There's Snow Place Like Home [Bendytimed to between the Ohm simulation and the Second Life plot]

[bonnypiperlad]

A recent walk through the hangar had confirmed to Jamie that the TARDIS had been put back into whatever place it was that Stacy stored ships when their owners were in the pods. Overall, it didn't make too much difference - none of them had been able to get into it anyway. Still, he had liked to slip away from time to time just to take a look at it and remember the adventures he had gone on with the Doctor. Part of him had been hoping somehow that it would have stayed somewhere where he could do that again. Even though he hadn't really admitted it to his friends, he missed the Time Lord not being around.

So it may not come as much of a surprise that the Sensoriums currently has a TARDIS in it. The wide expanse of snow surrounding it might be a little more unusual, but it does provide an easy way to figure out where the current creator of this particular scenario would be - should anyone care to follow the Jamie-sized footprints to the door of the seemingly blue wooden box. If not, well, there's a lot of the white stuff just sitting around waiting for someone to do something with it.

((OOC: Jamie is in the TARDIS if you want to pester him but if for some reason anyone wants to just use the setting for their own-snow related threads, feel free. Just mention somewhere if you're going in the TARDIS or if you want Jamie to come outside.))

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[blacks-lackey.livejournal.com]

Turlough walked in the snow. He was surprised when he saw the TARDIS there, immediately hating himself for the beat of hope that he got. Of course it wasn't real, he was gone, he was always going to be gone, leaving him here with these people before he'd even had a chance to meet up with him again.

Turlough walked up the TARDIS and gave it a hard kick. Which he reflected after he let out a Trion curse, wasn't terribly wise and quite painful.

[bonnypiperlad]

Inside the simulated TARDIS, Jamie - after a bit of fiddling - had managed to get the monitor turned on. It had been awhile since he had a chance to use it, and he was pleased...for all of about three seconds, until he realized there really wasn't going to be anything interesting outside unless he thought it up.

He had just been about to turn away to go see what else he could remember using from the console when he caught a glimpse of another crew member, just as the other man gave the TARDIS a good, hard kick. Jamie frowned, irrationally annoyed by the gesture. He moved around to throw the lever that would open the doors leading outside.

A moment later, a rather annoyed looking Scotsman stuck his head out from the blue doors and scowled at Turlough. "Hey, what do ye think ye are doing?"

[blacks-lackey.livejournal.com]

"Hurting my foot," he muttered back with a glare. Obviously, was the clear addition to the end of his sentence.

[bonnypiperlad]

"Well, I'm not the one that decided it would be a good idea to kick the TARDIS," Jamie replied. Honestly, what was it with people coming in and attacking the things he thought up? First it was that very strange man who had set the moors on fire, and now this guy.

He folded his arms against his chest. "What made ye decide to go and do that, anyway?"

[blacks-lackey.livejournal.com]

"Well, it was a stupid question," he muttered, sounding more embarrassed by it but still peeved. "Frustration." Why else do you kick things? He hardly expected to send it flying across the snow.

[bonnypiperlad]

"Aye, well, when I'm frustrated, I don't go taking it out on other people's things." Not too often, anyway. But the answer seems to have mollified Jamie, and the his expression lightened somewhat, the scowl disappearing.

"I don't suppose you'd be willing to tell me who ye are, at least?" It seems only fair to find out who he's talking to, after all.

[blacks-lackey.livejournal.com]

"Turlough," he replied, not about to explain why the TARDIS in particular earned his wrath.

[bonnypiperlad]

Well, if he had, Jamie might have been more willing to invite Turlough inside where it was warmer. Right now, though, he doesn't seem like he's really willing to budge from where he's standing. Turlough is given a slightly thoughtful look. The other man must be one of the newer crew, but he still looks somewhat familiar.

"I'm Jamie. Hey, wait... You're in Engineering, are ye not?"

[blacks-lackey.livejournal.com]

"Yes," he replied, as if it were an accusation levelled at him.

[hack-rat.livejournal.com]

Every hacker needs to have a mischievousness streak. That was part of what turned them from plain old programmers to hackers, after all.

