video; chalk off spot 3 on Doctor Bingo

[helpline]

[ The comm is obviously the Doctor's. And the background is obviously the Doctor's room in Heropa 11 (if you know what the Doctor's room looks like, that is). But there's some sort of hodge-podge device made up entirely of junk and taking up the majority of the bed. There's a fez sitting on a bedpost because the Doctor has money and Heropa has stores so the Doctor can buy hats. And the person who's grinning at the camera like a maniac is definitely not the Doctor. If it wasn't the lack of eyebrows, it's the bowtie and the fact that this Doctor looks like he'd be grumpy granddad Doctor's kid.

There's also a possum that's hanging out on his shoulders. Yeah, space granddad's affected like HELL due to the current plot. ]

Hellooooooo Heropa! Doctor here, or at least a Doctor, or at least a Doctor that you might not know, though that's the thing, isn't it! I don't know if you know me or not, isn't this fun? [ This Doctor does not shut up. ] But I do know that thanks to a few conversations with a few friends and a little bit of poking around here and there that some things aren't just adding up.

Now, someone mentioned magic. I don't know anything about magic, magic's not my wheelhouse, bother someone else if you want magic, but what I do know about are timelines. People who know people who've got weird memory issues, speak up! Who's affected, who's missing bits and pieces, who's backstories weirdly don't line up with your backstories, this might be a timey wimey problem and I'm the king of timey wimey.

[ There's a pause, while the possum yawns. ] Oh yes! This is Murray, by the way, he's informed me that he's quite happy with his living circumstances though he'd enjoy it if he had a few eggs. I think I'm taking Murray with me if the TARDIS ever were to show up here—he'll be new Handles.

[ another pause before ] Oh and also, I do hope that I wasn't the one who came up with the sonic sunglasses. There's nothing wrong with the screwdriver, screwdrivers are classic, screwdrivers are cool. Tell the other-Doctor if he shows up again that I'm rather put out by the changes! Right, Doctor out!

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[itstheirworld]

[he sure does talk a lot, but right now she has just one-two questions for him:]

if you're the expert: are you responsible for what's going on then? can you fix it?

permavid!

[helpline]

No to the first, maybe to the second! Plumbers aren't responsible for leaks but they can fix them. I'm a space plumber...which sounds really terrible, help me think of a better analogy than that.

[ he just keeps talking ]

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[hostage]

Um, I'm one of 'em. I think. I mean, one of the people who's not remembering right.

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[helpline]

Hello there not remembering right, I'm not remembering right also! What have other people been concerned that you don't remember?

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[fastballspeciaaaaal]

What'd you do with the other Doctor? If you're trying to get rid of him and take his place you're doing a reeeeeally bad job.

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[helpline]

Ah yes, about that...I'm actually the other Doctor, just a different, probably younger, model. Same Doctor, different face!

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[restingstitchface]

[Does this man pace himself when talking?

He's going to get onto his own problems in a bit, but first-]

Oh, you're a Doctor?

[HOW THE HELL DID YOU EVEN GRADUATE?]

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[helpline]

[ No Crane, no he doesn't. Welcome to dealing with the mile a minute Eleventh Doctor. ]

The Doctor! Capital The, capital Doctor.

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[psychofailed]

Timey....wimey?

[He looks SO UNSURE.]

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[helpline]

Wibbly wobbly!

[ whereas the Doctor looks 100% certain ]

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[4thdimensional]

[This man's chaotic---a whirlwind. Going on and on about the intricacies of space-time like it's as typical as the weather. Is this how the alternate Emmett Brown comes across to others?]

There's a boy from my town here, Martin McFly. He's not behaving as the model citizen I know he is, and he seems to believe that I'm meant to be blathering on about timelines and inventing strange objects...in other words, someone like you.

This would happen because our 'timelines' diverged at some point or another?

[He sounds uncertain, so far out of his element.]

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[helpline]

Got it in one! The going theory is that there's something mucking up the timelines: people aren't getting pulled backwards or forwards but sideways, into a divergent timeline, yoinked here instead.

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[newwaver]

Why are you talking to a possum?

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[helpline]

Because he's got something important to say! Honestly, why wouldn't you talk to a possum?

[ DUH, FELIX. ]

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[timecapture]

Hey, Doctor! [Aside from burgers the other night, she wasn't really able to check up on the Doctor. Now's as good a time as any, right?] I kind of know you, but I think it's your future self or something. But I met your eighth regeneration, if you remember that? [He'd better. She still has that recording of him playing the spoons.]

My memories are fine, but I've run into some others whose memories are weird. [Like Crane's.]

Hey, I like the sonic sunglasses.

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[helpline]

Pretty hair! I don't remember that but I'm glad you met him, I like him, he's fun. [ Though that does raise a question, ] How often have I been here, by the way?

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[angelfire]

I can tell you about magic. It seems like that part's missing from your lexicon.

The only Doctor I know resembles Cardinal Richelieu.

[ IT'S A LONG STORY, FLOPPY MAN. ]

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[helpline]

[ bowtie no eyebrows just looks a bit frowny. Because what??? ]

When did I ever look like Cardinal Richelieu? I don't think I've ever been that scary before.

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[rathercommon]

[ Haughtily: ]

Timey-wimey? What a stupid phrase. How are we supposed to trust you when you speak like a madman?

