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Post by Catsmate on Jan 10, 2015 23:33:32 GMT
Not an update alas, I've been rather stressed and busy this week. However I've had time today to sketch out the next part which, assuming things go OK, should be ready tomorrow or Monday.
As a teaser, it has six adventures set on; a gas mining station built into an inner moon of Saturn (The Ice Station), a Tipler cylinder outside the Milky Way galaxy (Domination), a doomed office tower in modern day London (Reckless Engineering), post-Terraforming Venus (Venusian Storm), a New England science fiction convention (Bufoon) and an inhabited Dyson shell (Worldsphere). [The titles are not carved in stone] And not everyone survives this season.
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Post by Catsmate on Jan 15, 2015 21:20:28 GMT
That promised update, sorry but I was a bit blocked and many thanks to jezmiller for his help with overcoming it. Also apologies for the return to a shorter format I'm under some pressure.Part 39 - Eighth eDoctor – The Adventures, part seven.37. Ice StationIn 2020, during the early years of human expansion into space, a gas mining station was established by the European Space Agency on Pan, one of Saturn's inner moons, as a base for skimming Helium 3 from it's atmosphere to use as fusion fuel. It was also planned as a base for the exploration of the Saturn system, especially the huge satellite Titan and it's suspected life. Averaging a billion and a half kilometres from Earth it's the furthest human settlement. Mired in controversy, many politicians on Earth want to eliminate the programme, but with the effects of climate change establishing themselves, a source of clean and reasonably cheap energy is tempting. - While fusion power has been around for decades, deuterium and tritium based reactions produce radioactive waste while 3He fusion is aneutropic and easier to achieve. Initially some 3He was obtained by mining on the moon, but the gas giants are far better sources. Jupiter was rejected in favour of Saturn due to radiation and gravity-well considerations.
Other terrestrial powers are also wondering if the ESA's resurgence into space has military implications; the Russian Federation tried to block operation of the new Interplanetary Transfer Vehicles on the grounds that their ion drives were disguised particle beam weapons. However supported by India, Iran, Brazil and Japan, EuroFed continues with the project. The base is buried under thirty metres of (mainly water) ice and includes a mass driver to launch the payload carriers towards cis-lunar space, where they'll be retrieved. It incorporates a hanger for emergency escape craft, local shuttles used for missions to the other moons, and the gas skimmers themselves; hybrid aerospace craft propelled by a fusion air-ram/rocket. Of course a base 5,000 light seconds (and thirty days at 0.1G) from Earth is terribly vulnerable; to accident, sabotage, attack or alien intervention. The hundred or so people living there are on their own. So why is the eDoctor heading to Pan? Well it was a request from his old friend (of sorts) eJo. Recently a group connected to her Network was asked to sabotage the project by arranging a small asteroid impact to destroy the station. Normally she'd be in favour of such a plan but her knowledge of the future means that she knows that the base succeeds and plays a role in humanity's move to the stars (not to mention being important during both the Thousand Days War and the Dalek invasion). She's curious about who could be behind the plan; a purely terrestrial group seeking to frustrate the base's mission, either for political or economic reasons, or someone from elsewhere, either an alien or extra-temporal influence. Either way, while her group has access to a trio of small spacecraft equipped with technology in advance of that ESA has publicly, she's loathe to risk one of them on such a mission. So, Reluctantly she asks for a favour. Now normally the eDoctor wouldn't be that interested in helping, his relations with the Network are rather strained (the whole trying to kill him thing). But eJo's message includes a coded message from someone he does trust, himself. To fully decode the message (and find out about his involvement in the 2020 Olympic Games) he has to go to Pan. There, in the guise of a secret investigator from Earth and his team with access to an advanced prototype spacecraft he tries to find out what's going on, and who holds the key to the message from himself, while trying to avoid attempts on his life by a group of fanatical saboteurs, backed by political interests on Earth, and with a mole inside the ESA. 38. WorldsphereA Dyson shell is an artefact that few civilisations create. But some do.... The Worldsphere is the home and symbol of The Community, nearly half a million years after humanity first left Earth their descendants built it as a symbol. Encircling a star brighter than Sol it has a surface area rather more than two billion Terras, and is inhabited by more than sixty trillion sophonts; organic, artificial and virtual (not that the differences are that great any more). With trillions more living on the network of tubular habitats that encircle the star, the planets that orbit inside the shell, in pocket universes anchored to it and in the Network itself. Recently however there have been... rumblings. The discussions with Gallifrey have stirred controversy amongst the Community, especially the rumours that the so called "Time Lords" demand that the Community's experiments with time travel be abandoned. They've sent a group to negotiate with the Community's representatives. In the Vortex the eDoctor is surprised to receive a message capsule from Gallifrey. His old mentor Borusa, again President of Gallifrey, has a job for him. And refusal, while certainly an option, isn't a sensible one. So the eDoctor's TARDIS materialises inside the Worldsphere and he meets the other envoys from Gallifrey, led by Borusa's protégé Matlanfarzeder, and the Community's representatives. Officially they're there to negotiate a non-aggression treaty and attempt to agree restrictions on the Community's use of temporal technology. But there's another side to talks, Borusa is worried; Gallifrey's probed into the future have started experiencing problems, it seems that the future is in flux. There have also been suggestions of a great Time War in the future, one Gallifrey may lose. Borusa wants allies. For several days the talks go well, the Community and the Gallifreyans seem amicably inclined towards each other. Then during a social gathering, attended by thousands of the Community one of the delegates is murdered, and it seems that Lady Matlan is responsible. Approached by the other Gallifreyans, and several of the Community's not-quite-leaders, the eDoctor is required to investigate. - While the Community's technology isn't as advanced as the Time Lords, they're still quite capable of blocking access to the Vortex, stranding the eDoctor.
