GC9GMXK The Ruddy Doctor 16: The Thirteenth 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.0XX' 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 16: The Thirteenth Doctor

[TARDIS]

(When the regeneration energy dies down, the engines are stuttering, and the signet ring falls off the DOCTOR's right hand. In fact, all the clothes are rather baggy on this new body. The scanner reveals the reflection of the new, younger face with jaw-length blonde hair.)

DOCTOR 13: Oh, brilliant!

(The accent has moved southwards, from Scotland to Northern England. She presses a button, there's a small explosion in the console and the scanner proclaims - Systems Crisis MULTIPLE OPERATIONS FAILURES. The Tardis snaps back into normal space, tilts drastically and keeps going bang. The Cloister Bell continues to toll. The DOCTOR tries to hang on to the console, but loses her grip and slides towards the door which is now open with papers flying out of it. Now the Tardis is completely on its side, door open downwards. The Time Rotor explodes and she falls out towards the distant ground as the Tardis, its interior in flames, vanishes.)

(Way down at ground level . . .)

The Doctor falls through the roof with a cry. You point at sky above her where huge Federation starships seem to be on parade – puzzling.

DOCTOR: What?

(looks through the hole in the roof) Oh yeah. Long story. Tell you later. Doors?

YOU: Locked shut.

DOCTOR: We'll see about that. No sonic. Empty pockets. Oh, I hate empty pockets.

YOU: Hold on there please, madam.

DOCTOR: Why are you calling me madam?

YOU: Because you're a woman.

DOCTOR: Am I? Does it suit me?

YOU: What?

DOCTOR: Oh yeah, I remember. Sorry, half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman. What's your name?

YOU: <Your name>. Can I have your name, then?

DOCTOR: When I can remember it.

YOU: You don't know your own name?

DOCTOR: Course I know it. I just can't remember it. It's right there, on the tip of my... What's that?

YOU: Tongue?

DOCTOR: Tongue! Smart. Biology. Are you a doctor,?

YOU: No.

DOCTOR: Shame. I'm looking for a doctor. I could hold off until we get the answers to the bigger questions.

YOU: Which are?

DOCTOR: What were they? Why were they here? Where's are they going next? And, most importantly, how do we stop them? 'Cos whatever they, I don't think they’tr done. Right then, troops. No, not troops. Team, gang, fam? I'm distracting myself.

YOU: You came crashing through that roof.

DOCTOR: I was thrown out of my Tardis. Oh, I've lost my Tardis. It was exploding and then it dematerialised. Don't panic. Not the end of the world. Well, it could be the end of the world, but one thing at a time. So those Federation ships were a puzzle – the first one was either USS Atlas (Hercules-class) or USS Nixon (proposed Jenghiz-class) then USS Endeavour (Columbia-class) passed by twice. That must mean something, mustn’t it?

YOU: Are we supposed to understand anything you're saying? You think those things are alien. There's no such thing as aliens. Anyway even if there was, they ain't going to here.

DOCTOR: Why not? I'm alien and I'm here. Don't be scared. All of this is new to you, and new can be scary. Now we all want answers. Stick with me, you might get some. After this I should have settled back into my normal timeline and we can find the caches and go home!

DOCTOR: Not regenerating this time, even after solving the puzzle - interesting - that orients me in my timeline: must be, what 2021/2022? More big changes coming soon - I'll have another new faces sorted any time now. I did get some realy crazy revelations on Gallifrey though - not sure how they all fit in - I remember what The Master told me in the matrix . . .

