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[gobs-o-dice]

Old Dice Staging Methods: Batch #8

[wellamarke]

Daily Drabble #379 (12/04)

IX: the secret circle (characters discover they have magic powers)

Carolyn wasn’t sure which was more disconcerting: the fact that Arthur could now set things on fire using his mind, or the sight of her two pilots literally flying into the portacabin. (Only Douglas had managed to swoop straight in through the door. Martin’s aim was off, and he’d slid down the wall at first.)

She needed to take a moment to let it all sink in. She drew in a deep, calming breath.

Everything around her stopped completely. Even Arthur’s flames ceased their flickering.

...All right, so the most disconcerting thing was that she could now freeze time.

Good to have that settled.

[gobs-o-dice]

Dice Set #38: Light Blue Transparent

[wellamarke]

Daily Drabble #375 (for 07/04)

V: orphan black (character meets their double)

They tumble out of the timeflyer, looking around for signs of their pursuer. “Nothing,” Douglas says, relieved. “Alright, we must be far enough back. This time around we don’t let him see us.”

He looks to Martin and Arthur, expecting nods of agreement, but finds them both staring in bewilderment at something behind him. Douglas turns.

He comes face-to-face with a duplicate of himself. The resemblance is way past uncanny.

“Hello…” Douglas says, uneasily.

“You can’t park that here,” says the other Douglas, pointing accusingly at GERTI. He pulls out a badge. “Inspector Fred Thursday, Oxford Police. I’d advise you to move it, sharpish.”

[wellamarke]

Daily Drabble #378 (11/04)

VIII: medium (character is visited by another in a dream)

They're on a merry-go-round, that much is certain, and Herc is dressed in his full captain's uniform. Somehow he's got the impression that he's the one driving the carousel, and that the other riders are merely passengers. This seems entirely sensible - why else would he need his epaulettes?

Carolyn's beside him, on a horse that looks every inch as disdainful as she does. "Will you stop going around in circles, Herc?" she scolds him. "Just get to the point. Ask me about Zurich. How else are you ever going to know what I think?"

She's right, of course, as she always is.

[wellamarke]

Daily Drabble #377 (for 10/04)

VII: in plain sight (character needs to adopt a new identity)

Stuart Aelsworth. That’s the name printed on the front of the folder they gave him; the folder that contains a whole life. Passport, insurance documents, birth certificate. Marriage certificate, and a death certificate for Clare Aelsworth. Falsified bank statements and medical records. There’s a work history document too, and Douglas notes with gloom that his new self has never flown a plane.

He has one evening to learn the list of life experiences laid out on the cover page - commit them to memory, make them as true as he can.

One more evening to be Douglas Richardson. He reaches for the phone.

[wellamarke]

Daily Drabble #374 (07/04)

IV: almost human (one of the characters is a robot)

"That's weird," Martin said, shaking the scanner. Oblivious to his attempts, it continued to bleep steadily.

"What is?" said Douglas casually, though he was fairly sure he knew.

"It's still registering synthetic neural activity," Martin continued, "But we turned off the guard devices on our way in. Didn't we?"

Douglas let his features run a surface doubt. "I thought so," he said, "But maybe one of them had its switch disabled. They can do that now."

Martin tutted, and shook his head, mock-despairingly. "What will they think of next."

What, indeed, thought Douglas, turning up the volume of his artificial respirator slightly - just in case.

[wellamarke]

Daily Drabble #380 (13/04)

X: sleepy hollow (character has been suspended in time for years and now returns to find themselves in a different era)

"–probably won't work," Carolyn said.

She blinked in confusion. Arthur had disappeared before she finished her sentence.

So had the rest of her surroundings.

Well then.

Apparently the temporal stasis pod had worked, and for a long time, too. She wondered how long Arthur had tried in vain to retrieve her, before giving up and leaving a... museum? to be built around her.

Suddenly, he burst into the gallery. "There you are!" he said. "This is the day the exhibit disappears from the museum. We hoped it was because you woke up!"

Carolyn stepped sedately out of the pod, and followed him back to the timeflyer.