video, un: bowtiesaresupercool

[mmiab]

Hellooooooooooooooooooooo Nysans!

Nysans? El Nysans? El Nysonians? I don't know. Weird, this new planets lark, I'm out of practice, it's been a while. New planets! Fun!

Anyway. Hello. Occurred to me just now, and by just now I mean I'm bored and it's occurred to me before but I've been storing it up for an opportune moment, that there's a lot of you to whom I still haven't introduced myself! And since introducing myself can sometimes be a bit of a palaver, I'm going to go ahead and get through as many of you as I can with this one quick broadcast. Right. Here we go. Ready? Ready.

[ here, the stupid strange-faced bowtie-wearing man with the big grin who's staging a brief (I say brief...) takeover of your screens and attention takes a deeeeeep breath. rubs his hands together!!! grins again, and— ]

Hi! Hello. I'm the Doctor. Yes, the Doctor, not a doctor, though I'm one of those too, in many disciplines, none of them medical. Can still probably save you from losing a leg if I can get my hands on the right alien tech, though. Bit of a jack of all trades. Space and time travelling alien, to get that bit out of the way while we're at it. Two hearts. Legs. Okay? Okay.

While I'm here, let's play a getting to know you game. Yeah? [ a pause, in which he's waiting for an answer that he— apparently receives? from who, your guess is as good as mine. ] Hah hah. Yeah. Good. Getting to know you through the age old medium of word association! This is either going to be great fun or get very boring very quickly, so we'll see how it goes. It's the extended edition, rules are slightly different: for every word you give, you have to explain the link from the last one. However obvious.

Ready? Okay. Here we go. I'll give you a few choices for a starter. ... Train, story, sun, space, fashion, smile, or hope.

And we're off!

[ and he's... also off. (thank God????) good luck nysa... ]

Comments

video | un: altea

[juniberries]

You...look practically human.

[bypassing the game to remark that you just look like any old Earthling sorry bud.]

[mmiab]

Uh, no. Humans look Time Lord. We came first.

[ not to RECYCLE FROM THE SCRIPT BUT ]

video; un: eproghuefgdzptrrw

[vorrutyer]

Sex.

[mmiab]

[ IMMEDIATELY BANNED???? this is a family SHOW ]

First of all, did you even listen to the rules? There was one rule! Second of all, no, no you didn't, the rule was "explain your word choice", you're welcome. Third of all please don't actually do that I don't need to know.

Education. As in sex education. An important element of any human upbringing. Your turn.

video; username: luminouslux

[rememberher]

[ She doesn't normally keep up with the network (when you're from a fantasy world, things like modern technology can be a bit intimidating), but this person actually seems interesting. Talks a bit fast, but if that's the worst of her complaints, than she really can't justify not responding.

So have a bright-eyed teen smiling at you on your screen, Doctor. ]

I think it's Nysans, but I could be wrong. But I like El Nysonians! Maybe we can just shorten it to Nysonians. Do you think they would mind? The El doesn't seem as important.

[ They can get back to the word association thing later, this is a very pressing matter! ]

[mmiab]

[ this is indeed a very pressing matter and he's perfectly happy for everything else to be put on hold until it's resolved! ]

I think that would probably be fine! And if it isn't we can always keep it a secret. Mumble unintelligibly before "Nysonians", if anyone asks it could have been the El.

voice | un: Armstrong

[wallofbriggs]

Idiot.

[mmiab]

Did anybody listen to me when I listed the one individual rule? You'll notice how I said both one and individual to emphasis exactly how not difficult it would have been to pay a little bit of attention.

[song_of_ice]

[It's a bit hard to follow all of that, but he's enthusiastic at least.]

You speak as if you have been to other worlds before.

[mmiab]

I do, yes. Which would be fair. Because I have.

video | un: BishopRunout

[poolhall_killer]

[Ah, it's the man who gave him a bowtie. It was the only blue one out of a dozen blue print ties. To think that he was an alien the whole time. Kind of not surprising, but he can't fault the man for being positive.]

Upbeat...

[mmiab]

[ listen, person he absolutely recognises and would otherwise wish to be more polite to, later he'll be very sorry that you have to bear the brunt of this, but right now he's only been at this five minutes but he's already very tired and he just - ]

Extended edition. Extended edition? Extended edition.

[ he's delirious. somebody help him. ]

private; voice; un: willem

[veneries]

I don't believe you drew breath from start to finish.

[Gods, there are some ridiculous people here.]

private; voice;

[mmiab]

Once or twice! But that's another nifty part of being my particular brand of alien. Less of a dire need to take a breath on the regular.

[ hello there, private fellow ]

video | un: real_life_actual_king

[tummyflowers]

Floor-Merlin. I hyphenated it, just to be clear! I chose that after train, because that's where I encountered a Floor-Merlin, which is apparently a normal thing that he does. Everyone says so.

1/2

[mmiab]

[ the relief...... in this poor man's tired, tired eyes.... ]

Can I just say: thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks. You're a star. A gem. A wonder.

video;

[priorly]

We could see the legs.

[Just pointing out that perhaps that bit was slightly less ooh look at the strange alien man than the rest.

Although he doesn't come across as particularly alien.

More like the guy you try not to sit next to on the crosstown bus.]

[mmiab]

Well, thought it was good to specify. It's always a bit of a case-by-case basis on the legs front. Not everyone has them. And not everyone can see, so. For anyone visually impaired out there, it's important information.

Anyway! Hello, you.

video | un: linneus

[inaurare]

[too many choices, and he gives a hesitant murmur]

I... story?

