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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 11, 2020 16:00:23 GMT
"the day god went mad' "mission to magnus" man these stories would have been awesome to see!, but why not we make up other adventures using only those titles as a base?.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 12, 2020 9:33:52 GMT
"the day god went mad' "mission to magnus" man these stories would have been awesome to see!, but why not we make up other adventures using only those titles as a base?. I used some of the alternate/episode titles in the EDCverse. There are some good inspirations in the unused/alternate titles (and some terrible ones; Invasion of the Plague Men?). I rather like The Dead Planet: could be almost anything, but perhaps Earth blasted by some tragedy that needs to be averted? Death in the Afternoon: a genteel country-house mystery with Golden Age overtone, similar to Doctor vs Doctor. The Foe From the Future: oh so many possibilities. Obviously a time traveller The Horror of the Swamp: Again very general and evocative. I'm thinking Mad Science in Florida or Louisiana. Perhaps with reanimated corpses. The Wasting: Lovely title, a small village where people are being drained of <something> by <someone> The End of the Road: finale for a series, regeneration or death with overtones of a mystery solved, a foe defeated or a quest solved but with a cost. The Crippingwell Horror: there's something nasty lurking in the fog of a London suburb... Enter Doctor Morelle and Miss Frayle in their strangest adventure yet and featuring a doctor even more irritating than Morelle.... The Final Days of Planet Earth: future apocalypse, or a modern day story where the Earth is doomed.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 12, 2020 9:58:41 GMT
The individual episode titles, from series one through three have potential too. The Forest of Fear The Roof of the World: space elevator perhaps? Assassin at Peking: prequel to The Talons of Weng-Chiang Temple of Secrets: Trap of Steel: Small Prophet, Quick Return: a semi-comedic story, perhaps with a dwarfish alien/time traveller impersonating an oracle? Death of a Spy: the story begins with the discovery of a deal spy and then.... The Nightmare Begins: Day of Armageddon: stolen ballistic missile sub Devil's Planet: The Traitors: a UNIT story with familiar NPCs replaced or mind controlled Counter Plot: Coronas of the Sun: Golden Death: alternate Daleks? The Abandoned Planet: [The] Destruction of Time: Priest of Death: a kindly local priest isn't himself any more Bell of Doom: "when the death bell chimes, someone dies" The Steel Sky: shades of The World is Hollow And I have Touched the Sky The Plague:
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 12, 2020 13:53:19 GMT
The Rhubarb Conspiracy? lords of the red planet? more?
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 12, 2020 14:55:20 GMT
The Rhubarb Conspiracy? lords of the red planet? more? Ah, the Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 12, 2020 17:12:13 GMT
hmmm how about unmade stories?
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 12, 2020 19:09:59 GMT
hmmm how about unmade stories? Many titles and plots have been reused. For the first three series.
Nothing At The End of The Lane: some sort of urban horror, possibly a cloaked spaceship? The Hidden Planet: the party appears on a spaceship looking for... The Red Fort: Farewell Great Macedon: I rather like the original plot: the Doctor and his companions are framed for murder as part of a conspiracy to kill Alexander the Great. The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance: lovely title The Living World: As per the original idea: a planet ruled by sentient rocks and trees, with the ability to control humans with an inaudible sound. The Dark Planet: the original ideas was basically a Time Machine knock-off. I prefer a planet that orbits a brown dwarf and hence received little visible illumination (as I used for Vulcan). The Face of God: The Hands of Aten: what caused the outbreak of monotheism in ancient Egypt. The New Armada: this was to be a historical set around the 1588 invasion attempt. I suggest a time meddler is introduced. The Space Trap: this was reminiscent of The Girl in the Fireplace without the time travel elements. The White Witch: someone with actual powers (natural or artificial) is hunted
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 13, 2020 14:15:46 GMT
ah what about the next few? series
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 21, 2020 20:54:38 GMT
how about unmade story titles like "axilon" for example
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 22, 2020 12:05:06 GMT
The Clock: a clock that can control time, perhaps a souveir of a past Time Lord found in the TARDIS. Rather Groundhog Day (though Stargate did it well in Window of Opportunity).
The Hearsay Machine:
The Evil Eye: some sort of hypnosis device that's been found by <someone> and misused. I'm thinking modern day Earth and perhaps something like The Demon Headmaster?
The Heavy Scent of Violence: a (pseudo-)historical with the Doctor and part arriving somewhere; it appears calm and idyllic and his companions seen relaxed, until he makes the comments that "The heavy scent of violence is in the air". That's when the see....
The Herdsmen of Aquarius: Arriving on the water-covered planet Aquarius (hey Nation did it regularly) the party encounter enslaved aliens/genemodded humans/biodriods adapted for aquaculture and producing the huge quantities of food for the planet's semi-submerged cities and for export. Revolution is in the air. As is a hypercane....
