Adric and Nyssa flee collapsing TARDIS reality
Plot Beats
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Adric realizes the Watcher is disconnecting the coordinate subsystem and alerts Nyssa to the danger. Adric and Nyssa prepare for an emergency as Adric shuts the door and drops to his knees.
Adric instructs Nyssa to get down as everything goes negative. Nyssa asks what's happening, and Adric explains they are being taken out of time and space.
Who Was There
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Emotionally neutral, fulfilling an unknowable directive with mechanical compliance, indifferent to the agents’ distress.
Moves between the corridor door and control panel with otherworldly precision, limbs glowing faintly. It manipulates the dodecahedron controls without resistance, bridging the TARDIS and extratemporal forces.
- • Extract the companions from the collapsing TARDIS
- • Uphold the balance of reality through intervention
- • The universe’s stability supersedes individual desires
- • The Doctor’s authority justifies its actions
Terrified comprehension followed by helpless defiance, his confidence in systems shattered by the Watcher’s intrusion.
Kneels on the corridor floor, hands gripping the doorframe, voice sharp with urgency. His eyes dart between the Watcher’s actions and Nyssa, body braced for disruption. His mechanical intuition fails him in the face of cosmic override.
- • Prevent the Watcher from disrupting the TARDIS systems further
- • Protect Nyssa from the consequences of the extraction
- • The TARDIS's systems must be preserved at all costs
- • Technical protocol can be relied upon, even in crises
Deepening confusion evolves into unsettled dread as the familiar parameters of time and space dissolve around her.
Stands slightly apart from Adric, her posture tense but composed. She watches the Watcher’s actions with growing unease, asking Adric for clarity as the corridor flickers into distortion.
- • Understand the nature of the disruption
- • Ensure Adric’s safety amid the chaos
- • The TARDIS has always been a sanctuary, even under duress
- • Logic and computation provide stability amid fear
Objects Involved
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The battered police box exterior flickers between miniaturized stability and full-scale disruption as the coordinate subsystem collapses. It becomes a fragile capsule of time, resisting entropy before yielding to the Watcher’s commands. The Doctor’s sanctuary is reduced to a conduit for extraction.
The angular controls on the dodecahedron’s surface pulse with ominous red and amber light as the Watcher overrides the TARDIS’s coordinates. Their angular surfaces serve as the mechanism for severing the ship’s temporal tether, violently disconnecting the subsystem.
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The corridor twists unpredictably under the collapse of fixed geometry, its walls flickering between solid and translucent planes. Alarm lights strobe crimson across flaking panels and exposed wiring as the air thickens with ozone and the stench of overheating circuits.
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