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Post by olegrand on Jul 14, 2016 14:55:42 GMT
Lady Penelope's Odyssey, my one-on-one DWAITAS campaign, has just entered its tenth season! You'll find the latest episode blurb here: dwaitas.blogspot.fr/
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Post by Hedgewick on Jul 14, 2016 15:51:48 GMT
I love reading about Lady Penelope's Odyssey. I've been following the chronicle for quite a while, and the campaign has such a distinctive flavor and style to it. It's exciting to hear about how the myth arc develops, episode by episode. It sounds as if you have a great thing going. Thanks for sharing it with us via the blog!
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Post by olegrand on Jul 14, 2016 18:00:29 GMT
I love reading about Lady Penelope's Odyssey. I've been following the chronicle for quite a while, and the campaign has such a distinctive flavor and style to it. It's exciting to hear about how the myth arc develops, episode by episode. It sounds as if you have a great thing going. Thanks for sharing it with us via the blog! Thank you, sir! Coming from the creator of the "Dark Dimension" campaign, this really means quite a lot to me.
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Post by olegrand on Jul 16, 2016 17:57:34 GMT
We're about to begin Episode 2 of the 10th Season - set in 17th century Paris, during the glorious time of the Musketeers... Since Penelope welcomes a new travelling companion NPC (a Parisian alienist from 1926) on board of her TARDIS and has decided to let him choose the destination of his first voyages, I've decided for "Paris in the past" and will perhaps choose "Paris in the far future" for episode 3, making the first three episodes of our new season some kind of "parisian triptych" (before unleashing some of the really heavy stuff I keep in store for this season...). Au revoir!
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Post by Catsmate on Jul 18, 2016 11:06:01 GMT
We're about to begin Episode 2 of the 10th Season - set in 17th century Paris, during the glorious time of the Musketeers... Since Penelope welcomes a new travelling companion NPC (a Parisian alienist from 1926) on board of her TARDIS and has decided to let him choose the destination of his first voyages, I've decided for "Paris in the past" and will perhaps choose "Paris in the far future" for episode 3, making the first three episodes of our new season some kind of "parisian triptych" (before unleashing some of the really heavy stuff I keep in store for this season...). Au revoir! Don't forget the Paris Rock. Maybe visit the rebuilt Paris, after the Thousand Day War, and go to the top of the New Eiffel Towel?
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Post by olegrand on Jul 18, 2016 11:44:03 GMT
Don't forget the Paris Rock. Maybe visit the rebuilt Pari s, after the Thousand Day War, and go to the top of the New Eiffel Towel?
Have you been reading my thoughts? I was just noting down some ideas about a rebuilt, twice-as-high Eiffel Tower... (but that's pretty much all I've got right now...
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Post by Catsmate on Jul 18, 2016 12:05:04 GMT
Don't forget the Paris Rock. Maybe visit the rebuilt Paris, after the Thousand Day War, and go to the top of the New Eiffel Towel? Have you been reading my thoughts? I was just noting down some ideas about a rebuilt, twice-as-high Eiffel Tower... (but that's pretty much all I've got right now... It was my first though, Transit had so many potential scenario ideas. But only twice as high? And the rebuilding should be done just in time for the Daleks to arrive...
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Post by olegrand on Jul 18, 2016 12:21:46 GMT
Have you been reading my thoughts? I was just noting down some ideas about a rebuilt, twice-as-high Eiffel Tower... (but that's pretty much all I've got right now... It was my first though, Transit had so many potential scenario ideas. But only twice as high? And the rebuilding should be done just in time for the Daleks to arrive...
Well, the Daleks have already been there (and been defeated), since the episode will most likely take place in the 2220s.
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Post by Catsmate on Jul 18, 2016 12:37:07 GMT
It was my first though, Transit had so many potential scenario ideas. But only twice as high? And the rebuilding should be done just in time for the Daleks to arrive...
Well, the Daleks have already been there (and been defeated), since the episode will most likely take place in the 2220s. Ah, so Eiffel Tower III - Next Stop Orbit!
