Preludes are for Losers - Prelude
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Preludes are for Losers - Prelude

DOCTOR NO
Why hello, and welcome back to Daymares Nightmares. You seem to have forgotten our last meeting, how interesting. No worries though, I have come prepared for such a scenario. Now…this may hurt. Oh what am I kidding it will hurt a lot.

After all…you aren’t who you think you are, Sepia Tone. Your name is quite an interesting one, yes? Well enough on that. Make me proud…my puppet.

[ small chuckle ]

Ah so you’re in a carnival…? How intriguing…and dark. Turn up the brightness will you?

[ clears throat ]

That’s better…just a faulty camera…definitely.

DOCTOR WHERE
Right…log date 21 cosmic melodies. I am Doctor Where…known as Everywhere Always…Patient seems to be having worsening nightmares…and violent fits…we have given the name Sepia Tone…as that’s what they are by the looks of it. A cosmic being of sepia tones…

Prescribed…nothing. Any and all treatment has proved to be unsuccessful.

We found the subject outside of the museum unconscious. They seem to be under the control of some sort of thing…that calls itself Nobody Nowhere. Then again, that could be anyone or anything. It couldn’t be me, right?

I am the keeper of the interdimensional museum…adjacent to the Narrator’s Library…realms of learning within the nothingness…the void between universes.

DOCTOR NO
Sorry about that…simply the uh- Interference of another broadcast…where[ever] could they be?

[ chuckles ]

I will deal with the interference…for now continue on your way…

[ foot steps ]

DOCTOR NO [ CONT ]
Oh, corpses, how lovely…hmmm. No, I can do better.

Puppets…and clowns…and carnys. Oh my.

DOCTOR BODY
And don’t forget the carnival rides…we must build a new world…from what little is left. Oh right…I am Doctor Body…Ah right…the subject has no way to speak with us…

DOCTOR NO
They weren’t supposed to know we are…oh why bother? We are The Doctors…or everything and nothing. You…are a faceless subject in which we use to explore our work…though admittedly even I’m starting to think making you see in Sepia tones was a bad idea…

DOCTOR BODY
Well, it was your idea, No…

DOCTOR NO
Correct…anyways back to the topic at hand.

[ groans ]

We are supposed to make a new world for the Narrator to narrate…not play around.

DOCTOR WHERE
And…it is a world of nightmares…

DOCTOR NO
Well, what else should it be? What could it be after the damage that’s been done…by lesser beings.

DOCTOR WHERE
You are the one that caused this.

DOCTOR NO
…don’t remind me.

[ clears throat ]

Time to cook him a good story, yes?

DOCTOR BODY
Well…obviously. We made a deal with him, remember?

DOCTOR NO
Remember…

DOCTOR BODY
Right…our memory is rubbish…

DOCTOR WHERE
You can say that again…

DOCTOR NO
Now where was I…? Oh why bother…I’m going to bed…

[ yawns ]

DOCTOR BODY
Tune in next time…for the beginning of our journey into the nothingness that is left.

[ silence ]