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Character Meet and Greet

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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

I. Exploring Main Street! Take a trip through a little town taken straight from 1890's America. Visit the shops, dine at the restaurants- but don't forget you are here on a mission. As an Apprentice, you will need to gather some supplies. A weapon, or tool for producing magic.

But we understand if that corn dog cart on Market Street is your first stop.

II. Apprentice Class 101! Practice your spell casting and weaponship on the open commons behind the Firehouse. Sparring, casting or just general confusion abound here. Try not to hit anything or...anyone, the paint on the infirmary is still drying.

III. Look out! A level 2 corroded monster has managed to get onto Main Street! Protect the citizens and defeat the cur, and please watch the damage, the paint is still wet!

IV. One Little Spark! Go ahead, show us the strength of your imagination and come up with your own scenarios. Just, stay out of the Corroded Lands...if possible.

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"No, that's by design. I told you I'm fighting the Darkness. I've been looking." She tossed him a small glare over her shoulder, starting to walk off again. "And try getting used to your best friend, an immortal, still managing to die without regeneration or healing, or whatever, and knowing that he's so daft he made the whole of Earth dependent on him, so without him, everything falls apart and ends prematurely in its very own special Ragnarok of the air being lit on fire, taken over by hundreds of invaders, nuclear war, the whole works, and even though people are still good, even though people still fight, it's not enough, because no one knows what to fight or how to even save each other anymore."

Her eyes weren't even hard or haunted. After all, like she said, she was a ghost. A noisy ghost here. "And even if you try to help, people can't remember you, sometimes you find your friend, and you think it's in time, but you're still just a ghost. So he can't hear you, can't see you, doesn't know the darkness is eating reality, and doesn't even turn around." That was a bit more haunted. But her voice was eerily calm nevertheless. "Just try it."

Not that Crowley would know, but given how Rose was a billion kinds of passion looking for expression, the numbness or lack of showing it in her tone, voice, or anything else would have bone-chilling for anyone who did know.

His nose scrunched... oh yeah, sounded terrible. He wouldn't know a thing about that! It wasn't like he had a best friend, an immortal, who was so idiotically well-meaning at times that he blundered his way into situations so dangerous that while he couldn't die would have discorporated him resulting in his getting in trouble with his head office, possibly replaced as Heaven's liaison on Earth, and the only reason that never happened was that you, breaking the rules set out by both angels and demons, stepped across those established lines to save him... only to now be facing a threat so enormous that centuries of protecting that angel wouldn't mean a damn thing. No one could stop Armageddon, could they? They had already tried and failed. And Crowley himself was destined for what, to be ripped apart by demons for being a traitor or by angels if Hell should lose the war... a long dive not into a pool of sulfur but into one of Holy Water? The future was not a sunny one.

It wasn't like watching Azriaphale die over and over again... but being powerless to stop something was a feeling he understood and oddly enough he also understood the grief of being parted from some one you cared deeply for. Shouldn't have, being a demon, but he did. The thought of being torn away from Azriaphale by this war was unfathomable. It caused an ache deep down in his being that he simply didn't have the word for he just knew he needed to fight against it.

So lost in his own thoughts he let Rose walk off. Only when she had managed several paces away from him did he finally come to.

"You don't even know that the Darkness you are fighting is the same as the Corruption the Kingdom is fighting. Could have different causes."

That did actually give her a pause.

She shook her head, "It has to be!" What else could it be? She rubbed her head in thought. "What would you know?!" she threw her hands up in exasperation. "Unless the demon somehow was brainwashed into thinking he was Satan, he definitely seemed to think he was, and trust me, he wasn't scarier than if he'd downplayed it. Hell, he could'a just acted like Hell had put him there instead'a the forces o' Light, and then played up sympathy cards and it would'a worked better." She snorted.

Rose turned around, face scrunched to the side, and gently punched Crowley's shoulder to see if it was real. "Kay. Let's say it's not the same. Then what is either? Why would there be two identical separate but equal forces corrupting the multiple universes?" she burst out laughing, borderline hysterical. "No no no no... no. No way. Just what? So people can stop it?!" Double facepalm. "Fine then, then I still gotta stop it here first. Call it practice. Learning. Whatever you want."

