"Don't worry, Legate, people will be shooting at you soon." :D

.... they don't have to. Really! They can just give up to my awesomeness.

Waitasec, that's my line!

Hah!

Timelords don't have a monopoly on arrogance...

No, but we have a certain rep to uphold! ;)

... you silly timelords.

Really? I thought our techie Time Lord would be all into that.

Ah, okay, the skill doesn't cover much in the way of advanced technology.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:08, Thu 19 Dec 2013.

I do plan on picking some up. There is an advancement point system in Time Traveller's companion, but I have yet to lobby Gary to use it.

In reply to The Traveller (msg # 57):

Ah, so that WAS what you alluded to when you brought it up before.  (In the prior incarnation of the game.)

I'm not convinced that that table, or much of the rules in the TTC really, makes a whole lot of sense.  For one thing it's presented as TARDIS upgrade rules, and they're built a lot differently than PCs.  The book has got a lot of cool stuff in it -- it's a pretty heroic attempt at rationalizing all the Time Lord material over the length of the show -- but I feel like they piled a mess of complex systems on top of a very simple core system, and the result if used completely seems unwieldy.

For the several adventures that Trav & Stanley have already had, I picked out what seemed like reasonable advancements based on what they'd been doing, and I'll probably continue to do so.

(I note that having Smoke Alarm giving the Time Lord with centuries of technical know-how pointers in making things out of chewing-gum and twine has the potential to be hilarious.) :D

I very much like the relationship that's evolving between Smoke Alarm and Trav, and yes, it is. Trav looks forward to learning many Icehot things from Smoke.

Yes, we'll build our gadgets out of junk and rubbish... We could make a time-flow analogue! :D

(The time-flow analogue is the contraption Pertwee made out a wine bottle, forks, keys, and his morning tea in The Time Monster.)

I love it too. I'm afraid Trav will have to be Smoke's surrogate fellow Kang, big sister, and mother. :)

Heh. I watched Time Monster 2 weeks ago with my son. Pertwee's his second favorite 'olden' doctor.

Well, it looks like Trav is getting Crafts. That's also appropriate for her anyway. Also, Trav actually has kids she had to leave, so that's a thing there.

It's a good thing I designed Smoke Alarm as a parkour runner. :D

BTW, in post #156, I forgot to include my modifiers on my jumping check. It should have been 20, not 9, not that it mattered in the end.

This is SO TRUE!

Just a note; I don't know of any of the books involving Draconians; and based just off their single story (they need another one...), I don't think they're one of the 'advanced races' that have heard of timelords. They're typified as pretty much like humans other than the obvious differences.

My take on the state of the universe you're all playing in is that the big Time Lord / Dalek war will have left (mostly or partly cancelled) echoes all over history, so there will be weird legends and bits of legends floating around.  The odd thing about it is that the Daleks have made a big impression on lots of actual history where the Time Lords did not, so a lot of this stuff comes off sort of like myths about the Nazis storming Heaven.

So feel free to have Sereth and the Draconians wholly unfamiliar with Time Lords as a factual thing, or at best as a fairy-tale worthy of extreme skepticism.

(Incidentally, the only non-televised Draconian story I know anything about is the Big Finish story Paper Cuts.  That is sort of like a riff on a Japanese imperial court drama, which makes a certain amount of sense when you take it with the aesthetic from the Third Doctor story, so that is the sort of lens I am using to spin out Draconian background.)

Well shouldn't be a surprise but won't be around for the next couple of days.

Christmas tomorrow; Desolation of Smaug and Time of the Doctor on the day after.

Draconians were apparently among those who tried to imprison the Doctor in the Pandorica, but the concept of everyone in the universe gathering together at one time, before most were active, was just ridiculous.

The Doctor's had a good deal of contact with Draconians, but they may know him more than the Time Lords. In this far future, Sereth's Draconians have been around a long, long time, so they could have learned an awful lot, but yes it could be so old as to be myth and legend.

Draconians got some attention in the novels and comics.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Draconian
The Japanese theme is a common one. IIRC, Kaon:
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Kaon
had a katana in addition to his "shurk'n" and sai:
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Shurk%27n
I should go through my old DWMs to find his stories to confirm.
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Merry Christmas!

I wonder if Kangs have Christmas?

I'd think the Blue Kangs would have a pretty terrifying version of it.  What with the part about the Rezzie wearing the clothes of all the Red Kangs he's devoured, climbing down the waste chutes after you.

Ho, ho, ho.

Aaah! :o

BTW, I wanted to avoid the obvious statement of "it's bigger on the inside". Fortunately, there were fish in the walls. :) Now Smoke Alarm needs to find the swimming pool.

This makes Paradise Towers sound like some terrifying D&D dungeon. I'm kinda glad that Trav never visited the place.

Merry Christmas everyone!

It's an endless multistorey labyrinth filled with cannibalistic old folks, murderous cleaning robots, fascist caretakers, wild punk girl gangs, and the disembodied brain of the architect in the basement trying to implant himself into a new body. Fun times!

Happy holidays!