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Post by Catsmate on Dec 4, 2014 0:03:17 GMT
Hope you feel better soon Thanks. I think it's just a minor virus. Yep. But the next story is called The Revenge of Sil... I like the way you've drawn on different sources for the adventures. Thanks, I've gone for the ones I likes, novels or audio (with changes); plus a few completely new ideas. Stirs the mix a bit. So Churchill's death is a divergence point for the evil universe? Well the actual divergence is somewhat earlier, probably around 1890. Churchill's death is one of the earliest significant manifestations. Of course then there's the shortened WW1, the post-war rapprochement between France and Germans, the rise of fascism.... [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. I hadn't thought of that. Personally I like the Dominators, one of the great forgotten villains.
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Post by starkllr on Dec 4, 2014 0:16:50 GMT
Very, very nice! I love that you used "State of Change." That was one of my favorite Missing Adventures.
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Post by jezmiller on Dec 4, 2014 8:48:14 GMT
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 4, 2014 11:11:53 GMT
Very, very nice! I love that you used "State of Change." That was one of my favorite Missing Adventures. Mine too. Good plot, characterisation and setting with lots of possibilities.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 4, 2014 11:22:37 GMT
Thanks for those, I like the updated Quark designs. One influence on my eDoctor writings, and the relationships between the species, has been Niklas Jansson's Doctor Who Redesign Project.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 4, 2014 12:01:38 GMT
Part 22 - Sixth eDoctor – The Adventures, part three.17. The Revenge of Sil
Sil's brood brother, Lej, seeks revenge for his brother's death at the hand of the eDoctor. - Actually it was at the hands of ePeri, with a large carboy of sulphuric acid. Something she'd be happy to repeat.
However the trio are are pursued by Lej's time travelling assassins in a stolen time-machine. - Stolen from the Dals. Who object. Strenuously.
ePeri doesn't bother flirting with this slug, but her knowledge of cosmetics proves useful and she demonstrates Lej's choice of skin moisturiser is inadvisedly flammable... - "Eww, it stinks". "Now Peri roast slug is a delicacy on some worlds". "Please warn me if we ever visit any of them".
18. The Right to Bear ArmsScouting a primitive planet as a possible base the eDoctor is shot by one of the locals, with a weapon they shouldn't be able to construct for centuries. Sending his minions to investigate, while he recovers in the TARDIS' medical bay, they find that an off-world group is supplying the weapons to enable one tribe to conquer the planet, preparing it for exploitation for it's mineral wealth. The eDoctor's minions, "aided" by his remote commentary, create an alliance to frustrate the plan, overpower the off-worlders and find out who's behind it all. - ePeri's flirtatious inclinations are dissuaded by the locals' hygiene standards. Or lack of them. ("Forget guns, introduce bathing. And soap".)
- eAdam stages a brief "War of the Gods" and eliminates the alien scout party.
19. The Wages of Annoyance.Annoying the eDoctor can be bad for your health, causing him to be shot can be bad for your planet and terminal for your corporation. Especially if it's run by a bunch of slugs with poor interpersonal skills. - ePeri finally finds a well-stocked slave market ("Oooh, I'll have one of him, one of each of them, and three of him")
20. The HordeAnother one of ePeri's shopping trips goes wrong. Impulsively trying to prevent a robbery the eDoctor ends up prime suspect for a murder, one he didn't actually commit! - And the only person who heard the victim's dying words (a set of spatial coordinates).
Disarmed by the local constabulary and with his TARDIS impounded the eDoctor must demonstrate his innocence (of this crime at least). Thanks to eAdam's efforts a different (if also innocent) suspect is found. Freed he decides to visit the coordinates and finds himself embroiled in a race with criminals, a duplicitous journalist, and several people he's met before; the con-man Garron and his sidekick Unstoffe, the "adventurers" Glitz and Dibbler, Nana and her grand-daughter plus Lytton and his crew. All seeking an example of Osiran technology that rivals even that of the Time Lords. 21. Schooldays ePeri nags the eDoctor into showing her some of her future, so they visit the Californian Republic in 2016 to relax. While the eDoctor and eAdam work on their time machines, ePeri impulsively amuses herself by enrolling in the local high school and flirting with the male population. - However this school has a nasty secret in it's basement.
While ePeri's causing trouble with the teenagers someone's got his eye on her. Not every threat is alien. Some are closer to home... - "Come on Peri, time to go". "Awww, but Doc I've got two boys scheduled to slash each other to ribbons for my amusement in twenty minutes".
22. A Day in SummerBored, the eDoctor takes ePeri and eAdam to Vienna watch the events of Thursday the 4th of June 1914, the spark that started the Great War ("It's not every day you see an Emperor blown to bits"). As they watch Franz Josef's carriage pass by.....nothing happens. As the eDoctor wonders who's responsible for this tampering, he and several other time travellers who'd come to witness the assassination, decide to remedy the change. The travellers have to double-back and stop the group stopping the bombing. - ePeri finds Austria-Hungary stiflingly boring.eAdam find it both boring and hot. Plus eDoctor doesn't let him indulge his hobby.. ("Mutilated corpses would complicate things. Plus we're busy.")
- The eDoctor muses on the Great War; "Pity it fizzled out after less than a year and half. That war had potential."
23. Merrie Old England.
Tracking the signatures of the same time machines they encountered in 1914 to some odd temporal activity in Earth's history the eDoctor and company visit London in 1648. There they find a group of time travellers, former members of the RSF, plotting to take over the nascent Commonwealth in the aftermath of Charles II's execution. They also find another group from the future, part of eJo's Network trying to stop them; a somewhat uneasy alliance is formed. - Some of her former followers discover just how unwise, and painful, annoying eJo can be.
- Especially stealing the time machines she'd gone to the trouble of stealing from the SSD, the ones captured from the Thalek invasion paradox rebels.
24. The Ultimate Foe eRomana III is back, complete with a plan to take over Time itself; using a piece of technology constructed by the Chronovores themselves she's constructing a device capable of re-writing history with ease. She's also in control of a remnant of the old Terran Empire that have also tried to tap it's power. Now the eDoctor will server her. Or die screaming a multitude of times. - She's also got an ally, pulled out of time at the moment of death; someone who hates the eDoctor and
blames him for their death... - ePeri also finds herself facing an unpleasantly familiar face.
Can the eDoctor manage to defeat eRomana III alone? Or will he be forced to beg for help?
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Post by jezmiller on Dec 4, 2014 22:13:51 GMT
The return of the Darkheart, some very interesting time-travel plots and more scheming from Galatron Mining Corp. Applause!
The Horde sounds rather like an anniversary special, a fun diversion to give us an excuse to meet some old friends.
Schooldays... am I getting a Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibe here?
Romana's mystery ally... Mortimus? Don't keep me in suspense like this, it's bad for my bloood pressure!