[does he need to say his starter? This man is speaking so quickly Linneus is a bit flustered-]

Ah- true love? Love.

[wait, hold on, what...?]

Two hearts, you said...?

[mmiab]

[ Linneus barely gets out from under his crack down on the villainous rule-ignorers of this world by merit of distracting him before he's got a chance to go off on one or really notice what's happened, which is just as well ]

Yep! Two. You heard correctly.

Strength. Love, that is, is. Love is its own strength and it also takes strength to carry and sustain. Your turn!

audio | un: rainwoman

[lacuscular]

Because of the word sun, I chose beauty. Seeing the sun, with the clear blue sky, and being able to feel its warmth.. to Juvia, it was the most beautiful thing she's ever experienced.

[mmiab]

Beauty. Good. You're right, the sun in the sky on a clear day is a very beautiful thing.

Alright. From beauty, I'll choose heart. Somehow, I've spent my life surrounded by people will very beautiful hearts. Meaning minds, of course, but it's not quite the same sentiment. So. Heart.

voice | un: r.lutece

[originallutece]

I'm not one for games typically, but . . . how about this: I'll play your game if you'll answer a fair few questions of mine. Hm?

[mmiab]

Sounds like a fair exchange.

video; un: SKULL

[sakabroto]

[So he's pretty sure this guy is either A) on a sugar high or B) just regular high, but games are cool.

Words games are kind of lame, but he's a doctor so it makes sense. Doctors are weird and brainy, right?

Here's a punk teen who is also bored since he's afraid school and/or working here will actually lead to his death.]

Holy crap, you're like a word explosion. But uh, cool, I'll play.

Hope aaaaaand... [He scratches his head for a second.] Friends?

[mmiab]

Good! Why?

[ listen LISTEN he's trying to keep his cool from here on out but that doesn't mean people get to skip the rules. also this is a cute association so that makes it doubly important that he gets to hear that verbalised. ]

[11calls]

Story: work.

[Alex smiles at him.]

Are you really an alien?

video, un: ironborn

[reek]

[ Oh, it's you again. Speaking...far too much for his liking, and a great lot of it is nonsense that makes his already muddled head spin. Some sort of ridiculousness about two hearts is in there, he's fairly certain, but he can't bring himself to comment on it. There's already so much there. ]

I like none of the words you have provided.

[mmiab]

[ oho! look who it is! time to Suffer. cheerily though! ever so cheerily. ]

Well, I like none of your attitude, but that's the hard luck we all have to live with. Come on, associate something with one of them and then I'll be able to give you a new word to work with.

text | foster

[beknight]

Space, planet, yours.

[mmiab]

Was that a question??

video! id: romanée-conti

[vacuum]

Did all the people on your alien planet talk this much? I can barely follow.

[ He's hungover and cannot do this level of energy right now. He even looks like shit. ]

Uhh, 'shot' -- Wait, no. [ He was thinking about how hungover he is, and the word association slipped out. Oops. He rubs at his temple, nursing the headache. ] Just ... give me a second.

[mmiab]

Not all of them. A lot of them! Well, I say a lot, I suppose only as many as any other planet with sentient beings with a spoken language.

[ ahahaha. apologies bud. also yikes, you look like you should be asleep. ]

Not a problem, take your time. I'll even let you off the "explain it" rule if you like. Might be a bit much for you at the minute.

id: killjoy

[motivation]

The Doctor. That some kind of codename?

[mmiab]

No. Well. Yes? Sort of. Just my name. Code for me. Hello!

video, un: Yousoro★

[ayes]

Fashion! Cute clothes are the best.

[mmiab]

Great! Agreed. [ bowties. he's talking exclusively about bowties. ] Go on, it's your turn first. Word you associate with fashion, and why.

video; un: labyrinths

[buildindreemz]

Don't mind Byerly, he's always like that.

[ By "that", she means "a jerk". But she's smiling anyway. ]

As for your game, I'll bite.

When I think of fashion, I always think of red, which is my favorite color, so I wear it a lot. My favorite jacket is red. So, "red". Your turn.

[mmiab]

Byerly?

[ which one is Byerly, he's faced so many temporary nemesises today. ]

Red! Red to blue. Red is a colour, your favourite colour, which makes me think of my favourite colour - insofar as I have a favourite, a colour that's very special to me, maybe that's a better way to put it - which is blue. So! "Blue". Over to you!

Video | UN: link

[courageunforgotten]

[Wow, that's a whole lot of words really fast. Link stares at the video screen with a frown.]

How is that getting to know someone?

[Your game makes no sense.]

[mmiab]

You get to know what sort of things they think about when they think about other things, and why. Fair enough, sometimes it's very simple and not very enlightening, but you'd be surprised what you can learn. Even if it's the little things, like favourite food.

video: starlord

[volumeone]

[...Shit, that's kind of a badass codename. It's all mysterious and easy to remember, rolls off the tongue, and Peter would've almost been jealous if he doesn't have a totally-just-as-cool one himself.]

Travel-piloting.

Piloting 'cause it's the best way to travel in space. Idea of sitting around like a bus passenger weirds me out.

[Mostly because he can't control his ride or the guns in case things go south. Which they do. A lot]

[mmiab]

[ starlord, what a U.N!! nice nice nice. also a lot of cool chat about space travel? good. ]

Oh, yeah, tell me about it. I get itchy console fingers when anyone else is in the driving seat.

Okay. Piloting to "ship". Because you need a ship if you're going to pilot it. Or a plane, I suppose, but I'm not an aviator. Can be, have been, but that's not my vessel of choice. So. Ship.