We now return you to your random commentary from the transversal telegraph, already in progress....

The DRUMMMING...

tap tap tap tap, tap tap tap tap

Can't you hear it?

(I was really bummed when we got the actual explanation for it. I was really hoping it was the Master really having been driven mad by the Time Vortex)

Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting wabbits.

No! Couldn't it have been "Four to Doomsday"? Episode Four? Fourth Regeneration?

4th incarnation preferably. Wasn't too fond of Davison's doctor.

But yeah, four to doomsday would have been my pick.

Sorted.

It's good to be the king.

Stanley, Stanley.  The loaded question to end all loaded questions.

Hey, I'm not telling.

Blue Kangs are best *fist bump*

And for his next trick, Stanley can explain regeneration to his mom. :D :D :D

Mind, she seemed to take a catgirl in a sun dress showing up unannounced in her living room in stride.

Next adventure: we all show up to Stanley's mom's house to stay for a few days over Christmas or something. :D

... yeah, you want someone with the Cheetah-virus over at Christmas. I can't imagine Christmas possibly having anything that could set -that- off...

Copious amounts of meat, family arguments...

Actually, you'd just be distracted by the tinsel. :p

It's the Cheetah-Virus, not the house-cat virus!

And Stan's mom becomes the ATTT version of Wilfred Mott.

Yes. This will happen. Time Travelling Moms for the win!

The Master controlled the Cheetah People by distracting them with shiny alfoil balls. :D
This message was last edited by the player at 23:14, Wed 12 July 2017.

Cue BlueTrav, Smoke and Kalath catgirl art. #TARDISCATGIRLS
This message was last edited by the player at 21:22, Wed 12 July 2017.

ALWAYS TIME TO TRAVEL: THE TERROR OF SANDY CLAWS !!!!

A.K.A. "Smoke Alarm Ruins Christmas". :D

No, pretty sure it's going to be Kalath ruining Christmas.

We can both ruin Christmas. :)

O-kay, points for dramatic action....


I would point out that the TARDIS was left on the Grand Bazaar.  Strictly speaking, you're going to have to get an aircar ride to get back there.  Or, perhaps, a hang glider.

This is not to try to talk you out of doing this, just to point out that we need a narrative adjustment.  Despite the fun gravity at play here, running back to the TARDIS without some means of flight is going to leave you a Travcake.

For the others in the room, this would be an opportune moment to notice that Kalath seems to have wandered off as you make your next move.

Can Trav channel Doctor9?

"I have one rule.One rule. Don't wander off. So what's the first thing they do?"

You joke.  But I have held off on answering your last post because depending on how the dice fall things could get really crazy all of a sudden.

Trav dashing away like a madwoman is entirely in tune with the possibilities here.

-snerk- Given lately I've taken days to answer posts, I don't think I'm in a position to complain about times for post-answering.

I was only half-joking though.

I am fine with Trav desperately looking about for a vehicle or a hang glider. I'll repost later.

... ohhhh craaappppp......

Post later. I have to figure out how she'll react to that.

The timing of events is dicey here, and I will probably be handing out free story points to account for my fudging of that for maximum chaos.  But yes, I thought leaving that in mid-fall to let Kalath make some sort of reaction was fair enough.

I was half-expecting to see Kalath and Sairen fall through the room we were in. :D

Did you guys see the 13th Doctor reveal video?

No spoilers.

Yes.  Yes, I did.

Awesomesauce.

When can we start talking about it?

You know I have a few things to say.

There's a thread over thataway that says "Who Spoilers" on it.  Reckon that means what it says on the tin.

Because... they walked away?

Ding!

There's always someone in the group who is too genre savvy for the GM's good. :D

I did as well; simply because it was the obvious answer. However, this game has often not gone the obvious sooo...

Well, I wasn't really shocked that people twigged to it.

...You could all at least let me pretend I'm doing something surprising, though. ;)

Everyone add an SP now.

How I pictured it:

"Wait, where's Kalath?"
Kalath falls through the ceiling, table, and floor.
"Oh, there she is."

"And she's gone again. How many times do I have to tell them, don't wander off???"

Ha, I love Kalath's comment and Sairen's response.

The latest Humble Book bundle might be interesting if you are interested in PDFs of a selection of books for the DWAITAS line:
https://www.humblebundle.com/b...doctor-who-rpg-books

This is an overview of the books included in the different tiers (from the page):

Pay $1 for:

• The Doctor Who Roleplaying Game
• Cat's Eye
• Medicine Man
• The Ravens of Despair
• The First Doctor Sourcebook
• 30% Off Coupon for Cubicle 7 Store
• Doctor Who: Legacy (Mobile Game)

Pay $8 for:

• The Second Doctor Sourcebook
• The Third Doctor Sourcebook
• The Fourth Doctor Sourcebook
• The Fifth Doctor Sourcebook
• The Sixth Doctor Sourcebook
• The Seventh Doctor Sourcebook
• The Eighth Doctor Sourcebook

Pay $15 for:

• The Ninth Doctor Sourcebook
• The Tenth Doctor Sourcebook
• The Eleventh Doctor Sourcebook
• The Time Traveller's Companion
• Defending the Earth - UNIT Sourcebook

Looks like a pretty good deal to me.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:44, Wed 19 July 2017.

One of these days I may do as a fan thing actual Traveller sourcebooks for DWAITAS. But much of it will be from my shoddy memory.

In reply to Stanley Newton (msg # 40):

He's just making excuses and sulking because I'm better.

Personally I love Smoke's earlier thought process

"She had to be Sereth now".

Damn straight.  Heroes of Draconia don't grow on trees, you know.

They grow in towers instead!

Sereth was fun; but it's easier to get Kalath into trouble.

It's gonna be all about honner now. :)



Oh, cool. I've got a lot of them, but the price is still as much as you'd pay for one from DriveThruRPG. I've never done Humble before, I've gone and bought the books now.

After this current arc, I do plan on travelling to Draconia so that Bluetrav can humbly present herself to Sereth to learn swordsmanship and dignity. I think that Sereth will like this much more dignified Traveller more than smart mouth Blond Trav (although I definitely felt definite affection between those two.)

"Now I understand what you were trying to tell me all that time." Bluetrav is now expressing Sereth traits.

Humble Bundle also goes to charity! I'm dropping $15 on it because it's the Trav thing to do. I bought the last bundle.

-belatedly catches up-

Sairen the Catchable. I love it.

Well, he can't have that name any more. :) Of course, catching him might be easy and keeping him the hard part.


Smoke's hunch might be metagamey, but I figured it was reasonable and shows Kalath's place in the team. :)
This message was last edited by the player at 06:50, Thu 20 July 2017.

One thing I forgot to mention, but there is no DriveThruRPG integration, unlike with the BundleofHolding rpg bundles. They won't get added to your DriveThruRPG library.

Trav, I don't think I want the Orrery to work that way.

I have talked before about my frustration with Fortress TARDIS and this gives you a wonderful tool for no one to ever have to interact with the world.

Kalath gets to be Tegan. Lovely...

No no, I just want to find them and then we'll run out after them. I just want to use the sensors.

I'll edit to reflect that. TARDIS is staying put. That was never my intention, in fact its's mad dangerous for the TARDIS to be anywhere near the cannister.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:14, Fri 21 July 2017.