But is Matlan guilty? Is this some game of Borusa's? If she's innocent then who did kill Keltak'na? And why? As he investigates the eDoctor uncovers layer after layer of deceit, while both sides prepare for a war neither actually wants. It will take the death of one of his minions to provide the final clue that unmasks the guilty party? eGrace, tempted by access to recreational intoxicants unimagined on twenty-first century Earth indulges, and inadvertently finds a vital clue; one that will get her killed. 39. BufoonIn 2012 it's to Boston that science fiction fans of all types, from across North America, and even farther afield, converge; for Globe-con (the premier convention) is being held there. It's a significant event for the city, and the New England Republic; the renewed interest in space travel caused by the proof that Mars was once inhabited has attracted huge attention. Some of the artefacts recovered on Mars will be on show at the convention for the first time. - Of course Mars is still inhabited, but the vast majority of people don't know that yet.
Almost as much interest as the city's bid for the 2020 Olympic Games and the rivalry with San Francisco over the games. Of course there'll be other attractions; for example the stars of the hit television show "Reptile People", known for the amazingly realistic makeup and prosthetics and the rich background culture of the Reptilians. Less publicised is a gathering of the more paranoid, the Bureau of UFO Oriented Networks, who exchange data on alleged alien incursions and government cover-up. The League of Nations is currently being blamed for much of the supposed concealment of alien activity. - Which of course they are doing, just not to the degree believed. There's not that much alien interest in Earth.
So why is the eDoctor interested? Well one of the bits of information he recovered from the LoNIG shuttle on Pan indicates that the League is behind "Reptile People", it's part of a long term plan to acclimatise people to the idea of aliens while they're negotiating with the real Reptilians. Some of the actors aren't wearing costumes... However there's another surprise for the eDoctor, a sneak preview of the new season of the show introduces a new recurring villain; The Meddler. A vile humanoid alien, with terrible dress sense, who'd allied with (and betrayed) the British fascists, murdered Reptilians and otherwise stirred up trouble throughout Earth's history. Complete with a surprisingly familiar looking "teleport capsule"... The eDoctor is furious at this act of lèse-majesté, even more so when he encounters the shows "technical advisor", Koschei, who's there with a number of undercover LoNIG agents. Things are further complicated when both Time Lords detect a source of chronon particles at the convention. Both attempt to investigate, while avoiding each other. The eDoctor and his minions adopt various disguises in an attempt to avoid Koschei and his companions, the LoNIG agents and the paranoid BUFOON members. Meanwhile in one of the hotel rooms a fugitive from the justice of the Icelandic Alliance waits and plots... - The eDoctor loses one minion, when eAnji, tired of travellling and plotting, attempts to negotiate with LoNIG and is fried for attempting to betray him.
- But gains another in the form of Tamsin Drew, and ambitious actress who'd being trying to blackmail her way onto "Reptile People" by seducing, drugging and taking compromising video footage of one of the producers. The eDoctor offers her a different role, but one that appeals to her.
