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Post by Cyberstudent on Oct 31, 2009 13:51:17 GMT
Roleplay Iris Wildthyme and the Nullifier of Doom here.
The storyline can be found in the Eighth Doctor Adventures Storyline section.
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Post by patientzero on Oct 31, 2009 15:31:00 GMT
'And lo, as his race fell into ruin around him, Ganos Lal cursed the work which he had spent his life perfecting... the Nullifier, a weapon of such power it could unmake the very stars, and the sky in which they sit. As the Mad Mind ripped into his mind, probing for the secrets of the Nullifier. Using the last vestiges of his strength, Ganos Lal took the Nullifier and dashed the terrible thing upon the floor of Olympus, smashing it into seven pieces. Then he took the pieces, and hurled them into the Astria Porta, scattering them beyoing the stars. Then, in his moment of triumph, Olympus fell into dust, and the Mad Mind ripped Ganos Lal to shreds.' From the journal of the Technomagician Efrofax of Wug
Iris Wildthyme closed the book, its hologrammatic display shutting off as she did so. She considered what she had just read, wondering about the implications of such a weapon, her sense of adventure tingling.
Iris headed straight back to her bus, parked in the water fountain around the Kerath Memorial. She stepped aboard, a smile tugging at her mouth as adventure and excitement beckoned. As she busied herself at the controls, humming to herself, Chief Librarian Lutra came hurrying into the courtyard, looking extremely irritated.
'Iris Wildthyme!' he yelled, leaping into the fountain and running towards the bus, 'You are stealing that holobook!' He climbed aboard, still yelling angrily and waving an electronic library card, as the doors slid shut and the bus vanished, releasing the swan from underneath it.
Iris Wildthyme's bus, and its unexpected passenger, sped through the Vortex towards the vulgar end of time, not noticing the small blue box heading in the same direction...
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Post by Cyberstudent on Oct 31, 2009 15:51:44 GMT
The Doctor sat next to the TARDIS console, the bottom hatch open, as he fiddled with the wiring.
"If I could just-" he mutters to himself, before the entire console hums back into life.
"There! Good old spring clean. Should keep you going for now, old girl," he smiles as he closes the hatch up.
He pats the console as he turns on the scanner next to him and pulls it down by the hanging chain. The swirls of the time vortex lay in front of his, but something caught his eye. He fiddled with the controls slightly and zoomed in on the object in the blue mist of the time vortex. Travelling onwards through the vortex was a large London red bus.
"Oh no...anything but her..."
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Post by patientzero on Oct 31, 2009 18:50:08 GMT
"Turn this bus around, Wildthyme!" Lutra yelled, grabbing hold of the drinks cabinet as the bus rocked, sparks flying from the dashboard and setting fire to Iris' ferret necklace. She appeared not to notice. "No can do, chuck!" Iris cackled, wrenching the wheel round, "We're going the whole way! Leonardo doesn't want to turn back!" "Leonardo?" "The bus," Iris said, swigging from a bottle of Bombay sapphire, "The Doctor keeps calling his box 'old girl', and I wanted something similar." Lutra sighed, resigned to another time journey, "As soon as we get wherever... Leonardo... is taking us, turn him around, and take us back to the library! Where are you taking me, anyway?" The bus rocked again, alarms flashing across the dashboard. "The vulgar end of time," Iris said with a knowing wink, "When everything has been discovered. Therefore, if we drop in there we should be able to find out where the bits of this weapon are located." "We are not going to do anything," Lutra snapped, "You are going to return me to the library, in the right time period!" There was another explosion from the bus' engines. "Should it be making that noise?" Lutra asked. "Er... of course," Iris said, "Just part of the normal, safe operating procedure." "So it's working fine is it?" "Of course - look at the pressure gauge. The needle's in red, for safe." "And the alarm?" "The safe alarm?" Then the engines exploded. Lutra dived into the footwell, and Iris ducked, throwing her flaming scarf at the drinks cabinet. It exploded as well, blasting a hole in the wall. Water flooded into the bus, washing the spilled glass and clothes from all around the bus, and extinguishing the scarf. "Damn," Iris said, I think I've ruptured the water tank!" "How much is in there?" Lutra floated past, swimming like any otter can. "About ninety million litres." "Oh," Lutra said, as the water rose up the stairwell, "Well, that's us done for, isn't it." "Oh, come on, Chuck," Iris said, "Never say die!" "I didn't," Lutra said, as the water rose to halfway up the top deck, leaving only a tiny air pocket. Another explosion rocked the bus. "Oh dear," Iris said, "The water's short circuiting the timonic engines!" "Does that mean they're going to explode?" "Maybe..." Lutra paused, then sighed, "Zark."
