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Post by baradthedwarf on Jan 18, 2012 11:48:20 GMT
So I was thinking about writing up a new adventure for my group and know I wanted to give another alien on the TARDIS a go. The idea is to have a lot of stuff happening aboard the TARDIS the group has to handle. Not sure if there is an alien that I can use or what.
Anyone else had any experience with this kind of adventure?
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stahlman
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Post by stahlman on Jan 18, 2012 20:44:56 GMT
Or something going mysteriously wrong with the Tardis which is trying to catch your attention by sending cryptic messages as in Edge Of Destruction
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Post by Craig Oxbrow on Jan 18, 2012 23:02:36 GMT
Something goes wrong in the core system due to a Strange Time Effect Thingy, and...
... the Cloister Bell starts ringing.
... the TARDIS rooms start to move around.
... the translation system fails so nobody can understand each other unless they could anyway.
... there's something scratching at the door.
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Post by Marnal on Jan 18, 2012 23:52:35 GMT
I had my player’s TARDIS be infected with an Anarchitect left over from the Time War. They appeared in Lawrence Miles’ novel “Alien Bodies.” It was great fun! QUOTE: “Anarchitects. Think anarchitects. Disembodied intelligences, created by the enemy during the early years of their assault on Gallifrey. According to the information the Celestis had slipped to the High Council, the average anarchitect was like a primitive computer virus, a cluster of pre-programmed instructions designed to corrupt and re-order data. But anarchitects could exist outside the confines of a computer system. They could infiltrate architecture, inhabit buildings, manipulate corners and angles. They could disrupt the information that held structures together, rebuild whole cities at will. When the High Council had been told what the things were capable of, they’d thought it was absurd. Then they’d realised that the anarchitects were products of the same kind of technology the Time Lords had used to build the early TARDIS models. They’d had always had the knack, but only the enemy had thought of turning the technology into a weapon.…Anarchitects. Obviously. The enemy had tracked him and Marie, just like the last time, and they’d taken the bridge away while he’d been crossing from the Albert Embankment to Parliament Square….He found himself remembering the horror stories he’d heard, about how the Lord Ruthventracolixabaxil had starved to death inside his own TARDIS when an anarchitect had hijacked the vessel and turned the central corridor into an endless Möbius loop...No. No. He couldn’t let his imagination get the better of him, not now. He had a mission to complete, he could complain about the working conditions once it was all over. He was safe under the water, at least, where there were no walls or floors for the anarchitect to possess.” - Marnal Gate "I was told by the producer that the guiding principle was to make the scripts complex enough to keep the Kids interested and simple enough for the Adults to understand!" -Douglas Adams on writing Doctor Who For Everything about the TARDIS check out www.whoniverse.net/tardis/
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Post by Curufea on Jan 19, 2012 8:01:59 GMT
They opened up a whole world of possibilities with the Logopolis episode and the idea of Block Transfer computations: Maths that changes reality.
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Post by baradthedwarf on Jan 19, 2012 11:36:07 GMT
Thanks for the ideas, love the Anarchitects
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Post by Curufea on Jan 30, 2012 2:57:46 GMT
Lord Ruthventracolixabaxil Wasn't he killed by Lolita in the Eleven-Day Empire? In a fit of pique?
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Post by Marnal on Jan 31, 2012 15:39:48 GMT
Yes, Miles appears to kill him twice. Though the 'starved to death' line could just mean "starved to the point of regeneration." It wouldn't be the first time a Gallifreyan has used the word 'death' to refer to 'a trauma that induced a regeneration.'
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Post by da professor on Feb 4, 2012 9:19:38 GMT
Yes, Miles appears to kill him twice. Though the 'starved to death' line could just mean "starved to the point of regeneration." It wouldn't be the first time a Gallifreyan has used the word 'death' to refer to 'a trauma that induced a regeneration.' For example the Doctor(10) when discussing his upcoming death with Wilf
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