The Saviour of Time (video game)
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.
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
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Part 3
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Part 4
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Part 5
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Part 6
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Cast
Crew
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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 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.
References
Technology
- The Doctor connects with the human on Skype.
- The Key to Time needs to be reassembled once again.
- The Doctor uses a Tracer to find the Key to Time.
- The Doctor uses a vortex manipulator
Planets
- The Doctor mention Mercury and Venus.
- The first segment of the Key is located on Triton, one of Neptune's moons.
- The Doctor heads for Earth after finding the first segment of the Key.
Species
- The Doctor talks about the Weeping Angels.
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."
TARDIS
- The Cloister Bells sounds.
- Artron energy is detected in the TARDIS.
- The Emergency Mode is activated.