- A point for those using water covered planets, especially warm ones, in scenarios. Without serious landmasses there's no real limit to the size, intensity and duration of what we call cyclones, tropical storms or hurricanes. Hence the term 'hypercane'.
- Imagine a storm system that's grown to three thousand kilometres across, with winds coming close to the speed of sound, continuous lightning and horizontal rain and hail equivalent to gunfire. Around the edges mere CAT5 herricanes bud off. In the centre is the eye, 150km across where the weather is merely bad.
- The perfect time for a beach party; illuminated by chain lightning and sprites, and the gentle blue glow of the force barriers protecting the above-ground structures from wind, rain, hail, lightning and waters surging sixty metres above the beach.
The Herdsmen of Venus: file details off the above and set on a terraformed Venus, millennia in the future.
The Hounds of Time: Well the original had a mad scientist employed by an alien warlord scooping people from throughout time but that's boring. I favour a layered plot, the scientist/warlord is easily defeated and then the real threat emerges; all those holes crudely poked in time have allowed the <Hounds of Tindalos analogue> to come through. Now the PCs must travel to various periods, meeting the people they'd rescued and closing the holes with a MacGuffin (which may have been provided by disapproving Time Lords, the CIA, Eternals or Guardians or whipped up by the Doctor). Cue a season long multi-story quest, in the vein of the Key To Time or The Keys of Marinus, as the part jump around fixing things. And probably forgetting Rick's sage advice Don't Split the Party. Mix in some complications, people attacked/killed/displaced by the Hounds; people who've passed through the holes or are mis-using them (think Time Banditis, Goodnight Sweetheart et cetera)
The Man from the Met: Harry Brown has a problem. Well several of them. His bosses at the Metropolitan Life Assurance and Insurance Company Limited don't appreciate his skills, despite him being their best investigator. They've saddled him with an Oxford graduate to train in. And she's a woman. His wound from Passchendaele is throbbing in the cold, wet weather. There have been a spate of thefts from country house parties and he's sure they connected. Lucas Seyton is back in town. And now there's this queer chap who calls himself 'The Doctor'.... Pulp era mystery.
The Nazis: could be a historical, with the party constrained not to act to prevent some atrocity (leave Ann Frank to her fate perhaps?). Or a classic era with surviving Nazis up to something, a perennial plot in 60/70s 'spy-fi'. Hitler's brain in a jar, an Antarctic base, sympathisers in high places, alien tech and perhaps a moonbase.
The Ocean Liner: Could be Edwardian or Pulp era but I favour a darker theme: Death in the Submarine Zone.
It's 1941 and the TARDIS appears on a small and rather shabby liner about one-third of the way from the (still neutral) USA to Britain. There are twelve passengers aboard; a spy, a soldier, a murderer, a thief, a confidence trickster, a photographer, a femme fatale, a disgraced doctor, a diplomat’s son, a violinist, an antiquarian, an imposter, a time traveller, an alien, a stowaway, a dead man and a librarian. Soon one of them will be dead, another will disappear, a body will be found, three thefts will occur and the future history of Earth will be in jeopardy. Why can't the TARDIS leave the ship? What's that dark shape glimpsed on the ocean? Why is the captain never seen? What's in the locked and guarded strongroom in Number Two hold? Why does the bar steward always seem to be in the bar?
Inspirations would be the Twilight Zone ep Judgement Night and the Dickson Carr novel Murder in the Submarine Zone
The People Who Couldn't Remember: the given plotline is pretty awful. I favour a 'modern day' story with people suddenly realising they've lost time; minutes, hours, days of their lives have gone. Were they possessed by something? Displaced in time? Drugged? The players must investigate. Then it gets worse, people are found semi-comatose from terror, with injuries and clutching strange objects. Then it happens to the Doctor.
The Son of Doctor Who: Hmm, personally I adhere to the no births on Gallifrey school, it's Genetic Looms. Perhaps an earlier version of The Doctor's Daughter?
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 22, 2020 14:15:59 GMT
The Ants: Well the submitted outline is about as generic Atomic Horror B-Movie meets Planet of the Giants as it gets. How about this; an isolated town is plagued by ants, larger and more ingenious than usual. At first they're an irritation; they seem to be killed by chemicals but the bodies disappear. Soon they appear to be working purposefully; chewing through wires, sabotaging electronics and vehicles et cetera. Even killing people. Why? Who's responsible? Are they a natural evolution? Invaders from elsewhere? Laboratory creations from the Cold War? Mutants?
Otherwise something like the masses of flying ants in the British Isles.
Bar Kochbar: The perfect historical background, the the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE It didn't end well. Perhaps a pseudo-historical?
The Big Store: Hmm, this reminds me a bit of Rose meets The Faceless Ones so how about something different. The TARDIS lands in a department store and the travellers start shopping. But the find the store is larger than they expect, extending into different universes with different technologies, products and laws. They can buy almost anything there, if they can find it.
