Session Start: Wed Apr 14 20:11:36 2004 Session Ident: #whosim * Logging #whosim to 'C:\Documents and Settings\Jennifer\Desktop\ghosts4.AustNet.txt' Anybody talking? just some JenK guy ;-) -> [DrWhoXI] PING Is Duncan at the keyboard? *** Pegleg_The_Smeg has quit IRC (Ping timeout for Pegleg_The_Smeg) Apparently not. Haven't heard anything from him I'm watching the Apprentice at the same time. I just saw that ANGEl is finally back tonight *** XTunaX has joined #whosim My mom's sick. wouldn't eat yesterday and woke up with a small fever today. Fever went away but she's still moping. We think her blood counts are though. Find out tomorrow. Hey Tuna! :-/ Hi Tuna So how's college life T? -> [XTunaX] PING Hmmmm, this is looking weird *** Phineas has joined #whosim Hey Duncan! WB Duncan Sound off if you are receiving... read you Jen Hi Jen,How was Easter? *poof* Calmer than the previous week. Er, hello. Sorry about the silent entry. That's ok. Jst wondered if you guys had connection problems. How was your Easter. ? np, was just worried mIRC was acting up again It took it about ten minutes to let me connect, but I got in. Jen,Daleks use Arm and Hammer Baking Soda to stay FRESH in their cans. dooooh GMTA :-) LOL. My Easter was fine,Jen. Jen,The Daleks most unfavorite game is "Kick the Can". Should we do a Casting Call? *** |M^HM_ has joined #whosim *** |M^HM_ has left #whosim Yes,please. <==== Ravena No bot or ops :-/ <===Phineas,Robert and William <====== Doctor (So this is how Peter Davison felt) Who <=== Vorlox I can take either the gov folks or reporters. Anyone have a prefence for one? However you want it, I'll take the other I'll take the reporters then. Ready to start? *** JenK is now known as RavenaS *** XTunaX is now known as Vorlox Yes! Break a leg, gang! <> <> <> <> @ = TARDIS # = Vorlox lair @ ::looking at blinking alarm on Phineas' magic tablet:: If the Doctor's headband isn't working, then he's in trouble. #::Iridescent sparklers of electricity sigh softly across the huge magnetic structure that is the seat of the Vorlox::: # //// :::Runs desperately across swamp land from pursuing Drashigs::://// #:::The Vorlox looms as a huge dark figure over the Doctor::: #:::Thge voice of the Vorlox is oddly calm in speech but brutal in content.::: @ What can we do, Professor? @ The Vorlox must have learned of my Headband's function,Ravena. # Yes, that sad excuse for a shield, that headband, is now disconnected. Your brain lies open to my every thought. # //// ::::Places a rain cape on the floor of a metal hallway::: Hurry you can tell that bumper car smell, it means they are coming/// #:::An intense blue beam shoots out from the upper part of the Vorlox's form and targets the forehead of the Doctor.::: @ Call for help!:::Links his Valise to the TARDIS console::activates the com unit in the Valise::turned to his lab:: $=Phineas's Lab $::Robert ::notices the lab in shambles>Phineas won't like this! # //// :::Runs desperately across swamp land from pursuing Drashigs::://// #:::The Vorlox hums with interest at the images that pour from the Doctor's brain::: Now you will show me all... #:::The images come faster and faster::: @ ::watching Phineas with interest and skeptism:: Do yu know what you're doing? # //// ::::Places a rain cape on the floor of a metal hallway::: Hurry you can tell that bumper car smell, it means they are coming/// $::William tries his com unit::at first there is static,then Phineas's voice comes in clear:: @ I'm not sure we should be tampering with the Doctor's ... ship. # /// Susan! Susan! Where are you?/// @ ::Using com::to Lab ::Robert,William,time to make a disrupter to repel the Vorlox.Transmitting the data. * = street outside TARDIS #:::The Vorlox begins to understand what it means to probe the mind of a time lord, and not just any time lord, but the one with the biggest variety of experience and memories. The Vorlox sucks it in, but on it comees, memory after memory, but all of them fragmented and unrelated.::: # /// :::Running up a cold grassy hillside::: Hurry Jamie, if they catch us we are done for//// $::Robert:::receives Phineas's data:: * Kit> Don't forget to get my good side, Uri. ::primps her hair:: Uri?! # //// Harry Sullivan, you imbecile!