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.)
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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!"
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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.