the_last_resort | Blackmoon Celebration

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Blackmoon Celebration

Who: Misc
What: Blackmoon
When: M6 D14 (July 10th) - M6 D17 (July 13th)
Where: All around the resort and village
Notes & Warnings: Up to players to put in subjects

OOC: This is a log post for the celebration for general mingling during the celebration (log and network posts are also still very welcome). Just tag into a starter and ask questions if anything is unclear.

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I'm not. [Narvin doesn't like fun.]

[But...now that Wander is here, Narvin is curious.]

I don't think I've seen an alien like you before. What are you?

We'll be needin' to fix that as soon as we can! C'mon, didja explore this part yet?

[He tugs on Narvin's hand as to encourage him to follow.]

Well, to give you the truth, I'm a traveler. [A giggle.] 'Course, to give you an answer, I'm a [species name]. You're a human too, right? I've never met any before I came here, so it's a learnin' experience for the both of us!

[Narvin just looks perplexed as Wander grabs his hand and pulls on it. He doesn't move from his spot and for once is the taller person in an encounter.]

I am most certainly not human. [And sounds a bit affronted at being taken for one.] The humans may look superficially similar, but the internal physiology is nothing alike. I am a Time Lord from Gallifrey.

[ He's not moving. Did Wander accidentally offend him by calling him a human? Not letting of Narvin's hand, he stops tugging on it and looks up to meet his face.]

Sorry, sir, I didn't mean to get your species wrong. You looked so much like everyone else I met I forgot to ask.

"Time Lord"? Does everyone from Gallifrey control time? Cause that would be pretty neat! [When he leaves Blackawy, he has got to convince Sylvia to take him there.]

[Narvin's brows slowly draw together in confusion and he looks at their joined hands as he speaks. Gallifreyans don't do casual touch very much, so this hand holding is perplexing him.]

Not everyone on Gallifrey is a Time Lord. And not every Time Lord spends his or her day controlling time. But we were the first race to perfect time travel and we have the most refined temporal technology in the cosmos.

[Wander's still holding his hand, confident that Narvin is surprised but not uncomfortable.

But seriously? A species that has learned to control time?]

That's amazin'! And you can time travel without usin' some sorta cosmic power? Jus' with a machine?! [He lifts his free hand to his mouth as if to hide his excited grin, but instead he taps his chin repeatedly as he thinks of the most important questions to ask.]

Do ya have to go inside a machine, like in the stories? You time travel a lot? How far back didja go?

[He ultimately decides to ask as many questions as many questions as possible since there may not be a change to meet another time traveler.]

[Narvin blinks a little, tilts his head. He isn't sure whether to be overwhelmed by the barrage of questions or to puff up with pride at Wander's display of awe. (Narvin thought that Time Lords were very impressive himself, but it wasn't often he got other people agreeing with him.)]

Well...the most common method involves a time capsule, a machine one enters and travels within, but time rings will work in a pinch and are easy to produce and simpler to transport.

I personally have done a fair amount of travelling through my work, but not everyone does. I've been back about ten thousand years or so. Others have been further, but I never had any need.

[Are you kidding? It's not like anyone short of some sort of god can manipulate time back in his universe, though he's not too sure if gods can actually that.]

A ring also works? You can go back in time by wearing a ring? [He's not going to doubt Narvin's claims; he's too busy being excited.]

So you're kind of a wanderer like me, only you stay in the same place, right?

It's more like a wrist band than a ring, but yes.

[He's not sure about being called a wanderer. It sounds a little too much like a renegade, like the Doctor.]

I travel in space as well as time. Time travel on my home planet itself is strictly forbidden. It could cause all kinds of paradoxes and temporal disasters. I wouldn't say I wander, however. I go on missions, and then I return home.

[This alien is just becoming more and more impressive.]

I guess that makes sense you don't wanna be hurtin' nobody with your travelin'. It must be some important work you do there!

Can you go back in time here, too?

Oh yes. Very important. [He's not going to address the issue of not hurting anybody. It's true that the Celestial Intervention Agency avoids harming Gallifreyans (renegades excepted, but renegades are criminals and they deserve it). But other species? Not so much care is given to their wellbeing.]

The physics of this universe is different from those I know. Temporal technology doesn't work here, at least not any form of temporal tech I'm familiar with.

Shame 'bout that. It would be real helpful with findin' out what happened back at the fence. And it would be handy with lookin' out for spiders.

I couldn't cross my own timeline even if my temporal technology did work here. Going back in time to investigate the explosion at the fence, while my past self was also at the resort, would be extremely dangerous. The risk of meeting myself would be too high.

...An' what's wrong with meetin' yourself?

[Wouldn't that be twice the fun?]

Well, it can tear a hole in reality for one thing, cause the collapse of the universe if the contrary chronon particles impact each other in the wrong way.

Not to mention it's usually quite a blow to the ego. [There's nothing like meeting yourself to make you notice how weird the back of your head looks.]

[That is a lot of science that Wander has never heard of, but he gets the gist of it.]

Yeah...that doesn't sound too good.

[Maybe he needs to lighten the mood now.]

You still wanna go explorin' the place?

I'm not really much of an explorer. [Narvin is curious and wants to know everything, but he doesn't like putting himself in danger.]

I travel where I'm told to, or where I need to, but all things being equal, I'd rather be home in the Capitol.

It's okay. [Lots of people are content with staying in one place. Wander isn't exactly one of them.]

Travelin' for work sounds fun enough.

I don't do fun. [And he looks very serious as he says it.]

[Wander gives him a surprised look.]

How can you not do fun?

I just...don't. I by and large do not enjoy the things that are commonly deemed "jolly" or "risible." I am simply not a fun person.

[Then he mutters softly, mostly to himself.]

There's a reason my nickname at the Academy was Killjoy.

Then it looks like I need to teach you how to have fun. Ain't no fun bein' a grumpy grumperson!

[He tugs Narvin's hand.]

C'mon, let's start by visitin' all these stalls!

[Narvin once again looks at Wander like he's speaking an incomprehensible language.]

But I don't like spiders. Or shopping. Or people.

[Wander puts on his sad puppy eyes for Narvin.]

Not even for a minute?

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