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{{Infobox Short Story
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|story name = The Masks of Makassar
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|series = [[Doctor Who Annual]]
{{Infobox Story SMW
|doctor = [[Ninth Doctor]]
|range          = Doctor Who Annual 2006
|companions = [[Rose Tyler]]
|number in range = #6
|writer = [[Paul Cornell]]
|image          = TMoM.jpg
|publication = [[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]
|doctor          = Ninth Doctor
|previous story = [[Winner Takes All]]
|companions      = [[Rose Tyler|Rose]]
|next story = [[Pitter-Patter]]
|enemy          = [[Akimus Makassar|Makassar]], the [[Unit (species)|Units]]
|setting        = [[Planet (The Masks of Makassar)|Unnamed planet]]
|writer         = Paul Cornell
|illustrator    = [[Martin Geraghty]]
|genre          = Science fiction
|format          = Short story
|release date    = September 2005
|publisher      = Panini UK
|publication     = ''[[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]''
|series          = ''[[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]''
|prev            = Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story){{!}}Meet the Doctor
|next           = Mr Nobody (comic story)
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'''''The Masks of Makassar''''' was the third short story and sixth release exclusively published in the ''[[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]'' in [[September (releases)|September]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]] by [[Panini UK]] and the [[BBC]]. The short story was written by [[Paul Cornell]] and illustrated by [[Martin Geraghty]].


==Summary==
== Plot ==
The Doctor and Rose land on an alien planet whose inhabitants wear masks enabling them to share their thoughts as a telepathic community. The spokes-unit for the community mind, Makassar, asks the Doctor to speak on its behalf to the alien representatives who have come to see the masks for themselves, but the Doctor refuses. However, when he admits to Rose that his own people had a system like this, called the Matrix, Rose realises that this planet reminds him of the home he’s lost. The Doctor realises that she’s right and goes to apologise to Makassar while Rose gets some sleep -- but she is confronted by a ghost-like phantom of a man wearing a mask, and when she tries to find the Doctor, she is attacked by Units who force a mask onto her face. The Doctor is also attacked by Units and forced to wear a mask, but Makassar finds it more difficult to take over the Doctor’s mind than he’d anticipated, and the Doctor is able to fight him off and rescue Rose from the gestalt. The Doctor places her in a dreamscape fashioned from Rose’s memories of the Powell Estate, where she gets her bearings and tells him about the ghost, who is presumably a rebellious Unit. The Doctor sends her out to find the ghost, and when she is attacked by Units, she calls out to the one who tried to contact her. While Makassar’s attention is divided, the Doctor manages to overpower him and draws on the power of the gestalt to generate his own ghost, one with some physical substance. Before Makassar can stop him, the Doctor removes his control mask and replaces it with one of the masks worn by the ordinary Units. The other Units are freed, including the Doctor and Rose, while Makassar is trapped in a mental feedback loop, capable only of sending orders to himself
The [[Ninth Doctor]] is asked to represent an alien planet. But his eternal grief at the loss of the [[Time Lord]]s begins clouding his judgement, and when Rose is put in danger, the Doctor discovers a trap has been set - and he has walked straight into it.


==Characters==
== Characters ==
*[[Ninth Doctor]]
* [[Ninth Doctor]]
*[[Rose Tyler]]
* [[Rose Tyler]]
*[[Makassar]]
* [[Akimus Makassar]]
* [[Repthon]]
* [[Eln]]
* [[Unit (species)|Units]]


==References==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* The visions from Rose's memory include the [[Powell Estate]] and [[Jackie Tyler]].


==Notes==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
''According to Paul Cornell on the commentary for Scream of the Shalka this story would have been used had Richard E Grant’s version of The Doctor gone to series. So he recycled it when asked to write for this annual instead.''  


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* The Doctor mentions [[the Matrix]] as something the [[Time Lord]]s used to "keep their minds in after they died".
* The Doctor is haunted by the destruction of his homeworld, a running theme throughout his ninth incarnation.


==Timeline==
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*This story occurs after [[NSA]]: ''[[Winner Takes All]]''
*This story occurs before [[DWA]]: ''[[Pitter-Patter]]''


==External links==
[[Category:DWAN 2006 short stories]]
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Latest revision as of 16:21, 25 March 2024

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The Masks of Makassar was the third short story and sixth release exclusively published in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 in September 2005 by Panini UK and the BBC. The short story was written by Paul Cornell and illustrated by Martin Geraghty.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Ninth Doctor is asked to represent an alien planet. But his eternal grief at the loss of the Time Lords begins clouding his judgement, and when Rose is put in danger, the Doctor discovers a trap has been set - and he has walked straight into it.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

According to Paul Cornell on the commentary for Scream of the Shalka this story would have been used had Richard E Grant’s version of The Doctor gone to series. So he recycled it when asked to write for this annual instead.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor mentions the Matrix as something the Time Lords used to "keep their minds in after they died".
  • The Doctor is haunted by the destruction of his homeworld, a running theme throughout his ninth incarnation.
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