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| | |range = Short Trips (series) | ||
|doctor=First Doctor | |series in range = Short Trips: Life Science | ||
|companions=[[Steven Taylor|Steven]], [[Katarina]] | |series number in range = 7 | ||
|enemy=[[The Conduit]] | |number in series = 12 | ||
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|anthology= | |companions = [[Steven Taylor|Steven]], [[Katarina]] | ||
|prev=Jonah (short story) | |enemy = [[The Conduit]] | ||
|next=The End (short story) | |setting = [[Planet (Scribbles in Chalk)|Unnamed planet]] | ||
|writer = Gareth Wigmore | |||
|anthology = Short Trips: Life Science | |||
|release date = 26 June 2004 | |||
|series = [[Short Trips (series)#In print|''Short Trips'' short stories]] | |||
|prev = Jonah (short story) | |||
|next = The End (short story) | |||
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'''''Scribbles in Chalk''''' was the twelfth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Life Science]]''. It was written by [[Gareth Wigmore]]. It featured the [[First Doctor]], [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Katarina]]. | '''''Scribbles in Chalk''''' was the twelfth short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Life Science]]''. It was written by [[Gareth Wigmore]]. It featured the [[First Doctor]], [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Katarina]]. | ||
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* [[Healing Song]] | * [[Healing Song]] | ||
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* The Doctor thinks of [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Vicki Pallister|Vicki]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]]. | * The Doctor thinks of [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Vicki Pallister|Vicki]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] and [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]]. | ||
* The Doctor plans to give Katarina the [[Susan Foreman's TARDIS bedroom|room]] in the TARDIS that was first Susan's, then Vicki's. | * The Doctor plans to give Katarina the [[Susan Foreman's TARDIS bedroom|room]] in the TARDIS that was first Susan's, then Vicki's. | ||
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* Steven was injured in [[Troy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Myth Makers (TV story)|The Myth Makers]]'') | * Steven was injured in [[Troy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Myth Makers (TV story)|The Myth Makers]]'') | ||
* Katarina mentions Lady [[Cassandra (The Myth Makers)|Cassandra]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Myth Makers (TV story)|The Myth Makers]]'') | * Katarina mentions Lady [[Cassandra (The Myth Makers)|Cassandra]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Myth Makers (TV story)|The Myth Makers]]'') | ||
* The Doctor can sense that his body is nearing the end of his life and that he will soon [[ | * The Doctor can sense that his body is nearing the end of his life and that he will soon [[First Doctor's regeneration|regenerate]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') | ||
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Scribbles in Chalk was the twelfth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Life Science. It was written by Gareth Wigmore. It featured the First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Katarina.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Low Joker, a Lakhotha hunter, is on his way home when he transforms into a tree. The knife that he had been carrying is embedded in the tree.
The Doctor, Steven and Katarina are visitors of the Lakhotha tribe. After leaving Troy, in search of medicine for Steven, they landed on a planet and went through a temporal fault. The journey through the anomaly was dangerous, and the Doctor is not yet ready to go back through. Steven is healing nicely, the Doctor and Healing Song having made a poultice for his injury. The tribe is friendly, with Drinks-Pools-Dry showing interest in Katarina and his mother, Healing Song, showing interest in the Doctor.
The Doctor is told about the missing tribe members and is taken to the tree that used to be Low Joker. The Doctor doesn't believe that the tree was Low Joker, despite the presence of Low Joker's knife in the tree.
Later that evening, the tribe and its visitors gather for the meal. It is an enjoyable evening, but suddenly the Lakhotha begin to undergo violent transformations. Some change into plants, some into animals. The Doctor notices that Steven and Katarina are undergoing change too, though not as quickly. They run for the anomaly and go through, five hundred years in the future, where the TARDIS is waiting.
The Doctor finds, to his surprise, that not only do Steven and Katarina remember nothing of the Lakhotha, but also Steven's injury has returned. Before tending to Steven, the Doctor heads for the nearby buildings to find some answers. He makes contact with an entity that calls itself the Conduit. It had need of the resources of this planet, and changed the Lakhotha, that is, the "sentient animates", into non-sentient forms so that they would not resist the Conduit's plans. The Doctor is appalled, but with Steven's life in danger, he can do no more here and returns to the TARDIS.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor thinks of Susan, Vicki, Ian and Barbara.
- The Doctor plans to give Katarina the room in the TARDIS that was first Susan's, then Vicki's.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Steven was injured in Troy. (TV: The Myth Makers)
- Katarina mentions Lady Cassandra. (TV: The Myth Makers)
- The Doctor can sense that his body is nearing the end of his life and that he will soon regenerate. (TV: The Tenth Planet)