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Post by olegrand on Jul 24, 2016 10:29:54 GMT
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Post by olegrand on Aug 3, 2016 16:42:03 GMT
Time for a new batch of three episodes!
Episode 4: The Forever Day Somewhere, on the border of Time, inside her magnificent palace, empress Jevane of the Khuvani is having a perfect day, over and over, awaiting the end of the Endless War. But when Penelope and Magnus become part of the supposedly immutable Order of Things, Eternity ends, heralding Oblivion. A play of Shapes and Secrets, of Otherness and Humanity.
Episode 5: Warzone Hit by a mysterious temporal turbulence, Penelope’s TARDIS crashes on the wrong side of the supposedly impassable barrier which isolates the Last Great Time War from the rest of the continuum. Captured by Gallifreyan forces, the Time Lady of Avalon and the former War Chief must face an unprecedented predicament – as well as their own differences…
Episode 6: The Hand of Morrolan Following her harrowing experiences in the Warzone, Lady Penelope is back on Avalon for some R&R – as well as for some Q&A. It’s time for her to explore the unsolved mysteries and the deepest secrets of her legacy as the daughter and heir of Morrolan, Time Lord renegade, visionary dreamer and architect extraordinaire…
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Post by olegrand on Aug 21, 2016 9:38:30 GMT
Yet another trilogy (perhaps Season 10 will be called "Trilogies" )... focusing on the Count of Saint Germain, mystical master, charlatan extraordinaire as well as (thanks to Lady Penelope herself) pseudo-immortal living paradox... dwaitas.blogspot.fr/2016/08/season-10-episodes-7-9.html
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Post by senko on Aug 21, 2016 10:33:00 GMT
It sounds interesting (and you've obviously put a lot of thought into this) but is there really only a summary of the episode in the blog or am I missing a way to get more detail? Obviously not expecting a play by play replaying but well to use your latest link as an example . . .
Episode 7: Hellfire! London, 1768. The Hellfire Club has risen from the ashes, England is ruled by a mad king and dark powers from below the earth are lurking in the shadows… At the secret request of Sir John Fielding, the blind beak of Bow Street, Lady Penelope and the Count of Saint-Germain (Yes! He’s back!) team up to foil the infernal designs of the Lloigor and their minions…
Really leaves me with the impression there's a more extensive recounting of the episode in question somewhere. Knowing myself as I do probably somewhere very, very obvious I'm just missing.
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Post by olegrand on Aug 21, 2016 15:13:06 GMT
Really leaves me with the impression there's a more extensive recounting of the episode in question somewhere. Knowing myself as I do probably somewhere very, very obvious I'm just missing. No sorry - these are just "post-play blurbs" I write mainly for my own amusement and that of Lady Penelope's player... and I try to make them as intriguing and interesting as possible for other readers, in 3-4 lines. I'd simply have no time to write extensive recountings...
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Post by senko on Aug 24, 2016 17:19:11 GMT
Fair enough.
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Post by olegrand on Sept 25, 2016 17:00:33 GMT
Here are the blurbs for our two latest scenarios, also known informally as "the Sirens Diptych"...
Episode 10.10: Siren Song Troubled by nostalgic visions of Lord Byron, Lady Penelope arrives in 1827 Florence, on the Ponte Vecchio – just in time to prevent the suicide of a young Englishman, lost in a labyrinth of distorted memories. Thus begins a tale of mystery, masquerade and melancholy, a minuet of deceptions, dilemmas and destinies, danced to the tune of the Time Sirens’ song…
Episode 10.11: Menaxa Pursued by the Sirens of Time, Lady Penelope lands in the ruins of a sacred theatre, on the deserted world of Menaxa - a forgotten planet, with no history left to alter. The scene is set for the Time Lady’s final confrontation with the ravenous Sirens of Time. There, under the silent gaze of three mysterious watchers, comes the time for decision, ordeal and sacrifice.
