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The Doctor (fromgallifrey) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-04-05 21:49:00

Current location:	The Carnival
Entry tags:	!complete, andy gallagher, cheryl mason, day 03, george lass, jay, lexie grey, location: carnival, luna lovegood, open, river tam, sam winchester, shannon rutherford, shizuka domeki, silent bob, the doctor (ten)

Day 2: Mid-Day

Who: The Doctor and OPEN TO ALL
What: A meeting at the Carnival
Where: The Ferris Wheel
When: Let's say Mid-Day, shall we?
Rating: Possibly as high as PG-13 I'd guess, for language
OOC: To keep this organized if you want to start your own 'sub group' at the meeting, please start a thread beneath the main one. Characters are open to jump into any sub-thread as this is a public place; however, please be polite and do not be in multiple active sub-threads at once! If you want to leave your subthread for another please post your character exiting the one thread so people don't wait for you to post in it.)

The Doctor had slept uneasily. It had been a long, long time since the Tme Lord had been unable to get a restful night's sleep. He think of a handful of times that he'd been unable to get comfortable or shut his mind off or just relax - but it was never quite as pronounced as this. The Doctor, waking from his slumber in the back of a bumper car. The night hadn't been too cold, and there was just something strangely amusing about falling asleep in the confines of a useless vehicle.

What wasn't so amusing was the way the Doctor had been awaken with a jolt as the car started moving. "What?!" Came a near yelp as the Doctor struggled to sit up in the car. Looking left and right the gallifreyan threw himself out of the car and onto the slippery mat. "What?!" He said again, ducking out of the path of an oncoming vehicle. This was beyond strange. There hadn't been any electricity before now. The Doctor wondered if the sudden source could be used to charge generators and batteries. Heading out with a dash he looked around - the carnival seemed suddenly quiet once more.

He found himself at the foot of the Ferris Wheel, which was stagnant and looming. He didn't like the feel of it suddenly. He hadn't been terribly at unease for a while; but, now he was feeling like a rat in a maze. Why would things come alive so suddenly? Taking out his journal the Doctor penned a note, making sure to remind everyone of the meeting they had planned. He'd need them all if they were to harvest any of the batteries from the bumper cars before they became useless. Taking up a seat on a bench the Doctor thought - where in the world could we get a screwdriver?

Setting his elbows to his knees the Doctor leaned forward and tried to relax. People would come, and when they did he'd be able to better think of ways to escape.

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brokengirl
2009-04-06 01:41 pm UTC (link)

River had slept in the theater where Cheyrl had offered her to go to. She took up two seats in the audience, her legs hanging over the elbow rest between them. It had taken her an awfully long time to fall asleep the night before. With the combination of her shoulder still throbbing, though she was lucky to finally get some stiches, and the fact that she was nervous to have something like that happen again to her.

After some hours River awoke again, her biological clock was starting to get rather messed up. Though she could not force herself to go asleep again. She began drawing in her journal again, needing something to do to occupy her time as she waited for Cheryl to wake up. She noticed an entry by the Doctor. Reading it and finding the idea of a meeting interesting she swung her legs over the elbow rest and quietly walked out the door of the theater.

It took her a bit to find the carnival area. The only places she had been before were the drug store, library, and woods. Though she was able to find it by reading and finding the Doctor. "Hello." she said to the Doctor, still holding Inara's old robe in her hands as she stared up at the ferris wheel. "They made it move." she stated calmly at the wheel.

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fromgallifrey
2009-04-06 07:58 pm UTC (link)

The Doctor had been off in his own little world; face to the ground and forehead being rubbed absent mindedly by his fingertips. The Doctor was currently trying to determine how best to generate a wave of sonic energy without the risk of blowing out people's ear drums. It had to be possible. It just had to be. There had to be little bitty transmissions in the cars and those transmissions held little sparks of energy for a short while. The short while was starting to expire, actually.

"Hello," he heard from a feminine voice, causing his head to perk up.

"Well, hello," The Doctor replied, standing from the bench and walking up beside her. "Did they? I must have been really out of it... They'd switched on the bumper cars this morning," he rattled, scratching his head. "I'm the Doctor, by the way," he said with a smile and extended his hand. "Which of them are you?" He asked referring to the journal writers.

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brokengirl
2009-04-06 11:43 pm UTC (link)

River stared at his hand for a moment, her head slowly tilting to one side. "I am River." she said as she reached to shake his hand. The casual greeting to some had not often been betwoed upon her before.

Letting go of his hand she put the silk robe back one, being careful to mind her stiches. Staring back up at the wheel as she pulled her hair out she again tilted her head. "They did. They started it up again." she said answering his question though it had to be plainly obvious since the ferris wheel was moving right in front of them.

"You're the one who spoke of hope. Tell me, when did it stop a genocide?" she questioned, looking back at him, as she remembered what he had mentioned before in the journals.

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fromgallifrey
2009-04-07 12:17 am UTC (link)

"Nice to finally meet you, River," he said with his genuinely warm smile. It was impossible for him to clam up that smile of his. Even in the face of an annoying circumstance, it was always nice to meet someone new.

He blinked couple of times. The Ferris Wheel was moving. As the beast lumbered along the Doctor grinned, "All we have to do now is wait for everyone else so we can work out a plan to harness and store the energy. I think the bumper cars have small batteries in them...." The Doctor paused to breathe and listen.

"Yes, me and hope, good friends," his smile faded lass from one of friendliness to one of fondness. "Oh, humanity had been enslaved, actually. It was hope and a single word that got them out of their bind. As much as I hate remembering that time; it's actually a very inspiring period," reflecting a moment on the year that never was with it's pain and it's fear and it's hurt - that lone moment of hope shone through like a beacon.

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brokengirl
2009-04-07 06:13 pm UTC (link)

"Yes. Face to the name." she thought of his, a small smile formed on her face for a moment, "Nothing more than the Doctor. Why is that?"

River slowly looked over the different rides in the carnival area. "Seperate machines. Seperate batteries. All lead to the same electricity. All lead to one control. A part of each other, though different when alone." she said as she analyzed the different rides as a whole. Though she did intend it to mean more than just the rides, she was also thinking of all of the people who were already there and the three who had recently arrived. She could see them all.

"Hope. Friends? Hope is an emotion. Is it also the name of a person you know?" she reached up and grabed one of the bars on the side of the ferris wheel and leaned away from it, as she listened to him. "Humanity is still enslaved, technically. 'Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.'" she quoted from a song she had heard Jayne sing before, "People don't like being told what to do. Don't walk. When to sleep. When to eat. What to eat. They knows all. They control all. Soon people will rebel. Though won't know what to do afterwards." she was partially answering him as well as thinking of the different arguments back from the Academy.

"Inspiring period. You travel." her head tilted as she began to try to read him. "Your machine. It isn't here?" she wondered the last part as she tried to look around again. "What time period are you currently speaking about? What others have you been to?" she said looking back at him again, the more she read in him the more curious she became; almost enough to forget her curiosities of his ideas of hope before, but yet not enough.