40. Venusian StormAfter three hundred years, several wars, the Thalek invasion and the Reconstruction, numerous stoppages and crises, the terraforming of Venus is (almost) complete. Soon the planet will be opened to settlement. Of course there not as much interest as there might have been once. Humanity has settled over two thousand planets since the project began. Indulging eTamsin's desire to see the future ("The real future, not just next year") and eSam's desire for a little peace and quiet, the eDoctor lands the TARDIS near the new Venusian capital of Artemis (in the Artemis mountains in the eastern hemisphere) in 2368. There they party and relax for several days until they become embroiled in something odd. A survey team has discovered something strange by the Sedna sea, near Mount Rhea. A perfect, mirror smooth, sphere about sixty metres in diameter. Something that's clearly not natural, and utterly impervious to any attempt to probe it. But the eDoctor knows what it is, and he suspects he knows what's inside it; a time stasis field preserving part of the ancient Venusian civilisation, from three billions years in the past. And he sure just who us responsible, Koschei always had a soft spot for the now long dead Venusians. Still annoyed at Koschei the eDoctor infiltrates the scientific team sent to investigate the globe. If Koschei is responsible he'll be around, and the eDoctor wants revenge for his humiliation on television. 41. DominationThe eDoctor is puzzled. There are ripples in the Vortex and they seem to be aimed at his TARDIS. Meanwhile a few hundred parsecs 'outside' the Milky Way galaxy a Dominator fleet subdues an inhabited planet, another addition to the Domination. And this world will provde a useful base for the artefact that their scouts have found, the object that attracted them to this area in the first place; A Tipler cylinder. Building such an object is far beyond their science, even making use of it is dangerous. But the potential gain is enormous; controlled it could be used to send fleets, even entire planets, backward in time. What they need is an expert, someone who understands time travel. 42. Reckless EngineeringLondon, 1996, the TARDIS materialises late on a Thursday afternoon in December a large office/shop/apartment complex in London's Docklands, part of the wave of regeneration of that area. Leaving the TARDIS parked in an unoccupied apartment the eDoctor and his faithful minions start to explore, and shop. Meanwhile about four kilometres away a driver is feeling rather woozy. But he'll be home soon. In the third underground level of the complex a tanker lorry begins to offload it's diesel fuel into the storage tanks that serve the emergency generators. - Not every threat involves aliens, time travel or even serial killers. Sometimes even mundane events can kill you.
Tired after enduring the xmas shopping crowds, and burdened from a buying spree, eSam and eTamsin meet the eDoctor as arranged at a restaurant. While they're eating there's a distant 'bang', but after a few seconds people go back to whatever they were doing; it's nearly xmas, and there's much to do. But down in the basement two vehicles have collided, four men are dead, and tens of thousands of litres of fuel are spreading and pooling. It isn't long until, even the cold December air, there's plenty of vapour mixed with the air in the car park levels and a carelessly thrown cigarette stub provides a source of ignition. The result isn't technically an explosion, it's a deflagration. But that's not much comfort to the dozens killed by the overpressure blast. The blast which has also fractured gas mains and popped fuel tanks creating more fires, fires that spread rapidly. Unfortunately the complex's control centre, where all the environmental sensors terminate, was near the generators and one of the first areas destroyed. - In hindsight running steam, gas, electricity, comms and water connections through the same ducting wasn't the best of ideas. But it did save the builders quite a lot of money.
Outside the complex the first anyone knows of the catastrophe that's happening is when the vast numbers of lights suddenly go out. Inside there's abject panic, fuelled by the smoke that the ventilation system is chanelling into the public areas and the sudden wailing of the alarm sirens. The three time travellers are caught up in the stampede, as thousands of people try to find their way to the exits, lit only the the inadequate battery powered emergency lights. Scores are trampled by the panicked masses. Outside the emergency services respond, but their efforts are hampered by the widespread fires and panicking crowds. Even the eDoctor is startled by events. But he and his minions are better able than most to react to events. - While his TARDIS will survive even the collapse of a building, if it's buried it could be months before he can recover it. And that's assuming that it's not recognised by investigators, who'll probably blame him for the disaster.
So, following his lead, they wait, bypassed by the crowds. They need to return to the apartments above the shopping levels, hampered by the near darkness, the crowds (and probable looters), the smoky atmosphere and the fire itself. Using his Technix as a light source the eDoctor locates and unlocks a door linking the service area of the restaurant to the network of service passages. When a man demands he "had over that torch" the eDoctor kills him, and then fires into the crowd to divert them. Using the network of stairs and corridors the travellers make there way to the foyer of the apartment section of the complex. Along the way they encounter Isabelle, a teenage girl who impresses the eDoctor with her ruthlessness and willingness to sacrifice others for her benefit, and her quick intelligence. He suggests she join them, which she does. After about a hour they party make it to the correct floor, and urged on by signs of structural collapse, they run for the TARDIS and escape. Leaving more than a thousand people to die. - The eDoctor acquires a new minion, Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair, a teenage girl bored with her life, but imbued with a ruthless will to survive.
As usual comments and ideas are welcome. I'm on a bit of a disaster kick atm, due to some stuff I've been reading, so expect fire, plague, flood and similar catastrophes to be visited (mainly on London) in the next updates.