They try to return to the TARDIS but find it gone. It's almost closing time and the duty manager is unhelpful, asking how their "lost property" came to be in the store in the first place and telling them they'll be notified if their blue box is found. They're escorted to the doors.
Do they try and sneak in? Get violent? Call the authorities? Stake the place out? What is going on? Who are 'The Management'?
The Imps: An (early?) interstellar ship is plagued with patches of strange, alien, vegetation and mysterious, small, demon-like creatures? Where are they all coming from? Is it connected to the ship's experimental drive system? Does it extend into a different universe?
The Mutant: Meh, too generic. Maybe a 'Good Dalek'?
The New Machines: Hmm. Mechanoics are send out to prepare a planet for colonisation but end up far beyond known space. They same phenomena (wormhole?) that caused this dropped an Imperial ship out there centuries later. Not having the requisite recognition codes and inclined to violence there was a conflict but the Imperials lost. Some of their technology was adapted by the evolved, intelligent Mechanoids. A few centuries later a Federation explorer ship find the planet and the 'humans' that the Mechaniods have created.
The Return of the Neanderthal: Hominids sampled from Earth in the past were transplanted/dumped on a distant planet as an experiment. Cue the arrival of the party. Or perhaps they encounter Ogeron the Time Master.
The Sleepwalkers: The submitted plotline was rather prosaic, and resembled The Krotons. How about an idyllic modern day village (think Modsomer). Recently people have been walking in their sleep, and are starting to do more than just walk. Build things, steal stuff and design strange device.
They're possessed by <something> that can only operate their bodies while their minds are asleep.
Twin World: This sounds terribly like another Mondas/Gor type, similar to The Hidden World/Prison in Space. Perhaps the TARDIS lands on <Mondas> millennia ago, before the God Engine was activated and almost everyone died? Or maybe the planet is an actual twin planet system (technically it's called a 'double planet'), with two Terrestrial type planets orbiting their barycentre. For centuries they've each known of life on the other (they're within a couple of hundred megametres) but now something has changed. Perhaps radio has advanced sufficiently for them to communicate (or even optically) or they're now building rockets.
Now there are a few issues with planets that close; gravitational attractions (they're not within their Roche limits and so won't disintegrate) but tidal forces will be pretty interesting. The planets probably are ovoids due to the distortion and a re likely tidally locked to each other, if not to their star. They could be close enough to share at atmosphere, in which case their shape will be decidedly non-spherical but a relatively simple air launched hybrid rocket plane might be able to make the transit, relying on mostly atmospheric fight and air breathing engines. Or a Pluto style nuclear ramjet with water injection.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 22, 2020 17:50:08 GMT
The Hearsay Machine could be a testimony style adventure or a trial themed one.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 22, 2020 21:24:48 GMT
hmmm 3rd doctor? or more 60's?
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 23, 2020 16:41:46 GMT
hmmm 3rd doctor? or more 60's? Still a bunch of unmade Second Doctor stories.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 23, 2020 17:14:10 GMT
The King's Bedtime Story Something in the Scheherazade line.
Operation Werewolf I'd stick with the Nazi theme but move the story to the very end of the war in Europe and an attempt to use alien technology, some form of viral nanotech, to create a secret army of Nazi guerillas. In fact it could be a series of interlinked scenarios in that period, with the players squaring off against Nazi holdouts, Torchwood and the "Monuments Men" (who weren't just looking for art treasure). Naturally their TARIS/transport has been stolen. The Secret Army: The first encounter with the organisation Chateau Of Death: The PCs locate and infiltrate what they think is the headquarters of the organisation. Lair Of The Werewolf: But in fact it's somewhere else, perhaps on an island off the Scottish coast, or in Austria or Switzerland. Complete with Hitler's brain in a jar and cyborg henchmen. Friend Or Foe: One of the Allies troops they're working with is a double agents. Crossfire: Under cover of an Allied assault force Village Of The Swastika: In sequel, set a decade later. Not all the Werewolf organisation was wiped out.
Take a look at the Call of Cthulhu campaign Assault on the Mountains of Madness for a large scale, epic, campaign of this sort.
The Queen of Time Dump the BF version with the Celestial Toymaker's sister. Make Hecuba a renegade Time Lord (or Eternal) with a plan to control time via an enslaved Chronovore.
The Aliens in the Blood People are being taken over by an alien infection, actually an intelligent virus colony.
The Dreamspinner On the human colony planet Llematov people are starting to share dreams. When they sleep they're finding themselves meeting again in a common dreamworld. Some of them enjoy it, others don't. Then some of the dreamers start to exert control over the Dreamworld. What's causing it? Who is the Dreamspinner?