While I am expecting Ms Kismet to be Fortuna-Evers-Warlock-The Beast, I would be DELIGHTED if it was another Time Lord, any time lord, even an enemy.

The Rani!

Because it's always the Rani. Every time there's a mysterious woman, fans speculate it's the Rani. :) At least this one dresses the part. ;)

Though since Missy, that speculation has turned a lot more to 'the Master'.

If a Ms Kismet turned up on Doctor Who, people would assume it was a reference to Roger Delgado's wife.

Well, a Cheetah Person could fairly be described as a mouth on legs.

Actually my comment was more about the companion who only barely knew the old timelord before they regenerated; and then separated from the regenerated timelord and explaining to someone else about them.

I don't like Davison's era, but I think at least part of it is that, with the exception of Nyssa, he had truly horrendous companions.

The weirdest part was in "Castrovalva", when the Watcher gives everyone a ride home and and the Doctor stays to deal with the mess, then Tegan suddenly decides "nope, I'm better off with the Doctor", despite him being a complete stranger and Castrovalva being obviously not safer than Earth. I think she spent the next few seasons regretting that decision.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:30, Sat 22 July 2017.

The fact is, that only Adric really knew the Doctor for long enough to consider staying with the Doctor post-regeneration. Nyssa at least has the excuse that her entire planet is destroyed. The Doctor was also Adric's best hope of getting back to E-space.

It's never even implied that Tegan's real parents are dead is it? Just 'Auntie Vanessa'? It's been a long time since I watched Logopolis - and even longer since Castrovalva.

She's an Australian expat, so I'd assume she has no family in England. However, her cousin and grandather appear later, so she had surprisingly many family members in the show.

I feel most issues with Tegan can be explained by her being a Queenslander. :D
This message was last edited by the player at 02:42, Sat 22 July 2017.

Hey now! My aunt is a Queenslander; though not by birth. Actually I think the only state that I don't have immediate family to have at least visited is WA.

Of course, WA is at the end of the world. :) My father's parents hail from South Australia, but otherwise we're solidly Western Australia. We've been to all states and territories except the Northern Territory, but that was only when I was a kid.

My family is -very- strongly connected to early South Australian life, as well as one particular town in Victoria. My partner jokes my family is South Australian royalty.

Ah, you're one of the bunyip aristocracy. :D

You be careful, or I'll set the drop bears on ya.

I probably reacted more strongly than needed, as you in fact said that in the first place.  And it's not like this was a particular challenge, because OMNIS already located them and wouldn't have denied you the information.

I guess what got my hackles up was that you introduced this thing which I considered to a fun element but entirely too coarse to be of much practical use, and then rapidly assigned it new powers giving it pinpoint accuracy.  I mean, what can an observatory for all of time and space not find?

So, fine.  You found them, because there's no way this can be hard enough for you to fail.  Proceed.

Well, I could have just called them on the phone, but that would have just entailed using the GPS. This was a little more colorful. Would it have made any difference if I had done it from Trav's own phone, or the TARDIS console? It's not like I haven't located companions using superphones before. The show introduced them, and it's kind of dumb that if the Doctor can erase his presence from the entire c21st Internet with a DVD, that he can't track a companion 's superphone from the TARDIS console (which indeed the Capaldi Doctor has done.) This is one of the differences between Classic and Modern who - it stretches disbelief that an alien super scientist can't manipulate basic functions of wireless technology (that can also obstensibly talk through time.)
This message was last edited by the player at 04:54, Sat 22 July 2017.

Smoke -- zinging off through the city can get you arbitrarily close to the palace, but since it's actually "flying", did you have some scheme of boosting yourself up to it in mind?

See message #229.

Hop, skip, jump.

Grappling hook + ascender rope-gun.

Riding a gravity inversion so that once we get high enough we can fall the rest of the way.

The Traveller may be a Lord of Time, but Smoke Alarm is the boss of space. :D

Anyway, I figure that Sairen won't be staying up at the flying palace and the net, but would find a way down to ground-ish level and continue his journey. So Smoke Alarm would prefer to get ahead and intercept him and Kalath, and she might not have to go back to the palace after all.

But putting it all in Kang is tricky.

This iteration of the Traveller is a bit more mobile than Blondie was. Hopefully she can keep up.

Boy am I glad I made that Ascension gun for you on Estanve Gastem.

Well, a 20 is plenty for an extended and successful parkour montage, or as they say in the Habisphere, "high-speed aerobatic motive performance art".

(The Spectacular Spider-Kang!  Threat, or menace?)

Since Trav no longer uses guns, Bluetrav will need to make something simply to keep up with Smoke Alarm. A wrist launcher, maybe.

Jetpack? Wearable helicopter? :D



Film it and make it my contribution to the Habisphere. :D

Technically, that roll was just wayfinding, achieving the physical side of it is another matter.

Trav has a jetpack in CO! A goofy retro thing. 1st Trav has this steampunk contraption.

1st Trav wanted to *beat* people who urged her to get an anti-grav umbrella. Some TravFans said it was a subtle 1st Trav call out when the Doctor said to Clara, 'you are no governness!'

Trav doing an Inspector Gadget thing would be kinda in character

Question about the net:

Is the net a safety net around/under the Palace (to prevent people from falling to their deaths or to catch objects that might fall off) or is it something Sairen prepared?

From the scans and pictures you saw of them, it looks like these screens are a common feature around the outside of the palace, not just something rigged up in this one place.

Will post tomorrow. Been an explosion of job interviews.

Romana: Should we take the lift or fly?
The Doctor: Let's not be ostentatious.
Romana: All right, let's fly, then.
The Doctor: That would look silly. We'll take the lift, come on.


Sorry, I was busy with babysitting yesterday and visiting a doctor today, so I didn't get time to think of something and post it. Traveller seems to be just following Smoke, so I went for Smoke's own traverse myself.

Best wishes with employment!

Speaking of Four To Doomsday, Travfans are clearly going to be debating the Smoke Alarm Maneuver for decades to come....

The Last Of Your Kind flaw - where even technology hates you.

BTW, I'd like to claim a Story Point, because the Time War is coming back to bite The Traveller literally in her new ass.

Yes.  I meant to say so even before you brought it up.

The most unlikely part might be how many hands Smoke Alarm needed to handle her grappler and cans...

I want the newest Smoke Alarm Habisphere playset. With reverse Gravy-Tea action!

Sold.  Post IC what you're doing to figure out his identity, with the proviso that he may not himself be aware of his significance.

And thus fan speculation begins. Is Gaiman writing the episode? Is it The Corsair under the Chameleon arch? Is the Mathematician or Tangent of 90? (Two RIFTS Time Lords - categorically not, since the current showrunner didn't write for the old RIFTS show and isn't familiar at all with either character, but that won't stop the fanbase from speculating) a prior incarnation of Trav? The Master? Smoke Alarm's long lost brother? Kaltha's new boyfriend? Who knows? #whoissairen

Fans haven't gone this crazy since the whole STANLEY IS THE MASTER craze back in 2015 and all those Youtube videos of Stan discovering a fob watch and then Regenerating and stealing Sweet Boy. "The drumming!" He can hypnotize people. It's obviously The Master!"
This message was last edited by the player at 13:58, Mon 31 July 2017.

