One day, no matter where you happen to be, you spot something you've never seen before and immediately notice is completely out of place: A blue police box.
The dark blue box is about 10 feet (or 3 meters) tall resembling a phone booth from the planet Earth in the mid-20th century and has the words "Police Box" inscribed along the top on each side in white lettering (assuming your character is literate). Each side has a pair of windows divided into panes at the top underneath the lettering and a light on the center of the roof. In the unlikely event your character is tall enough (or has the ability to fly or levitate) to look in the high windows, they find they are solid white and it is impossible to see inside although they are lit up from an interior source. There is a small, white notice on the door that reads: "Free for Use of Public," "Advice & Assistance," "Officers & Cars Respond to Urgent Calls" and "Pull To Open".
Before your character has a chance to open it, an explosion is heard inside. The doors burst open a few seconds later and a disheveled looking, wild-eyed man with slicked back hair and a slightly tattered suit steps out followed by a cloud of smoke. He coughs and hacks for several moments and then locks eyes with you. "Hey, yoouse," he says gruffly, pointing in your direction.
Where the police box is seen is entirely up to you and what is appropriate to your character's setting. That may be inside a space station, below deck on a pirate ship, suburban backyard, the middle of a park, a clearing in the woods, etc. Please choose and describe the setting where you encounter the police box in your opening post according to what makes sense to your character along with what they were doing prior to spotting it.
OOC guidelines (read in full before posting):
Please read the 'Meet Cute' event description before replying if you have not or don't know what this event is about. A meet cute RP is specifically between exactly 2 people (1x1) . Any kind of character from any genre and any experience level and aged writer is welcome. Someone with at least minimum knowledge of the series "Doctor Who" is strongly preferred.
It is understood that if you join, your character will investigate The Police Box and approach The Doctor when he emerges. Since this is a special event with a time limit, there isn't time for you to play hard to get. If you have no intention of interacting, or that is not something your character would do, or you aren't sure you have the available bandwidth to participate for the duration of the Meet Cute event, then please... don't. That will allow someone else who does to utilize this opportunity.
Please do not jump in or ask if you can be part of the RP once someone responds. First come, first served. The thread will be marked "closed" at my earliest convenience after getting a reply to remove it from the active event list indicating no new players will be accepted. If the above sounds good and no one else has replied, write your reply below. It's okay to make a quick post to 'hold' the spot and then edit your post later so you don't have to throw something together on the spot. Happy to do a little planning via direct message, but we'll play here in this thread.
Notes and other stuff:
I am an adult and live in the US Central time zone. This incarnation of The Doctor is not canon to the series.
The dark blue box is about 10 feet (or 3 meters) tall resembling a phone booth from the planet Earth in the mid-20th century and has the words "Police Box" inscribed along the top on each side in white lettering (assuming your character is literate). Each side has a pair of windows divided into panes at the top underneath the lettering and a light on the center of the roof. In the unlikely event your character is tall enough (or has the ability to fly or levitate) to look in the high windows, they find they are solid white and it is impossible to see inside although they are lit up from an interior source. There is a small, white notice on the door that reads: "Free for Use of Public," "Advice & Assistance," "Officers & Cars Respond to Urgent Calls" and "Pull To Open".
Before your character has a chance to open it, an explosion is heard inside. The doors burst open a few seconds later and a disheveled looking, wild-eyed man with slicked back hair and a slightly tattered suit steps out followed by a cloud of smoke. He coughs and hacks for several moments and then locks eyes with you. "Hey, yoouse," he says gruffly, pointing in your direction.
Where the police box is seen is entirely up to you and what is appropriate to your character's setting. That may be inside a space station, below deck on a pirate ship, suburban backyard, the middle of a park, a clearing in the woods, etc. Please choose and describe the setting where you encounter the police box in your opening post according to what makes sense to your character along with what they were doing prior to spotting it.