The Eye in Space One hundred and thirty nine years who a green eye opened in space, as seen from the planet Zochade. It wasn't a star of course (stars can't be green, except due to atmosphere effects) but they had other things to worry about. Like surviving in the dyind days of the Earth Empire on a marginal planet on the fringe of anywhere. Ninety seven years later the eye closed. Now, in the aftermath of re-contact by the Galactic Federation am expedition is being sent to the probably location of the eye; actually an immensely powerful laser, probably used to launch a primitive NATAL interstellar craft.
The Harvesters For some worlds Artificial Intelligence is undesirable; too unreliable, to expensive, too difficult, too tabo. But they still want smart computers to operate machinery and other purposes so there is another option. The 'brain in a jar' model involves taking a sophont's brain and encasing them in a life support system. With "training" they can be used to operate complex equipment quite effectively.
Now the Harvesters from Thomia have found a new source of raw material, a planet known as Sol III
The Impersonators The death of a senior civil servant in an accident isn't a matter for UNIT. Until a meticulous doctor finds that not only has his appendix, removed years earlier, reappeared but his blood group is wrong. Fearing an alien plot the matter is handed to UNIT, with the remit to investigate and determine if any other people have been replaced by Impersonators.
The Laird of McCrimmon Obviously a Jamie-centric story.
The Lords of the Red Planet The Ice Warriors aren't native to Mars. They arrived there centuries ago in a hollowed out asteroid generation ship, fleeing their true home. But when the reached Mars they found a planet they could colonise. But the octopoid Lords of Mars has other plans.
The Rosemariners
The Prison in Space The Stones of Darkness Deep under the surface of the asteroid K99435C men and women must labour. Extracthing minerals from ore vein that honeycomb the asteroid, meeting the quotas set in order to survive.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 23, 2020 18:02:58 GMT
The Rosemariners could be a pure historical
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 24, 2020 10:52:35 GMT
The Circles of Power The submitted plot doesn't make a lot of sense to me. How about a Druidic cult, with groups all over England, seeking to revive the stone circles and construct new ones. To usher in a new Golden Age of Peace and Prosperity of course (rather '70s). Of course they're actually the dubes of extra-dimensional creatures, something like the Lloigor. The finale should have the Doctor/Brig/Yates/Benton destroying the semi-material, reptilian, form of one of the creatures by 'earthing' it. Riding a motorbike at it while couching a wooden pole with a cabled, metal, tip in the manner of a lance for the full George v Dragon feel.
The Mists of Madness What lurks inside the cover of a 'London particular'? Terror, madness and death. Now this won't do for a seventies setting, the last such fog in London was in 1952. But that detail can be altered or the setting can be '52. However I favour a Victorian setting, complete with Consulting Detectives (of various genders and species), Hansom cabs et cetera.
So there's something nasty happening under cover of the fog, but that was pretty normal for the period, crime was rife. Has anyone heard of David Edward Hughes? An interesting character, born in London or Cardiff (or somewhere else), expert musician, inventor of the carbon microphone and the printing telegraph (which is a tenuous link to The Night Wire) and experimented with the transmission of sound over wires. Unfortunately be failed to either invent the telephone or radio. He dabbled with radio, though he didn't understand what he was seeing; neither did the Royal Society so the invention of wireless telegraphy was delayed by twelve years. One interesting detail; at this time, around 1879/80 Hughes built a portable detector for the effects he discovered and wandered the streets of London at night listening. I remember a wonderfully evocative picture of him with top hat over headphones, wires trailing to the receiver bulging from one overcoat pocket. ETA: something like this. So maybe he detects something in the fog, something different from the random background 'noise' and links it to a series of people found wandering the streets, minds blasted beyond endurance by whatever they'd encountered....
The Shadow People Someone comes to UNIT with a strange story. She is an acquaintance/friend/family/lover of someone connected to UNIT, perhaps the daughter of one of the overseeing civil servants. Anyway she's somewhat shaken, a bit bemused and slightly sheepish. On a number of recent occasions she's had a strange experience. It started with the sighting of a person near the apartment building where she lives, a shadowy figure but one that, as she puts it, "gave me the willies". She's had similar encounters since then, each time a little off-putting but she dismissed them. Then, a couple of nights previously, she saw the person inside her flat; she turned around after speaking on the phone and there she was, sitting on the sofa. And the intruder had her face... She looked away and the person was gone, but a shadow persisted for a few moments. As she tells the story she becomes visibly distressed.
So what's going on? Is it the apartment block, newly constructed with all '70s mod-cons? Perhaps it's on a fissure between universes. Is it the piece of antique jewellery, given by an ex-lover, that she's started wearing? Is the rhythmic noise from the apartment above the chanting of a modern, urban, witch cult?
The Cerebroids Awful title. I'm thinking something like the giant brains (Morphos) that appeared in one segment of The Keys of Marinus. Mind controlling, mobile (telekinetic levitation) brains with a plan.
