three ✩ audio | id reads "karen starr"

[boobwindow]

[ It's not particularly noisy wherever Karen is. There's a lot of heavy footsteps and movement where she is, some chatting in the background that fades as she moves along.

Somewhat flatly: ]

You ever get one of those weird feelings in the pit of your stomach? The kind where you get the sense something is amiss? I mean, I assume lots of people do.

[ Guess who got a bad feeling when she found herself in the Porter lab without warning? ]

On top of losing about a week and some, I have to admit I did do a double-take looking at the network just now. It is April Fools, so I had to wonder if this was some elaborate prank people were in on until I did some back-reading and realized something's gone awry with imPorts again.

[ There's just a sigh from her. A quiet, but long and exasperated one. ]

So... do we know who or what did this? Somebody please tell me my employees at Starrware still have their minds. Or ages? I have no idea.

Also I hope somebody's been feeding my cat while I've been gone.

Comments

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[regenereight]

I'm afraid it would require too much time and coordination to be an elaborate prank. Plus, one would need to find a large amount of eight-year-olds.

[ because man, a lot of people have been timeshifted back to being kids, what gives there? ]

As for your questions, no, but I do have a few theories.

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[boobwindow]

Might have made it some kind of wold record.

[ Not that she's enjoying this one bit. How many people she knows have been affected? ]

Let's hear 'em.

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[regenereight]

Well, it's some sort of localized time disturbance, affecting a few individuals, but none of the humans here—none of the native humans, that is. I'd imagine that the disturbance has something to do with the Porter or the...nanites, if I remember correctly? The Web of Time is still relatively intact, I'd feel it if it snapped, though I must say that I really don't approve of the government mucking about the timelines. [ said in a 'what can you do about it' sort of tone of voice. Governments, everybody. ]

It can't be a deliberate attack because one, not everyone's affected and two, if they wanted to time-shift people to a more helpless age, we'd have more babies and less people like me, where I'm younger than I was but still quite capable.

video; world damn it :|

[boobwindow]

You can feel time?

[ She can't help but sound a little skeptical for a second there. ]

Are people getting affected daily or has it only happened once?

video; damn you typos

[regenereight]

Of course I can! What sort of rubbish Time Lord would I be if I couldn't?

[ just said with a small smile. And as for her question... ]

It happened once. One event, affecting imPorts in multiple cities.

video; my nemesis

[boobwindow]

The title sounds familiar [ probably some other imPort ] but can't say I know exactly what that entails.

[ Hrm. ]

Never a dull moment around here.

video; /shakes fist to the sky

[regenereight]

You'd know more about that than I would! [ he can't help but respond with a smile ] After all, I've been here less than a week.

As for the Time Lord question, mostly it involves meddling. I'm practically a professional meddler at this point.

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[boobwindow]

I always thought time was one of those things you didn't meddle with.

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[regenereight]

You say that and yet people seem bound and determined to meddle with it, leaving me to meddle even more to stop their meddling. Did you know I used to have an enemy named the Meddling Monk? That shows you the level of meddle I meddle in on a daily basis.

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[boobwindow]

... dare I ask what Meddling Monk did?

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[regenereight]

[ one visit to the Doctor Who wiki later... ]

He tried to 'improve' Earth's history by inserting advanced technology into the timeline well before it was supposed to arrive.

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[boobwindow]

[ She winces. ]

How advanced are we talking?

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[regenereight]

Shakespeare on the telly.

[ advanced enough. ]

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[boobwindow]

Do you think Shakespeare would appreciate that?

[ She kids. ]

How did you undo his mess?

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[regenereight]

Thankfully, we found him before he could do too much mess and instead was more focusing on gloating about the potential mess. I stopped him by tampering with his ship!

[ said....just with a big grin on his face ]

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[boobwindow]

And the timeline just... fixes as a result?

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[regenereight]

Well, there was a little going back and cleaning up later, but for the most part it did. The timeline's oddly resilient, probably as an after-effect of all the time travelers.

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[boobwindow]

Somehow that doesn't make sense to me, but I've never fully understood time theories, honestly. Not my area of expertise.

[ It's probably for the best. ]

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[regenereight]

Well, if you ever need any answers to time travel theories, simply give me a ring!

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[boobwindow]

I'll be sure to keep it in mind.

You gotta name besides "Time Lord"?

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[regenereight]

I forgot to introduce myself? Well that's rude, I do apologize. I'm the Doctor. Pleasure to meet you.

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[boobwindow]

Just the Doctor? Do you actually get some kind of certificate or degree for being a Time Lord?

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[regenereight]

Wouldn't that be lovely! But no, it's simply my name.

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[boobwindow]

[ There is no way that's his real name. ]

Doctor... then. I might stick with "Doc".

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[regenereight]

I'd prefer 'Doctor,' if it's all the same to you.

[ it's close enough to his real name to count ]