That was the weird thing about Tennant's doctor going on so much about how the Master had had a trick for hypnosis - only the Delgado-Master really had a gift for that that went beyond what is accepted as doable. From memory the Ainley-Master had a version of it which was about on the same level as a stage magicians; but Delgado had one where very few people could resist it. I don't mind if they want to bring that back; but let's be honest in that it's not a trick he's used for a very long time.

That's the reason we were making the joke - it was such a distinctive schtick that hadn't been used by anyone else that I at least had imagined fandom repeating gifs of Stan side by side with Delgado hypnotizing people, hours long videos "proving" that Stan was The Master and a tearful Blake Lively pleading with a maddened, angry Stanley locked in the TARDIS. "It's just the two of us now! We're the only ones left!" a la The End Of Time.

While it would have been amazingly cool if Stan really was the Master (so many feels!) the price would have been too high - we would have lost Stanley Newton, the heart and soul of ATTT.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:32, Mon 31 July 2017.

Maybe the Doctor saw the Master use his hypnosis more often during the Time War. It won't be much good against Daleks, but if you need to manipulate a lesser species or fellow Time Lords...
This message was last edited by the player at 20:54, Mon 31 July 2017.

I was reading some of the old threads - one of the things I love about the Trav-Smoke Alarm relationship is that they don't entirely understand what each other says, but they love each other anyway and have a bond of happy weirdness between them.

They really have settled into an ideal Time Lord-Companion rhyhtm, especially across Travellers.

I'm kinda satisfied that I immediately tagged Sairen as a possible Corsair when we first met.

It's charming that you believe I think that far in advance. :D

Oh, so you're -just- like a Doctor Who showrunner then?

:D

No, Gary's River Song is cooler and less misogynistic.

I want to start investigating Bernice Summerfield.

Also, where can Yankees like me get Big Finish audios?

I believe they're available for online download.

I'd like to pay for them and support them.

Smoke's question hit Trav right in the feels.

I know I can't claim more than 1 SP per scene, but still.

In reply to The Traveller (msg # 100):

No, I mean legal download.

https://www.bigfinish.com/

Yay! Thank you!

I was very disappointed by Gary Russell's 12th Doctor novel Big Bang Generation with Benny. It was originally intended to feature River Song, and was rewritten to Bernice Summerfield, and it shows. D:

As for the novels, they're hard to get now, unless you get lucky in a library or second-hand bookshop. Her first one, Love and War is a great introduction to a young Benny. Otherwise, anything from Lucifer Rising to Happy Endings (the wedding special!) is good (her earlier novels aren't good and don't serve her well). She pops in and out after that, primarily Return of the Living Dad, Shakedown, and The Dying Days.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/New_Adventures
Benny's spin-off New Adventures (or rather, the NAs just continued without that Doctor chap) are generally very good, but I haven't read most of them yet.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/V...field_New_Adventures

Shakedown and the original Human Nature were reprinted a few years ago. Plus, Big Finish have redone some as audios.

... Happy Endings was terrible.

To be fair, I didn't really collect them and just got that on a whim.

I suspect it works better for those who've read most of the series, it being the fiftieth book celebration. I was disgusted the time I read it, I loved it the second. As a writer, Paul Cornell's sillier bits take some getting used to.

Sherlock Holmes holding up a cloned foot and declaring "The game is a foot!" will always stick with me. :D


I wrote a big idea, then realised it could muck up Gary's plans, so I'm running it by him first.

I was very confused by the whole thing. I was also never really fond of the slut-Ace they'd written in a few of the books either to be fair. The original companions were a -lot- better written than Ace was in the books; though she remains one of my favourite TV companions.

Yeah, changing Ace was a bad move. Maturing her for the maturer range wasn't necessary, given the previous books handled her just fine. Bringing her back as soldier Ace was some weird idea of editor Peter Darvill-Evans that everyone was saddled with, then she was flanderized further. Soldier Ace does grow on the reader, and Set Piece heals her for her exit, but it would have been better just making a different character. The NAs in general had a thing for space-age soldier-like companions, with Roz and Chris following soon after.

And even in the few I read, Benny is sooooo much better than River Song. I didn't actually mind River in the first one (though as discussed, never a huge fan of the 'Doctor romances'); but she became horrid.

I saw 1 or 2 videos on Benny, and I like her. That's why I want to check her out.

I think this only applies to Trav's player, but check if your local library gives you access to Hoopla (www.hoopladigital.com).  It's an electronic media outlet that affiliates with libraries, and a good chunk of Big Finish's early catalog is available for checkout there.

The Bernice Summerfield that they have is later stuff, oddly, I think because of BF contractual issues.  Still, it is a great source for legal and free Big Finish that provides a lender's fee back to the company.

EDIT -- Just remembered.  Those same issues mean that while you can buy early Benny from Big Finish, it would have to be as CDs.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:14, Thu 03 Aug 2017.

Anyone else had problems reaching this site yesterday? It took very long to load what was just a blank page. It is not the first time this happened and it always goes away after a while, but it makes me wonder what is causing this. Maybe (un)scheduled rpol maintenance?

It was down for a couple of hours this morning.

Morning for us in Oz. But we were finally getting the NBN internet upgrade this morning, so I wasn't sure if it was RPOL or the telecom, but other sites were working before the whole lot cut out. It happens sometimes.

Thanks. I had the feeling that it was happening somewhat regularly, but memory is fallible.

I was busy and hadn't been checking, so I can't say

Hey Travellers, been busy this weekend. Will work to get a post up today or tomorrow.

I know I owe you guys a post. Incoming soon.

In the meantime, since we have a new Traveller, I feel we should consider a new TARDIS control room for sweet boy. Since it's our shared play space, I should consult with you guys before making a pitch to Gary.

So, lets look at cool new TARDIS interiors!

Here is one of my favorites -

It looks very clean :). I like the contrast between the white console room and the more cosy rooms with bookcases and carpets.

And it has 'the little round things'.

It's like a more organic upgrade of the classic-series white control rooms. But it does look kind of marshmallow.

There's levels for Kangs to jump up and down, which is a plus. :)

I'm afraid I can't look at it without thinking of someone scolding a Kang for tracking mud across her nice clean floor. :)

Or walls. :)

I just keep seeing the Tom Baker figure in the middle.

This new Traveller keeps a cleaner house than when she was a blonde. Roundels are required. And I like the nooks. Do you guys have any other designs to look at from around the web?

So should I just switch scene then?

Warning: this is liable to involve putting some words in some PCs' mouths, implicitly or otherwise, because you can't have a scrapheap with participants who haven't been told what a scrapheap is.

I'm happy to explain. :)

Sorry, been distracted by persona stuffs. Let me review tomorrow. We'll get this show moving quickly.

That is fine by me.

Hey Smoke - amazing work.

I can imagine all the actors in this giving amazing performances.

What do you think: CGI or a lot of extras for the crowd?

Oh extras. BBC doesn't do it half ass.

You realize, of course, that all they had to do to populate this scene was to post several anonymous tweets giving an address and the directions "Arrive in costume" and "Be prepared to sign a release and walk in circles."

