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]

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.

[scurlock]

There's the scene of a battlefield, with people in the noble colors and armor attacking others, with swords and such, it's a very big fight and he stops the pizza hunting to watch.

"S'like...huh."

[will_scarlett]

As the battle starts Will watches more and gets rather more serious,

"Nay, na terribly like, battles are ne'er that clean an a knight would ne'er both with fightin' just a regular soldier, only care 'bout takin' each other on."

[scurlock]

"Seems like one side's a lot better than the other."

That would be the knight's side. Not the peasants. Then he points at the very important looking guy on the screen.

"He a knight...or a king? Cause he's got a crown on."

[will_scarlett]

"Must be a King, peasants ne'er stand a chance in a fair battle with knights. Tis why we 'ave to trick 'em, get 'em into Sherwood."

Will's going to take a long drink of beer now.

[scurlock]

Doc nods and settles back a little, and then settles on the bed with a piece of pizza and a beer.

The dramatic music signals something important...and that would be the King getting killed. He arches an eyebrow mid bite.

[will_scarlett]

Kings getting killed on battlefields aren't that odd so Will just eats some more and then there's a dragon on the screen,

"We dinna 'ave those."

[scurlock]

Doc blinks.

"I fargin' hope not. Look at the size of...wow."

[will_scarlett]

"Only in stories, but na real. Aye, bloody 'ell look at that fire."

[scurlock]

Doc's just staring, and chewing his bite of pizza.

"Mama used t'tell stories about knights slaying dragons to save princesses."

[will_scarlett]

"Well, aye tis stories, but most knights are just men with noble blood an land. Far too many o''em think, that power means can do whate'er they like."

[scurlock]

"So your time is very ruled by power and who owns the land."

He takes another drink and watches as the time shifts and then the new king is forcing people to build him a castle.

[will_scarlett]

"Aye, 'xactly, most land is 'eld by family line granted by the King most like. Church owns the rest o'the land."

[scurlock]

"S'different from our church. Government owns most everything."

[will_scarlett]

"Kings an bishops are always workin' together. Pope wants to get power just as much as any king."

[scurlock]

"Interestin'," he comments, as he watches as the time seems to shift again...and everyone is older. The date as well has changed by the text on the bottom of the screen which he reads out loud.

[will_scarlett]

Now following one of the knights who's trying to make a living off since the king doesn't like him anymore,

"Seems fairly true, but tis rare to see a Knight without more to 'is name."