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[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

You'd think after this many years, I'd learn that the only thing you can ever count on humans to do is surprise you.

I'd prefer it if they were all good surprises.

[[OOC: canon move. Beast Below has happened, and he's brooding (before he sets off on another whirlwind adventure, Churchy hasn't called yet). Oh, and feel free to wonder where he went, if you even remember him.]]

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[51stcentury]

Oh really? And what to you mean by that, exactly, Doctor?

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

You've seen it, Jack. They're ingenious, but they can be pretty stupid about it. I mean you. Plural you. However human you still are.

It all turned out well in the end, though. That's what counts.

[51stcentury]

Hey. That's not fair and you know it. You've done some pretty stupid things in your time too. Just because you haven't been around to watch yourself doing them...

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Well, I've never--

I haven't--

I suppose you have a point. But I make up for it with more ingeniousness.

[51stcentury]

Now you're just making up excuses.

What happened? I haven't seen you around for a while. Well. Not this version of you, at any rate.

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

It's only been a day, Jack. A very eventful day, but a--

day in which I left the terminal too close to the time vortex.

[51stcentury]

Well, it's been a whole hell of a lot longer for the rest of us.

What do you mean, left the terminal too close to the time vortex?

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

I left this machine next to the portal to all time and space and its internal clock's gone a bit wonky. Should be fixed now, though.

Did I miss anything?

[51stcentury]

You could say that.

Tell me, Doctor. Do you still have all of the same memories as your previous incarnation? I assume you do, right?

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Well, all of the ones this me has. Nothing about here, though, so if the other me's been up to anything I know nothing about it.

[51stcentury]

So do you know about the 456, or is that something that only the community caught you onto?

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

The 456?

[51stcentury]

Yes, Doctor. The 456. That's what we call them. I don't know if you would've known them by name, without having the community, but. I called you. During that time. I called you, and I asked you to come, to help. And you didn't. That has to strike some sort of note in you, if you remember any of it at all.

[infinite-arcana.livejournal.com]

Trust me, we'd like it if we were full of good surprises, too.

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Except if you were full of kittens.

My tea almost ended up all over my screen. XD

[infinite-arcana.livejournal.com]

That wouldn't be a good surprise for a human!

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

It would for other humans. Provided there was some way to get the kittens out.

[infinite-arcana.livejournal.com]

It'd be more freaky than good.

[carriesparasol.livejournal.com]

I suppose humans are often surprising, though I imagine any race could be equally surprising.

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

...

Well, the Daleks have never surprised me. Except by turning up, like someone I used to know in the Spanish Inquisition.

[carriesparasol.livejournal.com]

Daleks?

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Terrifying creatures from outer space. Look something like this:



If you run into one, start running away from it. They're terribly unimaginative, but very deadly.

[carriesparasol.livejournal.com]

Those do look dreadful. But, you mean to say that there really is life among the stars?

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Life, death, everything in between.

... Don't tell anyone.

[carriesparasol.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression that anyone could read these responses. Is that not true?

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Anyone here. And anyone here has already seen things much stranger, by the looks of it.

[carriesparasol.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suppose that is true. You need not worry though. If I were to tell anyone of beings from the stars they would certainly not take me seriously.

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Of course not. We're very good at hiding.

[carriesparasol.livejournal.com]

"We're"? So then you are an alien as well?

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Hey, to me, you're the alien. Even if you've never crash-landed on my planet.

[carriesparasol.livejournal.com]

I suppose that is a fair point.

May I ask what the world you come from is like?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

You're still here.

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

I never left.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I thought you had.

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

But I didn't. Well, I did, but only because it left me. Long story short: don't leave sensitive equipment next to a sentient portal to all time and space.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

It leaves people all the time. You're lucky it let you back. ... Or unlucky, depending on how you feel about it.

[aikido-2-dan.livejournal.com]

I think most humans prefer all our surprises to be goods.

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Ah, but then you wouldn't be human. There were these genetic engineers, some time in the 34th century, tried to make the perfect humans. Their prototype went into existential crisis when somebody pointed out it didn't fit the human genome...

[aikido-2-dan.livejournal.com]

...sounds like you have some pretty crazy adventures.

But you're right. Part of being human is making mistakes. Hopefully people learn from them.

[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

Every race has their good and bad, it's rather unfortunate. But even the bad surprises can produce good results!

Nice to see you again, Doctor.

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Right back at ya, Fuu. And you're right. Of course you're right. As usual.

[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

Ah... I would never say "as usual," and people are very fond of telling me I am wrong, actually...

[ofhopeandglory.livejournal.com]

Bad day?

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

You could say that. You were a spaceship.

strikes not there :|b

[ofhopeandglory.livejournal.com]

A spaceship?! ... ah. Starship UK, then.

[hornyattorney.livejournal.com]

You might stop being surprised if they were all good.

[amadmanwithbox.livejournal.com]

Who said I like surprises. I might prefer monotony, you never know.

[hornyattorney.livejournal.com]

But do you like monotony?