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]

Never met anyone named Neriel. Tell me a bit about yourself.

[godslantern]

Well. I'm... a bit between things at the moment. I'm a healer at the core, and I won't be staying away from that forever, but. Things got complicated.

[Things have been complicated for millennia.]

[familyalien]

Wut do you mean things are complicated?

[godslantern]

Oh, you know. Superiors were denied what they considered their rightful Armageddon, and then it turned out they'd been lying to everyone for far too long. The usual.

[familyalien]

Yeah, never like it when others try to bring about the end of the world or universe.

[The Doctor gives a tired, nope, face]

I take it they were lying because you stopped them?

[godslantern]

Oh, I had very little to do with it being called off. That was mostly down to human intervention. [Mostly, as there wasn't a complete lack of non-mortal influence on the matter, but Neriel hadn't left Heaven at that point.]

The lying ran much deeper than that. They were saying the whole time that... the people who were cast out wouldn't remember anything. And they counted on no one ever stepping out of bounds long enough to question that.

[familyalien]

They're good at that humans. [He states matter-of-fact and more authority voice] Which begs the question, what are you?

Who is they?

[godslantern]

So it seems. [She's already a bit charmed, but it would be hard not to be.]

I'm an angel. A Virtue, if you want to be precise about it.

[familyalien]

Blimey how humans got your lot wrong.

[godslantern]

Maybe if more than two of us had visited Earth properly before the planned apocalypse, or been allowed to visit, they wouldn't have. Or maybe they would have made themselves correct by influence.

[familyalien]

So the apocalypse happened in your universe?

[godslantern]

No, it didn't end up happening. Not for lack of trying on the Archangels' part, but apparently the Antichrist was having none of it.

[familyalien]

Good. Very glad to hear. That's a twist, any idea why?

[godslantern]

Not a proper one, I'm afraid. I would guess the human factor wasn't properly accounted for, but... I was very removed from the whole thing.

[It happens, when you're the best healer on hand. They keep you in the infirmary.]

[familyalien]

They are unpredictable at times. To humanity.

[The Doctor raises his glass]

[godslantern]

Indeed. [She doesn't have a glass to return the toast with, but she's right there in spirit.]