She wondered if it was too dramatic and pathetic to collapse in a puddle on the ground. Probably. Worth doing? Maybe.

She kicked a wall instead.

"IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!" she howled like a wolf in frustration. "I don't want to save everyone! I just wanna go home!" Home to the TARDIS and the Doctor, not her Mum or any version of London without the Doctor.

"Ow!"

It hadn't really hurt but he still reacted to the punch like an overly dramatic drama snake, grabbing his shoulder and hissing angry at Rose.

"Do you always go around punching demons?! I didn't have anything to do with that Satan impostor! I don't even know anyone who would be stupid enough to try something like that..."

He rubbed his arm even if it still didn't hurt at all. It was real though and would have been quiet solid under her fist just as his wings earlier had been fluffy.

"It's ineffable."

Crowley growled darkly.

"That is what I've always been told. We aren't meant to understand why these things happen... they are all just a test. It's well within her abilities to cause two separate but similar universe destroying calamities at the same time. She created everything, she can destroy it again!"

The drama took on a slight undertone of lament because if that was what was happening then it wasn't only a test of humanity but of the universe itself. Again he was left to wonder why push it that far, why destroy everything!?

It wasn't fair, not one DAMN BIT FAIR!

Drama snake is official dramatic bad wolf's new best friend. They can throw dramatic fits and play wrestle together.

"Exactly!" fierce growl.

"It's bloody rot is wot!" she said in response to how he was always told it's ineffable.

Rose stomped around huffing like a big bad wolf made human and kicked the wall again. "What's the point of makin' somethin' just to trash it!? There is none! That's not ineffable, it's just bloody stupid! Demented! Dumb beyond reason!! Even TimeLords weren't that daft!!" more kicks -- to the wall, at least.

Play wrestle is more a game for wolf pups and boas, but if she ever wanted to listen to some emo rock music he was her demon.

"That is what I said!"

Not in those words. At the time he had been more questioning than angry.

"What did it get me? A long fall into a boiling vat of sulfur... No one up there cares whether or not it's fair. It's all a game to her."

Yes, Rose is definitely down for that.

"To who?" same question, half expecting the someone-who-never-listens response again.

This time he actually answers, but only after a dramatic look to the sky as if she were watching...

"God."

"Oh," she thinks about it. If a demon with her not!boyfriend's face is going to tell her that he's arguing with God and she never listens, far be it from Rose to disbelieve.

"The Doctor doesn't believe in God," she shrugged, "And I poured time vortex into the dalek god and unmade him," she's not even saying that with a trace of pride, just matter of fact and defiance. "But I guess that's why you said it's ineffable? Still doesn't seem ineffable to me, just stupid and pointless." She tried to see things from... a broader perspective, but it was a little too vast for her human brain. "But I'm just a human so....." shrug.

She offered Crowley a hand. "Wanna get in trouble and make her rethink sending us two to do her dirty work instead'a doin' things for herself?"

"It's ineffable because no one but God knows..."

His voice gained volume with each new word as he paced around Rose to yell up at a particularly white and fluffy cloud.

"What the bloody point is!"

He wheeled back to Rose.

"And that could be solved if only she would speak to any of us! If not me... then some one who isn't unforgivable!"

Then he growled away, his anger temporarily spent. He found a bench to flop into, one that had an armrest perfect for sulking. Usually it was him doing the tempting but that was a curious offer.

"What did you have in mind?"

"What if she doesn't know?" an impish face, "What if she just created multiple universes so the ones that fall are a learning experience for the others?"

She flomped next to him. "Anything. Absolutely chaos. Screwing up ineffable plans and proving to everyone that there is bloody plan, yeah?"

"If she doesn't know then there is no plan and we've been lied to the entire time."

Which as mad as he was at God for the whole testing humanity to extinction thing he doubted she was that evil. Unless she was, it was possible, oh... he had too many questions.

"And how do you suggest we go about proving there is a plan when no one knows what the plan is, IF there even is a plan. You hinted there might not be."

Rose, uncaring that he was a demon, flomped on top of his personal space and looked up at the sky. It was kind of a weird conundrum. How did you prove there was no plan?

Rose hummed.

