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[When the video feed comes on, it's held fairly close to the Doc. The device is actually secured in a dock on the dashboard of the DeLorean - a nice little rig he's set up, and is now taking advantage of. He's still poking at the device, but withdraws his hand when he notices it's now recording. When he pulls the hand back, you may get a glimpse of Amory int he passenger seat - who is observing, as Doc's ~~replacement Marty~~ intern.]

Ah-- There we are. [And with a smile,] Good evening, City. For those whom I have not had the pleasure of meeting to date, my name is Doctor Emmett Brown. Presently, I am sitting within an experimental vehicle of my design which managed to cross over from my own reality into the City along with me. Tonight I am conducting a preliminary experiment which may - possibly - eventually lead to a better understanding of the functioning of the City and its relation to our various timelines of origin. For the moment, I shall simply be determining if the vehicle's intended functions have been restored.

[There is a bit of a pause, of the dramatic variety...]

Officially commencing City temporal experiment number one.

[And with a final nod at the camera, he turns on the engine and begins to accelerate. As the car goes faster, lights inside the car activate - the flux capacitor, located in the back and visible between the two seats - comes to life, light flowing through its tubes. Through the windows, you can see the energy cackle around the car as it comes to speed until suddenly, a blinding flash and a loud boom - not of an explosion, but the sound of a drastic energy discharge - consume the feed. After that, static - a few glimpses of the inside of the car, through heavy visual distortion with no audio - and the feed goes dead.]

[ooc: OKAY SO Doc and his intern, one Amory Felix (

fatespoken), are in the Shadow City, shockingly. He was trying to test the time circuits, which are now repaired, by going one minute into the future. But that... does not... so much work, here.

He will absolutely try to reply to Network communication, but it won't go well. This post is ALSO open to action from those who would be there to witness the experiment, on the extremely low-traffic City street he's selected for the test. ALSO ANYONE CAN FEEL FREE TO HAVE SEEN THE FLASH AND THE TWO TWIN TRAILS OF FIRE LEFT BEHIND THE CAR.]

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[The response he gets is, of course, quite broken up. Audio's been a bit more successful than other formats, so it's what Doc goes with.]

Che--! It see-- we may h-- -un int- a bi- -- an iss--. Amo-- is cu--ly uncon--, th-- he --es n-- --pear to be --jured.

[So much for the full radio spectrum. Wherever the doc and Amory are, communication issues are clearly not going to be solved so simply.]

You have had an issue? And Amory is unconscious?

What can I do?

[He puzzles over that a moment, piecing the fragments he receives together...]

I'm n-- --tain ther-- anyth-- to d- on --ur end - I --ll ta-- a shor- ti-- to exa--ne th-- --ace, but sha-- atte-- --turn as --iftl- as possi-- for --ory's sa--.

Very well.

[At least the messages are moderately decipherable. In an attempt to make sure that the doctor receives his response, Chekov is careful to speak slowly and enunciate. It won't all go through, but at least what Emmett receives should be clear.]

If you are not back within the hour, I will do something very stupid to try to help.

[This is not an idle threat. He's quite sure that he can come up with any number of very stupid and potentially helpful things to do in the time allotted.]

Edited (Edited for dumb.) 2012-06-25 07:01 (UTC)

[He certainly the central idea of that one.]

I shou-- be -ack in plen-- -f ti--! The -ast thi-- I --uld wan- you t- do is p-- yo--elf at --sk fo- my -ake.

I will hold you to that.

[C'mon, Doc. You're talking to someone who's worked on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Doing stupid, risky things for the sakes of others is basically what they do for fun.]

And when you get back, I would like to borrow whatever you are using to communicate with, if I may. Better communication quality would be helpful.

I've ma-- sev--al modific--ns to m- netw-- --ice, but it see-- th-- there is inte--erence cau--d by my dime--onal displa--ment. It's not un--ke an e--nt in --ich the Ci-- spl--.

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[He can't tell what event the Doc is talking about thanks to a lack of context, but the rest is understandable.]

The boundaries between dimensions are so unstable here that I would not think it would be impossible to communicate between them. Perhaps a device with a more exotic power source, one that could operate--

[Now he's taking notes and mumbling to himself. After a moment, he seems to remember that he was talking to someone.]

You will find a way back to this dimension?

I plan to activate the time circuits again to attempt return. Ken has apparently had some experience traveling between this place and the City proper, which suggests that transit between this and the City itself should be possible if a bit unreliable.

Obviously I'm not certain of anything yet, but it may just be a pocket dimension within the City.

A pocket dimension?

[That's about all that he got out of that other than "transit" and "possible," which were the most important bits.]

We will discuss this when we are in the same dimension; the interference is making this difficult.

Indeed!

[He got most of that. He thinks. Definitely the bit about interference.]

If all goes as planned, we can discuss this in just a moment.

Do you suppose--but no, I will wait.

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