[network/open] WTF???

[thedoctorsmate]

Who: Donna Noble
Username: supertemp
Warnings: Discussion of teeth, serial killers

Right.
Donna Noble.
New arrival.
Question:
What the flip is going on with the teeth?
Why are there bags of teeth in the park?
Who does that?
Whose teeth are they?
Isn't that like what a serial killer does?
I saw a program on Ted Bundy once.
Mad stuff.

Comments

[thedoctorsmate]

That's complete rubbish.
Fear's an emotion.
Are you telling me I'm spawning some eldritch monster every time I'm afraid?

[the_archivist]

No. They already exist. Just... they are fear, in one form or another.

I told you, they're not really things we can understand.

[And Jon might be the only person who knows that story. The only person who's ever even come close.]

[thedoctorsmate]

You're not making any sense, just being all spooky.
'Wooooo~, unknowable eldritch gods.'
Tell you what that is?
Superstition.
And maybe them not having the right tools, yet, to really figure out what they are.

[the_archivist]

...alright then. If that's what you want to believe.

Your funeral. Scepticism won't keep you safe.

[thedoctorsmate]

Look.
I appreciate you're trying to help.

[Or they... think they are.]

You're just not being clear.
Like... eldritch gods?
That's Lovecraft nonsense.
I've seen a lot of things a lot of people would call supernatural.
I'm not saying it's not dangerous.
Just saying it's probably aliens.

[the_archivist]

A lot of the eldritch creatures and gods in Lovecraft were technically aliens.

It doesn't make them less eldritch and existing outside reality.

[thedoctorsmate]

Define "reality," maybe?
If you're talking about parallel universes...

[the_archivist]

No. Not exactly.

If many universes exist, then they exist in between, and stick tendrils into the reality we can perceive.

[thedoctorsmate]

Okay, so... they're do that to this reality.
But if we're all stacked up next to each other, that means they're doing it in other realities, too, right?
Do you think there's a way to get in contact with those other realities?

[the_archivist]

[And there it is really. How many realities have been tainted because of him, because of his choices?]

I don't know. Maybe they're tied to this one and that's enough to keep them fed.

I'm not exactly an expert on multi-verse theory.

[thedoctorsmate]

[And neither is she. The person she'd count on to be is also very far away and might not know where she even is. But she has to believe he'd be working to try to find her. He wouldn't just... abandon her. Think she's lost?

Have a good excuse to get rid of her, the darker, more insecure parts of her mind whisper, but Donna tries to shake those out.]

Something on that sort of cosmic scale?
Seems unlikely, doesn't it?
If they're really as terrible as everyone here thinks, then they'd probably want to poke themselves everywhere they could.
If I could just get ahold of my friend...

Have you worked much with the people who do technology here?

[the_archivist]

Who can say, really? Like I said, not an expert on how things work.

And I sometimes nip in, but I'm really more of a researcher.

[thedoctorsmate]

[The Doctor could say. Donna sighs to herself.]

Yeah, well, guess I'll be nipping in, too.
Lot of places to check out around here.
Thanks.

[Sort of. She's not keen to talk to this snippy one again, but he's clearly trying to be helpful, and that's something.]

[the_archivist]

You're welcome.