go with him wherever he wants to take her in the TARDIS.] I, uh, yeah. You'd, have to talk to Dick about that. [It's hard to talk when you're internally screaming inside and trying not to freak the man draping himself all over you by calling him his name and hugging him.]

[chaos_and_curls]

[he can cotton on to the microexpression a bit, but feels it's just because she's as into the festival as the rest of the ... sundry.]

And where can I find this Dick? For that matter, where can I find myself? I seem to have drunken a bit more than is good for me.

[justanitgirl]

[There's an incredibly childish part of her that laughs at the fact that she made The Doctor, her childhood hero ask where he could find dick. There's another part of her that realizes the gravity of the situation. And still, another that is STILL freaking out about the idea of THE Doctor draped over her. It's, kinda awesome. She won't lie to that.] That would be Vernos Bay, and you were probably kidnapped here. We all were. Or maybe it's more indentured servitude into pho-godhood. It's complicated.

[chaos_and_curls]

Ooh, you know I don't like being kidnapped. The intention is never a good one and never my own. [faux godhood? indentured anything? Not him]

Well, Vernos Bay it is then. Care to come with me and finger the culprit?

[justanitgirl]

[Please Doctor, please whisk her away in your TARDIS!]

I would if I could, but sadly, I can't. We don't know who did it. I can offer you a place to stay though. We've got blankets and games and I would love to hear all about what you do when you're not kidnapped into some weird godplace.

[chaos_and_curls]

Thank you, but no thank you. I've got a place of my own if I can find where I've left it. [he lets her go and leans back a bit] Don't suppose you've seen a blue police box around have you?

[and as much as he'd like to fill her in, talking about it could be quite tedious. He'd rather show her]

[justanitgirl]

[She winces. Hating to be the one who has to tell her this. Really, couldn't someone else tell him that the love of his life (other than River Song) isn't here?] It might not be here. It's, complicated, but you might not have been brought with it.

[chaos_and_curls]

Really? [he shoves his hands in his pockets and eyes her] And how do you know that? [since she seems so conveniently full of information for someone randomly met on the street. Or, perhaps, not so random]

[justanitgirl]

[She sees that look. She knows it well, and she can't blame him with all the bad information she's been giving him.]

Because the last thing I remember before showing up here was holding onto a friend of mine. She didn't come with me, so it stands to reason that what you're looking for might not have come either. A lot of us didn't come with what we had on us.

[chaos_and_curls]

Hmmm. I feel like you're not being entirely truthful with me. [he gently beeps her nose] Or at least holding something back. But what I can't figure out is why. [he peers at her] Who are you anyway? What's your role in all this?

[justanitgirl]

[When he beeps her nose she scrunches it, the crease between her eyebrows crinkles for a moment. Why was he so amazing? Right, because he's The Doctor and he was always amazing.] Felicity Smoak. [One of your biggest fans. She holds out her hand instead of saying that.] Fellow kidnapee.

[chaos_and_curls]

The Doctor. [he takes that hand and shakes it] I'd say the pleasure is mine but despite the wine I'm not very happy.

[he smiles nevertheless]

So tell me, Felicity Smoak, what do you know about this place?

[justanitgirl]

[Oh god, she's shaking hands with The Doctor. Why can't she tell Ray about this? It's kinda unfair.] Not much. We've all been kidnapped. The residents - [She points to the ones reveling without worry.] either don't know anything or won't say anything, and we're apparently expected to take thrones. If we don't then things don't work. Like, plants wouldn't grow until someone took the throne of agriculture.

[chaos_and_curls]

I can't say I'm interested in that. Well! [he claps his hands together and rubs them] Let's find some trouble to get into and see who comes out of the woodwork. Anything particularly forbidden to do?

[justanitgirl]

Other than asking the natives about things? Not really. Even that just gets avoidance and weird looks.

Maybe defacing a temple, but we sort of need those.

[chaos_and_curls]

Do we need them? Why is that?

[because honestly, while he usually wasn't into defacing local religious artifacts, it's not difficult to do something that won't cause long term damage and he also isn't particularly fond of getting kidnapped. To say they had it coming was merely part of the consequences]

[justanitgirl]

If someone doesn't take the throne for say, fire, we get no fire. Nothing burns or smolders or anything.

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[heirtonothing]

[ It takes Zelda a second to realize he’s talking to her, and then another for her to parse the questions. It was a lot all at once. ]

Ah, I’m Zelda, of Hyrule. This town is called Vernos Bay. And... I haven’t the slightest idea what a police box is. I can’t think of any blue boxes I’ve seen recently, but... what does ‘police’ mean?

[chaos_and_curls]

Oh well Police. Hmmm. [he tugs his lapels.] That's an interesting question. I suppose for this purpose it means: 'someone who helps'. And I do, generally, help. Though some people would say I interfere.

[he smiles]

The Doctor, pleased to meet you, Zelda of Hyrule. How do you do?

[heirtonothing]

"The Doctor"?

[ She just wants to be clear. That's a name, not just a profession, right? ]

I am well enough. I have a great deal of work to do, but it's work that needs doing.

[ So she doesn't mind it. In fact, she actively seeks it out. ]

I suppose you're not as well, having lost your... box.

[chaos_and_curls]

And what is you do. No! Don't tell me. Nuclear Physicist. You have that look. [he puts his hands in his pockets and rocks back on his heels.]

And wellll yes and no. She'll turn up eventually or I'll find her. I'm not worried. [not that he'll say anyway]

[heirtonothing]

[ She stares at him, startled by the assessment. Mostly because- ]

I don't know what either of those words mean.

[ And she's done a fair amount of research into the history of this world. As to the box being female... maybe it's like a ship? Men are always calling ships 'she'. ]

[chaos_and_curls]

Well, a physicist is someone who studies physics. The study of the motion of things. For instance, they try to understand why a ball would roll down a slope and what would happen should it hit a train coming in the opposite direction. [he tugs his lapels and thinks]

As for Nuclear-- that is talking about the very nucleus of the cell. The energy center of the cell which is an essential component of everything that exists around you. From yourself to the air you breathe. Unless of course you're anti-matter which is an entirely different branch all together.

Understand?

[heirtonothing]

[ She growns a little deeper with every additional explanation. she's hear about trains, but doesn't know anything about cells, or anti-matter, or how or why someone would study such things. ]

I... I think so? It's some manner of scholar, isn't it?