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[not_john_smith]

Odd... I wasn't able to override this terminal with the Sonic Screwdriver... I wonder why

Hello? Can anyone read this?

My name is the Doctor John Smith. I seem to be a bit lost... would anyone happen to be able to tell me where I am? And, if possible, the current year? I know it seems like a silly question... but, when one lives the rock-and-roll

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[shesamaneatr]

You're in a place called Purgatorium! Though I think there are several doctors here? The name is Tifa. Nice to meet you!

[not_john_smith]

Purgatorium...? I'm afraid I'm unacquainted with it. This question might seem the strangest yet, but... what planet is this?

Nice to meet you as well, miss.

[ryuuzakirly]

The year might be hard to define since we are people from many different worlds it seems.

[not_john_smith]

Well then... how about you? Your world. What year is it there?

After all, definition of the current time might change from world to world, but it's just a label.

[ryuuzakirly]

I died in 2004 in Japan. But I spent a lot of time in the UK. You are from Wales?

[not_john_smith]

You... you remember your own death?

This is bigger than I thought. They must be purposefully controlling the rift, sending Nanogenes through beforehand to repair their victims... ooooh, it boggles the MIND!

Ah, no. Not from Earth, actually. Little planet called Gallifrey, too far away to be seen by telescopes produced at or before the 21st century, sorry to say.

[wicked_alice]

Oh my! Someone else from England!

[not_john_smith]

Sadly, no; I've spent enough time there, though, to have veritably "gone native", as it were.

What part of England are you from, dear, if you don't mind me asking?

[wicked_alice]

I'm from just outside London.

It's so very nice to see someone from at least the same nation, even if the chances of you being from my time are.. pretty slim.

[not_john_smith]

Err... well, that's the thing, isn't it? I'm not actually... from Earth. And I would rather guarantee that I'm not from your time.

A fellow time traveler, then?

[reaperstouch]

Hey Doc, I got a question for you! You are a Time Lord after all, so could you explain a disparity?

My friend says he's been here for two weeks. But I just saw the guy online yesterday, which would mean that he technically could not be here, if we're following the laws of time, physics, and common sense. So, how the hell does that work? Is that normal only on this server/time paradox/whatever the hell Purgatorium is, or can you do that with a bit of planning and possibly alcohol?

[not_john_smith]

Well, that's easy. Your friend was brought here sooner than you were, though he was likely brought from the same point.

That sort of thing is likely to occur whenever a rift is forced open... which happens ENTIRELY too often.

[reaperstouch]

So who was there when it wasn't my friend? 'cause there's two weeks where he says he wasn't there.

How many things have the ability to screw up the time line?

[not_john_smith]

...you're thinking to linearly. Let's call the day you disappeared from your home point A. Two weeks ago, the time your friend arrived here, is point B. YOUR arrival point, on the other hand, would be point C. Now, while you were both taken from point A, HE was taken to point B, while YOU were taken to point C.

If, by any chance, you two were born on the same day, month, and year, he would now be two weeks older than you. He experienced a period of time that you did not.

Rather more than there should be. Hundreds of things, THOUSANDS of things, all of them catastrophically bad.