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[helpline]

Jokes on you, I never said I wasn't a madman in the first place! I'm the Doctor, I'm the last of the Time Lords, and I'm most definitely a madman in a box...though currently without said box.

[ yeah, that question isn't getting answered. ]

[dreamshades]

[ Whaaaaaat....okay, Pan might be a little confused for just a moment. But, he's chalking this up to the weird magic that's going around. He's seen this so called, Doctor. They were a wrinkled prune. This man? Looks like he had a face lift. ]

So easily you dismiss magic? Unsurprising.

But, tell me, how are your memories, Doctor?

[like do you remember him at all and his hell island? ]

[helpline]

My memories are perfectly fine. It's the fact that they don't line up with other people's memories that's interesting.

[ So they're not fine in the slightest. And yes, he remembers hell island. ]

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[danceofcurse]

[The fact that this man is talking to a possum may have other people perplexed, but not Van. Where he's from, it's a common enough occurrence when taking into account the presence of the Junin.

What's throwing him for a loop instead is how much younger this man looks when compared to the old Doctor, but sure enough, there are...similarities. Maybe not in the man's personality or appearance, but at least in his mention of the TARDIS and being an expert on time and space.

...and what did he call those glasses? Sonic? Whatever that meant, Van thinks those might have been what the Doctor was wearing when they first met. So he really had been poking around extra hard that time.]

You're the only one I personally know who's been affected by this spell.

[But not the only one claiming they're not the same person at all. That part's really weird.]

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[helpline]

[ The Doctor just grins at Van. Someone who knows him! Wonderful! He gives the camera a little wave because hello there person he apparently knows! ]

Well that's good! Always better when it's just one person who's weird instead of twenty of them.

[acclimatized]

[ okay, john is about ready to concede that maybe something odd is going on here. there are too many people affected for what he originally thought was a mad doctor trying to ensnare new victims. ]

I thought this was all just someone messing about at first. From what I can tell, my memories are fine. [ then again, john doesn't have anyone close to him here that can tell him he's acting strange. ] You're the previous Doctor right? Have you found Clara?

[helpline]

I am and I have! Found her within the first couple of days, she filled me in on what's what. [ said with a griiiiin. ]

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[hsalf]

"King" of timey wimey? I'm fairly certain there's no such thing.

[And unfortunately, being affected as he is, he has no proper memory of the Doctor. The show has been lost to time.]

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[helpline]

Says you. Of course there's such a thing!

[ they'll both go "hey why you look weird?" later. ]

[doubleblind]

[Cosima can't decide if she should be concerned, excited, or extremely amused by this development. She settles for a combination of all three, especially when this Doctor starts excitedly talking about a possum.]

Doctor? Like, Clara's Doctor?

[helpline]

[ This possum's his bff now, I am so, so, so sorry Cosima. ]

Yep! Though I'm the younger, fresher model.

[princeofrats]

What kind of doctor are you?

I think... I think I'm having some memory issues, like you said. There are... pieces missing.

[helpline]

A doctor of everything. [ But as for the question... ] Mind telling me more about those missing pieces?

[airshow]

[ Trickster is late to this party, but that's okay, he's just as confused by all of this now as he'll ever be, probably. ]

Nice possum. [ Thumbs up. ] You're looking spry! The other fella was much older. And I hate to break it to you, but he was very proud of those sunglasses.

[helpline]

[ The Doctor's gonna have to give a regeneration primer to like, EVERYBODY after this ]

Well somebody's got to be proud of them, even if they're a bit silly.

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[burnseternal]

[And here is Saint Walker, slightly less changed than the Doctor is, but changed nevertheless; he is in a green uniform and not a blue one, though he still looks upon the Doctor with affection.]

Good afternoon, Doctor. I see that I now have the pleasure of meeting a third incarnation of you. Though if you do manage to summon up the TARDIS, I do ask that you at least give me the opportunity to say goodbye to Murray, should he wish to travel with you; we have grown quite attached to one another, I think.

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[helpline]

Might as well start Doctor Bingo at this rate. [ said with a griiiiin ] And of course you'd say goodbye to Murray! He likes you as well, you know.

[ Murray makes a happy possum noise. c: ]

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[hyperkinesia]

I know someone who got affected. Someone whose memories are... [ He doesn't want to use the word 'wrong', but... ] Different.

[ He also isn't quite as delighted about seeing the Eleventh Doctor on the network as he normally would be. It's what happens when stuff is going down. ]

In her case it seems to center around a specific event that didn't happen, thus changing everything in her timeline from that point onwards. I'm not sure if that's the case with everyone else, but it could be worth looking into?

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[helpline]

You know, that makes sense with my timeline as well, [ the Doctor mused, with a small shrug. ] I wonder if that's it! A sort of a 'picked door A instead of door B' dimensional shift.

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[superposition]

Oh, not again. How many faces do you have?

['Cause at this point we're up to something like nine, only one of which he would actually recognize. He can't ever be Sylvester McCoy, can he?]

Anyway, I've already tried the detector from last time and it turned up nothing. So it's not another Porter attempt. Magic seems the most likely at this point, loath though I am to admit it.

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[helpline]

Anywhere from twelve to fourteen depending on the universe!

[ said with a griiiiiiiin. ]

And what detector? Did I build a detector, good on other-Doctor.