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|series = ''[[The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series)|The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield]]'' | |series = ''[[The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series)|The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield]]'' | ||
|audio anthology = | |audio anthology = The Eternity Club 1 | ||
|number = 8.2 | |number = 8.2 | ||
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | |main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | ||
|featuring = [[312 (The Armageddon Chair)|312]], [[Altazar | |featuring = [[312 (The Armageddon Chair)|312]], [[Altazar]], [[Grizella]], [[Starll]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = | ||
|setting = [[City of Parroon]] | |setting = [[City of Parroon]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = James Goss | ||
|director = [[David O'Mahony]] | |director = [[David O'Mahony]] | ||
|producer = James Goss | |producer = [[James Goss]] | ||
|music = [[Rob Harvey]] | |music = [[Rob Harvey]] | ||
|sound = | |sound = [[Shane O'Byrne]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 11 September 2024 | ||
|format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>2nd of 2 stories | |format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>2nd of 2 stories | ||
|production code = BFPDWNABOX00801 | |production code = BFPDWNABOX00801 | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-80240-393-0 (physical); ISBN 978-1-80240-394-7 (digital) | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-80240-393-0 (physical); ISBN 978-1-80240-394-7 (digital) | ||
|prev = The Armageddon Chair (audio story) | |prev = The Armageddon Chair (audio story) | ||
|next = | |next = Rhubarb (audio story) | ||
|epcount = 1 | |epcount = 1 | ||
|soundcloudtrailer=https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/the-eternity-club-1-trailer}} | |||
'''''Triumph of the Drahvin''''' was the second story in ''[[The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series)|The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio anthology ''[[The Eternity Club 1]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[James Goss]] and featured [[Lisa Bowerman]] as [[Bernice Summerfield]]. | '''''Triumph of the Drahvin''''' was the second story in ''[[The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (audio series)|The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio anthology ''[[The Eternity Club 1]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[James Goss]] and featured [[Lisa Bowerman]] as [[Bernice Summerfield]]. | ||
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At [[Pym]]'s order, [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] joins [[Grizella]]'s expedition to [[Parroon]] as support staff and is made to keep her disagreements with Grizella's theories on the [[City of Parroon]] to herself given that she is not acting in her capacity as an [[archaeologist]]. Grizella tells the story of how the city had belonged to warrior women who had once been [[nun]]s and, with the exception of [[Lost (Triumph of the Drahvin)|Sister Lost]], supposedly [[marriage|married]] [[Flarg the Great Bull]]. The [[Sun Queen]] supposedly became his "heavenly wife" and was protected in the psychic [[Sun Palace]], but Benny disagrees with this interpretation and Grizella admonishes her after hearing her talking with [[Starll]] about it. | At [[Pym]]'s order, [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] joins [[Grizella]]'s expedition to [[Parroon]] as support staff and is made to keep her disagreements with Grizella's theories on the [[City of Parroon]] to herself given that she is not acting in her capacity as an [[archaeologist]]. Grizella tells the story of how the city had belonged to warrior women who had once been [[nun]]s and, with the exception of [[Lost (Triumph of the Drahvin)|Sister Lost]], supposedly [[marriage|married]] [[Flarg the Great Bull]]. The [[Sun Queen]] supposedly became his "heavenly wife" and was protected in the psychic [[Sun Palace]], but Benny disagrees with this interpretation and Grizella admonishes her after hearing her talking with [[Starll]] about it. | ||
''to be | From the Sun Palace, Grizella leads the group to the toxic [[Well of Sorrows]] where the nuns tanned [[animal]] [[hide]] for the savage male tribes of the wastelands at Flarg's order and inside of which live strange creatures. [[Altazar]] and [[312 (The Armageddon Chair)|312]] are each attacked by a woman in the [[night]] and Starll is left [[blindness|blind]] by an attack from behind. Benny notices that only the men have been harmed and tends to them with a [[dermografter]], her technical knowledge and [[analgesic bandage]]s respectively. Upon being healed, 312 briefly remembers being attacked by a woman angry at the dark, the night and her own [[loneliness]] and wants [[revenge]]. | ||
In the morning, Benny and Grizella discover that [[Erasmus (The Armageddon Chair)|Don Erasmus]] has been dragged away from his [[tent]] and they follow the trail to the Well of Sorrows where they find his remains. Grizella continues with the expedition despite this and Benny confronts her with the truth; the men kept the women in the citadel for breeding and [[slave]] labour, the psychic stones that they carved were taken off-world and the Sun Queen was a [[hostage]]. Some of the remaining stones contain [[psychic energy]] with [[holograph]]s to tell the women's story and Benny believes that the truth should be told rather than the story that Grizella likes. | |||
