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[[File:Caillebotte Who.jpg|thumb|right|A comparison between the original Caillebotte painting and the doctored ''Doctor Who'' version repurposed as cover art.]] | |||
* The back and front cover art of the book are a repurposed version of [[Gustave Caillebotte]]'s [[1877]] painting {{wi|Paris Street; Rainy Day}} (which, as its name implied, originally depicted a scene in [[Paris]], not [[London]]). Caillebotte himself was duly credited for "cover art", with no clear disclaimer that this was actually a preexisting public-domain artpiece being repurposed. The front cover reproduces the right half of the painting, with no major changes besides colour saturation, while on the back cover, a young, bearded man carrying an umbrella is painted over to become the elderly, beardless [[Rollo]], while [[Jim Waters]] and [[Erin Grant]] were inserted outright. These three additional figures were painted by [[J. Andrew Keith]], also the book's writer, though the "concept" of the cover was credited to [[Jordan K. Weisman]]. As regards the front cover, the woman seems to have been used as a reference for the illustration of [[Julia Fraser]] within the book, but there is some difficulty in identifying the moustache-sporting man at her side; as he is walking arm-in-arm with Julia and sports a drooping moustache, the intent may be that readers should interpret him as [[Malcolm Fraser]], but his hair and moustache are clearly brown instead of white. Alternatively, if interpreted as a paramour to the woman, he might be interpreted as [[Thomas Carruthers]], Julia's only love interest in the plot, but although the fashion fits, Carruthers is depicted and described as clean-shaven. | |||
* Although eight possible [[companion]]s for [[Rollo]] are provided, it is specified that players are not required to account for all of them in a given playthrough, with a TARDIS crew of four or five being considered more advisable. To leave possibilities as open as possible, most of the text of "the Adventure" and the Plot Synopsis refers only to plural "companions" or "adventurers" without specifying. The prose epilogue ''The Hunters Home from the Hill'', however, definitively commits to the presence of [[Erin Grant]] and [[Verika]] onboard the TARDIS, and is narrated in the first person by an unidentified non-Time-Lord companion distinct from either. It additionally sees [[Julia Fraser]] joining the TARDIS crew after the adventure, although she is not intended as a player character in this game itself. The book's back-cover illustration depicts Rollo, Erin and [[Jim Waters]] in London. | * Although eight possible [[companion]]s for [[Rollo]] are provided, it is specified that players are not required to account for all of them in a given playthrough, with a TARDIS crew of four or five being considered more advisable. To leave possibilities as open as possible, most of the text of "the Adventure" and the Plot Synopsis refers only to plural "companions" or "adventurers" without specifying. The prose epilogue ''The Hunters Home from the Hill'', however, definitively commits to the presence of [[Erin Grant]] and [[Verika]] onboard the TARDIS, and is narrated in the first person by an unidentified non-Time-Lord companion distinct from either. It additionally sees [[Julia Fraser]] joining the TARDIS crew after the adventure, although she is not intended as a player character in this game itself. The book's back-cover illustration depicts Rollo, Erin and [[Jim Waters]] in London. | ||
* This story users the name of "the [[Mutters Spiral]]" for [[the Galaxy]], in contrast to the usual rendition of this name as "[[Mutter's Spiral]]" (''sans'' "the"). | * This story users the name of "the [[Mutters Spiral]]" for [[the Galaxy]], in contrast to the usual rendition of this name as "[[Mutter's Spiral]]" (''sans'' "the"). | ||