MASTER [OC]: Once upon a time... No. Once upon several times, before the Time Lords, before everything we know, there was an explorer. Her name was Tecteun, from a little-regarded, sparsely populated planet called Gallifrey. Tecteun was the first of Gallifrey's indigenous race, the Shobogans, to develop space travel. Dangerous, unsophisticated space travel. She took risks to explore the worlds and galaxies beyond her home. And it was on one of these distant, deserted worlds on the far edge of another galaxy she found something... impossible. A gateway. A boundary into another unknown dimension or universe. Tecteun glimpsed the infinite through that gateway. And beneath the monument, she found... a child. Abandoned. Alone. Thrown through, seemingly, from the other unknown realm. Tecteun had a choice to make. Abandon or save the child? She chose to rescue the foundling and adopt this refugee from another realm as her own. Together they explored the universe. The child grew older, and finally Tecteun returned to Gallifrey with her new child. Like any parent, Tecteun wanted to understand her child. She searched for clues as to the child's identity. Where she might be from, what species she could be. But the child would not yield any secrets Tecteun could understand. The child remained a mystery, until playing with a friend, like any other child, there was an accident. A catastrophe...

(The child falls off a cliff.)

MASTER [OC]: ..for Tecteun, for the child she'd saved, now lost to her. Or so she thought. The child regenerated. The first regeneration of any person on the planet of Gallifrey.
MASTER: Now, having seen her adopted child regenerate her body, Tecteun, a scientist and explorer, had a new landscape to explore. She dedicated her life to studying her child. Detailed every fragment of genetic material. It took her years. Several of the child's regenerations. Tecteun grew older. Her desire to understand became an obsession. She worked tirelessly, endlessly, furiously. She had to crack this code to understand regeneration. And finally, she did. And to prove herself right, she took the ultimate risk. Tested the theory on herself. Put her own life on the line. Spliced into herself the genetic ability to regenerate. I didn't know any of this. Did you know any of this? Nearly there. The planet of Gallifrey evolved. Shobogans grew in knowledge and ability. They built themselves the Citadel. They discovered the ability to travel through Time as well as space. With Tecteun, they became a self-appointed ruling elite. And Tecteun proposed that they gene-splice the ability to regenerate into future generations of Citadel dwellers. It would become the genetic inheritance of them and their descendants. But he would restrict the regenerative process to a maximum of twelve times. The timeless child became the base genetic code for all Gallifreyans within the Citadel. The civilisation which renamed themselves, with characteristic pomposity, Time Lords. The foundling had become the founder. The rest, as they say, is history.

DOCTOR: What happened to the child?
(The Master laughs.)
DOCTOR: What? What's so funny? What happened to the child?
MASTER: Oh Doctor, really? Haven't you worked this out yet? The child is you. You are the timeless child.
DOCTOR: No. No, I'm not.
MASTER: You always have been.
DOCTOR: I can't be.

DOCTOR: Who knows if it's the truth or not - time will tell, eh?

Notes

The Thirteenth Doctor is a livewire, full of energy and fizzing with excitement and wit from the very first moment we meet her! She’s a charismatic and confident explorer, dedicated to seeing all the wonders of the universe, championing fairness and kindness wherever she can. After crash-landing to Earth, still a little dazed from her explosive regeneration, the Doctor takes a little time to remember her identity. But that doesn’t stop her from jumping into action to save the universe anyway – leaping from great heights and diving into deep space to find the TARDIS!

This Doctor loves to be surrounded by friends – in fact she treats her travelling companions Yaz, Ryan and Graham more like family, often boosting their confidence by telling them how great they are. Like her previous incarnations, the Doctor is brave and selfless – a hero who will run towards danger without hesitation. Though she may be a fidget and a wanderer, she’ll always answer a call for aid when she hears it. In her own words, ‘When people need help, I never refuse.’

The Thirteenth Doctor's costume features blue high-waisted culottes with yellow braces, a navy blue t-shirt with a rainbow stripe across it, a lilac-blue[35] trenchcoat with a hood, brown lace-up boots, blue socks and piercings on her left ear.

The Timeless Child was a title used to refer to the mysterious being from whom, across several regenerations, the First Tecteun extracted the secret of regeneration. According to the Spy Master, the Timeless Child's incarnations were none other than the original incarnations of the Doctor, long before the First Doctor.

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