Getting three Grel enthusiasts to show up was, if fortunate, perhaps not wholly unpredictable.

Though they had to turn away all the Kang cosplayers for not fitting continuity.



Don't they always? :D
This message was last edited by the player at 12:25, Thu 24 Aug 2017.

You say "rest", but I hear "become an honorary Blue Kang and go on wild adventures in time and space with the Kangs". :D

Actually, new who has been quite fond of CGI, relatively speaking. Classic would definitely be extras. So the question is, did Always Time to Travel get a nice big budget like Doctor Who, or is it stuck to 80s effects?

The RIFTS show had cheap 90s style bad CGI.

I think ATTT would have BBC Cymru levels of budget - some big extravaganzas, but mostly small sets and locations.

In my headfanon, ATTT is shot in Toronto, with occasonial trips to London and some US cities.

Travcanon fact - one of the reasons that the BBC did the Tatsunoko/Macross partneship was to save money, because animation is generally cheaper than live shooting and the 2nd Traveller was more popular than Mulgrew's Marshall (who was a minor villain in Dr Who at the time.) And lolwut continuity.

Travfans are still trying to find out who in BBC licensing OK'ed one of their characters appearing in a giant robot anime and what they were smoking.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:37, Thu 24 Aug 2017.

The slow unscrewing of the canister reminds me too much of The War of the Worlds.

"No no no, it's  'Traveller tribute!'"

I imagine that the live action episodes with the 1st and 2nd Traveller were basically like this.

"Oh, wow! Isn't he beautiful, Abe?"

Gary, I just sent you a reply to your PM. Let me know if that's what you need.

It's nothing that I expected, but it's not wrong! :D

This sounds so much like Q introducing the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation. :)

I was imagining an imperious Kate Mulgrew (who they got for this short scene) making a pronouncement, looking down at the crew of the Resolute over holo like some giant.

Give me a couple of days. It's my birthday well tomorrow; so may not post till after Tuesday.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

While that wasn't deliberate, given what you described as inspiration for your suggestion I suspect my subconscious connected some dots there. :)


Woot!

We need a Star Trek analogue adventure. :D



Really? I was picturing a classical music auditorium, conductor, snooty high-society audience, and full wubble-board orchestra. :D

... personally, I want Blakes' 7 references more than Star Trek; but would be absolutely shocked if I'm not in the minority; will actually be relatively surprised if I'm not in a minority of one.

I've never seen Blake's 7. It's never been on TV in my memory here, and I've seen only one video at my library. Which I regret not borrowing.

My sister was massively into it. I don't really know how she got into it, unless it was showing in Holland when we lived there. The timing is all wrong for her to have watched a first-run of it when it aired if it aired in Australia around about that time - we were living in the US at the time.

I watched bits and pieces of it. Never had a really proper intro to it. Its very big with a small subset of older fan here in the states who watched it on PBS along with Baker era Who in the 70s and 80s.

Happy Birthday!!!



Never watched it (maybe I have seen one episode). I know it still has some fans. I know it has a (cult) following, but there are so many series I haven't watched yet.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:58, Mon 04 Sept 2017.

The classic series of Who really only has a cult following to be fair. It did take a lot of behind-the-scenes people from Doctor Who at the time.

I'm getting a real vibe of T Baker and Leela.

Between Trav and Kalath? Wow, that is a huge compliment coming from you.

At least right now, I am feeling a real 1st Doctor/Hartnell vibe coming from Bluetrav. Kind of old and impish but sprightly.

Not so much how their dynamic panned out once she'd joined officially; but getting a strong vibe of Leela's first story - the debate about magic or science, whilst also reminiscent of Jo and Pertwee, is really reminding me of their debate about whether the Doctor was the Evil One or not.

I was watching some Hartnell video last night. He was *brilliant*. So funny and so good. He established everything.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:20, Fri 08 Sept 2017.

Hartnell was brilliant in the first year to year and a half. Then his health and memory started fading quite quickly.  I think he's great up to about the Dalek Invasion of Earth. When Ian and Barbara leave, I don't like him much after that.

So, what are our thoughts about the next destination?

It took a while to think of some songs to murder.

I'm open on the next destination. Something Star Trekky sounds fun, or a trip to Earth history, which we don't do a lot of.

I want to follow up this end of the universe thing that the Corsair left for Trav. If I need to do that away from the group so as not to impinge on the current adventure, that's fine, but Trav *did* die for it (the entire trip to Khestartes Delta).

Also, remember this -

55 CANCRI THREE, HUMANIAN EPOCH, FIRST INTERSTELLAR AGE, MOON OF STORMS
EARTH, EOCENE EPOCH, SOLAR MAXIMUM AGE, WEST AUSTRALIA REGION
EARTH, HOLOCENE EPOCH, HUMAN PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE, EAST ASIA REGION

We have unfinished business.

We've already been to west australia. The Holocone epoch is the current age on Earth. That might be our Shao Lin Temple/Ancient China adventure. And we know from Fortuna that at least Stanley has a future appointment on the Moon of Storms.

Daleks vs Shao Lin!
This message was last edited by the player at 01:31, Mon 11 Sept 2017.

I think those three addresses were a matter of whichever one we went to first was it.

But a trip to old China (or Japan or Korea) for some kung fu action would be fun. :D

My reading of the dialogue was that these were the three time periods to which the Mailman was transmitting to. Gary, please correct me if I am wrong in regards to this.

If this is indeed the case, we have three potential Dalek rebirths to deal with.

Even if there are no Daleks on the other end to receive the data, Trav has to make sure. Further, Time Lord secrets can't be allowed to fall into the hands of anyone, much less the Daleks.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:59, Mon 11 Sept 2017.

Yes, this was the multiple-choice set of destinations from the Mailman's transmission.  It was not an indicator of three separate adventures, though.

The Moon of Storms was later brought up as part of the information Trav found on Racallan the Mad.

My recollection is that Kalath / Sereth's player was not in favor of a wuxia epic.  It's true that we haven't done a (human) Earth historical adventure, which probably would be fun before this whole shooting match ends up.  Less difficult to finesse now that Sereth has left the team.

Not to freak anyone out too much, but I am starting to think in terms of working toward a conclusion for ATTT and moving on to something new.  I'm not in a rush and given the pace the game moves at, this probably means a good long time yet -- this is more "past the midpoint" than "almost over".  I'd definitely like to have you all back for whatever comes next.

No problem. An OOC signalling of "these aren't a thing" is good enough for me.

It feels to me as though the Draconian adventure was pretty feudalistic Japan. Not so much kung fu perhaps; though Smoke provided a fair bit.

I would quite like a historical story though - something truly historical; so not 'feels historical because they're effectively in a post-apocalyptic future' Not saying there can't be aliens; but they should be definitely not belonging. I know this feels a bit weird for me to say as both my characters have been about as inhuman as you can get without being a timelord; but still.

I support this as well.

A historical episode could be fun.

