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Post by Catsmate on Nov 24, 2014 21:39:57 GMT
Just a quickie this evening as I screwed up the split of the adventures; these should have been included in the last part finishing the fourth eDoctor's early (pre-Romana) adventures. Summing all goes well I should post the Key To Time sequence tomorrow.
Part 12 - Fourth eDoctor – The Adventures, part two.
14. Assassin In the aftermath of the Morbius affair the eDoctor meets High Cardinal Goth, who's been sent to investigate by the High Council, on Sarn and the two formulate a plan tocontrol Gallifrey using the threat posed by the return of Morbius to disrupt the High Council. With Goth's assistance the eDoctor returns to Gallifrey and attempts to assassinate the outgoing President, having lured Koschei back to Gallifreyas a scapegoat. However Koschei, aided by High Cardinal Borusa and Castellan Spandrell, foil the plan but fail to expose expose Goth. Borusa becomes President, the 'heroic' Goth, Chancellor. In the shadows a Time Lady watches events and plans...
15. Sun Makers The TARDIS malfunctioning after a rapid departure from Gallifrey, the eDoctor and minions arrive on Vulcan, now a colony housing the remnants of humanity who fled the solar flares that devastated the inner solar system. The time travellers infiltrate the planet's society and, after establishing that it offers few opportunities, the eDoctor stirsup trouble and revolution, ably aided by eSJ (propoganda), eNyder (subversion) and eLeela (violence). The eDoctor suggests some suitable methods of execution forformer executives
16. Invisible Enemy Having returned to Spiridon the Thaleks are again attempting to discover the secret of invisibility, this time in conjunction with a ruthless IMC subsidiary specialising in biotechnology. The eDoctor encounters K9 (and is stunned by him in more than one way); eLeela demonstrates to some Thaleks the interesting skills she's mastered with her knives and eNyder is killed, accidentally releasing a biological weapon
17. Weng-Chiang During a visit to London in 1889 the eDoctor, eSJ and eLeela encounter a refugee from the fifty first century The eDoctor offers to aid Greel ("I'm a huge fan of your work,how you dealt with the rebels in Brisbane was inspired") but is shot instead so eLeela again demonstrates her knowledge of anatomy, leaving a puzzle for the pathologist.
18. Domination of Time When the TARDIS is knocked off course by another vehicle passing through the Vortex, the eDoctor (his ego, and body, bruised) vows horrible revenge. Especially when he finds a multi-megatonne Minyan converter bomb in his coat pocket. The Dominators are experimenting with time travel, crude but functional Vortex Capsules and the eDoctor decides to stop them. eLeela learns that it's unwise to underestimate the Quarks and gets pulverised.
19. Meglos The eDoctor, and his remaining minion eSJ, attempt to gain control of a powerful weapon,allied to a megalomaniacal cactus and some low budget mercenaries. Meglos impersonates Koschei to infiltrate Tigella. Alas the inevitable three-way backstab goes messily wrong leaving the Gaztaks, Meglos and eSJ dead, Zolfa-Thura fried and Tigella without its primary energy source and facing a civil war
20. Invasion The eDoctor is contacted again by Chancellor Goth and they formulate a complex plan to depose Borusa using the threat of Morbius and an army of Vardans to attempt to invade Gallifrey. The eDoctor's Matrix datafile is corrupted, erasing the evidence of his crimes (except for a copy held by a certain Time Lady) and he inadvertently becomes President; however Borusa,who knows him of old, suggests he leave. Quickly.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 25, 2014 11:48:42 GMT
Part 13 - Fourth eDoctor – The Key to Time.
The Key to Time sequence. With the powerful renegade Time Lord Morbius reborn, albeit in an android body, and busy destabilising reality, the White Guardian needs to reassemble the fabled Key to Time to repair the damage to reality. However the hunt for the six segments will be complicated by four groups pursuing them. - Summoned by the White Guardian, Koschei and his Gallifreyan companion Alia have been enlisted to find the Key; they're assisted by a couple of human companions.
- Morbius has also learned of the Key and sets out in pursuit, equipped with a stolen TARDIS of advanced design and accompanies by various minions
- The Black Guardian is also involved, though his plans are unknown
- On Gallifrey a renegade Time Lady has stolen a Locator-mutor from Alia and teams up with the eDoctor (eRomana had planned to steal a TARDIS and recover the Key to Time on her own but this plan is frustrated by improved security, stealing a TARDIS isn't as easy as it used to be).
21. The Ribos Scheme The first segment is on the primitive (and damn cold) planet Ribos. The segment is relatively easy to locate (disguised as the Great Sceptre) but difficult to retrieve, given the presence of an evaluation party from the Galactic Federation in addition to the local security. In the end Morbius storms the Old Palace and steals the sceptre only to have a pair of confidence tricksters abstract it from him. Koschei 1 22. Tara The second segment is on the anachronism loving, human settled, planet of Tara;between human and android doubles in play thing get rather complicated. The eDoctor acquire a number of android duplicates("You never know when they'll come in handy"). Fang saves the day and the eDoctor escapes, but Morbius captures the segment. Koschei 1 Morbius 1 23. The Planet Pirates The third segment is on the planet Calufrax, but where the hell is Calufrax? Another mobile planet, again using scavenged Osiran technology to move and crush planets for their mineral content. After killing the pirate planet's captain the eDoctor acquires a new Minion, the technically skilled Fibuli, with whose aid they actually capture one of the segments and eRomana is inspired to construct a new pet, Polly, with his aid Koschei 1 Morbius 1 eDoctor 1 24. Stones of Blood An alien criminal with advanced technology is hiding out in eighties Britain,along with some mobile rocks. Morbius is severely damaged by a falling Ogri and Koschei and Alia frustrate the plans of pretty much everyone and leave with the segment. Koschei 2 Morbius 1 eDoctor 1 25. Kroll On the swampy satellite of a gas giant a small team from a nearby human colony harvest plankton and other organic material for processing into food to feed their growing population. The local 'swampies', humans genetically modified to survive on thesatellite as part of an earlier colonisation plan, object to the pillaging of their home. And they have some sympathisers. - The harvesting is done from huge, fusion powered and heavily automated,mobile factory craft that suck up the soupy water, extract the useful organicsand dump the waste water.
The eDoctor becomes involved in a spot of gun-running("Hmm, these rifles have been sabotaged. Let me fix them for you".), Koschei and Alia are captured by swampies, Morbius is eaten by a giant squid (and has his segment stolen by one of Koschei's human companions) but eRomana finds the segment Koschei 3 Morbius 0 eDoctor 2 26. Armageddon In an obscure star system on the fringe of a galaxy two human settled planets have been at war for decades. Now the final piece of the Key to Time is in play there. - The Black Guardian has a plan; to obtain all six segments, and capture the eDoctor andKoschei for an eternity of torture.
- The eDoctor has a plan; to obtain all six segments and rule the universe like a god!!!
- Koschei has a plan; to obtain the sixth segment, defeat the eDoctor and get histwo segments, assemble the Key and take a long holiday.
- eRomana has a plan; to obtain all six segments and rule the universe like a goddess.Without the eDoctor.
- The Marshal of Atrios has a plan; to finally destroy the Zeons, usurp the crown of Atrios and rule the system as a base for even greater conquest.
- The Shadow has a plan; to obtain the Key and usurp the Black Guardian.
- Morbius has a plan; kill the eDoctor and take his segments, kill Koschei (and torture a certain human companion) and take his segments, assemble the Key and rule the universe like a god!!!
What can it possibly go wrong? Everything. Catastrophically. eRomana is severely injured by Koschei's companion Alia (payback for that incident on Gallifrey) and regenerates; Fibuli is killed and K9 is converted into a walking bomb that fails to destroy Koschei but obliterates the Shadow's asteroid base. Morbius's attempt to suborn the supercomputer that runs Zeos fails and his android body is seemingly killed. Koschei assembles the Key and then fragments it again. Fearing vengeance from the Guardians and Koschei, the eDoctor installs a Randomiser to foil pursuit after his failure to obtain the Key to Time. eRomana regenerates; eRomana II has a less aristocratic persona. This one will smile pleasantly while she eviscerates you.
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Post by starkllr on Nov 25, 2014 13:23:13 GMT
I'm curious whether Princess Astra was still the sixth segment, and, if so, what happened to her?
Looking forward, I'm trying to imagine the body count at the end of the eDoctor version of "City of Death." It's hard to picture Paris making it through that story still intact by the end!
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 25, 2014 14:47:17 GMT
I'm curious whether Princess Astra was still the sixth segment, and, if so, what happened to her? Nope, the segment (whatever it had been previously) was already on the Shadow's base and used as bait for other groups. I hadn't decided on a fate for her, assuming the Marshal survives I'd expect him to arrange to have her quietly killed. Looking forward, I'm trying to imagine the body count at the end of the eDoctor version of "City of Death." It's hard to picture Paris making it through that story still intact by the end!
