maskormenace | 14, Video

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[The woman on the video is tall and stern-looking, with blue eyes that kind of make you feel cold just by looking at them.]

This is Major-General Olivier Mira Armstrong. For those of you who don't know me, I'm the commander of RISE: Rogue Import Suppression Enforcement. We're an imPort-run group that works with the local law enforcement to police our own, and handle crises that local, unpowered officers can't. We're headquartered out of Helix Station in Maurtia Falls, and were instrumental in fighting back the Soviet occupation some months ago.

The whims of the device that brings us here and sends us home have left my staff limited. I need new recruits, both those willing to confront potential rogue imPorts, and those willing to bring them to justice via trials.

That is all. Armstrong out.

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Do you take part-time applications?

[ mostly because at least in his world, paramilitary organizations KIND OF MAKE BAD DECISIONS..... ]

Naturally. There aren't enough rogue imPorts to mandate full-time employment for field agents. I'd be paying you to sit around on your ass and do nothing most days.

Full-time work is mostly in command or legal affairs.

Good. I've got a shop that I work at, the shop takes priority since I've got actual employees.

[ well, an actual employee...who's Calendar Man. ]

Sign me up for part-time then.

Are you prepared to have to leave in the event of an emergency?

What combat skills do you have?

Considering I own the shop, I think that's preparation enough. As for combat skills, that's the boring bit. It's the technology and brain stuff that I'm best at.

Let me rephrase: What skills do you have that would be of use in apprehending and convicting a rogue imPort?

Speaking a bunch of languages, technology that can interface with most Earth technology, infinite chalk. With my tech I can turn on sprinkler systems, check security cameras, interface with alarm systems, so on and so forth.

So you're offering your ability not as a field agent, but in an intelligence capacity.

Or a little bit of both. After all, I've also got skills in talking down aliens, cardio, and jerry-rigging up a solution to stop the bomb from exploding.

[ he just wants to get into RISE because the only oversight the Doctor trusts is his own... ]

Don't tell me "skills," tell me what they are. I need to know how I can use you.

If you're intel, that's fine. But I don't like bullshit.

[ he can't help but sound a bit huffy as he continues ]

I'm a two thousand year old Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. I've got advanced alien technology, an in-depth knowledge of temporal stability, know your primitive tech backwards and forwards, speak multiple languages including a few non-human ones, know a few strains of Venusian akido that I'm not too rubbish at, play guitar, and was President of Earth that one time. No offense Brigadier, but we'll be here all day if I list all of my skills.

Then write them down. [Her voice is steel and ice.] "Time Lord," do you believe I got where I am just by taking people at their word?

Formulating strategy and tactics requires an understanding of the resources at my disposal. If you tell me you can do everything under the sun, I assign a task, and it turns out it's one of the things you can't do, we're both up shit creek.

Ohhhhh we're going to be here all day.

[ But, for all his sassing, ten minutes later, the Doctor shoots Olivier a list in a text file. It's a direct message and a bit encrypted because la la la la, don't wanna talk about some of these things over a public network ]

STUFF THAT I (THE DOCTOR) CAN DO
- possession of sonic sunglasses, aka Time Lord future tech. Can interface with most technology, perform biometric scans, occasionally interface with memory cortex, take environmental readings, etc.
- speak/understand most varieties of Earth dialect (English, French, horse, etc.), as well as some non-Earth ones (Judoon, Gallifreyan, Hath, don't know how many else I should list as I've got no idea if we'll ever get off-planet)
- Gallifreyan bits. Spoiler alert: I'm an alien. This means I'm super old, a bit tougher than you humans, and have weird alien things like a bit of telepathy. I'm better at temperatures than you are also.
- Time Lordy bits. This is weird to explain, but I can sort of sense time. I can tell when things are wrong, when something's out of whack, I can tell what moments can be changed and what moments can't.
- got a big star chart in my attic
- infinite chalk, which is frankly one of the coolest superpowers ever.
- a little bit of Venusian akido, but I don't really like using that as it's rusty and my sparring partner's in another universe.
- good with tech. Now this all depends on what you need the tech FOR, but I've built things ranging from memory manipulation devices to clockwork squirrels. I'm a tinkerer.
- worked with a paramilitary organization back home. I doubt the name UNIT means anything to you, but I'm well aware of the chains of command and how these sorts of things need to get done.

Character references can be provided upon request.

xoxo Doctor

Useful.

[Is the one word she sends back. It's followed shortly by another message.]

Horse? Does that apply to most Earth species?

Most Earth species of horse, definitely. If you're asking most Earth species of animals, it depends. My cat's alright, my dog's a bit rubbish, and I never seem to get the hang of platypus.

Are you claiming that every animal on earth speaks its own language?

Sort of. Think of it as variations. If you're from London and someone else is from Aberdeen, you'll understand them because you're speaking the same language but, depending on both of your accents, it could be harder than expected.

Add in different slang and different inflections and that makes things even more confusing.

You realize that it is difficult to take this claim at face value without proof.

If you want to watch me hold a conversation with a cat or horse or what have you, I can do that. You can meet Peachblossom that way.

You could fake it. I would have no way of guaranteeing that your translation was accurate.

I would say find someone else who speaks horse to serve as a verifier but I can't think of anyone off the top of my head who can do that.

Then you'll forgive me if I remain skeptical.

I'll be put out, but remaining skeptical makes sense.

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