Wild idea-mongering:

"My Fair Kang" in Edwardian England. :D

Trav likes Americana, so mayhaps a western, with arrowguns at high-noon. Or a Civil War era story. I like the story of Kate Warne, first female detective, spy, and Pinkerton, who saved Lincoln from assassins on a night-long train ride in 1861, inspiring the Pinkertons' "We never sleep" motto and female eye logo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Warne

I've also long wanted to see the disappearance of Alexander the Great's fortune, already stolen by the roguish Harpalus, from the Parthenon in Athens in 324 BC as a classical-age heist movie. But that's a long reach to something very obscure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpalus

Looking back at our visit to Woodstock, I remembered a plot-hook I slipped into a flashback.


Who did Smoke ring? What did she say? What did she set into motion that day? :D

OMG. If we don't have a Kate Warne adventure, that must absolutely be one of the 1st Traveller's alias'. Except Trav hated Pinkertons, they were strike breakers. Well, she can have a good opinion about Kate and a bad opinion about Allen Pinkerton. Kate Warne even looks like the 1st Traveller. I may stick in a lore note that they closely resembled each other.

Fascinating. Why didn't they include her in Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter?

Because then it would have been Kate Warne, Vampire Hunter. :D Don't absorb her into the Traveller gestalt! As for a resemblance, there's only one suggested, obscure photo of her – in men's military uniform, no less.
http://www.pimall.com/nais/pivintage/katewarne.html
I found her in research for my Victorian detective, named Penny Dreadful, for a Supernatural game, and made her her idol. I like her, I think she needs more attention. And a movie, because that's what attention is these days. :) The term "private eye" is based on the Pinkerton logo, which was based on Warne.

Another woman of history who should be more well known: Mary Anning, fossil hunter, pioneering palaeontologist, and the "She" of "She sells seashells by the sea shore." :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning

I think that would have been better than what we got :)



A backing wubble :D
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By your request then. I'll have her as someone that Trav probably heard of but never met. In fact, Trav may have avoided her because of the risk to history. One of poignant pieces of the Trav-Lincoln relationship was that she knew when he was going to end - if Warne knew it, then she'd certainly act to save Lincoln, whose death is a fixed point in time.

So I wasn't the only person who thought that novel was crap?

I have to admit I have never read the novel, only watched the film. I didn't like it, though at the time I expected something more action-comedy. All in all I thought it was very forgettable.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 22:07, Wed 13 Sept 2017.

No bonus points are earned for identifying the celebrity cameo in Smoke's scene. :D

Icehot! :D

And on the same day Lindsey Stirling released a tune from her upcoming Christmas album, timed to follow the airing of the ATTT episode it first appeared in. It's quite a coup for the producers. :)

Phelba is Lindsey's dorkier alter-ego/super-fan from various YouTube clips. The name was SF-sounding enough to steal.

Doesn't make it right :) (maybe it makes it less wrong)
This message was last edited by the player at 22:29, Tue 19 Sept 2017.

As if Trav is anyone to lecture someone else on morality.

Sorry it's been sparse here, folks.  I'm still trying to wrap my head around what comes next.  In part that's because I'm searching for the starting point, that is, what Trav and company want to accomplish next in the abstract sense -- you're kind of at loose ends without an obvious objective to move on to.  Some inter-character discussion of that might help your GM out.

Sorry, been having some major issues with my jaw. Possibly stress-related.

Trav knows exactly where she wants to go next - what she literally died for. I don't know if -you- want to do an adventure around that. But she literally gave her life for the Corsair's Last Gift.

A minor detail is whether or not Sairen comes along. An ethical issue that Trav is bouncing around is whether or not to give Sairen his memory back, if such becomes available. Trav is thinking that his memories may be at the end of the line.

Back onto the bus, y'all ?  Trav's latest round of flirting has finally stoked up a notion... in line with the recent requests... in my head, although whether it ends up where I think it might is an open question.

Ha, if he's not careful he'll end up with a subject header like this:
FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: ... :)

See, this is what me writing River Song at her most infuriating would actually be like.

And it was deleted by the spam filter, leaving a hole in the universe. :)

Today in fandom - is Sairen Always Time To Travel's River Song?

OK, we have 3 trip possibilities -

1) Deal with the Corsair's Stuff. I'm kind of wanting to let that sit just a bit, till after the next trip.

2) The Warpsmith's of Phaidon and the Moon of Storms. The work of Raccalan The Mad we uncovered from Khestartes Delta will lead us here. I'm most eager to do this.

3) Some other trip to where you guys want to go. There's been talk of doing a historical thing.

Thoughts?

Depending on what your exact definition of "stuff" would be, #1 could also be #3.

Let's just say that the character brings a particular historical adventure genre strongly to mind.

I'm really interested in number 3. Admittedly, not really that interested in the other two.

As opposed to me, #1 and #2 are primary, tentpole character things for me, and I *need* to have them addressed in some manner. But gaming is all about negotiation and fun.

What kind of historical adventure is being considered?

I'm not too fussed on what we do next. TBH, I'm not really following the metaplot, but only because Smoke Alarm doesn't have much involvement in it. If we have some key metaplot points we to collect, then by all means, let's get to them, so long as it's not all collecting the metaplot points.

I'm more interested in varied settings (historical, modern Earth) and genres (e.g., a haunted house story), and setting Smoke Alarm loose in them. So I'd pick #3 but if #1 or #2 can fit in #3, that's good for all of us.

Smoke needs to pull Traveller aside for a private conversation at some point when we're back in the TARDIS.

I cannot read minds, but if I had to guess I'd say The Guardian is thinking about something like this:
.

The more you keep saying that, the less everyone is going to believe you. :D

Since the next adventure will most likely be historical, I think it might be better to go directly to one of the offices in the past, rather than visit the 21st century one.

I goofed.  I meant to refer to "Victory Station" which was the future space station, not "Renaissance Station" as in the Actual Renaissance.  Still, I listed all those places on the assumption that any of them would "work".  Set the controls and head where you will.

I'm good for any of the historical ones, even visiting Stan's mum in 21st-century London. :) But the Victoriana and kung fu action of Hong Kong in the late 19th century holds the most appeal. :D

Whilst for me, Kung Fu action is pretty much what I usually avoid. It devolves into cliches and really doesn't fascinate me at all.

Yeah, I thought you meant the office in Venice :).



It is not a setting you see everyday :).

Venice or Mexico would have been most interesting to me, followed by New York or New Orleans. Generally speaking, the older the better, and European history, or ancient history of all stripes fascinates me.

But that's for next time, just so you know my interests.

I don't know, I watch a lot of kung fu / wuxia movies. :D

Is it tacky to send Michelle Yeoh into one so soon into her tenure as the Traveller? I suppose it is the inevitable concept the fans and media are clamouring for, so the series might as well get it out of the way early. :) Her time in Star Trek: Discovery was disappointingly cut short, which was probably just as well, given how disappointing that series is turning out. It certainly allows her to commit to Always Time to Travel.

*

Anyhoo, maybe we should have a preferential vote to decide? I favour late-19th-century Hong Kong (for Kang Fu action), followed by 17th-century Mexico (this is the pirate one, right? Smoke can certainly swashbuckle), and early-21st-century London. But I'm good if there's something others much prefer to do.

I'm fine with it if everyone else is. Where else do people want to go?

What's really funny is that Trav's 1864 passport would be current!
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By the way - our post count is now OVER 9000

I am okay with 19th-century Hong Kong. Don't have a strong preference for any of the other locations. 21st-century London seems a bit less exciting than the other choices.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:05, Sat 14 Oct 2017.