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 25, 2014 17:20:01 GMT
I'm intrigued to see Koschei traveling with Alia. It was the revelation of her true identity that pushed the Master over the edge - although he might have been more reasonable without the shock of having witnessed her death and then the guilt of having wiped out a civilization to bring her back. Has Koschei *still* not twigged by this stage? And they're assisted by a couple of human companions. Did one of them ever sell Sydney Opera House to several different buyers at once, by any chance? Do we ever see a Professor eRumford? Or an eGrendel? I'm tremendously impressed. All this is a strikingly imaginative reworking of the original material into something new and fresh. You really should consider expanding these synopses into some complete articles for the Diary. Even if they're never used "as is", they're a perfect example of how to take the sourcebooks for the individual Doctors and adapt them for use in other games and plots.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 25, 2014 19:39:51 GMT
I'm intrigued to see Koschei traveling with Alia. It was the revelation of her true identity that pushed the Master over the edge - although he might have been more reasonable without the shock of having witnessed her death and then the guilt of having wiped out a civilization to bring her back. Has Koschei *still* not twigged by this stage? Oh no, Koschei got over that little Time Lord deception long ago; this version of him is rather more stable, and willing to do "little jobs" for Gallifrey. And they're assisted by a couple of human companions. Did one of them ever sell Sydney Opera House to several different buyers at once, by any chance? Not that I'd planned, I never got around to describing the human companions of Koschei or Mortimus, though it's not a bad idea. Plus that bugged me; I envisaged Ribos to be set far in the future, and I doubted that the Opera House would survive. But then I tend to fuss over little details. Do we ever see a Professor eRumford? Or an eGrendel? Well Count Grendel was pretty much a bad guy originally. Originally I left the setting for the Stones of Blood analogue a bit vague as I was still working on post-Revolution Britain, hence no real details of the good professor. I'm tremendously impressed. All this is a strikingly imaginative reworking of the original material into something new and fresh. Thank you. I hadn't originally planned to do as much, it got a bit out of hand. I was quite surprised when I pasted by original posts to thereviewer into Word and got a fifty page document. And this version will be even longer as I fix errors, extend and add bits and generally clean it up. You really should consider expanding these synopses into some complete articles for the Diary. Even if they're never used "as is", they're a perfect example of how to take the sourcebooks for the individual Doctors and adapt them for use in other games and plots. That's an interesting idea and I might well do that, I've been in touch with Nick Seidler and submitted a few pieces, based on by other posts here.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 26, 2014 12:12:06 GMT
Part 14 - Fourth eDoctor – The later adventures.27. City of Death While attempting to avoid attention the eDoctor is drawn to crude time travel experiments in late 1980s Paris. He and eRomana II investigate and find that LoNIG has also tracked the temporal distortions. And they are watching for a red police box, even one disguised as an art exhibit. eRomana II acquires a minion of her own, an unscrupulous private detective named Duggan, Paris is swept by waves of temporal distortion (attracting the attention of Koschei) and Scaroth is killed by his wife. Koschei is too busy tying to fix reality to pursue the eDoctor. - The TARDIS art gallery gets a selection of new additions
28. SandminerDeciding that keeping on the move is a good idea, just in case, the eDoctor and eRomana II land on a huge fusion powered hovercraft mining the mineral rich sand of a gas giant satellite, just in time to get involved in a madman's plans for revenge. The eDoctor demonstrates some uses of the Laseron probe to eRomana II, including it's ability to flense the skin from a person millimetre by millimetre("Ooo, I want one. But smaller.") 29. The PitWhen she detects a distress beacon eRomana II persuades the eDoctor to investigate. Later they park the TARDIS and watch as a sun is destroyed, and it's planets boiled, by a wormhole deployed neutron star. Even the eDoctor is impressed. - The eDoctor adds some wolf-weeds to the TARDIS garden
30. Horns"I remember when you could navigate the Vortex in peace, none of these damn tunnels people keep building". Annoyed by encountering another time corridor in the Vortex the eDoctor insists in remonstrating with whoever built it ("Now where did I put those Cyber-bombs"?) and interrupted his flight. One planet (Crinoth) is destroyed, another (Skonnos)devastated and the Great Journey of Life ends, at least for one group of Nimon. - eRomanaII instructs a fake "prince" in the fine arts of world conquest and harem building
31. MandragoraInspired to seek control the power of the Mandragora Helix the eDoctor accidentally looses it on Renaissance Italy. He's nearly killed by it, and by Koschei who's finally tracked him. However eDuggan proves a useful sacrificial pawn. - eRomanaII is unimpressed by the locals' torture techniques and stops to give them some pointers
32. Hive Fleeing the vengeful Koschei the TARDIS lands on Argolis where the eDoctor and eRomana II hope the inhabitants' experimentation with tachyons will foil tracting. There they get embroiled with virtual reality experiments, time manipulations, organised crime, the bitterness remaining from a nuclear war, and the Foamasi. - eRomanaII is underwhelmed by the sticky foam grenades, considering they'd be vastly improved with acid, incendiaries or flesh dissolving toxins. She spends some time in the labs...
33. SeedsLanding on Earth in the 1990s the eDoctor is actually delighted to be contacted by eJo and her organisation of former fascists. He agrees to do them a favour and investigate some seed pods that they've learned LoNIG has found in the antarctic. Meanwhile LoNIG have contacted their alien consultant Koschei. The three Time Lords spend so much time fighting each other the Krinoid seed pods are stolen by a plant obsessed American billionaire and almost get the chance to spread. However Eventually LoNIG demonstrate the usefulness of airstrikes as a defoliant. 34. FangBored by hiding out for Koschei the eDoctor finally replaces his K9 unit (Fang II) and seeks a respite from the pursuit he takes the TARDIS and eRomana II to visit Edwardian Brighton, only missing by a few kilometres. There the TARDIS disappears and they have to fight off a Rutan scout to recover it. 35. Destinies.The Thaleks return to Skaro to recover Thala and the other Tharon geneticists who created them, seeking a cure for the damage to their genome. Their plague has recurred, causing subtle genetic damage. When the randomly travelling TARDIS lands they remember the eDoctor and capture his TARDIS as a bargaining chip. Naturally the Dals also turn up, and a brief and uneasy alliance is formed with the eDoctor; it doesn't last and they summon a vortex craft to again pursue the TARDIS 35. Full Circle Attempting to evade the pursuing Dal vortex craft the eDoctor pilots the TARDIS into a wormhole and accidentally into an adjacent pocket universe. With the TARDIS's navigational systems effectively screwed they land on the first planet that shows signs of life and technology to scout. eRomana II is bitten by a mutagenic spider and becomes even more than usually vicious, as a gang of teenage 'Outlers' [Adric, Varsh, Keara and Tylos] discover. - The eDoctor is irritated by the mess.
In the end the eDoctor pillages the crashed ship for navigational data and they depart, dumping the corpses before they go 36. Decay Another landing in the pocket universe find the eDoctor and eRomana II on a seemingly medieval world settled by a crashed human colony expedition that's ruled by a caste assimilated by ancient alien nanotech. Their TARDIS is locked out by the alien technology, forcing the travellers to flee and join with the resistance movement, who have a stockpile of advanced technology. Examining the records and some of the ancient artefacts the eDoctor learns of a possible way out of the pocket universe, and helps overthrow the local rulers to regain access to his TARDIS.
37. Gate Based on the information he acquired the eDoctor believe he's finally discovered a portal back to the main universe, unfortunately the TARDIS can't navigate it without assistance... Making a deal with some stranded slavers they acquire a Vortex sensitive Tharil slave, who is 'persuaded' to bring the TARDIS to the portal, but accidentally unleashes some ancient genocidally inclined robots in trying to free his people. - The irritated eDoctor instructs the slavers on how to efficiently shield against the Tharil Vortex manipulation abilities in future.
Using the portal requires two people, and while the eDoctor pilots the TARDIS, eRomana II and Fang II synchronise the portal. When they're attacked by the Gundan robots the eDoctor abandons them and leaves for his home universe alone. sans eRomanaII. - eRomana II is left for dead as he escapes; but did she survive? (Yes of course she did, and she'll be back)
38. Traken A message, of unknown origin, brings the eDoctor to Traken. The Keeper is dying, a power struggle is underway to replace him and it's the perfect opportunity to gain control of the power of the Traken Union. The eDoctor is suspicious but intrigued enough to go along with it. On Traken he uses the supplied information to impersonate a Time Lord representative, there to represent Gallifrey at the handover of power. Meanwhile the factions jockey for influence and standing in an attempt to get their representative named the new Keeper. In the background is Tremas's meek, studious biochemist daughter Nyssa. Who's quietly amassed her own faction from the disaffected young people of the Traken Union. - With some biochemical assistance. And who's go something *really* nasty up her sleeve in case things don't go her way.
The politics suddenly turn deadly, leaving even the eDoctor unaware just who's pulling the strings. And why. - "I am Nyssa, the Destroyer of Traken". "Oh well, there are other planets. Lots of them in fact."
39. Loch NessA request for help from eJo bring the eDoctor and eNyssa to 1990s Earth where her negotiations with a shipload of stranded Zygons could do with some assistance. She plans to use them to control the independent Scottish Republic. Of course the Zygons betray her, but eNyssa is ready with a flesh dissolving virus. 40. Logopolis Having learned on Traken, from the Keeper's secret files, of the Logopolis project and it's potential to rewrite the universe, the eDoctor attempts to usurp it. Koschei, who's back on the eDoctor's trail after the destruction of Traken, objects to this and a running battle through the streets of Logopolis ensues. Realising that they've done too much damage, and doomed the universe, the eDoctor and Koschei have to work together to save it. In his final betrayal the eDoctor shoots Koschei, but wastes too much time gloating and is grappled away from the controls. The two struggle and fall from the radio-telescope tower together...
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 28, 2014 11:42:37 GMT
Part 15 - Fifth eDoctor – Overview, gadgets and minions.
Personality. Cruel and callous, the fifth incarnation is somewhat mercurial, and capable of segueing from smiling and cheerful to vicious very rapidly. He seems to have lost his enthusiasm for death, destruction and conquest compared to previously. Also he's more easily manipulated by his minions, less arrogantly self confident and with a shorter attention span. Alignment-wise he's more Neutral Evil shading toward Neutral
Gear. The eDoctor still carries his Mk3 Technix and some sort of weapon but it could be anything from the Burner to a more conventional staser/blaster/disrupter pistol.
Gadgets. Various items that turn up. Hypnagogic inducer: A pen-sized device that induces a suggestible stage in humanoids by brain wave manipulation. The basic setting leaves the victim dazed but conscious for a few minutes (handy for leaving guards appearing normal) but it can also be used for hypnosis, at the Special level (full dominance though without the bodily possession). Range is ~1m. It can also be used to simply render someone unconscious for a period, from a few minutes to several days or induce pain.
Shimmer knife: The basic science-fictional vibration enhanced blade, does STR+4 damage for a standard sized blade, and reduces the value of most armour by 2. Mono-molecular edged and force-field blades would be similar.
