June of DOOM Writing Challenge

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That is deliciously dark, love it

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I was working on one for today but the inspiration ran out after abt a paragraph so it didn’t get finished. Kinda meh on it but I had four days to fix it if I wanted to so it stays how it is.

Summary

By the time She came in, ze had begun to nod off. Ze starts at the sound of footprints. The restraints on zir chest stifle zir flinch. Was it time already? With how scrambled zir senses have been, it’s no wonder ze can’t tell the time — but that realization hurts zir hearts more than the anticipation of what’s to come.

“_,” …. She shoves a tube into the port in zir arm. The bag attached is filled with fluid glowing a faint purple. Ze seizes violently.

The characters that were going to be in it are The Rani and random time lord oc #3. Zir name’s Cathanexteryx. Nex for short. Ze’s a transdimensional architect.

Hopefully i have more fun with my next one. It’s got Ace in it :)!

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ooh, a short but intriguing excerpt! I’d love to know more about Nex, and of course the Rani up to no good is <3333

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Echoing what others have said you have a excellent grasp on those Characters! The Dialogue feels very spot-on, quite well done!

Any Rani Story is welcome, a shame you didn’t had an enough Inspiration to finish it, but I very much look forward to what ever else you may have in store! :hugs: In particular with said OC Nex!

If you don’t choose Narvin you might want to try Omega :eyes: There is even a Compilation on the official Doctor Who Youtube Channel (dont forget-) that might be help! :eyes: Either way good luck on what ever you have planned :hugs:

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Okay so I kinda forgot I didn’t submit anything for today, don’t really know what to do with the prompt for today, so I am going to go with the alternative prompt of ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ at least in terms of Vibes. Anyway, spoilers for Daleks Masterplan, read it at your own Risk!

Not Forgotten

There he was, lost. The old man was going through it again, the entire World was just a black void, quite literal this time. “Hello?”, he shouted out loud, nobody replied. “My lord”, a soft Voice, spoke back. He looked behind himself and saw her, “No, but this can’t be!”, he angrily protested. It was Katarina. “But you are dead, my Child! I saw you..”, he stopped himself, he didn’t felt particularly well at that moment, would he really shout at this young confused Girl that she is apparently dead? No, of course he wouldn’t, would he?

“My lord, are we finally there?” He glanced at her, suspiciously, was this a sick trick by somebody? He didn’t know. “Tell me, my dear child, erm.. what do you remember?” Katarina glanced at him, her expression unreadable to him, “Death.” The old man’s eyes widened, there was a terrified look on his face, all his skin went pale at that Moment, “Oh erm.. You remember dead.. death?”, he stumbled on his words yet again, not uncommon for the old man. Katarina simply nodded, “Are we now there yet?” “Where to, my dear?” “The Place of Perfection.” The Doctor frowned at the mention of it, “No, my child.”

Katarina was now the one who frowned, “But you promised me, you will get me to the Place where I belonged to!” He did indeed promise her shortly after she entered the Tardis, that she would be safe, ironic how minutes after that they landed on this dirty planet Kembel. “I promised you to keep you safe, my child”, the old man admitted, clearly sounding defeated, “I didn’t say it would be the place of perfection!” “But where else then, my God?” Him being called a ‘God’ by her send shivers down his spine, he was not a God, far from it. “My dear child, I told you once that I wasn’t a God!” “You indeed yet your Wonders are only what a God can show a mere Mortal like me”

“No no, rubbish, my child, don’t speak yourself so much down, while true you are just a human, that doesn’t make you any less valuable to this World.” “Does it, my lord?” “Oh child, please don’t call me ‘lord’, I am not a lord of anything!” There was Silence between the two for a bit, “Did I die?” The Doctor frowned, “Perhaps”, he grimly confirmed, “I sure would hope not” “And why is that, my l- doctor?” The Doctor’s expression softened slightly, he was happy she called him doctor for once, “Oh my dear child, because I very much care for your well-being.” His voice trembled a bit when he said it, “I am very sorry, you know?” “For what?” “For your death, I should have been more careful, I.. i was a fool”

Katarina looked at him confused, she gently put her hand on his Shoulder, “Perhaps even you are a Fool, my lord, but I chose to die for my friends and i shall do it again.” “No, my child, you don’t understand!” “Do I not? Perhaps I don’t, my lord, after all I am just a mere humble Servant” “Oh no, my dear, you aren’t just a Servant, you are my friend.” “Then I shall take that name ‘friend of the doctor’ as the highest honor; my lord.” And then she was gone again. “And there she is gone again, I shall miss you my dear and I shall remember you. Always.”

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I don’t have much in the way of fully formed ideas for any of my Gallifreyan ocs, but I can tell you what I do know. Like I said, ze’s a transdimentional architect. Ze’s responsible for making bigger on the inside buildings. I don’t know if it’s logopolis-esque really advanced math, or something more familiar, but either way ze does have to be really good at dimensionally transcendental geometry. But actually, in the time period my other two ocs exist alongside zir, Nex is only an apprentice. That’s maybe a few decades before Invasion of Time? Ze was loomed about a century before Romana. Probably part of the Arcalian or Patrex Chapters.

Talishnadvorotrelis (Talish) was Nex’s friend at the Academy, so, from whichever chapter ze’s from. She grows up to be a Renegade. Her original idea was ‘Doctor-esque Renegade Time Lord notices how humans seem to be at all of the important events and gets super annoyed’ and I havent really developed it beyond that. Probably wants to kill humans? Nice person otherwise. Scarily optimistic. Almost certainly gets oublietted.

