Multipup Post of Help-Me-Decide-Who-To-Keep

[just_the_doctor]

[OOC: Yes, I'm still alive, though some days are more indicative of this than others. Anyway! This is as much to see which characters I still have voices for as to see which characters people are interested in interaction with. No need to migrate accounts for pups I can't/won't play, after all! Please indicate as best you can who you're tagging.]

The Doctor slips in from the back door, having just returned from indulging his sudden whim to have a bagel in every incarnation of "New York City", all twenty-seven of them throughout the whole of time and space. Needless to say, he's very full at the moment.

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Agnes Nitt, now 25 and looking more the Mother than the Maiden despite her continued lack of a love life, is perched at the bar absently working her way through a mug of scumble and a plate of fried paradoxes while she people-watches.

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David Xanatos has a booth near the window with his laptop set up and a number of newspapers spread out before him. An observant passerby might notice they are all copies of the same paper on the same day, but all carrying different stories.

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A battle-weary Echo is taking advantage of the bar to rest and resupply. Her table is covered with several dismantled guns, and she is methodically cleaning them and checking for wear.

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Kitai reclines in the rafters, casually watching the ebb and flow of people below her and indulging in her hobby of mentally calculating how difficult it would be to defeat each of them in combat.

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Nikola Tesla has collected a small crowd around him as he demonstrates again his favorite party trick of juggling balls of crackling electricity. The resulting static field is playing merry hell with his hair, but he doesn't seem to mind.

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A relatively recent newcomer, Quorra is still somewhat starstruck by being in the presence of so many Users. She is also voraciously working her way through the stack of books on her table, but would never turn away conversation.

Comments

Agnes, please!

[scots_wolf]

Urquhart is leaning against a pillar and eating dates.

He gives no indication of having noticed Agnes, but he has. And is wondering whatever it is she is drinking.

[agnes_nitt]

One thing about watching people, at least for witches: one gets a keen sense of when one is being watched in return. Particularly when being watched by someone one has spoken to before.

Agnes nods politely to Urquhart and offers him a slight smile.

Agnes Nitt

[starrydome]

One of the people being watched now approaches the Bar to order - and ends up next to her.

He is very tall, very regal, very well-dressed, long-haired - and pointy-eared.

He gives her a polite smile as he orders - something warm and spicy. He is also trying to make out the components of her drink based on the olfactory indicators. There seems to be apple in it. Well, some apple anyway.

[agnes_nitt]

Agnes freezes briefly when she catches that smile. She knows what this one is -- the Fair Folk have a vibe about them no matter the universe. And being noticed by an... elf -- even thinking the word is hard -- is does not generally work out very well for the one being noticed.

Still, she returns the smile with a polite nod, and tries very hard not to crawl out of her skin.

Quorra

[a1enzo]

Enzo's eye is first caught by the stack of books—because that is a pretty big stack—but it keeps sliding back to the young woman reading them. She looks like a User at first, but certain details are... off. Or rather, not off when they usually are.

Pardon his staring.

[iso_quorra]

Quorra looks up from her current book (Things Fall Apart), and notices that she's being watched. She smiles shyly, and then drops her eyes back down to the table, looking for her drink.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Daddy, why has that man got bread with a hole in?" a small boy asks, pointing at the Doctor's bagel.

"That's a bagel." Guppy says. "It's like a doughnut but not sweet."

[just_the_doctor]

This particular example of the breed was his favorite, which is why he'd gone back and bought a second one to save for later. At the moment, though, the thought of eating one more bagel was slightly less desirable than... well, than anything else he could come up with at the moment.

"And much chewier than a doughnut, as well," he adds with a nod and a grin. "But that's part of the appeal."

The Doctor

[basic_powers]

So in a bar that has the grandest source of weirdness and oddities, no one really notices the perfectly normal looking human lad in the jacket at a booth...

...making random items on the table disappear and reappear as he touches them. Like that large tooth that was there a second ago, or the pair of gauntlets that just popped up.

[just_the_doctor]

In the Doctor's experience, the perfectly normal looking ones are exactly the ones you want to watch. So he can't help but notice, and he definitely can't help fishing out the sonic and scanning that direction to see if the disappearing objects are being cloaked, teleported, phased, or dismantled.

Professional curiosity.

[thefirststark.livejournal.com]

The laptop fascinates Howard. He can't imagine how the world manages to develop things like that by...by the date on all those newspapers. Which isn't that far off, but is also still long time to go.

The fact that the newspapers all have different headlines just barely registers.

"Good afternoon."

[david_xanatos]

To be perfectly honest, David shouldn't be able to own this particular computer. It's not something that will be available in his world for several more years. But then, there was always money to be made in letting advances in development leak out slowly rather than all at once.

