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Leonard 'Bones' McCoy (bones_mccoy) wrote in labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-06-17 21:23:00

Entry tags:

arrival, complete, day twelve, leonard mccoy, ned the piemaker

WHO: Bones and OPEN (Ned)
WHAT: The doctor's in da house, yo!
WHEN: Day 12, late morning
WHERE: The middle of the Snakes and Ladder board
WARNINGS: PG, if that.
STATUS: Complete

He was going to kill that damn green-blooded hobgoblin. And it would be justifiable homicide, too, he was convinced of that. Now, if only he could get rid of the ethics that held him back from actually doing such a thing, that would work out fine. Because of Spock, he'd had to watch as his best friend was abandoned on a hostile planet. Kirk would probably get frostbite, at the very least. He'd always have to wonder if he'd made the right choice, standing back and letting it happen. Of course, if he hadn't, he was sure that the Enterprise would be down it's Chief Medical Officer, as well, since he would have been sent down right alongside Kirk. That was just the sort of bastard Spock was.

He stared after the half Vulcan with hatred and annoyance undisguised on his face. The acting Captain had told him to speak his mind, and he had. But Spock, so smugly secure in his rightness, hadn't even listened, as far as the doctor could tell. Oh, if it weren't the the bloody 'chain of command', he would have a few things to say to him, that was for damn sure.

Disgusted, he turned away, meaning to go back to his station on the bridge. He had work to do. And sulking. He didn't like to think about what Kirk could be up to down there without his stabilizing influence. Lost in his thoughts, he was taken by surprise, and didn't even notice the hole that opened up beneath his feet. He stepped right into it and fell through nothing to finally land. It was solid ground, so that was a bonus. It was obviously not a ship. But it was ground unlike anything he'd ever seen before.

His first, highly uncharitable thought was that Spock had really gotten himself into trouble this time. He must have beamed him off the ship, just like he had Kirk, only Bones hadn't done anything wrong. He was going to get that pointy-eared bastard busted back to ensign. He smirked to himself, and then looked around. First things first. He needed to find out where he was, then get to a place where he could lodge a formal complaint to Starfleet.

So he looked around for other people, someone to ask directions from. It was a strange sort of place, he decided. He was standing in the middle of a square, which was part of a larger grid. There were odd designs on some of the squares, they looked like snakes, actually, and others that looked to be ladders. The doctor took a cautious step into the next square, which had a snake tail in it. He would examine it, see what significance, if any, it had. Maybe it was just a decoration.

The second both feet were in the square, though, he was sliding along the ground, down the snakes body. His eyes widened and he looked for something to grab, but there was nothing. The odd thing was, the ground was completely flat. He shouldn't have slid along it at all. Finally, he came to a rest in the place where the snakes head was, and decided that, yes, he was annoyed.

"What the damn hell?"

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bakersman
2009-06-18 01:04 pm UTC (link)

Okay, so game boards weren't exactly Ned's thing. In fact, Ned didn't like most things. But after staying hidden most of the previous day, first because of the singing and then because of that awful Pandora woman telling the world his deepest secret, he needed to get out. And when he found what, exactly, was waiting outside... Well, he couldn't help but be curious.

Jareth had outdone himself that time. It only took a time or two around the complex to figure out what he'd done. Game boards? What would he think of next? Better not to ask.

Shoots and ladders, too. Oh, the snakes version. Snakes and ladders. If it weren't so irritating to be there in the first place, Ned would've been fascinated. It was sort of amazing to think that he could do it in the first place. But why did it have to be him? Sighing, Ned climbed one of the ladders just to see what would happen. And what happened was he came face-to-face with an obviously annoyed man. "Oh, you know the board game, right? Kids game, Snakes and Ladders?" Wait. He hadn't seen this face around, had he? Ned got out so rarely it was hard to tell. "Are... Have you been here long?"

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bones_mccoy
2009-06-18 04:10 pm UTC (link)

Some board games would probably be around pretty much forever, like Chess. But Snakes and Ladders wasn't one of them, and, being from the future, the doctor had no idea what was going on. Even the version of Chess here would have seemed hopeless primitive. So he swore softly under his breath, looking around, with absolutely no clue what he was supposed to. If he took a step, was he going to go flying again? Or was it just the ones with the snakes on them?

His attention was pulled away from his thoughts by the approach of a man. He seemed to be a completely ordinary man, didn't have any obvious alien features, anyway, so he relaxed a little. Wherever he was, at least it was a human place. From observing him, he was able to tell one thing. If the snakes made you slide down, the ladders let you climb up this strange grid.

How ridiculously simple.

"It strikes me as a kids game." His head tilted to the side slightly as he looked at the other man, and then gestured with his head. "I think I've been kicked off my damn ship. Can you tell me where the hell I am?" Straight to the point, that was sort of the way he was.