Grizella admits privately to Benny that she knew the truth and twisted the facts, which she hoped that Benny would be an accomplice to. She understood when she left [[Drahva]] that she would no longer be revered as a woman and has been attempting to rectify how women in the wider universe are treated by revising history in a positive light. Benny shows her the ruins of Sister Lost's [[hut]], which had been made of psychic stone which released her thoughts once it fell down, explaining the attacks on the men of the group. They see her ghost and leave the men waiting as Benny asks Grizella if she knows the reason Benny came to the Eternity Club, but Grizella does not. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Grizella]] - [[Naana Agyei-Ampadu]] | * [[Grizella]] - [[Naana Agyei-Ampadu]] | ||
* [[Professor]] [[Altazar]] - [[Shai Matheson]] | * [[Professor]] [[Altazar]] - [[Shai Matheson]] | ||
== Worldbuilding == | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The group ride [[horse]]s. | * The group ride [[horse]]s. | ||
* The [[Suspension of Geren]] is on the expedition. | |||
* [[Starll]] tries to eat a [[pillar]]. | * [[Starll]] tries to eat a [[pillar]]. | ||
* The [[City of Parroon]] was | * The [[City of Parroon]] was a [[citadel]] from which warrior women dominated the male [[tribe]]s of the [[desert]]. In the [[spring]], the men would fight until only twenty were left. Those twenty men would be permitted into the city for [[reproduction]]. | ||
* The | * According to [[legend]], [[Flarg the Great Bull]] took all but one of the [[nun]]s to become his wives. The remaining nun, [[Lost (Triumph of the Drahvin)|Sister Lost]], was banished beyond the walls. | ||
* [[ | * [[Erasmus (The Armageddon Chair)|Don Erasmus]] is on the expedition. He oversleeps. | ||
* Benny | * Benny brings [[cake]]s and [[egg]]s. | ||
* The nuns tanned [[animal]] [[hide]] at the [[Well of Sorrows]]. | |||
* [[Drahva]] has [[hyena]]s. [[Grizella]] finds them delicious. | |||
* [[Draconian]]s consider [[burial]] in [[sand]] to be the highest [[honour]]. | |||
* Benny offers to perform the [[Ritual of the Sharpened Star]] for Altazar, but she is not certain of the middle verses. | |||
* Benny puts [[analgesic bandage]]s on Starll's wounds. | |||
* Benny uses a [[dermografter]] on Altazar. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* | *This story was recorded either on [[3 October (production)|3]]-[[4 October (production)|4]] or [[9 October (production)|9]]-[[10 October (production)|10 October]] [[2023 (production)|2023]] at [[the Soundhouse]].<ref name=":022">'Backstage' tab of [https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-new-adventures-of-bernice-summerfield-volume-08-the-eternity-club-1-2980 the official ''The Eternity Club 1'' page] at [https://www.bigfinish.com bigfinish.com].</ref> Given the sequential recording of the other releases of ''The Eternity Club'',<ref>'Backstage' tab of [https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-new-adventures-of-bernice-summerfield-volume-08-the-eternity-club-2-2981 the official ''The Eternity Club 2'' page] at [https://www.bigfinish.com bigfinish.com].</ref><ref>'Backstage' tab of [https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-new-adventures-of-bernice-summerfield-volume-08-the-eternity-club-3-2982 the official ''The Eternity Club 3'' page] at [https://www.bigfinish.com/ bigfinish.com].</ref><ref>'Backstage' tab of [https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-new-adventures-of-bernice-summerfield-volume-08-the-eternity-club-4-2983 the official ''The Eternity Club 4'' page] at [https://www.bigfinish.com/ bigfinish.com].</ref> it was presumably the second recorded, on 9-10 October 2023. | ||
*Details for this story were revealed on 10 July 2024.<ref name=":12">[https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/what-secrets-does-the-eternity-club-hide What secrets does The Eternity Club hide?]</ref> | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
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{{bigfinish|releases/v/doctor-who-the-new-adventures-of-bernice-summerfield-volume-08-the-eternity-club-1-2980}} | {{bigfinish|releases/v/doctor-who-the-new-adventures-of-bernice-summerfield-volume-08-the-eternity-club-1-2980}} | ||
{{BFBS}} | == Footnotes == | ||
{{Reflist}}{{BFBS}} | |||
[[Category:2024 audio stories]] | [[Category:2024 audio stories]] | ||
[[Category:Bernice Summerfield audio stories]] | [[Category:Bernice Summerfield audio stories]] | ||
[[Category:Draconian audio stories]] | |||
[[Category:Sontaran audio stories]] | |||
Latest revision as of 14:58, 30 October 2024
Triumph of the Drahvin was the second story in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield audio anthology The Eternity Club 1, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by James Goss and featured Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
An archaeological expedition led by a Drahvin Queen. What secrets has she uncovered in the forgotten deserts of Parroon? And why are people dying?