Despite how much I don't really like it, I feel that a kung fu adventure is going to keep on coming up until we do it.

I get your point, I admit, but in all fairness I would confess that any historical I did was going to be strongly misinformed by Hollywood cliche, so.... :)

Well, now.  Someone's a big ol' fibber, isn't she?

One day we'll have to have the TARDIS get lost for millennia of subjective time, enough for the entire ecosystem to form from kitlings, Us, and whatever wasn't scrubbed out of the food dispenser.

The Doctor: "The Traveller? Oh, you mean the crazy cat lady of Gallifrey. Her TARDIS is infested."

As for millenia of subjective time, we already know the result of that evolution:

I thought I'd close up that apparently forgotten plot element. :)



I've been waiting for it since we started with Zheng Ru and the monks on Farhaven Habitat. :D



Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights? :)

Closer to China, Jet Li's Fearless and the Once Upon a Time in China series, Jackie Chan's Drunken Master II, and Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury also circle the era and location. However, despite Hong Kong being at the centre of a wuxia movie industry, there seems to have been rather few actually set in Hong Kong's past. The main ones in late 19th-century Hong Kong are Jackie Chan's Project A and Project A Part II, which are rather fun.
This message was last edited by the player at 09:36, Mon 16 Oct 2017.

Now is a good time for an adventure I may not be intrigued by, due to the fact that the initial contract is finishing in two weeks, but they've stated they'll be looking for a small number to extend for a bit longer. If I don't have to really job-search till after Christmas that'd be great.

This is the episode the Michelle Yeoh fans have been waiting for since it was announced she was joining the show. While Blake Lively did a fair amount of her own stunt work, she commented on Twitter to the effect of "I'm not up to that, glad a professional is doing it."

And I see what you did there, with us landing at a Hong Kong version of 76 Totters Lane. :)

We should watch out for this guy, he could be another I. M. Foreman.

Now I understand scrapheaping, since a junkyard is in fact Kang Heaven.


I just listened to Big Finish's Max Warp for the Nth time, in which the Eighth Doctor's companion, Lucie Miller, posits that the name of his craft is an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension In Shed.  (He's not best pleased.)

Kang Heaven is the Great Pool in the Sky. Presumably it's also full of scrap.


Chinese-style cabinets and sheds are popular for time machines, so let's not walk into the wrong one.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Time_cabinet
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Jade_Pagoda

Have we met Ms Kismet before? The NPCs are a bit hard to keep track of, especially those that keeping changing their names.

This seems to be Philipe/Evers/Fortuna/Warlock/The Beast.

Wow, this is something like out of a Faction Paradox book (that is, if I ever read Faction Paradox.)

A piece of fan fic drabble:

She was brought into the large ampitheater. In their finery, the assembled colleges of Gallifrey looked down upon her.

She, the renegade, wasn't dressed in the burnt orange robes of her house, Prydon - she was instead wearing a white blouse, a red tie, a brown vest, and a pleated skirt with flat shoes. She looked at the assemblage defiantly.

Borusa, Lord President of Gallifrey,clacked his staff against the floor thrice. "The assembled colleges are here to judge the renegade known as the Traveller. The sentence has been decided - exile to Earth, of R-Space, for 100 years. In accordance with tradition, however, you will be allowed to address the assembly in accordance with the ancient traditions."

"It was your interference that enabled a primitive culture to leap ahead of their technological development by 1,000 years. Your actions directly contributed to the bio-organic technology known as Robotech to be thrust into the hands of a people who were not prepared to use it. Your hands were involved in the near-genocide of the terran people of M-Space, and their relations, the Zentraedi. Your actions draw the species known as the Invid to that world, bringing about what you had tried to avoid. You have gifted these people with 4 Robotech wars."

"I, as the Lord President, ask - what do you have to say for yourself?"

The youngish looking, somewhat chubby, black haired woman coughed and cleared her throat.

"I did it. Yes, I did. That's in the record."

"Sure, the Robotech Master, the Invid Regent - they're just some local tyrants in another universe. I could have just gone home."

Her cheeks were growing red as the anger was rising in her.

"But if I don't stand for the defense of people's choices, loved ones, and lives, then I'm a hypocrite, just like all of you. If I hadn't intervened, they would have found Zor's ship. That Earth would have become a slave colony so much sooner. I'm guilty simply of giving the locals a gun so they could defend themselves with. And they won their wars, not me. I just gave things a kick at the beginning. I won't even go into the Krayloss, and how they might have combined Robotech with vortex technology."

"I don't just protect people, I protect their choices. You don't. That's what will always make me better than the bunch of you."

Borusa merely hmphed at the girl's words.

"As a Time Lord of considerably greater years than you, Travellendatura of the House of Prydon, a warning - you may find yourself one day regretting those words."

He clacked his staff again, three times, as she was lead out.

I have been thinking about why Kismet wouldn't want Sairen here. I thought that it was because Sairen is just hired help, meaning someone else can pay him more to target Kismet later and she already (timey-wimey) know it will happen. But that doesn't really fit with how easy Sairen was convinced to help us for the good of the universe.

I actually think he's some kind of paradox. Not quite to the level as we saw in he season 3 finale; but I think either he and she shouldn't co-exist together in the same time period, he -is- her, or possibly something he will do leads to what she's trying to stop.

This story kinda feels more like it's from Legends of Tomorrow than Doctor Who. ... so where's Rip?

Being chastised by Amy for playing Time Lord, no doubt.

Been a bit preoccupied lately, so my apologies.  I've got some down time ahead for the next week so I should be able to pay more attention here.

Just to be clear, I am not against the idea. Stanley just wanted to point out to Ms. Kismet that this isn't exactly a team of superspies.

Sorry I have been away. I'll post by tomorrow.

The Hong Kong Club (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Club) might be a good place to start our investigation. Its members are the most influential people in Hong Kong and it is where important deals are made. There are some men-only areas of the club, so we might need to split up or go somewhere else.

Good thing Smoke's dressed as a boy. :)

Just to be clear, I think that Stanley still has enough SP (in combination with his hypnosis) to get everyone in if we don't want to split up. The other guests at the club might take offence, and it will probably be a scandal, but like Stanley said, they won't be our neighbours after this is over.

I also have an alternative cover story, though I don't think it is the first thing Stanley would think of.

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There is an Asylum for Europeans in Hong Kong that has only been open a year or two at this point. They didn't really treat anyone, just calm them down enough for them to be transported back to Europe. Stanley could pretend to be a professor specifically summoned for one hard to treat patient?

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Pretending to be a doctor of some sort might be your best bet. It's a cover story and skill-set Stanley already has, even if he's over a century out. You could even get away with using hypnosis and mesmerism. :)

True, though I don't think the cover story needs to last much longer than a day or two.

... hang on, what? -Not- splitting the party????

This is Doctor Who, not DnD....

I think we are, because three of us aren't allowed in the gentleman's club. Smoke mostly because she'd be a nuisance.

It hasn't been my intention to no-sale any approach, just to point out there are hurdles.

So, go and move ahead.  As noted, Kismet can provide you with some means of introduction an entry, just make a choice about what you're going to do.

