Tuesday, 3 November 2020

3rd November 2020 Writing

 3rd

 

Excerpt from: Quests of Reality

“We should,” Talnym added.

 

Words: 4

 

 

Excerpt from:  Reverse Map Game 2019

Darien Republic

More than 70% of the population speaks Spanish as a first language.

 

 

South America

 

 

Africa

Bassam takes advantage of the IAA conflict with the Mali Empire to also declare war. They manage to capture a significant amount of territory.

 

 

Europe

The Times of London is accused of being a monoploy, with a readership of 80% within London.

 

Times

Vol. 157

 

The Apulian War continues.

 

 

Asia

The Chinese Civil War continues.

 

The Far Eastern War continues. Beifangxiang tries to push back against the Japanese advances, but fail at every confrontation.

 

The Malayan War continues.

 

 

Oceania

The Burgundians capture more of Otago from Tasmania.

 

Words: 104

 

 

Excerpt from: The Engineer and the Time Lady

She also called up the surveilance footage of the rail motor again. 'Locate the rail motor,' she directed.

 

An icon appeared, indicating that the rail motor had been last spotted at one of the abandoned stations an hour after Aialah's disappearance at the main railway station. She brought up the relevant footage. It showed the rail motor arriving, and Aialah being rough handled off it by several men, including the Mayor's son! She was getting somewhere. 'First, the Guild needs to know. Then I'll try to rescue Aialah from those men!' Nina thought as she saw the rail motor leave again. Probably was stored in a thought abandoned rail shed somewhere, she supposed.

“OK, TARDIS, let the Librarian Guild know. Give them this footage as an anonymous tip.”

 

The TARDIS 'dinged', the the footage had been sent to the Guild.

 

“Lead the coordinates into the Emergency Subset,” Nina cried out as she left the Auxillary Console Room. She stopped by a wardrobe and threw on a concealing outfit.

 

 

Again, the Emergency Subset left the TARDIS.

 

 

The Emergency Subset materialised off to the side of the abandoned station, the sound of that materialisation drowned out by the sound of the poorly maintained rail motor departing. As Nina moved towards Aialah and her kidnappers she could hear the former struggling.

 

“You won't get away with this!” Aialah cried out.

 

“Stop!” Nina cried out as she approached, throwing her voice lower so Aialah wouldn't recognise it.

 

“Get that person!” the Mayor's son called out to his men.

 

The gang pulled out firearms and started shooting. Nina ducked behind a pillar just in time. Her hearts beat faster as she heard the bullets ricochet off it. 'I didn't think they would be armed!' she thought. She looked back towards the Emergency Subset. She would make it. 'But do I have the phaser?' she wondered. She checked her pockets, but it was obvious the phaser was back in the TARDIS. But she did have a spare tricorder. 'I'll retrieve it later,' she decided. She started it scanning and threw it aside as a distraction.

She ran back to the Emergency Subset as the goons shot at the tricorder.

 

 

She returned to the TARDIS and ran back to the Zero Room to try to calm down.

 

 

Having spent the night in the Zero Room, Nina returned to the auxillary Console Room in the morning to find that the leaked footage had caused a media frenzy. Most of the outlets were calling for the Mayor to resign. But the Guild hadn't yet found Aialah. 'I'll have breakfast and go to the Library.'

 

 

Aolare was approaching Nina's motor home when Nina emerged. “Good. I need to talk to you. That leak may have done more harm than good.”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“The Guild needs to find Aialah before the Police do.”

 

“Right...” Nina considered.

 

“Let's go. I've set up an operations center in the Library.”

 

 

Nina entered the room in which Aolare was coordinating the search for Aialah. “The team are approaching the abandoned station now, Ma'am,” one of the other librarians said.

 

“Good,” Aolare said.

 

Nina breathed deeply.

 

 

It was a long day. Hardly any progress was made, except that evidence from the station indicated that Aialah had been taken elsewhere. “Maybe we should try calling in the Mayor's son,” Nina groused as she left the Library.

 

“No, he'll just stonewall us,” Aolare objected. “We're tracking down the others that were with him.”

 

“Probably.”

 

 

Entering the TARDIS, Nina saw that the download of the network was complete. “I know where Aialah was two nights ago. I can use the TARDIS to rescue her.” But there was a lot of risk in that.

 

Words: 616

 

 

Excerpt from: An Ordinary Wednesday

“The other times may not be applicable.”

 

“Why not?” Dani asked.

 

“They didn’t happen on Earth, or even in the Solar System.”

 

“So, what do we do?” Clara asked. “Go back to the TARDIS?”

 

“Of course!” the Doctor said, almost slapping himself in the face. The scanner can pick up what the sonic missed.

 

“Sonic?” Dani asked.

 

The Doctor showed her the sonic screwdriver. “Sonic screwdriver. It does everything, except wood.”

 

“You use it to scan things, and yet you call it a screwdriver?” Dani asked.

 

“He must have called it that for a reason,” Clara said as she lead the way back to the TARDIS.

 

“I’m not sure why,” the Doctor said. “Probably because that’s what I used the original version for, and I just kept adding functions as I continued to travel.”

 

“I guess that makes sense,” Dani said. ‘But I wonder if such happened with the TARDIS too? A time machine probably doesn’t need to be bigger on the inside.’

 

 

Once they were back in the TARDIS, the Doctor scanned the whole town. “No distortions in space time in Gundagai.”

 

“None right now,” Clara clarified.

 

“Scanning further back…” the Doctor said.

 

“The TARDIS can do that?” Dani asked.

 

“There’s little the TARDIS can’t do.”

 

Words: 207

 

 

Excerpt from: Emily and the Doctor

“So, what would you have me do?”

 

“Pay attention to what I say, Mr. President. Have your staff gather reports on unusual activity in this city, or in Maryland or Virginia,” the Doctor said.

 

“I will certainly do that. But I would like you to be a lot less vague.”

 

“I wouldn’t be if I knew what the threat was.”

 

 

Words: 60

 

Total: 991



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