taxonomites | fifteen | various notes around Taxon | visual

Several notes have been left around Taxon over the last few days.

For Fred >> An electronic cart has been folded up and is leaning against the door. There is a note.

HC Clements

Bring the Drill

For Rose >> A note:

I'm okay.

Please take care of yourself.

Love, D

For Tara >> A note:

I'm sorry about before.

HC Clements. Tomorrow.

For Fitz >> A map of Taxon, with a segment of woods circled, and a circle around HC Clements. Also, a note:

Tomorrow.

Once all are delivered, the Doctor plants himself in a nondescript alley in central, smooths out his hair, and flips on the tablet to visual. He grins madly at the camera.

Of course, right before he opens his mouth to speak, music begins playing. Ah, it's that old familiar tune, the first bars to "All By Myself". The Doctor feels the music tug at his heartstrings, and he opens his mouth and says:

"No, I'm serious. I'm not singing that, stop it."

He says it with enough force, that an Extra walking behind him stops and turns to stare at him. The Doctor focuses on the tablet.

"So, rumors of my disappearance have been greatly exaggerated, of course," he says, all smug and self-satisfied, as per usual.

The Extra behind the Doctor picks up a pipe from the ground and starts towards him. The Doctor, focused on the tablet, doesn't notice.

"But! Since the Council, or whatever you call it, is doing such a fantastic job of keeping law and order, I think I might give the citizens of Taxon a head's up about the actual threat around this place."

The Extra is now right behind the Doctor, and it raises the pipe above its head.

The Doctor continues. "You should really look out for---"

The Extra slams the pipe down, and the screen goes suddenly static, then fizzes back to the Doctor, struggling with the strangely violent Extra. The Extra smacks him across the face and he falls over, out of camera range.

OOC: To those whom he's left a note, you're welcome to just meet him at HC Clements after or prior to the events with this Extra.

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She shakes her head. She doesn't want to argue about the Master. Instead, she says, "How badly did the Extra hurt you?"

"I'll be all right," he says, gesturing to the cuts and bruises on his face. "It was violent, but it didn't seem to have anything specific in mind. Just general chaos."

He sniffs and tries to brush his injuries off.

"We need to figure out what's going on with the Extras," he says. "And why everyone's been vanishing."

"The Extras - there's something changed about them. Fundamentally. That's more recent." In fact, she'd only noticed it less than a day ago, and she hadn't seen them act much differently until now.

"Yeah, I noticed," the Doctor says, gesturing to his split lip. "Maybe our captors are finally through with us. Making people vanish, throwing the Extras at us violently."

He looks to Tara, suddenly very nervous. "Did something happen to you?"

"No, I just... they look different." He may or may not be too preoccupied to observe that while her words are innocuous enough, she's more disturbed than just normal human observation would merit. "And it doesn't seem to fit. The vanishing maybe, but violent Extras? Everything they've done has been like coddling a favorite pet. You blew up half the city and they seemed mildly exasperated but not angry. This is... malevolent."

"So what's changed? Why start attacking us?" he questions aloud. He opens the door to HC Clements and holds it for her.

"What do you mean, different?" he asks, serious again. "Apart from the bit where they're holding weapons, now, what's changed?"

She goes inside as he holds the door. "Um." After a moment's hesitation, she goes with honesty. "I don't think you'd believe me, if I told you. But their... purpose. Their will, such as it is. It's changed."

The Doctor gives her a Look. "Tara, I'm in an impossible city run by hamsters and I travel daily by little blue box. There's very little I wouldn't believe."

He shuts the door, glancing briefly behind himself to make sure no one has spotted them.

"Can you see that?" he asks. "People's will?"

She shakes her head. "Auras. I can read people's auras. Sometimes it tells me basic things - you're not human, for example, and the Master's not human in the same way. But it tells me a little more than that too." A pause, then she adds, "The Extras aren't... alive, at least in a conventional way. But something's changed them. Pointed them in a new direction."

"Psychic energy visualization," the Doctor says with a nod. He doesn't believe in either magic or auras, so he does what he does best: Makes science out of the impossible.

"What sort of direction?" he asks. What he wants to ask is, of course, what she can see in his visualization, but if he asks her to look, he has a feeling she won't like what she sees.

Fortunately or otherwise, Tara always sees auras, so she's seen his already. But if he doesn't ask, now isn't the time to bring it up. They can talk magic another day. "I'm not certain. They're... sharper, somehow. Definitely more malevolent, though you could have gotten that just from observation. And it's... it's almost like they're pulsing, a little."

"Pulsing?" the Doctor asks. "Like...a rhythm?"

"Um, yes. Very much like. Do you know what it is?"

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