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Post by Escher on Jul 24, 2014 13:26:25 GMT
Here’s an interesting premise for the start of a campaign I'm currently considering.
A Time Lord (or Time Lords) hid from the Time War (or not - for unspecified reasons that could be future plot hooks) and used their Chameleon Arches to become human, residing on Earth in secret (in various lives, professions etc. that could be future plot hooks).
However…
They died (of natural causes, accident or unspecified reasons that could be future plot hooks).
But
The Fob watches still exist, with their Time Lord consciousness intact.
The Player Characters find one of these, and the trapped consciousness calls to them…and they open it.
What happens next?
Does the Time Lord consciousness merge with the humans? Do they become partially/wholly transformed into a Neo Time Lord?
What's your view on this?
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Post by Pertwee on Jul 24, 2014 14:59:28 GMT
Whatever you think would be the most interesting. But if you go by the show, Donna couldn't keep a Time Lord in her head, so I'd think the campaign's first story arc would revolve around the character slowly burning up from the inside, with only the consciousness of the Time Lord keeping the process at bay while the poor PC tries to find a proper home for it.
Possible answers: they have to find a way into the Time Lock so the Time Lords can free them from it; if set after the Day of the Doctor, they might have to find Gallifrey altogether; if set before the Time War, they have to find the Time Lord's TARDIS and get to Gallifrey; they have to find Dastari in the Third Zone (before he goes nuts); they have to find a way to be imprinted with the Rassilon Imprimatur which means any of the above.
Alternately, if you don't mind the character becoming normal again, you could have them locate the Time Lord's TARDIS and then 'free' the energy back into it, creating a fully sentient TARDIS character to travel with and act as a mentor to the PC.
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Post by Escher on Jul 24, 2014 16:31:30 GMT
Alternately, if you don't mind the character becoming normal again, you could have them locate the Time Lord's TARDIS and then 'free' the energy back into it, creating a fully sentient TARDIS character to travel with and act as a mentor to the PC. Now that's a masterstroke (no pun intended). I was thinking along the lines that somehow, the characters might be transformed into imperfect Time Lords. While the Donna Meta-Crisis example firmly stands, the Chameleon Arch process would not be a true Meta-Crisis and it has a certain ambiguity about it perfect for creative re-interpretation. If 'John Smith' was truly human, in 'Family of Blood' then, wouldn't a consciousness trapped in a fob watch that wanted survival be able to convert another human into a quasi-Time Lord as a host? I think it's possible, but at some sort of interesting cost. |
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Post by Marnal on Jul 25, 2014 19:38:08 GMT
Well if you had one watch and you split it among several Human PCs then you could spread the load, and several PCs could hold the mind of 1 Time Lord.
Alternately, remember the Biodata Receptical [Pocket Watch] hold the biology as well as the mind. So it could recondition their bodies, making them half-Gallifreyan, half-Human. Then they'd have brains that could handle the info.
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Post by Escher on Jul 25, 2014 20:02:21 GMT
Alternately, remember the Biodata Receptical [Pocket Watch] hold the biology as well as the mind. So it could recondition their bodies, making them half-Gallifreyan, half-Human. Then they'd have brains that could handle the info. That's the one. |
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Post by Catsmate on Jul 26, 2014 12:45:30 GMT
Well if you had one watch and you split it among several Human PCs then you could spread the load, and several PCs could hold the mind of 1 Time Lord. Alternately, remember the Biodata Receptical [Pocket Watch] hold the biology as well as the mind. So it could recondition their bodies, making them half-Gallifreyan, half-Human. Then they'd have brains that could handle the info. Oh I like that. Give the human PCs a mix of skills, some at reduced levels, based on the Time Lord. Also a mix of his/her memories and experiences. That has some interesting possibilities. |
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Post by Craig Oxbrow on Jul 27, 2014 14:50:44 GMT
Or, the watches whisper to the receptive (Tim hears the Doctor's voice asking to be kept safe, Yana hears his own voice calling for release) so the dead Time Lord's consciousness could stay in the watch, communicating with a bearer, and occasionally being opened to release a handy blast of regeneration energy, until such time as a cloned or other body could be made?
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