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[bonnypiperlad]

[This time, when Jamie appears on the Plane - still in his 'borrowed' armour - he has a cube with him, about the size of a basketball. Made from some black material that almost seems to absorb the light of the stars above, it appears to be completely smooth, with no discernible features to it. He turns it over in his hands as he starts towards the kitchen, but he's an awfully long way away from there, and quite hungry at the moment.]

Och, I wish I could get to the kitchen faster.

[With a *whuft* of displaced air and a bit of a light show, Jamie vanishes, then reappears just outside the entrance leading to it. Needless to say, that's more than a bit confusing, and he turns around in a circle while trying to figure out what's going on.]

Hey?

[OOC: Have a confused Highlander who is now a god, folks.]

Comments

[oliverplus]

[he has a feeling seeing it will be easier than attempting to explain] Try it. See what happens.

[bonnypiperlad]

Aye, alright. [Jamie frowns for a moment, thinking.] I could go for an ice-cream.

[Right on cue, a 99 appears in his hand, which startles Jamie rather noticeably.]

How...?

[oliverplus]

[Oliver looks dismayed but not surprised] Lots of people are starting to make things happen just by thinking about them.

[bonnypiperlad]

[They...what?] Is it something like what happened to ye after ye died?

[With dismay, Jamie realizes if it is, then he would have had to die too, and that's a really uncomfortable sort of thought.]

No, it can't be that. I would have remembered if I died. Wouldn't I?

[oliverplus]

[alarmed] What? No! [quickly] No, it's not like that. You haven't died, Jamie! You'd know!

[but he can guess now that Jamie must have seen his conversation with Sefton. he's just not sure what to say about it, so he focuses on calming Jamie down first]

[bonnypiperlad]

But why do I have powers, then? Unless...wait, ye said lots of people. Like who?

[oliverplus]

I think it's an experiment...

Like the Doctor. And whoever did the blood... I don't know who all. Just...it seems like people are doing things they shouldn't be able to. Haven't you noticed the weird places appearing?

[bonnypiperlad]

Er...ah...no.

[Jamie looks somewhat sheepish, but he has been rather distracted as of late, especially with trying to figure out this cube-thing he's gotten ahold of. He's about to mention it when the rest of what Oliver said sinks in.]

Wait! Ye said the Doctor can? And what blood?

[oliverplus]

[nods] Yeah.

[wow, clearly you haven't been on the Plane much lately, Jamie] Blood all over the Plane? Uh...I take it you missed that.

[bonnypiperlad]

Oh, that blood. No, I saw that. [He didn't realize it was all over the Plane, though.]

I wasn't here for very long before it went away. [Timing is everything, apparently.] I take it was someone with these powers that did that, then.

[oliverplus]

That's what I'm guessing. [he pauses for a second, not sure what to say. he has nothing but misgivings about these powers, but he doesn't want to alarm Jamie any more than he already has] You'd better eat that before it melts.

[bonnypiperlad]

Oh, right. [Jamie starts to do just that, going to lick at a drip that's threatening to fall on his hand, then stops.]

Hey, could I not just think of it as being not as melted, though?

[And the slightly melty-looking cone shimmers and goes back to what it looked like when Jamie first summoned it.]

That's better.

[And he starts on eating the 99.]

[oliverplus]

[Oliver smiles, amused through his misgivings at Jamie's method of using his ability] How is it?

[bonnypiperlad]

S'good. Want one?

[The words are a little muffled sounding, thanks to eating, but no matter. Another ice-cream appears, helpfully hovering in mid-air in front of Oliver.]

[oliverplus]

Whoa... [Oliver reaches up to take the ice cream, smiling despite himself. he raises it to Jamie] Cheers. [and now he's enjoying ice cream, too]

[bonnypiperlad]

[Hey, not everything has to be horrible about these god-powers, right? Jamie's 99 is gone in fairly short order, since it doesn't occur to him that he can essentially make a cone with endlessly replenishing ice-cream.]

So which Doctor can do things like this, anyway? Or is it all of them?

[oliverplus]

[Oliver responds between licks] Mine. I mean, mine now. With the pinstripes and the hair. But I don't know about the others... I haven't seen them.

[bonnypiperlad]

Aye, well, they're not around so much. So maybe it's only certain people who can do this.

[He looks at Oliver rather thoughtfully for a moment.]

What about you, Oliver?

[oliverplus]

[Oliver stares at him, stopping mid-lick. he pulls the ice cream away from his mouth to ask:] What, me? No way!

[pauses, considering for a moment before he adds a little nervously:] Like I said, it's nothing to do with, you know, dying.

[bonnypiperlad]

[That certainly seems like it's the truth, but...]

So ye just have those other powers, then. The ones ye thought would be better to hide from your friends.

[oliverplus]

[ouch! Oliver ducks his head, ashamed. he knows he deserves that]

That...I was wrong. I should've told you. And my best friends.

[bonnypiperlad]

[Jamie folds his arms against his chest.]

Aye, ye should have. If nothing else, do ye not think we deserve the right to know if we do die here, we're going to come back with more than black blood?

[oliverplus]

[looks up at Jamie in surprise] You didn't know?

[bonnypiperlad]

I've heard ye come back different, Oliver. I've not heard that you'll suddenly be able to tell what people are feeling when ye look at them.

[oliverplus]

[quickly, looking Jamie in the eyes] It's not like that for everybody! I've heard...just weird dreams. Or teleporting. I don't know what else.

[hesitantly] The Doctor said it fits me--that I can use it to help people. I can do, sometimes. Maybe that's why it's different for everybody.