User:DoctorQuoi/sandboxBFMR129PlagueoftheDaleks

Part 1

Nyssa and the Doctor have undergone temporal transference after the explosion of the time bubble and have been anchored by a space-time event. It appears they have landed in Stockbridge in an old, dusty building, on observing Sir Justin's statue, and realize they are in a church. They decide to go out and ask someone where they are and if they can find the TARDIS. They arrive at the Green Dragon but it is empty. Suddenly they are greeted by an old woman, Ms. Margery Withers, the sister of Alice Withers. When they ask her what year it is, she ignores them and goes to get their food and drink. The Doctor, based on the technology in the bar, including a touch-screen register, places it in the early 21st century. Finding the food rotten and stale, they pay, leave a tip and head back outside. Out in the winter storm, they hear noises and spot carrion crows which attack the Doctor. Fearing a second one, they duck into a nearby cottage.

Inside, the Doctor says that the crows could've easily killed them but didn't, so perhaps they were trying to warm them. Moving through the cottage, they look out through the back where the weather has turned to spring. They step out and notice the winter snow is quickly melting away and they hear a cricket match in the distance, deciding to go have a look, perturbed by the time fluctuations. They go to talk to the spectators to see if they've seen a blue police box but suddenly the players stop, and ominously begin to approach them. They then see a spaceship overhead. They ask the spectators who's in the ship but receive no useful reply. The ship lands so they go and greet the new arrivals. The Doctor introduces himself and Nyssa but the two arrivals, Isaac and Lysette Barclay, are startled at their presence since it shouldn't be possible given the obscurity of the location. Isaac asks if they're "Trust Inspectors", here to shut down their tour program and the Doctor confirms this, only for the sake of learning more. He assures Isaac though that they just want to observe and they don't necessarily file any closure report. It turns out they run a Stockbridge Historic Heritage tour along with their technician Dobson to show people an example of a preserved old English village and bring passengers from outside the galaxy to have a holiday and learn about the place. The Doctor explains to Nyssa that in the 45th century most of the earth's population has left and the solar flares make the planet almost uninhabitable. Isaac explains that they have brought a new lot of passengers to Stockbridge in order to learn more about the place. He reveals to the Doctor privately that tour sizes have been dropping and he partially blames the lack of funding which the Doctor agrees. He tells Isacc they would like to help in the preservation. Isaac, upon hearing this, warms up to the Doctor. Nyssa asks about the villagers where it is revealed that they're actually clones whose lives are shortening due to repetitive cloning. The Doctor asks if this is the case with the wildlife, such as the crows but Isaac says there should be artificial life-forms known as owls. Nyssa asks whether the problem is time itself leaking because earlier they had heard carols coming from the Church and other strange noises, as if the past was bleeding into the present but Isaac laughs and explains that they use a sound archive and play sounds during the tour to enhance the experience for the tourists/guests. Lysette tells Isaac she's ready to take the guests around the village and the Doctor agrees with Lysette's request to take Nyssa (so she can keep an eye out) with her while the Doctor says he's going to go take a look at the environment system with Isaac's permission since Isaac wants to check on them to know if that was the cause of their earlier disturbances.

On Lysette's tour they encounter many oddities of the village. One appears as a black cloud over the green fields. The Doctor takes a look at the environment systems and is rather worried about how advanced the system is, asking if they had outside help in creating this while Isaac reports that the authorized tech is on the way, and they aren't allowed to touch it without permission. Suddenly outside the villagers begin to collapse as rain pours, seeming as if they're being burned by acid, and the Doctor is worried for Nyssa and Lysette...

Part 2

The Doctor asks Isaac for a comm-link to try and contact Nyssa and Lysette. Suddenly the villagers outside begin to get up again and head towards them. Not knowing whether the clones outside are friend or foe, they let one, Mrs. Sowerby, inside to check. They subdue it and the Doctor theorizes that whatever is in the rain is controlling them, much to Isaac's disbelief. Their shelter holds them at bay at first, but it may not be enough...

Nyssa and Lysette observe the cloud and speculate what it is. The tour guests are irked by the turn of events and the two are berated by Alexis Linfoot for going too quickly, as she and her husband Vincent Linfoot have come for Mr. Linfoot to confirm his genealogy, which he has traced back to Stockbridge.

The Doctor uses the weather machine to analyze Mrs. Sowerby's saliva sample. Mr. Linfoot finds his ancestor and prepares to take a picture, noting the rain overhead. Inside the Church Nyssa and Lysette discuss the food reservation units in the Green Dragon and why the food they had earlier was rotten. Suddenly, it begins to rain outside. Mrs. Linfoot complains that it should be sunny in this quarter of the season cycle. Suddenly they hear Mr. Linfoot screaming outside and Mrs. Linfoot demands that Lysette go help him. However, Nyssa holds her back, telling her there may be something wrong with the rain. Mrs. Linfoot, fed up, runs out into the rain to help I'm but begins to experience the same agonizing pain.

