Room 3

[testingphase]

[The room, once you've entered it, has a number of ear buds laid out on a table.]

Now, pop those ear buds in and we'll begin the test! Failure to comply will result in desyncing and forcing your team to pay for a replacement body.

Comments

[backwardscompatible]

River Song. Although the name I was born with is Melody Pond.

[thatboyisamonster]

What is it you say you do? Archaeologist?

[backwardscompatible]

That's right. I mostly lead expeditions these days. I like to keep things hands on.

[thatboyisamonster]

Why do you have two names?

[backwardscompatible]

Now there's a question with a lot of answers. From my point of view, I found out that River Song was the person I would become, and I wanted to be her. It's also a mistranslation of my birth name.

[thatboyisamonster]

. . . Ah, I see.

Tell me something about Melody Pond.

[backwardscompatible]

I was taken from my parents shortly after I was born, but I ended up a child at the same time as them and grew up as their best friend. They named their daughter after me.

[thatboyisamonster]

[ hmmm ]

You said you killed the Doctor. But that must have been your last option. You were in love with him. What did you do before murder?

[backwardscompatible]

... I nearly destroyed the universe. I was much younger then.

[thatboyisamonster]

You never said why you tried to kill him. He's an annoying man, for sure, but I doubt that was it.

[backwardscompatible]

Well, if we're talking about times I tried to kill him now, that's an entirely different story.

[thatboyisamonster]

No. I want to know why.

[prideofabh]

Where are you from, River Song?

[backwardscompatible]

I travelled a great deal as a child, so it's hard to say. But I was born on an asteroid and grew up on Earth.

[prideofabh]

An asteroid in Earth's star system?

[backwardscompatible]

No, it was far from Earth. A station called Demon's Run. But I hardly remember any of it, of course.

[prideofabh]

Of course. What sort of archeology do you do? Someone said you were an archeologist?

[backwardscompatible]

I was a professor, but more the leading expeditions into ancient ruins type than the standing in a dusty classroom type.

[prideofabh]

What kind of ruins?

[backwardscompatible]

Oh, all kinds. Tombs were always my favourite.

[prideofabh]

What sort of tombs?

[backwardscompatible]

[rattles off about a half a dozen completely unfamiliar names of alien races]. Those are the more recent ones.

[prideofabh]

I don't know who those are.

[inataze]

OK how come you get two boss names?

[backwardscompatible]

As I was telling Loki, there are a few answers to that. But my own answer is that River Song is the person I wanted to become.