GC9GMWW The Ruddy Doctor 9 Bonus: The War 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.ABC' W 001° 0D.EFG' 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 9: The War Doctor

(The Eighth Doctor retains his sculptured Byronic looks but looks many years older, care-worn, tired almost broken. His once flowing hair is now short, almost martial but he retains a clear spark if defiance. He lies on a different planet’s surface where a Starship has recently impacted)

OHILA (High Priestess of the Sisterhood of Karn): And here he is at last. The man to end it all. My sisters, the Doctor has returned to Karn. We have always known in our bones that one day he would return here. Such a pity he's dead.

[Temple]

(The Doctor wakes with a start.)

DOCTOR: Cass!

OHILA: If you refer to your companion, we are still attempting to extract her from the wreckage.

DOCTOR: She wasn't my companion.

OHILA: She's almost certainly dead. No one could survive that crash.

DOCTOR: I did.

OHILA: No. We restored you to life, but it's a temporary measure. You have a little under four minutes.

DOCTOR: Four minutes? That's ages. What if I get bored, or need a television, couple of books? Anyone for chess? Bring me knitting.

OHILA: You have so little breath left. Spend it wisely.

DOCTOR: Hang on. Is it you? Am I back on Karn? You're the Sisterhood of Karn, Keepers of the Flame of utter boredom.

OHILA: Eternal life.

DOCTOR: That's the one.

OHILA: Mock us if you will, but our elixir can trigger your regeneration, bring you back without needing to solve another of the Guardian’s puzzles. Time Lord science is elevated here on Karn. The change doesn't have to be random. Fat or thin, young or old, man or woman?

DOCTOR: Why would you do this for me?

OHILA: You have helped us in the past.

DOCTOR: You were never big on gratitude.

OHILA: The war between the Daleks and the Time Lords threatens all reality. You are the only hope left.

DOCTOR: It's not my war. I will have no part of it.

OHILA: You can't ignore it forever.

DOCTOR: I help where I can. I will not fight.

OHILA: Because you are the good man, as you call yourself?

DOCTOR: I call myself the Doctor.

OHILA: It's the same thing in your mind.

DOCTOR: I'd like to think so.

OHILA: In that case, Doctor, attend your patient.

(Cass is brought in and laid on the altar stone. The Doctor scans her with his screwdriver.)

OHILA: You're wasting your time. She is beyond even our help.

DOCTOR: She wanted to see the universe.

OHILA: She didn't miss much. It's very nearly over.

DOCTOR: I could have saved her. I could have got her off, but she wouldn't listen.

OHILA: Then she was wiser than you. She understood there was no escaping the Time War. You are a part of this, Doctor, whether you like it or not.

DOCTOR: I would rather die.

OHILA: You're dead already. How many more will you let join you? If she could speak, what would she say?

DOCTOR: To me? Nothing. I'm a Time Lord. Everything she despised.

OHILA: She would beg your help, as we beg your help now. The universe stands on the brink. Will you let it fall? Fast or strong, wise or angry. What do you need now?

(The Doctor fingers Cass' baldric.)

DOCTOR: Warrior.

OHILA: Warrior?

DOCTOR: I don't suppose there's a need for a doctor any more. Make me a warrior now.

OHILA: I took the liberty of preparing this one myself.

(She hands him a steaming chalice.)

DOCTOR: Get out. Get out! All of you. Will it hurt?

OHILA: Yes.

DOCTOR: Good. Charley, C'Rizz, Lucie, Tamsin, Molly. Friends, companions I've known, I salute you. And Cass, I apologise. Physician, heal thyself.

(The Doctor drinks the elixir and staggers, dropping the chalice. Regeneration energy starts to surge through his body. He doubles over. White out.)

OHILA: Is it done?

(A figure takes Cass's baldric and puts it on.)

WAR DOCTOR: Doctor no more.

(We see the reflection of a young War Doctor . . . and without needing to solve a further puzzle he ages rapidly to a grizzled war weary veteran. He looks at the coordinates for the bonus cache, put together from the clues left in the rest of the series.)

WAR DOCTOR: I don't suppose I'll know if I actually succeeded. But at worst, I failed doing the right thing, as opposed to succeeding in doing the wrong.

(He examines the virtual location on the map, which definitely isn’t at the actual cache location)

WAR DOCTOR: I wonder how it got there. There's always something we don't know, isn't there? Or at least one should certainly hope so. I won't remember this, the time streams are out of sync & I won’t retain it, won't remember that I tried to save Gallifrey rather than burn it. I'll have to live with that. But for now, for this moment, I am the DOCTOR again.

(The War Doctor begins to regenerate.)

WAR DOCTOR: Oh yes, of course. I suppose it makes sense. Wearing a bit thin. I hope the ears are a bit less conspicuous this time . . .

Born from the Eighth Doctor’s choice on Karn, at the height of the Last Great Time War, this incarnation was the Doctor’s darkest secret. A battle-hardened warrior, rather than a healer. A man who saw so much death and destruction in the Time War, that finally, at the fall of Arcadia, he proclaimed “No more”. Stealing the Moment - a sentient weapon of great power - he planned to kill all Time Lords and the Daleks, in the name of peace and of sanity. Persuaded otherwise by his Tenth and Eleventh selves, he helped all the Doctor’s incarnations freeze Gallifrey in a pocket universe, and end the War. Returning to his TARDIS, and with his body wearing a bit thin once more, he began to regenerate…

In "The Name of the Doctor", Hurt wore a burgundy and ivory scarf in a herringbone style. He also wore a dark brown leather trenchcoat, similar to the Ninth Doctor's black leather peacoat as well as a green brown moleskin waistcoat, dark tan trousers, and gunmetal grey leather gaiters similar to ones worn by the Eighth Doctor.

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