"Dunno!" she admitted, blase, with a laugh. "When I did the Bad Wolf thing, I created a trail of breadcrumbs so I could follow them..." she chewed her bottom lip in thought. "It means... if I see it... when I see it, it's a signal from myself to myself to get back to the Doctor, that there's always a way..."

That feeling of wanting to throw up rose up in her again and she clenched a fist and rolled over, sulking just as hard as the emo-goth demon.

"Unless I got it all wrong, and it's just about fighting the darkness..."

There was so many things she hated about that. Herself for caring. "Like I should even bloody care if I don't find him!!!!" except that made her want to cry, and she hated that too, and she hated that it was even a possibility, and she resented that if there was a god, she didn't seem willing to speak to them and tell them what to do, and like with the Bad Wolf -- Rose groaned, "But that's the thing, right, yeah??? I couldn't just tell myself what to do or I wouldn't do it."

All the snuggling to Crowley's legs. "So I guess......." she conceded, very unwillingly, "If there is a plan, which I still don't think there is, because there's no bloody point -- then it would have to be.... kind of stupid." She rubbed her temples with her fingers, trying to massage her brain through her skull. "When I rescued Donna I could only tell her Bad Wolf and hope the Doctor got the message. Every time I tried to be more direct, it didn't work. So if it's super ridiculously stupid," Stupid, not ineffable, in Rose's opinion, "Then it's all just the only way it works out--"

More groans and wolf puppy whines and she wished she had a pillow to cover her face with.

"I DON'T WANNA!!!!!" more wolf puppy howling to no one, since she didn't believe God listened or cared, even if she had expanded her disbelief to remove the idea that God wasn't a thing.

She rolled back over to face Crowley's stomach.

"Look, listen, maybe there is some stupid ineffable plan, but sod it!!! Sod all of it!!! We don't have to do anything we don't wanna, yeah??? So let's just...." she poked his stomach. She hated herself for looking to him for direction too. She could direct herself... except... she'd just been following the Bad Wolf trail, and while that was herself, it was cheating, and Rose preferred cheating to be sure, but without that trail she just wanted to hold the Doctor's hand and let him do it, and it was such a pain in the--

"Do whatever comes to us! Maybe it'll be part of some stupid plan, but then at least we'll get rewarded with yanno... fun and stuff!!!" a pout. And she rolled back over. And sulked. Planning fun without the Doctor almost seemed like blasphemy to her. She got up and prowled around angrily. "He should be here." Growl growl growl growl. "I'll never forgive him if he's not...." hackles on end, more growling.

"I DUNNO!!!!!" she flailed exasperatedly. "Right place, right time, story of my life, literally, and I made it that way, and maybe she made it that way, and it's just so stupid!!! So let's just... Fight to get what we want!!! She can put us here, lead us here, say it's all some big stupid plan, but carrot and stick, right? Anytime we get the stick, let's bite whoever tries, and steal the carrots, not led ourselves be conned!!!" She raised a fist in the air and then a middle finger. "DON'T THINK I WON'T FIGHT YOU, BECAUSE I BLOODY WELL WILL!!! I'M NOT GONNA PUT MYSELF THROUGH ALL THIS FOR NOTHING I'M NOT THAT GOOD!!!!" rawr rawr rawr rage.

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He sulked as his lap was practically invaded but with a sulk already present on his face, who could tell he was sulking x 2?

"If it was a message to yourself couldn't you have been more clear? Instead of Bad Wolf, which could mean anything and be used by anyone... couldn't you have written something like. 'Hey Rose, other Rose here. Stop being a stupid git and find a way back to the Doctor! The way to do that is..."

And he trailed off as there really didn't need to be a fake set of instructions there. He had gotten the point across with that, he thought.

"If you didn't do it then it would be your own damn fault."

Not his. Nor did he join in on her attack on God. He might have been a demon but well... God hadn't always been that way. Back when they had been out there crafting stars he had been entirely willing to sing her praises. She had been kind then, engaged, there hadn't been a 'plan', ineffable or otherwise. It had only been about the joy of creation. The cruelty came later in little ways, little tests that seemed pointless... and to use Rose's word, stupid. And he had failed those tests. Looking at it that way he was already doing exactly what he wanted, betraying Hell to try and save the Earth, and maybe... possibly, take a certain Angel to the Ritz. If Azriaphale had meant that.

He sulked on.