Kalvaran heat-whip A nasty weapon, favoured by those who believe in setting an example or leaving a permanent message. This light whip incorporates a resistive weave in the flexible lash and a power pack in the grip capable of heating the lash sufficiently to leave serious burns
Disrupter pistol An advanced energy weapon that relies on indirect application of energy,causing disruption of the forces of molecular attraction. The effect negates armour (5 levels ignored). Variable intensity: 2/5/7 on low, 3/7/10 on medium, 4/8/12 on high and 5/10/15 on full power. Also capable of limited matter disintegration (sufficient to obliterate a humanoid target or ~100 litres of matter) The also has three non-lethal settings stun: (4S/8S/12S, leaves a human unconscious for 3x[10-STR] minutes), heavy stun (5S/10S/15S, lasts 10x [16-STR] minutes) and wide field stun (10m range but effects a 30° arc). Disrupter wounds generally require advanced medical treatment to heal properly. Later Dal weaponry uses this principle
Doorknob Well that's what eAdam calls the remote for his vortex capsule anyway. It's a circular device about 8cm in diameter and 2cm thick with a flip-off cover over a small hexadecimal pad. It has a range of about three metres and calls the craft back from wherever it goes when parked out of phase with normal space-time. eAdam has modified the basic model, in case his capsule's owner has associates who come looking for it; the original model didn't have the security code, operated on a different 'frequency' and completely lacked the drugged needle that stabs someone who opens the cover without the correct technique... eAdam had manufactured several spares.
Mass conversion bombs. A (semi-)reasonable explanation for the extremely powerful explosive devices sometimes encountered in the Whoniverse. Generally the most powerful explosive yield possible is from the total conversion of matter into energy (E=mc²) which offers about 21.5 megatonnes/TNT yield per kilogramme of matter effected, making grenades with megatonne yields or backpack teratonne asteroid-busters possible. This is also an explanation for the Z-bomb, presumably a crude version.
The Moiralith A masterpiece of probabilistic tachyonic cybernetics small enough to fit in a humanoid hand, this artefact was 'left over' from the previous universe, on the Terminus station initially. It's capable of transferring data through time, including retrieving data from it's own future, and has effectively infinite storage capacity.
It has collected vast amounts of data, about this universe and several 'adjacent' alternates. It's capable of connecting automatically to almost any computer system within a range of several hundred metres, and via datalinks to anything connected to that network. It can negate almost any security below TL10 rapidly, and even Time Lord systems in hours or days.
The Moiralith communicates, vocally or otherwise, in a dry neutral tone; it refers to itself as 'this device' (or a similar term in the users language); it can also output data is via projected 2D or 3D images up to 12m² or 80m³ or directly into the user's brain (requires contact).
Initially it will allow anyone who touches it to access it's stored information and answer their questions, though with some restrictions ('that information is not currently available') regarding material that could lead to a temporal paradox and it's own origins. With extended use, or via reference data, a user learns that above this 'guest' level of access are two higher levels, authorised user and controller.
It cannot directly manipulate any object, so it cannot use it's knowledge to build advanced technology, but it can instruct a user in such, from making fire to building a time ship.
Physically it's a truncated sphere approximately 95 x 75mm, with a flat top and bottom, constructed of some hard material dark material (people find it difficult to state exactly what colour it is beyond "sort of a metallic dark blueish grey-black"), weighing about half a kilogramme.
If threatened with sufficient force, the Moiralith will simply leave; transmatting itself through the Vortex to another place. If it has an user who's established authority over it then it will return to them in a few hours. Otherwise it will need to be found.
There are species who would pulverise entire planets and sift their dust for even a chance of gaining control of this device. Thankfully few know about it, and many of those that have had contact with it tend to forget about it afterwards (perhaps an effect of it's extra-universal nature.
It may well have other capabilities.
Minions. eNyssa as before
ePeri A damaged human being who in her teens killed the father who'd been sexually abusing her and took up manipulating people, especially men, for amusement and profit. She joined the eDoctor after her step-father 'accidentally' drowned following his voicing some objections to her lifestyle, and after the two boys she'd been manipulating fatally injured each in a fight. Originally from the Republic of California (one of the major post-breakup North American nations), slight 'American' accent.
Awareness 3 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 4 Presence 4 Resolve 4 Strength 2 Athletics 3, Convince 4, Craft 1, Fighting 2, Knowledge 3, Marksman 1, Medicine 1 [4], Science 3, Subterfuge 2, Survival 1, Technology 2, Transport 2 Attractive, Charming, Impulsive, Lucky, Screamer, Selfish Gear: initially not much except some wet clothes, soon carries more. She learns the benefits of being armed, especially better armed than the locals.
eTurlough An humanoid alien exiled a couple of years prior to his meeting with the eDoctor, after his family's brutal regime on Trion was overthrown. He wanted off Earth but soon isn't so sure that the eDoctor was a good choice for this. Actually one of the eDoctor's more pleasant minions; he's unlikely to actively start trouble off his own bat or engage in gratuitous sadism or destruction.
Awareness 3 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 5 Presence 5 Resolve 5 Strength 3 Athletics 2, Convince 5, Craft 1, Fighting 2, Knowledge 3, Marksman 2,Medicine 1, Science 3, Subterfuge 4, Survival 1, Technology 4, Transport 2 Charming, Coward, Lucky, Outcast, Selfish, Technically Adept, Unadventurous, Vortex Gear: nothing much to start with, acquires pretty much anything not nailed down on his travels; usually carries a weapon or two (something concealable like a pocket or holdout blaster or a compact stunner), a few tools (especially those suited to escaping and intrusion) and some medical gear.
eAdam A time traveller from the twenty first century (~2025) in a stolen vortex craft from the far future (owner unfortunately deceased). An intelligent, cautious and adaptive sociopath with a good grasp of technology and a detailed knowledge of recent history. Tends to hang back and observe rather than take centre-stage and will have no hesitation about running away. Almost professionally unnoticeable when he wants to be. Annoy him and your death will be as painful, unpleasant and prolonged as he can arrange.
Awareness 4 Coordination 5 Ingenuity 6 Presence 4 Resolve 5 Strength 3 Athletics 2, Convince 5, Craft 1, Fighting 3, Knowledge 3, Marksman 3, Medicine 2, Science 4, Subterfuge 4, Survival 2, Technology 4, Transport 2 Charming, Face in the Crowd, Insatiable Curiosity, Lucky, Quick Reflexes, Ruthless, Selfish, Technically Adept, Time Traveller (5-8), Vortex
Gear: local clothes and papers, plentiful money, holdout blaster (4/8/12, can stun) or perhaps more than one), concealed stunners, hypnagogic inducer, shimmer knife, pocket scanner, doorknob, concealable body armour (Armour 2, 4 against projectiles), tools, medical kit. If expecting trouble he wears better armour (Armour 5, difficult to conceal) and carries a disrupter pistol, grenades and more. He's generally careful about major alterations to the past but not to the point of endangering himself without very good reason.
His Vortex Capsule is smallish design (similar to the Kartz-Reimer module or Time Cabinet), but a little larger; it holds one person (two with a tight squeeze and problems operating the controls). It's fairly short ranged (a few centuries per jump) but otherwise functions well. It resembles cuboid with a slightly taper in the top section,about 2m x 2m x 2.4m, and lacks any camouflage system. It has limited cargo space and his usual MO is to establish a base and set up is gear (including an advanced nanotech fabricator) there. It's main security feature is the ability to 'rotate' out of phase with normal time, requiring a 'doorknob' device to retrieve it. eAdam has improved its security with sleep gas, poison needles, neural shocker linked to the controls and more. He may also boobytrap the location he parks it, forcefield, sentry guns, mines, paralysis grid, poisoned surfaces, hypnotised guards, security robots et cetera. He's almost pathologically careful about protecting his time machine. After joining the eDoctor he parks it aboard the TARDIS and works on upgrading it's systems, though he generally keeps it in operating condition, just in case a hurried departure is needed.
eAdam was originally a character in a different time travel campaign, a minor recurring antagonist who was a sadistic psychopath careful to avoid too much attention by carefully not causing serious damage to the timestream during his depredations.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 29, 2014 12:23:45 GMT
Just a quickie today as I've some stuff on this weekend. Part 15 - Fifth eDoctor – The Adventures, part one.1. Black Orchid The eDoctor is a little stressed from his regeneration, and the battle with Koschei, and fancies a break from his hectic schedule of death and destruction. A nice holiday in 1920's England will be the perfect thing for some peace and quiet. Unfortunately he doesn't get it thanks to a couple of murders, a double of eNyssa and some Amazonian flowers with strange properties... eNyssa's been reading some of the period literature and amuses herself with a little flirting, making use of his resemblance to Ann, and teaches the latter some interesting toxicological tricks with common materials. 2. Doomsday The eDoctor's thinking about a visit to eJo (he's still got a soft spot for her) but a navigational error causes him to discover a asteroid ship on course towards Earth. Investigating the eDoctor discovers a Sinister Plot, which he frustrates ("You can't take over Earth and eliminate humanity, I have plans for them"). eNyssa picks up some interesting additions to her collection of bio-toxins and the eDoctor sends the ship, and it's billions of androids, on a collision course with Jupiter 3. Kinda The TARDIS's navigational systems are on the blink again, so the eDoctor stops off for some repairs on a planet being scouted by the Terran Empire (in one of it's occasional expansionist phases) for colonisation. When the locals try using their psionic abilities on them, the eDoctor and eNyssa assist the Imperials in resisting them. eNyssa lives up to her nickname and develops a bio-weapon capable of eliminating the native population leaving the planet ready for colonisation. - If she's ever on Capital there's a medal for her. Or possibly a trial for genocide, depending on when she arrives there...
4. The Visitation eNyssa is interested in studying human pandemics, so the eDoctor agrees to a field trip to sixteenth century England ("Far more pleasant era than the Okie flu") where they find some aliens have also landed. After they attempt to hijack his TARDIS the eDoctor exterminates the Terrileptil party, obliterating a manor house and starting a fire in London to destroy their bases. - eNyssa is happy, she ends up with a selection of bio-engineered diseases to amuse herself with.
5. Mawdryn Attempting that delayed visit to see eJo another encounter with temporal interference diverts the TARDIS, this time to late eighties England. In a down-market public school several veterans of the SSD are living under new identities; one of the pupils is an alien; there's a mysterious capsule in the woods, another in the nearby town and a transmat pad in the school's cellar. The primitive time travel experiments of 'Mawdryn' have attracted not one but two other temporal craft. - Brendon school is part of eJo's growing 'Kameradenwerk' network of aid, support and concealment for former RSF personnel (at least the ones who may be useful to her plans and acknowledge her authority).