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 4, 2014 23:32:17 GMT
The return of the Darkheart, some very interesting time-travel plots and more scheming from Galatron Mining Corp. Applause! Yeah I really liked The Dark Path and Darkheart deserved an appearance. In fact it will be back. The Galtron corp and the Mentors had a lot of potential that wasn't really explored on TV. Plus if they were messing with things considered dangerous by the Time Lords I expected them to be interested in time travel. The Horde sounds rather like an anniversary special, a fun diversion to give us an excuse to meet some old friends. Yep. Lots of loose ends I wanted to re-visit. Some of them will re-appear. The whole quest plotline is suited to multiple groups, antagonists and dubious allies. Schooldays... am I getting a Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibe here? Not specifically. More a generic "something nasty in the school basement" motif, which has appeared in everything from Doctor Who to Nightmare on Elm Street. Also no aliens or other weirdness, just human evil. Romana's mystery ally... Mortimus? Don't keep me in suspense like this, it's bad for my bloood pressure! [Highlight for spoilers] Nope not Mortimus, though he'll be back during the eDoctor's seventh incarnation. Romana's "ally" was in fact Morbius, snatached out of time at the instant of his disintegration by the Mentalis computer's defenses (having been lured in by the fourth eDoctor). Sil also appears, snatched just before he died but remembering how ePeri gloated while pouring acid on him. And somewhat unhappy about that experience.
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Post by jezmiller on Dec 5, 2014 21:31:09 GMT
It's a crying shame that Nabil Shaban didn't get offered more opportunities to reprise the role of Sil. How the hell did he manage to make a sadistic alien slug with the most evil gargle in the universe so... likable? The man's a genius. Christopher Ryan should have had more screen time as well. He has a real talent for projecting a powerful personality through layers of prosthetics, as he proved with both Lord Kiv and General Staal.
I agree with you, Galatron and the Mentors had a huge amount of untapped potential, so it's good to see you using some of it. I've thought about using them myself, as a way to introduce a cyberpunk-ish setting - there were hints in Mindwarp that they might have interests in biological and cybernetic augmentation - something they have in common with the eDoctor, come to think of it.
As for time travel, Sil talked about "time/space machines" in "Vengeance on Varos", so he was familiar with the concept, at least, but he seemed to be implying that the technology was widespread. Maybe we can put the comment down to the eccentric communications circuit in his translator. Given their known MO, Galatron would probably be a hugely disruptive influence on history if they did have time travel - you could easily imagine them giving machine guns to the Roman Legions in exchange for shadow control of the Empire, or something similar.
Romana III's motives intrigue me. Her resurrected ally strikes me as the type to turn on her at the drop of a hat, and she has to know that - so what is she hoping to gain by bringing him back?
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 5, 2014 23:42:29 GMT
It's a crying shame that Nabil Shaban didn't get offered more opportunities to reprise the role of Sil. How the hell did he manage to make a sadistic alien slug with the most evil gargle in the universe so... likable? The man's a genius. Christopher Ryan should have had more screen time as well. He has a real talent for projecting a powerful personality through layers of prosthetics, as he proved with both Lord Kiv and General Staal. Yes Shaban was (and is) an excellent actor. Sil was one of the most memorable characters of the sixth Doctor era and deserved more screen time. I agree with you, Galatron and the Mentors had a huge amount of untapped potential, so it's good to see you using some of it. I've thought about using them myself, as a way to introduce a cyberpunk-ish setting - there were hints in Mindwarp that they might have interests in biological and cybernetic augmentation - something they have in common with the eDoctor, come to think of it. Yep and I plan to use that interest a bit myself. They make an excellent antagonist. As for time travel, Sil talked about "time/space machines" in "Vengeance on Varos", so he was familiar with the concept, at least, but he seemed to be implying that the technology was widespread. Maybe we can put the comment down to the eccentric communications circuit in his translator. Given their known MO, Galatron would probably be a hugely disruptive influence on history if they did have time travel - you could easily imagine them giving machine guns to the Roman Legions in exchange for shadow control of the Empire, or something similar. Oh yes. Arguably they'd be as dangerous as time travelling Daleks; potentially multiple Mentor factions screwing up history for fun and profit. In fact they could be an alternate Time War antagonists; after a few clashes with the Time Lords they gather the resources of the commercial empire and decide to eliminate the opposition... I assumed Sil's reference to "...when the engineers of every known solar system cry out for his product to drive their space-time craft?" was purely to some form of FTL propulsion, though I did make it explicit that Zeiton 7 was useful in time travel too. Romana III's motives intrigue me. Her resurrected ally strikes me as the type to turn on her at the drop of a hat, and she has to know that - so what is she hoping to gain by bringing him back? Absolutely, eRomana III would be fully aware that Morbius would try and backstab her; however he's slightly more interested in killing the eDoctor, and least in the short term, and she has her own plans to eliminate him when he's served his purpose.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 6, 2014 12:48:46 GMT
Part 23 - A historical interlude, part 1.There were a couple of questions on the historical background of this Earth, so I've put my notes together.This Earth's history diverged from the Whoniverse sometime around 1890; there was no single, obvious, point of divergence but from this date onwards a series of initially minor divergences began to accrue. Small differences, for example, in the conduct of the South African War and Russo-Japanese War would ensure rather worse performances for Britain and Russia and have later consequences. Likewise the Haldane reforms were slower to be enacted, and the muddle over the switch to the new .280 cartridge and Mauser rifle would contribute to the initially poor performance of the British Expeditionary Force in France. One of the first notable major differences was the death of Winston Spencer Churchill in on the third of January 1911 at Sidney Street, when a small group of revolutionaries attacked police lines in an attempt to aid the escape of their comrades inside the besieged house. This would trigger expulsions of suspected anarchists and a policy of restricting entry of political refugees into the UK. While some historians would consider this the start of Britain's swing toward authoritarianism, it had a more significant effect in reducing the influence of the 'Bolshevik' faction within the Social Democrats. Across the Atlantic the death of William Howard Taft in 1912 led to Theodore Roosevelt regaining the presidency of the United States in the election of that year. In the Great War Roosevelt's policy of even handed neutrality would keep the US out of the European war. However, as prophesied by Bismark, 'some damn foolish thing in the Balkans' would happen to trigger a general war. After lurching from crisis to crisis the final match thrown into the powder-barrel of European politics was the murder of Emperor Franz Josef. A bomb was thrown into the open carriage in which he was travelling on the afternoon of the Thursday the fourth of June 1914 by a Serbian nationalist. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was initially in chaos but soon the new emperor, Franz Josef's nephew Franz Ferdinand, was installed and an ultimatum was issued to Serbia (whose government has been connected to the outrage). When the Serbian Prime Minister Pasic agreed to the terms, he was ousted by a hardline faction within his government led by the regicide Apis and the agreement repudiated. With German support Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia and the Great War began. The initial strategy of the Central Powers (the German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires and Italy) worked reasonably well. The disorganisation of the Russian forces allowed Germany to achieve great successes and prevent aid to Serbia. While the defensive strategy in the west against France led to the overly aggressive French forces suffering horrible casualties against German fixed defenses. While this wouldn't cause the knock-out blow desired against France it left the Germans positioned well, by the end of 1914, for further advances. By the end of autumn 1915 the situation looked bleak for the Entente nations, with German advances (aided by poison gas) through Belgium leaving them in control of the Channel coast. Faced with the prospect of German troops heading west after the series of victories against Russia, and that country beset with internal turmoil, France secretly sought peace on terms of status quo ante bellum. When this inevitably became widely known the end of the war was inevitable and an armistice was signed in November 1915. After the end of the war came the rather more complicated business of peace; in Britain the thorny question of Irish Home Rule had to be dealt with. After months of threats, politicking, bribes, concessions and discussion a compromise was agreed. Initially only the southern portion of the country would be effected, having Dominion status, but the north east would be added piecemeal over the years, based on five-yearly plebiscites. - Of course later events would make this agreement redundant; with the end of the Dominion of Ireland in 1936 and the effective formation of a republic in 1942 and it's official institution in 1946.
