GC9GMWR The Ruddy Doctor 8: The Eighth Doctor (Unknown Cache) in East Midlands, United Kingdom created by RuddRobins

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Welcome to the Ruddy Doctor Caches, a series of puzzles linked together loosely with a whimsical story following the various regenerations of my favourite Time Lord.

The puzzles are nestled away in passages linking the various Doctor’s regeneration scenes, so you’ll need to skim at least through to find the goods and the occasional clue. You can assume coordinates are N 52° 53.XXX' W 001° XX.XXX' and will need you own pen and tweezers. All were conceived and placed by Doctor RuddRobins + checked and difficulty assessed by Mrs RuddRobins.

The notes at the end are random Docfacts not needed to complete the puzzle. I hope you find it all mildly amusing and it keeps you out of trouble for at least a little while J

The Ruddy Doctor 8: The Eighth Doctor

DOCTOR [OC]: It was on the planet Skaro that my old enemy the Master was finally put on trial. They say he listened calmly as his list of evil was read and sentence passed. Then he made his last, and I thought somewhat curious, request. He demanded that I, the Doctor, a rival Time Lord, should take his remains back to our home planet, Gallifrey.

DOCTOR [OC]: The Time Lord has thirteen lives and the Master had used all of his, but rules never meant much to him. So I stowed his remains safely away for the voyage back, because even in death I couldn't trust him.

(The Master’s remain are placed in an ornate casket, then the Doctor takes his sonic screwdriver from a Gladstone bag and seals it shut.)

DOCTOR 7: There, that should do it.

(The Doctor puts a cup of tea on a pile of books next to his easy chair and listens to a jazz record playing on his gramophone.)

DOCTOR [OC]: In all my travels through space and time, and nearing the end of my seventh life, I was finally beginning to realise that you could never be too careful.

(The casket moves a little. The Doctor takes a jelly baby from a bowl and eats it. The casket cracks open and breaks in two. Gunk pours out and something slithers over to the control console. There is a short-circuit. The Doctor rushes over and starts operating controls. He throws on the brake and the time rotor stops, then he pulls down a monitor.)

DOCTOR 7: Oh, no.

(Critical Timing Malfunction. Instigate Automatic Emergency Landing.)

(The TARDIS materialises in front a group of gangsters (?) who empty their ammo clips at it. The door opens and the Doctor comes out. They shoot him, then drive away)

DOCTOR 7 (muttering feebly): Timing malfunction.

(The DOCTOR sits up.)

DOCTOR 7: Timing malfunction. The Master, he's out there. He's out there. I've got to stop him . . .

(The Doctor finally passes out and lies completely still - no regeneration this time, apparently)

(Much later, in the Mortuary. . . The Doctor's covered body is wheeled in with a tag on his toe.)

MORTUARY ATTENDANT: John Doe on the toe. We've got to nice autopsy booked for you tomorrow morning, Mister, followed by a sauna or a Swedish herbal wrap. What would be your pleasure? One a.m. Hey, it's December thirty first 1999. Party on!

(The Doctor's body is wheeled into cold locker number 2.)

MORTUARY ATTENDANT: Sweet dreams.

(Later again: energy strikes the seventh DOCTOR's body: he twitches and gurns as he regenerates, then he breaths out and his eyes open. The new Doctor sits up.)

(In the mortuary there is a thumping : the metal door to number two is being hammered from inside. The hinges finally give way and the Doctor is standing there, huddled in the sheet that was covering him. The Doctor walks out into the corridors.)

[Disused ward]

(It's a total wreck. Water pours out of a pipe poking down through the hole left by a missing ceiling tile. A flash of lightning lets him see his reflection in an array of mirrors.)

DOCTOR 8: Argh! Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? . . . Now I'm remembering more. I was dead too long this time. Anaesthetic almost destroyed the regenerative process. No. No, no, no, no. Wait, wait. Something's happening. Something's happening. Something's happening. I know who I am! I am the Doctor!

DOCTOR 8: Oh, no! The Guardian’s puzzle. If I don't solve it, my future will no longer exist and this time it’s affecting the mathematical basis of whole world around me! Already the base structure of the world is changing: At first in subtle ways, but soon in catastrophic ways . . . The clue is me or . . . twice me – does that make any sense? Let me see:

2CB / 7 / 118

(The DOCTOR starts to rewrite the code in another form.)

DOCTOR 8: Really? Is that it? Well, that wasn’t very difficult at all was it? Oh hang on – I remember now – solving this will push me to the end of this regeneration. That means . . . oh no: Karn – and Cass. I failed her, failed myself – do I have to go through that again? It seems sooooo . . .

Notes

The Eighth Doctor debuts in the TV film Doctor Who. While transporting the remains of his longtime nemesis the Master to Gallifrey, the Seventh Doctor is caught in the crossfire of a gang shoot-out in 1999 San Francisco's Chinatown, USA. He is taken to a hospital where surgeons, confused by his double heartbeat, attempt to correct a non-existent fibrillation. These efforts instead "kill" the Doctor, and he is taken to a morgue where after several hours—due to the effect of anaesthetic on his alien biology—he finally regenerates into his eighth incarnation.

He initially wore a Wild Bill Hickok costume including a battleship grey cravat tie intended for a New Year's fancy dress party, which he liberated from the lockers at the San Francisco hospital where he regenerated.

"The Night of the Doctor", which precedes the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" begins during the raging Time War between Daleks and Time Lords when he is killed when attempting to save a young woman who rejects salvation at the hands of a Time Lord causing them both to die in a spaceship crash. He awakens in the company of the Sisterhood of Karn, who explain that he has died and been temporarily resurrected. They urge him to bring the war to an end, and give him a choice of elixirs to trigger his regeneration. Saluting his various companions, he drinks an elixir designed to produce a warrior, regenerating into the War Doctor who declares himself to be the Doctor "no more."

By the time of "The Night of the Doctor" he sported a worn and bottle green moleskin overcoat, a ruffled and midnight-blue ascot tie, a bronze grey paisley waistcoat, leather gaiters, and caramel brown US Army Cavalry boots; corresponding with his overall weary appearance, presumably as a result of many experiences during the Time War.

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