thereviewer
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Post by thereviewer on Jan 24, 2018 2:53:12 GMT
So here's an interesting question; what ways can you think of to help your Time Lord PC's and/or Time Lord Antagonists Cheat Death? I ask this because I'm planning the future stories involving my campaigns' resident Time Lord Villain to return ala The Master in Utopia. The difference is that unlike The Master who seemingly had multiple regenerations granted to him (presumably by The Time Lords when they resurrected him to fight in the Time War), my Time Lord Villain has no extra lives and thus must find another means of securing his life.
What ways would a Time Lord Character attempt this? Maybe hijack a Sontaran Cloning Pool/create a Flesh clone to transfer their consciousness into? Maybe some myth at the end of time about there being a power source to restart the regeneration process? Or perhaps summoning one of the Guardians of Time and offering themselves as an agent of their whims in exchange for more regenerations?
Share your ideas here!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 4:38:09 GMT
I did once think of an idea for a Time Lord who had been experimented and injected with tens of thousands of nanobots, all programmed to heal his injuries. However, this constant physical and mental abuse would drive him mad as it stopped him from regenerating which meant he was trapped permenantly in one incarnation.
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Post by Null and Void on Jan 24, 2018 13:51:09 GMT
Well, there are the ways that were shown by the Master in the TV series:
Residual Energy from the Traken Source allowing him to shift his mind and consciousness into the body of Consul Tremas. I imagine there could be other power sources which might allow the same. (-The Keeper of Traken)
In the TV Movie, the Master survives execution at the hands of The Daleks through the use of a Deathworm Morphant, which again allows him to transfer his consciousness into another person's body. That transfer was followed by an attempt to use the TARDIS Eye of Harmony to somehow siphon off the Doctor's remaining regenerations and grant them to the Master. This method doesn't seem to be a unique method of getting new regenerations.
For that matter, in the new series, we have seen Regeneration energy being transferred between different individuals.... River Song to the Doctor in "Let's Kill Hitler" for example, or from the Doctor to Davros in The Witch's Familiar.
Something similar is seen in The Arc of Infinity.
That in mind, I can see a series of murders taking place among Time Lords, with their regeneration energy being stolen away.
If you want to get really crazy, consider the Doctor's comment about how similar Time Lords are to the Great Vampires, genetically speaking. Some stories suggest that Time Lord regeneration was reverse engineered from Vampire abilities. So, what if a Time Lord began trying to experiment with that? He'd have to open up a new rip into the dimension the Great Vampires originally came from, get access to the "raw materials" and then start experimenting. Considering this led to a massive War the first time around, which needed Rassilon and his Bow-ships to eventually end, this could have all sorts of repercussions.
Another possibility is through the use to the same sort of "accident" which rendered Jack Harkness immortal. This would require manipulating someone to take on the power of the TARDIS and who would WANT to resurrect the Time Lord in that way.
What about using an Immortality Gate, as the Master did in The End of the World? He would just convert another being into him... he could even create backups of himself.
For that matter, if you want to go further afield, consider Remembrance Tanks, from the BBC 8th Doctor novels and Faction Paradox books. Raw biomass is fed into a machine, and then people imprint the Biomass with their memories of the subject, shaping them into a new living being... albeit one that is somewhat more of a stereotype of themselves.
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Catsmate
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Post by Catsmate on Jan 25, 2018 15:30:58 GMT
There are a couple of classics: 1. It wasn't him, but actually a clone/shapeshifter/duplicate/android. Substituted at the last minute. 2. If the death was 'off screen' then he used a self-contained transmat (or TARDIS remote) to leave before he died.
If you're willing to push the envelope on what's normally considered possible in Who you could have him use time travel to cheat death; it's a common trope in other time travel media.
Let's say he fell over a cliff and everyone immediately ran to watch him plummet to his death. In the few seconds he was out of sight his future self (risking the catastrophic consequences of messing with the Blinovitch Limitation Effect) teleported him to safety and replaced him with a cloned body, which continued the plummet and the terminal (and messy) encounter with the ground. It's sort-of reinforce his recklessness by showing he'd to to the lengths of crossing his own timestream and risk the consequences of almost meeting himself, therefore he must be evil.
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Post by Null and Void on Jan 26, 2018 14:44:52 GMT
There are a couple of classics: 1. It wasn't him, but actually a clone/shapeshifter/duplicate/android. Substituted at the last minute.
I believe on a couple of occasions, the Delgado version of the Master escaped capture by putting a mask of himself on some bystander. Its the same principle.
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Post by Marnal on Jan 26, 2018 17:03:27 GMT
By far the easiest is [as mentioned above] having him be resurrected by a TARDIS, making him a fixed point in time [Like Jack Harkness, and possibly Grace and Chang Lee].
But keep the trick hidden for awhile. Just have him show up next week after getting shot or blown up last week, and make the PCs figure out what's going on.
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