Subject: But surely...
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Posted on: 2013-04-10 08:21:00 UTC
... it would negate their actual attack. Since there's nowhere that isn't Angel-free, they're under constant observation even by prey actively running away from them.
Yes, it would potentially lead to, uh, breeding opportunities, but that's not actually the primary goal of an individual Weeping Angel...
hS
What would happen if a Weeping Angel got into PPC HQ?
I'm now going to have to page for a beta reader to make sure I'm not spewing absolute nonsense trying to get the Doctor and my Agents out of their narrow scrapes.
This leads to the most meta DW episode ever.
In which Creepers, Agent Rosalie, and Angels are encountered.
The PPC Wiki page on Agent Rosalie was extremely stubby, so I just took her and ran off in some unknown direction. If anyone has better info on her, please let me know so I can edit.
What would the PPC do if one of its Agents looked into an Angel's eyes during a mission, but didn't realize/remember what that meant until later? What's the general attitude towards that?
Amy didn't realise that she shouldn't look into an Angel's eyes either, so the Agent would suffer the same problems. They could then go to Medical to get the Angel out of their visual centers, or if it was a recent event, wipe their memories of the Angel so they'd delete the metal image.
One was in the rickety house. The other is in this hallway. I came up with it after my friend wondered why the DW writers never bothered putting an an Angel in a mirrored room, so either the plothole for that hallway is malfunctioning or it was built like that to disorient Agents in that segment of HQ.
I'm not entirely sure if the blackout is meant to be part of canon, but even so, I would think Eledhwen wouldn't get along with Rosalie because of the Suethor tendency to stick Naiads into Middle-earth, her home continuum.
... it would negate their actual attack. Since there's nowhere that isn't Angel-free, they're under constant observation even by prey actively running away from them.
Yes, it would potentially lead to, uh, breeding opportunities, but that's not actually the primary goal of an individual Weeping Angel...
hS
And that gives the Angel and its mirror counterparts the opportunity to snatch them.
If a "lucky" destination leads to what essentially has become a Weeping Angel breeding ground, I'd hate to see where "unlucky" goes. Inside a star? A gravitational singularity? Sauron's shower?
Now I'm tempted to write about that, some hapless Agent pressing random and getting zapped into Sauron's shower
The real question is: is SAURON in the shower?
You're right! It would be just like Morgoth to steal Sauron's personal shower and use the last of the good shampoo! Or even better, use the last of the good shampoo and fill the shampoo bottle with barbecue sauce! That would be so evil.
Can we borrow Morgan and/or the Fisherman for this story? The Doctor's in HQ and he really needs to see one of them before he gets Neuralysed.
...by the looks of it, you've got Eleven down pat. Fezzes off to you, ma'am.
Also: that moment when the Doctor realizes that there are other Time Lords in the PPC. Loved that bit!
On a side note, have you seen the trailer for the next episode? Looks like a nail-biter.
And in a Russian submarine, judging by the AKs the sailors wield.
With an Ice Warrior stomping about.
Fun times ahead.
considering that the Ice Warrior got chained up, broke free, and rampaged through said submarine during a blackout.
Let's not try to pin all things down with a single, solid, definite explanation? HQ also runs on the Narrative Laws of Comedy, etc. So I think it'd be safe to say that messing around with portal technology of pretty much any kind is going to have unforeseen side effects. (And I say this, I should note, for at least partially selfish reasons, since Minecraft teleporting is sorta the backstory for one of my agents.)
But the traditional RA shouldn't be working in the scenario. Any plothole fuelled tech shouldn't be working, but the narrative laws of comedy could probably make any working portals go extremely wrong.
You deserve a jelly baby. They're delicious, and that was amazing.
Weeping Angels are possible.
So I don't think the Reality Room will be able to destroy a Weeping Angel completely; it may just neutralise the whole send-back-in-time stuff and turn the thing into a vanishing statue that you'll never find in the same place twice.
Considering that the canonical Weeping Angels retain their minds while being in their stone form, the Reality Room would still be able to throw that out of whack, since stone isn't favorable for high-speed conduction of the sort that would be needed to regulate a sapient being. The statue might or might not dematerialize when it was looked at, but it would essentially be dead even if it could, meaning that it would never be able to shift position again. At that point, you could just disintegrate it and throw the bits into an ocean.
