[identity profile] returntous.livejournal.com
There's a sudden shift as Mabel sleeps - she can feel it, even between the state of sleeping and waking. It felt like someone pushing on the walls of reality, just for a moment, and then everything feels normal. They're staring down at her from the ceiling as she opens her eyes, and for a moment all she does is stare back.

"Oh." She sits up, and stretches. "Where've you been?"

[Visual] )
[identity profile] lionofolympus.livejournal.com
Hercules merely looks into his tablet and says one sentence.

"Who wants to get drunk with me?"

He smiles, awaiting an answer. He figures it is a simple enough request.
[identity profile] allthatlife.livejournal.com
Martha Jones appeared in Taxon wearing a wedding dress and a frown.

“Oh, you have got to be …”

In a rustle of silk and chiffon, she stepped off the platform, lowering her bouquet to put her hands on her hips and survey her surroundings. The technology was clearly advanced, but it lacked the life and warmth of the TARDIS or the cheerful haphazardness of the Hub. She didn’t know who – or what – had made the transportation device and the fact that it clearly wasn’t Sontaran didn’t make her feel any better. The Earth had plenty of enemies. (And Martha – or, more accurately, one of Martha’s closest friends – had even more.)

“This is Doctor Martha Jones of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.” Her voice was calm, crisp and official, though she wished that she’d had the presence of mind to tuck her ID card in amongst the flowers. She should have known better than to expect a smooth wedding day. “I don’t know who you are or what you want, but, believe me, kidnapping me isn’t going to help you.”

She noticed the bracelet on her wrist before she noticed the tablet. The metal – was it silver, or was it just an alien ore that looked a lot like silver? – was cold and, even more worryingly, it seemed to be fused directly to her skin. Martha gave it a tentative tug, before raising her hand to examine it properly. Oh my god. She’d been tagged, like some sort of pet. Like some sort of experiment.

“Send me home,” she demanded, in a sharp tone that she hadn’t used before. Anger – not fear, definitely not fear – bubbled up in her chest as she discarded her bouquet and picked up the tablet. (The same unusual metal, but the layout reminded her of a mobile phone or one of the sleek devices that Tosh had liked to customise for her colleagues.) “I’m supposed to be getting married today and, believe me, you don’t want to get on the wrong side of some of my wedding guests.”
[identity profile] ihavettk.livejournal.com
Kon is floating in the middle of Titans Tower when the music starts to play. He dances aroundto the beat for a while, then starts to sing.

"What would I do without it?
Think I'll get down like then
I've got to move or sinking
And I only came to when

Stay pretty
I'll come back sometime and soon
And while I'm away: stay tuned

I'll get a suit and a rocket
And take to the end of the space
You make me wanna say pretty things
To leave me far away

Look up and I put your flag on the moon
And while we're away: stay tuned
Stay tuned, stay tuned, stay tuned

Stay tuned, stay tuned
Stay tuned, stay tuned
Stay tuned, stay tuned
Stay tuned, stay tuned."


He pulls a remote out of his pocket and clicks off the music. Then he gives a bit of a bow and grins at the tablet.

[ooc: Kon has no idea what a glitch is. He just wanted to be part of the fun. Song is Stay Tuned by Ambulance LTD.]
[identity profile] tothelibrary.livejournal.com
Since they started dating in Taxon, their rooms have become community property of a sort. So when Dawn bursts into Xander's room without knocking or announcing herself, it's not unusual.

...What is unusual is that the sheets are tossed around like someone slept in them, but Xander isn't there. Frowing and setting her tablet on his dresser after clearing away a sweater-- one of the best things about having a boyfriend? There's never a lack of comfy, too big sweaters to wear-- Dawn quickly clicks through to the location function.

Then she steps back, hand still clutching the sweater raising involuntarily to her chest, like if she presses hard enough her heart will stop feeling like it's trying to fall out.

"Oh."

That's when the tablet helpfully clicks on from its spot on the dresser, providing a shot of Dawn moving slowly backward to sit on the bed, her face more blank than anything else for the moment. And then there's the music starting up, and as she slowly brings her knees up to her chest and wipes at the forming tears, she starts to sing.

"Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me
Stars fading but I linger on, dear
Still craving your kiss
I'm longing to linger till dawn, dear
Just saying this--"


She brings the sweatshirt up to her chest, buries her face in it.

"Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me."
[identity profile] rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com
The Doctor hatched a set of handcuffs. They were for him to use. The last time he'd let someone else restrain the Master, the Doctor had held him, still in restraints, as he died. That wouldn't happen this time. The Doctor would save him. Somehow.

Everything was ready. It was just time to move forward.





OOC: Final post for the Master's plot! Everything is in individual threads and threadhopping is encouraged. If you see that this needs another plotty starter thread, drop me a line and let me know!

EDIT: I was requested to put up a note letting everybody know that this is a backdated post.
[identity profile] rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com
For the first time in a quite a long while, when the Doctor flips on the tablet, he doesn't look his usual smug self. He, in fact, looks quite panicked. He's run from Donna's to Rose's and back, and confirmed exactly what he was afraid of. They're gone.

"Hello," he says, trying (and failing) to affect a look of calm. "It appears several of my---several citizens of Taxon have been taken from their homes. I don't know everyone who's been taken, but I can wager a few guesses."

He takes a breath and starts naming names. "Rose Tyler, Donna Noble, Tara Maclay, Morgana la---just Morgana, sorry, Fitz Kreiner...I don't know who else, but I know who has them. I don't know what he's going to do, but I don't think we have much time."

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the Doctor humbling himself enough to admit this:

"I need help. Anyone, please. Just---for the sake of the people who were taken, I need you to work with me."



OOC: After this. Actual meetup thread halfway through, but please don't hesitate to bring new people in to respond. No such thing as late to the party.

VI. [Holo]

May. 19th, 2010 07:45 pm
[identity profile] lionofolympus.livejournal.com
Continuing the trend of Hercules just embarrassing the good citizens of Taxon (because he has no real shame to speak of), he was in the middle of modeling his new suit when he turns on his tablet to show off his brand new duds.

And that's when he starts singing.

"I'm too sexy for my love too sexy for my love
Love's going to leave me.
"

He appears to be doing a bit of a dance, flexing his muscles as he goes.

And it only gets worse from there )
[identity profile] rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com
Several notes have been left around Taxon over the last few days.

Left on the door to Fred Burkle's... )

Left on the door to Rose Tyler's... )

Left on the door to Castle Summers, for Tara Maclay... )

Left on Fitz Kreiner's door... )

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.
[identity profile] lionofolympus.livejournal.com
Hercules is planning to merely speak about how he is adjusting well to his new environment. He smiles to his tablet, opens his mouth, and proceeds to sing.

And the lyrics, they are not work safe )

Herc blinks at the tablet. And then proceeds to just laugh and give a thumbs-up.

III. [Holo]

May. 4th, 2010 07:19 pm
[identity profile] lionofolympus.livejournal.com
Hercules was not quite planning a big production number. But when he started thinking about what it would be like to actual settle into this place, well... the song in his heart became the song he was singing out loud.

lulz, cut for lyrics )

Herc then pauses, having totally diva-ed out during that whole thing.

"What didst just happen?"
[identity profile] knightflown.livejournal.com
Nowhere in the Book Of Rules does it say that Dick does not like bragging. He does not, as a rule, of course, especially not in regards to his own merits or accomplishments (such as they may be), but this is different. This is for his little brother, and he has unconsciously but exactingly calculated that a little showing off is acceptable. So, this is a publicly viewable transmission. Dick is wearing a dark gray t-shirt that doesn't quite hide the engine oil and other assorted stains associated with taking apart and putting back together a motorcycle.

Smiling at the tablet, he then points it at the revamped motorcycle, which is a very fetching and sleek shade of red.

"Hey, guess whose this is." Dick says playfully, voice warm and just. Happy. If he had a tail, he'd be wagging it. "Warning: if you guess wrong, I have to track you down, cover you in honey, and — stay with me here — roll you down a hill."
[identity profile] returntous.livejournal.com
So about this job thing. My usefulness begins and ends at 'talks to ghosts' and hell if I've seen any of them here.

Anybody else got that problem?
[identity profile] rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com
The Doctor has to start working eventually. And while nobody hates the idea of working quite like the Doctor hates working, he hates the idea of being back in prison even more than that.

So, behold the Doctor, carrying things from a replication unit to the square where he's working on his next project. At present, the things he's creating are three-foot pieces of metal. He's spitting out a few at a time, and then moving them to a large pile where he has more already stacked up.

