the doctor VS dracula

[zebaroth]

the tardis lands in vectoring London a plasmavore is posing as a Nobel from Romania
and meats a an man named bram storker can they stop the plasmaavore

[The Gentleman]

I was going to run a similar adventure in a play by post game I was involved in, but the game ended before we got to that adventure. I think the Doctor has met the real Vlad The Impaler once and a couple of other Dracula-esq characters a few times. There was one comic where it was revealed that Bram Stokers wife was a vampire who had been turned by Oscar Wilde! However canon in Doctor Who is so contradictory that if you want to run this adventure then I'd just throw it away and say 'cracks in time' or whatever your preferred excuse is. The adventure I was going to run was entitled Symphony of Horror and featured a surviving Great Vampire who had been hiding out in Romania, the Doctor arrives in the middle of the story and meets Dr Seward who recognises him as being his old mentor Van Helsing (setting up a future adventure) and then has to pay the part of Van Helsing while following along from the book. It would also feature Bram Stoker who would turn out to be Jonathan Harker and (possibly) The Master who was the big bad of that season. I've always been a massive fan of Dracula so I may resurrect my scenario. If you were going to run Dracula then I would say that you should play with it a bit, not to the point where it becomes a full on comedy, but like in Buffy Vs. Dracula. The protagonists know they're fighting Dracula, and they're overjoyed at the fact (similar to The Unicorn and The Wasp with Agatha Christie) they know the tropes and how these things are meant to go, it's a parody to a certain degree but it should still be scary as much as possible.

Also, this is my first post after being a long time lurker here on the forums. Yay!

[zebaroth]

The Unicorn and The Wasp was along the lines i was thinking of

[The Gentleman]

Indeed, The Unicorn and The wasp is a good model, though I personally might not go as full on comedic as the Unicorn and The Wasp did. Dracula, despite everything, is still one of the scariest horror novels ever written and I think it would make sense to play it as such to a degree. Again, Buffy Vs Dracula is a great example as it does feature a scary Dracula who has some brilliant scenes, and yet still manages to parody it to a degree.

[thereviewer]

It's funny you mentioned this idea because last year I did a Doctor Who Fanfic for the 50th Anniversary which featured Dracula in one chapter. The plot used some ideas from The Satan Pit in that Dracula was sent into space, although they explain here that he tried invading an underground Silurain Colony in order to avoid sunlight. The Silurains defeated him and sent him to a planet with a gas that brings illusions of people's greatest fears to life. The Companions learned that this origin of Dracula is more akin to the original version in which Dracula was once a proud warlord about to become a father. However, Dracula's wife couldn't stand any more bloodshed and slit her wrists. Dracula then pleaded to god for help, unaware that a sentient alien virus was watching him and infected him. Essentially, this turned him into a vampire and allowed him to control others through spreading the virus to them, as long as they were afraid of him. The twist of course, is that after Drac awakened, due to a certain vampire novel franchise I think we all can say we hate, nobody on Earth was afraid or even cared about Dracula ever again.

Just thought I'd share that little tale with you. It's I think my favorite chapter of that fanfic since it reflects the way I feel about the aforementioned series now. It's that I still hate it and find it to be the most insulting thing ever written, but seeing as how it's died down now, I can at least tolerate it now and say "Okay. I hate it. It happened. But it's over now."