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Post by jezmiller on Jan 15, 2015 22:18:05 GMT
As usual comments and ideas are welcome. I'm on a bit of a disaster kick atm, due to some stuff I've been reading, so expect fire, plague, flood and similar catastrophes to be visited (mainly on London) in the next updates. You're in good company. In his time on the show, RTD electrified the London Eye, wrecked the Houses of Parliament, blew up Downing Street, drained the Thames, and (on his second attempt), crashed an alien spacecraft into Buckingham Palace, obliterating the entire city under a giant mushroom cloud and irradiating most of the Home Counties. If he hadn't inflicted a plague of ghosts and a massive earthquake on Cardiff, I'd wonder if he might be a closet Welsh nationalist...
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Post by Catsmate on Jan 15, 2015 22:33:07 GMT
As usual comments and ideas are welcome. I'm on a bit of a disaster kick atm, due to some stuff I've been reading, so expect fire, plague, flood and similar catastrophes to be visited (mainly on London) in the next updates. You're in good company. In his time on the show, RTD electrified the London Eye, wrecked the Houses of Parliament, blew up Downing Street, drained the Thames, and (on his second attempt), crashed an alien spacecraft into Buckingham Palace, obliterating the entire city under a giant mushroom cloud and irradiating most of the Home Counties. If he hadn't inflicted a plague of ghosts and a massive earthquake on Cardiff, I'd wonder if he might be a closet Welsh nationalist... Well I had Wales nuked and inflicted a few other horrors on it....
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Post by jezmiller on Jan 15, 2015 23:38:21 GMT
You're in good company. In his time on the show, RTD electrified the London Eye, wrecked the Houses of Parliament, blew up Downing Street, drained the Thames, and (on his second attempt), crashed an alien spacecraft into Buckingham Palace, obliterating the entire city under a giant mushroom cloud and irradiating most of the Home Counties. If he hadn't inflicted a plague of ghosts and a massive earthquake on Cardiff, I'd wonder if he might be a closet Welsh nationalist... Well I had Wales nuked and inflicted a few other horrors on it.... One word: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch You can plead extreme provocation
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Post by thereviewer on Jan 15, 2015 23:39:14 GMT
You're in good company. In his time on the show, RTD electrified the London Eye, wrecked the Houses of Parliament, blew up Downing Street, drained the Thames, and (on his second attempt), crashed an alien spacecraft into Buckingham Palace, obliterating the entire city under a giant mushroom cloud and irradiating most of the Home Counties. If he hadn't inflicted a plague of ghosts and a massive earthquake on Cardiff, I'd wonder if he might be a closet Welsh nationalist... Well I had Wales nuked and inflicted a few other horrors on it.... To be fair, Moffat has had quite a few horrors plagued in his run on the series *COUGH*LISTEN*COUGH*. Sorry. Did not like that episode at all. But in seriousness Moffat had The Universe Never Existing to History being time-compressed. Speaking of his horrors anyone pick up the recent issue of the Tenth Doctor comics? Just read it and it features the return of the Weeping Angels in World War I as well as a refrence to another early creation of Steven's. check it out for yourself. Anyways, great update, Castmate. Let me know if u have anything u want to talk about also, my friend.
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Post by Catsmate on Jan 30, 2015 13:24:44 GMT
Hallo again, sorry for the lack of recent updates but to get over a case of writer's block I've been revising the older material. So for your reading pleasure I give you the Evil Doctor Chronicle part 1. This is a 776kB PDF collecting the eDoctor's first incarnation, with game stats and expanded write-ups of the adventures. And probably more photos than it should have. Comments and suggestions are, as always, welcome.
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 4, 2015 23:37:11 GMT
A couple of companion/minion/antagonist teasers for future incarnations.
Jennifer, the eDoctor's daughter.
What better way to create the perfect minion that to duplicate himself? At least that’s what a future incarnation of the eDoctor [10/11/12th?] thought.
Unsurprisingly this brilliant idea didn’t work out.
Perhaps a little bit more thought could have gone into the decision, or at least a reading of Frankenstein.
What he created using a mix of his own bio-engineering skills, the Terran Hasselbach Process and some Osiran technology was a near duplicate of him, including many of the Time Lord abilities, though switched in gender.
However personality-wise Jennifer was nothing like her progenitor, she was, well, nice. She had no desire to conquer the universe, kill or hurt people or serve her “father”.
She quickly decided to flee, leaving the facility where she was created, destroying it in her wake, after stealing a small, advanced, spacecraft.
She wanted to explore, see the universe, meet people and help the. She also wanted to make up for the actions of her 'father'.
