rubycity_ooc | JANUARY TEST DRIVE!

Thinking of apping a character but not sure they'll fit in the city walls?

Have no fear, a meme for you is here.

Directions:

Use an RNG to choose a location and prompt, or wait for someone else to tag.

Post with your character with their name and canon on top!

If you'd like, leave contact info for people to get in contact for plotting and other such shenans.

Tag around! Make friends. Don't be afraid to chat OOC while tagging.

Locations

1.TRAIN STATION - The place where everyone gets dumped off at. Your first view of Ruby City, complete with informational posters telling you all about where you've ended up.
2. THE BEACH - Lovely year-round, though in the winter months, you're probably not likely to dip your toes in.
3. THE BLACK STALLION - A rather quaint bar. Supposedly, the burgers are great, but you don't see anyone immediately who's willing to serve you. Maybe you're meant to get it yourself.
4. THE OBELISK - The tall monolith in the center of the city marks the gathering place of many events, though right now it seems to be cold and dark.
5. THE CLOCKTOWER - Offering an impressive view of the city, several residents come here to clear their heads, if they don't mind braving the narrow staircase.
6. THE COFFEE JOINT - the front windows are warm and welcoming, and it seems there's always someone friendly enough to fix you a cup when you wander through.
7. THE CATACOMBS - Intrepid, aren't you? Those weird holes may beg exploring, but go too deep and you're going to be in a lot of trouble, considering the viciousness of the creatures held within.
8. THE CITY STREETS - All told, Ruby City is a lovely place, once you get past the fact that several of the buildings look derelict and on the verge of falling down. There's no harm in doing a little sightseeing.
9. THE PARK - You thought it'd be a lovely stroll, but the park is anything but friendly, if those approaching wolf-like creatures are any indication.
10. CHOOSE YOUR OWN - Don't like what we've come up with? Feel like picking your own place? There's a whole host of lovely locations to choose from in the City.

Scenarios

1. NEW ARRIVAL - Step off that train, walk down the street. People usually latch on to newcomers to try and help them out. Even if you look shy, the other residents probably won't be!
2. WATCH TALK - Feeling lost? Disoriented? Don't worry, everyone feels that way on their first day. Fortunately - if the signs at the station are to believed - the watch in your pocket can be used to talk to whoever else might be here.
3. BAD WEATHER - Aw, man. Whether it's snow, or rain, or just plain cold, today was definitely the wrong day to get dumped off in a City in the middle of nowhere.
4. A RUN-IN - Maybe you weren't watching. Maybe they weren't. Either way, you just bumped into someone. Perhaps apologies are in order?
5. HELP, IT HURTS - Clumsy, aren't you? Perhaps wherever the train brought you from wasn't so friendly, or you just tripped and twisted your ankle. Either way, you're in a bit of pain. Hopefully someone will notice your booboos and help patch you up.
6. HUNGRY - It isn't very obvious sometimes that restaurants are what they are, especially in a place like Ruby City. Where can a person go to get a bite to eat around here?
7. MISTAKEN IDENTITY - Hey, there's someone you know! --Or maybe not.
8. BEING FOLLOWED - Maybe you're just being paranoid, or maybe you've got a reason to be afraid. Whatever it is, it feels like there's eyes on you...
9. CURRENT EVENTS - The City is currently overrun with the DESPAIR DISEASE, which means some people are more violent than normal, the overall atmosphere is more dreary than it normally would be, and there's some pretty vicious creatures roaming the streets! Also, there's hardly anything to eat. What a frightening thing!
10. CHOOSE YOUR OWN - Don't like any of these ideas? Feel free to come up with your own!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Interesting," he remarked with a smile curling his mouth. "Ah, no, not really, I'm afraid." He's just doing his own exploring at this point, not necessarily trusting what he's been told, or really anyone to tell him.

Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on one's opinion) the Doctor has always been willing to explain. He might not have all the answers, but he has enough to at least paint something of a picture.

"As far as anyone's been able to tell it's a sort of pocket universe. Or at least, that's the most reasonable theory so far. No one's really been able to tell where in the various galaxies we are just yet. Just that we're here, and that it's proven to be harder than one might expect to leave."

