Thread:The Reptile King/@comment-37028137-20200124220548/@comment-37028137-20200125023143

Okay I’ll lay out the short version (This is only preliminary research thus far and I’ll go more in depth if you approve.)

Some necessary background first. In the novel Nicholas (the Time Lord Character) and Vellantha (A daughter of Lilith) are traversing the Omniverse (Which is basically Novels, Movies TV Shows the whole kit and caboodle of Science Fiction and Fantasy) in order to assemble the pieces to a device which will allow Mamono to birth male off spring as well as save Human Kind. Okay that would be the basics right there, in simplified terms, but it gives a general idea.

This will be the second Location in the MGE Universe that Nicholas and Vellantha have visited in their journey in the course of the novel so it is fairly important to character dynamics and their relationship. The events of this chapter would take place directly after the previous chapter as well wherein Rathengalia (Vellantha’s future Kingdom) is freed from Order rule. So both characters are battle weary and on edge.

By the way in my novel the Order is basically a stand in for extremists, zealots, and militant religious autocrats bent on genocide of the Mamono kind. So there is really no question of who is in the right, of course Nicholas having seen similar aspects of genocide and death during The War wants to help defeat the Order. Of course he and Vellantha want to go searching for the next part of the machine now that Rathengalia has been freed which leads them to you.

Here’s where the Reptile Kingdom would come in. Due to an outside force the TARDIS will intercept a signal which seems to reflect Dimensional Transcendentalism a Time Lord creation which allows a TARDIS to be bigger on the inside. Nicholas believing it to be from a fellow Time Lord follows the signal to its coaxial origin along the Dimensional Schism but ends up crashing as proximity to the Schism causes a failure in the Relative Continuum Stabilizer.

The signal is actually revealed to be the Reptile Kingdom’s Dimensional Variance Barrier. (You mention in the lore that the Reptile Kingdom is bigger inside than out, but you just call it the ‘TARDIS affect’. Considering the fact that I am actually using a TARDIS I cannot call it the ‘TARDIS affect’ so I renamed it to fit more in line with my novel. I hope that is acceptable.)

In any case we are for all intents and purposes stuck there until we can bypass the signal to reenter normal ‘reality’. To that end we will go searching for the signal’s source, so as to free the TARDIS and resume the journey.

I took a look at several of your locations and had one in mind.

I appreciated Val Hadar which seemed an interesting conglomerate of different species and cultures. It would make sense a signal may be broadcast from such a place. I noticed a specific line which stated: I''t does have one resource unique to them, the rare minerals mined from the backs of Mohrans and taken from Mohran corpses. ''If the minerals were a type of resonating crystal matrices that were used in a technological beacon that controls part of the Reptile Kingdom’s Dimensional Variance Barrier that could account for what Nicholas thought was a Time Lord signal. It would then be a matter of explaining the situation and freeing my TARDIS.

I also thought the minerals could be used as one of the components in the device which will be deployed near the end of the novel to allow Mamono to have male offspring. Which would be uncovered as the chapter goes along. (Mayhaps as a form of focusing crystal for the computational circuitry?)

Of course being a Doctor, and a Time Lord nothing ever goes to plan and we end up embroiled in some such attack or threat and have to aid the people living there and end up meeting you. In return for the assistance you would lower the barrier allowing us to leave and granting us a load of the minerals to take with us.

Actually having you show up would factor in as well, (If you did appear you would need to provide an in-depth physical appearance character sheet, what you look like and all that.) You and I would probably end up having a heart to hearts about life and immortality in general as well as what ails Time Lords have to contend with. (The first big hint of what Machiavellian Tortures I wrought on myself and why I did it.)  You would probably also confront Vellantha on her true nature as well. So it would certainly propel the narrative forwards.

One main question I have to ask you though (well a question and a statement per say.)

I was wondering are there any main antagonists in your Kingdom which are separate to the Order? Any bad guys or organizations that would cause the attack in the first part of the chapter (thus providing the force of the plot) or should I just use Order goons?

Secondly here is my statement as it were. I may make a few creative decisions in order to insure the chapter stays in line with my book; though I will do my utmost to respect the source materials. One such creative decision would be: You and I would be on equal footing; since part of the novel is my point of view it only makes sense that I take that liberty. (Which I would say we are on equal footing anyways, I respect you as a colleague even though we may not always agree on everything.) Also from a physical strength side Vellantha is more powerful than me so she would most likely be tiered alongside you in that regard. Those are really the only two things I can see as needing to mention and I do not see them as a stretch either.

I will be completely honest with you I loathe adapting other folk’s work as I find it difficult to take into account the full scope of their material. I much prefer to build my own narrative structures free of restraint.

That being said, I consider this as a being a request from you since you noted that I had not made any writings using your creations. I will do my best to respect and explore the breadth of your Canon but please note I may misinterpret something along the way. And that there is no way I can cover all of it in a singular chapter.

I will also provide you with a copy of the chapter after I have finished writing it for you to look over. You can tell me whether you feel it to be in keeping with your lore or not. If it is I’ll keep it, if not I will respect that and I will change the names of locations, characters, objects and what have you to simply be another world in the novel. (Because I would be remiss to simply delete a whole chapter after all that work. I am sure you can understand that.)

Please look this over thoroughly, and take as long as you need (But not really, I need an answer by Saturday night.) and let me know what you think.

Cheers,

The Weary TimeLord.