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Post by Catsmate on Dec 19, 2020 19:22:55 GMT
Or KIT-Ty. If the CIA made many of them, each would have an alphanumeric name that would, often, be made into a regular feline name.
MRS-135 might become Morris.
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Post by markrand on Dec 19, 2020 19:33:29 GMT
Or KIT-Ty. If the CIA made many of them, each would have an alphanumeric name that would, often, be made into a regular feline name.
MRS-135 might become Morris.
That's where I got the idea. The KIT-Ty robot is a K9 robot with a somewhat feline head. |
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Post by markrand on Dec 21, 2020 3:02:37 GMT
I chose Tabby and Stan to be the people in the TARDIS I used in my postings because I think Tabby's cool.
Additionally, I played a female cat burglar in a few Dr. Who RPG Games. One promised that she wouldn't bite anyone, claw the furnishings, shed, or caugh up hairballs.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 21, 2020 10:00:04 GMT
I chose Tabby and Stan to be the people in the TARDIS I used in my postings because I think Tabby's cool. Additionally, I played a female cat burglar in a few Dr. Who RPG Games. One promised that she wouldn't bite anyone, claw the furnishings, shed, or caugh up hairballs.
Yeah, Stan and Tabby were an interesting pair, it's a pity they were never developed further in any of the FASA scenarios; they had more potential than some of the provides PCs. |
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Post by markrand on Dec 21, 2020 15:21:06 GMT
I chose Tabby and Stan to be the people in the TARDIS I used in my postings because I think Tabby's cool. Additionally, I played a female cat burglar in a few Dr. Who RPG Games. One promised that she wouldn't bite anyone, claw the furnishings, shed, or caugh up hairballs.
Yeah, Stan and Tabby were an interesting pair, it's a pity they were never developed further in any of the FASA scenarios; they had more potential than some of the provides PCs.Agreed. I would've loved to see character sheets for them in the FASA books. All we knew about their stats was that Tabby's DEX was 7. |
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 27, 2020 14:06:46 GMT
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Post by markrand on Dec 27, 2020 18:56:41 GMT
Only the gingerbread ones.
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Post by Catsmate on Dec 27, 2020 20:56:22 GMT
Only the gingerbread ones.
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Post by markrand on Dec 31, 2020 22:57:12 GMT
Only the gingerbread ones. |
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Post by markrand on Dec 31, 2020 23:00:26 GMT
Only the gingerbread ones.
You might be right. |
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Post by Catsmate on Jan 1, 2021 1:40:35 GMT
Don't be speciesist , I'm sure there are plenty of aliens who find chromed steel delicious....
You might be right.
But that was in Switzerland....
I feel sure there's a scenario there somewhere.
Talking of which I have an idea regarding the monoliths, mixing my earlier 'things from elsewhere' post to Stan and Tabby. The monoliths 'pre-date' (a rather inappropriate term) their arrival and acted as I speculated before as beacons that 'softened' weak points in space-time.
Naturally this caused further problems, distorting space-time more and pulling in a passing time machine1; the somewhat fiddly TARDIS operated by a renunciate Time Lord named Alistanathcalebiviteth and his human companion Tamara Carlina Fellowes. Possibly with more companions and a robot cat...
The TARDIS materialised <somewhere>, perhaps scaring (or interesting) the people who'd been messing with the monolith design but weren't actually expecting much2. The materialisation was neither voluntary nor smooth; systems were overloaded and perhaps damaged. So the TARDISeers investigate and try and figure our what happened, what's going on and how to fix it.
But the monolith has had an odd effect on their TARDIS; it took the form of an exact copy of the monolith on materialisation and won't (or can't) alter this. Even when the monolith is destroyed thair TARDIS sticks to the form and won't travel beyond present day Earth (it's down the influence of the monoliths on space-time; they're snared).