All this mucking about with time travel and the Vortex triggers a time-slip when the eDoctor's TARDIS materialises, causing it materialise twice, six years apart, duplicating the eDoctor and eNyssa. Of eJo was there for both arrivals so her later version of eJo is aware of the problem; with her aid they find their way to a timeship that's been trapped in the Vortex for millennia Unfortunately the LoNIT also arrives and it's up to eJo to save the eDoctor, assuming she wants to, with the aid of a dangerous time traveller named Adam and an odd schoolboy named Turlough . 6. Earthshock Getting away from the twentieth century at least, the now four strong TARDIS party, arrive in the thirty second century on Earth, where the eDoctor's TARDIS is stolen by Cybermen. - It's as if they were expecting him...
They also find a planet-buster gravitic bomb (which the eDoctor disarms and squirrels away for future use), make the acquaintance of some Federation troops and fight a group of android guardians. Tracking the Cybermen the troops' leader commandeers a shuttle and they covertly board a freighter in deep space. - Which is not carrying an army of Cybermen; why would any rational species do so when they plan to crash it into a planet?
7. Time-Flight A spatial fluctuation causes the TARDIS materialises in the first-class lounge on a 1990s airliner, causing some consternation, at least until the eDoctor and eAdam make use of their abilities with hypnosis (and eNyssa with chemicals). The plane is being transported to a planet in an adjacent bubble universe by the Cholse, an inquisitive and very alien species studying humanity. They have created a simulation of a "typical" Earth city and plan to test the humans' reactions. The eDoctor and minions have to search the simulacrum city for the systems blocking their TARDIS from leaving In a good mood for once the eDoctor agrees to drop the stranded passengers back on Earth 8. Arc of Infinity The ancient Gallifreyan hero Alpha again seeks a path into our universe but this time he's got help. The renegade Time Lord eRomana III is assisting him. - Yes eRomana survived (and regenerated), and she's pissed; being left for dead and spending a couple of centuries escaping a bubble universe has that effect.
- Her third incarnation is more focussed, unfortunately for the eDoctor she's focussed on vengeance against him. A painful and prolonged vengeance.
A portal to Alpha's universe is ripped through the dimensions from Amsterdam, attracting attention from LoNIG who deploy troops and attempt to send a team through the portal. His TARDIS disabled by Alpha and eRomana III the eDoctor is forced to call for help from an old enemy...
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 29, 2014 20:01:08 GMT
Were you by any chance a fan of "Secret Army" and "Kessler" back in the day? I keep getting flashbacks to "Kessler", in particular, in the references to eJo and her network.
Is eRomana III the dark analogue of the Juliet Landau incarnation from the Big Finish audios?
The Moiralith is an intriguing plot device. Considering its origins, and the origin story for the Great Old Ones that was included in the EU novels back in the 1990s, I can't help but wonder about a connection between the two.
eAdam - I'm interested in his motivations. He doesn't seem to be power-hungry, which presumably is why the eDoctor didn't eliminate him. Just a mixture of curiosity and sadism?
I do hope you haven't killed Koschei!
This is giving me all kinds of ideas, although most of them are going off in wildly different directions from your actual eDoctor concept. It's excellent stuff.
Are you going to draw on any of the Big Finish material 8th Doctor? His on-screen time was sadly truncated. (I'm actually wondering how Cubicle 7 are going to manage to get an eighth Doctor sourcebook out of the TV movie and Night of the Doctor - licensing the Big Finish material looks like an ideal solution, but heaven knows how complicated that would be from a legal standpoint).
On the subject of Big Finish, I can't help thinking that an eEvelyn or an eBrewster would be a lot of fun...
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 29, 2014 21:09:41 GMT
Part 16 - Fifth eDoctor – The Adventures, part two.9. Snakedance The Mara, the extra-dimensional creature worshipped on Deva Loka, seeks revenge for the genocide of it's worshippers Just how do you fight something with no permanent presence in this universe? Answer, you persuade it to manifest by dangling some bait and blow up the planet. Now where is that planet-buster Cyberbomb? 10. Terminus Discovering a wormhole connecting the mathematical centre of the universe to a huge spacecraft orbiting in extra-galactic space the eDoctor lands the TARDIS to investigate, and finds things leaking in from other universes, a sinister corporation using it to develop and cure diseases and some space pirates. eNyssa finds a place for herself, complete with advanced technology, an income stream, and a source of victims test subjects. Plus some loyal minions. 11. Enlightenment eAdam decodes one of the data crystals found on the Terminus station and the eDoctor learns of a potentially invaluable artefact, the Moiralith. - A tachyonic computer potentially as full of information as the Gallifreyan Matrix and able to forecast the results of changes in time as well as transfer information through time.
They track the device, via it's tachyonic signature, to a solar sailing race taking place in the Sol system in the mid thirty-fourth century and attempt to locate and 'acquire' it.Unfortunately the eDoctor inadvertently activates it's security programme and it jumps through time. - I deny you the
Scarabeus Moiralith.... 12. King's Demon Pursuing the Moiralith through time to thirteenth century England the eDoctor encounters eRomana III who's been setting a trap for him. Koschei has also arrived, intrigued by all the activity. - eRomana has acquired a shapeshifting android minion.
Koschei and his companions have their work cut out attempting to frustrate the plans of the both the eDoctor and eRomana IIIand trying to preserve history more-or-less intact. After falling off the battlements of a castle, in the arms of a thief, the Moiralith again activates it's emergency shift and disappears. 13. Warriors No More In the late twenty first century Humanity and Reptilian are about to sign aformal treaty of peace and recognition, but can the peace overtures survive the arrival of the Moiralith obsessed eDoctor? Managing to beat eRomana III, the eDoctor arrives on the sea base near the Azores housing the talks; unfortunately some of the Reptilians present are familiar with his TARDIS and he's arrested and imprisoned. - A small matter ofmass murder...
This leaved the somewhat unreliable eTurlough and the possibly duplicitous eAdam to hunt for the Moiralith, in the face of human and Reptilian factions supporting and opposing the treaty, and Koschei. As it turns out eTurlough's combination of natural sneakiness veneered with the charm and obsequiousness of the English public school system prove quite useful, allied to eAdam's ruthlessness and facility with hypnosis. Not only do they find the artefact but they rescue the eDoctor too. Who then spoils the victory by gloating, allowing the desperate Koschei to shoot the Moiralith with a struptor, sending it through careening through time and space again... 14. The Awakening The Moiralith is tracked to England, first in the 1640s and then, oddly, the 1990s. But this time it's brought a hitchhiker... Something nasty has invaded a small rural village, and that's before a red police box materialises. Sensing it's power the extra-dimensional Malus has used the Moiralith to carry it through time and now seeks human hosts. 15. Resurrection Pulled off course by a Thalek time corridor the TARDIS materialises in mid-nineties London, amongst a cluster of docklands buildings being demolished as part of a new round of urban renewal.The eDoctor is furious at the disruption to his plans but needs to disable the corridor to pursue the Moiralith, and for that he needs to find it. The Thaleks have established a bridgehead on Earth and are experimenting with biological duplication to restore their plague depleted numbers. - So desperate are they, that they're even hired human mercenaries led by the ruthless and capable Lytton
Of course time corridors also tend to attract other time travellers, in this case a Dal timeship. 16. Frontios By now there are multiple factions seeking the Moiralith, which re-appears on as struggling human frontier colony. - As do the eDoctor, Koschei and eRomanaIII. This does not bode well for the small colony...
After a burst of killing, backstabbing, making and breaking of alliances with the locals, the Moiralith again dematerialises After it disappears none of the Time Lords can track the Moiralith, it appears to have been destroyed... Or just gone quiet for a while. OK, due to some time constraints I've had to break this up into smaller chunks than usual. There are two parts left to the fifth eDoctor, the final round of adventures (including ePeri) and a aftermath with details of eRomanaIII her transport and minions, plus some other background.
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 29, 2014 21:27:54 GMT
Into the Labyrinth! Though personally I much preferred Rothgo and the Nidus to Lazlo and his Scarabeus. A shame that Ron Moody never showed up in Dr Who. I like the idea of a second linking quest for a season. I think this one works well with the re-imagined fifth Doctor stories. It actually gives them more coherence than the TV plots had.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 29, 2014 21:37:39 GMT
Were you by any chance a fan of "Secret Army" and "Kessler" back in the day? I keep getting flashbacks to "Kessler", in particular, in the references to eJo and her network. That is a very interesting observation, and an influence that I wasn't consciously aware of. Yes I was a fan of the series back in the '70s. I also liked The Odessa File.Though (as I mentioned in the Antarctic Nazis thread) surviving Nazi networks were a common theme in fiction back then. Is eRomana III the dark analogue of the Juliet Landau incarnation from the Big Finish audios? Nope, I wasn't aware of that version of Romana; I've listened to only a few of the audioplays. The Moiralith is an intriguing plot device. Considering its origins, and the origin story for the Great Old Ones that was included in the EU novels back in the 1990s, I can't help but wonder about a connection between the two. I am unashamed of having lifted the origin story; I thought that one of the neatest ideas in the whole expanded Whoniverse. The Moiralith and the quest for it were inspired by a couple of things. A somewhat similar device itself appeared very briefly (purely as a MacGuffin) in the Time Riders RPG; I've stepped up it's powers substantially. The quest for it (and it habit of disappearing) comes from an old TV series called Into the Labyrinth which featured two artefacts of great power, the Nidus and Scarabeus. eAdam - I'm interested in his motivations. He doesn't seem to be power-hungry, which presumably is why the eDoctor didn't eliminate him. Just a mixture of curiosity and sadism? Pretty much. He's a dark inversion of Gandalf to a degree, or Gandalf is a lighter version of him. Adam's based on an person I knew through work, a classic psychopath and manipulator, though not an actual killer (as far as I know). In the original campaign he successfully evaded interference by being two minor a danger to the timestream for the PCs superiors to authorise his takedown, plus having significant retaliatory capacity. He was a dark element that pushed the players willingness to deal with minor evils for the 'greater good'. I do hope you haven't killed Koschei! Oh several times. But not finally. So far anyway. This is giving me all kinds of ideas, although most of them are going off in wildly different directions from your actual eDoctor concept. It's excellent stuff. Excellent! One of the great things about this forum is the way ideas spark off people here. Are you going to draw on any of the Big Finish material 8th Doctor? His on-screen time was sadly truncated. (I'm actually wondering how Cubicle 7 are going to manage to get an eighth Doctor sourcebook out of the TV movie and Night of the Doctor - licensing the Big Finish material looks like an ideal solution, but heaven knows how complicated that would be from a legal standpoint). Yes. Though initially more from the BBC novels (which eventually got so bad they caused me to dump the extended Whoniverse). There'll be an evil version of Sam for example, possibly more than one. C7 licensing BF material is almost certainly a non-starter as it'd canonicise that material and possibly cause legal problems for the BBC with the terms of the BBC Charter. The might be able to include material actually broadcast by the BBC. And there's always Scream of the Shalka. On the subject of Big Finish, I can't help thinking that an eEvelyn or an eBrewster would be a lot of fun... Not in my current arc for the sixth eDoctor alas. Of course they could pop up with a later eDoctor.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 29, 2014 21:44:00 GMT
Into the Labyrinth! Though personally I much preferred Rothgo and the Nidus to Lazlo and his Scarabeus. You got the reference then . I'm glad I'm not the only fan of obscure TV. I just preferred the name 'Scarabeus'. Actually one of my first time travel campaigns, many years ago, was influenced by the series. Various groups acting as agents for powerful Rothgo/Lazlo/Belor type fugures seeking artefacts through time. Mixed magic and high technology. A shame that Ron Moody never showed up in Dr Who. Yeah, he'd have been interesting but turned down the role. I think there's a thread on him as the Doctor over on AH.com. I like the idea of a second linking quest for a season. I think this one works well with the re-imagined fifth Doctor stories. It actually gives them more coherence than the TV plots had. Yeah, I needed something to motivate the eDoctor.