Beth, previously Elizabeth X. When the solar flares came humanity was desperate, ready to take almost any chance to survive, follow any leader who'd offer a solution, no matter how dangerous. During the Interregnum technology had regressed, most of the Earth's resources were gone, exploited by previous generations. And with limited spaceflight access to the rich sources in the asteroid belt and other solar system was also restricted. Without gravity nullification getting to orbit wasn't easy, but nuclear-pulse lift could still get huge payloads off the ground, at the cost of even further damage to the ecosystem. Many options were tried; generation ships, cryogenic stasis, even primitive time travel was experimented with. But one family, who could trace their ancestry back millennia to the twentieth century had a plan of their own, involving an captured alien and a hollowed asteroid. With them in charge of course. The initial warp-jump for 'Starship Great Britain' as they'd grandiosely named the ship took several hundred tonnes of anti-matter (which had cost them dearly, thousands of slaves and much carefully hoarded artwork, to buy) but worked. However the Icaron based propulsion meant they could never drop out of warp space without a similar amount of energy being released, probably obliterating the ship.
Time passes.
When Mortimus and the eDoctor arrive at a location there's bound to be trouble. In this case a small revolution and the deposing of a tyrant. Running from the mob who bayed for her to die in the manner she'd gleefully imposed on others, Elizabeth X needed a way out, and a strange man with a red box offered her one.
Beth as she now calls herself isn't the absolute ruler of millions any more, though you'd hardly notice this from her manner. She's one of the eDoctor's more useful and capable minions; handy with a blaster and very skilled when it comes to pain, but also organisationally brilliant and an expert schemer and manipulator. But she's not really interested in his schemes, as soon as she finds another opportunity for herself she'll take it. Preferably after killing that arrogant 'Time Lord' and looting his TARDIS.
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 8, 2015 19:44:41 GMT
Part 2 of the Evil Doctor Chronicle (18 pages, 836kb PDF) covering the eDoctor's second incarnation is now available here. It has the re-written and extended adventures along with stat blocks for minions (Katie, Jamie 1.0 and 2.0, Polly, Ben, Victoria, Kemel 1.0 and 2.0, Zoe and of course 'Bitey' the Cybermat) and pictures. Comments, suggestions and error reports welcome.
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Post by starkllr on Feb 9, 2015 23:59:19 GMT
Absolutely fantastic!
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 10, 2015 20:26:21 GMT
Thank you. If you've any suggestions or ideas please send them on.
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 11, 2015 20:47:17 GMT
Another teaser. Some character concepts for minions of future eDoctor incarnations. Rose A working class human female, from the lower end of the socio-economic strata in 2010's England. This version will be more 'chavish' and slutty than the canon version. Think of the portrayal when possessed by Cassandra. Street smart, greedy and ambitious. Somewhat vain Micky Or possibly Ricky. Or maybe both. Rose’s none too bright boyfriend(s). A mechanic he’s also involved in various low-level criminal activity including general and vehicle theft and drug dealing. Zachery There's already been an Adam in the EDC so he gets renamed. An intelligent, technically adept sociopath with mediocre social skills. Very aware of the possibilities of time travel. Tries to manipulate the eDoctor, who sees through his schemes easily. Likely to come to a painful end when he tries to outsmart his master. May be related to eAdam. Jack A renegade Time Agent who went rogue when the Agency discovered some of his schemes. These included covering for a cross-temporal slave trade, dealings in narcotics, weapons, information and 'antiques'. A sociopath and sexual predator. Has a taste for weapons and is never unarmed. Christina 'Lady' Christina deSouza is a thief, but no sort of Robin Hood. She's the descendant of a family who were part of the British Establishment, thrived under the Republic (and retained its titles) but lost it all in the Revolution of '75. She's greedy, smart, careful, arrogant, and a thrill seeking adrenalin junkie. She knows she's better than other people. Jennifer Not a minion. The eDoctor's experiment went wrong. More of an antagonist as she seeks to unravel the eDoctor’s plots and schemes and put right what he made wrong. Naive in many ways. Astrid Acquired on a certain starship. Expendable eye-candy, useful to divert attention. Probably not a long term minion though she may surprise her master... Martha A brilliant medical student, embittered by the casual racism still common-place in England in the 2010s. Not a bad person as such but she has issues (including being gang raped). eSJ won't be appearing due to being, well, dead. But eJo might reappear. Amelia That’s Mistress Amelia to you. The Amy analogue is a dominatrix who encounters the eDoctor after a client dies from the combination of her over exuberance and a stimulant drug of alien origin. The eDoctor helps her with the inconvenient body. Rory Her partner. A pleasant, quiet spoken, former nurse and medical student who left the profession under something of a cloud. May be a serial killer. Certainly he has expertise in, and a taste for, the infliction of pain. And not necessarily on willing subjects. Think Alice Hong. Gwen A smart Welsh police detective with a taste for guns and violence (mostly towards the English so her bosses don't really care). Slightly psychic due to living for generations too near a temporal rift. This hasn't helped her sanity. River Another product of the eDoctor's attempt to breed a superior minion. More compliant that Jennifer, however she's unstable, brilliant and none too obedient. Beth The deposed ruler of 'Starship Great Britain'. Craves power. Really craves power. UFM1 Loosely based on Amara Karan (at least physically) as Rita in the The God Complex. I'm looking at having her appear in few stories over a period of her life encountering the eDoctor's plans. UFM2 Inspired by Angelina Jolie in Salt. A streewise youg Edwardian woman. Comments? Suggestions? Criticisms?
