[Challenge] TARDIS lands in London Below

[The Other]

Inspired by Siskoid's idea, I've got one that would involve a little abuse of canon, probably, but I've recently downloaded both the D6 version of Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" setting (NeverwhereD6.tripod.com) and the 3rd edition of "Neverwhere" (www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?free=1&filters=0_0_0_0&skip=100&sort=xa&freebie_login=1&products_id=65343&) and thought that, if there was a rift like the one in Cardiff below London, it might make an interesting stop for a Time Lord and his or her Companions... especially with the Timelost and some of the other people and things one could encounter...

[Curufea]

Difficult - Neverwhere is a basic urbanised version of faerieland - and the Doctor Who universe doesn't have magic in it.

You'd need some way of explaining how the undercity appers to be magical, but actually isn't.

Possibly the rift is a different kind and has been there such a long time, that the inhabitants have evolved to use some of its power, and the locations show aspects of infused power?

[The Other]

I was thinking of the Carrionite witches and some of the threats Torchwood faced - having a "taint" of the supernatural about them, although it is only their alien natures. Possibly, like the Velvets, Earth mythology is inspired by them, although we don't quite get the causes and motives right...

I'd replace the magic in London Below with that, and the influence of the rift, as you suggested.

[spanglemaker]

The Carrionites technology is word based rather than mathematical and appears to be magic to lesser advanced races. Arthur C Clarke I believe is the man who said that any sufficiently advanced technology appears as magic to more primitive races. On one level a TARDIS could considered magical with its transcendental space within. London Below could have been created by The Ancient Galifreyans or a race with similar technology.