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I feel near dead...thanks. Bryce and K-9 are our best bets to get this shut down...but they'll never get past the tentacles without our help Are there few enough tentacles that if one or two grappled Kyle, the others would have an advantage to get past the remaining ones? If so, he'll put himself into harms reach to act as a distraction.
Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay in posting. I was out of town with limited internet access. I'll get caught up.
I told you that was an excellent idea!
Kyle follows the brig closely. This is clearly not “business as usual! What is going on!
Kyle follows after the Brig, getting caught up along the way. Something major is happening, and I’m pretty sure it’s alien related. What aren’t you telling us about this project?
Kyle snaps back into the present. He takes a couple seconds to understand where he is. Ted...I think there’s something very wrong with my brain. Where is everyone?
Kyle doesn't answer. He can't answer. He's a million miles away and an unknown number of years.
They're all dead...all of them. We were too late. We...we need to go back. whispers Kyle, though he doesn't seem to be responsive at all.
Kyle grits his teeth. He can’t let Bryce get hurt! Kyle is going to try to find a mirror to break the laser’s path.
Kyle takes cover. He’s NOT equipped to fight a plant monster.
Kyle nods slowly at Ted. Yes. Yes I do. Something was very, very wrong with this mediator. His obvious disguise was a big tip off. Kyle extended his mind, hoping to get a read off of his true thoughts.
Probably a good idea. No sense in attracting more attention.
I agree with Bryce. Other than a general concept of "if the Doctor sent us here, something must be shady" we have no reason to be suspicious. Let's not make ourselves bad guests.
Kyle roots through the boxes. Of all the things that could have been in this box...DIY hang gliders was pretty low on the list. He looks at the glider, then out the window towards Neox, then back to the glider. Hey...I have a terrible idea...
Kyle nods slowly at both Bryce and K-9. Yeah...yeah that makes sense. Yeah. Ok, I'm good. He eyes the chests on the walls. Does anyone know how to pick a lock?
Well, that’s a whole other thing that I’m shocked that I’m just barely not freaking out about. You’re a constructed intelligence! Are you unique in your time or are sentient machines the norm? Are humans still around or do you come from a post-humanity future where machines are the dominant life form? Kyle has been having a very difficult day. He’s going through all the “first time companion” jitters without the oddly reassuring manic energy of the Doctor and the full weight of “travel through time and space is possible” is sort of hitting him all at once.
Organizations like this all share the same security gap. Fear of getting in trouble. If you look like the kind of person who ought not be troubled, you won’t be troubled. You don’t have mobiles yet, but when you do, it will change your whole profession! Talking angrily into a mobile while walking quickly, there’s no place you can’t walk into. Kyle pauses for a moment Should I not have told you about mobiles? Am I changing history by sharing information to someone from the past? Oh, but Bryce is from the future...is he changing his past by sharing information with me? Are we jeopardizing our timelines by working together like this?
Kyle leads the group back upstairs, acting doubly annoyed. ”...Either upstairs or downstairs...” well obviously it’s one or the other, isn’t it? I swear I’ll have someone’s balls for this...
And another thing, does this place not have any bloody lifts, are we expected to just clomp up these stairs like... He trails off as they leave the guard’s earshot.
Why would they remodel a dungeon they’re not using...and why would they guard an empty room?
Long ago, Kyle read an article about how a person walking with purpose, looking busy and acting like the don’t have time for your nonsense can go just about anywhere. He decided to try it.
He gives a polite but dismissive nod toward the guard and attempts to open the door.
Kyle follows Bryce downstairs. But that doesn’t make any sense! Are you saying that the doctor never goes anywhere in the universe at the same time as he was in a different place in the universe? That’s not possible.
My preference is to make as few waves as possible. UNIT is barely tolerating our presence as is. Besides, it’s not like we’re in a rush. We have a time machine. If we get something wrong or run out of time, can’t we just go back and try again?
Excuse me, Bryce...I think you’re using it wrong. That round thing is a knob, not a button.
He nods, weakly. I’m good. Just had one of my episodes. Short one, thankfully.
Kyle looks stricken again, like he did when he first set foot on the TARDIS. It passes quickly, but it takes a lot out of him. It’s hard for him to separate the doctor’s thoughts from the flashback. Are they related on more than just a thematic level? Is the Golden promise on the level? He collects himself, hopefully before anyone else notices.
As Bryce asks the question, Kyle tries to read Dr. Frutiger’s mind, to see if he answers differently externally than he does internally.
Suddenly a little embarrassed, realizing that he’s not the one from “modern time” but one of many people all from different times. Quietly he mutters It’s slang for...a penis.
Kyle leans over to Ted. Is this organization really called “UNIT? Do they...do they not know what that means?
Kyle gives a little wave Hi I’m Kyle. I’m here by mistake but I’m hoping to help. We landed the TARDIS on your simulator, but not on purpose. We can move it if you want us to. I’d hate to be an imposition.
Kyle sheepishly follows the guards. He’s too shaken to try to read any minds right now.
Kyle shakes himself out of his reverie and starts pulling K-9 in. Everyone grab the tenticle and pull!
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Kyle frets and paces. Are they going to make him do a space walk? He certainly can’t just sit back and let everyone else endanger their lives, but... He didn’t know the Doctor. Not like everyone else did. But he could tell that the Doctor was important. Greater than that, he knew the Doctor wouldn’t hesitate if the tables were turned. He took a deep breath, grabbed the rope and stepped out.
Kyle tentatively pokes his head out the door. Could this...structure be what we're looking for?
Kyle gapes at the earth spinning below. What...how is this...how is this possible? He looks helplessly at the others, who seem to be taking this in stride. Is this sort of thing normal to you people?
Kyle follows cautiously behind. He’s seriously out of his depth...
This locates places in the target's timeline that have yet to be erased and by going to such places, and getting close enough to events influenced by the target
Well...that's not good. Doctor, you mentioned something tried to eat the paradox the last time you and...err...you were in the same place, with this whole "Shada" business. That probably means you can't follow the temporal trace locator yourself to gather the data, because you'd cross your own timeline repeatedly. We'll have to do it for you. He thinks for a moment. Oh! And since you don't remember any of this, we can't let you see us at any of those moments! Otherwise you'd already know how this happens and where the attacks occur. He looks to the more seasoned time travelers, to see if this tracks with their understanding of time travel.
Kyle rushes to the Doctor’s side. Doctor, are you ok? Are you having terrible flashbacks to traumatic events you don’t consciously remember? He looks up at the others What? The symptoms are the same!
Wait, wait wait wait. I think we’ve made a terrible mistake. Your TARDIS picked us up, told us you were in trouble. And I think we skipped ahead...or back. You’re not the same Doctor who was in trouble...
Kyle looks over to see who is calling out. Is it a face he recognizes, even in the dim recesses of his mind?
Not in the 70s, no.
Kyle grits his teeth, but keeps things together. Is the office occupied?
I didn’t mean to offend, Mr. Nine. I just didn’t want to disrupt time by introducing a sentient robot dog into the 70s.
You’re part right...but why would the Doctor give himself a book?
We don't, but we share a mutual friend and we wanted to introduce ourselves. Kyle will let Chris knock on Professor Chronotis' (who Kyle is convinced is also Doctor Tempus) door. |
