OOM : Doc's room at Milliways

[scurlock]

After Will asks Bar for help explaining his home to Doc and getting the note and food from the Bar, Doc and Will head upstairs to room 25.

Doc's room isn't really that big, with a bed up against one wall and a small table beside it, stacked with a few dog-eared books, topics spanning from poetry, swordfighting, more poetry, and a book of plays.

There is a dresser with a mirror leaning against the wall, and on it are two small folded paper cranes that he took off the bar one day when there were so many, a brown one and a pink one, as well as a thin tin box for his cigarettes, and the stockline record, leather bound sits next to it as well. A corner of the room has several crates that Will will recognize as the bits of wreckage and bottles of rum from the Pearl stacked up neatly. There's a chair by the wall as well and an oil lamp, a pair of eyeglasses sitting next to another small stack of books, but what makes Doc stop and stare is the strange, flat...thing that is now on a small stand against the far wall.

(It's a plasma TV. He has no idea what a plasma TV is, or what that strange thing with the buttons on it is either. All he knows is that he's carrying another strange metal box in his hands and a smaller, more flexible plastic box, and a note from Bar with instructions of a sort. Will, is carrying a pizza and a helpfully packaged six-pack of beer.)

"Well that wasn't there before."

Comments

[will_scarlett]

First the beer and pizza is set down and then Will comes over to stare too,

"What did the note say to do?"

[scurlock]

"Plug the DVD player into the TV."

A glance.

"I am assumin' that's the TV."

[will_scarlett]

"Oh aye, na sure what's supposed to be a player since ye canna fit a person in one o'those things."

[scurlock]

"Ain't like a phonograph either."

Doc scratches the back of his neck and lifts the 'player' up, looking at it, and the cord that is dangling off the back.

Yeah.

He's confused.

[will_scarlett]

Some more blinking from Will as he takes a look at the player too, tugging on the cord,

"What's this thing 'angin' off the back for an what's a phonograph?"

[scurlock]

"A phonograph plays music. There's a round thing with a big horn," he motions trying to describe it. "An' it plays music that's been recorded onto a drum. Seen one in a shop in New York."

Then he thinks.

"Well the telegraph...has wires to send the morse code. So maybe...this sends...somethin' to the TV?"

[will_scarlett]

Will's really got nothing to compare that to and so starts looking at the TV, maybe there's something like a keyhole,

"Oh aye, so need to look for the 'ole it goes into then."

[scurlock]

Doc carries the player over so they can both inspect, and then he holds up the end of the cord.

"Why're there different colors. Why can't y'just plug the damn thing in and make it play or whatever it's supposed t'do."

Another moment's thought, before he sets the player down and goes to open two beers. This calls for a drink. Nevermind they haven't even plugged it in yet.

[will_scarlett]

Three different colors, this is troublesome, while Doc goes to get the beers, Will starts plugging things in.

Now the cords are nice and new but the white and the yellow really look rather alike so he plugs them in and nothing happens,

"Looks like that should work. Is it doin' anythin'?"

Ooh, beer, that's a good distraction from the weird cords.

[scurlock]

Doc glances up.

"No. It's still blank."

He sets a beer down next to Will and then grabs the better instructions, sits on the end of the bed and looks at them. "Unpack player...check for any missing parts...let's see..."

He scans along the paper for 'setting the damn thing up'.

"Plug the red, white, and yellow AV cords into the matching jacks on your TV."

[will_scarlett]

"That what these are then, but which one's white an yellow, all look the same?"

A good swig of beer as the jacks as scanned again and then switched so they're in their proper hole,

"Does that do anythin'?"

[scurlock]

"Next turn on the TV and the DVD player by pressin' the 'power' button on the remote."

Blink.

"What the hell's a remote."

A quick scan of the paper and the parts list and he finally grabs the handheld thing off the top of the TV and eyes all the buttons, finds the red one marked 'power' and presses it.

"Well at least the screen's blue now."

[will_scarlett]

The screen turning on makes Will jump,

"Is it supposed to be doin' that, just get all full o'color that way?"

[scurlock]

"I guess so. Maybe? I dunno."

Doc looks at the instructions and takes a drink of the beer. "Now we're supposed to put the disc in the player." He eyes the drawing and then eyes the player, then the little box. Yeah. No idea.

He picks up the little box and shakes it. "Where're we supposed to stick this."

[will_scarlett]

"Sounds like there's somethin' in there, na sure what sort o'disc they mean. 'rhaps tis a kind o'coin or such."

Will takes another drink of beer and then takes the little box, fiddling with it until it suddenly pops open and the disc is there and spinning,

"Bloody 'ell, what's that?"

[scurlock]

"...maybe that's the disc."

Doc reaches for the box and then removes the disc, then holds it in his hand. Then looks at the player. "Jus'...git it in there somehow."

He tries putting it in but nothing happens, he accidentally hits the 'eject' button and with a whirr the machine spits out the tray and it makes him jump a little.

[will_scarlett]

Now that's scary and cool and given an appreciative look by Will who takes the disc and sets it gently into the player and then looks at it,

"Right, its in, so should be doin' things then."

[scurlock]

Doc eyes it and sips another drink of the beer, then the screen. It's not doing anything, so he cautiously reaches over and pokes the button he hit earlier.

The tray goes into the machine and there's another whirring noise, and then a disc pops up on the screen and rotates.

"Well now it's..."

The screen goes black.

"...oops?"

[will_scarlett]

"'rhaps we should just let it rest, in case we tired it out."

Another sip of beer as Will goes to investigate the pizza, either it'll work or not, but Doc seems to know more sort of.

[scurlock]

The screen changes from black to a title screen with music and images, and Doc's rather enthralled.

"I think...maybe it's workin'."

A beat.

"Y'really dress like that? And...'Dragonheart'."

[will_scarlett]

Will comes over to stare at the screen,

"Does look a bit like 'ome, but tis rather clean an 'e shouldna be able to wear blue, too 'xpensive."

[scurlock]

"Normally wear greens and browns?" Doc guesses, and he waits. Nothing happens for awhile, and he eyes the menu and then the remote. He reads the instructions again and then just starts to push things.

[will_scarlett]

One of them actually is play so the screen goes dark again before the opening credits start up,

"Only nobles are supposed to wear certain colors, too 'xpensive for the rest o'us, 'specially purple."

Will's sitting down and going after the pizza since it seems to be doing things.

[scurlock]

"Only certain colors," he makes note in his head. "No purple and no blue."

Doc eyes the pizza and then wanders over to grab a slice, jumping when the movie starts playing the opening scene.

[will_scarlett]

"Lady Bar'll know the right thing, did for Molly."

Will's found a place to sit and the pizza is still warm as the credits start, this is all very odd.