It was a compromise that satisfied no-one, but it could be accepted. The first Irish Prime Minister (John Redmond) took office in 1916 following the opening (by King George and Queen Mary) of the new Irish Parliament. Overall the post-war feeling was a mixture of two very different states of mind. Initially a majority in most of the belligerent countries were somewhat disappointed, felling that victory had been lost by politics. Later the feeling that a long and horrible war had been narrowly avoided would spread, especially after some of the developments in warfare (such as aerial bombardment) in the post-war period. One of the surprises of the early 1920s was the softening of relations between France and Germany, following the election of Social Democrat governments in both countries. While it would be a decade before relations could be considered cordial it was sign of changes to come. - Which would culminate in the joint action against fascism in Spain, and later the alliance that would form the basis for the European Federation.
Overall the 1920s were a prosperous and peaceful decade, at least in the developed countries. India was restive of course, inspired to a degree by the example of Ireland, and the Liberal-Labour coalition government (elected in January 1924) agreed to talks with nationalist groups; though their attention was focussed at home, the events that would lead to the successful avoidance of a coal miner's strike and a general strike that summer. Britain also saw a number of small political parties achieve success in that election (the Anti-Waste Party, the British Imperial Party et cetera) many of which would merge into the 'Independent Parliamentary Group' (also known as the People's League) a right-wing umbrella group. The country would be governed by a mix of weak Conservative governments, alternating with Liberal-Labour coalitions or small Liberal majority governments well into the 1930s. While Italy had profited by it's participation in the Great War, acquiring Dalmatia and other Adriatic territories, the failure to obtain Corsica, Nice, Malta and Savoy still rankled. In 1919 the nationalist poet and aviator Gabriele d'Annunzio created a new political ideology "a windy mixture of nationalism, futurism, socialism and dreams of the Roman Empire" that would be one of the major steps towards organised fascism a decade later. Russia had, by 1920, settled down to a loose federation, with a weak Social Democrat/Liberal government led by Kerensky (the hero of the 1916 revolution) with extensive buffer states between it and Germany. - The Imperial family were exiled, by arrangement, to Britain and quietly ignored as far as possible. Of course numerous plots were hatched to restore them...
The signs of the troubles to come were there, and many saw and publicised them, but very few people expected the level of international disruption that would happen in the mid 1930s... And that's the end of part 1. Assuming there's still interest I'll mix part 2 (the Slump, the rise of fascism and the Eastern War, the collapse of the United States and the Intervention) and part 3 (the 1950s onward) with the seventh eDoctor stuff.
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Post by jezmiller on Dec 6, 2014 19:45:07 GMT
I said earlier that you should submit the eDoctor series to the Diary, both as a campaign in its own right and an model of how to take the sourcebooks for each Doctor and rework the material to fit a completely different campaign. But I think your full alternate history would work well as a completely self-contained article. It could be a very useful resource for a wide variety of different games, not only the evil Doctor universe. (Not only Dr. Who, for that matter, it'd fit the GURPS Alternate Earths/Infinite Worlds setting like a glove).
I've submitted a chronicle series of my own to the Diary, using original characters. I'm thinking about some follow-up articles for that. Would you mind if I used your background for one, or maybe two, scenarios in that series? I've got the germs of ideas for a couple of plots in my mind, one set during the Republic and one using eJo's network.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 6, 2014 20:54:51 GMT
Part 24 - Seventh eDoctor – Overview, minions and gadgets. Personality.'That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain'.
Significantly different from previous incarnation. Physically much smaller for a start, but far more manipulative and distant. Always seems to be calculating and planning. More organised and efficient too. Gear.A multi-coloured umbrella with a black question mark handle. Unfolds to a bullet and beam resistant shield (Armour 6); it includes a incorporates a beam laser, a drug pellet gun, a chemical spray (often loaded with disassembler nanomachines that literally dismantle someone sprayed), a twist off grenade head for covering escapes. The umbrella also folds like a shooting stick to form a seat, and can be expanded to form a small shelter. The eDoctor's seventh incarnation usually prefers to improvise to demonstrate his superiority, though he carries at least one weapon along with his Technix. Prefers his minions to handle any violence. Minions.The eDoctor begins his seventh incarnation with ePeri and eAdam. However both soon become concerned by the eDoctor's new personality (and their inability to manipulate him as easily as before) and both begin planning for their departure eAdam maintains his vortex capsule in working condition, and stocked for a quick departure, while ePeri organises her 'go-bags' in case an opportunity presents itself. eAce Acacia Charlotte Eugenia Gale. Formerly a teenage student at the elite Overten Academy (born 1990, orphaned 2005). A sadist and bully (with a penchant for explosives, poisons and inflicting pain) she made the perfect prefect and was a member of a powerful student clique in the school (Joker, King, Queen, Knight,Page). Archetype: Faith from BtVS Awareness 4 Coordination 4 Ingenuity4 Presence 3 Resolve 4 Strength 3 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 Brave, Attractive, Impulsive, Indomitable, Insatiable Curiosity, Lucky, Ruthless, Quick Reflexes, Resourceful Pockets, Tough Gear: Initially she has several blades, multi-tool, audio player, camera,cellphone, slate computer and a backpack (containing books, paper, junk food,rope, explosives [several canisters of nitro-nine], chemicals, catapult with steel ball-bearings and her 'kit' [pliers, needles, plastic bag, velcro ties,carbonated water, scalpels, wire, candles, lighter, et cetera]). She also picked up a pistol and ammunition. Amasses an arsenal quickly eKadiatu The culmination of a breeding and gene-modification programme started by the eDoctor, eKadiatu is exceptionally capable. Awareness 4 Coordination 6 Ingenuity5 Presence 5 Resolve 5 Strength 5 Athletics 5, Convince 2, Fighting 4, Knowledge 3, Marksman 3, Medicine 1,Science 3, Subterfuge 2, Survival 3, Technology 5, Transport 2 Brave, Attractive, Dependency (high calorie intake), Distinctive, Fast, Fast Healing, Immunity (most diseases and some poisons),Impulsive, Indomitable, Insatiable Curiosity, Lucky, Psychic, Quick Reflexes,Technically Adept, Tough, Vortex. Roz and Chris; a pair of brutal and corrupt Adjudicators, even by the standards of the twilight of the Terran Empire. eRoz A dark skinned/haired woman of medium height and muscular build. Eyes move constantly on watch. Awareness 4 Coordination 4 Ingenuity4 Presence 5 Resolve 5 Strength 4 Athletics 2, Convince 3, Fighting 4, Knowledge 3, Marksman 4, Medicine 1 [3]],Science 2, Subterfuge 4, Survival 2, Technology 4, Transport 3 Bigoted (Aliens), Brave, Indomitable, Phobia (telepaths, she has a lot of secrets), Quick Reflexes, Resourceful Pockets, Selfish, Tough, Voice of Authority eChris A large light skinned male with blonde hair. Tall with heavy build. Smiles a lot. Awareness 3 Coordination 4 Ingenuity4 Presence 4 Resolve 4 Strength 6 Athletics 3, Convince 1, Fighting 3, Knowledge 2, Marksman 4, Medicine 2,Science 1, Subterfuge 1, Technology 2, Transport 4 Brave, Attractive, Distinctive, Hot Shot, Impulsive,Lucky, Psychic, Resourceful Pockets, Selfish, Tough Gear. Both will almost always be armed, usually with multiple weapons (disrupter pistol, pocket/holdout/micro blaster, stunner, shimmer knife, shock baton etcetera). Usually also wear armour (concealable Armour 2, more obvious Armour 5 or a very obvious Armour 10 suit) Other gear: restraints; basic medical kit; comm-link; a variety of interrogation, surveillance and intrusion gear; stun/gas/explosive grenades. Gadgets.Karfortharex ('Hot needle of Enquiry'). A slim pen sized device with a extending needle, very strong and very sharp, that can be heated to several hundred degrees. Capable of scraping bone or leaving painful by barely visible burns. A favourite of eAce. Nitro-nine: a synthetic, highly stressed nitrogen compound, related to polynitrocubanes, developed by eAce. Highly explosive but reasonably stable. A single canister, about 250g, does 10/20/30 damage with 2/4/6range increments. - Her fusing can be somewhat unreliable...