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 29, 2014 22:14:45 GMT
Obscure 1970s TV is the starting point for a lot of my ideas. I suppose you can never escape your formative years. One series that I've been looking for on DVD for ages is "The Dark Side of the Sun" starring Peter Egan as Raoul Lavallière. It really annoys me that they've never released it since, but it became the starting point for a recurring antagonist that I created.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 29, 2014 22:36:25 GMT
Obscure 1970s TV is the starting point for a lot of my ideas. I suppose you can never escape your formative years. One series that I've been looking for on DVD for ages is "The Dark Side of the Sun" starring Peter Egan as Raoul Lavallière. It really annoys me that they've never released it since, but it became the starting point for a recurring antagonist that I created. Now that is obscure. I vaguely remember The Aphrodite Inheritance but not that one. There does seem to be a DVD version available though it doesn't look official.
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 29, 2014 23:33:30 GMT
Obscure 1970s TV is the starting point for a lot of my ideas. I suppose you can never escape your formative years. One series that I've been looking for on DVD for ages is "The Dark Side of the Sun" starring Peter Egan as Raoul Lavallière. It really annoys me that they've never released it since, but it became the starting point for a recurring antagonist that I created. Now that is obscure. I vaguely remember The Aphrodite Inheritance but not that one. There does seem to be a DVD version available though it doesn't look official. The series features a man who has continuously re-incarnated - rather in the manner of Rothgo and Lazlo having different "incarnations" in different time periods - since at least the thirteenth century. It's implied that he is, or is strongly associated with, the demon Asmodeus. In the modern period he's using the trappings of the Knights Templar - to which one of his former personas belonged - as the basis for a fascist "Brotherhood" whose membership includes prominent financiers and politicians from across Europe and beyond. I adapted the idea of a human agent serving demonic masters by making the demonic masters in question a mixture of the Great Old Ones and the Ascended Ancients from Stargate. The aliens' most important human agents have the ability to use Block Transfer Computations to move through time and space, rather like Keziah Mason using the knowledge of "angles" supplied by Nyarlarthothep. This was the basic concept I came up with... The Legacy BearersThe Legacy Bearers were living beings, once, but that was a very, very long time ago. 2.3 billion years ago, a starship landed on primordial Earth. It was an Ark, bearing the last survivors of a race of aquatic cephalopods whose homeworld had been destroyed when its sun went nova, and its mission was nothing less than to recreate that lost world on Earth. The cephalopods' native planet had somewhat resembled Earth during the Jurassic period - hot and oxygen-rich. Earth, with its sulfurous atmosphere and near-total lack of life, was nothing like it, but it was the closest match they'd found in almost three centuries of searching, and the Ark was reaching the limits of its operational life. And so the cephalopods, the ancestors of the beings who would one day become the Legacy Bearers, set to work to transform their new home. To increase the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, they released vast quantities of cyanobacteria, causing what modern science now knows as the Great Oxygenation Event or Oxygen Catastrophe. But the ur-Legacy Bearers miscalculated the climactic effects of such a massive release of oxygen. The Huronian glaciation caught them completely by surprise, and despite their best efforts, they found themselves unable to undo the multi-million-year global ice age which they had unleashed. They cannibalized their ship to construct great undersea bunkers, and retreated into them to try to wait out the cold. A million years into the eternal winter, the species had changed dramatically. Their grasp of physical science and technology had gradually slipped away, even as their understanding of psionics, abstract mathematics, and ultimately, Block Transfer Computation, steadily advanced. But the relentless attrition caused by the harsh climate was shrinking their gene pool, and they realized that it was only a matter of time before they faced extinction. Their solution was to transcend the limitations of the flesh and to some extent, the limitations of time itself. Combining their psychic abilities and mathematical knowledge, they transformed themselves into elemental beings, living matrices of Block Transfer Computations existing timelessly in a parallel dimension, able, with equal ease, to reach into the past to recover all the knowledge that they had lost, and the future, to remake the world. Or that, at least, was the theory. But the Legacy Bearers had once again miscalculated. They could see through time easily enough; as they had planned, their transformation completely restored their understanding of their species' history, culture and technology. But they discovered that they were trapped in the alternate dimension that they now inhabited, coterminous with the physical world but unable to influence it in any way. The emergence of intelligent life offered them a chance to escape their prison. They learned that it was possible to communicate with psychically gifted beings across the dimensional barrier, and even influence their actions. A sufficient number of minions, working together, would theoretically be able to open the dimensional barrier from the other side. The Legacy Bearers' first cult, among the three-eyed terrestrial Silurians, was forced into hibernation along with the rest of their species, and it took millions of years for a new race - humanity - to evolve the same potential. The Legacy Bearers want to remake Earth as a duplicate of their former home world, including re-creating the sapient species that they themselves once belonged to. To achieve this end, all extant terrestrial life must be extinguished. Before they transformed themselves, the enormity of that idea might have given them pause, but their "elevation" to a higher state of being has subtly warped them. In effect, the Legacy Bearers no longer have free will; each is a embodied mathematical construct, more akin to a sentient computer program than a living being. They pursue their goal because that's what they programmed themselves to do when they altered themselves; they don't feel a need to justify their actions and they're no longer even capable of questioning their own motives. They are, however, more than capable of deceit and deviousness in pursuit of their ultimate goal; the cultists who they lure into serving them are (in most cases), blissfully unaware of their masters' real objective.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 30, 2014 9:36:48 GMT
Interesting premise, did you watch Under the Mountain?
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 30, 2014 10:11:52 GMT
Part 17 - Fifth eDoctor – The Adventures, part three17. Planet of Fire Of course the Moiralith wasn't actually destroyed, it appeared on bronze age Earth in the Mitterrand and was buried deep underground by a volcanic eruption, until millennia later archaeological digging in Lanzarote unearthed it. Meanwhile a bored Californian girl is inciting two boys to fight over her, her step-father doesn't approve but he's having some odd health problems (dry mouth, blurred vision, heart palpitations and disorientation). Coincidentally the eDoctor, eAdam and eTurlough arrive for a rest after their struggles, encounter ePeri escaping her hallucinating step-father ( eTurlough doesn't bother rescuing him and he drowns). But Koschei also tracked the Moiralith and calculated where it would be found, and a conflict erupts between the two Time Lords, leaving Lanzarote rather less popular as a tourist destination. - ePeri persuades the eDoctor to take her, there's that slight misunderstanding with the Guardia Civil regarding her father's death).
The Moiralith again disappears. 18. Stormrider The eDoctor and company go shopping (guess whose idea that was) and visit an Earth colony on a gas giant satellite, and get involved in a complex Sontaren operation to scavange Tzun technology and deal a serious blow against the Rutan Collective. Using a recovered Tzun gravity generator they plan to 'ignite' a gas giant, trapping and destroying a major Rutan fleet. His TARDIS taken by the Sontarens the eDoctor helps the humans defeat the Sontarens. - ePeri flirts with a variety of humans but not the Sontarens ("Like ewwww")
- She helps the others do some 'shopping' in a Sontaren armoury ("A girl needs to be prepared")
19. Academy Landing on Earth in the late 1990s the eDoctor and minions visit the Overten Academy, an elite private school and the centrepiece of eJo's schemes involving the 'Kameradenwerk' and the base for a plan to recover a cache of captured alien technology dating to the early days of the Republic. However not all her comrades accept her leadership. - ePeri contributes to the social education of a number of (male) pupils...
And in the background is a quiet new girl, a young teenager named Acacia. 20. Corridor Another day, another time corridor. This one drags the TARDIS to early 1930s Brighton, and involves them in a complex and paradoxial plan by one of Mawdryn fellow scientists to escape her fate. Also involved are a number of temporal exiles from the far future, who've retired via the one-way corridor to a more peaceful era. - Which suggests their historical records are sadly lacking or their era is a hellhole.
ePeri imitates an American ("Wow, the USA still exists?"), embraces the social whirl, flirts with many, many, humans and experiments with arsenic as an additive to tea 21. ExhibitionistTaking that long delayed holiday the party travel to see the Great Exhibition of 1851, witnessing the assassination of Queen Victoria, an event that even ePeri is reasonably sure didn't happen. Investigating they find numerous human disappearances at the exhibition, a recurrence of Spring Heeled Jack and even more oddness. Magnus Greel wasn't the only war criminal to escape the justice of the Icelandic Alliance via time travel... - ePeri imitates an American again, shocks Victorian sensibilities and continues her experiments in applied toxicology
22. Ears of FearePeri is curious about the future of Earth and nags the eDoctor into showing her the 2000s. There they find a group of aliens attempting to manipulate humans via pop music. eAdam is actually relieved ("At least humans weren't responsible for that awful music"). He also suggests the eDoctor better secure the TARDIS after it's stolen again. - ePeri flirts with, well, practically everyone.
