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Er, not really. But I could use a little advice: What's something the fobwatched!Doctor could say to alert Benton that his memories might be starting to come back?

Nothing major, not yet, and nothing too out there like "oh hey, I went to the Moon once", just a past event he could refer to in normal conversation. Something like fobwatched!Ten saying that he learned to draw in Gallifrey in the TV "Human Nature". I've already got one incident written ("John Smith" staring intently at his coffee mug and asking Benton if he has any idea what a time flow analogue is), and after that the Doctor's going to bring up the watch in conversation (which is what makes Benton report to the Brigadier at the end of Chapter 1), but I need something in between.

Just a detail from a previous adventure, a bit of Academy fanon, anything. Although, since this is Three who's fobwatched, having him refer to anything after The Ambassadors of Death will be slightly counterproductive.

Thanks in advance, you all. And I've only got one more scene to write after this! Almost finished! \o/

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posted by [identity profile] biichan.livejournal.com at 03:17am on 06/02/2009
The Doctor and the Master were in a band together during Academy. The Doctor played lead peristogo (check spelling?) stick. The Master played the drums.

(This is from something by Terrence Dicks.)
 
posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 03:25am on 06/02/2009
...*snerk* Oh, Terrance Dicks, you mad thing.

Is the peristogo stick something he invented, though, or is that a real instrument? My Google-fu is failing me.

Thank you!
 
posted by [identity profile] biichan.livejournal.com at 05:09am on 06/02/2009
I think it's a made up instrument, but I'm not actually sure. I don't have the thing it comes from. Calapine does, though, I think. I read it in her journal.
 
posted by [identity profile] pimpmytardis.livejournal.com at 03:21am on 06/02/2009
Something about being court-marshaled? Since he's a UNIT officer, he could think of The War Games in terms of that. (That's a bit extreme.)

Maybe something small from one of the historicals, along the lines of "Hmm, I don't remember where I read that."

Ooh, something about Yeti! An Earth myth but with a Doctor connection.
 
posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 03:30am on 06/02/2009
Oooh, I quite like the idea of The War Games as a court-martial. It is a little extreme for this stage in the story, but I think I'd quite like to use it later.

And I like the idea of the Yeti! Someone else could be making a joke about "abominable snowmen" and he could cheerfully respond that he always thought it'd be funny if they were really robots. Or maybe something about accidentally poisoning Nero.

Thanks for the help!
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posted by [identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com at 03:40am on 06/02/2009
I don't know about where this story of yours is set, but if it's London you could make a Web of Fear joke about the London Underground?
 
posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 03:53am on 06/02/2009
It's at Unit HQ, which I think is...implied to be sort of somewhere near London? No, actually, it's wherever that priory from Pyramids of Mars is supposed to be, and that's never definitively stated, but it was filmed in Hampshire.

Underground jokes could still work fine, though; a lot of the soldiers under the Brig's command in The Wed of Fear might have ended up at UNIT as well, so the incident would be familiar enough that the Doctor could get away with it in conversation.

Thank you!
 
posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 02:30pm on 06/02/2009
*WEB of Fear. I can type, derp.

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