Later, with some research using the facilities of the TARDIS she develops a more powerful version using a nanocarbon binder; effects are the same but the device is smaller and usually has reliable electronic fusing, allowing variable delay, booby-traps and remote activation. Multiple canisters: two 14/28/42, range increments 2/5/7 four 20/40/60, range increments 3/6/9 Vajra. A slight spoiler is concealed.A very useful multi-purpose wand like device that MortimusIV created during his down time. It can act as a light source; fire-starter (igniting flammable material with about a metre);heat source (useful for making hot drinks, heating rocks or melting ice); a cutting/welding beam; a short ranged tractor beam (manipulate objects up to 5mwith STR 2); repulsor (pushing back with STR 5); crusher (a 3/6/9 effect resembling a hammer blow); a stunner or disrupter (5/10/15 but limited to 30m range); lockpick; a basic scanner (limited readout); tissue regenerator (Heal 3/6/9, Difficulty 7); hypnosis aid (Minor level but cumulative with the user's hypnosis ability, if any). Tricky Controls.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 6, 2014 21:26:26 GMT
I said earlier that you should submit the eDoctor series to the Diary, both as a campaign in its own right and an model of how to take the sourcebooks for each Doctor and rework the material to fit a completely different campaign. That's an idea I'm considering, though I've nine articles rewritten and submitted to the Diary already and a few more in the pipeline. But I think your full alternate history would work well as a completely self-contained article. It could be a very useful resource for a wide variety of different games, not only the evil Doctor universe. (Not only Dr. Who, for that matter, it'd fit the GURPS Alternate Earths/Infinite Worlds setting like a glove). That's not a bad idea either; it'd probably need some more work, certainly for a GURPS level treatment (the AE entries average about eighteen pages with about three pages of graphics). Maybe if I've some free time over the holidays. I've submitted a chronicle series of my own to the Diary, using original characters. I'm thinking about some follow-up articles for that. Would you mind if I used your background for one, or maybe two, scenarios in that series? I've got the germs of ideas for a couple of plots in my mind, one set during the Republic and one using eJo's network. I've absolutely no problems with you using the background, though I'd ask that you run it by thereviewer.
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Post by jezmiller on Dec 6, 2014 21:48:02 GMT
No problem at all. Not by you, though?
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 6, 2014 22:48:07 GMT
This is the first of (probably) six parts covering the adventures of the seventh incarnation of the eDoctor. There are 48 in total and for those interested there's a flowchart of them here <massive spoilers luvvies!>. There are a number of linked sequences of adventures. Part 25 - Seventh eDoctor – The Adventures, part one.01. Paradise Recovering from another Romana forced regeneration (he needs to do something about her) the eDoctor seeks a quiet place to rest and recuperate. So he, ePeri and eAdam head for Paradise, a dedicated holiday planet on the fringes of the Galactic Federation, in the thirty-seventh century. Of course his holiday is not to be, and they're caught up in a spate of mysterious disappearances, temporal distortions, two different mad scientists and a face from the eDoctor's past.. - Lytton and his time machine are also on Paradise, but what do they want?
02. The Towers During the Martian War in the early twenty-second century an experimental self-contained domed arcology (sealed against the polluted environment) disappeared from central England, thought to have been an accidental casualty of the sporadic Martian kinetic bombardment, a smaller version of the Paris Rock. However, it was in fact a casualty of an experimental Martian weapon; a test of a piece of recovered Osiran technology that backfired. The device actually moved the complex elsewhere, into a bubble universe adjacent to the main one. Now, as the result of a botched attempt to access the bubble universe to which the Time Lords banished the War Lords, the eDoctor's TARDIS lands there. - The bubble universe is small, a mere few score kilometres in diameter, with the arcology's and its surroundings resting on a seemingly solid sphere of rock, as if inside a planet. In the centre is a pseudo-sun, rather bluer than Sol.
- Above the arcology, on the other surface of the sphere, are the remains of the Martian ship, it's crew killed by the backfire.
The inhabitants have resorted to a mixture of agriculture and breeding of food animals in the extensive gardens, and cannibalism to supplement the malfunctioning automated food synthesisers. There are running battles between the Caretakers and various, mostly girl, gangs and resources are running out. Now the eDoctor and his minions arrive, and try to find a way out, while attracting a lot of attention from the desperate refugees. 03. Bannermen When their attempt to conquer Chimeron is frustrated by it's brood-queen fleeing through time, the Bannermen need someone with a time machine to help them pursue her. So, through the offices of Sabalom Glitz as an intermediary,they contact the eDoctor, offering to share the captured Chimeron mutagenic technology (and test subjects) in exchange for transport. The eDoctor agrees and materialises the TARDIS around four Bannermen assault shuttles and follows the Chimeron time displacement to Earth, specifically England in 1957. Of course the Bannermen plan to betray the eDoctor and steal the TARDIS, but then he plans to betray them.And he gets his betrayal in first, notifying the British authorities about the alien incursion.While the Bannermen and the RSF fight a running battle across '50s Wales the eDoctor contacts the Chimeron queen and offers her an escape, claiming to be a clandestine envoy from Gallifrey. Once she's safely inside the TARDIS her guards are massacred by eAdam and the dissection can begin... - The eDoctor provides some tactical advice to the RSF, and offers to help them in the future, making some contacts.
- ePeri and eAdam are becoming concerned by the eDoctor's new personality and both begin planning to depart, neither is happy cast in the role of a pawn and the new incarnation is less susceptible to manipulation than previously.
- eAdam prepares his vortex capsule for a rapid departure, stocked for travel and also begins establishing caches of other equipment at various locations they visit.
