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!
"Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" is the tenth episode of the seventh series of the British science-fiction drama Doctor Who and was broadcast on 27 April 2013, and starsMatt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald. This episode was written by Stephen Thompson and is about an adventure into the inner depths of the TARDIS. The episode also includes three brothers from an intergalactic salvage crew, played by Ashley Walters, Mark Oliver, and Jahvel Hall.
Plot
The Doctor, sensing animosity between Clara and the TARDIS, decides to teach Clara how to operate it and disables its shields to enable its "basic mode". However, the TARDIS is caught by the magnetic tractor beam of a space salvage ship, damaging the TARDIS. Clara pleads with the Doctor to fix it, but he claims there is no "big friendly button" that can fix everything. Clara spots a strange egg-like device roll across the floor and tries to grab it but burns her hand. The ship jolts and the two are thrown into darkness.
The Doctor awakes to find himself on the salvage ship, manned by the stern Gregor Van Baalen, his brother Bram, and a human-looking android named Tricky with enhanced sensory devices, whom Gregor treats poorly. The Doctor tries to convince Gregor to help him rescue Clara, allowing them to salvage some parts of the ship. Gregor agrees, but when the three join the Doctor inside, he assures cooperation by locking the doors and setting a self-destruct countdown; he will disable it once Clara is rescued. They begin exploring the TARDIS, with Gregor attempting to assess the value of it, though the Doctor warns removing key parts will make the TARDIS angry. Despite this, Gregor orders Bram to start salvaging the console, during which he is killed by an ossified humanoid creature. After removing part of the architectural reconfiguration system, Gregor, Tricky, and the Doctor become trapped in a loop of corridors; the TARDIS is preventing the theft of its systems.
Clara, meanwhile, wakes up in a TARDIS corridor and tries to find her way to the console room. She is pursued by an ossified creature and hides in various rooms, including the TARDIS library where she reads from The History of the Time War before she's forced to flee. Her hand continues to ache from the burn, but she sees the burn marks resolving into letters. She ends up in the console room, where another ossified creature, mimicking her movements, approaches her.
The Doctor, Gregor, and Tricky reach the console room, and the Doctor senses Clara in an echo of the console room. With the help of Gregor's scanner to identify Clara, the Doctor creates a temporary link and grabs Clara before the creature touches her. Gregor demands the Doctor end the countdown; the Doctor, though revealing the self-destruct was a ruse to get their cooperation, finds the TARDIS engines are damaged due to the leakage of time caused by the incident, and they must go to the engine room by way of the Eye of Harmony to prevent it from exploding. En route, Tricky is injured and in pain, to his surprise; Gregor reveals that Tricky is human and also his brother; after an accident that cost the life of their father, Tricky had lost his memories and had special implants to replace his eyes and voicebox. Gregor acted as if Tricky was an android to claim the captaincy of the salvage vessel. The Doctor comments on Gregor's treatment of Tricky and suggests he can do better.
While traveling through the Eye of Harmony, the four are trapped by ossified creatures. When Gregor scans them and it is identified as Clara, the Doctor confesses these creatures are themselves from the future and tries to prevent that future from happening. However, Gregor and Tricky contact themselves and become the conjoined ossified creature, seen earlier. The Doctor and Clara flee towards the engine room but come across a chasm with no way across. The Doctor, thinking they are going to die, asks Clara to explain who she is and how she could have died twice before. Clara doesn't understand, and the Doctor realises she has no knowledge of their previous encounters and is simply a young woman. The Doctor and Clara then leap across the chasm, believing that it is an illusion the TARDIS is using to scare off others.
Reaching the engine room, they find the engine has exploded but the TARDIS has placed the room in time stasis as a safety measure. Clara looks at her hand, the burn marks formed into words - "big friendly button". The Doctor realises they need to go back to the point of the disaster and activate the magnetic beacon - the device Clara picked up - to stop the magnetic tractor and prevent the disaster. They race to the console room, where the Doctor takes the discarded beacon and prepares to travel through a time rift. Clara asks what she will remember and says she knows the Doctor's name from reading the Time War book; the Doctor promises her that she will remember nothing. The Doctor crosses through himself and gives the beacon to his younger self. The younger Doctor reads the side of the beacon - "big friendly button" - and hits the button on top.
Time resets to before the events of the episode. The TARDIS vanishes from the Van Baalens' scanner, and they continue on, though in this new timeline, Gregor has become more appreciative of Tricky, having recalled the Doctor's words. The picture of Gregor and Bram with their late father (seen at the start of the episode) is now shown to include Tricky. In the TARDIS, the Doctor tells Clara that anything can happen to her since she's run away in a box with a madman; she tells the Doctor that's what she's counting on.
Continuity
The Eye of Harmony is seen in its entirety for the first time in this episode. The scene where Bram tries to dismantle the TARDIS features audio clips from An Unearthly Child, Colony in Space, The Robots of Death, "Rose", "Smith and Jones", "The Beast Below", and "The Doctor's Wife".[2] When the Encyclopedia Gallifreya 'leaks', audio from The End of Time is also heard.[2]
When Clara is exploring through the rooms of the TARDIS, she comes across the Doctor's cot, first seen in "A Good Man Goes to War", and a toy TARDIS similar - if not identical - to the one that Amy Pond made, last seen in "Let's Kill Hitler". She also finds a magnifying glass, possibly the one that the Doctor used in the console room in "The Power of Three", the one Donna Noble used in "The Unicorn and the Wasp", and the one Amy looks into while alone in the TARDIS in "The Lodger", as well as an umbrella that looks very similar to the one used by the Seventh Doctor in Paradise Towers.[2] Clara passes several rooms mentioned before, such as the swimming pool, heard but not seen in the episode "Day of the Moon", and the library, which has been mentioned many times, most notably "The Eleventh Hour," when the Doctor tells young Amelia about the swimming pool in the library. In the library Clara finds a book about the "The History of the Time War". This war between the Daleks and the Time Lords was mentioned several times since the series' revival. When Clara talks to the Doctor about what she read in that book she mentions the Doctor's name is written in the book and asks why the Doctor doesn't use it. He interrupts her and the knowledge of these events is erased from Clara's mind by the end of the episode.
The events of this episode are influenced by a crack in time, formed by a rupture in the TARDIS engines. A similar crack in time was formed in Series 5 by the destruction of the TARDIS. The resolution of this episode also contains some similarities to the finale of Series 5, with the Doctor being pulled into the crack and sent backwards through time.
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