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Onboard [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], the Doctor struggles to navigate a temporal maelstrom. He lands on [[Earth]]. However, the TARDIS appears in a bad way. The instruments confirm the time storm covers the planet. The Doctor exits to find himself in the [[Bank of England]] in the modern day. When the TARDIS vanishes in a flash of light, he is trapped. On the advice of a [[psychic paper]] message from his future self he uses gold bars to smash through a grate into the Victorian-era | Onboard [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], the Doctor struggles to navigate a temporal maelstrom. He lands on [[Earth]]. However, the TARDIS appears in a bad way. The instruments confirm the time storm covers the planet. The Doctor exits to find himself in the [[Bank of England]] in the modern day. When the TARDIS vanishes in a flash of light, he is trapped. On the advice of a [[psychic paper]] message from his future self he uses gold bars to smash through a grate into the Victorian-era vaults under the bank. He finds a perception filter he recognises as his own work. He disables it, revealing a sewer entrance. However, the passage below is blocked by a gate requiring someone on each side to open. | ||
At the [[Stormcage Containment Facility]] in [[5145]], River Song gets a phone call. The Doctor needs her help! She escapes from the Facility. Once clear of its Tesla binding field, she uses her [[vortex manipulator]] to travel to modern day Earth, where she frees the stranded Doctor. They go through the old tunnels, trying to reach the surface. | At the [[Stormcage Containment Facility]] in [[5145]], River Song gets a phone call. The Doctor needs her help! She escapes from the Facility. Once clear of its Tesla binding field, she uses her [[vortex manipulator]] to travel to modern day Earth, where she frees the stranded Doctor. They go through the old tunnels, trying to reach the surface. | ||
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The Doctor realises the ship has moved to the heart of the time storm to stabilise itself. The corridors lead to the TARDIS because they are being pulled in by the maelstrom. The ship also detects a signal hidden in the time storm. The Doctor decides to investigate it. They exit the TARDIS into 1561 again, but soon notice that tally marks are appearing on the walls around them... | The Doctor realises the ship has moved to the heart of the time storm to stabilise itself. The corridors lead to the TARDIS because they are being pulled in by the maelstrom. The ship also detects a signal hidden in the time storm. The Doctor decides to investigate it. They exit the TARDIS into 1561 again, but soon notice that tally marks are appearing on the walls around them... | ||
In London in 1892, a Silurian warrior stands over the body of a policeman. The Doctor awakens, confused. He finds the sonic screwdriver and psychic paper gone, River's blaster and hallucinogenic lipstick in their place. He notices strange pipes transporting a green liquid on a nearby building. Nearby, a 16th century statue hides the psychic paper, showing a message from River: the Silence have separated them across time | In London in 1892, a Silurian warrior stands over the body of a policeman. The Doctor awakens, confused. He finds the sonic screwdriver and psychic paper gone, River's blaster and hallucinogenic lipstick in their place. He notices strange pipes transporting a green liquid on a nearby building. Nearby, a 16th century statue hides the psychic paper, showing a message from River: the Silence have separated them across time and the Doctor must follow these messages to find her. | ||
In the building with the odd pipe the Doctor finds more pipes guarded by Silurian warriors. He also spots the sonic screwdriver on a statue salvaged from an old church, but the way to it is blocked by hot steam. He leaves the building and goes into the sewers beneath the streets. They are riddled with the Silurian piping. Evading guards, he finds controls to shut off the steam and returns to collect the screwdriver. | In the building with the odd pipe the Doctor finds more pipes guarded by Silurian warriors. He also spots the sonic screwdriver on a statue salvaged from an old church, but the way to it is blocked by hot steam. He leaves the building and goes into the sewers beneath the streets. They are riddled with the Silurian piping. Evading guards, he finds controls to shut off the steam and returns to collect the screwdriver. | ||
On the advice of another psychic paper message, the Doctor heads back into the sewers. He uses the sonic screwdriver to access | On the advice of another psychic paper message, the Doctor heads back into the sewers. He uses the sonic screwdriver to access the same vault system he passed through beneath the modern day Bank of England, where finds a perception filter hiding a doorway. Deactivating it, he reveals an old crypt, where River lies in a stasis field. | ||
In [[1561]] River | In [[1561]], River awakens to find her equipment gone, and the Doctor's psychic paper in their place. A message on the paper from her future self tells her that the Silence have separated her and the Doctor through time. She soon comes across doorway, but the corridor it leads to seems too big compared to the building's exterior. River is able to deactivate a perception filter, revealing a doorway, which she recognises as leading to a [[The Silence|Silence]] facility. Unable to get through, she leaves, and finds the sonic screwdriver in the nearby St. Christopher's Church. | ||
River uses the sonic to open the door into the Silence complex, where she finds them controlling temporal energy in some manner and carrying out experiments with stasis field technology. She also realises they are drawing the power they need from elsewhere, along conduits leading towards [[St. Paul's Cathedral]]. She makes her way through the facility and steals the stasis field generator they are using. Now done with the Doctor's things, River hides the psychic paper and screwdriver on statues, then enters the church crypt. Disguising the tomb entrance with the perception filter from the Silence base, River then activates the stasis field generator, allowing her to wait out the centuries in stasis until the Doctor finds her. | |||
In 1892, the Doctor deactivates the stasis field generator, waking River. The Doctor sets up the perception filter where he found it in the modern day, and the pair return to the sewers. They work together to access an area sealed with a Silurian door, allowing them to reach a number of transport discs that lead underground. The Doctor becomes concerned that time is 'wrong' - the Silurians never attacked the surface world in the 19th century. Arriving in the Underground Silurian city, the purpose of the strange pipes becomes clear - they are pumping deadly toxin into the city above, and the entire system is being powered by an artefact similar to the one that the Cybermen had possessed. The leader of the Silurian city, named Vekkis, confronts them, and the Doctor forms a plan: he will reactivate walkways from the cavern's central column, allowing River to manually divert coolant, rather than toxin, into the pipes to the surface. Working together, they eventually flush all the toxin, and flee through a new time corridor, taking the artefact with them. | |||
After navigating through the corridor, they arrive back in the TARDIS, where the Doctor adds the new artefact to the previous one. As the object begins ticking like a clock, River undergoes a realisation: it is an Eternity Clock, and there are notes on one in her diary, which she has no memory of ever making. The Doctor begins to understand the Clock can rewrite history, and the notes in the diary are 'residue' from an encounter erased from River's timeline. Not only that, but the Clock also seems to be cataloguing all of time, ordering and recording events like a 'harddrive'. | |||
''Coming soon...'' | ''Coming soon...'' | ||