<Modern Earths sequence> 04. Battlefield The eDoctor receives a message from eJo on Earth asking for his help; an attempt to steal a convoy of nuclear-armed cruise missiles from Scotland in 2006 using transmat technology has gone badly wrong. - While after the Revolution the rump UK (the steadily diminishing England basically) was prohibited from possessing nuclear weapons, the independent Scottish Republic maintains a small nuclear arsenal.
- The RSF was rather free with the use of nerve gas in the early stages of the Revolution and the Scots have a "never again" attitude.
In fact the transmat system triggered a natural rift between universes and has dragged in forces from a neighbouring universe, one in which the country is the Peoples Republic of Britain, a communist dictatorship allied to a Communist Russia of all things... The eDoctor has to contend with the League of Nations Investigation Group, the local Scots and invading communists. - ePeri flirts with a number of Scotsmen, constrained by some language difficulties and distracts some LoNIG troopers.
05. Dragonfire Why is there a dragon roaming the English countryside in 2006? Where did it come from? What is it doing? And what does it have to do with an elite boarding school that's part of a long term plot? Visiting eJo's to discuss favours owed, the eDoctor encounters eAce and a group of other pupils from the Overten Academy whose bus has been flamed by a dragon... - eAce (Acacia Charlotte Eugenia Gale) is a recently orphaned ward of the Overten Trust, and a pupil at the Overten Academy, the centerpiece of Jo Grant Network. A sadist and bully eAce makes an ideal prefect, and an even better potential minion.
It seems that somebody's messing with alien transmat technology has weakened the barriers between the universes, allowing various oddities to break through. And eJo needs help before the authorities start investigating too deeply... - While she's ten years younger than "Jo Grant" would be, and has had reconstructive surgery, a genetic analysis would still show she's a wanted criminal sentenced to death in absentia
The "dragon" is actually a Dracomech, a hybrid cyborg creature created by humans on an Earth where society took a radically different path.
Eventually eAdam manages to tame the "dragon", but not until another attack kills the remainder of eAce's clique (Joker, King, Queenie, Knight and Page) leaving her furious at eJo (to the level of attempted homicide by high explosive). The eDoctor offers her the chance to see the universe, have fun, and kill people (and take the problem child off eJo's hands). - Thorny wood indeed. Perhaps the circumstances of her parents' deaths should have been better investigated...
- ePeri flirts with a range of teenage boys, but is persuaded to moderate her habits.
- eAdam and ePeri start training eAce; ePeri teaches her how to better manipulate people, especially men, and eAdam tutors her in additions to her extensive repertoire of techniques for inflicting pain; ones where not leaving marks isn't as important as it was at school. Plus the important skills for a minion; weapons, explosives, intrusion, escape et cetera.
06. Silver NemesisThe Cybermen are back, but this time they're different. Not invading from outer space but utilising a dimensional rift, from a universe where their invasion in 1968 succeeded. His TARDIS's navigational systems rendered problematic by the dimensional overlaps the eDoctor needs to stabilise reality and end the rifts in order to leave Earth. While avoiding the investigators from the LoNIG. <Modern Earths sequence ends> 07. The Happiness Patrol Seeking information on what he believes are advanced mind control techniques in use on the Nova Terra colony the eDoctor visits in the guise of a Colonial Authority investigator and assistants. He wonders how the authorities maintain such harmony, given the mix of ethnic and social factions that were selected as colonists. Drugs? Subliminal messaging? Brain implants? Coercion and omnipresent monitoring? Social conditioning? Just what is the Sinister Secret of the infamous Happiness Patrol? He finds more than he expected; the Terra Novan authorities have some help, from a renegade Time Lord with an expertise in mind control and biotechnology... And the Rani has a grudge against him, not to mention wanting to protect her base of operations. - ePeri finds the locals boring ("A cabbage would be more fun to spend time with") but flirts anyway.
- eAce blows things up, including a poodle with unfortunate retriever instincts.
- eAdam squirrels away some of the Rani's equipment for future use.
08. The Greatest ShowAfter avoiding (they hope) biological, neurological and nano-technological personality rewriting the travellers feel they deserve a holiday. And the planet Menetia is known for it's plays and shows, including the fabled Greatest Show, which uses psychotronic mindlink technology to put the audience inside the plays. What could possibly go horribly wrong on a planet dedicated to the theatrical arts?
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 6, 2014 22:50:08 GMT
No problem at all. Not by you, though? Sorry I wasn't clear. Thereviewer is jointly responsible for the Evil Whoniverse, I just wanted you to run it past him. I'm quite happy to read whatever you come up with, and assist if I can.
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Post by starkllr on Dec 6, 2014 23:52:03 GMT
Just want to reiterate - this is just AMAZING work. Thank you so much for sharing it!
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 7, 2014 11:13:01 GMT
Part 26 - Seventh eDoctor – The Adventures, part two.09. IceworldIn the far future for the fifth millennium Iceworld is a neutral port, adjacent to seven major powers [Dals, Thaleks, Dominators, Federation, Confederation, Sontarens, and Krotons] but not quite in the Disputed Zone. It's a place where they can meet and negotiate, spy on each other, and engage in diplomacy, smuggling and assassination. - The system is sparse, a cold white-dwarf star orbited mainly a multitude of rockballs, many icy. Iceworld itself is a large asteroid, dense and rich in metals; probably a planetary core with the rest boiled off by the long ago nova of it's primary.
- Iceworld is 'downhill' in hyperspace terms and at the terminus of several wormholes, making it a major transit destination. It's a busy port, a tourist destination with a reputation (where anything can be bought) and a mining centre (the system is rich in supernova produced transuranics deposited on asteroids).
Of course there's something *really* nasty going on... Just who created that wormhole network? What else did they leave behind? - ePeri leaves, teaming up with Glitz, Dibbler and company to rule Iceworld; she acquires an interesting ring in the process...
<Ace's apprenticeship sequence> 10. Ghost LightAs part of a test the eDoctor drags eAce to an old house, that seemingly stood unoccupied through the Republic and Revolution, near her childhood home. What's inside? What keeps (sensible) people away? 11. SurvivalAgain seeking to test eAce's mettle the eDoctor takes her to a planet ruled by aggressive cat-people and subjects her to a brutal survival test. 12. Fenric In the 1943, during the Eastern War and in the aftermath of the changes caused by the after the execution of George VI the nascent British Republic discovered a strange material in a cave system in Norfolk, under where where a SigInt station has been built, monitoring radio activity to the east. The material exhibits properties suggesting it could be weaponised into a powerful toxic agent. Meanwhile the eDoctor is seeking additional Chimeron material from one of their unsuccessful time corridor experiments during the Bannermen siege. But what, or who, caused the time corridor to divert to Earth? <Ace's apprenticeship sequence ends> 13. The Hand of DeathThe eDoctor returns to 1960s England to retrieve the immensely powerful Hand of Alpha that he'd hidden in London six incarnations earlier. He prepares with care, setting up false identities for himself and his minions, attaching them to the RSF and arriving a month before his first incarnation left (they stay in the Dorchester). The eDoctor uses the information he gleaned from SSD records he studied in his third incarnation to plan the project. Of course others have also had access to those records and the Dals, Thaleks and Andromedans also turn up. Testing the Hand, the eDoctor uses the it to release Parnal (planet of the War Lords) from its prison universe. - Where the Time Lords sequestered it after the War Games were ended.