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Post by starkllr on Feb 12, 2015 13:21:47 GMT
A couple of thoughts about other new series companions who might fit into the eUniverse...
eDonna - don't let her carefully-cultivated facade of ditziness fool you. As a "super-temp" she encourages her employers to stereotype and underestimate her, while she infiltrates their organization, steals their secrets and sells them to their competitors, while they're left none the wiser. Which is a skillset that the eDoctor would likely find very useful.
eWilf - couple of possibilities for him. Maybe he's part of eJo's organization. His reflexes might not be what they once were, but he makes up for it in cunning and ruthlessness. Or, maybe he's just a former RSF operative with a thoroughly ugly past who managed to avoid the inevitable trials (and hangings) after the revolution, but constantly lives in fear of the day his past (or one of the many, many people who suffered at his hands) catches up with him. Until he happens across the path of the eDoctor and sees an escape route. And obviously the eDoctor always has a place in the TARDIS for a man who's skilled with the business end of a blowtorch...
eVastra - pretty much exactly the same as she is in the original Doctor's universe, except perhaps for having a slightly less discriminating palate. Her skills and appetites would be appealing and amusing to the eDoctor, and he could offer Vastra a vastly larger and more diverse menu as one of his minions.
eClara - an "impossible girl" whose entire timeline has been manipulated to turn her into someone who the eDoctor would see as the ideal minion. Manipulated by whom? Mortimus, Koschei, the Rani, Romana - the list of possibilities is endless...
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 12, 2015 18:39:26 GMT
A couple of thoughts about other new series companions who might fit into the eUniverse... Thank you! All contributions accepted. eDonna - don't let her carefully-cultivated facade of ditziness fool you. As a "super-temp" she encourages her employers to stereotype and underestimate her, while she infiltrates their organization, steals their secrets and sells them to their competitors, while they're left none the wiser. Which is a skillset that the eDoctor would likely find very useful. D'oh. I'd forgotten to include Donna. And I like your ideas. eWilf - couple of possibilities for him. Maybe he's part of eJo's organization. His reflexes might not be what they once were, but he makes up for it in cunning and ruthlessness. Or, maybe he's just a former RSF operative with a thoroughly ugly past who managed to avoid the inevitable trials (and hangings) after the revolution, but constantly lives in fear of the day his past (or one of the many, many people who suffered at his hands) catches up with him. Until he happens across the path of the eDoctor and sees an escape route. And obviously the eDoctor always has a place in the TARDIS for a man who's skilled with the business end of a blowtorch... A septuagenarian killer, I like this! Shades of RED/RED2 also. eVastra - pretty much exactly the same as she is in the original Doctor's universe, except perhaps for having a slightly less discriminating palate. Her skills and appetites would be appealing and amusing to the eDoctor, and he could offer Vastra a vastly larger and more diverse menu as one of his minions. I'd sketched her (and Jenny and Strax) as antagonists. Of course they could also be rather darker. eClara - an "impossible girl" whose entire timeline has been manipulated to turn her into someone who the eDoctor would see as the ideal minion. Manipulated by whom? Mortimus, Koschei, the Rani, Romana - the list of possibilities is endless... Absolutely.
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Post by starkllr on Feb 13, 2015 13:42:07 GMT
Here's another thought for eClara, which is kind of "out there." What if she isn't a minion, and she isn't even human at all? What if she's a (far) future incarnation of the eDoctor?
I'm picturing Clara jumping into the Doctor's timestream in "The Name of the Doctor" to save him from the Great Intelligence and how that might get twisted in the eDoctor-verse.
So: eClara, a future female incarnation of the eDoctor, insinuates herself into the life of a past incarnation, manipulating him (not terribly difficult, since it's all already in her memories) towards whatever the Trenzalore-analogue is. And at the opportune moment, she jumps into his/her own timestream. Not to save him/herself, because there is no other threat. There's no Great Intelligence or other enemy trying to unravel his past. eClara's purpose is to retroactively thwart the eDoctor at points where he might have actually succeeded in one of his schemes of universal domination. Why? Because she needs him to fail. If, say, he manages to obtain the Key to Time back in his 4th incarnation, he'll rule all of time and space forever...and he'll never regenerate again. If he doesn't regenerate (again and again and again...) then there's no future eClara incarnation of the Doctor. So she's defeating (and maybe killing, on occasion) her own past selves in order to create herself.
