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[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

[inaurare]

[that's-- all right. Okay. There are many strange things in the world. Men with two hearts, that's something else to add to the list. A moment, a hesitation while he processes]

Then-- power. Mistakenly equated to strength.

[mmiab]

Ooh, good one! Hm. Ego. Tends to come as a package deal with perceived power.

[ #self drag ]

[inaurare]

Cruelty.

[package deal, indeed...]

Not in all cases, but in many.

[mmiab]

Common. Unfortunately, cruelty isn't a rare trait or tendency.

[inaurare]

Garden.

[there's a small laugh, like tension breaking. This is a better topic, he strayed toward something he oughtn't have]

As in common-or...

[mmiab]

[ a little grin - both at the laugh, and the connection made. nice link. ]

Gate. The thing one usually passes through to get into the quaint sort of gardens that have gates.

[inaurare]

I know what a gate is; a gate can be all kinds of things-- open.

[mmiab]

Open to screwdriver! I've got a sonic one, and it opens lots and lots of different things.

[inaurare]

Screwdriver?

[a moment. He knows what a screw is, but he doesn't know screwdriver and he looks puzzled a moment]

...a turn-screw?

[mmiab]

Oh! Uh. Yeah, typically speaking. Not so much with mine, but yes. A turn-screw.

[inaurare]

Oh.

[he doesn't really have a knee-jerk response to turn-screw]

Woodwork?