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Post by senko on Jul 10, 2016 11:13:16 GMT
I was watching the 5 doctors special and it occurred to me it would be a quick way to fill a night if you didn't have something prepared. Not the events themselves that is but the fallout.
The deathzone was draining so much power systems On Gallifrey were shutting down and failing to run. However the eye of harmony provides all the power to Gallifrey and the TARDIS'S. Imagine your players going along happily when suddenly their TARDIS for no apparent reason drops out transit on to an unintended location. At first they think they've arrived or that something went wrong with the navigation circuit but as time passes the TARDIS'S power levels begin to drop lower and lower. They run around trying to find the cause but nothing's wrong it's just steadily running out of energy as systems begin to shut down, heating, life support, maybe other vital systems depending on how much pressure you want to put on them and still they can't find the cause. Eventually they (maybe discover) It's the power feed from gallifrey itself that's cutting out. Then suddenly the power supplies return to normal.
If they identified it was a shortage of power from Gallfrey maybe they go to find out what happened. If they didn't identify that as the source they're left wondering what happened to the TARDIS power supply and whether it will happen again.
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Post by Catsmate on Jul 11, 2016 9:41:26 GMT
I like it! What happens to the interior of a TARDIS without power? Does it have a backup power source of it's own? What can this sustain? Does the interior start to collapse? This is one of the things that annoyed me about Death to the Daleks, the writers don't seem to have properly thought through the effects of the Exxilon city's energy drain.
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Post by senko on Jul 11, 2016 13:06:55 GMT
Exactly lots of plot potential in a TARDIS losing power even without the fact in this case its entirely inexplicable as the energy is just vanishing even though everything is either functioning normally or failed due to lack of said power.
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Post by da professor on Jul 13, 2016 11:56:07 GMT
I like it! What happens to the interior of a TARDIS without power? Does it have a backup power source of it's own? What can this sustain? Does the interior start to collapse? Rather than the interior collapsing, I think the bigger on the inside would start to leak out, as seen with the dead TARDIS in The Name of the Doctor.
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Post by senko on Jul 13, 2016 12:20:04 GMT
Depends which circuits go down first I guess.
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Post by Marnal on Jul 13, 2016 16:26:26 GMT
My impression [from numerous EU and TV stories] is that TARDIS interiors tend to be pretty stable when they lose power. They just sit there gathering dust. Obviously any GM is free to say 'this power outage happened in a bad way or at a bad time' but there have been numerous 'dead' TARDIS stories where everything just sits there in the dark.
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Post by senko on Jul 13, 2016 23:45:28 GMT
Still not a situation you want to be in.
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Post by Catsmate on Jul 14, 2016 9:24:37 GMT
Still not a situation you want to be in. No indeed. This sort-of happened in an old Time Lords (the good version not the awful later edition) campaign I played in many years ago; our 'matrix' (the time travel device) developed a fault and stranded the party on it's 'hardcoded default' location, a not-quite uninhabitable (but inhospitable) planet. Which had a few other people and groups also stranded there and desperate for a way off. Fun ensued.
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