Phew, I guess. As I recall, when I read this before, I didn’t bother with pass/fail dice rolls. I just went with the pass result and kept going. Not a fan of the rolling aspect.
BTW, is it just me, or do the chapters(s) seem longer in this one?
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They are definitely longer so far. That’s partly why this feels mroe fleshed out, like a “proper” book.
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What? We’ve started this one? 
How did I miss this? 
I guess I got some catching up to do… 
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Great that you found us now. We just had a near-death experience!
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I like that dice are involved 
Seems like this book is a bit more perilous than the other ones we’ve done.
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It is a totally different thing. Just wait for tomorrow!
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Yeah, the fact that we aren’t playing as the Doctor means that we might actually perish at any point…
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I like that this book has dice rolls for things that are actually coincidence, it removes the ‘god-child’ element we had in the previous ones
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Still got the most recent section to read (but I see a puzzle is in the offing) but enjoying this so far. I knew (but had forgotten) that we have the cadillac TARDIS in this one.
Love how Dave Martin is leaning into all his creations - K9, Drax and a mention of Omega.
(Plus the massive spoiler of an illustration on the second page in!)
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Search for the Doctor - Seven
Last choice: The dice showed 4 and 5
The extra weight of the Cadillac TARDIS has shifted the weight of the freighter forwards. It veers towards the Earth, shuddering from the gravitational pressure. K9 instructs Drax to reverse the Cadillac. In a moment of chaos, you find yourself grabbing a metal lever underneath the control panel. Drax exclaims “Don’t pull that! It’s the master demat-”
You are knocked out, and come around to the sound of waves tapping against the outer hull of the freighter. As they retrieve K9, he reports that they were in an unstable temporal anomaly. They look out, spotting three men in white space coveralls walking along the top of hull, all armed. They are the shuttle’s crew, Captain Evans, Navigator Grundy, and Engineer Floyd. The men identify that you and Drax caused their ship to fly off-course, and threaten you with their guns until they are disarmed by K9.
You theorise that the moth landing between K9’s probe caused them to land in the wrong place, and you pulling the dematerialisation master switch caused the entire shuttle to arrive in its current location. As the fog clears, the group realise they are surrounded by countless crashed ships of all eras. Fish swim through eras of skeletons. The Engineer identifies where they are: the Bermuda Triangle.
Drax notes he thought it was the Great Sargasoo Sea. K9 identifies that both are terms for the same phenomenon. K9 identifies the area as an unstable segment of time-space, left shifting between temporal matrices or universes. Any unfortunate objects which enter the segment find it impossible to leave. The Captain identifies it as a Time trap.
The group are left wandering through the shuttle, looking for any solution. You are left shocked that with all this great technology, a simple moth foiled everything. Eventually, the Engineer discovers a mass pile of gold and treasure sitting just below the shuttle’s wing. The three crew members strip their clothes and jump in to retrieve the loot, but are soon overtaken by a school of small black fish. The fish latch onto the men’s flesh, and after a few moments, nothing is left of them.
You see a single gold coin, sitting at the edge of the wing. You crawl towards it, before it begins to slide off. You grab it, then begin to slide off yourself, suddenly noticing the sea of black fish patiently waiting for you to fall into the water. Drax barely saves you, pulling you to safety.
You study the coin. One side depicts a woman with snake-hair, the other a Greek warrior with a sword and shield. You identify that it is Medusa the Gorgon and Perseus. K9 identifies that it might be a means of escape. Drax considers this, and theorises that if the Greek gods were really astronauts, then the coin could be a metaphor. To be trapped in the segment is to turn to stone. The fish are the serpents of Medusa’s hair. And now they have a chance to stand up to Medusa.
To find out how to escape, you have to solve this puzzle: What six-letter English word can the letters in ‘Medusa’ be made to spell? If you solve this puzzle correctly, go on to 9.
If we solve the puzzle, we will continue tomorrow.
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I’m not good at this… Any ideas, native speakers?
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@deltaandthebannermen is a teacher he should be good at this
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I excel at anagrams. And yet, I am not amused.
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Good job! We will continue tomorrow!
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Confession time.
I’m absolutely terrible at anagrams - always have been. Something about them just doesn’t click in my brain. And I’m an excellent speller so it’s weird I can’t rearrange.
So I did put it into an anagram solver.
I’d never have worked out amused in a million years because I assumed it was supposed to be a word which would be something to do with escaping!
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Any advice on how to get better at spelling? I seem to get worse at it while my reading and listening skills have improved over time 
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Ha - if I knew the magic answer I wouldn’t have lots of children unable to spell consistently in my classes.
For me, it’s about visualising the word and motor memory of how you write the word when it is handwritten - which in the day and age of typing everything online is harder to do.
Learning the patterns and rules is important - but of course English often breaks its own rules or has weird exceptions because of how the language is an amalgam of so many other languages.
And I still have to check some words before I spell them particularly if they have strings of vowels like archaeologist or onomatopoeia (which I had to check just now).
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I find myself recalling the key positions when I wanna spell a word now, very much like using a imagineary abacus when I do simple math mentally
That spelling makes so little sense!
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“Profanity likewise” I love that line.
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