And sometimes a prank on a friend wasn't a bad idea either. Alex could only think of one person who would have the TARDIS in the sensoriums. Jamie.

With sensorium-made gloves, Alex packed up a few snow balls and pushed open the door to the TARDIS, calling out, "Jamie?"

[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie seems to be occupied with rummaging through a large wooden chest that's been pushed up against one of the walls of the TARDIS, pulling things out and frowning at them before setting them aside. "No, that's not it. No...no...och. Where did that wee thing get to?"

He's so caught up in searching that he fails to notice Alex approach until his name is called. Glancing up from the chest, he turns towards the direction of the sound with a slightly puzzled look on his face.

"Hey?"

[hack-rat.livejournal.com]

A snowball rushes towards Jamie headed directly for his knee as Alex continued to wear the sort of smile only his computer screen usually saw.

[bonnypiperlad]

This plan works perfectly. Jamie's poor, unsuspecting knee is now festooned with snow, and the puzzled look is promptly replaced with a rather indignant one.

"Hey!"

He should have expected it, really, when he decided to stick the TARDIS in the middle of a field of snow. Right. Challenge accepted.

"Oh, I see. Let's find out how much ye like it, then!

Quickly, Jamie makes a dash for the still-open doors, all the better to get outside and getting some snow of his own for retaliation. It's a risky move - depending on how many snowballs Alex has, Jamie could get well-pelted before he gets outside. And yes, he could think up more snow inside the TARDIS, but where's the fun in that?

[hack-rat.livejournal.com]

Alex had about four more with him, but he could only get one to fly true as he chased Jamie out the door. "Hold still so I c-can get you!"

[bonnypiperlad]

The snowball smacks into Jamie's back, sending small bits of snow flying off around the TARDIS doors. "Ye want me to simply stand still and let ye hit me with those?", he asks, incredulously. Oh no, Jamie doesn't think so.

He dives outside, scooping up the snow with his bare hands, and makes a small sound as his fingers immediately get quite cold. No time to think up a pair of gloves just yet, though. Instead, he quickly packs a snowball and throws it at Alex as accurately as he can - considering he's still on the run to avoid being hit again.

"I'll not go down so easily!"

[hack-rat.livejournal.com]

Alex gracefully caught the snowball with his face.

Shaking the snow of he bent over and made another snowball before chasing after Jamie some more and tossing another at him, laughing. He was so glad he had the time to think up gloves before his attack.

But really, how could he have not engaged his friend in a snowball fight when the TARDIS was surrounded with nothing but snow?

[bonnypiperlad]

All Jamie needs to get gloves is a couple of seconds, and while Alex is making another snowball, he does just that, willing them into existence on his hands. Of course, this means that he's not quite as good about getting out of the way of the new missile and he gets beaned on the head.

He doesn't seem to mind, though. Far from it - he actually turns and grins back at the hacker after he's hit. Maybe he needed something like this to prevent him from getting too maudlin about missing the Doctor. And, hey, he can show Alex the TARDIS like he promised.

Later, that is, as he scoops up some more snow and hurls it towards Alex. The battle isn't over just yet.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

Her own steps into the Sensorium are slow and curious. It's been a long time since Kaylee's seen snow--not since Tracy's funeral, now that she thinks about it. Most days, she probably would have spent some time making a snow angel or building up a ship out of snow, but today there's a very familiar Big Blue Box waiting for inspection.

The ice crunches nicely under her feet, all the way up to the wooden box. Kaylee is unsure of where exactly to start, and runs a hand over the wooden panels a couple times before doing the silly thing and knocking.

[bonnypiperlad]

Inside the TARDIS, Jamie is fiddling with something from the chest he doesn't recognize - another one of the Doctor's many odd acquisitions from some distant planet. It was a bit like a metal puzzle, made out of a complex arrangement of very small parts, and he can't make head or tail of it.

Caught up in trying to figure it out, it takes him a moment for him to notice the knocking. Once it finally gets his attention, though, he glances up at the monitor and a broad smile appears. Just the person he wants to see! Going over to the lever that opens the doors, he pulls it and they start to swing open.