(Credit where credit is due: various concepts and background elements loosely inspired by several Big Finish audiobooks, including, of course, the eponymous Sirens of Time)
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Post by Hedgewick on Sept 25, 2016 17:23:14 GMT
(Credit where credit is due: various concepts and background elements loosely inspired by several Big Finish audiobooks, including, of course, the eponymous Sirens of Time) I just listened to "The Sirens of Time" for the very first time this past week. Given the modus operandi of the Sirens, the set up for "Menaxa" sounds particularly fascinating, given its setting. It sounds like a satisfying way to play out a final confrontation. It was only after I'd listened to the Big Finish audio that I realized how similar the Sirens are to an original threat that were introduced during our own roleplaying campaign: the Timeline Sculptors. They're both beings who feed off the time energy created by alterations to the timeline but who are unable to effect changes on their own and thereby must exert their influence over those who are a part of historical events. In our case, the game master designed the Timeline Sculptors as mysterious relatives of the Weeping Angels. (Indeed, their name is practically a pun: Timeline Sculptors/Timeline Sculptures.) They're so similar to the Sirens of Time, however, that I'm tempted to establish a direct connection between them in a future adventure.
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Post by olegrand on Sept 25, 2016 18:08:43 GMT
(Credit where credit is due: various concepts and background elements loosely inspired by several Big Finish audiobooks, including, of course, the eponymous Sirens of Time) I just listened to "The Sirens of Time" for the very first time this past week. Given the modus operandi of the Sirens, the set up for "Menaxa" sounds particularly fascinating, given its setting. It sounds like a satisfying way to play out a final confrontation. It was only after I'd listened to the Big Finish audio that I realized how similar the Sirens are to an original threat that were introduced during our own roleplaying campaign: the Timeline Sculptors. They're both beings who feed off the time energy created by alterations to the timeline but who are unable to effect changes on their own and thereby must exert their influence over those who are a part of historical events. In our case, the game master designed the Timeline Sculptors as mysterious relatives of the Weeping Angels. (Indeed, their name is practically a pun: Timeline Sculptors/Timeline Sculptures.) They're so similar to the Sirens of Time, however, that I'm tempted to establish a direct connection between them in a future adventure. Ah ah, once again, the Dark Dimension and Lady Penelope's own continuum run parallel! My personal take on the Sirens included the following "secret origin story": they could be the descendants / mutated offshots of creatures known as "Rassilon's Harpies", created during the earliest days of Time Lord history for purposes similar to the Reapers'... but the Harpies grew too greedy / hungry and difficult to control, which caused their creators to erase them from the continuum - before the chaos created by the Last Great Time War unleashed them on the universe again (as you can see I've deviated quite significantly from the BF canon).
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Post by Hedgewick on Sept 26, 2016 14:26:13 GMT
My personal take on the Sirens included the following "secret origin story": they could be the descendants / mutated offshots of creatures known as "Rassilon's Harpies", created during the earliest days of Time Lord history for purposes similar to the Reapers'... but the Harpies grew too greedy / hungry and difficult to control, which caused their creators to erase them from the continuum - before the chaos created by the Last Great Time War unleashed them on the universe again (as you can see I've deviated quite significantly from the BF canon). That's quite alright. The origin presented here sounds more detailed and engaging than anything in the story that introduced the Sirens of Time. With their relationship to time, I'd say there's an elegance in tying the Sirens to some of the loose threads from Time Lord history. This sounds great!
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Post by Marnal on Sept 27, 2016 19:16:28 GMT
I've got a vague plan to run an adventure titled "The Granfather's Wife" where we learn that the Sirens were the actual founders of Faction Paradox. Not sure if I will ever get around to it though.
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Post by olegrand on Oct 16, 2016 10:03:43 GMT
Time for a new update... with THE MEDUSA DIPTYCH! dwaitas.blogspot.fr/See you in a couple of episodes!
