The Dead Travel Fast was the second short story published in I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord. It was written by Mark Wright and featured the Decayed Master as played on TV by Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers.
Summary
Holidaying in Whitby, Bram Stoker is plunged into a world of horror when a grandfather clock washes to shore together with the hideous remains of the dying Master – who will do anything to survive.
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Notes
- Mark Wright has said that, when writing, he intended that this story immediately follows the events of Doorway to Hell from the Master's perspective. However, he has also stated that this was simply his own "head canon" and that its timeline placement was for someone else to decide. [1][2] Details in both stories support this placement:
- In The Dead Travel Fast, the Decayed Master has just been created through a regeneration attempted in his own TARDIS, burning much of the interior; Doorway to Hell sees Delgado's Master begin to decay in his final moments and begin to regenerate using golden regeneration energy, which is known to damage TARDISes.
- The Dead Travel Fast establishes that the reason for the Decayed Master's decayed form was that he attempted to regenerate while he had an artron energy deficiency; Doorway to Hell shows the Master being mortally wounded through an unintended "temporal circuit breaker" which dissipates the abnormal temporal energies possessed by both the Master and the family he attacks, including the family's artron energy.
- The Master's mention of revenge in The Dead Travel Fast echoes his final words in Doorway to Hell.
Continuity
| The Master stories |
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| | Early life |
| Television | | | | Prose | | | | Comic | | | | Audio | | | | Webcast | |
| | | "Inventor" |
| | | War Chief |
| | | UNIT era | | | The cycle
ending |
| | Reborn
Master | | | | "Merlin" |
| | | Pryce |
| | Child
Master |
| | | War Master | | | | Saxon Master | | | | Missy | | | | The Lumiat |
| | | Spy Master | | | Unclear
incarnation |
| | Other
realities |
| | From stories
considered
not part
of the DWU
by this Wiki |
| | | According to one account, the Master had the appearance of Roger Delgado while on Gallifrey. According to another, he had Anthony Ainley's likeness. According to another one, the one with James Dreyfus's appearance was the incarnation who ran away from Gallifrey.
Divided Loyalties, A Brief History of Time Lords and The Legions of Death feature, or otherwise acknowledge, the War Chief, but in the process contradicted the notion put forward by other stories that he was an incarnation of the Master.
One account suggests that the incarnation portrayed by Roger Delgado may be the same as the one portrayed by Peter Pratt while some others distinguish them.
According to one account, the incarnation portrayed by Gordon Tipple is the one portrayed by Anthony Ainley, while some others state that the Ainley one was already lost by then.
While fighting to extend his life at the end of his regeneration cycle, many bodies were possessed by the Beevers incarnation, but all kept somehow reverting to his real being until he finally regenerated into the MacQueen one. Hence, these sections cannot be strictly chronological |
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| Post-regeneration stories |
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| | For the purposes of this list, a "post-regeneration story" is one in which the after-effects of a regeneration is actually and initially depicted and the Time Lord fully settles into their new body. For this reason, Rose is not included below, even though it is commonly thought of as a "post-regeneration story". It doesn't actually include a clear scene of regeneration, and the preponderance of stories in other media confirm that the Ninth Doctor has not immediately regenerated prior to the story. | | | The Doctor |
| Television | | | | Prose | | | | Audio | | | | Comics | | | | Poetry | |
| | | The Master |
| | | Romana |
| | | The Multitude |
| | | Other Time Lords |
| | | Proto-Time Lords |
| | | Others |
| | | Regeneration is usually considered a biologic process exclusive to Time Lords and a few other species. However, some consider Regeneration to also be a "post-regeneration story", though neither describes anything close to a biological process. |
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