Alternatively the Cerebroids are humans enslaved by cerebral implants. A decade earlier a medical student discovered Rutan Healing Salve (inherited, crashed space craft, filed away in the hospital archive) and started experimenting with it. She discovered that it could be used to culture human brain tissue from other cells and used this to create a copy of her brain, which lives in a life support unit in an abandoned section of the basement of one of the hospital buildings. By experimentation, she found the second brain functions as an psionic amplifier and allows her to influence minds. This granted her revenge for the sexism of the sixties medical community and a safe professorship. Recently she discovered that, while the psionic influence is limited in range, if she implants a tiny piece of the cloned brain into a human brain she can control them almost totally, and without range limits. Now she has a plan for a better world....
The Space War Instead of the usual setting this could be a scenario about the Cold War escalating into space. Space travel in the Whoniverse was significantly more advanced than in ours so by the seventies there are probably orbital, lunar and L4/5 bases from the USA/USSR/UK/EC/Japan. And while they know of the extra-terrestrial threat there are still national rivalries. When something happens on one of the bases UNIT is tasked to investigate, as a more-or-less neutral party. Now they have to find out what happened and smooth things over before war breaks out in space.
The Furies In my The Thing In Th Basement campaign there's an NPC that the players have encountered (in Downtiming the Night Life) named Ariadne. Her race visited Earth millennia ago, in search of several renegades; found some of them were imitating gods (those of Ancient Greece) using psi and tech. They were stopped (giving rise to a cycle of legends of wars involving gods, heroes and demigods). Ariadne remained behind; now she's over 3,000 years old. Very experienced, knowledgeable, skilled and dangerous. She has psionic powers, including lethal offensive telekinesis and a bullet deflection shield. She's killed three Time Lords over the centuries. Oh and she’s a Gorgon. Complete with snake ‘hair’, though they’re actually small tentacles. She can’t turn people into stone but does have a poisonous bite, powerful telekinesis and advanced technology.
But perhaps one of the Erinyes survived and is about to emerge?
The Hollow Men Are they physically hollow? Mere animate shells to be occupied by something? Like protoplasmic aliens (as in the Agent of TERRA books) perhaps? So when a truck crashes, the driver is found to be a sophisticated, humaniform machine with no occupant and there are more inside it's a job for UNIT. Or a party of time travellers.
The Spare-Part People Sounds like a version of The Island with an earlier setting and misused alien tech to me. Human transplantation was new and controversial in the '70s and influenced a lot of period sci-fi. Organlegging for example.
The Brain Drain The Harvesters?
The Labyrinth. A sequel to The Fates perhaps?
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 24, 2020 12:32:29 GMT
The Brain-Dead Most resist urge to suggest a <INSERT FANDOM> convention.... The original idea was fairly terrible. Humans tend to fragment when cooled drastically. However the idea of mind control is interesting. And reminds me of black mould rotting the brain. So here's my take; a person is killed in a road accident, "He walked right out in front of me guv" says the truck driver. But also witnesses when the police interview them. Cut to hospital where a pathology cuts open the body and finds tendrils of black....stuff throughout the corpse. Then he saws open the skull and stops in shock. Dropping the saw he rushes to an office, grabs the phone and shouts "Get me UNIT. We have a situation".
A strange fungus has taken over the body, eating away the brain and assimilating the nervous system. Where did it come from? What id it doing? How do we kill it?
The Daleks in London I'm getting a distinct Attack of the Cybermen vibe. A small Dalek party with a crashed time ship.
The Mega. A bloody awful title IMO. But..... In deepest Essex a house is discovered by that staple of corpse discovery in fiction, the milkman. (Were there milkwomen?). The occupants have been killed....messily. As if by some large cat. Panic ensues Then politicians and police issue reassuring statements. Panic intensifies. What is going on? The situation gets worse. A child is found, it's body shattered as if it was dropped from a great height. "Giant bat" sighting are reported in newspapers. The army is called in, police and military snipers roam the countryside. A larger than normal pet cat is shot. Vigilante roam the streets, well a couple of ex-colonial types with overly powerful weaponry. Someone needs to investigate properly and everyone involves sighs happily and drops it on UNIT. A job for the misfit mob.
What's actually happening is examples of pre-historic Megafauna are drifting through portals in space-time. What caused them? Could be a local mad scientist meddling with Things Man Was Not Meant to Know. Could be a stranded time traveller trying to repair her ship with primitive parts. Have people come through? Can them go back, and change the past?
- The latter opens the way to using the sequence in Eye of the Giant where only the heroes (and the portal) remain of the 'real' history and they need to fix it pronto before the batteries run down.
But it's not the big stuff you really need to worry about, it's the microbes.
Basically dig out the Primeval books and borrow.
