this is what I brought you [this you can keep]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[The Master appears on the Plane, holding a book-thing. It has "I-Spyder" written on the front, for those with good eye-sight] ---and you always leave your companion's things all over the kitchen. What is this, anyway? And how is it making an English pun when it's clearly an extraterrestrial book?

[The Doctor, appearing next to him, sniffs a bit.] It's actually an obscure Ilgerian pun based on the eye and one of their mythical heroes of the seven legends.

You know, I might have believed you if I had the intelligence of a rock. A dead rock, before you start talking about the Northern Ilgerian Society of Rocks. And one word about the reanimated dead and I'll burn this book.

[Promptly, he closes his mouth. Because, yes, he wanted to talk about Rocks.] Oh, don't stoop to book burning. I like to think there're some standards left.

'Even evil has standards'? I'll tell you this: evil isn't always confronted with--- [he finally opens the book] ---...a book for spotting various animals? Well, you can't have gotten very high; the only species you ever get near are humans. [flips through a few pages. He stops suddenly, all expression vanishing from his face.]

[Guess who just found an entry on one species in particular?]

[ooc; Join post! Red is Master, blue is Doctor, expect double-tagging and possibly threadhopping, etc. You know the rules!]

Comments

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[And now he'll just be snatching the book away and clearing his throat.]

Oh, don't pay attention to that. Harmless little game book, you know.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

He won't ever have existed when I'm through with him.

[rude-not-ginger.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's you two. Found something interesting, have we?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I've decided to put out a hit on Big Chief I-Spyder. Care to jump into the line of fire and save the man's life?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's getting offended over things. Nothing unusual.

[imnot-hisgirl.livejournal.com]

[also, have a Martha!]

Doctor! [she'll be ignoring the Master]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[mildly]

He likes it when you use his name.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[Wheee ignoring the Master!]

Martha! Hullo, remember that? The I-Spyder.

[ambitious-woman.livejournal.com]

[and look who appears after a long, long absence. (it should be noted she is NOT older) Dressed with particular care she is obviously fresh from walking her gardens, parasol in hand]

Are the pair of you bird watching now? How fortunate my plumage is properly groomed.

[a look at the Master]

And before any comment is made amount my sex and anything that might be found lacking? I am quite aware of it and shall do my best to distract from that bon mot.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I'll leave it to the Doctor to make inappropriate comments about your plumage. My lady.

[this bow is so very over-the-top and filled with flourish]

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[The Doctor smiles at her, always happy to see her.]

More than just birds. Just about anything, really.

[oikoumene.livejournal.com]

What colorful bickering! And quite well-versed travelers, I would be safe to assume.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

After the first thousand years of wandering all of space and time, you start to think you can call yourself 'well-travelled.' And then you meet billion-year-old giant heads, and you go, "Well on the bright side, I still have my youth."

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wouldn't call it bickering, exactly. Just I'm right about something and he isn't.

[madamemoiselle.livejournal.com]

{Smiling}

Ne, you two really have an odd kind of friendship, you know.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[looks up at her with a bit of an 'ew' look, but this is directed not at her but at a word of hers]

We're not friends.

[scienceandgod.livejournal.com]

[Though Arthur is feeling better than before, he's still sniffling a bit] Are humans listed as animals now?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Technically speaking, from a purely scientific standpoint, yes. Though by everyday use of the word, most humans prefer not to think of themselves as animals.

[lovethepossum.livejournal.com]

[Guess who latched onto the dead bit?] ...I dunno if you can reanimate rocks; they didn't do a class on it or anything.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

It's just another type of lifeform, that's all. These ones specifically are silicon-based rather than carbon-based lifeforms.

[oldoldghost.livejournal.com]

[Brigitta looks a tiny bit disappointed when the Doctor pops up; her pointy object has to go away now...] What does it say on humans?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[He flips open the book and clears his throat.]

'Human. Homo Sapiens. Location: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia.

The human is a bipedal mammal that walks upright. It is mainly hairless with only a few patches of hair, the main one being on its head. Its smooth skin ranges from a pale pinky-white to a deep black. The male human is on average taller and heavier than the female. It is the only species on Earth to voluntarily clothe itself.

As of publication, the human is still abundant on Earth.

I-Spyder points value: 2'

[brigadiertardis.livejournal.com]

I do not recall having that book in my Library.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[because he is a tattletale]

Guess what your beloved Doctor did for the Time Lord race.

[with flourish, he presents the entry about Time Lords on Earth]

[shatteredqueen.livejournal.com]

[she notes the Master's expression, but puts on a smile because she doesn't want to touch on something that might upset him]

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised he has children's books lying about, should I?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

What do you know about Time Lords, Lucy? As a species.

[dritte-tochter.livejournal.com]

[don't mind this Doll -- she just wants to see what's in the book, so she might be trying to snatch it]

What is that about, desu? Can I see?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[reflexively lifts the book away first - he's Prydonian, man. You learn to stop people from snatching your things in that Chapter]

If you ask.

[handysparehand.livejournal.com]

[looks confused for a minute]

Martha didn't take that with her?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Oh, it belongs to Martha. Well that explains everything.

[cosmic-engineer.livejournal.com]

[have an Omega! One who has apparently been tinkering on something, judging by the stripped-down work robes and the grease stains on the sleeves.]

A book of Earth animals?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

And one migrant species.

[charmandsmiles.livejournal.com]

[grins at both of them] Never could resist a fantastic pun. Can I have a look?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

You own it.

[miseardae.livejournal.com]

[just...looks at them for a bit, very clearly amused] Domestic spat?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Violation of Time Lord secrecy laws in a completely idiotic way.