Rakialanzhigesum (Raki? Rakia? Alan??) is my least developed one. Probably in the Chancellery Guard? People think he’s probably evil but he actually just has a strong interest in Vampires for normal reasons. I promise.

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Oh this is very good, I think you really have the doctor’s voice so well here!

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Your OCs sound super interesting , I love all of them! And that snippet you wrote is also really good!

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Thank you, I appreciate that! :hugs:

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Thank you!!!

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This is really beautiful. A lovely piece of writing. I really like your take on the first Doctor. Katarina is captured beautifully as well. I really enjoyed this piece. I hope that you’re pleased with it too!

Thank you for the very kind comments you made on my piece for today. It’s so nice to hear them.

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Of course thanks for sharing the Stories with us! :hugs:
And thank you, this means quite a lot! Of course with your own writing pieces being fully pleased can often be tricky, I admit I view most of my Work through a self-loathing lense, I am still very pleased to hear that you got something out of it! :hugs:

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Which is why the only rule I’m enforcing in this thread is not to be mean about one’s own work ! :wink: It’s so easy to nitpick and be unhappy with one’s own work, but as I hope we’re seeing in this thread, sharing in a safe and positive space where you can play and practice without worrying about making something Totally Perfect can be very uplifting

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Indeed, well said! I must admit I am sometimes struggling not to make a snarcky comment about my own Work, it’s tricky, big reason why I probably write only a bit and then send it up. As said before in this thread, thank you for creating it :hugs: I think it has an amazing Outlet for us so far!

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It is hard, I do get that <3 but the more you write, the better you’ll get and the more you’ll see value in your own stuff <3

I think this has been a good success of an event! I don’t have the mental energy to do a prompt month every month, but every now and again I think it could be fun to do this again :slight_smile:

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I often feel that I flounder when trying to come up with original characters, so this is very illuminating, to see how you’re forming these new characters. Thank you for sharing!

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Oh yeah no, I do think doing it every Month would be too much! But yeah I am glad you are pleased with how it’s turning out to be!!

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Usually I just have one idea, build around it a bit, and then put them in situations and see what comes out

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Back to the early days of the show for today’s prompt.

Prisoners in the Wood

June 12 : “It’s no use.” | Locked Door | Carry | Lost

Ian banged his fists against the door. He knew it wouldn’t make any difference, but he had to try something. “It’s no use,” he said, feeling impotent.

“Come on, sit down,” Barbara said as she gently guided him away from the door and to the bench in their cell. “We need to think about this calmly. What would the Doctor do?”

Ian took a moment to consider. The Doctor would probably try to bluff his way out of the situation, but, then he would have done his best not to get locked up in the first place. Ian thought of all the cells he’s occupied since he and Barbara first pushed their way into the TARDIS. They had had a crash course in being prisoners, from a cave on prehistoric Earth to a metal cell on a far off world, they had seen it all. He even remembered his time in France, when he’d been due to meet with Madame Guillotine.

“You know, Barbara,” he said, “we’ve escaped from worse prisons than this haven’t we?”

She nodded as she looked around the wooden room. “Yes we have,” she agreed. “There might not be much to go on here, but I’m sure we could work out a plan if we put our heads together. What have we got to work with?”

They both considered their makeshift cell. It was made of wooden logs that were about the thickness of a human thigh. The door was fashioned from solid wood and the floor was made from heavy duty planks. Even the bench that they were sitting on was of wooden construction. It wasn’t surprising, given that they were in lumberjack territory.

“We can’t dig our way out,” Ian reasoned. “The door’s too sturdy for us to force it open, and there’s no way we can cut through the walls. What does that leave us with?”

“We need to find a way to get out when the door’s already open,” said Barbara. “Like we did on Skaro, when that dalek entered our cell.”

“Yes, but how do we get them to open the door? I can’t see this lot feeding and watering us like the daleks did.” It came to something, thought Ian, when your could rely on despotic aliens to be more humane than frontier based humans.

“Turn out your pockets,” Barbara ordered. “I might have an idea, but it depends on what you usually carry around.”

Ian did as he was told. He placed his wallet, a handkerchief, a boiled sweet and his reading glasses on the bench beside them.

“Just as I thought!” Barbara smiled. 'I knew you used glasses to read! But you try hard not to get them out in front of me, don’t you?"

Ian looked uncomfortable. “OK, you’ve got me on that one, but how does that help us?” he said, feeling just as lost as before.

Barbara pointed at the window high above them. It was too high for them to reach, but it let a single shaft of sunlight into the cell, which fell just to the left of the door. She picked up Ian’s spectacles and gestured towards the sunbeam. “Remember the Cave of Skulls?” She said.

“Of course!” Ian grabbed his glasses from Barbara’s hand and leapt over to where the sun fell on the log wall. He began to focus the sun beam with his reading glasses. A tiny wisp of smoke started to form. Their captors wouldn’t want the place to burn down.

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I think it’s going to just be easier for me to do ‘pitches’ rather than write something up for these, so here’s the pitch for today

Lost/It's No Use

Taking some inspiration from The Questing Beast, the story would follow Brax through more and more alternative Gallifreys, instead of the story focusing on those settings though, it would focus on his mental state as he continues through them, starting pretty hopeful that he’ll make it back, but slowly getting beaten down, until eventually, finally making it back and having the conversation with Benny from the end of Disassembled. It’d then go a bit further, with him still not fully believing that he’s in the right place, wondering if it’s a dream or a trick of that world’s matrix or whatever.

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