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[Oliver is in the kitchen, putting the finishing touches of chocolate frosting on a round white cake. he also seems to have put quite a bit of frosting on his face, hands, and shirt--as well as some flour and other ingredients. cooking is not his strongest point. but he licks his finger and, after a second's consideration, seems satisfied] There we go! All done. Now for the note...

[he reaches into his pocket, withdrawing a piece of paper that is now also smeared with frosting. he frowns a little when he realises what he's done, absently wiping a chocolatey hand on his jeans. he then wipes at the chocolate on the note, but he quickly gives up that effort] Oh well. You can still read it, anyway... [he carefully folds the paper--spreading more chocolate as he does so--into a tent, which he sets up in front of the cake on the kitchen table. the note reads: "Free cake! Have some! -Oliver."

[once he has it sitting neatly, he takes a few steps back to survey his handiwork. he nods, apparently pleased] Okay, there's that. What else...? I should set out some plates, and napkins... Oh, forks! Maybe glasses, too. You've gotta have milk with cake... [he takes his frosting knife over to the sink and rinses it, and then he starts to rummage through cabinets. for the moment, he's focused on his task--but, unlike his recent desperate work in the library, this time he looks incredibly cheerful. he's even humming off-key snatches of music as he searches for utensils. on this occasion, he'll be glad to be interrupted. after all, he has cake to share!]

[ooc: Oliver, travelling with Ten, is sharing the canon update and has now experienced The Idiot's Latern--their version of it, at least. Also, the cake is not fantastic but it's decent cake, at least! Oliver hopes that everyone will enjoy it.]

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[Oliver sets plates on the table, then fetches a knife and forks] The Doctor saved the country! So, it seemed like a good time for cake.

I'm Oliver, by the way. [he gives her a friendly smile] How big of a slice do you want?

Uhhh... [She positions her hands just above the cake. It doesn't have to be too large, and she'd be able to make it larger if she really wanted it to be.] This big's good!

...so who's The Doctor? Oh yeah, and I'm Jade Harley!

Okay! [Oliver cuts her a slice, setting it on a plate and offering it to her]

[surprised] You haven't met him? He's...um...basically the most amazing bloke in the universe. And he spends most of his time saving it. [Oliver cuts himself a small slice of cake] I travel with him.

Nice to meet you, Jade!

Thank you. [/takes cake slice] It's nice to meet you, too!

[She takes her first bite and tries to imagine the most amazing bloke in the universe. One who could spend most of his time saving it. :o]

Mmm, the cake isn't bad!!! [:D

A pause as she finishes her mouthful.] What kinds of travels have you had?

Yeah? [he smiles, relieved] Great! [he takes a bite of his own slice]

Oh, all sorts! He can go anywhere in time and space, so we've been to the past and the future and all sorts of planets and colonies and such. [he grins] It's incredible. But what about you? Where are you from?

Wow... [Her eyes widen in delight. Someone who could go anywhere in both space and time????? :o Then, /takes another bite]

I'm from a universe that's being destroyed!!! [That seems so incredibly common among people's home worlds! :D She is so excited right now that it's hard to contain.] My friends and I spent a whole day playing the game that's doing it, but that was going to happen anyway. My role was to breed a very very special frog that would become the next universe! I think I was killed with a metric fuckton of shaving cream, but now I'm a god tier player transporting the battlefield, all the planets, and my friend John into the next universe!!!!

[he just stares at her. that made absolutely no sense] Wait...so the universe is getting destroyed in the game, or...your universe is getting destroyed?

[...she's wondering what he's staring at. :\ Staring is rude!] Even if my friends and I didn't play the game, our universe would have been destroyed anyway. That is just the way it works. The point of the game isn't to save the universe, it is to create a new one!

[he really isn't sure what to say to that] But...you'll be okay? You and your friends?

Yes!! We reset the game with the Scratch, and that changed the parameters for success. Each of the players managed to escape before the universe was destroyed. John and I wound up arriving here in the astral plane as we were heading to the next universe!

Wow... [Oliver is speechless for another moment, still blown away] I'm sorry...

I mean, I'm glad you're all right, but... [he flails a little, really at a loss for words]

It's alright!!! [:D She's flippantly moves away from the topic with a giggle.] What is it like to actually save the world????

[he blinks, surprised by the change in topic] Well, it's...exciting, I guess. [he's still a bit too blown away by her universe getting destroyed to sound very enthusiastic, though]

Oh, really? [Given his rather tame response, she's beginning to wonder just how exciting it actually is.] What kinds of things have you had to do to save it? Do you have an earth, too?

[If he does, maybe he's had meteors raining down on his planet earth, too.]

[his planet Earth has probably had just about everything possible attacking it at one point or another...]

Yeah! I'm from Earth. And we stop aliens, mostly. Like, when I first met the Doctor? This bloke was trying to use a cheap laptop to blow a hole in between two dimensions! [his tone starts to get more excited as he gets into the stories] And we stopped a giant marshmallow monster in Belgium once, too. Oh, and the bat-creatures in Rio! Well, they were nice, but we helped them! Also, we saved...erm. Some Ancient Chinese people. From some other Ancient Chinese people. And...you know, we've done a lot of things, really. [he smiles, scratching his head sheepishly]

[Her ears twitch and perk up as he begins. A hole between two dimensions? That sounds like her kind of thing! Well, at least, once she retrieved the fourth wall and enlarged it, that is.]

So when you went to save the Ancient Chinese people from some other Ancient Chinese people, did you do the time thing?? Did you have to go backward in time for that? [She wonders how that having both time and space as a thing would actually work since she only knows space. Dave's thing is time.]

Time thing? [Oliver blinks] Oh, yeah! The Doctor can go anywhere in time and space. Sorry, did I leave that part out?

No, I just wanted to make sure!! I can do the space thing but not the time thing, so I thought I'd ask. I didn't know anyone would be able to do both!

[he stares] Wait, you mean you can travel in space? Like...teleport!?

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