"No, because I had to scatter it in a way that I would figure out and no one else would and they would just think it was meaningless." A face palm.

"Why?"

And there were the questions again, even sulking he was still asking them.

"What would it have mattered if anyone else had read it? It's not like it would have changed anything. People would have stopped, read the message, and just kept right on walking. No one would care!"

"No." She thought it over carefully. The Doctor was more direct with himself but... "The dalek emperor would have changed it. And I needed it in a lot of places, not just once. It's all very greek tragedy really. And it would have changed things if I tried to be more direct each time. I'm no good at science, but I do remember observer's effect is a thing, yeah?"

A sigh. "If I told myself, 'Get back to the Doctor no matter what,' like the I said, the Dalek god would'a changed it, but I didn't know how to do that. Bad Wolf just keeps me following the bread crumb trail. Where it is, I'm supposed to be. And it's yanno, both the 3 Little Pigs, and Little Red Riding Hood, I dunno, I don't expect anyone else to get it, that's kind of the point, yeah? If anyone else got it, they'd mess it up. Margaret the Slitheen too. Maybe van Statten. UNIT for sure. I'm not even sure I could have left a more specific message at Bad Wolf Bay. It was the last sliver of a crack left that the Doctor could bridge the two Universes, send me a telepathic message to where he could get a hologram through by burning up a sun to say goodbye."

A groan. "Let's say I made that crack both to see him, and to name it Bad Wolf Bay so I could hunt him down; if I made it any bigger, both universes could be destroyed, and all the things kept out in the void could get in again. If I did anything less subtle than just naming it, then it wouldn't seem like a coincidence, so I wouldn't have started looking into trying things and then I wouldn't have saved the other timelines that needed saving. Anything longer just would take away -- my self. I'd just be programming myself, and I'd hate that. Not really living, is it?"

"And following after a trail of breadcrumbs is living?"

Whatever. He wasn't the least bit convinced. In fact he was beginning to feel the strongest urge to track down an actual Rose, the plant not the girl, and give it a good snarling at. Talking to plants, brilliant idea really, it was a wonderful way of working out life's frustrations.

"Chasing breadcrumbs didn't work out so well for Hansel and Gretel, but don't let me stop you."

He stood and jammed his hands down into his pockets, preparing to slick away... as you do when you are a snake with troubles.

"Yes. Why what do you do?" she'd let him go, but she was gonna fight first.

"I don't go around looking for signs and portents for one thing!"

Yet, though had he remained on Earth that would only have been hours away.

"If I want to do something, I do it."

One quick and not at all shifty glance around... and whispered softly enough to only be heard by her.

"I just make sure no one's watching if it's something I might catch Hell for."

Normal tone of voice returned.

"I am a demon... doing demony things... Do a lot of tempting. I'm good at tempting. Got a commendation for tempting."

He was just rambling now wasn't he? What he ought to do, he decided, was go find that angel see if that would cheer him up. Which was in NO WAY the same as chasing after some guy like Rose was!

She flails and stomps around. "I AM DOING WHAT I WANT!" Huff puff wolf growl!! "I don't --" she ground her teeth in frustration and snarled. "I don't even have my cannon, and if I did, I would NEVER be so cowardly, so weak as to just-- run away from people who need my help!! From multiple universes?! Are you kidding me?! Look, sure fine, I miss him, but sod him! Him not being here sure isn't my fault!! He's the daft idiot constantly getting himself killed and--!!"

But again, all the fire and fury went out in a flash. Quenched under the Thames where the Doctor drowned.

"Sod off." It's quiet and lacking all the original heat. All she wants is the Doctor to hug her, and make it better, and she's not crying, but she wants to. And she can't even begin to hide the pain in her eyes.

He stood there, hands in pockets, quietly watching her... with just a touch of guilt. Here he had been trying to cheer her up, sorta, and he had only really managed to bring the conversation around full circle to upset her again. The other more vindictive part of him thought it fit, she had darkened his mood so hers should have been darkened too.

It's the way it was. Demons were no good and being good and he had been stupid to think he ever could have manged this! It was for the best that he left.

"Yeah, here's me, sodding off."

He turned to walk off. Thinking, but not saying, that he hoped she actually did find this Doctor guy she was looking for.

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