Hey fam,

I just got a new job with a $20K raise! It starts on 12/26.

Apologies for the radio silence. Will be posting soon.

Icehot!

Smoke Alarm working in the same office with me? YIKES

Apologies for not posting, I have been coughing my lungs out.

In fairness, I've been doing a pretty bad job of trying to keep the game ticking over.  I haven't abandoned it, though.  I'll see if I can get some bandwidth to move ahead.

If it doubt, have Smoke Alarm say something. :)

It's Q4 and we're all busy, it's cool

Regarding the cover story for Sairen and Stanley:

I'd like to go with Sairen and Stanley being here to scout out Hong Kong for a firm trading in wine and spirits. So they'd be competitors of the historically real Messrs. Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co (Est. 1864).

Yes, something medical would make more sense for Stanley, but this would be easier for Sairen and I think it'd be more fun.

You better watch out.
You better not cry.
You better not pout.
I'm telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming to town.

He sees you when you're sleeping.
And he knows when you're awake.
He knows if you've been bad or good.
So be good for goodness sake.

He's making a list,
He's checking it twice,
He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town.

:o Have a sound-and-safe X-mas every Kang! 'Ware the Sandy Claws!

Yes, Merry Christmas everyone.

Hello everyone. Posing in. Just did my 1st day at the new job.

Yowza. Trav, I want to borrow your TARDIS so I can go back about a week to say my internet is going to be spotty for the next week or so...

I don't actually know if it's definitely fine, but it has been on for about an hour now, which is 55 minutes more than it has been on at any other point in this last week.

Are you on the NBN yet? We've had unreliable internet ever since we were plugged in, though it's never been so bad for as long as that.

I'm not sure. I live in central Sydney so I was either one of the first, or one of the last as Sydney -should- have a strong internet connection.

I actually am suspicious of my provider; but it's in my father's name and he's locked us in to a two-year contract as it was a birthday present. They're also our phone provider and it is constantly providing static and making it impossible to hear people on our landline, or dial out on it.

The character has a time machine, the player, not so much. If I had a TARDIS I'd undo all sorts of regretful decisions

I might not be able to post until the first or second of January.

Trav, do you have anything to contribute to the Cunning Plan^TM? Leaving it all up to Smoke Alarm may not be the best idea... ;)


Also, is Sairen/Corsair just trying to get a guy out of his shirt? :o

Apologies for my lack of replies (I'll post IC tomorrow). I have been having one of those weeks were everything decides to break while I am still fixing the previous thing.

Oops, I accidentally refreshed the dice roller page, resulting in a second roll I didn't mean to do. In my post (posted 23:12) I used my first roll from 23:11.

This one I meant to roll:
23:11, Today: Stanley Newton rolled 26 using 4d6+8 with rolls of 6,6,3,3.  Hypnotising Halverston: Presence(3)+Convince(3)+Hypnosis(2)+1 SP (+2d6).

This one was accidental:
23:13, Today: Stanley Newton rolled 24 using 4d6+8 with rolls of 6,1,5,4.  Hypnotising Halverston: Presence(3)+Convince(3)+Hypnosis(2)+1 SP (+2d6).

Had a spell of that myself this past week, so sorry.  Rock on.

Sorry, I didn't know it was contagious.

I'm here, just the 1st month at the new job is always a tough one, Post coming by tomorrow.

Classic comedy :D.

Heh. There'd be some surprises if we continued with that misunderstanding. :D

Sorry I've been quiet. As discussed previously this isn't really an adventure I was enamored with, but as a number of people really wanted to do didn't really want to stand in the way.

I'm also busy house-hunting at the moment, and have a very specific set of requirements.

I regret going with something that not everyone was on board for.  I'm finding it hard to sustain activity with half participation, so that's why I've not come back with anything last week.

I didn't think it was much different from our other adventures. I was enjoying it, but if you want to retool or abort it, that's fine by me.

I've been waiting for Traveller, and I'm not quite sure what to do without her. Especially because I want to use her TARDIS as bait. :)

Yeah, I feel the same.

Im here. Work has been hellish.

So... there have been no posts for the last couple of weeks. Should we talk about it?

I'm here. I posted in just in case you were waiting for me.

I still think we should have a discussion on what to do regarding this adventure. A couple of posts back there was some talk about aborting or retooling this adventure, then we had a couple of posts and then this hiatus. In my opinion (not that I have a lot of PbP experience), this could be a symptom that something is wrong and if a couple of posts in the next of couple of days would only lead to another hiatus, we might be better of aborting/retooling this adventure. Especially since I have a feeling that finishing this adventure would take quite some time. (though like I previously said, I am enjoying the adventure)
This message was last edited by the player at 23:01, Wed 07 Mar 2018.

I agree. While Stan and I are getting into it, it doesn't seem to be doing anything for Traveller and Kalath. And I know from experience as a GM that a lack of player participation hurts a game and the GM's interest. So I'm for whatever we need to do.

Maybe a separate side of the adventure is set on the enemy space-ship or something. But I don't want to use "The Stones of Blood" as an example. :)

I have things I want to do, but I'm never about short circuiting other player's fun. I've learned that you guys will find trouble soon enough.  I'm willing to ride along with the PCs until we find our way to trouble, although maybe I am being too passive for fear of running roughshod over the players.

It is kind of on me for letting the game hang for a couple of weeks, particularly as Stanley's player has been gamely gumshoe-ing along on his thread, but I will say that there's a lot of truth in what Smoke's player suggests, that inaction feeds inaction.

We're still kind of at a stage in this thing that the PCs aren't provoking direct reaction, so that has left me waiting for the PCs to put their own plans into motion -- we're not quite at the Raymond Chandler, "have a man come in the door with a gun" place, although to some degree that was where the goons beating up Sai Yuen came from.

I don't particularly want to just drop it and come up with something else, in part because I do have something cooking that isn't *just* a Hong Kong cinema pastiche.  It might be a little while (even at typical rates of posting) before that would happen, though.

Would it be better if Stanley met up with the others now?

I don't think that's really necessary.  If you want to go on to the Exchange and investigate there while the other group proceeds, that's perfectly feasible, and I'll proceed to a post that places you there.

I would say it's also down to the other group to start off putting the TARDIS bait plan into motion if they're going with it.

I've also been hit by a combination of my kid has a mild form of bronchitis, house-hunting, and trying to make myself invaluable to my company so when approval comes to get permanent staff, they're going to consider they're going to save a lot of money in training to make up for the money they'll have to pay the temp agency for making me permanent.

My partner's also been in hsopital since December 9, with no current expected discharge date.

Best wishes for your partner's swift recovery.

That is heavy. I am sorry to hear that and hope your partner feels better soon.

Likewise, my hopes that your partner's health issues improve.

I'm very sorry to hear that. I hope everything goes well for your partner, you, and your kid.

Smoke is dressed as a lad by current standards. Have they seen through it, or is this just a slip?

Also, who's the two? Traveller is currently inside the TARDIS. I presume it's just the two sailors?

It is meant to intimate that the leader sees through it, yes, and thus that he's not stupid, nor shy about letting Smoke Alarm know that he isn't.  Generally speaking the semi-disguise has been working just fine.

