[Action] Transmission 001

[eversohungry]

[Sometimes the path of life curves in an interesting way. And sometimes the little bridge you were walking over spontaneously develops a hole, and you have no idea where you've landed because the little bridge that should be over your head is gone.]

[Vastra has felt this feeling before, when she awoke to a world no longer ruled by her kind, but by mankind. It was a dark time in her life, and she reasoned there would be no darker time for her. Of course, she'd reasoned incorrectly.]

[From what she can tell, where she is now isn't England, or any country or planet she'd heard of before. But that isn't the ultimate problem. The problem is that there's snow on the ground, and she's barely dressed. No skirts, no coat, no hat, no cloak, no gloves, no shoes, and she's freezing in her little flimsy dress with strangely short sleeves. A few Cybermen-like figures slog through the snow nearby, though Vastra figured out hours ago that they weren't actual Cybermen. Fortunate, given she has no sword either.]

[As she makes her progress through the trees, Vastra can feel that the climate is getting warmer, but not warm enough to stave off her body's automatic hibernation. She rests herself against a tree briefly, to rest, and tries to stave off the heavy feeling of her body shutting down. If she hibernated now, who knew when she would wake up again?]



((OOC: Vastra's arrived! And she's somewhere between Ice Age and Space Opera! Where her journal is though, is a good question.....))

Comments

[eversohungry]

[That (theoretically) solved one problem. Vastra straightens up, but it doesn't look like she's entirely convinced by this 'I come in peace' vow. But it seems genuine enough.]

What village? I haven't seen a village out here and I have been walking for nearly an hour.

[wildbluevagner]

[And it becomes clear. That's the New Feather clothing, isn't.]

I get it. You must be new here. [He rubs his hand through his hair.] Man, you sure picked a bad time to show up here. This is a village, normally... or parts of it are. But we're having some temporary renovations, you could say.

[eversohungry]

'Temporary renovations'. [Vastra raises an eyebrow and looks around at the snow.] There isn't much to renovate, now is there? Who are you?

[wildbluevagner]

My name's Kurt Wagner. And I'm stuck here, same as you. And about that renovation part... This place? It has these weird effects called Shifts can change the landscape like this.

[eversohungry]

[Vastra looks doubtful, but there were stranger things in the universe than rapidly changing weather patterns.]

My name is Vastra, a pleasure Mr. Wagner. And what do you mean 'stuck here'? [Now the pleasantries are out of the way and she can figure out what's going on.]

[wildbluevagner]

Nice to meet you too, Vastra. [Definitely... different from most people he's met, but then he's not one to talk.] And the thing is? There's a lot to take in about this world, but one thing is that it takes in people from all different worlds in all different universes. And we don't know a way back. We're just stuck in this enclosure - it's called Luceti.

[eversohungry]

[The 'different worlds' and 'different universes' thing isn't so hard for Vastra to grasp. After all, The Doctor is a personal friend, and she's fully aware of what he gets up to when he's bored. The thing that sticks in her is 'we don't know a way back' and 'stuck in this enclosure'.]

[She looks distressed for a moment. Jenny, Jenny would no doubt think Vastra had been killed. And while Vastra knew the girl could protect herself without Vastra around, she had never wanted to see Jenny upset again. It doesn't last long, though, and her upset hardens into a deep frown.]

I see. So we are prisoners.

[wildbluevagner]

That's one way of putting it. There's food and shelter to go around, but we can't leave this area. These people called the Malnosso keep us here. They... also run experiments every now and then, apparently to find a way to get everyone back to their own worlds. There's a Guide to help understand better - do you have a book on you?

[eversohungry]

A book? [Vastra raises an eyebrow. Why on earth would she have a book on her when she's freezing to death in an arctic tundra, dressed in what could be classified as 'skivvies'?]

No, I do not have a book. I have a scrap of a dress and two more appendages than I'm used to. [She frowns slightly.] Other than that, most everything is where it should be as far as I am concerned.

[wildbluevagner]

Yeah, I see. Well that's good and all, but usually when people show up here? There's a book nearby. It's kind of important. [He looks around a bit and tries to shift through the snow around her; although he's not too concerned, since apparently the journals follow you if you accidentally lost them.]