//// #:::Forced to try and cross reference this memories, the Vorlox begins to spin its cognitive wheels at the strange flood of disconnected images and memories.::: $::Robert and William ::arrange the parts needed and start assembling the disrupter as Phiineas transmits the data:: * Uri> ::films a close-up of the TARDIS zooming out to show the mob standing guard:: #:::Suddenly the Vorlox begins to experience relational satiety at the data, and beegins to pull back.::: # ///// Like it or not, I AM the Doctor!/// #::The Vorlox hums::: Sooo much, sooo much. @ ::Using com to lab::come to the TARDIS as soon as construction of disrupter is complete::Transmitting Coordinates,Now! * Kit> Uri! I'm waiting and you know how I feel about waiting. #::The Vorlox pulls back from the mental probe, but is too fascinated to withdraw totally and keeps a small stream of memories coming in, but the flood has been cut off.::: $::William::receives coordinates while Robert completes the disrupter:: # //// :::::Winces in pain as he draws a wire from deep inside his chest:::/// * ::Uri zooms out to focus on Kit and gives a thumbs up to her:: * Kit> ::beams her customary smile with just a hint of distress:: Kit O'Hara reporting you live from the once pristine now beleaguered Science District. @::Shows Ravena how to operate the TARDIS scanner to read it and move it's coordinates:: # ///// :::Falling from a tall tower, the ground rushing up to meet him./// * Kit> It is with my profound concern that I must report the dire situation our great nation now faces. @ Ravena,when my Cousuns William and Robert arrive I need you to guide the TARDIS scanner,I have shown you how. # //// Is that your solution to everything? Blow it up? //// * Kit> For it is in the first time in Minyos history since the Great Cataclysm that our fellow citizen has taken arms against each other in an act of mass violence. $::Robert ::Completes the disrupter an he and William depart the lab,disrupter in Robert's hand:: # /// :::: Plays a recorder enthusiastically if not very skillfully:::://// $::William::Check the coordinates Phineas gave him:: * ::Kit steps aside so the mob can be see over her shoulder and in the street below:: * Kit> it seems that fate has determined Minyos II is to face the worst or greatest test in our modern era. This day may very well determine the fate of our people. % = Government Bunker * Kit> One can only wonder, as our fellow citizens are paralyzed with this sickness of violence, where are our esteemed government leaders and why have they failed to act? #:::The Vorlox steps back even more from the Doctor's mad flood of disconnected images.::: @ Ravena,I take it you are from the Planet Earth? #:::The blue beam narrows::: # ///// ::::Sowly poles a skiff up a lovely river::://// #::Suddenly the Vorlox senses there are blocked minds near the TARDIS his Minyos minions have surrounded.::: $::William and Robert arrive just ouside the TARDIS:: * ::Kit turns toward the street, shedding a fake tear for her fellow Minyon:: Surely President Kless realizes the danger uncontrolled aggression poses to her constituents. Yet in the hour we have been hear to observe the growing unrest in the streets below we have yet to see one government authority to come to the aid of our poor, wretched brethren. # //// :::: Hooks his umbrella aroun a Dalek eyestalk and spins it down a school hallway:::/// #::The Vorlox forms into a tall figure, energy skittering off off the shining blackness that is its form.:: #::The Vorlox speaks::: My servants, be my eyes, ears, and hands. Go to the blue box and find the shielded minds! #:::A group of Minyons snaps to attention and marches away stiffly::: * ::as Uri films and Kit opines, a small unit of possessed Minyons approach via the apartment behind them:: % :::The President and Polly hold a high level briefing::: *::William and Robert arrive behind the possessed Minyans:: % > Polly > Madam President. I sent a military patrol to investigate the labratory of this Phineas fellow. They found it in shambles but are following two men they saw leaving the building % Kless > What is the situation? * Kit> The question remains will Minyos II survive this day or are we to fall victim to-- ::hears the camera drop behind her:: Uri, I'm not done. Uri?! * ::possessed Minyons clobber Uri over the head and charge toward Kit:: % > Polly > I think the patrol should terminate these trouble makers before they can cause further harm to Phineas or his research @ Ravena,Since the Vorlox now knows of my protection against it's power,it has probably sent Minyan