Xanatos looks up at the greeting and nods to a fellow businessman. "Is it afternoon already? For a place so temporally locked, time does tend to get away awfully fast."

The Doctor!

[sunbaked_baker]

The red-headed baker at one of the centrally-located tables, which is laden with a tray of various delicious-looking baked goods (warm cinnamon rolls the size of human skulls; slices of dense, bittersweet chocolate cake as dark and delicious as sin; spirals of dark chocolate and bright hazelnut cream; delicate lemon-strawberry bars dusted with powdered sugar; muffins of all sorts), is slightly discouraged to see someone obviously already full. Of baked goods, no less.

One learns to read the signs, after a few years in the business of feeding people.

Rae is determined, nevertheless, to pay off her bar tab. She hadn't realized that it had gotten so out of hand. One already-full patron will not defeat her.

She promptly realizes that she's scowling at the man... oops. Staring is bad enough. Scowling is probably not welcome. The look quickly changes to one of wry apology, anyway. "Cup of tea to help wash all that down?" she offers.

[just_the_doctor]

The Doctor grins at the offer. "Cup of tea, just the thing! Excellent!" Honestly, he's sick to death of being offered coffee, though even that is better than what most New Yorkers called "tea".

Tesla

[waco_jim]

Jim is mopping up his baked beans with a slice of bread when he notices his hair begin to stand on end. He's starting to look like he came out of the wrong Mel Brooks movie.

He turns to see what Tesla is doing and smiles. "Always did have a soft spot for mad science."

[callahans_genius]

"Oh, I think 'mad' might be something of an exaggeration," Tesla says without a break in his performance. "I prefer 'gently unbalanced'."

[has_no_future]

Kai watched the electricity. No though came to his mine, he wasn't capable of them. Of course if the static field is strong enough, it might make Kai's systems misbehave.

[callahans_genius]

A slight wobble in the trajectory of one of the electric balls alerts Nikola to the presence of an external electromagnetic field. He quickly ascertains the source and adjusts accordingly, sparing a glance and a nod of greeting toward the stranger.

The Doctor

[waco_jim]

Jim detects the faint smell of garlic and cream cheese as the Time Lord enters the bar. He looks up from his dinner and cocks an eyebrow at the arrival. Oddly, he feels as though he ought to know him from somewhere, but can't quite place where. (The answer, of course, would be something along the lines of "midnight, baked as hell and watching PBS in his trailer for some reason," and would at any rate refer to a different Doctor).

He tips his hat. "Evening, stranger."

[just_the_doctor]

The Doctor grins in return. "Hello! And yes, I do feel like a stranger around here. So many new faces. It's been a long time."

[claudiometer]

Tesla's got an audience in the form of a young lady - well, if one uses 'lady' a bit loosely - at a nearby table, now thoroughly distracted from whatever she was doing on her laptop.
"Duuuuuude," she says, after a bit. "Now that's a nice trick."

(OOC: Slowtimeycakes, but given that Tesla's got a bit of significance in W13 canon, I couldn't resist.)

[callahans_genius]

Tesla grins. He does love showing off. "This? This is nothing."

He hurls one of the crackling spheres at the young woman. It covers about 2/3 of the distance between them before snapping back like a yo-yo at the end of its string.

"That one is a nice trick," he notes with a wink.

The Doctor

[white_flowers]

Her voice floats out of the half-shadowed alcove where she sits, cup of tea untouched on the table in front of her, watching the passers-by with sharp interest through her cobweb-light veil.

"Hello, cariad."

Blodwen is smiling.

[just_the_doctor]

He has to look around a bit to locate the source of the voice, tucked away as it is, but once he does, he heads straight to Blodwen's table.

"Hello, Blodwen. You're looking well. How have you been?"

Xanatos!

[toxic_perfume]

Here's a face the bar hasn't seen in a while.

The tiny blonde at the next table is eyeing the newspapers with some interest, and the man reading them with even more.

[david_xanatos]

David looks up from his computer at the feeling of being watched. He notices the young woman and smiles politely at her. "You'd think I'd have learned how to relax by now. But... always more work that needs to be done."

The Doctor!

[bloodyvirgo]

A slightly luminescent humanoid with horns coloured after candy-corn is sidling up to the bar. Looking a little weary amd drawn, she doesn't notice the Doctor just yet. Instead, she addresses the bar, asking for a glass of blood. She recieves what she asks for...only it's an interesting shade of teal.

[just_the_doctor]

Definitely an interesting enough sequence of events to catch the Doctor's attention.

"I didn't realize Vulcan had vampires," he notes absently.