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Post by olegrand on Nov 2, 2016 7:01:44 GMT
My personal take on the Sirens included the following "secret origin story": they could be the descendants / mutated offshots of creatures known as "Rassilon's Harpies", created during the earliest days of Time Lord history for purposes similar to the Reapers'... but the Harpies grew too greedy / hungry and difficult to control, which caused their creators to erase them from the continuum - before the chaos created by the Last Great Time War unleashed them on the universe again (as you can see I've deviated quite significantly from the BF canon). That's quite alright. The origin presented here sounds more detailed and engaging than anything in the story that introduced the Sirens of Time. With their relationship to time, I'd say there's an elegance in tying the Sirens to some of the loose threads from Time Lord history. This sounds great! In the latest episode, I've developed this (100% non-canon) backstory further - as an unearthed piece of forgotten (censored?) ancient Time Lord history to explain why my Time Sirens always appeared / embodied themselves as human-looking females, why they often seemed to be a single gestalt-like entity and why they seemed to have some mysterious, existential link to Time Lords. So, here we go. The Sirens of Time / Harpies of Rassilon came into existence during the early times of Time Lord society, during the reign of Rassilon. Rassilon had a daughter named Alecta, who was completely devoted to him and who offered herself as the needed subject for one of her father's great experiments. He wanted to see if a Time Lord's twelve incarnations could be dissociated from one another and if the resultant being could live in twelve different parallel timelines while still retaining a form of individual awareness, i.e. a "higher single self" uniting the twelve dissociated personas into a single, gestalt-like entity (with, of course, the development of some trans-temporal powers as a result of this dissociation process). The experiment went terribly wrong - or perhaps worked "too well", resulting in the Harpies of Rassilon, twelve transtemporal "sister-selves" of the same entity - but with no trace left of Alecta's memories, identity and sense of self. And as "impossible beings" (or, if you will, "paradoxical" ones), they did have some worrying time-warping powers, as well as a ravening HUNGER for temporal energies - especially the ones resulting from paradoxes, chronological divergences and similar alterations. At first, Rassilon managed to control "them" (or "her"?), using the Harpies as temporal "trackers" and "punishers", not unlike his personal pack of time-hounds. Then they faded into legend and oblivion, like many other secrets from Rassilon's first reign. Perhaps their creator / master / father had eventually imprisoned them into some form of time bubble or extra-temporal zone... and they were forgotten. But now that Gallifrey is no more (in my campaign, it genuinely HAS been destroyed during the Time War), they have found a way back in the time streams, haunting the great temporal ocean as the Sirens of Time...
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 2, 2016 10:28:46 GMT
That's quite alright. The origin presented here sounds more detailed and engaging than anything in the story that introduced the Sirens of Time. With their relationship to time, I'd say there's an elegance in tying the Sirens to some of the loose threads from Time Lord history. This sounds great! In the latest episode, I've developed this (100% non-canon) backstory further - as an unearthed piece of forgotten (censored?) ancient Time Lord history to explain why my Time Sirens always appeared / embodied themselves as human-looking females, why they often seemed to be a single gestalt-like entity and why they seemed to have some mysterious, existential link to Time Lords. So, here we go. The Sirens of Time / Harpies of Rassilon came into existence during the early times of Time Lord society, during the reign of Rassilon. Rassilon had a daughter named Alecta, who was completely devoted to him and who offered herself as the needed subject for one of her father's great experiments. He wanted to see if a Time Lord's twelve incarnations could be dissociated from one another and if the resultant being could live in twelve different parallel timelines while still retaining a form of individual awareness, i.e. a "higher single self" uniting the twelve dissociated personas into a single, gestalt-like entity (with, of course, the development of some trans-temporal powers as a result of this dissociation process). The experiment went terribly wrong - or perhaps worked "too well", resulting in the Harpies of Rassilon, twelve transtemporal "sister-selves" of the same entity - but with no trace left of Alecta's memories, identity and sense of self. And as "impossible beings" (or, if you will, "paradoxical" ones), they did have some worrying time-warping powers, as well as a ravening HUNGER for temporal energies - especially the ones resulting from paradoxes, chronological divergences and similar alterations. At first, Rassilon managed to control "them" (or "her"?), using the Harpies as temporal "trackers" and "punishers", not unlike his personal pack of time-hounds. Then they faded into legend and oblivion, like many other secrets from Rassilon's first reign. Perhaps their creator / master / father had eventually imprisoned them into some form of time bubble or extra-temporal zone... and they were forgotten. But now that Gallifrey is no more (in my campaign, it genuinely HAS been destroyed during the Time War), they have found a way back in the time streams, haunting the great temporal ocean as the Sirens of Time... You could blend in the Hounds of Tindalos into that mix. Perhaps they were always there in the background, a hazard to time travellers, and somehow corrupted/influenced the Harpies? Or the Harpies created them and/or the Reapers as minions. I like it.
