Question.

Did the island turn into a Japanese animation, or am I dreaming again?

Who: Anyone!
What: The Free Will card runs around making people neglect their responsibilities.  Join in the fun, or try to stop him!
Where: School? The Hospital? The Police Station? Wherever there's problems if you don't do what you ought to! I'll start with an example.
When: Any time during the plot (until someone kicks his ass back into a card).

There's an ambulance, lights still flashing, parked outside the Ice Cream Shoppe.  The EMTs are inside, laughing, while the clerk loots the till.  Outside on the street, someone has wandered out of the salon next door, hair obviously in mid-perm, and started passionately kissing the mail-man.  A teenager graffitis a nearby wall in plain view of a police officer, cap pulled down over his eyes and snoozing on a bench.  A young child plays in traffic while his father wanders off, discussing sailing with a complete stranger.

At a distance of about half a block, traffic is stopped and people on the sidewalk are staring.  Beyond that range, no-one seems affected, and the chaos within that bubble is really messing with their day.

On the rooftop of the Ice Cream Shoppe, with nobody in particular paying attention to him, or even showing any sign that they can see him, is a pale boy with red eyes.  He's dangling his legs over the edge of the roof, simultaneously watching the crowd and flying a kite, with the slightest of smiles on his face.

It's wonderful seeing everyone do what they want to do, with no obstructions.

I have been to a lot of completely impossible places. No. I mean it. You have no idea how many places I have been where nothing made sense.  And they still made more sense then this bloody island.  I am getting off. I will figure out a way to get off this island if it kills me. I can't just sit around and wait here for someone to come save us.

Especially when the person who usually does that kind of thing is stuck here, too, parking-space hopping.

I'm really looking forward to this.  Sometime in the next few days, I'm sure!

Unless we really did land in a different universe.

This is going to be brilliant.

Soo we're in a bubble. On an island. Let me guess. The base of this island is on a giant turtle? It's good to know reality is just as ridiculous as fiction. Actually, no. I was already pretty certain of that to begin with.

[The Doctor (not locked to a specific one because what?)]

What good is a time machine that doesn't travel in time and can't even get off a tiny island?

Oookay. Normally, I would say being told that my life and my wife were fictional would rate pretty high on the list of 'things I never expected to happen in my life' but I've been worse things than fictional, I guess.

I'm sure you are all very nice people, just doing your jobs.

I just have one question for you.

Where. Is. My. Wife.

Oh. Yeah, alright then. Is there going to be one of those planes with announcements flying by, all 'Just Joking!'?

Sutures for a wound? I can understand their place on the battlefield but.... as a treatment on their own? Isn't that a bit... barbaric? To say nothing of the mess.

Souji, if you find yourself running low on that salve, you know where to find me. I think I'll abstain from availing my services on the hospital clinic, for a while. That should really make their year.

Happy New Year.

Good t'be spending it with friends.

Look what I managed to get my hands on!

Does anyone want to make New Year's Eve magic with me? I've got lots of horseshoes!

They're... gone?

( A very confused Fenris holds his hand up to the screen. That he has no clothing or armor covering his skin already makes the moment unusual; but that he also lacks his typical lyrium markings makes the moment so impossibly rare. )

Gone indeed, and I've no idea how. It's as if they've vanished overnight.

( He flinches as he touches his arm, but only out of habit, as if he expects to feel some pain or discomfort. On the contrary, he feels nothing; just a cold, metal claw on his arm. He feels the way he used to. Better yet, he feels truly free.

For once, Fenris allows himself to do something that vaguely resembles smiling. )

I was wrong about this island. Perhaps there is some good in it.

I am never working a Boxing Day shift ever again. I always underestimate how bad the holidays are for hospitals.

I hope no one's got hurt, and please, please be careful for the rest of the holidays. It's not that I don't want to help treat you, I would just...rather not.

Could someone do me a favor and find out if my reindeer are still in the park?

I never knew this sleigh could float. On one hand, I'm glad to know in the event of a water evacuation, but on the other hand, it might have been better to find out some other way...

Still, somehow, it feels like today has been a really good day. Has everyone been enjoying preparing for the holidays?

Well. Here we are then, I suppose. Not a big surprise, knew we would be after Amy bumped into herself next March, but I didn't think it would be over that quickly.

Oh well. Still, we had a great day, didn't we?

[This noise is the first thing you hear. After that, the Doctor's voice, quietly awed, cuts in.]

Ohhh, there you are! Good girl!

Donna! Amy! Rory! Jack! Jenny! Launch time, ten minutes!

Eridan. Yosuke. can I interest either of you in a brief jaunt elsewhere?

not engouhg blankets NEVER ENOUGH BLANKERS o god why is this hapnening y am i not dead yet



can whoever has my body plz check sched on frige thx south 201

what day is it

Um. Can I ask whoever has my body.......if anyone has my body...? To call in to the hospital and tell them I can't go in for the shift tonight, seeing as...well, seeing as. I don't really want to be responsible for someone without training doing...anything.

I honestly did not expect getting marked to be so stressful.