Scratchwood Station

charlierc · Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:43 am Post subject:

The CN Tower, Toronto, Canada...

*A security guard and undercover agent, Mark, is on the phone to a member of the Canadian branch of Torchwood, Johns, from a public payphone in the building's observation deck.*

Mark: Hello, John.
John: Hey there John. What you got for me?
Mark: You remember the alien machines, what them called... Daleks?
John: Oh yes, those. What of them?
Mark: We've got one here in Toronto.
John: What are you serious?
Mark: Affirmative. It just appeared out of nowhere on the observation floor about 10 minutes ago.
John: You think its the Dalek in the UK at that train station?
Mark: I'm not sure but I think it is - someone called it a pepperpot, the Dalek shot at him and his beam went through the window and hit a passing bird.
John: I think you should bring him into the base, stat.
Mark: Indeed.
John: Where is he now - still in the tower?
Mark: Yes - he's locked up in a storage cupboard in the main tower building. Shall I round him up and take him to Montreal for further testing?
John: No need - the labs in Toronto have finished redecorating so you can just go there.
Mark: Gotcha. Be there in a bit. Bye.
John: Bye.

Meanwhile, in a storage cupboard...

Derek: GOD DAMMIT WHY DOES THIS THING AL-WAYS TAKE ME TO RAN-DOM PLACES WHERE I END UP BEING SHOVED IN CUP-BOARDS?
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Charles, PA Announcer and light show guy (and owner of C&X Group).

Electricfox · Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:25 pm Post subject:

*Electricfox appears in the cupboard next to Derek.*

Electricfox: "Ah...there you are."
Derek: "HOW DID YOU GET HERE?!"
Electricfox: "Erm...probably best you didn't know...call it something I accidentally acquired sometime. Anyway...is your temporal shift function working?"
Derek: "AF-FIRM-ATIVE!"
Electricfox: "Then I suggest we use it..."
Derek: "EMER-GANCY TEM-POR-AL SHIFT!"
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Jamie
The local 'Bobby'

Keab42 · Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 3:16 pm Post subject:

*NORAD*

Operator: Sir, I'm picking up a spaceship coming in fast!

Commander: Identify, is it hostile?

Operator: Nossir, it looks like a cruise liner, but the speed it's travelling suggests that it's on a collision course!

Commander: Risk?

Operator: It shouldn't explode, besides it's heading right for Scratchwood common.

Commander: Again?

Operator: Yessir.

Commander: Well we'll leave them to it. Don't send a warning they'll find out soon enough.

Mattaf · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:14 pm Post subject:

*A vast, empty void of nothing. A kind of limbo between existence and non-existence. A vast emptiness broken only by one solitary figure.*

Derek: THIS IS BULLSHIT!
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Mattaf, Station Master
Scratchwood - "How the Rail Network Should be... sorta..."

charlierc · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 2:39 pm Post subject:

Derek: THIS IS A TER-RIBLE VA-CATION! WHERE THE HELL AM I AND HOW THE HELL DO I GET OUT?
Stranger: You don't.

*A stranger appears from out of the emptiness. Like Derek he has been trapped in the limbo of existance, and now only these two exist in the vast and endless nothing encompassing them.*

Derek: WHAT DO YOU MEAN "I DON'T!" I AM A DA-LEK! I CAN ES-CAPE THIS PLACE USING MY MIGHT AND RE-TURN TO WHERE I CAME!
Stranger: I've been here for years. I've seen worlds born, I've seen worlds die, I've seen mighty species born, control the universe and collapse. And nothing can convince me that you - a humble little Dalek all on its own can escape this place.
Dalek: IN-COR-RECT! I WILL E-SCAPE! WHY DO YOU DOUBT MY A-BILI-TY!
Stranger: I've seen your race conquer the universe and be defeated many times. A million Daleks would never escape here so what makes you think you will.
Dalek: WHO... WHO ARE YOU?
Strange: I was once like you. A person with friends and a job on planet Earth in the year 2010. Living and working and that. And then one day I fell through a crack and I've wound up here... just like you have.
Derek: THAT STILL DOESN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION YOU BOZO!
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Charles, PA Announcer and light show guy (and owner of C&X Group).

Mattaf · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 7:20 pm Post subject:

*Derek is still hanging in limbo.*

Derek: 1927, 239, 932 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL!

Stranger: Can you STOP?!?
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Mattaf, Station Master
Scratchwood - "How the Rail Network Should be... sorta..."

Mattaf · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:08 am Post subject:

*Still in Limbo*

Derek:...I'M REALLY GETTING RATHER BORED NOW!