Plus, that article's later claim that positrons are just electrons moving backwards in time throws all of the rest of its scientific credibility into question, but that's not really connected to my other statement.
... but I'm not a particle physicist, so I suppose I should have expected as much.
There are enough species and gadgets in HQ that the Weeping Angels would surely find someone umiliating them enough to die of shame. Or go insane, which is the usual reaction to any living being that stays in HQ for a prolonger period of time.
I don't know how I feel about that...
If someone knew what it was it'd be gone pretty quickly, to be honest...
Probably it would eventually get gone, but a lot of agents would be DEEEAAD.Or gone. Pfff, whatever.
On a random note: On the phone the other day with a friend. She mentions Weeping Angels. The phone dies. Tell me this is not weird.
This is not wierd.
...
Would you like the truth now?
Seriously, I was going to write that. Then, I scrolled down and found that you had done it first. (...Barrowman? *shakes fist*) (insert new paragraph here, since I'm on my phone, of all things, and it won't let me. Where's Tony when you need him?) Also, I started writing the Adventures. And, of course, I started from the next visitor on the list (Mr. B.) rather than from the beginning. It's quite fun. (Look at me, using code. Bet you a cookie someone can figure it out if they can be bothered to try.) ~DawnFire
Really? Ahaha, I'm sorry, brain twin.
And yay, Adventures! I will take that bet.
They don't have a lot of stories, and their purview is incredibly specific if you consider it from a "mission-only" standpoint, because the DIC or DF would take most of their mission fodder. Combine that with the need HQ would have for someone going around and collecting all of the plot hole refugees, and you reach the point where I sort of got carried away.
It still sounds like something that would happen, though. To me, at least. It isn't as though those holes in space-time only drop in teenagers from World One who have fervent love for a particular fandom. If one type of being can come in, they can all come in, from the little chipmunks to the giant mechanical beasts.
You might've mentioned you were making things up on the spot BEFORE you started going on like it was all fact. In addition, using the correct verbs to indicate you were only supposing would've been helpful. There's a big difference between "is/are" and "could be."
~Neshomeh
I did in the later part of the post, but I admit it would have been better to have said it before instead.
I saw a few people putting ideas on the Board as if they'd already happened before, but now that I've gone back and check, it wasn't anything of this scale. I didn't want to mislead anyone. Again, sorry. I'll do better to mark ideas from potential PPC events in the future. Embarrassment is counted among the best teachers, after all, and I'm very embarrassed right now.
Wut? Blinks. Steals.
One is that the agents would band together and find a way to kill it. Blasting it with a mineing lazer perhaps? Diamond pickaxe to the face?
Another is that, because of the impossibility and timey-whimyness (totally a word) of HQ, the angel would gorge itself on time energy from the vast amout of time bending and time travel ocurring in HQ every day. It would be like if the angel got into the TARDIS, and would be a very bad thing.
The final senario I can think of is that the angel gets locked inside the pool room and becomes a statue because of the lack of energy. Of corse, this is impossable, as there is TOTALLY NOT A POOL.
The Angel - which, from what I understand, is a paradox of time and space that should not exist - getting locked in the pool room THAT TOTALLY DOES NOT EXIST. XD
...the Angels are just another type of predator and not a paradox. They feed off potential temporal energy: by sending you back in time, they can nom on the future you could of had.
In rare cases where there are large quantities of refined energy nearby, they just snap your neck.
Weeping Angels? Pass me the AS-24 Devastator. They're going to have a good reason to weep afterwards.
*puts sunglasses on to make his cheesy badass boast even cheesier.*
And now I am craving cheese.
That'd be like eating a buffet and then when you get home, throwing out all of the food in your fridge because you're still full. Plus, if they send you back in time, that doesn't mean that time stops working on you or anything like that. You still have a future, but it's in the past.
ONWARDS, Aoshima!
Couldn't resist.
The large quantity of energy we're talking about here is a starship's drive core: food for eternity, wot. Killing the others instead of sending them back isn't as wasteful as it first seems, especially when one of them is the Doctor.
...what did I just watch on YouTube?
Presumably, rather unpleasant things.