The Shape of Terror Mmmm, I'd keep the alien shape-shifter and the Golden Age mystery setting (it's a change from The Thing) but move it to a 'modern day' setting (anywhere from the '50s on; the UNIT era would be fine) and a scientific conference in the wilds of somewhere. Wales or Scotland perhaps. Bad weather, heavy rain or snow, means that most people haven't arrived. But a dozen or so, plus the staff, are there. Including the Doctor and Jo/SJ/Harry/Liz/Joshua/Benton/Yates (delete as applicable). And then the screaming starts (especially if Jo is around) as a body is found. But examination shows the person died hours earlier, yet he was seen speaking much later.
Rutan perhaps? Kamelion android (is the Master lurking to further complicate matters?).
- I like the idea of the Master as a red herring. He disguises himself as someone and the person is taken to be the killer.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 24, 2020 23:37:38 GMT
4th doctor/more 3rd doctor?
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Post by imajica on Aug 25, 2020 8:30:47 GMT
Love the fact that inspiration can come from anywhere for these titles. I've written about this elsewhere on these forums, I'm sure, and I got the idea myself originally from someone else on an old Firefly RPG forum. Grab a CD from the shelf. We've all got them I'm sure. The track titles are your episode titles. Works better with some than with others (Jarre's Oxygene discs are not a lot of use for this!). Let's see... Ozzy Osbourne "Diary of a Madman".
Over the Mountain Flying High Again You Can't Kill Rock and Roll Believer Little Dolls Tonight S.A.T.O. Diary of a Madman
And there's 8 episodes with a nice season arc pointing to the final revelations in the eponymous Diary.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 25, 2020 8:53:26 GMT
4th doctor/more 3rd doctor? Patience grasshopper.... My employers, my partners and our cat have claims on me too. There'll be another batch later today.
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Catsmate
13th Incarnation
No longer living in a bad adaption of "A Journal of the Plague Year".
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Favourite Doctors: Thirteen, Six, Five, Two, Eight, Twelve, Nine, One, Eleven..
Traits: Eccentric, Insatiable Curiousity.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 25, 2020 9:34:36 GMT
Love the fact that inspiration can come from anywhere for these titles. I've written about this elsewhere on these forums, I'm sure, and I got the idea myself originally from someone else on an old Firefly RPG forum. Grab a CD from the shelf. We've all got them I'm sure. The track titles are your episode titles. Works better with some than with others (Jarre's Oxygene discs are not a lot of use for this!). Let's see... Ozzy Osbourne "Diary of a Madman". Over the MountainFlying High AgainYou Can't Kill Rock and RollBelieverLittle DollsTonightS.A.T.O.Diary of a MadmanAnd there's 8 episodes with a nice season arc pointing to the final revelations in the eponymous Diary. A couple of ideas spring to mind.
Over the Mountain. The mountain is the Weisshorn in the Swiss Alps, over 4.5km high, and held by many to be the most beautiful of the Alps, with it's pure white slopes and odd pyramidal shape. The first men to climb it were two Swiss mountain guides, J. J. Bennen and Ulrich Wenger, and the Irish physicist John Tyndall in 18611. Starting at 1PM on 18AUG1861 from Randa to be exact. But what did Tyndall find on that climb?
Flying High Again
You Can't Kill Rock and Roll But you can give it a try. A few years ago budding musician Micki 'Fingers' Gleeson made a deal, not with the classic devil but with something. She got the ability to mesmerise crowds, immense personal charisma and (from these) rather a lot of money. Plus the physiology to survive a level of partying that Keith Richards would consider excessive. And the ability to satisfy her darkest urges... But there is a price to pay. The force that's helped her requires sacrifices, not difficult to provide from her legions of adoring fans. But in 2020 people notice disappearances, eventually, and the Misfit Mob's resident analyst has found a pattern. And that's not her only problem; six months ago in <CITY> twin brothers never came home after attending one of her shows. Their father is convinced Micki is responsible, and plans his own revenge.
Believer
Little Dolls The latest craze this Christmas are Little DollsTM a new brand of doll that display an amazing level of artificial intelligence and limited motion, especially given their moderate price. Are they the result of new breakthroughs in material science, AI and microelectronics? Or something more sinister....
Tonight
S.A.T.O.
Diary of a Madman Hmm, let me reuse an old idea. Jane would miss Great Uncle Herbert. "Unk" had been, as her own father had put it, "a character"; an SOE agent during the war (who'd kept a 'souvenir' Walther on a hook by his bedside table long after it was legal), who'd always told Jane she could achieve anything she put her mind to. A tower of strength in those awkward teenage years and even more so when she was at Cambridge and coming out to her parents. Still 89 wasn't a bad age. And there were a lot of people at the funeral, even a trio of old soldiers, one in a wheelchair.
