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[clammedup]

[this starts off as text because there is a keyboard and Harry knows how to type.]

Right, I've read the pamphlets near that blasted machine, but can someone please explain to me why I was chosen? I'm hardly a hero, you'll want someone more along the Doctor's lines th

[the text switches off, as Harry accidentally manages to nudge it to video. you get a close-up of Harry, looking down at they keyboard and typing in a decidedly hunt-and-peck manner before he notices that the camera is on.]

Oh! Why hello there...I didn't know they made cameras this small. [a pause while he stares at the camera-then smiles slightly.] Anyway chaps, my name's Harry Sullivan, formerly of the Royal Navy now working with UNIT. I don't suppose any of you have seen a man called Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart around here, have you?

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[bloodshadow]

[Have an uninterested, blue-haired alien staring back at you.]

Nobody around here knows shit about why you were chosen. The porter's just a fucking bitch.

Haven't heard of Brigadier Left Bridge-whatever. But I've only been here for a fucking week myself.

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[clammedup]

[Well, that is definitely an alien. Now more than every, Harry wishes that the Doctor was here.]

Choosing people for seemingly no reason certainly isn't helpful. You'd think this porter would have a better plan!

video; Spidey's comm

[incywincyhero]

[There are British people who actually talk like on those old television shows? Cor blimey.]

Sorry, never heard of the guy, or of UNIT. We've had a buncha doctors, including one who went by the definite article, but he got sent home a while back. Kinda jittery type, dressed about four decades older than his face?

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[clammedup]

[Staring. What is going on, why are you wearing a mask, are you going to rob a bank, Harry has no idea what is going on.]

My Doctor dressed more like an eccentric hobo than 'four decades older than his face.' Perhaps you had a later regeneration?

[Staaaare.]

I don't mean to be rude, but isn't it terribly hot in that mask?

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[incywincyhero]

[Spidey's used to that kind of reaction, especially from the newbies.]

A later what now?

[Beat.] You... get used to it.

[Weirdly enough, that's not a question he gets often. When people ask about his costume they usually want to know one of the following: (a) if he's colorblind (no), (b) if he sews them himself (yes), (c) if it rides up in the crotch (not... applicable.)]

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[clammedup]

[Sorry, he's just going to focus on the mask. That other question's getting answered later.]

Well why don't you take it off? Honestly, if it's uncomfortable then why are you wearing it?

[bloodshadow]

Yeah, well, you'd also think the porter would just leave people the fuck alone. Especially those of us who don't give a shit about being heroes or fighting crime or all that bullshit.

[clammedup]

I'm sure that there are other things you can do here aside from fight crime.

[bloodshadow]

Nothing that I couldn't have done better back home.

So what the fuck are you planning on doing? Not like you can join back up with the fucking navy.

[clammedup]

Well, I was a doctor back home. Perhaps I can see if there are any places where I could at least volunteer? I doubt many people would accept that my medical license was back in another dimension.

[bloodshadow]

Shit, that's why this place sucks so fucking much. I had a club back home, at least until my dumbass sister wrecked it. If I wanna open one here, I gotta start all over.

video;

[onefouroneseven]

The Doctor?

[ There's a healthy amount of skepticism in her tone, mostly because of that capital D. ]

[clammedup]

Is your sister...ah, like you? [aka an alien.]

video;

[clammedup]

That's what he said his name was. [He gives a small shrug. You learn to roll with these things when the Doctor's around.]

[bloodshadow]

"Like me?" The fuck's that supposed to mean?

I mean, I guess so, except for the huge stick up her ass.

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[incywincyhero]

Who said it's uncomfortable? This is highly specialized crime-fighting equipment, I'll have you know.

["Highly specialized" as in "sewn on the machine in his bedroom," naturally.]

[clammedup]

Well, you're an alien, aren't you?

video

[clammedup]

It looks rather tight.

[He is from the Doctor Who era of practical clothing, okay?]

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[incywincyhero]

Well, yeah. It's gotta fit under my clothes.

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[clammedup]

But what's the point of that, really? Even without the mask everybody would know that you were a...[pause, rifle through the pamphlet, what was that word used.] an import. You have one of these devices, after all.

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[incywincyhero]

No, not because of -- it's a secret identity. You know, like... [When is this guy from?] Zorro. Or the Scarlet Pimpernel. Do they have the Scarlet Pimpernel in your universe?

[He likes to dress up in a spandex one-piece and do battle against evil. What is so difficult to understand, here?!]

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[clammedup]

Oh, of course! But the Pimpernel never saved the French nobles while wearing a spandex mask.

[Yeah, it's the spandex, bro.]

Aside from that, both Zorro and the Scarlet Pimpernel had someone they wanted to hide from. If this machine wants us to be heroes, then what real reason is there to hide?

[bloodshadow]

Yeah, I'm a Thulian. Not used to aliens or something?

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[onefouroneseven]

And is he a doctor of anything in particular or is it simply a name?

[clammedup]

Oh, no, I've met more aliens than your average Briton. Though, I don't think I've ever met a Thulian before.