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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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tufui_egoeris
2009-04-12 01:03 am UTC (link)

The sound of someone calling from that close caused Cheryl to jump a little and, much to her embarrassment, she even uttered a small sound of surprise. One of her hands, white knuckled and tense, gripped even more tightly on the pole connecting the horse behind which she had been standing to the roof of the carousel and Cheryl played briefly with the idea of simply staying hidden until the owner of the voice passed along. The thought of hiding was only reinforced when she noticed that the stranger, a woman a little bit older than Cheryl herself, appeared to be wearing scrubs but Cheryl soon dismissed the idea as just further stupidity; how was she ever supposed to survive this if she just kept hiding from everyone?

"Hello," Cheryl called in answer. She moved slowly and carefully until she was standing where she could easily be seen from the other woman's perspective and she even lifted a single hand in something of a vague wave. "Here for the meeting, I take it?"

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skipped3rdgrade
2009-04-12 08:06 pm UTC (link)

"Hello," Lexie echoed, more warmly than her initial greeting. She spied as the figure came out from the merry-go-round and noticed that she wasn't too much different in age than she was.

"Yeah, I uh, read something in this..." She said, reaching into the slightly lighter pack to wave the journal around. The first stop she'd made once she'd been on her own was to that thrift shop to drop off that breast pump. If somebody needed it, they'd have to find it there because Lexie certainly felt a little mortified at the thought of having one. She really hoped someone wasn't trying to tell her something.

"I'm Lexie," she said with a meek smile. She felt off balance here, and it was hard to sort of regain it at the moment. She was in a weird ass place. A really weird ass place. "Where are we?" She just had to introduce the elephant in the room, really.

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tufui_egoeris
2009-04-13 03:00 pm UTC (link)

"The journals?" Cheryl asked as she narrowed her eyes slightly at the book which the woman was waving about. She nodded slightly and gestured in some vague direction to her left from which a few voices seemed to be coming. "Yea, I think that Doctor guy put something in there about the meeting. I don't think it's really started, though, since there's only a few others hanging around."

"I'm Cheryl," she traded name for name with a slight nod and a faint smile. The part about it being nice to meet Lexie, though perhaps true, was left unsaid since it would only come off as false in any situation like this one. Cheryl did have to blink slightly at the directness of the latter question but she soon laughed and shook her head. "Your guess is as good as anyone's. The kit things we got when we woke up had Vas Captio on it but that could be a name, a hint, a puzzle - who really knows?" She paused a moment and then offered Lexie something of a sympathetic look. "Is this your first day here?"

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skipped3rdgrade
2009-04-14 07:44 pm UTC (link)

"There's another doctor here?" She asked, furrowing her brow. Instinctively her arms crossed her midsection. She really hoped it wasn't someone she knew.

Lexie listened a moment, hearing what she guessed could be voices from a ways off. "I just woke up with a couple of guys in the woods," well, one normal guy and one really weird one.

Shifting in the rubbery-plastic green shoes she chewed her lip. "So, wait, nobody knows where we are, and there are other people here, too? Well, somebody has to be looking for us..." It just didn't make logical sense for a bunch of people to be dropped in the woods and for the police not to be looking for them. To Lexie, the woods looked just like the ones in Seattle, so, it wouldn't be long until someone started combing the woods, or hiking and biking, or something.

Though, Lexie didn't remember any weird towns in the middle of the Seattle words. That little point was unfortunate.

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tufui_egoeris
2009-04-14 08:51 pm UTC (link)

"Two other doctors, I think," Cheryl corrected absently. She shook her head and made a small, futile gesture with her hands. "I haven't met either of them yet, but one just goes by the Doctor and I think the other is called Martha...something. Couldn't tell you her last name." She paused a moment upon realizing that this meant that they now had three doctors, of some sort or another, in their little compound and, though it seemed a far reach, she couldn't help but wonder. "You wouldn't happen to know anyone like that, huh? No chance that you guys have anything in common..." Because that would be just too large a coincidence and there was little chance of anything that lucky happening, right?

Cheryl nodded sympathetically to Lexie's description of how she had awakened in the woods. "Yea, I think that's how most of us woke up - in the woods with one or two other people. No one's really managed to figure out how new bodies keep getting in without anyone realizing, though." Another slight connection to her personal mist town theory but the connections were still too slight, too dubious to really be mentioned just yet. Besides, the brightness of a day like this one made it a bit hard for her to put too much faith in her own thoughts.

