Gallifrey V spoilers

[timecoordinator]

I should be offended about your shock at my competency but admittedly, I do think these past few months have shown off some of my finest work.

Though that could have ended better. Are we never to be rid of Daleks, even in other universes? And we were so close to getting home.

Whatever's left of it, anyway.

I don't know why you're so worked up about my outburst. I was only trying to introduce common sense, as futile a gesture as that is on this Gallifrey. Those people are not savages, and neither is Leela.

Oh do stop.

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[ofdrumsthesound]

Daleks are like cockroaches, you can never get rid of the damn things.

[liberal_gallifreyan]

Narvin. I...[She's thinking of being Unit 117.] It's a certain poetic justice for these people to understand slavery, isn't it?

[She doesn't mean it, and you can tell she's more scared than anything: anger is how she copes because otherwise she'd be shaking in the corner having flashbacks.]

[timecoordinator]

Should have wiped them all from existence when we had the chance.

[timecoordinator]

In as much as slavery can be poetic, I suppose.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Yeah, probably.

Although the Time Lords weren't much better, by the end of the war.

[liberal_gallifreyan]

Assuming they don't all get exterminated. [Sighs.] It's times like this that I wish I did believe in a higher being creating the universe, then I could give whatever it is a piece of my mind.

...Haven't seen the Guardians anywhere, have you? [They're close enough.]

[timecoordinator]

They are working together at any rate. Somewhat. Which is more than we could have asked a few weeks ago. [ Narvin, what is this optimism from you, stop it at once. ]

Though how long that will last, whether they'll kill each other before the Daleks even show up... well. If I was a betting man.

[ Back to normal. ]

Supreme Leader, I think it would be much to ask for intelligent higher beings in this backwater universe. [ Or any universe in Narvin's opinion, but what can you do when they literally show up on your front doorstep from time to time. ]

[liberal_gallifreyan]

True. I think though, we know what Daleks are, what they're capable of, this universe doesn't. I was certainly terrified, when I first met them, I don't know about you.

They'll grasp at any attempt to survive. Of those who aren't shot outright, some will attempt deals. We know what'll happen to them. Others may resist, but will they trust us to help them through? Even if the Daleks don't isolate us away? After all, our actions just before could be construed as suspicious.

...You know the first thing they'll do is secure those mines. [That's where the first major massacre will happen. The Outsiders certainly won't take kindly to being made slaves once more.]

[timecoordinator]

[ Let's not talk of his record concerning Daleks. He shall refuse to say one way or another. Anyone who knows anything about it have been shot and the people who have shot them have been shot. ] Thank you, as always, Romana, for the crash course on the obvious.

[liberal_gallifreyan]

[Sighs.] Well, Chancellor, do you have anything worth adding other than your rapier wit?

[timecoordinator]

You're implying there's something worth adding besides my rapier wit? Not sure I should be offended or pleased.

I'm sure Leela will do her best evacuating the mines as best as possible. For someone so obsessed with fighting, if people see that Leela is backing off from a battle enough to make a coordinated decision, I'm sure they'll follow her. I'd probably follow her myself just for the shock of it.

[liberal_gallifreyan]

A bit of both, as usual, Narvin.

Certainly if all three of us react more or less the same, it should clue at least one or two of them to follow her as well.

[timecoordinator]

Wouldn't have pegged you to underestimate Leela's charisma. [ At one point he would never have stated that Leela had charisma in the first place, but how we grow up, eh? ]

[liberal_gallifreyan]

Leela's done extraordinarily well, considering that no one knows what the Sevateem even is or where she came from, but threat of slavery over their heads, particularly from a powerful, alien force they've never heard of, let alone seen, may just drive them to panic and that's never good.

I'm just being pessimistic, Narvin, I'm sorry.

[timecoordinator]

Quite. But I think we'd have to both agree that Leela is much more capable of handling that situation than we are. We're not just "Regenerators", after all. We're the Supreme Leader Romana and the Lord High Chancellor, and something tells me that they weren't the type to say "please" to slaves.

[liberal_gallifreyan]

Yes, I know. [She couldn't bear to use his alternate's name after he killed that slave.] Some of them will no doubt cheer to see us brought low. And assuming we get that far... sell us to them.

[timecoordinator]

When it comes to that, I don't think I'm taxing my brain to suggest hiding. Or at least throwing me to the dogs. Less to lose, as they say.

[liberal_gallifreyan]

Narvin. You might be smaller than Braxiatel, but I'm not throwing you anywhere, much less the Daleks' direction, do you understand? [She pauses for a second as she does think about that. How she wishes it was a thought beyond her. Frankly, it was unlikely to do them much in the way of good, anyway.] Hard on my back.

Besides, given our specialist knowledge, they'll think us more of a threat than the rest of the population. You'll only attract more attention.

[timecoordinator]

[ That is, of course, the point of sacrifices and abandonments, but he'll keep his tongue because he's planted the possibility in her; it'll make the inevitable easier. ]

Of course, Supreme Leader. Though it always is difficult to tell with Daleks. They might want our help. And then kill us.

[liberal_gallifreyan]

[Unfortunately, Romana knows his ways by now.] Narvin. Don't do anything heroic.

We'll find out quickly enough. Relative to us, anyway.

[timecoordinator]

I don't think many people can accuse me of being heroic. I daresay my paranoia is rubbing off on you, Supreme Leader.

[liberal_gallifreyan]

Oh, you make it sound like a bad thing. [Ah, the old repeating back argument gambit.] Considering the number of kamikaze liberal heroes I've hung out with, I feel qualified to admit the only difference between you and them is the word 'liberal'.

[timecoordinator]

Considering the sort you "hang out with", I'll take that as an insult.

[liberal_gallifreyan]

Well, the past tense is more past than I'd like, but I don't suppose being compared to the Doctor is particularly complimentary in your view either. Someone more patriotic. Well, no Brax wouldn't do… Wynter?

Well, now you see why I worry. [Why did I just stab myself in my hearts. Speaking of kamikaze.]

[timecoordinator]

I wouldn't say that Wynter suffered from patriotism. Foolishness, perhaps. Loyalty. Then, that is something of a pattern in the sort you "hung out" with.

[ Can't exclude himself there. ]