Jane examined the package that unk's solicitor had given her and reread the note: "My dear Jane, you are one of the few in my family who'll understand these old diaries of mine". She untied the string and unwrapped the package of neat hardbound notebooks and started reading.
1. The man who demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect as well as working in the areas of diamagnetism, optics, electromagnetism, acoustics and elsewhere. Tyndall developed the technique for measuring carbon dioxide in breath (the basics of which is still used), demonstrated that radiant heat is a form of electromagnetic energy analogous to light, developed the 'Tyndallisation' technique for killing bacterial spores (and helped confirm the germ theory of disease), developed a safer and more effective respirator for firefighters and developed several improvements to foghorns. Hmmm, Torchwood....
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 28, 2020 15:43:23 GMT
hmmm 3rd or 4th doctor?
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Catsmate
13th Incarnation
No longer living in a bad adaption of "A Journal of the Plague Year".
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Favourite Doctors: Thirteen, Six, Five, Two, Eight, Twelve, Nine, One, Eleven..
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 28, 2020 17:55:42 GMT
The forum software ate the last batch I tried to post. I'll try again tomorrow.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 28, 2020 20:39:18 GMT
ok good luck!
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Catsmate
13th Incarnation
No longer living in a bad adaption of "A Journal of the Plague Year".
Posts: 3,730
Favourite Doctors: Thirteen, Six, Five, Two, Eight, Twelve, Nine, One, Eleven..
Traits: Eccentric, Insatiable Curiousity.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 1, 2020 10:53:48 GMT
Space Station Set in the late UNIT era (say where The Android Invasion fitted) or the generic near future. We know that space travel was far more advanced in the Whoniverse, there were those Mars missions during the UNIT era after all, and Crayford's trip to Jupiter.
It's almost done. After more than an year-and-a-half of difficult work in space assembling the sections that <SeaDragon1> boosted to LEO the first true space station construction for humanity is open for operations. Oficially it's 'Humanitas Excelsior' but that is too pretentious (and difficult to spell/pronounce) so it's just "the" space station. Over fifteen thousand tonnes, powered by a pair of nuclear reactors and equipped with massive solar cell arrays and radiators. Getting the damn think built took massive diplomacy, with the involvement of the USA, USSR, Britain, the European Community, Japan and India2, and so the UN was agreed as the managing power. Naturally they dropped it onto their go-to people for odd stuff; now UNIT has a presence in space, The station is based on the Cambridge Torus3, 120m in diameter and rotating slowly to simulate gravity (not particularly well but it beats free-fall for most people). A magnificent achievement. One that's having a few problems....
The Ark in Space Professor William Stenhouse was a brilliant scientist, if somewhat obsessive. He was a consultant to bith the Intrusion Countermeasures Group and UNIT and was 'read in' on a wide variety of odd incidents. He's examined and attempted to understand quite a bit of 'recovered' technology. Then he went a bit 'queer' and was quietly pensioned of. Returning to the old farm in Kent he'd inhereited he started a sort-of scientific commune, obsessed with the survival of humanity against the twin threats of alien attack and environmental destruction. He'd been pretty much ignored; he still authored the occasional articles, was a common peer-reviewer for papers and was rather wealthy from a number of small but extremely useful developments in the field of electronics. Yesterday his farm disappeared. Quite literally. In the morning it was there as usual, but at half-three a passenger on a double-decker bus saw a gigantic hole. One that's about 300m in diameter. Buildings, land, it's all....not there.
What happened was thing; Stenhouse and his fellos scientists were worried and decided to do something. The key to their plan is a piece of recovered alien tech, found by Doctor Helen Cohen, amongst some stuff in an old RAF warehouse, dating back to the ICMG days. Unlike those before her she noticed it had an odd effect on space and gravity around it. After quietly moving it to the boot of her car, she started experimenting on it at home. When she met Stenhouse at a conference they hit it off and she joined his group. The device is part of a starship's warp drive and allowed the group to scoop a chunk of the Kent countryside up and fly it off into space. Currently they're exploring the asteroid belt in what's a force field bubble 300m across. There's ten core scientists, with a variety of specialities, and around seventy others involved. They have a variety of recovered and developed technology, including a number of androids, weapons (mostly non-lethal but there is a stash of Cyberweapons) and a rather clever closed-cycle life support system, all powered by a small fusion reactors.
William Stenhouse: the man in charge, inspirational speaker, polymath Helen Cohen: high energy physics, cosmology Frank Weaver: organiser, engineer, very practical George Goodall: slightly paranoid biochemist, works on plants for use in space John Saunders: worked on space platform systems, argumentative Edward Howells: materials science James Davison: life support systems Walter Daniels: structures and constructiom Ruth Maxwell: reactor designer Dorothy Alexander: force fields and 'exotic' physics
The Sea of Fear Every sailor has hearc the legends of the Sargasso Sea, but most know it's nonsense. In the old days of steam ships had been becalmed there but the weed was no real threat to a ship. That's what the crew and passengers of the small steamer Woodlark thought too, a week ago. There was a problem with the engine one evening; soon fixed assured the Captain, be on our way in the morning. But they weren't. The propeller was encrusted with thick seaweed. A couple of sailors dived to clear it, but one disappeared and the other surfaced and screamed before being pulled down. By that evening the little ship was caught in a web of weed that seemed thick enough to walk upon. The giant crabs seem to have no problem. Now, five days later, they're running low on fresh water and supplies. And getting desperate.