23. Androzani Pursuing a faint echo of the Moiralith the eDoctor drags his minions through muddy caves, encounters with androids, soldiers and gun-runners, to a masked villain controlling the supply of a longevity drug, plus an artefact that could help control the universe... The eDoctor and eTurlough are both poisoned; however someone remembered to pack a decent medical kit so they avoid painful death ( ePeri adds Spectrox to her growing collection of poisons though). - ePeri flirts with a Phantom of the Opera imitator, and they travellers acquire a set of android duplicates of themselves
24. Time and RomanaeRomana III hatches her plan for revenge on the eDoctor. She allies with another renegade Time Lord, Raniluntival, and using the Moiralith they entice the eDoctor into a trap on the planet Tarvall. eAdam demonstrates his loyalty by not betraying the eDoctor when presented with the option ("Better the megalomaniac you know") but does use eTurlough for mine clearance (though only after running out of natives). Unfortunately for eRomana III Koschei is also monitoring for traces of the Moiralith and arrives also. While the others are fighting each other he traps the Moiralith in a chronon cage and sends it to Gallifrey, for "safe keeping". eRomana III has her revenge to a degree, the eDoctor is killed by one of her traps, but manages to begin regenerating. . - ePeri finds the opportunities for flirtation sadly lacking on Tarvall
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 30, 2014 14:41:41 GMT
Interesting premise, did you watch Under the Mountain? Nope. I had to look it up - it wasn't something I'd ever heard of. It seems quite interesting, though.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 30, 2014 17:19:05 GMT
Interesting premise, did you watch Under the Mountain? Nope. I had to look it up - it wasn't something I'd ever heard of. It seems quite interesting, though. Yep one of those odd Aus/NZ sci-fi series aimed at kids. It was the mud creatures you mentioned that brought it to mind.
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Post by jezmiller on Nov 30, 2014 17:33:11 GMT
I recognize the Lords of the Storm and the English Way of Death as inspirations for two of these adventures, but I'm at a loss on "Academy", "Exhibitionist", and "Ears of Fear" - unless that one is a reworking of the Horror of Glam Rock. Nice ideas, though, very easy to reuse in other settings
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 30, 2014 17:44:02 GMT
I'm now at the 60% mark according to Word. This is the final part of the fifth eDoctor material.Part 18 - Fifth eDoctor – Antagonists and foes.The Dals.I linked earlier to this image, which is derived from one of Cusack's original Dalek designs, and is what I based the Dals on. Though with two manipulators or other appendages. The Dals are cyborgs, the mutated remnants of a race who suffered serious genetic damage in a devastating war employing radiological and genetic weapons. Today the organic Dals are grown in tanks, with limited genetic diversity. Their 'travel machines' are cylindrical, about 1.8m high, with a slight taper from the 80cm diameter base. The body has six sections; the base, the two sets of sensor domes (each with two rows of twelve 'bumps'), the central section with the manipulator arms (which bulges out slightly and can rotate independently), the upper section (with slats) and the top (with eyestalk and sensors). The arms are flexible, somewhat like tentacles, and capable of extension from 50 to 200cm, tipped with a six pincer claw. Most Dals are timid and peaceful, usually a small number are armed (replacing one of their arms) though a military caste was created. The Thaleks.As of the fifth eDoctor's encounters with them, the Thaleks are one of the major powers in the local cluster of galaxies. Extensively genetically engineered for 'fitness for purpose' the Thalek race is split into specific castes with selected traits. The use of cloning is extensive, though forced-growth technology has proved problematic and is generally used only for certain of the short lived worker and soldier castes. However certain factions within the ruling caste have begun to wonder if this policy is limiting the long term success of the race and are lobbying to experiment with new ideas, including cybernetic modification. eRomanaIII The MistressNow older, wiser and colder. While not exactly obsessed with revenge on the eDoctor, it is high on her list of priorities. Awareness 4 Coordination 5 Ingenuity 9 Presence 5 Resolve 6 Strength 3 Athletics 3, Convince 4, Craft 3, Fighting 4, Knowledge 6, Marksman 4, Medicine 4, Science 5, Subterfuge 4, Survival 3, Technology 5, Transport 3 Attractive, Bio-Rhythmic Control, Boffin, Doctorates [Temporal Physics and Psychology], Feel the Turn of the Universe, Hypnosis, Indomitable, Insatiable Curiousity, Obsession (power and revenge), Psychic, Quick Reflexes, Resourceful Pockets, Ruthless, Selfish, Technically Adept, Time Lord, Time Traveller, Tough, Voice of Authority, Vortex, Wanted [Minor] Gear: Lots, this incarnation is an unabashed pack-rat. Usually at least one overtly carried handgun (generally a staser or disrupter pistol) unless it'd be too conspicuous, and her favourite Kalvaran heat-whip; several smaller or concealed weapons (pain wand, Burner, holdout blaster, laser wand...) and a few compact grenades. Does not engage in hand-to-apendage combat personally except in dire straits. That's what minions are for. Defensively she generally wears light armour (Armour 2) and her personal energy shield; heavier armour (Armour 5) if expecting trouble.. Otherwise her Mk4 Technix , other small tools and medical gear, a drug/poison kit, pocket scanner, an agoniser for field interrogations or disciplining minions and a transmat remote for quick escapes. Minions: Mostly enslaved Tharils and upgraded Gundan robots, plus some enslaved humans, initially. Her 'TimeCube' has a crew of about forty: three or four Tharils (for advanced Vortex navigation), a half dozen humans (technicians mainly) and a platoon of Gundans for security. Later she acquires a shapeshifting android named Kamelion, used for infiltration. As she continues travelling she may acquire more; willing humans or aliens; perhaps a Raston robot as a personal bodyguard; a couple of renegade Dals. There are endless possibilities. Transport: She doesn't (yet) have a TARDIS (though she's interested in acquiring one) but has constructed a dimensionally transcendent time-ship using a mix of technologies While far smaller than a true TARDIS (it's only a 30m cube internally and fixed in shape) it's well stocked, efficient and functional. It also incorporates stealthing against detection both in real-space and the Vortex. The default outer shell is a 2.5m cube but it can morph to a degree. It holds (at least): - a half dozen Tharils, a platoon of Gundan robots, some humans
- an armoury that's well stocked with firearms, energy weapons, gases, explosives and heavy weapons
- laboratories and workshops
- personal, guest and minion quarters
- detention cells and a interrogation room (including the Cradle of Persuasion)
- a medical facility (capable of fitting mind control implants amongst other uses)
- a transmat pad
- at least one subsidiary craft (a small flying vehicle)
It's also armed with a pair of powerful energy cannon in pods that can be deployed from the top or bottom [16/32/48 with secondary effect of 12/24/26 to 2m and 4/8/12 to 5m; range is effectively line of sight, up to tens of kilometres] Gundan.Modified and augmented humaniform robots; now capable of speech Awareness 3 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 2 Presence 3 Resolve 3 Strength 7 Athletics 3, Fighting 4, Knowledge 2, Marksman 2, Science 2, Subterfuge 2, Technology 2 Alien Sense (thermal vision), Armour (10), Environmental (Major), Fear Factor (2), Networked (Minor), Obsession (Major, obey and serve the Mistress), Robot, Natural Weapon (enhanced blade in right arm, STR+4), Natural Weapon (blaster in left arm, 4/8/12, can stun) Gear: usually carry sword, mace or axe, may carry other ranged weapons such as a heavy blaster rifle (5/10/15) or grenade launcher; for defending a lair it may operate a tripod mounted heavy automatic blaster [6/12/18] Tharil slaves Usefully capable minions. Awareness 3 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 5 Presence 4 Resolve 4 Strength 4 Athletics 2, Convince 2, Fighting 3, Knowledge 3, Marksman 2, Science 3, Subterfuge 3, Survival 2, Technology 4, Transport 2 Alien, Alien Appearance (Minor), Alien Senses (time sense), Attractive (eeriely charismatic), Empathic, Enslaved, Environmental (Minor), Feel the Turn of the Universe, Immaterial, Keen Senses (Major), Networked (Minor, limited empathic link to other Tharils), Obsession (Major, obey and serve the Mistress), Psychic, Vortex Gear: communicator, tools, sidearm (blaster pistol 4/8/12 with stun)
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Post by starkllr on Dec 1, 2014 17:04:40 GMT
I am REALLY curious about the 6th eDoctor, and especially about who exactly goes on trial in this universe's version of Trial of a Time Lord.
Is there a reverse-Valeyard, the shreds of good in the eDoctor's psyche coming together in a later incarnation, trying to end his earlier self's drepedations?
Or just a plain old evil older version of the eDoctor, having himself put on trial as part of some overly complex and twisted scheme?
Or is Koschei on trial, with the eDoctor (either the 6th one or a future version) as prosecutor?
I can't wait to find out!
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 1, 2014 18:39:31 GMT
I am REALLY curious about the 6th eDoctor, and especially about who exactly goes on trial in this universe's version of Trial of a Time Lord. Is there a reverse-Valeyard, the shreds of good in the eDoctor's psyche coming together in a later incarnation, trying to end his earlier self's drepedations? Or just a plain old evil older version of the eDoctor, having himself put on trial as part of some overly complex and twisted scheme? Or is Koschei on trial, with the eDoctor (either the 6th one or a future version) as prosecutor? I can't wait to find out! Well I have some good news and some bad news for you then. The good news is that after today at work I'm not in the mood to do the next scheduled update, an interlude detailing the history of this Earth, as it would mean too much work, so I should be posting the first part of the sixth eDoctor later tonight. The bad news is: there is no Trial of a Time Lord arc; instead there's a loose arc involving the Andromedans and Sil.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 2, 2014 11:57:56 GMT
A quick update.
