welcome, new visitors

[modconcierge]

There isn't much fanfare for the new crop of visitors who have come in this month, but what they encounter is quite wondrous. Is it a cruise ship? Is it a hotel? Is it a tiny planet? No one can give them a straight answer, but all are encouraged to take part in the buffet, where visitors may find an assortment of foods both familiar and unfamiliar to them. There is an open mic night happening in one of the lounges on site, featuring staff and visitor performances. Or there are a handful of shops to browse if you're amenable to trading.

Visitors will find that the Hotel Multiverse at the Edge of the Cosmos between Canons (its official name) is very much alive beyond the bustling crowd. In fact, it might just be listening to you and anticipating your needs.

As for the rest? Well, that's up to you. You may as well socialize, right?

Comments

[familyalien]

"Yes." The Doctor remarks simply.

[death_from_above]

Have another hug, this one with less tears. "THANK YOU! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!"

[familyalien]

"You're welcome." The Doctor replies, "That all said, keep yourself on alert here. Who knows who this place will take in."

[death_from_above]

"Right! So I should go back to Spark to fill you in on everything?"

[familyalien]

"Oh yes!"

[death_from_above]

"Okay!"

He turned back to Gar and headed back over to the food. "Where do you want me to start?"

[familyalien]

"From when Rose and I left."

[death_from_above]

"Um, well I don't know a lot about the end of things in Nautilus... I was kind of hiding..." Because he was upset that the Doctor and Rose had left. "But then we were told we could leave or stay and Adrien and dad and Nino were going home. I tried to go with them but I wound up on the Train instead. There were lots of fun people there. And Lots of people from Nautilus. Like Nita and Clef and Link. Leia showed up later. Like a lot later. Not sure why. So Nautilus Knocked Nearly everyone way, but the Train Trapped Time Tourists Tennuously."

He grinned a bit, then continued.

"The Train was kinda like being that higher level person from Nautilus. We went to worlds across time and space and realities and other geeky stuff like that to fix problems. I dunno. It was hard to go on missions without people realizing it was me in other forms. So mostly I napped."

His feline smile dropped and he shuddered, looking away from the food. "One of the worlds though... was pretty bad."

[familyalien]

"I see." The Doctor replies, so that confirms that Adrien is in fact back home. Along with his father who cages his son. He hopes in his hearts that Adrien learns to be brave and stand up to his father.

"And you weren't on The Train when I hopped aboard."

[death_from_above]

"No," he said, depressed by that. "Wish I was... And that you'd stayed. That I wasn't...." He swallowed hard and curled up near the food, trying to ignore it now.

Even Curufin had been gone by then...

[familyalien]

"Rose and I left Nautilus because everyone had what they needed. Thar was some other place out there in the Great Big Multiverse that needed us more than the family we had made."

[death_from_above]

"Needed you... more than we did... Even when..." Another shudder, remembering. Thinking about...

[familyalien]

"Even when - what?"

[death_from_above]

"There was one world..." his voice was quiet, broken. "Fish. A fish world. Fish everywhere...." he said it like the thought made him sick, not gleeful. And this was Spark.

[familyalien]

"Spark, there was three of me left behind. All of them clever. Left you in more than capable hands."

[death_from_above]

"Not on the Train," he said, hurt.

[familyalien]

"Oh, I see." He picks Spark up and pets him.

[death_from_above]

He snuggled into him. "It was a world of fish. So much fish. They... they told us not to over fish... but the Train was always so low on food... and no one was left who could Bend... and Curufin was gone...." He sniffed.

[familyalien]

The Doctor continues to hug Spark.

[death_from_above]

"It... There was so much fish and I was so hungry and then... and then..."

[familyalien]

"What happened?" The Doctor asks gently.

[death_from_above]

"Then.... Then there were no fish but... there... there were bodies..." he whispered. "Floating. Dead." He shuddered. "Adrien. You. Rose. Dad. Nino. Kirika. Connie... just... just everyone..." he whispered. "Everyone was dead. And it was my fault. Because I ate everyone.... Everyone was dead be...because I kept eating...."

[familyalien]

The Doctor figure it was some sort of hallucination drug. "That was real. None of that was real." The Doctor remarks firmly.

[death_from_above]

"I... I couldn't eat... at all...." he whispered. "Not... not for a long time.... Couldn't sleep..."

[familyalien]

The Doctor hums in Gallifreyan.