"Yea, that sounds about right. We can't even start to guess where, or in some cases when, this is and there doesn't seem to be any information booth or anyone willing to answer questions." The frustration at these facts showed clearly in the tone of her voice and she began to pace a bit along the edge of the dais. "Sure, there might be large search parties out looking for us - but they gotta get past the glass walls first."

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skipped3rdgrade
2009-04-15 07:34 pm UTC (link)

"Two?" Lexie looked still quite surprised. "Nobody I know would just go by Doctor, and the only Martha I know was a girl in my sophomore year philosophy class." The girl Lexie knew had sat in the second middle of the class, yet always insisted that she leave first. Something told Lexie that she wasn't really the doctor sort.

"So, there's lots of other people?" She asked, perking as she noticed the smattering of voices and people scattered about. There seemed to be quite a few people. Waaay too many people for this to just be some freak thing, right? The sort of thing that somebody planned and went all out on...

Lexie felt nauseous.

"Glass walls?" Lexie was feeling claustrophobic. Lexie instinctively reached out to prop herself against a rusty bench. "Who puts up glass walls? How do you even do that?"

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tufui_egoeris
2009-04-15 08:23 pm UTC (link)

"I think it was two, last tally," Cheryl nodded slightly. She did frown briefly at the fact that this doctor apparently didn't know the others but, well, it had been something of a long shot; she couldn't really guess how many people from a common place where hanging around but she had the feeling that there weren't really all that many.

"Yea, someone was taking a census before, but I don't think it's really all that accurate anymore," she reached absently for her journal but then happened to remember that she'd left it behind when she left to come here. "I think the last count was something like...fifteen? Something like that, anyway."

"God knows, but the jerks responsible for this place apparently figured out a way to put them up all around. I haven't seen the walls for myself, but there were a few people writing about it in the journals earlier." She shook her head and offered Lexie a slightly wan smile. "Sorry to lay this all on you right off - I know it sucks to have to hear that you're stuck in the middle of nowhere with complete strangers."

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skipped3rdgrade
2009-04-16 04:49 pm UTC (link)

Crossing her arms Lexie found herself feeling cold despite the sunshine. There was a glass wall around this place. A wall. They were enclosed. Totally enclosed. From the best Lexie could tell they were trapped.

"Why would someone do this? I mean, I'm just an intern, not even a resident yet. The only accomplishment I have is skipping third grade..." She shrugged, perhaps that wasn't entirely true; but, it wasn't like she was the ruler of the free world or a millionaire for crying out loud.

"Where were you before here? I mean, I was just observing a surgery - a craniotomy, actually. I wasn't even doing the procedure. I mean, I guess I could have nodded off.." Knitting her brows together Lexie realized she'd asked a question and not even let the other girl answer. That certainly wasn't fair. "Sorry..." She apologized, shaking her head, "I have a tendency to ramble when I'm nervous."

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tufui_egoeris
2009-04-16 06:07 pm UTC (link)

"I dunno. I can almost see the draw in pulling doctors and that sort of person, but what would anyone care about some high school kids and slackers?" It was getting increasingly difficult for Cheryl to hide her frustration at the situation and she had never been entirely great at holding her temper in check during the best of times - but she was making the effort not to unload the full bulk of her emotion on Lexie. "I mean, if they're going for ransom or whatever, wouldn't they just pull in world leaders or important politicians or something?"

Then again, Cheryl had personally moved past the idea that this was some sort of ransom scheme to the idea that this was some sick sort of joke - but she wasn't sure she wanted to share that with too many of the others. Instead, she just shook her head in response to Lexie's apology. "Hey, that's fine. No reason to apologize for nervous tics, especially at a time like this."

"I was in...Portland before this," Cheryl answered carefully, with a slight shake of her head. "Waiting for the bank to open so I could catch a bus, yea, but I sort of doubt that there are any direct lines from downtown Portland to the middle of a creepyass forest."

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skipped3rdgrade
2009-04-19 08:07 pm UTC (link)

It was nice for Lexie to see that she and Cheryl were on the same page - this whole situation didn't make a lick of sense. Lexie, was certainly convinced that whoever was putting this shindig together needed a little help with their planning - because they certainly weren't going to get millions from her friends and family.

"Portland? I was in Seattle," she liked the idea that she wasn't the only person from the North West. It was sort of comforting to think someone came from a similar place. "I think you're probably right," she said with a smile and a subtle laugh to Cheryl's joke.

