01; The days come to you like sailors [You watch them as they drift away]

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[He appears on the plane and instantly spins around, startled and instantly confused. This isn't where he was a moment ago and it certainly isn't where he was expecting to go.

He pulls out his sonic screwdriver and holds it aloft, testing for...well, anything recognizable. That failing, he opts for a more conventional tactic.]

Hello?

Is anyone there?

[It's going to be a very long day.]

Comments

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

I like a little shop, but I didn't see one. Wait...no, no, no shop. I was just...well, walking.

[contract_star]

...Well, that's odd. Everyone else has a version of that shop in their reality.

At any rate, the Twins are the ones in charge of things, along with Meredith Sault. You probably saw her, at least. She wears a robe and is always hooded so that you can't see her face.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Everyone? How many people did you say were here?

[contract_star]

[Scratches the back of his head.] It's got to be at least sixty now...some have been here for six months, some, like yourself, have only just arrived.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Sixty. [scratches the back of his head as well]

And this is where they all converge?

Any sort of similarities? That you've noticed?

[contract_star]

This is the common ground, I guess. Although it seems that the realities themselves can merge as well.

Well there's plenty of people here from similar worlds, if that's what you mean. For instance, a lot of the people here are from different versions of Earth. Or people are from the same world, but different times. There's a woman here from my future. Is that what you meant?

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

That is something.

Have to figure out a pattern. Where are you from? What time? What place in Earth's history?

[contract_star]

[Sighs a little.] Japan 2007, the one with Hell's Gate in it. Although no one here except Misaki Kirihara and myself seem to be familiar with it.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

[like probably a dozen other people]

What's a Hell's Gate?

[contract_star]

It's...hard to describe. It's a chaos realm that appeared in Tokyo ten years ago. Physics don't apply there, and people who try to enter it either go insane or are killed or both. Hardly anything is known about it as it is.

When it appeared ten years ago, all of the stars in the sky were replaced with fake ones, and the moon disappeared. All of the rockets sent up go missing.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

So you were cut off from the rest of the universe?

That's very interesting. What year are you in Japan? I may have to take a trip.

[contract_star]

They think so. They don't know much about the Gate because it's so dangerous to explore it.

2007, and you probably won't be able to visit, unfortunately. If you can come here that means you're going to be restricted to whatever area you're currently in. Your other self has been unable to leave the planet he's on, and most of us can't even leave our cities.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

They've grounded us?

Why?

How?

[contract_star]

I don't know. I've tried to leave Tokyo, and it's impossible--trains break down, freak accidents happen. As for you and the other Doctors, I'm not sure the TARDIS can move at all. I don't know how they managed it, but they have.