Worse, when the TARDIS dematerialises it generates an echo of the Real World Interface which remains. The more they jaunt around Earth in the TARDIS the more copies they generate. This weakens the TARDIS, leaving it vulnerable to external influences, from the real world, the Vortex and from wherever the monoliths link to. Soon people manage to enter the TARDIS through the 'echo monoliths', Reapers start to phase in through the walls, alternate versions of Stan and Tabby are met3 and weirdness occurs.
What next?
1. Think of the space-time vortex as a rubber sheet; the monoliths are dense ball bearings on the surface, causing passing objects to roll down.
2. Like a wood-be demonologist suddenly confronted by an incubus.
3. Gender and alignment mirrors, a Stan who became a respected field researcher, a Tabby who stole the TARDS et cetera.
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Post by markrand on Jan 1, 2021 2:36:39 GMT
I have a few ideas about who some of their other new companions are. I'll post them sometime tomorrow. It's getting close to my bedtime.
Happy New Year everyone. May 2021 turn out better than 2020.
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Post by markrand on Jan 1, 2021 14:35:30 GMT
Here are the additional passengers for Stan and Tabby’s TARDIS. Cathy Hart is a United Airlines flight attendant from 1969 who ran afoul of a Weeping Angel. Edward Morgan, M.D., and his office nurse, Katherine Wilson, R.N., were recruited from 1975 to tend to an injured Tabby.
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Post by markrand on Jan 2, 2021 20:09:12 GMT
Stan and Tabby's TARDIS has the Victorian Desktop Theme.
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Post by markrand on Jan 3, 2021 0:50:57 GMT
Stan and Tabby are at the console trying to figure out what happened to their TARDIS. Nearby, Katherine Wilson is doing her best to help them. At this point, Tabby has been with Stan for five years and knows about electronics and locks above TL 5 while Katherine is new to the TARDIS crew.
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Post by markrand on Jul 24, 2021 17:45:59 GMT
As I understand it, there are now over 50 monoliths around the world. Some were admittedly put there by people, but some might be caused by a TARDIS.
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Post by markrand on May 20, 2022 13:15:27 GMT
In the real world, the monoliths are a recent phenomenon, but in the game universe, they could've existed since the Middle Ages and many are overgrown with plants.
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Post by grinch on May 20, 2022 13:31:01 GMT
In the real world, the monoliths are a recent phenomenon, but in the game universe, they could've existed since the Middle Ages and many are overgrown with plants. A neat idea. Maybe some alien race have been sending them for centuries as a part of some distress signal yet primitive cultures either didn’t know what to make of them or ignored them completely. It is still happening to the modern day but perhaps the race which is sending them is sick and tired of being ignored. That or they may feel like they’re not being taken seriously when all they desire is help. After all this time, they might even make an appearance. |
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Post by soultaker666212 on Sept 11, 2022 17:30:23 GMT
I remember these very well, was an interesting event that occurred which even happened within the Whoniverse as well. To me they are spacecraft, rather strange ones, but landed upon Earth for whatever reason, perhaps inhabited by aliens perhaps not, perhaps intended for humanity to enter them perhaps not. Either way they do seem to be popping up all over the world even if some are marketing stunts in the Whoniverse can be aliens of course. Perhaps even Time Corridors for a temporal invasion of 2020, we did have the Coronavirus preventing us from leaving our homes etc would make for a good time to invade and be easier to conquer, hence why the Time Corridors aka Monoliths have appeared there.
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Post by Catsmate on Mar 14, 2024 9:32:10 GMT
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Post by markrand on Mar 14, 2024 17:25:19 GMT
I do like this.
Most monoliths are normal, but some were generated by a TARDIS that copied a monolith and is now stuck in that form, like The Doctor's is stuck in the form of a police box. Moreover, it's forced to stay on Earth and must stay between 1960 and 2020.
When a person comes in contact with a TARDIS-made monolith, they are all people and animals (usually pigeons, cats, dogs, and small rodents) within 30-feet end up in the control room.
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