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Post by starkllr on Feb 13, 2015 17:38:58 GMT
A few more thoughts/ideas:
There absolutely needs to be a dark mirror of the "Just this once, everybody lives!" moment for the 9th eDoctor.
The Slitheen would probably be quite altruistic in the eDoctor-verse. They're still hiding their appearance in human "suits" but they're on Earth to help mankind. Of course, different groups of Slitheen will have different ideas about how best to do so, and which human nations or factions are most deserving of their assistance...
Cassandra ought to be someone we've met before in the e-verse. Maybe she's the final evolution of eJo, who simply refuses to die no matter what she has to do - or become - to survive?
The eDoctor would likely try to use the Weeping Angels as exploitable weapons. With predictable, and horrible, consequences. Or, worse, he might be responsible for their creation in the first place.
Human Nature - the eDoctor makes a bargain with the Family of Blood, which they honor, but he reneges on. As a result, he's forced to use the Chameleon Arch (or something) to turn himself into a human to hide from them. Bonus points if you can work it out somehow so that he ends up becoming the minion of a future (or former) eDoctor.
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 14, 2015 13:16:54 GMT
A few more thoughts/ideas: There absolutely needs to be a dark mirror of the "Just this once, everybody lives!" moment for the 9th eDoctor. Oh the ninth eDoctor is going to have plenty of opportunities for genocide a mass murder. The Slitheen would probably be quite altruistic in the eDoctor-verse. They're still hiding their appearance in human "suits" but they're on Earth to help mankind. Of course, different groups of Slitheen will have different ideas about how best to do so, and which human nations or factions are most deserving of their assistance... Interesting. Frankly I found the whole Raxacoricofallapatorian plotlines rather poor, though Boom Town was OK. But the ideas of squabbling families out to help Earth, with some renegades, is interesting. Cassandra ought to be someone we've met before in the e-verse. Maybe she's the final evolution of eJo, who simply refuses to die no matter what she has to do - or become - to survive? Oh Cassandra will appear. I have plans for her. The eDoctor would likely try to use the Weeping Angels as exploitable weapons. With predictable, and horrible, consequences. Or, worse, he might be responsible for their creation in the first place. I'm thinking about changing the Angels rather substantially, following the Dark Mirror principle. Human Nature - the eDoctor makes a bargain with the Family of Blood, which they honor, but he reneges on. As a result, he's forced to use the Chameleon Arch (or something) to turn himself into a human to hide from them. Bonus points if you can work it out somehow so that he ends up becoming the minion of a future (or former) eDoctor. Human Nature was one of the better stories (especially the book, none of that Time War nonsense). It'll definitely have an analogue in the eWhoniverse.
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 14, 2015 13:28:22 GMT
Here's another thought for eClara, which is kind of "out there." What if she isn't a minion, and she isn't even human at all? What if she's a (far) future incarnation of the eDoctor? I'm picturing Clara jumping into the Doctor's timestream in "The Name of the Doctor" to save him from the Great Intelligence and how that might get twisted in the eDoctor-verse. So: eClara, a future female incarnation of the eDoctor, insinuates herself into the life of a past incarnation, manipulating him (not terribly difficult, since it's all already in her memories) towards whatever the Trenzalore-analogue is. And at the opportune moment, she jumps into his/her own timestream. Not to save him/herself, because there is no other threat. There's no Great Intelligence or other enemy trying to unravel his past. eClara's purpose is to retroactively thwart the eDoctor at points where he might have actually succeeded in one of his schemes of universal domination. Why? Because she needs him to fail. If, say, he manages to obtain the Key to Time back in his 4th incarnation, he'll rule all of time and space forever...and he'll never regenerate again. If he doesn't regenerate (again and again and again...) then there's no future eClara incarnation of the Doctor. So she's defeating (and maybe killing, on occasion) her own past selves in order to create herself. Chameleon Arches open so many possibilities don't they? You posit a fascinating idea. Actually there'll probably be several Clara analogues appearing. In general with the eDoctor's minions, for those based on canon characters I generally twist them in two ways. Firstly emphesise one particular aspect of their characters (i.e. eSJ was even more career-driven an ambitious, pushing her far further than Sarah Jane) or secondly inverting of the character's core components (Rory was a caring compassionate person, so eRory is absolutely not). Then there's Martha, who was my favourite NewWho companion and is therefore going to get the Break the Cutie treatment.
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 18, 2015 23:03:44 GMT
Part 3 of Evil Doctor Chronicle is now available ( link). This cover the eDoctor's third incarnation, spend mainly on Earth. It's a 25 page 1,133kB PDF with probably too many illustrations. And some gun porn.