Part 19 – Sixth eDoctor - Overview, minions and gadgets.
Personality Personality-wise the sixth eDoctor is far more cruel and callous than his previous incarnation; he's also also mercurial and possibly slightly insane (at least initially) after eRomanaIII's rather nasty execution of his previous incarnation. Physically he's large and strong but less nimble that previously. He's even more prone to resort to violence as a first option than previously, and he also tends to meddle to satisfy his curiousity.
Awareness 4 Coordination 3 Ingenuity8 Presence 5 Resolve 4 Strength 5 Athletics 3, Convince 4, Craft 2, Fighting 4, Knowledge 4, Marksman 4,Medicine 3, Science 5, Subterfuge 3, Survival 2, Technology 5, Transport 2 Adversary (numerous and varied), Argumentative, Boffin, Brave, Distinctive, Eccentric, Feel the Turn of the Universe, Hypnosis(Minor), Impulsive, Indomitable, Insatiable Curiosity, Loud (Minor), Psychic, Random Regenerator, Resourceful Pockets, Ruthless, Sesquipedalian, Technically Adept, Time Lord, Time Traveller, Tough, Vortex
Gear. The gravity wand is a new addition to the eDoctor's collection of toys. Similar to the burner this device projects a laser like focussed gravity beam,capable of lifting objects as a tractor beam, knocking people back with a force pulse or ripping them apart; at close range it can selectively crush flesh and grind bones. The burner also returns and is used freely as are various other weapons.
Gadgets. Bastic ammunition Enhanced ammunition for projectile weapons incorporating a mono-molecular tip,for armour penetration (ignores 5 levels of Armour) and an explosive core(causes a secondary wound if armour is penetrated) for terminal effect.Sometimes supplied to primitive planets for use in indigenous firearms against off-planet invaders. For more advanced slugthrowers, the damage is typically 3/6/9 base effect for rounds fired from handguns or machine pistols, 4/8/12 for assault rifles and 5/10/15 for heavy sniper rifles.
Pheromone spray Sprayed onto a human these synthetic pheromones last for several hours and effects those in close contact who inhale them. Their effect is to enhance sexual attractiveness to susceptible members of the same species. They don't usually effect aliens (though off effects are possible) and have limited effect on those not attracted to the wearers gender.
Minons. ePeri now with added self confidence Awareness 3 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 5[+1] Presence 4 Resolve5 [+1] Strength 2 Athletics 3, Convince 5 [+1], Craft 2 [+1], Fighting 3 [+1], Knowledge 3,Marksman 3 [+1], Medicine 1 [+1], Science 3, Subterfuge 4 [+2], Survival 3[+2], Technology 2, Transport 2 Attractive, Charming, Impulsive, Lucky, Run for your Life, Screamer, Selfish, Resourceful Pockets
Gear: depends on what she's wearing; usually a couple of compact concealed weapons (snub pistol, derringer, holdout blaster [3/6/9], knife, contact stunner, gas spray, flame tube) at least, some escape tools (laser cutter,rake, wire saw, soft-key), money or valuables, cosmetics (including a pheromone spray), camera, medical gear, and possibly something to create a diversion (smoke or stun grenade) If she's carrying her bag (Resourceful Pockets) then probably more along the same lines. If she's got a Slab or two along as pack mule then probably a second level of Resourceful Pockets is justified.
Slab Mentally conditioned Toros Alphan slave, none too bright but obedient, decorative and useful. Very expendable. Awareness 3 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 3 Presence 4 Resolve 2 Strength 4 Athletics 3, Fighting 3, Marksman 3, Transport 2 Attractive, Enslaved, Tough Gear: blaster pistol [3/6/9], knife and/or stun-stick [4S/8S/12S]; possibly light body armour [2]; whatever else ePeri's assigned them to carry. Clothing optional. Possibly other weapons, usually only if expecting/planning serious trouble; heavier blaster [4/8/12 or 5/10/15 for rifle], grenades [8/16/24for explosive grenade], sword, machine pistol
eAdam Pretty much the same,some growth in attributes and skills. Awareness 4 Coordination 5 Ingenuity 7[+1] Presence 4 Resolve5 Strength 3 Athletics 2, Convince 5, Craft 2 [+1], Fighting 4 [+1], Knowledge 3,Marksman 5 [+2], Medicine 3 [+1], Science 6 [+1], Subterfuge 5 [+1], Survival2, Technology 5 [+1], Transport 2 Charming, Insatiable Curiosity, Lucky, Quick Reflexes,Resourceful Pockets, Ruthless, Selfish, Technically Adept, Time Traveller (5-8)Vortex
Gear: Tries to prepare for the location, with appropriate clothes, papers and currency. Otherwise the usual mix of concealable weapons, tools and other odds.Keeps a set of 'go-bags' to hand, packed for various environments/situations.
He constructs a remote for his capsule that's capable of summoning it remotely in time and space (much to the eDoctor's annoyance) including from inside the TARDIS. However it can't re-enter the TARDIS unless the latter's defenses are deactivated or it's brought in the doors. He also fits it with a force shield capable of resisting weapons fire,explosions and building collapses.
Foes. Five other renegade Time Lords turn up (not all survive their meetings with the eDoctor). Also appearing are several groups seeking access to time travel capacity, usually hoping to make use of the eDoctor in some way in their plans.
Sil (and other similar Mentors) Awareness 4 Coordination 3 Ingenuity 5 Presence 3 Resolve 6 Strength 2 Convince 5, Fighting 2, Knowledge (Commerce) 4, Marksman 2, Subterfuge 5, Technology 4, Transport 2 Alien, Alien Appearance, Cowardly, Environmental (Water), Keen Senses, Ruthless, Selfish, Size (Tiny), Slow
Gear: small hover chair with life support (water spray), computer and communications gear, weapons and other equipment.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 3, 2014 17:35:58 GMT
It'll be shorter updates for the next day or so, I'm not feeling too well.Part 20 - Sixth eDoctor – The Adventures, part one.1. The Twin Dilemma The newly regenerated, and extra unstable, eDoctor receives a message from a old 'friend', Azmael in thirty-fifth century requesting his assistance. The eDoctor, eAdam and ePeri are trapped by some oversized slugs and a mind controlled renegade Time Lord, but assisted to a degree by a Federation Special Investigations commander. The eDoctor tricks Azmael and entices Mentor into possessing his body, he then fries Azmael, and quite a few other slugs along the way; annoyed by being tricked he also engages in a spot of genocide against the slugs' eggs - ePeri flirts with a large slug and also with the SI officer
- eAdam considers departing, given the eDoctor's drastic change in personality and seemingly diminished competence but decides to remain for the moment. He also loots some of of Azmael's advanced technology
2. Attack Fiddling with the TARDIS systems the eDoctor not only manages to 'fix' the Chameleon system but also return the TARDIS to a familiar place on Earth again; Shoreditch in London, this time in the late 1990s. There he discovers some temporal disturbances and chooses to investigate. Tracking an alien signal the TARDIS party stumble upon a multi-layered plan involving Cybermen, the alien mercenary Lytton (and a couple of Dalek duplicate policemen), a human time machine from the far future, Cryons and more. The eDoctor is captured and forced to travel to Telos; there he, his minions and some human criminals recruited by Lytton escape and frustrate the Cybermen's plan (more from annoyance at being kidnapped than any real interest in preserving history). Lytton, his duplicates and his human criminal sidekick Griffith sescape with the time machine, will they return? - ePeri flirts with a number of humans and accumulates a not so small arsenal (several handguns, knives, grenades, mace, batons, Cyberweapons et cetera); and a very large bag of diamonds.
- eAdam decides it's time to upgrade his own transport and begins integrating the technology he recovered from Azmael. Meanwhile he grabs the Cryon diamond fabricator (they're only carbon
after all) and experiments with stabilising Vastial to produce more useful explosive, 3. Varos The eDoctor needs some Zeiton 7 to help fix the effects of his 'repairs' to the TARDIS... - Zeiton7 is a rare mineral produced by the interaction of extreme gravity fields that twist conventional atoms through the higher dimensions; primitive cultures used it as an exciter for hyperspatial propulsion, long range transmats and similar devices; more advanced cultures (TL8+) understand its true value in constructing time travel devices.
- It was even used in older model TARDISes; with Gallifrean technology synthesising the stuff is easy of course.
Things go surprisingly well, when, stopping to watch the inventively slow and painful death of a prisoner, the party are mistaken for torture connoisseurs, agents of the off-planet group purchasing Varos's recordings for broadcast. The eDoctor's attempts to purchase some Zeiton 7 is frustrated by the Galatron Mining Corporation's exclusive arrangement; however the planet's Governor offers hims a deal, he needs a small favour. Finally, annoyed at Sil, the eDoctor informs the isolated Varosians about the true value of Zeiton 7 to the galaxy at large and starts a bidding war with other mining companies. - ePeri flirts with a different slug and she and eAdam introduce him to poker, acquiring rather a lot of money, a quartet of under-dressed boy-toys and a disturbingly vast collection of torture porn...
4. Marks of the Rani Temporarily bored with her new toys ePeri nags the eDoctor into taking her to a Regency ball. Alas her flirting opportunities will be limited when they're dragged off course to land in a small northern mine/mill town, along with Koschei and another renegade Gallifreyan, Raniluntival, now calling herself The Rani. Also present are a number of Luddite rioters, to whom ePeri imparts an important lesson in the value of progress and the danger of ignorance regarding advanced technology; she massacres them with firearms from 160 years in their future. The eDoctor sees the opportunity for meddling with the Industrial Revolution in the presence of a group of industrialists and engineers. Of course the scenario is a trap; Koschei's latest regeneration is none too stable and he has brought the eDoctor here to kill him once and for all. He and the Rani form an uneasy alliance to eliminate the eDoctor. However they underestimate his minions, especially ePeri, who's so annoyed when her latest boy-toy, Luke, is treed that she shoots both of them. Not permanently fatally of course. - eAdam acquires a number of interesting chemicals, drugs, organisms, implants and poisons from the Rani's collection and pauses his work on his capsule to explore the possibilities...