Parnal ends up in an easily accessible bubble universe. Skaro is destroyed, it's sun detonated. London also suffers some damage during the 'Limehouse Incident' However the plan ends when the eDoctor activates a failsafe, causing the Hand to return to Gallifrey. The eDoctor departs rapidly ahead of any Time Lord investigation. 14. TymwyrmScouting the cradle of human civilisation, in the Euphrates/Tigris valleys, the eDoctor finds an alien presence already there, and meddling. He's annoyed, Earth is his plaything. She's got big plans for these hairless apes. - eAce definitely does not flirt with Gilgamesh.
15. The Mark of Mandragora Something else used the time displacement device the Tymewyrm developed, the Mandragora Helix! And the sentient energy has now latched onto the TARDIS forcing it to land on a twenty sixth century human colony, and stranding it there until it's "earthed". While the eDoctor and minions (well eAdam, eAce isn't too technically inclined) make repairs, the Helix assembles an army of human colonists to take the TARDIS by force. eAce makes extensive use of explosives, and some nerve gas from the TARDIS armoury, while eAdam is somewhat concerned about damage to causality. The eDoctor is blasé; "Oh don't worry, this entire planet will be sterilised by a Thalek fleet in a few years. Grab some slaves if you're interested" 16. Return to TaraFinding the remains of one of the Taran androids in storage in his TARDIS piques the eDoctor's curiousity about that planet and he decides it's time for a return visit. - And hopefully pick up some more androids, as they've proved useful.
The android is a duplicate of Princess Strella, presumably Queen now. However the political intrigue on the planet is as complex and dangerous as ever...
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Post by starkllr on Dec 7, 2014 15:24:50 GMT
I'm curious about something - the minion death rate has declined pretty dramatically as things have gone on. Only one died with the 5th eDoctor, none with the 6th and none so far with the 7th. Are the minions getting wiser to the many hazards of travel with the eDoctor, or just luckier?
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 7, 2014 17:37:43 GMT
I'm curious about something - the minion death rate has declined pretty dramatically as things have gone on. Only one died with the 5th eDoctor, none with the 6th and none so far with the 7th. Are the minions getting wiser to the many hazards of travel with the eDoctor, or just luckier? That is a good point, and one that has several causes. Firstly with the later incarnations the eDoctor is less inclined to drag his minions into gratuitously dangerous situations. Secondly the more recent minions tend to be somewhat more capable, or at least more cautious. Finally I've gotten a bit attached to some of the recent minions and didn't want to kill them off... However expect more deaths in the future. ETA: good gravy you're right, the earlier incarnations had a far higher bodycount. First | 6/7 dead
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 7, 2014 20:41:54 GMT
Twice I've buggered up the numbering of the parts, if anyone notices this or other errors please let me know. Thanks. ETA: And now I posted an additional adventure from the next sequence by mistake... Part 27 - Seventh eDoctor – The Adventures, part three.17. Ambush in TimeHaving finally acquired workable time travel technology the Dominators seek to capture a TARDIS for study. Learning that a group of Gallifreyan researchers would be studying a culture on a primitive planet, they plan an ambush to capture the TARDIS. However the eDoctor and eRomana IV would also like to upgrade their transport. In fact the Dominators' plan is unusually subtle (for them), they know they'll need a renegade Time Lord to access the captured TARDIS and were expecting the eDoctors intervention. 18. Genesis. The eDoctor travels to Parnal renews his alliance with the WarLords. He will provide technology, they'll provide the people. Together they'll rule the universe!!! - Until the inevitable betrayal of course...
Parnal has a relatively small population, tens of millions, the "War Lords" are the survivors of a series of highly destructive wars fought centuries previously that left the planet devastated.Operating from a bubble universe created by the Hand of Alpha they are out of the Time Lords' purview, at least for the moment. However the time-corridor technology provided by the eDoctor previously won't work to connect them to the main universe so they, with the eDoctor's assistance, begin constructing a fleet of timecraft based on Roman's TimeCube design. Though far less capable than a true TARDIS they'll be highly useful 19. Exodus In the mid 1930s as the Great Slump bites and human politics lurches towards fascism, the eDoctor seeks to gain control of the future Russian leadership in the run-up to the Eastern War and build a force capable of dominating first Europe and later the planet. - The USA has been badly hit by the Slump, dust bowl, the outbreaks of the 'Okie flu' (a H1N1 strain that was spread by economic migrants across the country, which would kill ten million by 1940), a federal government too paralysed to cope, and secessionist movements. By 1942 the country would have effectively ceased to exist as a unitary state.
- Russia has had a string of weak central governments of various Social Democrat coalitions since the Tsar was deposed and exiled; however the economic damage from the Slump was proportionately worse as the economic growth of the late '20s was throttled.
- 1936 will be the key year with fascist movements attempting to gain control in Britain (successful), Ireland (suppressed), Spain (leading to a civil war that lasts until 1938) and Russia (successful, leading to rapid industrialisation, twenty million dead and the Eastern War)
However Mortimus also survived the end of the War Games, and has escaped Parnal seeking to frustrate the plan. 20. Revelation Further political machinations on Earth, this time in France in July 1877 when the eDoctor plots to abort the Third French Republic before it's birth by restoring the Bourbonist monarchy. His plan is to initially support and manipulate Henri Charles d'Artois (Count of Chambord and Legitimist Pretender to the French throne) in the aftermath of the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war when monarchical support was at his highest. The house of Bourbon had split into two factions, the Legitimists and Orleanists After Henri has established himself the eDoctor will kill him and unite the Legitimists and Orleanists behind the generally more popular Orleanist Louis Philippe, Count of Paris. With the monarchy re-established in France the ground will be prepared for economic growth, militarisation and rapid technological improvement, leading toa French dominated Europe.
- eAdam finds the streets of Paris a fertile hunting ground for his own hobby
Unfortunately for him the eDoctor finds he isn't the only Time Lord in town and the Rani doesn't appreciate his meddling. 21. KingsArriving in 1936 the eDoctor seeks to manipulate events around the death of George V and the accession of his fascist friendly son, Edward VIII. - No Mrs. Simpson, no Abdication.
Various factions within the government seek an authoritarian solution to the economic woes of the country, the rise of independence movements within the Empire and the growing power of the Labour Party, which looks likely to win the next election and establish their first majority government. - Post Great War politics in Britain have been dominated by generally weak Conservative governments alternating with Liberal-Labour coalitions or Liberal majority governments. The Labour party has not, as of early 1936, had a Prime Minister.
- In 1922 Ramsay MacDonald was beaten by the less effective John Clynes for the leadership of the Labour party, stunting the party's growth; the Liberals continued with the Asquith and Lloyd George factions of the Liberal party re-united.
In this background of murky politics, threats of violence and riots in the streets the eDoctor, eAce and eAdam lead a team of War Lords to establish a base in Britain and prepare to take over it's government. Starting with a scheme to use an android and hypnosis to control the new King. Again Mortimus is in pursuit, and he's recruited a team to help him... 22. NumbersIn sixteenth century Japan during the Warring States era, the eDoctor and minions attempt to take control of the country by manipulating factions in the civil war, supporting the Shogunate and rival feudal lords. Alerted by Mortimus, Koschei arrives to try and frustrate the plot, without doing too much harm to the timeline in a delicate period of human history. 23. Apocalypse In first century Britain the eDoctor seeks to manipulate both Romans and Britons to establish a superior empire, however a group of renegade Time Lords oppose his plan and pursue him to Parnal, before triggering Gallifreyan intervention. - Koschei solves the "War Lord problem" with a planet-buster.