slaves to WRECK my Laboratory! * Kit> Uri! ::races to get away from the mob, but the fire escape rail is at her back:: *::William an Robert::Charge the possessed Minyans::firing their Shield Guns as the come:: * ::possessed mob grab Kit by both arms and twist while Kit screams:: % > Kless > Kill them? No Polly, I think we might benefit more from following them. They might have learned of Phineas's whereabouts, % > Polly > If there were anything of value in the lab they obviously have destroyed it Madam President *::::Four or the possessed Minyans collapse under dou Shield Gun fire::: % > Kless > Perhaps... perhaps npt. at the very least they may lead us to this Vorlox creature... or whomever they are working for % > Polly > :::Barely able to cover her displeasure:: As you wish Madam President @ Professor, look! ::points to the view screen image of the reporters on the fire escape:: They'll be killed. *:::William clobbers the possessed Minyan restraining Kit:: * ::Kit is freed but before she can react, another Minyon comes out of nowhere and charges William:: * Robert>What aer yo Reporters doing here? * ::William is picked up and tossed over the edge of the fire escape, plummeting to the ground below:: * Uri> ::dazed but conscious, he trips charging mobster into Kit:: *::Robert::Shoots the Minyan that attacked William:: * Kit> :: screams:: Get him off! Get him off me! *::William ::Dangling from the fire escape::manages to climb back up,but falls to the ground in front of Kit:: *::Robert::removes the mobster from on top of Kit and throws him down the fire escape::: @:::Phineas on com::Robert,get William back to the Lab for regeneration,he nneds it after his fall! @ Regeneration? @ Professor, look at him, his neck's broken. @ Yes,Ravena,like The Doctor,Minyans have the means to regenerate into a new body. @ Regeneratin can even restore a person with a broken neck. # ::Slowly painfully consiousness seeps into the Doctor's mind::: @ But that's imposs-- Is that good magic or bad magic? @ Of course Minyan regeneration uses machine technology,not genetic technology like Time Lord Regeneration,Ravena. @ Good Magic,Ravena when used properly. Only misused Magic is actually bad. #:::The Vorlox stirs and begins to tap into the energy matrix in the vicinity and begins to heighten its electrical snapping::: @ That is what my Grand used to say. #:::The voice of the V orlox finally sounds upset::: Doctor, you would dare! @::Using the com::Robert to the Lab with William,NOW! @ What do we do now, Professor. That mob is still growing. #To conceal such a thing as this from my cognitive immensity! What a fool you are! #And fools must be made to suffer. Wake up, Doctor, I have something for you, something I want to give back to our crowded mind, perhaps you are familar with my gift? # Fool?.... What is believed foolish has often served me well, Vorlox #:::The Vorlox attacks the Doctor's mind::: With the gift of the Vorlox, the gift of PAIN! # :::Groggy:: Gift? It wouldn't be jelly babies would it? # AAaARRRrrrrgggGGGGHhhhhhh # #:::Energy pulses begin to crackle aaround the hulking form of the Vorlox::: Yes, Doctor, you will feel such pain as I can design. And I must say I am quite an adept at such things. # ::Through gritted teeth ::: You will gain nothing by it! #Oh, I will gain what I want, Doctor. @ Our only hope now is the Minyan Military,Ravena. % = Phineas' lab # And what would that be you fiend? % ::the escaping reportors and scientists make it back to Phineas' lab:: #MAke a correct guess and I may show you some mercy. What is it that I want? You tell me, Timelord! % ::Uri carries William's body with help from an unwilling yet terrified Kit:: @:::Phineas::Uses com to contact his Lab:: # My pasta salad recipe? ::Weak smile:: #::Another blast of pain directed at the Doctor::: # :::Screams in agony::: % ::Uri lifts William into the lab's personal regen unit:: Switch on the cycle, Kit. @::::Using com to %:::>Phineas to Robert,come in. #As an energy form that needs to stay nimble and trim, I am cutting back on carbohydrates, so that is the wrong answer. Try again. % ::Kit cowers away from the door at the imagined sounds of the mob:: % Uri> Kit, activate the regeneration cycle before this man dies! # Babblefish sushimi? % ::Robert ::barricades the Lab door with the cabinet:: % Kit> Death, all around me. We have to get out of here. We have to hide! ::races