Return of the Cybermen Six thousand years ago the planet that became known as Mondas set off on it's unplanned and involuntary journey into space after the GodEngine was activated. On their journey the inhabitants of the subterranean cities colonised a few planets and independent groups of Mondasians and proto-Cybermen developed. Most settlements died off, some scraped along and a small few thrived and grew. Tantalla was one of the latter; while the faction that colonised it (after yet another split in the Counil) was small, and the planet young and turbulent, it was rich in minerals and resources. About thirty years after their arrival the proto-Cybermen saw a battle in the sky; on the fringe of the star system a small group of spacecraft was fighting. After it ended and the survivors fled the Cybermen launched one of their few operationsl spacecraft, a simple gravity polariser ship but one that could reach the alien ships. They found debris, damaged ships and an operational Thargon vessel with survivors. After Conversion they joined the Cybermen and told all they new of the civil war being fought by their people/ Assimilating the advanced (to them) alien technology and some new ideas, they expanded. After picking off Thargon settlements to expand their numbers, and ships to expand their fleet. Eventually they took the Empire itself. Now they're expanding again.
The Angarath Every city has those laneways and alleys that people avoid. The ones that just aren't inviting. On day Deborah Wallace was struck by a sudden curiousity and walked down one such lane. At the end. where three different lanes met, was a tiny park no more than ten metres across with a pedestal with an odd obelisk on top. Curious she laid her hand on it, and met the Angarath. The universe is huge and many strange forma of life exist in it; this particular form of life was an electromagnetic pattern that existed in a silicon matrix. It's people lived vastly far from Earth and this entity had never planned to fall to Earth in the 1600s but a prematurely collapsed wormhole had dropped her three thousand parsecs off course and in an unpowered travel envelope. Found buried her stony matrix had been used as the decoration a century later. While it slept, deproved of the electromagnetic signals that its people used to communicate humanity developed. When the contact with Debbie's mind woke it the Angarath could feel the signals around it and started to hope for escape from this place. It communicated with Debbie and taught her how to manipulate electromagnetic signals, to 'speak' by radio, jam signals, read the weak signals of the human brain and even modify them. Now it has a small group of followers. But Debbie has her own plan, and she's not a nice girl.
The Beasts of Manzic Meh, inspiration isn't biting.
The Eyes of Nemesis Two hundred and thirty years ago while the Earth Empire was falling the planet of Laomia was settled by dissidents fleeing the inevitable. Their journey was long, beyond even the fringes of the Empire, their ships clapped out and their supplies limited. When they arrived on the planet they rapidly abandoned space travel. Then, forty three years After Landing4 and eye opened in the night sky. Followed six years later by a second. Bright green eyes high in the sky. Of course the people of Laomia weren't primitives they understood quite well what the bright green dots really were; laser launch systems. In a system about six parsecs distant someone was boosting a spacecraft for a slower-than-light journey. It wasn't an immediate concern. And sixty six years later the lights blinked out, the eyes closed. Around that time the colony was riven by factional strife as a fleeing Imperial frigate brought news of the collapse of the Empire, literally in the case of the Overcities. Some of the crew stayed, others (and a few Laomians) continued on, seeking out one of the mythic Pure Human colonies in deep space.
Now the Laomia system is visited by three space travellers; in a quiet part of the countryside, not far from Landing City5, a TARDIS has materialised. An exploration cruiser from the Federation Exploration Service is moving into orbit and on the edge of the system the computer of a small and pitted capsule is calculating the parameters of a deceleration maneuver around the outermost gas giant before heading to the fourth planet/.
Comments? Suggestions? Ideas?
1. Or whatever the BDB is called in this history.
2. Well India seems to have a more advanced space programme too.
3. We'd call it a Stanford Torus but the meeting was held elsewhere in the Whoniverse.
4. A distressingly popular convention for time keeping in the Fringes.
5. Also very common in the boondocks.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 1, 2020 14:59:02 GMT
hmmmm maybe manzic is a planet
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 4, 2020 23:47:01 GMT
hmmm more 4th doctor stuff?
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Post by Doctor X on Sept 11, 2020 1:35:44 GMT
I'm still looking for a story to go with "The Good, The Bad, and The Rani."
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 26, 2020 22:13:36 GMT
lets resume this with some more 4th doctor stuff.
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