- ePeri sulks after Luke is turned into a tree
- The eDoctor 'borrows' some parts from the Rani's TARDIS to help his repair efforts.
5. Androgums. Seeking assistance in repairing his malfunctioning TARDIS the eDoctor travels to the advanced Third Zone and contacts an old acquaintance Dastari, the head of a scientific research 'Think Tank'. The eDoctor knows they are interested in time travel, he offers to help them in exchange for facilities and equipment. Unfortunately Dastari does a deal with the Sontarens and betrays the eDoctor; he's seized and taken to early twenty-first century Earth for vivisection, along with his TARDIS (which they can't open). However ePeri and eAdam hadn't joined the eDoctor for his discussion with Dastari, instead remaining inside the TARDIS. ePeri was still sulking and passing the time with her somewhat diminished collection of boy-toys and eAdam fiddling with his own time-machine. Learning of the Sontaren plan via the Scanner the minions hide out until the Sontaren ship arrives on Earth; luckily there's some Coronic acid grenades in the TARDIS armoury and only a dozen or so Sontarens plus a few humanoid scientists and technicians. A multi-sided fight, with added betrayals, ensues assisted by some work on ePeri and eAdam; the body count is high. - The eDoctor samples human flesh ("Piquent. I must try it again") something that doesn't reassure his human minions.
- ePeri annoyed by her lack of replacement boy-toys ("Hey Doc,
you know any good slave markets around here?") and her lack of success flirting with an Androgum, who sees her more as lunch. - The eDoctor acquires the prototype Kartz-Reimer module and eAdam starts integrating some of the equipment with his capsule.
- The Spanish countryside acquires a large crater from a self-destructing Sontaren scoutship
6. Timelash Dragged to the planet Karfel by a time corridor the eDoctor is slightly injured and very annoyed. Boradtildenkar, a mutated Time Lord who'd been following the first eDoctor's experiments at 'augmenting' Gallifreyan genetics, is experimenting with acquired Thalek time corridor technology, forced growth cloning, advanced robotics, mutations and other matters He's also trying to fix his own genetic damage, which render him unable to regenerate; perhaps a transplant from another Time Lord would help? 7. Revelation Summoned to Morphos by a notification about the death of someone he's never met the eDoctor finds a trap waiting for him. Luckily his minions are prepared. Thala, the geneticist who created the Thaleks is now meddling again, this time mutating human/Thal hybrids and placing them in modified Dal cases to create her own slave race! She's using the cover of an advanced hospital/stasis facility as cover and funding for her researches but would like a Time Lord test subject, so she's created the elaborate plan to pique the eDoctor's interest and ego. Quite a lot of people object to this plan, starting with the Dals and the Thaleks, relatives of her test subjects and other; then there's her duplicitous business partner who's hired a highly skilled assassin with a cybernetically augmented sidekick 8. A Mysterious Planet Responding to an offer from the advanced Andromedan human colonies, millennia in the future, for aid in exchange for his help is accessing the Matrix the eDoctor follows a transmitted flight plan land on what might be Earth. - Actually it's not Earth but rather another one of the Osiran created duplicates (like Mondas), which was devastated by a series of solar flares, leaving a few human survivors living deep underground or in scattered bes on the surface.
A pair of "adventurers" named Glitz and Dibbler, along with some heavily armed but highly expendable muscle, are also on-planet to loot research the Osiran artefacts. The Andromedans have found an Osiran base with evidence that they'd tapped into the Gallifreyan Matrix and want the eDoctor to help them access the data. Unfortunately for them not all the Osiran systems are dormant o harmless and a running battle with advanced Servitor robots and human troglodytes ensues. - ePeri flirts with Glitz and Dibbler, and much to Glitz's astonishment, betrays them first. Impressed he offers her a place with his crew.
- An ill-advised attempt to activate the pseudo-Earth's 'God Engine' planetary drive fails, and triggers geological spasm that wreck the planet, probably killing off all the remaining humans.
Many questions are left unanswered; Can the Andromedans be trusted? Did the Osiran base survive? Why did the Osirans create duplicate Earths? What do the Time Lords know about all this?
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 3, 2014 21:39:58 GMT
Part 21 - Sixth eDoctor – The Adventures, part two.9. Mindwarp The avaricious Mentors attempt to strike a deal with the eDoctor; of course they plan to betray him and steal his TARDIS. But then the eDoctor plans to betray them, so that's to be expected. They offer advanced duplication and mind transfer technology, in exchange for assistance with their time travel experiments. The Mentors have been experimenting with time travel, made more difficult by those problems with the Zeiton 7 supply Sil tortures ePeri, eAdam hides out and raises a rebel army (some of whom survive). Later ePeri tests whether large slugs are also effected by a dose of salt... - They're not, but sulphuric acid does work. Sil's death is...messy.
Sil's boss, Kif, is a biologically augmented Mentor suffering the side effects of the processes used; irritated by being beaten to the betrayal the eDoctor lowers him into an acid bath too. - ePeri replenishes her supply of Slabs. eAdam vows never to leave the TARDIS again without the remote control for his capsule.
10. The Targolan AffairePeri nags the eDoctor into taking her on a holiday;on a luxury spaceliner what could possibly go wrong? Let us count the ways; - Smugglers: three, a nervous spacer hiding drugs, an 'archaeologist' with dangerous alien tech and a twitchy corporate salarywoman fleeing with stolen commercial data and a blaster.
- Contacts and competitors for the above.
- Assassins:two, one disguised as an environment suited alien and Nana, a kindly grandmother complete with knitting and a cyberneticaly enhanced granddaughter capable of tearing a Cyberman apart.
- Hijackers:two, one wanting to divert the ship and hold passengers for ransom, another group trying to steal valuable cargo.
- Saboteurs:two, a killer trying to alter the ship's computer to cover up her crime and a religious zealot who wants to sacrifice the ship to the god living in a black hole
- People the eDoctor has previously screwed over; four, including one woman seeking revenge for the death of her parents in his personal future ("Madam I am not responsible for your parents' deaths'. Yet. You may be sure that I will be.)
A running battle ensues while the ship's crew attempt to maintain order and standards. - "I need a holiday to get over this holiday".
11. Andromeda.The Andromedans again contact the eDoctor to elicit his aid.Agreeing to a meeting, he's captured by Dals. But they're not the usual Dals,these are the remnants of Thala's experiments, who want him to transport them back in time to save her. The eDoctor assists them, while planning to betray them of course. He discretely sends eAdam to alert the Dals. Who ambush and kill them all, including the eDoctor. - Having an android duplicate around can be very handy.
- Fitting it with a gigatonne revenge bomb even better...
12. Killing Time Within minutes of landing on a remote human colony in the early twenty-second century the eDoctor andhis TARDIS are captured by human Overseers serving the Cybermen. The planet is used as a breeding planet for the Cybermen, supplying humans to replenish their numbers. A group of rebels have embraced cybernetics to beat their conquerors and are producing their own crude cyborgs using stolen Cybertechnology. The Cybermen have foreknowledge of the eDoctor's arrival, but not of all his minions, ePeri and eAdam escape and aid the rebels. The eDoctor is forced to help the rebels and defeat the Cybermen to gain his freedom and TARDIS. 13. Gentlemen.Landing in Edwardian Britain the eDoctor and co meet one Winston Churchill. But what's he doing in 1913, alive, and serving as First Lord of the Admiralty, instead of being safely dead and buried? Someone else is meddling with history and the eDoctor doesn't like being cast as a pawn in their plan Annoyed the eDoctor drags his minions off to backtrack Churchill's life, to eliminate those helping him and ensuring he dies on schedule on the third of January 1911, even if they have to do it themselves. - ePeri's ability to impersonate an American has improved from her previous attempt; however she's too "forward" with her flirtations. Of course with the aid of her pheromone spray she still has the noblemen of London crowding around like moths to a bug-zapper. Her jewelry collection improves immensely.
- eAdam's vortex capsule is employed to travel intime while the eDoctor uses the TARDIS to distract the mysterious 'Players'. ePeri is not happy at it's crampedness ("I'm not sitting on your lap". "Fine you can kneel between my legs, I'm sure you're used to that position".)
The eDoctorwonders what things would be like if Churchill survived, "Probably much the same, just another politician". - In the end ePeri and eAdam end up inside 100 Sidney Street,hoping the eDoctor arrives in time
14. Changes Wrenched from normal space-time, the eDoctor encounters what appears to be a copy of Earth in a bubble universe, complete with steam-tech Romans,monsters and a familiar figure lurking in the background. The eDoctor evicts the Rani and establishes a base for future operations. ePeri becomes a Queen (but doesn't stay). And eAdam impersonates a god. 15. Church & Crown Visiting a twenty-first century art gallery the eDoctor discovers that ePeri is physically identical to Queen Anne of France, and he comes up with a plot.However Koschei is also in town, as are a trio of 52nd century historians. ePeri should have paid more attention in history class and less to Dumas, she doesn't understand the real Cardinal Richelieu. - ePeri flirts with a King, a Cardinal, a Duke,several Musketeers and a significant portion of the population of 1620s Paris,possibly including her own double...
- eAdam demonstrates to the Musketeers the superiority of semi-automatic firearms over wheel-locks.
16. Inadvisable Actions.A quartet of Dominator assassins materialise inside the TARDIS, something that should be utterly impossible for their species. So where did they get the technology and why are they trying to kill the eDoctor? Well the second part is easy, a small matter of a previous incarnation obliterating their time travel experiments. But who's backing them? And why? - ePeri flirts with some large humanoids, "So you're the Dominators are you?".
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 3, 2014 21:50:25 GMT
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Post by jezmiller on Dec 3, 2014 23:09:28 GMT
Hope you feel better soon
Awwwwww, you killed Sil!
I like the way you've drawn on different sources for the adventures. Stirs the mix a bit. So Churchill's death is a divergence point for the evil universe?
[Groan] Dominators... Koschei should thank his lucky stars that he never took to calling himself the Master in this universe. The mind boggles at what she would have made of that.
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