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Post by olegrand on Nov 2, 2016 11:49:08 GMT
You could blend in the Hounds of Tindalos into that mix. Perhaps they were always there in the back ground, a hazard to time travellers, and somehow corrupted/influenced the Harpies? Or the Harpies created them and/or the Reapers as minions.Well, actually I DID integrate the Hounds of Tindalos in my campaign, as savage, semi-material "time wolves" with the ability to track someone across the vortex... they were even the first creature Penelope ever encountered, sent after her by her mother Morgana the Witch Queen.
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Post by olegrand on Nov 27, 2016 7:38:33 GMT
The tenth season of Lady Penelope's Odyssey has come to its conclusion! Read the blurbs of the final two episodes here: dwaitas.blogspot.fr/2016/11/season-10-episodes-14-15-finale.htmlI've also managed (at long last!) to find a fitting title for this season: THE TIDES OF TIME. The ten seasons (so far): Season 1 = First Steps Season 2 = Time Lady Season 3 = The Web of Time Season 4 = The Great Game Season 5 = Heirs of Time Season 6 = Timelines Season 7 = Forged in Flame Season 8 = Past & Future Season 9 = Time, Space & Beyond Season 10 = The Tides of Time What a strange, fascinating journey it's been...
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Post by olegrand on Jan 17, 2017 18:05:52 GMT
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Post by olegrand on Mar 26, 2017 11:15:26 GMT
Lady Penelope’s Odyssey has entered its eleventh season, starting with a six-part quest across space and time… THE KEY TO TIME, REDUXThe six segments of the Key to Time were supposedly lost – forever and for good, scattered at random by the Doctor himself through time and space… until the Arch of Avalon picked up echoes from the Key through the maelstrom. Unbeknownst to the other Time Lords of Avalon, and guided by the visionary insights of her TARDIS’ resident ghost-in-the-machine, Penelope and the Doctor embark on a quest to collect the segments before they fall into the wrong hands… Just like old times, eh? Well, not quite. As the Time Lady and the Doctor are about to discover, the rules of the game have changed... The segments are no longer disguised as something else. And they have begun to awaken – so Time, as usual, is of the essence. Episode 1: The Ribos RenaissanceTracking down the first segment of the Key, Lady Penelope and the Doctor land on… Ribos! Ribos, of all places! Can this really be a coincidence? But as our travellers are about to find out, things DO change – even on little, isolated, backwoods planets. In the end, Penelope will save the day, the Doctor and the history of Ribos – all in a day’s work for a Time Lady! Episode 2: Lives on MarsTheir search for the second segment of the Key to Time takes Penelope and the Doctor to the red planet, where they meet the very first men on Mars (in 1914!), discover a hitherto unknown race of Martians and uncover the last secret of the Osirian Pyramid. A tale of forgotten pasts and impossible futures, of causes and consequences… Time Lady Victorious? Episode 3: Time OddityLooking for the third segment of the Key, Penelope and the Doctor land in 1973 London, in an alternate continuum where, oddly enough, everything seems to be as it should be – except for a few details, such as the existence of the enigmatic glam rock icon Damon Wilde or the death of the entire UNIT command staff. A tale of multiple personae and unique encounters. (to be continued)
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Post by olegrand on Apr 23, 2017 13:20:29 GMT
Season 11, Episodes 4-5
Continuing our quest for the lost Segments of the Key to Time, mixing flavors of "Déjà Vu", "Everything Changes" and "Deceptive Appearances" ...