- eAdam departs, quietly packing and taking a TimeCube, leaving only eAce
travelling with the eDoctor - In fact he takes four and his own capsule,
hoping to confuse his trail against pursuit by having them make a series of pre-programmed jumps through time. He plans to lie low. For a while anyway...
<War Lord sequence ends> 24. HexDeciding to avoid allies and schemes for the moment, the eDoctor returns to twenty first century Britain to check on a selective breeding and genetic modification programme he'd initiated, many years previously in his third incarnation. However in the meantime his creations have progressed, and not necessarily in ways the eDoctor wanted. Plus they've discovered each other, and a hidden SSD base with a cache of alien technology. <Cybermen sequence> 25. Iceberg. In 2026 the eDoctor and eAce take an Antarctic cruise, along with a ship full of tourists, to watch the effects of the LoN programme to halt the melting of the icecaps. The eDoctor has another motive, there are Things stirring in Antarctica, things buried for forty years... However he's not the only one who's detected signs of the Cybermen, a LonIG team are investigating, as are two other groups, one connected to eJo Grant's Network and one team of independent "archaeological consultants". - When it's allover, as the Cyber-base is imploding, a signal is sent to a long forgotten satellite and re-broadcast to Britain. And something starts to stir in a bunker under England...
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 8, 2014 18:55:03 GMT
A short update. I've repeated Iceberg as this is it's correct position. Part 28 - Seventh eDoctor – The Adventures, part four.<Cybermen sequence> 25. Iceberg. In 2026 the eDoctor and eAce take an Antarctic cruise, along with a ship full of tourists, to watch the effects of the LoN programme to halt the melting of the icecaps. The eDoctor has another motive, there are Things stirring in Antarctica, things buried for forty years... However he's not the only one who's detected signs of the Cybermen, a LonIG team are investigating, as are two other groups, one connected to eJo Grant's Network and one team of independent "archaeological consultants". - When it's all over, as the Cyber-base is imploding, a signal is sent to a long forgotten satellite and re-broadcast to Britain. And something starts to stir in a bunker under England...
26. Illegal Alien From records in the Cyber-base the eDoctor has learned of his future; they showed his involvement in defeating a group of Cyber-nomads who'd crashed a stolen time machine in Britain in 1941. Even he is wary of tampering with his own timeline so he and eAce travel to Britain. Of course things aren't as simple as that, there's the murky politics of a Britain, government control now tight, contemplating intervention in the European war to support Russia, a move that king Edward VIII supports...· - Of course the king doesn't have long to live, he dies (suspiciously) in October 1941, succeeded briefly by his brother(as George VI, OCT1941-APR1942) until the latter's attempt to dismantle the authoritarian government ends with his execution.
Then there's the mystery around Edward VIII's death, heart attack, quack medicine or poison? Can the eDoctor resist the urge to meddle? Can eAce keep all her bodily parts, or does the eDoctor plan to "upgrade" her? And just how accurate were those captured records? <Cybermen sequence ends> 27. Plague of the ThaleksCurious about not one but two time-corridors intersecting on an abandoned human colony world in the Disputed Zone of the forty second century the eDoctor investigates and finds a Thalek plan to finally rid their genome of the traces of the mutagenic plague, while breeding an army of drones using forced-growth cloning. The Thaleks are delighted to get the chance to study (and dissect) a Time Lord and finally improve their time travel abilities. The Dals, using their superior technology, have covertly landed a scout party and are planning to frustrate the Thalek scheme. With a star-buster. <Victorian sequence> 28. Evolution Seeking a little peace and quiet the eDoctor takes eAce for a holiday in Victorian London, only to have his TARDIS stolen and nearly be eaten by strange hybrid human-animal monsters. Investigating and seeking the TARDIS they find an industrialist and a mad scientist meddling with alien technology, and a government investigator looking for answers. But no TARDIS... 29. The Bodysnatchers Still stuck in Victorian London and frantically searching for the stolen TARDIS the eDoctor finally gets a clue when eAce tries to kill him... And turns into a Zygon when she herself is killed. Where is the real eAce? How long has she been replaced by a duplicate? What are the Zygons planning? <Victorian sequence ends> 30. Return to Gallifrey A message from his old mentor Borusa summons the eDoctor home to Gallifrey. Borusa has been studying old records and has a plan to gain the ultimate power of Rassion. But he needs an agent to work while he manipulates events, and so he makes the eDoctor an offer he cannot refuse...
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Post by jezmiller on Dec 8, 2014 19:26:13 GMT
Are a couple of those inspired by "The Warriors' Code" and "The Legions of Death"? I have a lot of affection for the FASA game, warts and all.
You've named an episode "Hex", but you haven't listed him as a minion. Does he appear in the eWhoniverse?
Koschei committing genocide? He sounds closer to his counterpart than I'd imagined. I was going to ask about his incarnations. Whenever I see the name, I think of the late, great Roger Delgado, but you must have taken him through a regeneration or three by now. What are they like? I wondered if any of them were an un-decayed version of Geoffrey Beevers' Master. I'm a big fan of his appearances in the Big Finish audios.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 8, 2014 20:09:37 GMT
Are a couple of those inspired by "The Warriors' Code" and "The Legions of Death"? I have a lot of affection for the FASA game, warts and all. Yep I lift ideas from any source. Though the visit to Japan was more inspired by the novel The Room With No Doors. You've named an episode "Hex", but you haven't listed him as a minion. Does he appear in the eWhoniverse? Not so far. He's not in that adventure, the name was inspired by the "something nasty in the countryside" genre, The Wicker Man/Countrycide type of thing, with a hint of The Midwich Cuckoos/The Tomorrow People.Koschei committing genocide? He sounds closer to his counterpart than I'd imagined. I was going to ask about his incarnations. Whenever I see the name, I think of the late, great Roger Delgado, but you must have taken him through a regeneration or three by now. What are they like? I wondered if any of them were an un-decayed version of Geoffrey Beevers' Master. I'm a big fan of his appearances in the Big Finish audios. He's just as ruthless as he was in The Dark Path, quite willing to kill and perhaps a little monomaniacal when it comes to the eDoctor. Given that the previous punishment for the War Lords didn't work, he has a "better" alternative. He's still, more or less, in Roger Delgado mode. He's run through fewer regenerations, so far, and kept the same appearance and personality (mostly).