toward the door pulling at the cabinet barrier:: #Wrong Doctor, but that is the right answer for me, but a wrong one for you. %::Robert::answers Phineas on his com::>We are under seige here Phineas. % ::Uri angrily pounces on Kit and pushes her into a chair:: Nice going ace reporter. Planning to hide yourself in the ars of the very mob we just escaped? #Because my goal here is a simple one. To make you suffer! # May I call a friend? # I should have known #Get ready for a few centuries in my neural frialator, Doctor. This is just a warm up. % ::Uri activates the regen cycle for William, watching as the man's body is consumed in healing light:: # Humanoid, gaseous, insect or energey being. All you meglomaniacs want is power to cause harm % Kit> ::covers her ears from the sound of mobsters pounding on the lab doors:: Why me? Why me? #Unlike the apathetic fops of your civilization, Doctor, at least I have an agenda! @::On com::Robert as soon as William is healed,take your makeshift army to the Bunker,you'll find the Vorlox Lair there! % Uri> ::rolls his eyes at Kit and goes to help Robert pile more obstractions in front of the doors:: # Eeven if it's only to dance with the devil in the bright moonlight? #And my agenda, you would have to admit, is being implemented. And after Minyos, more delights await me as I skip across the universe, feeding on the emotions of the oh so witless beings I encounter. @ What good will that do, Professor? They're nearly surrounded. @ Maybe we can take this ship into the bunker ourselves. @::On Com::There is a control setting on the back of the disrupter, set the dial to factor 10,that should send The Vorlox packing,Robert! @ ::On Com::Just pull the trigger on the Disrupter to fire the thing,Robert! #Face reality, Doctor, you and your kind have lost! % :::Polly uses her well tuned political camelion like ability to fade into the crowd and slip out unnoticed:: @:::Desperately manipulates the Dematerialization controls to arrive at the Vorlox's Lair:: # My kind? You have never met my kind @ ::TARDIS bleeps but fails to move:: @ Ravena,I fear the TARDIS onlt responds to The Doctor. % Uri> ::looking at disruptor device:: Will that thing work from here? % Robert>It only works at line of sight with it's target,Uri. % Uri> Then we'll have to get to the bunker. And I know just the passkey for us... ::looks at Kit:: % Kit> ::rocks back and forth babbling:: %:::William's form::throbs with light until regeneration is complete::Then William steps out of the machine:: % ::Robert::Slaps Kit::>Snap ou t of it,Kit! We need your help! % Kit> ::looks up in stunned silence:: I'm a star. You can't order me abot. Uri? % Uri> ::grabs Kit by the arm:: Come on star. I think it's time you had your presidential audience. %::William::steps out of the regeneration machine::fully healed::>What happened? % Uri> I don't suppose you have a working short range transmat? % Uri> ::grabs the card around Kit's neck:: We can use Ms. O'Hara's press pass to get inside. # :::The pain burns brightly in the Doctor's mind until only the light is left :::: %::Robert and William::take Kit and Uri to the short range transmat::activatesit and then folllow Kit and Uri using the transmat's clock timer:: % ::the group reappears a moment later inside the security bunker, surrounded by several alarmed and armed executive guards:: % Uri> ::steps forward, holding out Kit's pass:: Ms. O'Hara's film crew. We have vital informatio for the president. obert>Don't be alarmed we were sent by Phineas::to the guards:: 1%::Robert and William::set up a com link with the Bunker::: % ::Guards escort the film crew into the Presidential Council Room:: % ::minutes later President Kless and her staff join them:: obert>President Kless,I have been snet here by Phineas! % Prez> Ms. O'Hara welcome. We have been viewing your live feeds. I understand you have information. % Prez> ::Turns to Robert:: Phineas? The scientist in charge of extra-Minyon research? % Prez> We've been looking for him. ::turns to her aide:: Nice work in finding a contact Polly. % Robert>President Kless,I nned to set up a link with you and Phineas. % Uri> Be careful, your eminance. Not all of your assistants are as loyal as you may believe. # ///::The Doctor dreams he is fishing his mind lost in the vision of the bob floating on the water:://// % ::President Kless looks on the cameraman with puzzlement while Polly shrinks