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

[snogboxed]

[ Clara scoffs as if it's such a silly question, she can't even... ]

After you and the War Doctor left! What, have I seen you since then?

[familyalien]

[He needs to lie to her. Even if he shouldn't he can't go into her future and how they weren't the best of friends with his next face and to make it worse he still blames the Raven on himself. This is her before all of that happened, when she was so alive and happy.]

No, you haven't. I've missed you. So very much.

[snogboxed]

[ Clara is open to his affection. She hasn't seen her Doctor for weeks. This face, for months. But something about his tone makes her anxious. ]

My Doctor, I've missed you too.

[ Still, despite her not seemingly missing him as much as he missed her, she did VERY MUCH miss him. She smiles and holds out her arms for a friendly hug. ]

[familyalien]

[The Doctor joins in a heartsfelt hug. He's missed you Clara and he likes hugs again.]

What have you been up too?

[snogboxed]

[ She lets out a chuckle. As if he doesn't know! ]

Been still teaching in Key Stage 7 through 11. I have great students. Very receptive.

[ After a few moments of him hugging her back, she pulls away and looks him in the eye. ]

And you? What've you been up to since I last saw you?

[familyalien]

[The Doctor is silent for a moment and staring back. Clara might notice those eyes are older.]

Honey moon and running the country with Queen Elizabeth.

[Even if now, in hindsight he regrets this.]

[snogboxed]

Nooo...

[ Even Clara can see through this lie. She teases him as best she can. ]

I saw you break things off with her. So now, really, what've you been doing?

cw; genocide

[familyalien]

Something wrong with me going domestic?

[The Doctor teases]

I couldn't stay forever.

[Though he didn't want to talk about Time Lord Victorious, where The Doctor tries to cheat Death and did destroy Death, more or less in the end. Which at that point he figured out he was wrong.]

Oh, you know me. Just wandering about. Ran into myself a few times. Came upon another dimension.

Re: cw; genocide

[snogboxed]

[ How dare you not go domestic with m ]

More than what I've seen? Because running into YOURSELF twice... meaning, you, your newer self, and your older self... is quite a lot as it is! Spill it, Doctor!

[familyalien]

Three of my younger selves. None of which you've met. We had to take care of Cybermen and some Daleks and Weeping Angels. One was in Paris during various times, which the Time Agency wasn't happy with me finding myself. Another was at the Cathedral of Contemplation. Finally, I got caught in a temporal anomaly on Lucidus Silvara.

[What Fourteen isn't telling is that his Tenth self had been on a quest to figure out how to avoid regenerating.]

[snogboxed]

[ Three of his younger selves she's never met? You sure about that, mate? What about travelling down his timestream to save him over his lifetime...? Her memories about them are fuzzy, but she's fairly sure she's come across each of them, even at a distance, at least once. ]

Hmm.

[ Clara leans on the nearby counter and taps her drink glass with her fingernails. ]

You may have gone on adventures, but I told you... that "Eleventh" version of you... I met your younger selves, yeah? Or--

[ She stops tapping her glass, visibly alarmed at possibly breaking the time/space continuum. ]

--am I totally bonkers and you haven't had that happen yet?

[familyalien]

Yeah, haven't been that me, yet.

[The Doctor lies]

[snogboxed]

[ Clara pouts, reaching out a hand for him to hold out of pity. ]

I don't know if this counts as "spoilers" or not, but um... out of some cosmic happenstance, I will run into all of your former faces.

[ She pats his hand with her spare hand. ]

So if you see me with a different hairstyle in the distance, that's me trying to save you. It's a long story.

[familyalien]

Good to know I have someone looking out for me.

[The Doctor gives a soft smile because his hearts melt with her holding his hand. He's missed that but he can't say anything about being ahead. Too many spoilers she'll be tempted to ask of him.]

What do you make of this place, Clara?

[snogboxed]

[ Clara takes a deep breath and flails her free arm out and back down again in an awkward shrug. ]

Cosmic intersection of universes. A force bringing the most important people - human or not - together to resolve a danger beyond comprehension.

[ She giggles and squeezes the Doctor's hand. ]

Just used to it by now. What do you think? Hit or miss?

[familyalien]

[The Doctor smiles warmly and for a moment Clara might see 11s face smiling though the older face. Someone feels lucky to have Clara back before The Raven.]

You - are always going to be clever. And that allows for many possibilities, now, doesn't it?

Oh, definitely, a hit. Well, Clara, shall we explore more of the hotel?

[snogboxed]

[ Clara lets out a giggle and a bit of a hop. She's missed this! ]

Ohh, where do we start?

[familyalien]

Good question. So many rooms. I don't know where to start.

[snogboxed]

[ Clara grabs the Doctor's hand, as if he weren't any older or younger than the hand she used to grab. ]

That one!

[ She drags him in the direction of the... well, initially she saw it as the "skgrom" until she turned and saw it spelled "smoking room." She immediately let out a "eugh" and dragged him further down the hallway. ]

Okay, so I'm not the best at finding places to go. Where do YOU want to go?

[familyalien]

Oh, you know me, Clara. Everywhere.