Catsmate
13th Incarnation
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Post by Catsmate on Apr 21, 2015 20:34:05 GMT
Hi all. I've recently posted my fiftieth item here (on the mad scientist Harry Grindell Matthews) and this is my six hundreth post so I'm wondering what to do next. Due to work/family/life issues while I have time I don't have the blocks of time I've had in the past (hence the delay in continuing the Evil Doctor Chronicle).
So I'm wondering what people want to see, basically to push/inspire me into finishing them. What should I cover next?
Here are a few of my ideas/drafts (apologies for the formatting). And if anyone has a suggestion for something different please make it.
Oddities: The Room A room that travels through time. The Time Capsule A rather odd time machine The Time Travelling Airship A smallish airship equipped to travel in time The Time Travelling House A pair of stranded Time Lordlings, an experiment in rebuilding a damaged TARDIS and the San Francisco Rift leave a house adrift in space and time The Hourglass Club A club for time travellers Timeslips People dropping through time Twonkies Detritus left behind by time travellers and their effects
Mysteries: Who was Talmun Shud? Unidentified dead body in 1948 Australia The Disappearance of the SS Waratah The Ghosts of London Some ideas on using London's hauntings as background or adventures The Monster of Glami The Mystery of Flannan Isle What happened to the lighthouse keepers in 1900? The Strange Matter of Submarine K-129 Soviet sub that sank under odd circumstances and the attempted salvage by the CIA
Changes to history: A Day in Summer The non-assassination of Franz Ferdinand Chapultepec Castle Mexican-American war and options for tampering La Petite Dauphin What if Duke Louis and his family hadn't died of measles? Rescuing Napoleon The Lost Order The loss of Lee's Special Order 191 The Mayflower Meddling with early American history
People: Jack Parsons Rocket scientist and black magician Spring-Heeled Jack The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett Explorer who disappeared in 1925
Disasters: Krakatoa The volcanic eruption Mishaps that Could Have Caused Nuclear War
Reasons for time travel: Academic Disaster tourism Tourism Rescue & Saving lives Profit
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Post by Marnal on Apr 22, 2015 16:26:30 GMT
I'd vote for "Rescuing Napoleon" as I've been wanting to do something French Revolution and/or post French Revolution [the Doctor's favorite period in human history] but haven't come up with any good ideas yet.
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Catsmate
13th Incarnation
No longer living in a bad adaption of "A Journal of the Plague Year".
Posts: 3,730
Favourite Doctors: Thirteen, Six, Five, Two, Eight, Twelve, Nine, One, Eleven..
Traits: Eccentric, Insatiable Curiousity.
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Post by Catsmate on Apr 22, 2015 16:54:04 GMT
OK, as you've made the first suggestion I'll dig out by notes on rescuing Nappy (by submarine perhaps?) and move that to the top of the list.
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Post by Marnal on Apr 23, 2015 17:01:09 GMT
Thanks! I'm trying to do more historical stories these days [space opera is lawyas my default].
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Catsmate
13th Incarnation
No longer living in a bad adaption of "A Journal of the Plague Year".
Posts: 3,730
Favourite Doctors: Thirteen, Six, Five, Two, Eight, Twelve, Nine, One, Eleven..
Traits: Eccentric, Insatiable Curiousity.
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Post by Catsmate on Apr 23, 2015 18:18:07 GMT
Thanks! I'm trying to do more historical stories these days [space opera is lawyas my default]. No problem. I've always preferred the historical settings. And Napoleon escaping has a number of fascinating possibilities.
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Post by Hedgewick on Apr 23, 2015 21:46:51 GMT
You've piqued my interest with Percy Fawcett.
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13th Incarnation
No longer living in a bad adaption of "A Journal of the Plague Year".
Posts: 3,730
Favourite Doctors: Thirteen, Six, Five, Two, Eight, Twelve, Nine, One, Eleven..
Traits: Eccentric, Insatiable Curiousity.
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Post by Catsmate on Apr 23, 2015 22:25:38 GMT
You've piqued my interest with Percy Fawcett. I obliquely referenced him in the Gandalf write-up. His disappearance in the Brazilian jungle around Mato Grosso in 1925 could easily be added to a Pulp/CoC game as well as Who.
