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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

[veneries]

Water. Hm. [Drowning is the obvious answer, but-] I'd say Ironborn, but I doubt you've heard of them, so...

Islands, which are surrounded by water.

[mmiab]

Islands! Nice. I'm going to go with "sneeze". Bit left field, I know, but I once sneezed out an island— long story, maybe I'll tell it sometime.

[veneries]

You once sneezed out an island.

[Look he's not going to let that just slide past.]

[mmiab]

Listen, it was a distressing time for me in the middle of some strange size-shifting hijinks. I'd really rather not go into it.

[ --the man who less than ten seconds ago said "maybe I'll tell it sometime" ]

[veneries]

I really don't think I can go on playing in that case. I'll just keep coming back to the island.

[Not exactly true, but he wants to know.]

[mmiab]

[ here enters the single most put-upon sigh. then a very deep breath, then - ]

Had an altercation with some Cylupthreans, had to size up to stand a chance, tripped and fell into the ocean of a nearby planet, breathed in, water water everywhere and not a drop to drink, etc etc. Anyway, must've inhaled an island at the same time, felt a bit strange most of the day, finally after a couple of sorting out a few issues I felt a sneeze coming, let it go, and what should I find in my handkerchief but a little island. Everything and everyone covered in mucus, had a spend a long time post-return-to-size helping with getting things back to normal, it wasn't pretty or my finest moment.

There. Alright?