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
At Pym's order, Benny joins Grizella's expedition to Parroon as support staff and is made to keep her disagreements with Grizella's theories on the City of Parroon to herself given that she is not acting in her capacity as an archaeologist. Grizella tells the story of how the city had belonged to warrior women who had once been nuns and, with the exception of Sister Lost, supposedly married Flarg the Great Bull. The Sun Queen supposedly became his "heavenly wife" and was protected in the psychic Sun Palace, but Benny disagrees with this interpretation and Grizella admonishes her after hearing her talking with Starll about it.
From the Sun Palace, Grizella leads the group to the toxic Well of Sorrows where the nuns tanned animal hide for the savage male tribes of the wastelands at Flarg's order and inside of which live strange creatures. Altazar and 312 are each attacked by a woman in the night and Starll is left blind by an attack from behind. Benny notices that only the men have been harmed and tends to them with a dermografter, her technical knowledge and analgesic bandages respectively. Upon being healed, 312 briefly remembers being attacked by a woman angry at the dark, the night and her own loneliness and wants revenge.
In the morning, Benny and Grizella discover that Don Erasmus has been dragged away from his tent and they follow the trail to the Well of Sorrows where they find his remains. Grizella continues with the expedition despite this and Benny confronts her with the truth; the men kept the women in the citadel for breeding and slave labour, the psychic stones that they carved were taken off-world and the Sun Queen was a hostage. Some of the remaining stones contain psychic energy with holographs to tell the women's story and Benny believes that the truth should be told rather than the story that Grizella likes.
Grizella admits privately to Benny that she knew the truth and twisted the facts, which she hoped that Benny would be an accomplice to. She understood when she left Drahva that she would no longer be revered as a woman and has been attempting to rectify how women in the wider universe are treated by revising history in a positive light. Benny shows her the ruins of Sister Lost's hut, which had been made of psychic stone which released her thoughts once it fell down, explaining the attacks on the men of the group. They see her ghost and leave the men waiting as Benny asks Grizella if she knows the reason Benny came to the Eternity Club, but Grizella does not.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
- 312 - Simon Kane
- Starll - Dan Starkey
- Grizella - Naana Agyei-Ampadu
- Professor Altazar - Shai Matheson
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The group ride horses.
- The Suspension of Geren is on the expedition.
- Starll tries to eat a pillar.
- The City of Parroon was a citadel from which warrior women dominated the male tribes of the desert. In the spring, the men would fight until only twenty were left. Those twenty men would be permitted into the city for reproduction.
- According to legend, Flarg the Great Bull took all but one of the nuns to become his wives. The remaining nun, Sister Lost, was banished beyond the walls.
- Don Erasmus is on the expedition. He oversleeps.
- Benny brings cakes and eggs.
- The nuns tanned animal hide at the Well of Sorrows.
- Drahva has hyenas. Grizella finds them delicious.
- Draconians consider burial in sand to be the highest honour.
- Benny offers to perform the Ritual of the Sharpened Star for Altazar, but she is not certain of the middle verses.
- Benny puts analgesic bandages on Starll's wounds.
- Benny uses a dermografter on Altazar.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This story was recorded either on 3-4 or 9-10 October 2023 at the Soundhouse.[1] Given the sequential recording of the other releases of The Eternity Club,[2][3][4] it was presumably the second recorded, on 9-10 October 2023.
- Details for this story were revealed on 10 July 2024.[5]
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Triumph of the Drahvin page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ 'Backstage' tab of the official The Eternity Club 1 page at bigfinish.com.
- ↑ 'Backstage' tab of the official The Eternity Club 2 page at bigfinish.com.
- ↑ 'Backstage' tab of the official The Eternity Club 3 page at bigfinish.com.
- ↑ 'Backstage' tab of the official The Eternity Club 4 page at bigfinish.com.
- ↑ What secrets does The Eternity Club hide?
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