OOC guidelines (read in full before posting):
Please read the 'Meet Cute' event description before replying if you have not or don't know what this event is about. A meet cute RP is specifically between exactly 2 people (1x1) . Any kind of character from any genre and any experience level and aged writer is welcome. Someone with at least minimum knowledge of the series "Doctor Who" is strongly preferred.
It is understood that if you join, your character will investigate The Police Box and approach The Doctor when he emerges. Since this is a special event with a time limit, there isn't time for you to play hard to get. If you have no intention of interacting, or that is not something your character would do, or you aren't sure you have the available bandwidth to participate for the duration of the Meet Cute event, then please... don't. That will allow someone else who does to utilize this opportunity.
Please do not jump in or ask if you can be part of the RP once someone responds. First come, first served. The thread will be marked "closed" at my earliest convenience after getting a reply to remove it from the active event list indicating no new players will be accepted. If the above sounds good and no one else has replied, write your reply below. It's okay to make a quick post to 'hold' the spot and then edit your post later so you don't have to throw something together on the spot. Happy to do a little planning via direct message, but we'll play here in this thread.
Notes and other stuff:
I am an adult and live in the US Central time zone. This incarnation of The Doctor is not canon to the series.
She wasn't sure how long she had been running, exactly. It felt like hours, but she figured it was only few minutes. A cackle escaped her as she ran through the winding asphalt roads, passing by monolithic buildings. Only once she felt she was far away from him, she slowed down to a stop to catch her breath. Not that it took up much of her stamina, anyway.
Anya straightened up, rolling her shoulders as she took a quick look around. She was standing in a desolated cityscape of monolithic buildings, resembling the style of modern urban East. Judging from some distorted and mixed architecture of the buildings, she could safely assume that she had ran a little too far from her initial entrance point. No sign of the knight, either. Finally, some peace and freedom at last.
"Concrete Jungle," she murmured aloud to no one but herself. Threat Index: Class 2e - Environmental; Safe, Unstable, Devoid of Life. "Not that I'm complaining. Now, time to find the exit from this Level- Branch- err, whatever..."
With that, she began to wander around. Her eyes watched the empty roads. Traffic lights were present on the street corners, though it displayed erratic, strobe-like lights, lacking any clear pattern in their sequences.
"Hmh... now, what kind of exits does this Branch have, again?" Anya spoke again, hands clasped behind her as she walked. "Alley streets may connect to a long dirt road, eventually leading to The Bumper Crop. Exceedingly cramped areas may transport one to The Matrix Branch, which- on second thought, I'll scratch that one off the list." At the far distance, something caught her eye. Anya squinted hard as if that would help her identify the object. Was there something on the fork of the road?
"Removing a manhole cover and descending downward may lead to Pipe Dreams." She continued to list her options, picking up her pace. "Particularly worn and decrepit city blocks leads to Indigencs... Not a good place either, scratching that one off the list."
"And large, empty highways may lead to Roads to Abyss!" Anya placed her hands on her hip as she stopped right in front of the blue box structure. The sight made her furrow her eyebrows, tilting her head in slight confusion. She didn't recall this place having a phone booth; the Concrete Jungle should be empty, no furniture nor any other structure.
"Huh. Has this always been here?" She questioned aloud, circling the phone booth, stopping right in front of the door. It looked like one, as far as she could tell. "'Police Box'? Free for use of public? Pull to open??"
It was, no doubt, very out of place. As far as she's concerned, there were no phone boxes in this place. Unless it was made by someone, she doubted it had spawned naturally.
With that in mind, Anya pursed her lips, crossing her arms as she drummed her fingers in thought. "Well! As they say, 'Curiosity killed the cat'!"
Just as she was about to reach out and pull the handle, the sound of an explosion made her flinch, retracting her hand back to her side as she quickly distanced herself away from the booth. Though she half-expected something would come out the door, Anya yelped when the wide-eyed man stepped out, a cloud of smoke seeping through.