Episode 4: The Enemy Within In search of the fourth segment of the Key to Time, Lady Penelope and the Doctor arrive on the mining colony of Vulcan, where the Doctor defeated Daleks more than a hundred years ago. Yes, there are lots of corridors and yes, the base is under siege – but the enemy is already inside, waiting to appear in full light. And he calls himself… the Doctor.
Episode 5: Xanadu Their quest for the fifth segment of the Key to Time takes Penelope and the Doctor to the fabled city of Xanadu, summer capital of the great Kublai Khan! Surrounded by courtiers, concubines and charlatans, protected by his family circle and the imperial guard, the old emperor is now lost in a nostalgic and morbid reverie – lost in time, you might even say…
See you soon for the next (and final?) episode of the Quest!
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Post by olegrand on May 1, 2017 21:31:15 GMT
The Quest for the Key to Time has ended with two FANTASTIC episodes!
Episode 6: The Sixth Segment In an unexpected twist of timelines, Penelope’s quest for the final segment of the Key to Time brings her back to her beloved Vienna – but in 1934, under a very different zeitgeist. There she will meet her double, two old friends and a face from oblivion. A tale of vivid memories and forgotten realities. Featuring Sigmund Freud and the Count of Saint-Germain.
Episode 7: The Dark Dimension * The quest for the Key to Time concludes with a dolorous blow, as the Dark Dimension invades the TARDIS and the vital essence of its passengers, extending its entropic tendrils of despair around the heart and soul of Penelope’s beloved ship. Locked in January 1934, Penelope and the Doctor must find a temporary safe haven to spark their last and desperate move against the encroaching Dark. A tale of creeping shadows and points of light, featuring Albert Einstein and a box full of hope – and ending in Lady Penelope’s regeneration!
* Yes, this is the same title as our Esteemed Fellow Time Lord Hedgweick's campaign - so you might see it as a homage to one of the most creative DW gamemasters on the web (of time, of course) - but it's also because in Lady Penelope's Odyssey, the concept of "Dark Dimension" or "Shadow Dimension" has been presented since, well, season 2 if I recall correctly. Basically, in our paradigm, this is the unifying "entropic / elemental" reality that underlies the existence of beings like Fenric, the Mien Kalarash and, at the top of the pyramid, the Black Guardian... a force that had been beaten back to abstraction a few seasons ago and has now begun to rise again through space and time, with new manifestations, entities etc.
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Post by Hedgewick on May 1, 2017 23:29:36 GMT
Episode 7: The Dark Dimension * The quest for the Key to Time concludes with a dolorous blow, as the Dark Dimension invades the TARDIS and the vital essence of its passengers, extending its entropic tendrils of despair around the heart and soul of Penelope’s beloved ship. Locked in January 1934, Penelope and the Doctor must find a temporary safe haven to spark their last and desperate move against the encroaching Dark. A tale of creeping shadows and points of light, featuring Albert Einstein and a box full of hope – and ending in Lady Penelope’s regeneration! * Yes, this is the same title as our Esteemed Fellow Time Lord Hedgweick's campaign - so you might see it as a homage to one of the most creative DW gamemasters on the web (of time, of course) - but it's also because in Lady Penelope's Odyssey, the concept of "Dark Dimension" or "Shadow Dimension" has been presented since, well, season 2 if I recall correctly. Basically, in our paradigm, this is the unifying "entropic / elemental" reality that underlies the existence of beings like Fenric, the Mien Kalarash and, at the top of the pyramid, the Black Guardian... a force that had been beaten back to abstraction a few seasons ago and has now begun to rise again through space and time, with new manifestations, entities etc. Awww, shucks! You have me blushing, Olegrand. That's awfully nice of you to say. Thanks so much. And inspiration works both ways! This sounds like a cracking episode. Perhaps the Dark Dimension described here should play a role in our own campaign...
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