... don't. Just... don't.

It's a long story.

"Shirley, you can't be serious."

-swoons- Classic Silurians. With the third eye.

Never let it be said that I am above pandering to the players. :D

Should we humans check for fear for the race-memory thing from ...and the Silurians? I don't think it's been used in later stories, and I wonder if the Silurians just psychically tortured those who were affected instead. The evolutionary record makes it hard to justify too.

... I think it was only used in the first story; not even the Sea Devils had it I don't believe.

Well, as C7's writeup of Silurians has it, it can be a thing, but it's not something that automatically kicks in if a human just comes into contact with a Silurian.  I presume it would be in the manner of the Silurian preying on well-known human psychological flaws, and this group actually would not have any idea about that.

Now Smoke Alarm is primed to be twitchy right now; Stanley is being remarkably BABAAKSB.

Smoke, if you're not sure which way you should go right now, I would suggest you can roll a Resolve + Presence + Brave, and you can get a +2 because Sereth is encouraging you.  In your present state that would be a difficulty 15.  Your response is up to you, but I figure it would go something like this:

Success - Bravery kicks in, face up to the general nervousness you've been having.  You would overcome the Past Trauma that has been bugging you.
Minor Failure - Still scared, but you might stay and try to face things for your friends' sake.
Failure - Lose it, and flee, but with your wits about you.
Disastrous - PANIC!
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Incidentally: "lizard-bikes"?  GOLD.

... so that's why the Cybermen never visited Earth when the Silurians were around. They had those gold lizard-bikes.

I rolled a 14. So close! I'll go with that and join the team. For now.

Of course lizard-bikes! :D

BABAAKSB? Ah, now I get it. :)

Deep People, huh? That must be the ones that worshipped Azathoth and the Great Old Ones and wrote the Necronomicon. ;)
tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Silurian#Culture

Mum! Dad! :D

Um, Smoke's not up a tree. Out of her tree, mayhaps, but not up one. Yet. :)

Anyway, she's already joined Traveller, just grumbling.

Ewww... but she's so pink!

Hmm.

Actually, whilst not terribly likely, SEreth's probably the one most likely to carry anything that might affect their herd animals; as mammal to reptilian is a lot less likely than reptilian to reptilian.

Of course, Doctor Who has never been about sacrificing story for scientific accuracy.

Depends what kind of science you're positing as causing a problem.  H. G. Wells notwithstanding, anything a Draconian carried would probably be equally dangerous (or not) to any sort of Earthborn life, Stanley and Smoke Alarm included, and it would do it on a strict biochemical basis, not an infectious / pathological one.

I think we can safely chalk the failure of this to happen to the TARDIS quietly ironing out any severe biological incompatibility of this sort.
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Uh, they would be talking about Traveller and Stanley. I don't think they think Sereth is Smoke's father. :p

Unless you have something to explain?
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A guilty conscience is a hell of a thing.  :D

Yes, I was suggesting that the Silurians are presently imagining there to be two species among your group.

Smoke as Stan and Trav's kid?

Actually, Smoke as a Vagabond from Rift's Earth would not be out of place at all. I could easily see a tribe of Kangs living in the ruined towers of some bombed out city on Rifts Earth behaving identically to the way that they did in the 7th Doctor episode, except with scavenged mega damage tech.

And I know Smoke Alarm's OCC! City Rat.
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At the very least the Tardis has to have some system to screen the passengers for infectious diseases and that gets rid of them, or we'd be spreading diseases all over the timeline.

... okay, I'm not a huge fan of RTD, but Traveller just reminded me of Tooth and Claw; and the running gag from the Doctor and Rose to try to get the Queen to say "We are not amused." And I admit it - I laughed.

My niece got a walky-talky toy. She calls it a talky-talky-phone. I'm so proud. :D

Turns out Paradise Towers is a real place. And the reviews are perfect.
http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/...oast_Queensland.html

Dammnable honorable idjits.

Based on your Code of Conduct, I feel like you deserve a Story Point just for getting caught up in the responsibility for Smoke Alarm. :D

... to be fair, Traveller isn't always much better! The big difference, is she -might- get what a big deal it is.

Now, now, no one's responsible for Smoke Alarm. ;)