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Post by Melanie Jane Bush on Oct 31, 2009 21:10:10 GMT
Meanwhile, back in the TARDIS, Lucie Miller ran in the rapidly-gestating console room. "Oh, my god Doctor, sometimes I wonder if you actually do know how to drive this thing", she said, holding onto the console. "Actually, don't answer that. I think the answer would make me sick". Suddenly, a particular whack on the wall of the time Vortex caused her to fall to the ground. She stood up, daggers in her eyes, staring at The Doctor...
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Post by Cyberstudent on Oct 31, 2009 21:16:00 GMT
The Doctor looks at her and quickly look away as I flick a few switches.
"Must have been the spring clean..." he mutters to her as the TARDIS jolts again.
"Hold on tight!"
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Post by Melanie Jane Bush on Oct 31, 2009 21:24:31 GMT
"You, spring-cleaning?" Lucie boggled at him, before putting her hands to her mouth, and beginning to laugh incessantly.
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Post by Cyberstudent on Oct 31, 2009 21:27:49 GMT
"Yes, yes, very funny! Now pull that lever, before it-" The Doctor begins before the TARDIS lurches uncontrollably.
"-Escalates," he finishes, exasperated.
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Post by Melanie Jane Bush on Oct 31, 2009 21:39:16 GMT
"That, Doctor, wasn't my fault!" exclaimed Lucie at him, "I don't happen to be the designated driver here. Anyway, where the hell are we going?"
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Post by Cyberstudent on Oct 31, 2009 21:45:46 GMT
"I think the old girl may have locked onto another TARDIS and is following it's trail. I was rather hoping for Barcelona..." I grumble, as I look back to the screen.
The bus was still hurtling through the vortex, obviously having trouble as well.
"Maybe it isn't the old girl..."
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Post by Melanie Jane Bush on Oct 31, 2009 21:53:47 GMT
"Who else is it going to be?" asked Lucie, "Tinky-Winky and Lala?"
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Post by Cyberstudent on Oct 31, 2009 22:00:24 GMT
"If Tinky-Winky and Lala were causing tremors in the Time Vortex, I'd be severely disturbed."
The engine groans slightly, as the other TARDIS shakes uncontrollably.
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Post by Melanie Jane Bush on Oct 31, 2009 22:06:08 GMT
"Well, come on then, out with it," said Lucie seductively, "I'm getting old here!"
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Post by Cyberstudent on Oct 31, 2009 22:09:14 GMT
"Scanners don't seem to be working correctly. All I know is, we're going wherever they're going. I really wish we weren't..." The Doctor sighs, the memories of Iris Wildthyme rushing back to him.
"Though I think..." he tells her, "We might be landing!"
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Post by Melanie Jane Bush on Oct 31, 2009 23:07:19 GMT
"Oh, great, anything to stop this rattling about," sighed Lucie. With a jolt, the TARDIS landed.
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Post by patientzero on Nov 1, 2009 9:13:09 GMT
Aboard the bus, Iris was struggling to stay afloat in the last air pocket, as the water continued to flow in and play havoc with her interior decoration, not to mention short circuiting her controls.