Which isn't the most comforting of explanations, and by his expression he's well aware of the fact. But it's still something, and he's hoping that'll be good enough.

He absorbs this with a neutral, considering expression, giving no sign of being intimidated by this less than stellar news.

"Do you know why?" he trusts in the Doctor inquisitiveness and experience that he'd have at least tried to find out, if it were to be found.

"Not yet. People have left, so there's clearly some way to do it, but no one really sticks around long to say anything about it one way or the other. They're just gone. Admittedly, it could be attributed to the pocket universe not entirely being stable, but it doesn't feel unstable enough for that, if that mae sense?"

It's been weird, yes. But other than the fact that there's only so much space that they have to explore - and the TARDIS being unable to connect to the Time Vortex - it hasn't been the sort of weird that would suggest either massive temporal instability or massive spatial instability.

Which doesn't help solve any of the mysteries of the place, but at least it helps close off some of the potential options, even if it's not a very big narrowing of the field.

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"I might develop a complex," he remarked in response to everyone just leaving. "I'm not sure that it does make sense, honestly."

It's not as if he has much to work off of.

"Maybe I'm just imagining it does, then," the Doctor answers with a shrug. "Or hoping that eventually we will have enough of the answers to fill in the rest of the picture. We aren't doing badly with what we have, really. It's just that there are an awful lot of unanswered questions, at the moment."

But it's not anything that he can say is terribly out of the ordinary, at least in so far as needed to find the answers go. The not being able to leave is new, yes, but he's managed well enough with staying put so far.

"Well, hope is better than despair, I'll grant you," he replied. "Questions always find answers, with time."

"Most things are better than despair, really. But of those, hope is certainly the best. The most worth holding onto, even when it might not look like there's any at all."

While there's life, there's hope, he'd once said. And at least this time around, he's almost certain that the reverse might nearly be true.

He's quite for a beat before summoning up some good cheer. "Well. Now that we've got the poetry out of the way, are you... well?"

There's a moment's silence, as he considers the question. It's not a difficult one, no, but it's not one he often stops to actually consider.

(Maybe he should make an attempt to do so more often, but now's not exactly the time for such things.)

"You know, I think I am. It's not exactly somewhere I'd have meant to be, not for this long, anyway, but it's not actually bad. Even if I'm not certain I'll be able to stay here forever."

But as moments of calm go, it's not actually bad. No Daleks, significantly less running and being variously shot at, and no one's tried to throw him into a cell for a good long while. It might not be paradise, but very few things would be.

A moment later it occurs to him that Brax might also have been asking after his physical health.

"Ah, and I haven't been unduly injured, lately. If that's what you'd been meaning."

He waits patiently, though a little worried about the need for the silent reflection.

It was something of a relief when the response came.

"Well, either or both," he shrugs. "I was being general, I do apologise. I'm glad to hear the results, regardless."

"It's alright, really."

He never minds general. It does mean that there's more to be covered and sometimes even he can't spare the time to cover everything, but overall he doesn't have a problem with that sort of thing. Especially when it gives him a little more leeway in his explanations.

(Not that he ever deliberately gets things wrong, but sometimes it's better to simplify than not.)

"How have you been?"

"Oh, fine, thank you," he said. Well, he certainly could have been worse and it was rather looking up when he was... well, taken and brought here. "Somewhat inconvenienced now, I will admit."

"I'm fairly certain that's universal, here. The inconveniencing people, I mean. But if we have to be inconvenienced, there are certainly worse places to be so in."

And he's not just saying that because a version of the TARDIS happens to around. Apart from the various oddities and other inconveniences, it's a place that's easy enough to settle in, even if he isn't sure he has it in him to stay forever.

"Yes, well, I'm not convinced that I have to be inconvenienced," he replied. "But I take your point."

"Well, no. No one would be," he answers without even missing a beat. "It's not the sort of thing that anyone wants to be, no matter where they happen to be."

The city itself is reasonably good at inconveniencing people, yes. But that doesn't mean that people intend to be inconvenienced, much less actually enjoy it when they are. Not matter what the circumstances.

"I'm not sure that's what I meant, Doctor," he remarked with a twinkle. More along the lines of whether or not the city needed to do what it evidently 'decided' to do.

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