Was he (and his two companions) killed by the Kalapalo? Did he find something really weird in the jungle (time to dig out that copy of FASA's City of Gold). Was he transported somewhere else? Another Earth, forward or backward in time, or to a strange alien planet (he'd be a good choice). Was he planning to 'go native' and set up a free love commune in the jungle? Where did Rider Haggard give the 'black basalt idol' that he gave to Fawcett? Where did it come from? What did the psychic Fawcett employed to study it really tell him about it's origins?
Since Fawcett disappeared more than a hundred more have died or disappeared trying to find him. What happened to them? Were some groups just using the story as a cover for their own attempts to find 'Z'? Did a U-boat really make it's way up the Amazon in the dying days of WW2? [No, but that didn't stop Alastair MacLean writing River of Death] Was there an attempt by the Nazis to access the secrets hidden in the jungle before/during/after WW2?
And then there's the Lost City of Z. Who lost it? How? Why? Is it home to an advanced human civilisation? Fugitives from Mondas? Degenerate Silurians (perhaps Silurian/Sea Devil hybrids)? Cyclopean monstrosities from before humanity climbed down form the trees?
Yep it looks like I have a second idea to work on. Thanks.
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Post by jennysfan on Apr 29, 2015 12:47:38 GMT
Krakatoa sounds interesting for an eDoctor story. Standard whovian disaster stories are normally about trying to escape the catastrophe in time. I imagine an evil Doc story would include an attempt to profit first. Maybe taking advantage of the impact it had on the emergent global community or the publics response.
You know, in case you need another idea.
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Catsmate
13th Incarnation
No longer living in a bad adaption of "A Journal of the Plague Year".
Posts: 3,730
Favourite Doctors: Thirteen, Six, Five, Two, Eight, Twelve, Nine, One, Eleven..
Traits: Eccentric, Insatiable Curiousity.
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Post by Catsmate on Apr 29, 2015 13:59:53 GMT
Krakatoa sounds interesting for an eDoctor story. Standard whovian disaster stories are normally about trying to escape the catastrophe in time. I imagine an evil Doc story would include an attempt to profit first. Maybe taking advantage of the impact it had on the emergent global community or the publics response. You know, in case you need another idea. Krakatoa is certainly interesting (and I like the idea of involving the eDoctor) but I'm not sure about how he'd scheme to profit from it. Now having him become involved with someone else's scheme seems easier. I'm toying with a few ideas for a loose campaign in the 1882-3 period; there were a number of odd incidents in the period. Much freak weather in 1882, the Mocs meteorites, the solar storm of 17 November (which massively disrupted telegraph activity), UFO sightings, a rash of meteorites in early 1883 and then the volcanic activity in 1883.
In addition to Krakatoa there were eruptions of Merapi in Sumatra on 5 June and 17 August, Ometepec in Lake Nicaragua on 19 June and Mount Augustine in Alaska on 6 October.
I'm thinking something happened around then. Maybe a skirmish in near-Earth space causing debris to strike the atmosphere; perhaps a side effect of the weapons used (or a stray missile) caused the solar effects. The volcanic activity could be actions by a party of crashed survivors or side effects of a crash (gravity generator disrupting the Earth's crust?) In fact the solar storm is fascinating. The geo-magnetic effects caused unusual behaviour in the Earth’s magnetic field and the auroras. The storm caused extensive blackout of the telegraph system, including inducing sufficient current to light electric bulbs connected to the telegraph wires and start fires in the Chicago office of Western Union. Due to the polar expeditions of the First International Polar Year observations were noted in the Polar Regions, where the aurora was described as being as bright as the full moon. The astronomer Edward Maunder described observing a ‘definite body’ which he compared (in a 1916 article) with a Zeppelin, of pale green colour, that passed from horizon to horizon above the moon in about eighty seconds. Numerous other observers saw this phenomenon. On 18 November a huge sunspot was visible to the naked eye. If that was repeated today our technological civilisation would be in serious trouble; radio, electrical grids, satellites and more would be damaged.
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