Stranger: Is it worth pointing out that you could have actually escaped ages ago?

Derek:...how?

Stranger: Well, you've got an emergency temporal shift device, right? And since we're outside time and space itself, if you were to use it, it would automatically lock on to the nearest time-stream and take you there.

Derek: AND YOU DIDN'T MENTION THIS EARLIER?!?

Stranger: I wanted someone to talk to.

Derek: YOU... OH FORGET IT! EMERGENCY TEMPORAL SHIFT!

*Derek vanishes in a flash of white light*

Stranger: What a git... I'll miss him...
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Mattaf, Station Master
Scratchwood - "How the Rail Network Should be... sorta..."

Mattaf · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:14 am Post subject:

*Cabinet War Rooms, 1941*

Dalek: Would you care for some tea?

*A blinding flash of light, followed by Derek appearing*

Derek: Temporal Shift successful! Identifying location - Earth, London, England, 1941!

Dalek: Unit unknown! Identify or be exterminated!

Bracewell: What the devil?!? But... there's only two of you. I only made two of you, how can there be a third?!?

Dalek: Ooops! The jig is up! Scarper! Scarper!

*The dalek teleports away. Derek turns and scans Bracewell.*

Derek: You are identified as Dalek technology! You will assist me! Obey!

Bracewell: What?!? But... what is a Dalek?

Derek:....this is going to take a while isn't it?
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Mattaf, Station Master
Scratchwood - "How the Rail Network Should be... sorta..."

Mattaf · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:26 am Post subject:

*One surprisingly long explanation later*

Bracewell: So, you need my help to return to the year 2011?

Derek: Correct!

Bracewell: And the daleks... they made me?

Derek: Correct!

Bracewell: And you have no foiled their scheme to create a new race of daleks, therefore altering the timeline?

Derek: Cor... oh, bollocks!
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Mattaf, Station Master
Scratchwood - "How the Rail Network Should be... sorta..."

Mattaf · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:30 am Post subject:

*60 Years Later*
*The Planet Skaro*

Dalek Emperor: You know what we haven't done for a while?

Dalek Guard: No, emperor?

Dalek Emperor: Invaded the planet Earth... maybe we should give that another go?

Dalek Guards: Great idea emperor.

Cynical Dalek: Oh great, this shit again!

Dalek Emperor: EXTERMINATE THAT CYNICAL DALEK!

*Dalek Guns fire - KER-SPLAT!*

Dalek Emperor: Prepare the fleet! We advance at once!
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Mattaf, Station Master
Scratchwood - "How the Rail Network Should be... sorta..."

charlierc · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:17 am Post subject:

A digital world...

*Charlie finds himself in what looks like the PA Office. However something is different... not least cos the world has taken on a bluish tint and the freight train outside the window has transformed into an ethereal construct. Meanwhile a strange vehicle has wheeled past the platform, closely purseud by another one. The two motors are followed by trails of light and the two try and clash, knocking each other off.*

Charlie: ... where the hell am I?

*In the background are rocks surronding the location. In the middle lies a citadel, towering above the desolate electrical wasteland. When Charlie steps out of the office he sees that where there should be a small cul-de-sac there is a towering arena from which he can hear the sound of the games. A faint bright light can be seen on the other side.*

Charlie: This is weird. This is very weird.
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Charles, PA Announcer and light show guy (and owner of C&X Group).

charlierc · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 7:23 pm Post subject:

*Charlie has spent a full in-computer month trapped inside the system, living off the grid and trying to avoid the games. He is with another program, also living rogue. Despite being stuck in the system, he is not wearing the suits of the rest, although he has been fitted with an information disc. In reality he has been gone for 45 minutes.*

Rogue Program: How did a user get into the world?
Charlie: I don't know - I was trying to use a redesigned console I bought from Encom and must've entered the wrong code cos I wound up here.
Rogue Program: You are aware of what you have picked up, correct.
Charlie: Yes. If I go to games I'll die. You've seen my ability at them.
Rogue Program: Yes. I must admit it is not good. If one of us is caaptured, best be me.
Charlie: Don't jinx it.
Rogue Program: That was a close one. Vaulting from the main residential tower with Zeus' disc.
Charlie: Yeah well I have had practice with stealing information like that. In a world beyond here.
Rogue Program: I still don't understand. Because you are not from here, you're able to manipulate here?
Charlie: I think so.

*Charlie places on his sunglasses. Through them the world shows itself as computer programming - a sequence of numbers manipulating themselves into the code that keeps the world functioning.*

Charlie: And to think... all this powers the computer in my office.
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Charles, PA Announcer and light show guy (and owner of C&X Group).