There's also a series of papers he's had made up sitting not far off from the stacks of sheet metal. They read: MISSING: ONE SONIC SCREWDRIVER. HONESTLY, NOW, STEALING ISN'T RIGHT AT ALL, IS IT?

Oh, he's also got a plate of pink-frosted cupcakes. A Time Lord's gotta eat, y'all.
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Today on this the glorious fifteenth of April, Taxon has been in business for a full year- and so a celebration is in order, or so apparently think the hamster overlords in charge of tweaking their citizens.

The Palais Garnier is a beautiful place thus far mostly neglected by everyone who isn't its very lovely current owner, and that is a godawful shame that's about to be corrected. One by one the seats are filling up with both the curious and the coerced, the latter finding themselves irresistibly drawn to the opera house whether they really want to be or not. It advertises a new show, for one night only and very definitely R-18, but whatever's going on hasn't quite got underway as arrivals begin trickling in, coats checked and seats shown by the Extra staff that have just seemed to materialize as necessary.

Backstage, things are maybe even more confusing for the seven gentlemen who've been pressganged into service of the city's entertainment. The, er, uniforms are laid out in the dressing rooms and each sized just right, and Glitch's back up dancers are ready and waiting to take the stage when the time comes and the lights go down in the theatre. There is a certain anticipation in the air as preparations make haste so close to the hour; yet more Extras mill through the building preparing the great baroque banquet hall for the meal and afterparty.

Happy Taxon Day, citizens; your headliners for tonight are in last minute prep, but why don't you enjoy the musical stylings of Glitch Langwe's opening act?

What better way to celebrate one full year than six full nudes?
[identity profile] returntous.livejournal.com
No one really knew why the dead remained in the land of the living, whether it was by choice or simply an unfortunate fate, just as much as no one really knew if there was really a place to go after life. Mabel certainly had never seen any evidence of it, although she knew better by now to discount it's possible existence. Whatever it was, or could be, she doubted the streets were paved with gold and only good could be found. The same thing went for what the dead actually wanted in their haunting; problem was, sometimes they didn't want anything. They were just there, and at least to her that was a comfort. There was only one theory about ghosts that really seemed right to here, one she kept in mind when dealing with them.

They haunted minds.

There were minds to haunt in Taxon, and yet none of the constant presence of the dead she was so used to. At least, none so far that she had seen. Vampires were a kind of dead, but not the kind she looked for, and she still hadn't run into any of those anyway; her method of dealing with her kidnapping was to avoid actual contact with her fellow inmates. They weren't, anyway, the kind she spent her life trying to help. It could be because so few of the people here were more than just a strange sort of program that the dead did not come with. She didn't buy that.

and in return i'll get nothing at all )
[identity profile] lionofolympus.livejournal.com
Hercules is poking at his tablet again. He apparently did not expect the button to do what it did, as he has a befuddled expression on his face.

Eventually he does realize he has been projecting his face.

"Oh, excuse me!" he says, his expression changing to one of amusement. "I am still learning the ways of this device! If anyone could come help me, I would be quite grateful."

He then grins.

"I do think it may require a feminine touch."

Sly old dog.
[identity profile] existasarumor.livejournal.com
“K, man, really, will you just drop it?” J was mid-gesticulation when he found himself suddenly out of MIB headquarters and into Taxon’s arrival chamber. His words cut off and his arm hovers in the air, then he slowly glances around him to take in the surroundings. Kidnapping! Damn, he was in the middle of a conversation! Couldn’t they have waited, just a bit? He was about to win that one, he was sure of it.

With a frown and a sigh, J stuffs his hands in his suit pockets and peers about in silence for a surprisingly long moment. Then, “What? No big ol’ greeting? Just stuff me up in this place and leave me?” He scoffs and shakes his head. “Man, talk about a terrible kidnapping. I’ve seen better, thanks.”

He glances up, squinting at the device on the ceiling, expression becoming more and more confused. “Never seen one of those before. Upgraded model, maybe? Naw… still looks too different from the last one.” Which had its ups and downs, because it meant he wasn’t about to be dealing with the same goons who threw a party kidnapping them the last time, but it also meant he was dealing with new folks. Hopefully they’re amateurs.

