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[spacerhyme]

[ the video feed flickers onto the face of an older gentleman; unflattering low angle, poor lighting, eyebrows hanging heavy over his eyes and lips tightly pursed. he's wearing a nice, heavy coat over a hoodie and a t-shirt featuring a sick ass space shark, though much of the ensemble's coated in a fine yellowish dust. looks like it could use a wash.

not his main concern right now. ]

Really? [ one corner of his mouth quirks up, wry. ] Cast across time and drifting lost and alone amongst storms of raw negative energy, but you've got social networking. How very... human, I bet a human knocked this up. D'you call it Spacebook or something?

[ original dad joke, do not steal. no apology is forthcoming.

the camera swings round, losing sight of him for a second as he sets the device down on something solid. re-adjusts it until it's centered properly on his face, steady now. ]

Hel-lo, Avagi. I'm the Doctor. Yes, just the Doctor. I arrived on your quaint little space station only recently — not the worst I've encountered. Well done. Probably... well, possibly not even in the bottom ten, but I mourn for some of your equipment. Someone made off with two-thirds of your laboratory, you realize, and ohhh, the state of your computers...

[ briefly aims the camera up at one of the aforementioned storms. ] But I must say, the open-plan observation station is a bold design.

[ casually tossing topics out as he rapidly approaches the actual purpose of this broadcast. this time he points at the screen, seriously, ]

Has anyone established themselves as your de facto leader yet? I'd like to know who to ignore.

The rest of you, tell me about the Ingress as it was, and the planets you've visited. Any of them.

[ over and out. ]

Comments

[yondu]

Probably.

She could just as easy pretend to be someone new, too. She was a shapeshifter.

[spacerhyme]

So she could be you. Or me.

Or in the walls.

Or long dead.

...Thank you, have you got any other bogeymen on board I should be made aware of?

[yondu]

Just the normal asshole kind. Those are bad enough.

[spacerhyme]

Oh, boring. Just your bog standard idiots?

[ those are literally everywhere. ]

If the portal actually is gulping up lifeforms at random from across the multiverse, that's a very lucky break. You could've ended up with the Mire, or Ice Warriors... or Daleks.

[yondu]

Look, I got badmouthed by a uh....

[He realizes that Peter's around. And he doesn't know that Peter knows who his father is. So he hesitates before saying-]

Yeah, let's just say I seen worse than here, too. Problem is this storm thing is hittin' whole planets thanks to what the meatsack did. She set it loose and there ain't nothin' worse than a feisty force of nature.

[spacerhyme]

[ raises an eyebrow, wondering what this guy's not saying... but he'll leave it be for now. ]

Yes, I can see... it's a problem. [ he glances upwards at it, again. waggles a finger skyward. ] Something will have to be done about that.

But I've dealt with worse than a space storm, too.

[yondu]

You just tell me if you figure out how to build a ship worthy of navigatin' the storm out of spoons and duct tape 'cause I'll be right there with you.

We got the technology to resist it. Problem is we ain't got a ship to brave it.