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 8, 2014 22:34:27 GMT
Wow, nearly a thousand views now.Part 29 - Seventh eDoctor – The Adventures, part five.31. The Peladon Project
Ah Peladon! A worthless (if mineral rich) storm-ridden, rockball of a planet, primitive and violent. So why is the eDoctor so insistent about returning there?What isn't he telling eAce? And why is he bring so careful to arrive inconspicuously? To the point of purchasing a starship, recruiting a crew and setting up a phony "historical documentary" production, rather than using the TARDIS? Just what did he learn during his visit to Gallifrey? What has been buried on Peladon for sixty thousand years? <End of Empire sequence> 32. The Dying DaysFor over a thousand years someone has been pulling strings, manipulating humanity and planning. In the middle of the thirty first century Tobias Vaughan's plans for power and revenge comes to fruition. He will finally control the Terran Empire, gain the power of time travel...and tear the eDoctor's remaining lives from his screaming body. With the TARDIS confiscated the eDoctor and eAce find themselves and on the run, in the bowels of an empire on the verge of falling apart, pursued by the Adjudication Corps and Vaughan's minions, humans, aliens and augmented things. Who can they trust? Who can they call on for aid? Well there are a pair of Adjudicators who might have compatible interests, for a while at least... - Introduction of eRoz and eChris,a pair of Adjudicators noted for brutality and corruption, even by the standards of the twilight of the Terran Empire. But eRoz at least may share an enemy with the eDoctor.
- Vaughan has manufactured a series of crises to facilitate his rise to overt power. Unfortunately he's not fully in control of the forces he's unleashed and things getting out of his control.
33. End of Days The eDoctor escapes the cyborg Vaughan, but still without his TARDIS he and his minions must flee, while simultaneously playing politics for their lives and trying to firefight Vaughan's manufactured crises. Will the eDoctor's plan to call on an old "friend" for assistance work? And will they actually help him? - eAdam returns, briefly, to assist, and the eDoctor acknowledges a favour owed.
<End of Empire sequence ends> 34. A Month in the CountryDrained physically and mentally after the events in the fourth millennium the eDoctor, eAce and newly acquired minions eRoz and eChris take a holiday. New England is pleasant in autumn and a small hotel in a country where people mind their own business is ideal. Surely it's just the Halloween atmosphere that's got people jumpy and claiming to have seen a headless biker...Coincidentally eAdam is also in town, and has been for several weeks; eAce is still angry at him for his abrupt departure (or "betrayal" as she puts it). But surely his presence is just another odd coincidence... 34. Nightshade!Nightshade! was the nemesis of Doctor X, who defended Britain and the Republic against all manner of alien and foreign threats. But that was just a TV series back in the sixties, wasn't it? Now, forty years later, there are plans for a revival of the old 'Doctor X' show, updated for these post-Revolution days. Fans of the cult programme are dubious, and there are some weird things happening in the English countryside at the old RBAF base where recording has commenced. What is the secret held by a now elderly actor? How is the woman who no longer calls herself Jo Grant involved? And who is the new umbrella wielding "Technical Advisor" on the production? 36. TransitLate in the twenty first century Humanity faced it's first interplanetary war. - At least the first most people are aware of...
When the reptilian cyborgs who'd colonised Mars in the distant past attempted to conquer Earth, the humans fought back. And won, albeit at a price. - Remember Paris! And the genemodded ubersoldaten. And the environmental damage to Earth...
But the Thousand Day War is long over, the Ice Warriors have left, re-launching their huge colony ship (aka Phobos) into interstellar space headed for 'New Mars', scouted by hyperdrive ships. So what's going on on Mars? Who's sabotaging the nascent terraforming efforts?What's wrong with the new, and experimental, long range transmat link between Earth and Mars? Did the Ice Warriors really leave stay-behind units in stasis?What is the mysterious 'God Engine'? Are there really unknown saucer shaped starships operating in the deep solar system? And why is there suddenly an influx of archaeologists to the red planet?
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Post by cigarman on Dec 9, 2014 3:41:50 GMT
This is amazing work. Any chance we will ever see a PDF unofficial Evil Doctor supplement?
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Post by jezmiller on Dec 9, 2014 11:33:05 GMT
This is amazing work. Any chance we will ever see a PDF unofficial Evil Doctor supplement? I'd second that. It'd be a lot of work, but it'd make a superb sourcebook
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 9, 2014 19:32:16 GMT
It's something I've though about I admit. Perhaps I'll look into it once the first round of incarnations are done. At the very least I hope to merge all the posts into one file and fix the stat blocks.
BTW expect an update later today, I've had a bad day hence the delay.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 9, 2014 21:32:04 GMT
Just a quick update, shorter than usual as I don't want to break into the next sequence.
Part 30 - Seventh eDoctor – The Adventures, part six.
37. Shadowmind Late in the Earth Empire period the leaders of the Empire, knowing it was seemingly doomed, initiated a number of secret, desperate, projects to harness potentially powerful technology or concepts. Project SHADOWMIND was one of them. But what was Shadowmind? And what does eChris know about it? Can he be trusted or is he an infiltrator, part of a subtle plot against the eDoctor? And if so, whose plot?
Seeking information the eDoctor lands the TARDIS on a Federation colony and acquires a ship to investigate the planet Kelfar, far beyond the boundary of the old Earth Empire. Project SHADOWMIND was an attempt to harness the psionic potential of the human brain as a weapon capable of moving or obliterating planet. Brains, not bodies. Huge number of cloned brains, linked to a life support system and connected to a psionic augmentation system and floating in tanks with the minds in a virtual reality system. Shadowmind is powerful enough to effect the Vortex, potentially influence even a TARDIS, or implant suggestions on a planetary scale. A perfect tool for a would-be conqueror... And eChris? His brain tissue was one of the samples used, he can occasionally pick up some of the group-mind's thoughts. Of course the TARDIS crew aren't the only ones with access to the old Imperial records; a Federation scout cruiser is also looking for Shadowmind, along with several independent groups.
38. Theatre of War Returning to the thespianically obsessed planet Menetia, the eDoctor is surprised to find it involved in the Tolgar War, a vicious struggle against a Human Supremacist empire with a policy of genocide against 'others' and delusions of grandeur; someone is meddling with events. Or are they? How reliable are the eDoctor's memories?
39. Legacy Actions have consequence, and the eDoctor must face the results of the actions of an earlier incarnation when he attempted to tamper with the human potential. Modifying the human genome in the twentieth century has spawned a sub-strain of humanity with psionic and other powers, and by the early Earth Empire these talents have become powerful. Too powerful...
40. Sanctuary Abandon TARDIS! A chronic rift is a storm in the Vortex, where barriers between the dimensions are broken and distorted. It's also deadly to time travellers foolish enough to pass through. Advanced TARDISes can avoid them with ease, but malfunctioning old Type 45's aren't as capable. So the eDoctor and his trusty (for certain values of trust) minions use the TARDIS escape craft to temporarily leave, planning to return when the TARDIS has passed through the rift and repaired itself. The escape craft takes the party to thirteenth century France, near the end of the Albigensian crusade. eRoz is mistaken for a Moor and discovers that advanced weapons aren't necessarily all powerful. The group splits, with the eDoctor and eAce becoming enmeshed in the politics of church and state, while eRoz and eChris take refuge in the doomed Cathar fortress.
41. White Darkness The TARDIS has survived it's passage through the chronic rift, but hasn't arrived to pick up the party. Instead it's landed in Haiti in 1915, near the end of the Great War, and during a revolution in the country. But why? Navigation system damaged? Lingering effect of the rift? Or did something attract it to that era? Using the TARDIS escape craft to travel the party investigate, having to deal with a multi-sided revolution, Roosevelt's US 'intervention', and surprisingly effective local Voodoo practitioners, European spies and a force from beyond normal space and time...
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