As the bus lurched and groaned yet again, Lutra bobbed to the surface, easily floating, clutching his precious holobook. Iris didn't notice. "Oh!" she wailed, "Drowned on me own bus! What a way to go!" "Iris," Lutra interrupted, "Can you hear that?" Iris stopped her caterwauling, "What, the proximity alarm?" There was a jolt, and the alarm rose in pitch, squealing in agony. "Time Ram!" Iris screeched as a blue cuboid object faded into view around them with the noise of tortured, trumpeting engines. Then the screaming stopped, and they fell to the ground, the water that had been surrounding them spreading across the floor. Iris scrambled upright, a light of excitement and desire almost glowing in her eyes as she beheld the man standing next to the hexagonal dias at the centre of the room. "Oh Doctor!" she called, staggering towards him, "It's me!" "Doctor," Lutra said, picking himself up and wiping water off the holobook, "Perfect timing, as always. Oh, hello Lucie, how are you?" Then mauve lights lit up all over the console, alarms sounded and the cloister bell began to ring...
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Post by Melanie Jane Bush on Nov 1, 2009 10:41:50 GMT
"Eh?" said Lucie, her eyebrows so high in her forehead it wasn't funny, "What is an otter-thing and a soaked woman doing in the TARDIS? And how does said otter-thing know my name?" She turned to Iris. "Please explain..."
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Post by Cyberstudent on Nov 1, 2009 10:51:31 GMT
"Lucie, meet Iris Wildthyme," The Doctor says, gesturing in Iris' direction.
"And this, is Lutra, a friend of mine from Otteira."
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Post by Melanie Jane Bush on Nov 1, 2009 10:53:40 GMT
"Right... And what exactly are they doing turning, soaking wet, up in the TARDIS?" asked Lucie sweetly.
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Post by Cyberstudent on Nov 1, 2009 10:56:26 GMT
"There was a slight time ram between our TARDISes, which has brought them here, but the fact they're dripping in my TARDIS, is something they'll have to explain."
I look to both of them curiously, before something strikes my mind.
"Wait...why are you travelling with Iris, Lutra? Oh don't tell me she kidnapped you..."
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Post by patientzero on Nov 1, 2009 14:44:22 GMT
"I did not kidnap him!" Iris said indignantly, standing and brushing the water off her coat, "He happened to jump through the doors as the bus dematerialised!" "The bus was having a few... ahem, problems," Lutra said, checking the holobook for damage, "It set Iris' scarf on fire, so she threw it at the drinks cabinet. Y'know - the one full of open bottles and some alcoholic liquids floating in forcefields? Well, it blew up and ruptured the water tank." "And it could be short circuiting my timonic engines," Iris said, moving towards the console, "Let's see if we can't get Leonardo reparied, then you can take Lutra back to Ottiria if that's what he wants, and I can get on with saving the universe," she paused, "Why are all these red lights flashing? That can't be good."
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Post by Cyberstudent on Nov 1, 2009 14:53:13 GMT
"Time ram's do seem to cause a lot of red lights. Wait...you're saving the universe?"
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Post by patientzero on Nov 1, 2009 17:38:17 GMT
"Yes," Iris said, reaching for the TARDIS controls. "Hardly," Lutra snapped, activating his waterproof nil-o-grav field and hovering around the console, "She's stumbled across a reference to a legendary weapon called the Nullifier and has taken it upon herself to find all the components and stop anyone else finding them. She was heading to the vulgar end of time to find out where the eight components are when her TARDIS was flooded. Can we land before all the water short-circuits her timonic engines and her TARDIS explodes? And aren't Time Rams extremely dangerous?"
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Post by patientzero on Nov 1, 2009 17:39:13 GMT
"And by the way, Lucie, we have met before, in my past but in your future," Lutra added.
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Post by Cyberstudent on Nov 1, 2009 17:50:25 GMT
"Seriously? Why haven't I heard about it?" I ask as I pull down a lever.
"We need to land, before we cause a rupture..."
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