J heads down the steps, walking past the pedestal before stopping mid-pace and backpedaling to glance down at it. Well. J did like prodding at his toys. Kidnapping or not, he was still going to manhandle the tablet, grinning a bit when he flips it open and raising a brow at the homing signal on part of the map. “Huh. Now that’s different.” Another look around the room. “Awright, still pulling the silent treatment?” He fans the tablet before him. “This your way of appeasing the black guy? Coulda at least zapped me in with my partner…”

Which begged the question if K was in another one of these chambers or still at headquarters wondering if disappearing was part of J’s argument to drop the subject on Laura already. Seriously! Him, Zed, and Frank would just not lay off! He was a grown man for god’s sake!

Irritated, he stuffs the tablet in a pocket, only just then realizing the bracelet. He groans, loudly. “You have got to be kiddin’ me…”
[identity profile] chase-evolution.livejournal.com
When Mohinder had mentioned that he had nightmares, he wasn't kidding. They were no longer nightly, not in this place, but they were still quite frequent. And unfortunately, he was having one tonight. These dreams usually would leave the bed a wreck, blankets and sheets thrown everywhere. In his mind, he was running, running from something that he'd knew he'd become if it only caught him. The figure was dark and huge and wherever it went, spiderwebs instantly covered everything. He had to get away.

Outside of his dreams, he was moving, too, rolling...rolling right off the landing he'd been placed on, and down a flight of stairs. Mohinder woke with a yell as soon as he hit the first stair and didn't realize what was happening until his second bounce. By the time he hit the bottom he had bounced up into a standing position, shirking off the purely-detrimental sleeping bag. As that seemed to be the only immediate threat, he let himself breathe and widened his gaze.

The room, if one could call it that, was right out of an Escher drawing. There were stairs, stairs everywhere, and more importantly- stairs going in all different directions. As Mohinder blinked the sleep out of his eyes and the kink out of his neck, it became apparent that he'd just been kidnapped out of his bed and placed somewhere even more insane than 'traditional Taxon'.

"You must be joking," he said to no one in particular, annoyance permeating his tone.
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[personal profile] caballero
It's hard to tell if Bruce looks tired or if he's just suddenly gone stoic - outside his brief call to action during the bomb threat, the majority of his interaction over the tablet has been half-in-half-out of his fractured playboy persona, which he's cast aside completely by now. Either way, he's been quiet since then, and he's sitting with his back against something wooden and ornate; maybe a headboard, maybe a screen, and wearing a black t-shirt.

“This probably should have been spoken about sooner, but things have been overwhelming for most people here in the aftermath of the bomb threat.” Though he's clear and direct, there's a reserved quality to his voice that says he isn't used to giving speeches – and while that isn't necessarily true, it's always Bruce Wayne, billionaire playboy! rambling on at length about girls or booze or ill-fated political endorsements. This is different, and so, much more deadpan.

“A large number of bombs were planted throughout the city, and sentinel robots armed with rubber bullets and tranquilizer darts were sent to guard them. An initial blast was detonated during which, to my knowledge, most of the injuries occurred. Several people were injured in the process of assisting victims of the first blast and thus combating the sentinels or now-damaged remaining bombs. A second and final blast was detonated during which more people, mainly people who were trying to reach a safe area or the Brucolac's ship as far as I'm aware, were injured. Several people were gravely injured, a few only pulled through with emergency medical care, and while there were no fatalities amongst our number, several Extras were killed. The man who has claimed responsibility for this, known as the Doctor, was taken into temporary custody to keep him from accessing or detonating any other explosives he might have in the city. At the time it appears that there is no more nuclear or radioactive material in the city and that we are in no immediate danger of being blown to hell by one of our fellow abductees.”

He pauses and glances to one side at something not visible in the tablet's view, taking a moment. “Belatedly – this is an issue I'd meant to address personally before the bombing – there was a man here who was going by the name of Doctor Jonathan Crane. I'm under the impression that he was treating people here as a psychiatrist. If he gave you any advice or put you on any medication, I advise you to be re-evaluated by one of the medical doctors here immediately. He is a psychopath from my world who specializes in drugging and then using fear to torture people to death, and got pretty far on a plot for genocide.”

… Well that's blunt. It was something that Bruce was going to contact people individually about, but after the past week and all the invasions of privacy he's had to go through personally, he just doesn't have the stomach for it anymore. He's incinerating the remainder of his records and locking down the chemicals and that's just that.

“I understand that the situation with the individual known as Angelus is a sensitive one, as this is someone who is a colleague of several people here who's going through something unfortunate, but some of the things being broadcast lately are alarming. If there's any progress on this, or if further warnings to the population need to be issued, I'd appreciate an update.”

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