Birthday Party at High Noon

[misslucysleeches]

Yup, after a couple month's break in summer, we're into the fall birthdays again, starting off with Lucy! As usual, the bar is done up in green, although this time Doc's added various bits of greenery (both real and fake, depending on where it's placed) to add a little extra oomph to the decorations. Lucy's perched on the bar, swinging her legs and looking for all the world like a kid in a candy store. Shall you come over and say hello?

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[misslucysleeches]

"Wait, what? How the hell -- I assume the original and six forgeries, otherwise what the hell did he need a time machine for?" Lucy says, blinking. "And -- sentient paint?"

[alienlisa]

"Eh," says AL, "technically all seven of them are the real thing since all were painted by Leonardo...except if they're ever x-rayed, they'll see 'this is a fake' written on the canvas in felt tip. But, anyway. This guy, Scaroth...think cyclops meets cthulu...splintered himself in time when he tried to take off from primordial Earth on warp drive. The radiation from the explosion was the catalyst that created all life on the planet. His other selves through time masqueraded as humans and influenced things so his 'main' self in '70s Paris could have the technology to build a time machine so he could go back and stop himself from 'pressing the button' in his words. Except if he did that, then life wouldn't form on Earth. So we had to stop him. Got killed by his own butler in the end." AL shrugs. "And in order to rustle up those extra six, Leo had to borrow paints from his neighbor, Giuseppe di Cattivo. Unfortunately, he'd found a sentient meteorite and used its minterals to make pigments for his paints. He'd painted a thing called 'The Abomination' that when paired with the Mona Lisa caused her to come to life when her painting was lent to a place in London. Luckily, the Doctor's old friend Sarah Jane took care of that one. Long story short, the Abomination was destroyed and Mona Lisa is back in her painting forever. An 'And I Must Scream' situation? The first time, yes. The second?" She shrugs again. "Whether or not knowing she wanted to destroy the world helps with that, well that's up to you." Quickly, she adds, "But don't let that ruin your trip! She's still a very pretty painting. I still wonder why she doesn't have any eyebrows."

[misslucysleeches]

Lucy, along with the others, stare for a moment. "I might just stay away from the Louvre," she admits after a moment. "Pretty or not, I don't like the idea that she might be staring back at me, plotting my doom. Please don't tell me the Eiffel Tower was involved in any of the Doctor's shenanigans. I really want to see that."

"So -- we're all the result of some alien's spaceship going blammo?" Marty says slowly. It's a weird thought, and it'll take him a bit of time to properly wrap his head around it. "Okay then. . .kind of sucks to be him, though. I mean, splintered through time? That sounds like it hurts, to say the freaking least."

[alienlisa]

AL says, "Well, you could just avoid the area her painting is in. The Louvre is a huge place. If I may make a suggestion, though?" She eyes Eleven, who nods. "Visit the Musée d'Orsay...it has a nice collection of Vincent Van Gogh paintings and he was a friend of ours. He dedicated his Vase with Twelve Sunflowers to the Doctor's companion, Amy." ((In-show, the painting winds up with 'For Amy' painted on it))

"As for the Eiffel Tower?" She eyes the Doctors, questioning, and they shake their heads. "Nope, no disasters there. We did wave goodbye to Duggan from there...he was the detective who was hired to investigate a plot to steal the Mona Lisa. But that's all."

AL nods at Marty. "And you were almost not created at all due to a spatial anomaly caused by an exploding starship in the far future. Luckily, Captain Picard reversed that effect and it wound up never happening."

Data nods. "The Captain had been moving back and forward through time between past, present and future. The anomaly had been caused by a starship in the future exploding and rupturing the space-time continuum. Due to it being a temporal anomaly, it grew larger as it moved through the past and covered most of the quadrant by primordial Earth. The Captain, as we were told, was able to collapse the anomaly and return the timeflow to normal."

"He'd told us of the possible future," said AL. "Maybe hoping some things wouldn't come to pass because it wasn't exactly a happy one. The future's always in flux, so I guess the 'not polluting the timeline' rule went out the window there. Though I think there's some leeway with alternate futures." She makes a face as if she's thinking about it, then gives up and shrugs.

[misslucysleeches]

"Awww, I see," Lucy says with a little smile. "I'll definitely put that one on my list of places to visit, then."

"Huh. Funny, you thought aliens would have tried to steal it or something," Lucy comments.

"Probably too big and unweildy -- though I think in one of the Ghostbuster cartoons, it was revealed to be an early ghost containment unit or something similar," Vic says.

"Sheesh -- stuff like this makes what our movie selves had to go through look like pretty small potatoes," Marty has to say.

"Don't get too upset, Marty," Lucy counsels. "At least you can legitimately claim your time-traveling never put the whole universe in peril."

[alienlisa]

((*googlegooglegoogle*)) "Actually," says AL, "it was stolen in a comic, but since the alter ego doesn't read the comics - plus she doesn't get the magazine it's in - it's not in my 'canon'...fanon?...whatever, so I don't know the details. Plus the website she's on doesn't give elaborate details. Also in a comic, there was a replica built on a planet but it wound up being destroyed because it was part of the Nefarious Plot or something. Again, my experiences only lie in the TV show and his movie." She gestures to Eight. "Aaannd, technically, his audio of the alter ego's horse's namesake." She chuckles. "And maybe the one audio she has of Five, Six and Seven together if she ever gets that sequel off the ground."

"Lucy has a point," AL says to Marty. "Granted, didn't Doc mention that the two Jennifers meeting could destroy the universe or at the very least your own galaxy? Luckily she only passed out, huh?"

[misslucysleeches]

"I think it would be 'fanon,'" Lucy says. "At any rate, can't have it in your verse if the fan doesn't get the magazine, right? And you seem to get into enough trouble with just the TV, movie, and radio stuff. Don't need to add the Adventures of Sequential Art to it."

"Especially when you take into account how random some of that sequential art can be," Vic adds, remembering a certain episode of "Atop The 4th Wall."

"Yeah, well, no offense to that Doc, but people started meeting their past and future selves all through Part II, and the universe never blew up," Marty points out.

"I think my other self was referring specifically to those meetings which might result in the disablement or death of the younger self," Doc says, wagging a finger.

"Yeah, the novelization makes it a bit more clear, although it uses a rather gruesome example of Jennifer cracking her head open while fainting to do it," Vic says.