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Based on this excellent piece of speculative fiction.

5.33 million years ago, the TARDIS lands in the middle of a vast salt desert, shining like a perfectly-polished mirror in the harsh sun: the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. At this time, sea levels and tectonic movements conspired to close the Strait of Gibraltar, causing it to evaporate in a time known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis. The Doctor and their companion are surprised to find a pre-human civilization of elephants living in this harsh environment, but find the identity of their pets even more surprising; domesticated, upright-walking apes, to do all the delicate work the behemoths can’t with their trunks. There would be a great deal of political intrigue and perhaps some indication that the ape-servants aren’t as animalistic as they seem, ending in the Doctor and co. inciting what paleontologists call the Zanclean Flood: the day the Straits of Gibraltar and Sicily opened back up and massive amounts of water came pouring in, drowning the great elephantine cities and burying them forever. A group of apes manages to escape into the wilds of Africa to the south, and the rest is history. Their descendants will never know where they really came from.

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This is a cool idea!

I like it!

Feel free to introduce yourself over in the Introductions category!

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thanks ! :upside_down_face: i didnt think much people would care honestly i think it would be fun it was real not because it was my idea but because i think it woul be a cool story mabey you can share some ideas :grin:

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sounds intresting

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A lot of my story ideas are really dark haha, like in one of them TW// EXTREME VIOLENCE The Doctor watches as The Valeyard just crushes the skull of one of their companions in front of them

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Back with another, although I haven’t thought of a suitable title for it yet.

The year is 2250. The average global temperature is 18 degrees Celsius. As coastal cities drowned, the melting ice caps of the south pole gave way to harsh steppes of hairgrass. With half a year of day and half a year of night comes the whiplash of sweltering summers and biting winters. With millions displaced and searching for a new home, a thawing Antarctica was rapidly “terraformed” into a somewhat-habitable area. The research stations protested at first, but after a time, there was nothing left to research; their grandparents might’ve been around to see the last penguin, and their grandparents might’ve been around to see the last whale. The TARDIS lands in a small town which sources its water from one of the last glaciers, where something sealed away long ago was set free by the melting permafrost. After the Silurians retreated underground, a new civilization evolved in a green Antarctica, becoming masters of genetic engineering and nano-scale biotechnology, until 30 million years ago, when Antarctica was split off from South America and the changing ocean currents made it freeze over. The glaciers ground the ruins into dust, but they left behind a terrifying legacy. The Gestalt, a species of highly infectious microbe with psychic abilities that make each cell a single neuron in a giant group mind. As it infects more and more people, suppressing their consciousnesses and controlling their bodies, it seeks to leave its icy prison behind and spread across the entire world. The Doctor at first tries to destroy it and find a “cure” for its victims, believing it to be a parasite and nothing more, but once they communicate with the Gestalt, they realize it’s a thinking being undeserving of extermination and start trying to find a way for the two to coexist, ending in an uneasy compromise where individual people clock into the group mind to fulfill its tasks in shifts so long as it remains confined to the town.

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Oh that sounds fascinating! I’d absolutely watch/read/listen to that!

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There’s a story I want to write that relies so heavily on a) being in a visual medium and b) being part of a continuity, that unless the BBC start doing Hunger Games-style random selections for new writers, I know I’ll never get the chance to. It’s much more plot than character focused so I have no specific Doctor/companion pairing in mind.

Open on the Doctor, at the TARDIS console, in the costume from their adventure last week. From the corner of their eye they see something move, hear a door slamming as someone runs further into the depths of the ship. The companion says the Doctor looks like they’ve seen a ghost. The Doctor, managing a joke, invites them ghost hunting. Off the two go in pursuit.

Much of the episode follows their journey, cutting through rooms and down corridors. The figure always manages to stay ahead and just out of view - it avoids any traps laid, it darts down secret passages, and it can get through locked doors that the Doctor was sure only they could open. Even stranger, when the Doctor and the companion reach the TARDIS’ centre (its heart, an engine room, etc) there’s no sign on any of the outputs that a stowaway is on board.

The figure makes their first mistake here, lingers too long, and the Doctor gives chase. Slowly, they seem to gain on it, and it becomes clear they’re going to catch it until-

The Doctor stops short. We see their horrified look, and then we see what they do: the TARDIS control room. Another Doctor pressing buttons rapidly, looking like they’ve just been chased by a ghost. (This isn’t a multi-Doctor story. This new Doctor is played by the same actor, and wears the costume that will be featured in next week’s adventure). The old Doctor tries to say something but the new one pulls a lever, slams the door. From here, “the Doctor” is the new Doctor. The old one we don’t see again.

New companion (same as before - not a different actor or character but visually from the next episode rather than the last) comments that it looks like the Doctor has seen a ghost. The Doctor shakes his head silently.

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So I mentioned the other day about a “What If” scenario where 14 became the Valeyard post-Donna’s death. It had me thinking, how many times could that have happened to different incarnations. Then, sort of inspired by Kang in Marvel, what if you had a Council of Valeyards where a group of them united to take down our universe’s Doctor?

I was like how would they find each other, but the perfect opportunity would be if 13 became the Valeyard during Flux, and used Division HQ… :eyes: Would be an interesting idea!

I still would love to maybe try and get a What If collaborative thing going if people were interested :eyes:

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A nice change of pace from my usual ideas:

Fear and Loathing in North Acton

Characters: Unspecified Doctor, Hound Monk

Basic plot outline: The Monk is bored and wants to get noticed by The Doctor so he decides to steal a shopping centre to get The Doctor’s attention. Hijinks ensue

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I’ve long had the idea of a Time Lord that infiltrates the Tardis by killing/incapacitating the current companion, and forcing a self-regeneration to look like them. We could have a season with the original companion, then a season with our infiltrating Time Lord.

I haven’t fully thought through the motives for this deception, but the concept has stuck with me for a while.

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