As they do so, he steps to the side and out of the way of an immediate glance from someone coming in. If anyone deserves a chance to simply gawk at the inside of the TARDIS without Jamie getting in the way, it's Kaylee.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

She feels a bit odd, knocking on the TARDIS when she's only ever seen the locked one during its short stay in the ship bay, but she does keeps on knocking when she doesn't get an answer with the first round. Her hand is raised to start a third round when the doors open up.

Several seconds are spent with Kaylee simply standing there in mildly confused awe. A hand comes up to double check that it really is just a small wooden box before she tentatively steps inside, glancing at Jamie as she does so. She pauses halfway through the door to double-check the outside again, then gives Jamie an excited grin and moves forward quickly to the central panels.

"She always like this, or just in here? What's she runnin' on? What's this do..." Kaylee trails off, head disappearing to check under the panels.

[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie waits for Kaylee to come in, and when she doesn't do so immediately, he impatiently starts forward to tell that it's fine to do so just as she does enter. Oh well, so much for hiding. He's enjoying her reaction enough that he doesn't mind, and his mouth twitches with a suppressed smile.

There's certainly enough things under the panels to get her attention, what with the various parts the Doctor's got hooked up down there - not to mention the panel containing the emergency unit that wound up sending them to the Land of Fiction. A lot of the wiring is still a bit of a cat's cradle to Jamie, but it should prove fascinating for the mechanic. There's also a handle down there if she needs it to hold on to, although he doesn't think she does, since they're not moving.

"Now, look, I'll not be able to answer your questions if ye keep asking them that fast," he says, dryly. "Which one do ye want me to start with?"

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

Some form of a jumbled mess of more questions floats out from under the unit, but Kaylee's got her head stuck up somewhere and investigating. It's all so...new. Maybe that's it, all the new. She recognizes most, and is rather impressed with some of the patch jobs and ideas, but there are a few things that she doesn't quite know. That's exciting in itself.

Once she's somewhat satisfied with looking at the circuitry she pops back up and grins at Jamie.

"How's she run, then?"

[bonnypiperlad]

"Aye, well, you'd think she'd not be able to run at all, given how often something goes wrong with her," he says, with the air of someone who fully expects that to happen, well, rather a lot.

He knows well enough what she means, though, and starts to point out various controls on the console to her. "These ones control our flight, here, and these would be the dials that tell ye if you'll be able to breathe if ye go outside."

Those are only a few of the various dials and switches that cover the console. There's also ones to monitor the levels from the emergency power booster, ones to make adjustments to the fluid links, and a whole lot of ones that Jamie has absolutely no idea what they do. He moves away from those, searching for something in particular.

"Where is it...ah. Here's the wee gadget that tells ye to go somewhere else if there's any danger." He gives it a bit of a look. "Not that that's worked so well before, mind ye."

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"That's how it goes for any ship, though. Like to throw you for a loop with new things to fix. Keeps you guessin'."

She all but hovers over Jamie as he explains everything he knows. It's hard, being so eager and anxious to fiddle with things but not wanting to just in case something went wrong. Then again, they are in the Sensoriums, so if something goes wrong it'll be easy enough to take care of.

In any case, she's like a kid in a holographic toy store. You can play all you want, and half of it doesn't work exactly right because it's still in the box, but you can't take any of it home.

The mechanic peers at the last mechanism, laughing. "Seems like they never work the way you want 'em too. But, it's the way the 'verse works, I s'pose."

[bonnypiperlad]

"Aye, but she doesn't have to do it so often," mutters Jamie. Careful, Kaylee, or you'll wind up triggering his 'Complain about the TARDIS being broken' mode. Not that he really minds all that much, but he does enjoy grousing about it from time to time.

He does step back from the console, though, and says dryly, "So do ye want to see if ye can figure out how to fly her, or do ye want to take the tour instead?" Not that she would actually fly, but Jamie figures he can think up someplace else for the outside and make it seem like it did. Or he can think up the rest of the interior, which would take...quite a while.

It's all up to what Kaylee wants to do.