Isaac recommends that they start shooting the clones but the Doctor refuses to harm them, even if they attacking. The Doctor's machine's analysis reveals that there is some microorganism inside them that is controlling them. Fed up with Dobson's absence, the Doctor plans to reach a relay station in order to make contact with Nyssa and the others. Mrs. Linfoot is brought inside as only her hand was in the rain and Professor Jabbery helps confirm her stability. They try to decide what to do but hear strange noises outside, so Nyssa and Professor Jabbery go to investigate while Lysette stays with a now awoken and complaining Mrs. Linfoot. She berates them for not saving Vincent despite when them trying to explain the situation. They prepare to go get Vincent but he awakens in a zombie-like state and they decide to retreat back into the church instead. The Doctor dons an environment suit and prepares to leave while Isaac is to create a distraction. Mrs. Linfoot tries to stop Nyssa and Lysette and the others barricading the door and she goes to greet Mr. Linfoot. They note from her hand that she's beginning to transform as her hand is blackened and decayed. Convinced her husband won't hurt her, she let's him in despite the others cries not too and she is killed by Vincent. Isaac distracts the zombiefied clones and the Doctor makes a break for it. Lysette, Nyssa and Professor Jabbery find somewhere to hide. Nyssa theorizes that the hostiles may have already been inside the bubble for a long time waiting for something. They agree they need to find another way out of there. Nyssa discovers a crack that ends up revealing a dark passageway. They begin to move through it when suddenly they hear something approaching. Nyssa recognizes the noise and warns the others not to do anything rash because they have been discovered by a Dalek...

Part 3

The Dalek takes them prisoner but when Jabbery refuses to go with it the Dalek exterminates Rinxo Jabbery on the spot while Lysette and Nyssa make their escape in a moment of distraction. The Doctor makes it to the shuttle just as Dobson arrives but Dobson falls victim to the clones. The Doctor contacts Isaac and tells him of the news, then tries to send out a message to Nyssa and Lysette. Their is no reply or any acknowledgment that the transmission is received, leaving the doctor distressed, worried about Nyssa. He tells Isaac they'll stick to his original plan and he's going to pilot the skimmer to the CES and stop the rain, after which they'll figure out what to do from there. Nyssa and Lysette attempt to escape the Dalek and head back into the chapel, as Nyssa has a plan.

One of the Daleks is awakened from cryogenic stasis and updated on the situation by its fellow Dalek. Together they awaken the third Dalek but it requests extermination after it discovers that it has permanent visual impairment due to extensive damage from cryogenic storage. It is granted and the other two exterminate it. The Doctor has almost arrived at the CES. The Daleks observe this and program the crows, which are under their control, to attack the Doctor and disrupt his journey. Nyssa and Lysette try to trick the Dalek using Lysette's bag as a distraction, after she extracts some important valuables from it such as an ASP (audio selection pod). Nyssa directs her to use it to make a sound to distract the Dalek while Nyssa takes her bag. They manage to avoid it, and Nyssa convinces Lysette to go with her through the dark passage they discovered earlier. The Doctor's shuttle has been severely damaged and his suit has ripped, allowing some of the rain to get on his hand. He says he feels the microorganisms already burrowing, and prepares to head inside the CES. The Daleks decide to send observation units to intercept him. Nyssa thinks they may have made a wrong decision going through the tunnel, but Lysette convinces her to keep going, having faith in her instincts. The crows attack a struggling Doctor who barely manages to make it inside the CES building. Once inside he begins to feel something attacking him from inside his body. Nyssa and Lysette find an open door and Nyssa theorises that it's open because the Daleks lack power for all their systems. Nyssa reveals she suspects the Daleks noticed the Doctor's continual arrivals in Stockbridge and set up a trap here precisely for that reason. She reveals the truth to Lysette that she and the Doctor are not here because of the foundation but they are actually travelers and the Doctor and the Daleks are mortal enemies.

The Doctor uses the equipment at the CES to analyze the saliva sample. Nyssa and Lysette enter the Dalek facility when they suddenly hear a Dalek approach and mention the Doctor in the CES building, which reassures Nyssa as she now knows he is alive and that the Daleks have "conditioned" the village clones. The Doctor manages to program the machine to reverse the effects of the cloud dispersal when he is suddenly found and surrounded by the Dalek-conditioned villagers. He prepares to escape but his plan is promptly thwarted by the arrival of the two Daleks, who scan the Doctor and see the rain has already infected him and so soon he will be their prisoner and obey their command...

notes:

Doctor quotes poetry at beginning, what poetry?

doctor orders a ginger beer

the great romani? homani?

nyssa mentions climate change

lysette mentions the events of Castle of Fear during her tour

trial by water witch trial floating versus sinking -> witch finders

Jane Potter is mentione din this story when Mr. Lifefoot looks through the grave markers, along with lizzie sinclair and edward linfoot

ASP audio selection pod > sound archive