I've no idea how the Musee pulls its collection from what are, by definition, lost worlds - possibly they find a fic set before they were lost? I'unno.

And I'm curious - who would you have picked? Carl Romeo is a wizard who specialises in temporal manipulation, and Esme Weatherwax once time-slipped an entire kingdom eighteenish years into the future. I was tempted by one of the Mrses from A Wrinkle in Time, but couldn't remember if they had actual time powers; but there's ultimately heaps of time characters out there. So go on - you're a Time Lord, trying to retcon a disaster, and you can pick any four canon characters to help you (other than people from Doctor Who, which is quarantined). Who do you bring along?

♪Da DAH, da-da-da-dah, DAH, da-da-da-dah, ooo oooo, ooooo weeee oooo♪

hS

I'm pretty sure we have an Sgent 'call me Lou' and an Sgent 'don't you dare call me Lou'ise; I think the Doctor is enough to separate the two agents.

Lorelei did end up with very little to do, sadly. Since she's free-to-use, I'll note that she's already had an appearance in 'Ephemerals', so she does have a bit of personality.

Morgan's 'standard PPC uniform' is... well, black. ;) That's about all there is to it. The point is that she's not wearing robes - I think she described it on the Board once as 'What? I put on something orange, what more do you want?'.

The fall of the PPC - two things. No, wait, three. First, I didn't think I'd specified how long the war took. Morgan says 'finally', so it could be years - or decades, even. That said, I think the 'fighting in the corridors' section would be over quite quickly - and that leads me on to the second point:

This is a political speech. Morgan has no requirement to actually tell the truth. If you think about it, all she needs to have under her control at this point is DoSAT and the DoDAEG (and the Committee Room, I guess). The rest of HQ could be a warren of guerilla fighters which the Time Lords dare not enter into. Pretty sure we've 'won' a couple of wars that way recently.

And thirdly: yes, the PPC has access to all the multiverse's technology - but Morgan is a PPC agent. How much do you think she brought with her when she 'took a leave of absence' and got herself elected? If she didn't take a portal generator, at minimum, then she missed out on a great opportunity.

But yes - there's clearly a story in there, and if someone decides they want to write it, I'm not going to stop 'em.

Morgan's change of heart - this was deliberately left vague, because it is quite difficult to picture, but it's basically a combination of 'power corrupts' - whatever the others may think, Morgan sees herself as the de facto President of the Continuity Council, and she also has a gun - and the Ispace Wars triggering all her protective instincts at once. Couple that with Upstairs refusing to admit there's a problem (they get round to it eventually, don't worry), and the stage is set.

Yeah, 'Tea' is a bit weak, and I'm not sure how well it holds up separated from the context of the thread. I might go back to it at some point - throw in a preamble, maybe even (gasp!) give it some purpose in life. I just thought, since it exists, it was better to have it filed and ready, rather than lost in the Board archives.

And: thanks for the reviews! It's always great when someone takes the time to ramble. ;)

hS

Let me finish with the more pressing schoolwork, and then I'll be happy to oblige (if a less busy person hasn't gotten there first, that is).

Although, on that note, I should really finish putting together the Reader's page. I'd love to get that up soon.

Also, does the Continuity Council actually have a page yet? I kept seeing red links on Morgan's page, and nothing comes up when I search it on the wiki. We should really get on that, if it's truly nonexistent.

~DF

[Spoilers ahead for Gallifrey Imminent. I'll leave a space.]








The reason he makes that explicit agreement in Gallifrey Imminent is to set up the fact that he's one of Morgan's two, uh... accomplices? Supporters? In the closed timeline. Which, given that Morgan's being silent, pretty much requires him to agree with the Notary.

The reason he's standing with Morgan, by the way, is that I've always understood him to be one of the more order-aligned Time Lords - one who would actually consider radical methods to make things, well, better.

So: do I have him wrong, and need to excise him from Team Let's-Rule-Everything? Or do I just need to change his response to the Notary? Either is fine by me, just say the word.

hS

Now his eyebrows lower dangerously the first time.

As to your other question - well, he was the Sixteenth Agent, you know. It seems impossible for him not to have known the Originals, though I suppose it's just about doable - it's been established that there wasn't a lot of mingling between departments until relatively recently (witness the poaching that goes on during The Reorganisation). But still... there were only seventeen humanoids (counting Makes-Things) in the PPC at the time. You'd expect they'd at least run into each other at meal-times.

hS