Jody Lockhart
Jody Lockhart was a late-20th century Australian actress who became a companion to the Time Lord Rollo.
Biography
Early life
Steven was born in 1963. In 1985, she was a "rising young actress", and took a trip to London. While in a perfectly ordinary office building, she walked into Rollo's TARDIS, presently disguised as an elevator. In her confusion, Jody bumped against the dematerialisation switch and thus effectively abducted herself. Rollo subsequently promised to return her to her own time and place, but "something always seem[ed] to prevent him from taking care of the matter". Thus, Jody began acting as a companion to him, becoming all the more accustomed to the life of a time-traveller because she erroneously believed that her long absence must, by now, have already ruined her career one way or the other — seeming not to comprehend that Rollo could take her back to the same day she left, no matter how many times Rollo tried to explain. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
The Iytean investigation
On one occasion, during which Jody was still just 22 (meaning she had been travelling in the TARDIS for less than a year), Rollo and his companions were summoned to Gallifrey to be briefed by Lady Rowella about a new assignment. The discovery of an energy weapon on 1980s Earth as an heirloom from its human owner's Victorian ancestor Colonel Malcolm Fraser had the Invasion worried about alien, and potentially time-active, activity in 1885 London. (GAME: "The Summons" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedep":"The Summons","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
There, they discovered that Colonel Fraser had been buying a steady supply of alien artefacts from a pair of crooks called Jack Bannister and Bert Jenkins, who had secretly discovered a buried Iytean starship while trying to dig a tunnel into a bank two years prior. Unbeknownst to them, the ship had been a police vessel transporting an Iytean criminal. With the Iyteans being symbionts, the criminal had hitched a ride in Jenkins's body then transferred itself to Fraser's acquaintance Doctor Henry Jellicoe, causing him to periodically lose control of his body and adopt the malevolent persona of "Ned Hines". With the help of the Colonel's granddaughter Julia Fraser, and that of Thomas Carruthers, the son of his old friend Sir Reginald Carruthers (who had been murdered by Hines), the time-travellers were able to unravel the mystery and eventually neutralise the Iytean as well as ensure the starship would not be rediscovered and thereby derail Earth history any further. (GAME: The Iytean Menace [+]Loading...["The Iytean Menace (game)"])
Before leaving 1885, Rollo went on one last outing in the city, and had lunch with a writer called Robert Louis Stevenson, telling him about the adventure. It was only when he returned to the TARDIS and told Verika, another one of his companions, about the encounter that he learned he had just inspired Stevenson to write The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. (GAME: "The Hunters Home From the Hill" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedep":"The Hunters Home From the Hill","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
Personality
Jody was "very temperamental" and ""inclined to petulance", swinging on a dime from one emotional extreme to the other. She was fundamentally good-hearted, and enthusiastic about using time travel to make the universe a better place, but was also insecure at heart; she required frequent praise and attention from her friends lest she grow uncertain or simply bored, and would "spend a lot of time sulking" if she felt put down by others. Despite all these qualities and her apparent naiveté with regards to the logic of time-travel, however, she was also a highly talented actress, adept at masking or faking her emotions and playing any role required of her. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
Physical appearance
Jody had blue eyes, blond shoulder-length hair, and "a bewildered look about her" which only left her when she was genuinely focused on a specific, clear-cut task — though it did not, otherwise, necessarily reflect a genuine state of inner confusion. She originally joined Rollo's TARDIS wearing "a fancy evening gown and high-heeled shoes", but found this outfit "impractical for day-to-day tasks of dealing with Cybermen, Daleks, and similar problems", adopting a variety of other outfits both chronologically and practically suitable to any given one of the locales she found herself visiting. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