Anya quickly went into a defensive stance, raising a hand to conjure a few numbered cards hovering over her palm. Her cape-like wings unfolded wide in an instinctive attempt to make herself look bigger.
The man looked... human, at least? She gave him a suspicious squint, cleared her throat, and straightened up. She patted her clothes and quickly folded her wings back, which looked more like a cape now.
"Why, hello there~!" She greeted enthusiastically. It was almost like someone flipped a switch with how fast her demeanor changed. "My, my, what do we have here? I certainly wasn't expecting that. A Wanderer, perhaps? Just who might you be, hm?"
Anya straightened up, rolling her shoulders as she took a quick look around. She was standing in a desolated cityscape of monolithic buildings, resembling the style of modern urban East. Judging from some distorted and mixed architecture of the buildings, she could safely assume that she had ran a little too far from her initial entrance point. No sign of the knight, either. Finally, some peace and freedom at last.
"Concrete Jungle," she murmured aloud to no one but herself. Threat Index: Class 2e - Environmental; Safe, Unstable, Devoid of Life. "Not that I'm complaining. Now, time to find the exit from this Level- Branch- err, whatever..."
With that, she began to wander around. Her eyes watched the empty roads. Traffic lights were present on the street corners, though it displayed erratic, strobe-like lights, lacking any clear pattern in their sequences.
"Hmh... now, what kind of exits does this Branch have, again?" Anya spoke again, hands clasped behind her as she walked. "Alley streets may connect to a long dirt road, eventually leading to The Bumper Crop. Exceedingly cramped areas may transport one to The Matrix Branch, which- on second thought, I'll scratch that one off the list." At the far distance, something caught her eye. Anya squinted hard as if that would help her identify the object. Was there something on the fork of the road?
"Removing a manhole cover and descending downward may lead to Pipe Dreams." She continued to list her options, picking up her pace. "Particularly worn and decrepit city blocks leads to Indigencs... Not a good place either, scratching that one off the list."
"And large, empty highways may lead to Roads to Abyss!" Anya placed her hands on her hip as she stopped right in front of the blue box structure. The sight made her furrow her eyebrows, tilting her head in slight confusion. She didn't recall this place having a phone booth; the Concrete Jungle should be empty, no furniture nor any other structure.
"Huh. Has this always been here?" She questioned aloud, circling the phone booth, stopping right in front of the door. It looked like one, as far as she could tell. "'Police Box'? Free for use of public? Pull to open??"
It was, no doubt, very out of place. As far as she's concerned, there were no phone boxes in this place. Unless it was made by someone, she doubted it had spawned naturally.
With that in mind, Anya pursed her lips, crossing her arms as she drummed her fingers in thought. "Well! As they say, 'Curiosity killed the cat'!"
Just as she was about to reach out and pull the handle, the sound of an explosion made her flinch, retracting her hand back to her side as she quickly distanced herself away from the booth. Though she half-expected something would come out the door, Anya yelped when the wide-eyed man stepped out, a cloud of smoke seeping through.
Anya quickly went into a defensive stance, raising a hand to conjure a few numbered cards hovering over her palm. Her cape-like wings unfolded wide in an instinctive attempt to make herself look bigger.
The man looked... human, at least? She gave him a suspicious squint, cleared her throat, and straightened up. She patted her clothes and quickly folded her wings back, which looked more like a cape now.
"Why, hello there~!" She greeted enthusiastically. It was almost like someone flipped a switch with how fast her demeanor changed. "My, my, what do we have here? I certainly wasn't expecting that. A Wanderer, perhaps? Just who might you be, hm?"
((OOC: Perfect! Welcome! No need to pull an all-nighter. I'll give you a chance to let you edit and you can just PM me when you're happy with it. I'll edit this post as a response. Emburr has claimed the spot, so no other characters will be accepted!))
((All good, thanks! I've sent a reply just now))
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