On the other hand it probably also means that the guy is tending to underestimate Smoke Alarm, even before one gets into Smoke being monstrously effective in her sort of physical conflict.


Yes, he meant O'Rourke and Freeman.  The owner of the cart is present and is actually driving it, but the leader of the Gentlemen didn't count him -- he likely figures that the guy isn't likely to be a factor, whether because he's as intimidated as most of the locals by the gang, or because he's old and doesn't look like much of a fighter.

Okay, thanks.

I envisioned this as a more colorful version of Sherlockvision, giving big blue pathfinding arrows and Rube Goldberg animation.

Annotated in Comic Sans.

I think I've seen some video games like that. :)

Comic Sans must be the official Kang font.

Oh, and Gary, I appreciate the 2nd Trav call out! And a sly hint to Jodie Whittaker's Doctor (or maybe Missy?)

I find it adorable that even though we'll never see it in the show, people might get confused over female Time Lords.

Right now the fanon Corsair/Master shippers are going out of their minds, with Stan and Sairen in a cell together, Stan doing his hypno thing.

"I am the Master, you will obey me!"

No wipeouts!

I forgot the line! But standing there chanting "No ball games, no flyposts, no wipe-outs!" would've been self-defeating.

It is not just them in the room. There is also the guard... though I guess that wouldn't stop the shippers :). (Never mind that Stanley != The Master)
This message was last edited by the player at 23:15, Fri 06 Apr 2018.

He's the Master's son! :o

Back. I think.

So basically over the last month or so I've been busy househunting, but I've also been in the midst of applying for a permanent position at the place I've been working at since December. As of next Monday I am permanent, which takes one worry off our plate.

Excellent news.  I hope the other stuff that you've been dealing with is also working out OK.

YAY

And yes, best wishes on all fronts
This message was last edited by the player at 19:57, Fri 20 Apr 2018.

Fantastic news. Congratulations.
_{Sorry for the late reply, only saw your post today.}
This message was last edited by the player at 21:58, Mon 23 Apr 2018.

I really want to see a Youtube compliation of Smoke going "no ball games!"

Apologies, I am having a lot of difficulty coming up with a sensible course of action for Stanley and Sairen.

If you don't mind Gary, I'd like to use the “I dunno... I’m stumped...” rule and spend a SP to get a nudge in the right direction.

I just came up with something and posted it.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:24, Fri 27 Apr 2018.

Just a heads up - going to be doing some traveling for the next week or so.  Replies may be very much "as and when".

(As opposed to this past week, which I can only ascribe to a sudden Battletech obsession.)
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:09, Tue 15 May 2018.

Okay. Have a good trip!

Now Traveller has some awkward explaining to do. :)

The post Time War fall out never ends.

EDIT:

Oh.

I presume that Twitter and Tumblr are going out of their minds. The memes! Rule 34!

I'm still formulating Trav's response.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:25, Wed 16 May 2018.

We're back!  After a whirlwind tour of middle America and staring down the barrel of going back to work next week....

Welcome back! Hope it was a good trip.

Middle America (United States) or Middle America (Americas)? I guess the latter would be even more of whirlwind tour than the first.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:21, Wed 30 May 2018.

I'm here too. I hope you enjoyed it here in the US!

I came upon in my browser cache the very first meeting between Ru and 2nd Trav, her very first PBP incarnation. Memories and feels.

For those interested - https://forum.rpg.net/showthre...Turn-of-the-Universe

Oh, no, the Midwest US is where I live.  For me going several states away is world travel, though.  My brothers and I spent about a week driving hither and yon to whatever science-y and tech-y museums and such attracted our attention.  Vacation by Google.

I remember that game :). Though it seems like I have forgotten a lot of the details. Like that it went on for 23 pages before dying out. I thought it had only been eleven or twelve at most.



Nice, I hope you had a good time.

Hello everyone. Hope everyone is well!

Doing fine here, if somewhat embarrassed for letting this game just... fall asleep on all of us.

I've been so swamped, sick, and tired and trying to keep up that I barely noticed. :\ I missed my Smoke Alarm though.

I could be better, but I am here.

I just got laid off.

Got things spinning, but life sucks atm.

Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that.

I'll wake it up with a trip to the end of time if you let me! I have several plot threads I'd love to follow up.

Also, I'm sure that Jodie Whittaker's debut will energize us while seeing how well the actual BBC can do a female Time Lord! "Been there, done that baby."
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I may not be much good for the next couple of weeks.  Current project at work is in final meltdown and I am working purely stupid hours.

And I will be looking for a new job. Its all good.

What happened to our game? We all just stopped. :(

In other news, I've decided that the Cleaners of Paradise Towers are the ultimate evolution of idiots taping knives to robot vacuums.

Trav thinks they are these cyborg terrors like Daleks. She's gonna laugh her ass off when she actually sees one.

I poked my nose in hear because I saw the new Trav post on Pinterest.  I'm willing to take a shot at reviving things.

I'm definitely still interested.

Oh pinterest? I saw some images. As always, I am here. It's always time to travel!

I am still interested, though these days I have even less time than I used to.

Would you all rather try to pick up with the stalled adventure, or write it off and start fresh?  I feel like it would be tough to get any momentum going again from where that was.

I feel that starting fresh would be the way to go. Also, it gives you Gary the chance to avoid writing yourself into a corner. I felt kind of weird with the entire Corsair thing. That may have been me being a bad player however.

It doesn't seem to have sparked with some of us, so starting fresh might be best.

OK.  Will start considering new jumping-on points.

I appreciate that it's been a while, but what hanging issues do you feel like you might be pursuing, given your druthers?

I need a little bit of time to think about that, but I definitely want to follow up with the whole Warpsmithd of Phaidon thing, what we visited River Song about. I mean, Trav only did burn a regeneration for that stupid book. Not that I regret anything - Khestartes Delta was Trav's Caves of Androzani, it was that good.

It also seems as that we have an appointment at the Moon of Storms.

I really want to visit the Chamber of Time Unwrought.

I need to review that episode all the way back in 2013. I (the player) always wanted to know who was trying to hack Trav's work when she and Stanley first met and we cured all of those people of Temporal Backlash.

Not really an issue, but way back on Arden the Splintered Sisterhood gave us that injector and we have never used it.
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One of the lines she says during this take is "I'm just a traveller."

I know, I know. But hey!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be

In the imagined meta-verse, I imagine the two shows' production teams troll each other like this all the time. :)

Putting a new post up to set the stage for a couple of the things that have been mentioned.

Posted. And found an amazing Michelle Yeoh image. That plus the fedora or scarf is now Trav's standard, and a nice contrast to Blondie's look.

It took me a while to get Smoke Alarm's voice and Kang-speak again, but it feels so good to be back. :D

Michelle Yeoh in Star Trek: Discovery was a revelation. It also puts her in some space clothes you could try on. :)
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The problem with that is that using Discovery pictures makes it feel like Trav is doing Star Trek cosplay ;)

But there are enough great images of Yeoh out there I can fake it. One of my intentions was that this Traveller is a touch more classy than 5th Trav was - 5th had a thirft store aesthetic, while 6 could actually look great in Coutre.

Hey Gary, I edited one of my posts. Trav sent River Song a present.