behind her a sneer crossing her face:: %::With Kless's permission::Robert sets up a communication's link with Phineas aboard the TARDIS! % Polly> Madame President, with your permission I'll assist in the use of our external communications system for this hook up. % Prez> ::nods:: Tell me, how were you able to elude the sickness transforming our people int this mob? % ::a screen covering one wall pixelates into the image of Phineas:: @::On com to %::My headbands protect against the Vorlox,Honorable Kless. % Prez> Scientist Phineas, I'm pleased to finally have you on board. % Prez> My sources tell me you have an understanding of this sickness and how to combat it. % ::Robert::shows Kless,Uri and Kit the disruptor and repeats Phineas's instructions of how to operate it:: % Prez> Then you'll get the assistance of my best troops to get in position. ::nods to the guards:: Godspeed. @::On Com to %::Yes,President Kless,it is in the Disruptor device I had Robert show you and instruct you in it's use. # = Vorlox's lair # ::a short while later, Robert, William and a small crack unit of presidential guards, all wearing headbands, infiltrate the Vorlox's lair:: # ::::The light becomes a tunnel. Figures come to greet him Vyon, Sara Kingdom, Adric...::: #:::The hulking Vorlox stirs, sensing something amiss in the aether.::: # ::President Kless's bunker and the TARDIS watch their progress via remote comm-units:: @ ::studies the scene in the lair, notices the huddled figure of the Doctor lying at the demon creature's feet:: # ::They smile at the Doctor and offer hands to help him... ::: #::Upon seeing the Vorlox ::Robert sets the Disruptor to factor 10 and fires the device at point blank range! @ Professor, the Doctor! You don't think he's ... dead? # :::Softly mutters::: My friends... all my dear friends #:::The Vorlox immediately begins flicker, its shape shudders.::: @ No Ravena,My cousins Robert and William are rescuing him at his very moment. @ We have to help him! ::randomly punches and twists controls on the console:: #:::Energy begins to fade into the hulkiing being, its size dimishes::: @::Switches monitor to Vorlox Lair from the TARDIS console:: #:::The Vorlox shrinks and shimmers, letting out not a sound::: @::tries dematerializing again:: #:::Inside the Vorlox is thinking, "I hate it when this happens!":::: # All my lost friends if only I had the old girl so I could take all of you home :::smiles::: @ Ha! The Vorlox is FISSION for trouble! #:::The Vorlox retreats inside a small magnetic field it is able to project with its own power, but it is sealed off from access to Minyos::: @ ::the TARDIS springs to life, time rotor moving, wheeze and groans fill the air:: *** Vorlox has quit IRC (Read error to Vorlox: EOF from client) @ ::a moment later the Doctor's unconscious form appears on the floor of the TARDIS:: @ Doctor! ::exclaims with pleasure when she sees him, rushes to his side:: @ :::Eyes open a slit::: Nyssa? @::Sets up a positive feedback loop to imprison the deminished Vorlox via the TARDIS:: @ No, it's Ravena. You're going to be all right Doctor. Just rest and let us take care of you. @ ::Weakly::: Seems as if you are becoming my permanent nurse ::Tries to smile:: @ Doctor,The Vorlox took a lot out of yoy,it is I phineas. @ nyssa was like that Ravena, always helping those in need @ Professor, help me get him onto that settee. He needs rest, fresh water and food. ::looking around in the console room:: I wonder if there's a kitchen around here. @ Emergency ration dispensor behind shelf on balcont with med kit @ ::Moves the Dovtor to the sette and brings him food and drink::>Here you go,Doctor,eat up. @ Sips tea, ah that's the thing... be right as rain in no time ... ::Smiles and falls dead asleep:: POSTNOTE It is several weeks later before they can finish cleaning up the cellebration and the rioting. That is when they find Polly crushed at the bottom of an elevator shaft that was sabotaged during the riots. She was still clutching her clipboard Music swells <> <> Bravo all Just checking. Thank you Tuna whereever you are Bravissimmo! Next week we'll have a small, crew-only sim. Namely Dr 11,Phineas and Ravena? Have an idea for a two parter that will hopefully take us to David's return Uh huh! So until then... have a good weekend guys. Gotta go. Dad's home. God bless! You too, and my best to your Mom Session Close: Wed Apr 14 22:20:49 2004