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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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[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.

[chaos_and_curls]

Well then everyone should go on strike and see what happens. Anything to get attention. Anyway I want to see one of these temples come along, come along.

[he goes and then stops, whirling, hand to his forehead]

Oh no! No wait, I completely forgot. You said you came along with a friend, didn't you? Well I'm looking for one, too. Short. American. Goes by the name Perpugilliam Brown. Tell me if you spot her. Or hear her. [he taps his ear] She's rather shrill when she's got a mind to it. And she usually does.

[justanitgirl]

[She knows her well actually. It's almost like they grew up together. For a few seasons at least.] I'll keep an ear out. And she didn't come with me. Which is why I don't think your T.A - police box is here.

[chaos_and_curls]

[he gives her a long look before humming and starting ahead]

Yes, funny that. Oh well. She'd probably rather not when all is said and done. But that means I'm here by my lonesome and that's never any fun at all. Well it can be fun but not usually. [he wrinkles his nose]

You know I never really did fancy being a hermit. Oh it's an exotic lifestyle and all that but finding inner peace is not really my sort of thing.

[justanitgirl]

Yeah, you don't ... seem the type. [She's trying not to stare. Trying really hard, but it's hard.] Not everyone is outgoing, but there are Steph and I. We're pretty personable. Rey and Poe too, so you don't have to worry about hermetic life.

[chaos_and_curls]

You know, young lady, you seem awfully eager to fold me into your little group. If I wasn't full of charm, good looks, and entirely too much class for anyone's good, I would start to suspect something.

[justanitgirl]

[Ok, any other given time there would be totally fangirl and non-altruistic reasons. Here, however, they need to stick together as best as they can. Keep each other human - or, Gallifreyan, in this case. Actually, scratch that, most Gallifreyans were assholes. Keep him Doctor-like.] It's more of a kidnapee solidarity thing. We all want to go home, some of us are just more organized about it.