PLEASE NOTE: These caches were originally all letterboxes, with stamps that I personally painstakingly made. Unfortunately, they have proven quite popular, and with that comes muggling. Apparently a number of the stamps have gone missing, and as some have complained about this, and I haven't the time to go and check all 100+ of them on a regular basis, I will be converting them to Traditional caches as needed.
It pains me to make this decision, but it must be done. I recognize that with a powertrail, caches are bound to go missing (that is the nature of the beast), and I appreciate that many of you have helped out by bringing along spares. However, your average cacher does NOT carry around spare stamps, and even if you did, it wouldn't be the one that I originally and personally made for the cache.
So, I am asking for your help: please let me know in your logs which ones are indeed missing their stamps, and I will be changing them to Traditionals (the alternative is archival, unfortunately). Thanks for your assistance in this endeavor, and thanks for supporting this series. I am glad that I spent the many hours needed to create these. However, I cannot justify consistently having to make and then replace all the stamps, due to time constraints.
Sincerely, the CO, josephaw
9/27/15
First off, let me thank you for finding this geocache! I hope you enjoyed the experience of finding it as much as I enjoyed creating and hiding all of these letterbox caches.
This is just one of many such caches in my Dr Who Letterbox Series, made with the help and inspiration of friends. As a Letterbox cache, please leave the stamp for others to see and use, thanks! Each cache has a unique stamp, so bring an inkpad and collect them all! Have fun, and be safe!
"The Satan Pit" is the ninth episode of the second season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the second part of a two-part story, following "The Impossible Planet". With the TARDIS seemingly lost, Rose and the remaining humans are trapped on the base with the possessed Ood, while the planet floats helplessly towards ablack hole. Meanwhile, the Doctor is trapped in the heart of the impossible planet where he encounters the Beast, a creature implied to be the Devil himself.
The episode was first broadcast on 10 June 2006.
Plot
The episode opens where "The Impossible Planet" left off, with the Doctor and science officer Ida Scott investigating a strange door deep in the planet Krop Tor. Rose and three of the surviving members of the crew, Mr Jefferson, Danny and Toby, flee from the advancing Ood, who have all been possessed by the Beast and are killing people with their translators. The group initially believe Toby to be still possessed by the Beast, but Rose convinces them to change their minds by reminding them that they saw it leave his body and enter the Ood. The Doctor makes contact with the crew, revealing that nothing has exited the door outside. He offers to rappel down into the pit to further investigate, but Captain Zach orders everyone to regroup so that he can execute "strategy nine". As the Doctor and Ida prepare to return to the base, the Beast communicates with the Doctor and the rest of the crew through the Ood and explains that he is the epitome of evil across all religions. The Beast tells them that he was sealed in the pit before the universe began and is seeking to escape. The Beast demoralises each member of the crew by playing on their fears and weaknesses, and says that Rose "will die in battle, so very soon". However the Doctor begins to reassure the crew that they are stronger as the Beast is alone, until the Beast has the lift cable snap, trapping Ida and the Doctor 10 miles underground.
With Captain Zach cornered in the base control room by Ood, Rose and the rest of crew decide to head to Ood habitation to incapacitate the Ood by turning off the telepathy that keeps the Ood functioning. They are forced to head through shafts designed for robots transporting resources, whilst Captain Zach uses the escape rocket's energy to have the air supply follow the crew through the shafts. However, the Ood enter the shafts and give chase. Mr Jefferson holds back to buy the others time with his machine-gun, and is unable to make it to the next section of the shafts in time. Knowing that Captain Zach cannot save him without sacrificing the air supply of the others, Mr Jefferson chooses to die by oxygen starvation, rather than suffer "death by Ood". Rose, Danny and Toby are then almost cornered by more Ood, but manage to escape the shafts and knock out the telepathy of the Ood to incapacitate them, although Toby is shown to be still unknowingly possessed by the Beast. Rose, Danny and Toby reunite with Captain Zach, board the escape rocket and leave the planet.
Meanwhile, the Doctor and Ida use the lift cable to explore the pit, although the Doctor finds nothing but darkness far below. He then chooses to detach himself and fall, landing at the bottom thanks to an air cushion and finds that he can breathe. Finding cave paintings depicting the Beast's final battle and imprisonment, the Doctor discovers two jars on pedestals a few feet from each other as their light reveals the physical form of the Beast. The Doctor quickly deduces from the unintelligible grunts coming from the Beast that its consciousness has already escaped and that Krop Tor was designed as the perfect prison for the Beast: its jailers devised the jars as a failsafe, since their destruction would cause the planet to plunge into the black hole with the body of the Beast destroyed, and the mind killed in the process. Although the Doctor realizes he must also sacrifice Rose and the others to destroy the Beast, he smashes the jars anyway on faith in his companion. As the planet falls out of orbit, the Doctor accepts his fate by mocking the Beast, before stumbling across his TARDIS while fleeing the collapsing cave.
On board the rocket, the collapse of the gravity field causes Toby to reveal the mind of the Beast is still possessing him as he taunts the others while breathing out fire. Rose takes Captain Zach's bolt gun and shoots out the rocket's front window, unhooking Toby' safety harness to jettison the possessed man into space towards the black hole. The cabin is sealed by automatic shields but the rocket still lacks the power to escape the gravity well. Suddenly their ride smooths out and the rocket turns away from the black hole. The Doctor contacts Captain Zach, telling him that he is towing the rocket to safety with the TARDIS. The Doctor asks for Rose and jokingly offers to trade Zach back Ida, who he rescued from the planet caverns, for Rose. The Doctor reports he did not have time to go back and save the Ood, who were innocent victims of the Beast's possession. Once safe, the respective crews depart on their separate ways. As they return to Earth, Captain Zach reads off the list of personnel that died, including the Ood.
Continuity Zack identifies the expedition as representing the Torchwood Archive. "Torchwood" is the story arc of the series. The Beast claims that Rose is destined to die in battle, foreshadowing the events in the season two finaleDoomsday. Russell T Davies mentions in the downloadable episode commentary that everything else the Beast said about the characters' fears was true.
When the Doctor abseils into the Pit, he lists some planets and races whose mythologies have horned demons, speculating that they are inspired by the Beast. Among the planets he mentions are Draconia (Frontier in Space) and Dæmos, planet of the horned Dæmon Azal (The Dæmons). In The Dæmons, the Third Doctor speculated that the Dæmons inspired the stories of demons in Earth mythology. In this episode, the Doctor also makes reference to the Kaled god of war (The Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks). Davies stated in the Doctor Who Confidential episode "Religion and Myth" that they aimed to create a "Russian doll" effect, wrapping this episode around The Dæmons.
The Beast calls the Doctor the "killer of his own kind", a reference to the Doctor's involvement with the destruction the Time Lords as confessed by him in the episode Dalek.
The Doctor refers to how his race "practically invented" black holes. This is a reference to the Eye of Harmony, the black hole-derived power source used by the Time Lords. The episodes The Deadly Assassin and The Three Doctors expand on how the Time Lords created a black hole as their primary planetary power source.
Source: www.wikipedia.org