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 20, 2015 12:46:06 GMT
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 23, 2015 19:31:35 GMT
My apologies for the lack of updates, a mix of work and other Real LifeTM issues and my desire to do things right. After all I've vented about my dislike of the lack of continuity so it beehives me to make sure the bits fit together.
In the meantime another Ninth eDoctor teaser. This sets the tone and direction for the eDoctor's next incarnation.
The ninth eDoctor - Agent of Gallifrey.
Gallifrey is becoming concerned. Matrix predictions of the future are becoming hazy and unreliable, and in some cases actually wrong.
The best minds of Gallifrey work at the problem and present their findings to Lord President BorusaVIII. As more and more races and groups develop time travel their movements set up complex interacting interference patterns in the semi-chaotic flow of time. However 'recently' (in hypertime terms) it has become obvious that the problem is becoming more serious, it seems as if a single species will become sufficiently powerful to threaten Gallifrey and the Time Lord hegemony. This would inevitable lead to a Time War, the Last Time War in fact, as it's effects would doom both species and probably much of reality.
They propose that Gallifrey must change, alter it's policy of non-intervention and gain allies in order to prevent such a war. The policy has always been a bit of a mirage anyway; between the semi-offical CIA and the High Council's occasional use of official Temporal Corrective Agents, Gallifrey has always meddled. Just with discretion.
President Borusa thanks them for their input and dismisses them. He thinks on the problem. If he's going to weather this storm, or better yes avoid it entirely, he'll need allies and agents. It's too soon to officially change policy but perhaps the renegades will be useful, some of them anyway. The scalpel is always preferable to the axe. Many of the renegades are still loyal, in their way, and the others, well, they can be controlled. And disavowed if necessary.
In his ninth incarnation the eDoctor faces perhaps his greatest challenge; he must work for Gallifrey's interests rather than his own. Sometime working closely with other Time Lords who hate him, and will see him dead if they can.
A mix of the exile phase of the Third Doctor and Season 6B. But with more genocide.
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Post by starkllr on Feb 24, 2015 3:30:17 GMT
I can only imagine the joy and enthusiasm with which the eDoctor will take this new role on.
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Post by jennysfan on Feb 24, 2015 3:44:44 GMT
...you skipped e8's regeneration story. And to be honest I was looking forward to it being a 'The Flood' cyberman parallel. I'm using parallel loosely, for those who object. the eWhoverse is parallel, if twisted through the mirror darkly.
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 24, 2015 12:06:58 GMT
I can only imagine the joy and enthusiasm with which the eDoctor will take this new role on. Oh yeah. But Borusa can be very persuasive and he doesn't get a choice. That said he'll be running his own schemes in parallel. ...you skipped e8's regeneration story. And to be honest I was looking forward to it being a 'The Flood' cyberman parallel. I'm using parallel loosely, for those who object. the eWhoverse is parallel, if twisted through the mirror darkly. Patience, the Eighth eDoctor still has a few adventures before he regenerates. I'm working on them to integrate them into a proper arc with the early Ninth eDoctor adventures. Ans also re-writing the Fourth eDoctor adventures.
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Post by jennysfan on Feb 24, 2015 12:43:58 GMT
Sorry, I shouldn't have jumped the gun. Especially given how big this project of yours is. Just panicked at the Sight of e9 and all those future minions.
so many minions...
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Post by Catsmate on Feb 24, 2015 13:08:15 GMT
Sorry, I shouldn't have jumped the gun. Especially given how big this project of yours is. Just panicked at the Sight of e9 and all those future minions. so many minions... Oh yes. My notes have 46 minions/companions most with pics, descriptions and stats that are yet to appear. Not all for the 'New Series' some will be integrated into the rewrites. And I think it's time I slimmed down those notes; my 75MB Word doc crashed just now losing the rewrite of Underworld.
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Post by moondragon007 on Apr 17, 2017 7:37:54 GMT
This reminds me of the various Mirror Universe episodes of Star Trek.
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Post by Catsmate on Apr 19, 2017 6:50:59 GMT
This reminds me of the various Mirror Universe episodes of Star Trek. A good analogy. I used the dark mirror/dark lens techniques to convert personalities.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 15, 2022 21:25:01 GMT
Bump. Bet you weren't expecting that?
I've begun my long threatened reboot of this thread and project, over at alternatehistory.com. Link.
For the moment it'll be just over there, I'm sorry but the two sets of website formatting would drive me demented, or more so than I already am.
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Post by grinch on Dec 15, 2022 22:18:17 GMT
Splendid. Now that I have finally got my notes in order, I'm actually planning on writing up a Multiversal group (based heavily off Sliders and Marvel's Exiles) and I could definitely see them paying the Evil Doctor verse a visit down the line. Even if it's only a mention at least.
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