The Saviour of Time (video game)

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The Saviour of Time was an interactive six-part video game released on Skype on the 3 May 2017. It would see a Doctor Who Bot connect to the accounts belonging to the users of Skype to find the Key to Time.

Jaclyn Lee-Joe, Chief Marketing Officer at BBC Worldwide said It's hugely exciting to be launching a Doctor Who Bot on Skype - which gives us the opportunity to deliver a new form of digital story-telling with our cutting-edge brand. Through this new innovation we get to experience first-hand how bots can help deliver digital first content, and immerse audiences, old and new, in the Doctor Who universe like never before.[1]

Steven Abrahams, Group Product Manager, Studios and Strategic Partnerships for Skype said Our goal is for everyone in the world to experience the best Skype has to offer and the Doctor Who bot with BBC Worldwide brings a range of new features and functionality. We’re excited to see the bot bring users and fans one step closer to meeting the iconic Doctor.[1]

Synopsis

Every few hundred years the Key to Time needs to be found again and reassembled to restore peace and balance to the universe. Now that time has arrived once again. Connect to Skype and help the Twelfth Doctor find the Key to save the universe.

Plot

Part 1

The Doctor connects with a human, whose help he requires in saving the world. He asks for its name, and accepts the first word that the human says as the correct answer. Bill and Nardole are present on the TARDIS with the Doctor. The Doctor informs the human that they need to use a Tracer to find the Key to Time, a powerful device which can be used to balance the universe, but is split into several pieces. The Doctor promises that when they get through with this they'll be able to visit other locations, such as the Fifth Galaxy (with purple stars and moonbeams made of marzipan).

Going down a list of potential planets in the solar system with the human (Mercury and Venus), the Doctor eventually narrows down the segments location to somewhere around Neptune. Certainly not on Neptune (as the planet isn't exactly solid) but instead on one of its moons; Triton.

The Doctor asks the human to help type the coordinates to Triton, with the final code being 5, 6; 3, 5; 8, 11; 847, 851. The Doctor leaves Nardole and Bill in the TARDIS, as he drives onto Triton's surface on a buggy. The buggy no longer has a steering wheel (due to a fiasco where the Doctor's needed to make a crown for a frog princess), and the human must drive it from 2.7 billion miles away. The Doctor begins to hear a noise near a ravine, a troublesome occurrence as nothing has ever been recorded as to live on the moon.

Moving north despite interference with the signal, the buggy eventually enters an emergency mode, which reveals the true presence of the first segment of the Key. The buggy soon stops being able to move, stuck in something that begins to melt through its tires. The Doctor ejects, accidentally dropping the Tracer for the Key to Time in the same substance. In his last chance to escape, the Doctor uses a personal Vortex manipulator to return to the TARDIS, not knowing if the presence of a piece of the Key to Time will disrupt his travel.

The Doctor returns to the TARDIS and dematerialises, soon witnessing the piece of the Key transform. Celebrating with the human, the Doctor soon realises that Nardole and Bill have totally disappeared. Shocked to learn that they are not with the human, he tracks their artron energy back to Earth, where he heads to look for them.

A side transmission from another unknown user reminds the human to "remember, remember the fifth of..."

Part 2

to be added

Part 3

to be added

Part 4

to be added

Part 5

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Part 6

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Cast

Crew

to be added

Story notes

Real world

  • The Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9 searched for the Key to Time over the course of Season 16 and saw a climactic battle with the Black Guardian.
  • The Doctor will choose to call the user the first word that is said when he asks for their name. If the user gives a naughty word, the Doctor will take offense and designate the user "human."
  • The Doctor Who Bot have a specific set of comments, meaning it can answer specific questions and such, but you can't chat with it however you want to.

In-universe

  • If you decline, the Doctor won't accept it and let's you participate anyway.
  • If you say hello, he'll answer that he's still there.
    • If you repeatedly say hello, he'll get annoyed and say a parrot could do the same.
  • If you ask him the Doctor Who question he'll tell you he studied under Joseph Lister in Glasgow in 1888.
  • If you get the coordinates wrong he remarks relief that he put on the handbrake or else the TARDIS would have drifted to the Middle Ages.
  • If you ask about another Time Lord to help him, he tells you his race is tricky to find, that he's the nicest you'll meet, Bill will laugh, and he will remark his lack of understanding and call humans Pudding-brains.
  • If you ask him where Gallifrey is, he'll answer "It's hidden somewhere a very long way away… Probably sulking."
  • If you ask him what Gallifrey is, he'll answer "Ah yes... Gallifrey, in the constellation of Kasterbouros. Home of the Time Lords. Well, most of them. But these days, the TARDIS is my home."
  • If you ask him about companions, he'll answer "You know, I've had so many humans travel with me over the years. And each one was special in their own unique, wonderful way."
    • However, you can specifically ask about Bill, Nardole and River Song. And if you ask about Clara, he'll answer "Oh yes... I knew a Clara, once. An actor. Clara Bow. She was terrified by the prospect of talkies so I got Shakespeare to give her some acting lessons. She was quite a force..."
  • If you ask him who he is, he'll answer "I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous and I'm over two-thousand years old."
  • If you ask why the TARDIS is bigger on the inside, he'll answer "I'll tell you so long as you promise not to build one yourself and do foolish things with it. I'm kidding! There's no way you'd be able to. Anyway, the TARDIS works on the combined principles of-- hmm, how should I put this? A bunch of timey-wimey stuff happens, and voila! You're fighting Visigoths. That was an example. Don't fight Visigoths. They're very mean. And shockingly smelly."
  • If you ask what Daleks are, he will answer "Just thinking about the Daleks brings out a side of me I hope nobody ever has to see. The less we can talk about those screechy little killing machines, the better."
  • If you ask what Cybermen are, he will answer "I may never look at Cybermen the same way after poor PE became one. Actually, I rather hope I never have to look at one at all."
  • If you ask what Weeping Angels are, he will answer "Miserable beings that spread misery across the universe, though they are curiously gentle in how they ruin your life. My advice? Carry eye drops wherever you go."
  • If you are too slow to answer, the Doctor bemoans that he could have done something interesting in the meantime such as finding the cure for the common cold.

References

Technology

Locations

Species

Food and beverages

  • The Doctor says the Fifth Galaxy has moonbeams made of marzipan.

People

  • Bill and Nardole both give the Doctor disparaging looks. In Nardole's case, he is reacting to the Doctor not being on Earth as he is supposed to be.
  • The human gets to help the Doctor find the Key to Time.
  • The Doctor mention Mercury and indirectly mention Venus.
  • The Doctor mention Renoir.
  • Bill and Nardole have disappeared after the Doctor and the human return to the TARDIS.
  • The Doctor once met a frog princess.
  • The Doctor tells you "You were brilliant. It was all due to my influence, of course. You mustn't take any of the credit."
  • The Doctor says that he's strictly speaking supposed to stay behind on Earth.
  • If the user answer correctly, the Doctor says humans are not so pudding-brainy after all.
  • The Doctor mention that he had a spot of bother a while back in the orbit of Neptune.

TARDIS

External links

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/worldwide/2017/dwskypebot
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