The voices around them were getting higher in number and Lexie started to notice that people were sort of gathering here and there - some looking like they had known each other for a while - others still kind of standoffish as if they'd only just met their companion.

"Creepy ass forest with a creepy ass town with a creepy ass carnival," she rolled her eyes and shook her head. "It just keeps getting weirder..."

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tufui_egoeris
2009-04-19 10:16 pm UTC (link)

"Seattle? I always wanted to visit. I was about this close to talking--" Cheryl allowed her words to trail away with a slight shake of her head. It seemed almost morbid to talk, now, of the cities and towns which they'd left behind and, personally, Cheryl wasn't entirely enthusiastic about drudging up what had just so recently been left behind. "Er, I know this is gonna sound like a majorly messed up thing to ask, but what year was it before you left - left Seattle, I mean?"

The sound of nearby voices drew her attention and Cheryl turned her head to glance at a few small groupings of people gathered here and there. A few of the faces were familiar enough, but she was a bit sad to notice some whom she couldn't identify; apparently, whoever was in charge of all of this hadn't yet finished pulling people in for whatever its purpose might be.

"The worst part about it?" She laughed faintly at Lexie's last comment. "I don't think we've seen anything yet."

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skipped3rdgrade
2009-04-21 06:40 pm UTC (link)

"Well, when we get out of here consider it an open invitation," she said genuinely, wondering just how well George was keeping the apartment with her not there to do the dishes. He never did the dishes, it drove her nuts.

"We what?" It took Lexie a moment to realize what Cheryl was saying. She'd glanced at the journal, she'd seen things about animals and people going missing. It didn't sit well with her. She thought they were all just stories - then again, this was in there and this wasn't just some rambily story.

"I can't think like that. This is the bottom and we're on our way up from here," and from the look on Lexie's face, it wasn't that she necessarily believed what she was saying - she needed to believe it. There was no way things could continue like this. They couldn't get worse.

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tufui_egoeris
2009-04-21 08:50 pm UTC (link)

"I might take you up on that," Cheryl responded to the open invitation with a smile and a nod but, in her own thoughts, she was beginning to doubt that there would be a 'when we get out of here'. Instead of bringing that pessimistic thought to light, she chose to return the invitation - even if she wasn't sure that the apartment she'd left behind would be open to her should she go back to it. "The offer goes both ways, too, if you ever find yourself in Portland after all of this."

"Yea, a few people got taken in their sleep and they were apparently tied up in the forest a few days ago," Cheryl nodded to the journal but she really didn't feel the need to say much more; even if Cheryl was fairly sure that they hadn't yet seen anything even near the bottom, she wasn't about to disabuse Lexie of any latent optimism. As such, she nodded to the last comment. "At least we have strength in numbers; it's gotta be harder to take us by surprise if there's this many of us."

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skipped3rdgrade
2009-04-24 08:48 pm UTC (link)

"Great," Lexie said genuinely. She hopped that if Cheryl did ever come to visit that she wouldn't be too turned off by her apartment's lack of non-hospital decor. She worked hard at stealing everything that wasn't bolted down - but, it didn't make for the most luxurious atmosphere.

Cheryl's of numbers made Lexie a bit shakey. She hadn't found anyone yet that she could really, well, stick with. She lost the guys she'd been dropped in the woods with (and it would have been nice to have kept Cielo around at least... Rorshack, however, was just a bit on the weird side.)

"There are a ton of people, aren't there?" She asked this as she spotted the guys leaning against the cotton candy cart. Weird.

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tufui_egoeris
2009-04-24 11:04 pm UTC (link)

"Yea, more every day," Cheryl agreed with some measure of faked enthusiasm. She caught her bottom lip between her teeth and she chewed on this absently as she struggled with her own instinct. Though she was trying to pull away from it, to call it nothing but paranoia, Cheryl couldn't shake the thought that this was a further effort by The Order. Why they would choose to take so many different sorts would never come clear - but there was always the idea of sacrifice, sheep, more pain and suffering for their sick god.

Cheryl attempted to push the thought back and found it a bit easier when she followed Lexie's line of sight. Spotting Bob and an unfamiliar blond guy leaning against a cotton candy cart, she grinned slightly. "Some of the people here - they seem pretty cool, though. I guess if we have to stitch out some sort of community or whatever, it could be worse."

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