[network/open] Set During the Deep Event Prompt

[thedoctorsmate]

Who: Donna Noble
Username: supertemp
Warnings: None

Show of digital hands, who hates this?
I didn't sign up to be stuck in a flat with a psychopath, personally.
Dunno about the rest of you lot.

So, in the interest of not going insane...
Games.
Two truths and a lie.
Rules are like it sounds.
List two true things about yourself, then one lie.
Don't say what's true or not.
People have to guess that.

I'll go first.

1. I've been to a planet made entirely of emeralds.
2. My best friend has two hearts.
3. I've met Agatha Christie.

((ooc: Everyone please feel free to threadjack around, have your characters respond to each other, rather than Donna!))

Comments

[abrightboy]

I haven't carried since I was with the FBI either. A taser is a safer weapon to wield. [It doesn't take much training, either. A mental patient managed to shock him eight or nine times on her first go with it. Still. Better safe than sorry.] You should still train with it, though.

[thedoctorsmate]

Yeah?
Well, maybe whenever we get out of this... whatever the flip this is.
That snow out there isn't natural.

[abrightboy]

It's not. I'm concerned. I'm concerned about friends that are trapped in other residences. There've been problems with the water all week.

But if we do get out of here okay and you want some help learning how to use the taser effectively, I'd be happy to help.

[thedoctorsmate]

Appreciate that.
But that makes me worried.
What do you even do for frozen pipes when you can't get out to them? Guess they could try gathering the snow and eating that?
You don't think there's anything wrong with it, do you?

[That would be just their luck.]

[abrightboy]

The problem with eating snow is that it uses more water than it gives you and you can actually get more dehydrated, if you just eat it like that. I would suggest melting it first and, to be super safe, boil it for at least one full minute before drinking it. That'll take care of any pathogens. Just in case.

[thedoctorsmate]

[Wait, what?]

Get out of town!
Are you serious?
But it's water?
Or I guess you've got to warm it up.
Huh... praying the electricity doesn't go out, then.
I'm not exactly built for arctic survival if we start needing to build fires or whatever.

[abrightboy]

If you don't melt it before you eat it, your body has to do work to melt it in order to use it and you use water in cellular metabolism, which occurs any time your body does work. You pass urine to excrete cellular waste, for example.

[In other words: completely serious.]

[thedoctorsmate]

Right, okay.
So, why do you know that, exactly?

[abrightboy]

When you don't have any friends growing up, you read a lot.

[thedoctorsmate]

We need to get you some Nora Roberts, or something.

[abrightboy]

I don't know what that is.

[thedoctorsmate]

Romance novels.
I think you need more romance novels in your life.

[abrightboy]

I’m doing okay in that department lately. What else do you like to read for fun?

[thedoctorsmate]

Oh, I like trashy stuff.
Smart man like you?
Doubt you'd be interested.

[abrightboy]

I'm interested in all kinds of things.

[thedoctorsmate]

Oh, yeah?
You read Twilight?

[abrightboy]

Okay, no. But I’ve read everything by Agatha Christie?

[thedoctorsmate]

[...]

Are you comparing Agatha Christie to Stephanie Meyer?
What apartment are you in?
Sorry, I need to come over for a chat.
One that involves my hand and your face.

[abrightboy]

No. You just. Mentioned Christie earlier, is all, and I actually know who that is.

[thedoctorsmate]

Right, well be clearer about that sort of thing!
Here was me talking about trash literature and you bring up Agatha Christie?
Bloody brilliant author, right?

[He had better agree. Or else.]

[abrightboy]

Groundbreaking. But if we're talking exclusively about trash, I did read a lot of John Grisham when I was in high school.

[thedoctorsmate]

All right, here's a question:
What's the cutest or most romantic or just... not dark book you've read?

[abrightboy]

I read all the Hardy Boys books when I was a kid. They were a bit below my reading level, but I liked the mysteries.

[thedoctorsmate]

Malcolm.
Did you get stuffed in lockers as a kid?

[abrightboy]

More often than average, but less than you’d think. Until my father got arrested. Then it was mostly after school ass kickings.