GC9GMX9 The Ruddy Doctor 13: The Eleventh 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 13: The Eleventh Doctor

Golden energy regenerates The Doctor, and starts a lot of fires in the Tardis (again). The Doctor turns into an even younger, gangly, hyperactive man with a long fringe of hair dangling over one eye.)

DOCTOR: Legs. I've still got legs. Good. Arms. Hands. Ooo, fingers. Lots of fingers. Ears, yes. Eyes, two. Nose, I've had worse. Chin, blimey. Hair. I'm a girl! No. No. I'm not a girl. And still not ginger. And something else. Something important. I'm, I'm, I'm . . .

(Bang!)

DOCTOR: Ha! Crashing!

(The Tardis is plummeting back down to Earth.)

DOCTOR: Ha, ha! Whoo hoo hoo! Ah! Geronimo!

[Tardis]

(The Tardis is tumbling out of control and going Bang! inside. It flies over the Millennium Dome with the DOCTOR dangling from the threshold, sonic screwdriver between his teeth and trying to pull himself back inside. They are heading straight for the Parliament Clock Tower, so the DOCTOR sonics the controls and changes course just in time. He climbs back inside and shuts the doors behind him, exhausted, as the Tardis careers on its way.)

(We hear the Tardis materialising outside, then a crash. The Tardis has crash-landed on its side, on a garden shed.) For only the second time ever, the Tardis doors open outwards - they are facing the sky - and a grappling hook is thrown out. A soaking wet DOCTOR clambers out.)

DOCTOR: Could I have an apple? All I can think about. Apples. I love apples. Maybe I'm having a craving? That's new. Never had cravings before.

(He sits on the edge of the Tardis and looks inside.)

DOCTOR: Whoa. Look at that.

YOU: Are you okay?

DOCTOR: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Hell of a climb back up.

YOU: You're soaking wet.

DOCTOR: I was in the swimming pool.

YOU: You said you were in the library.

DOCTOR: So was the swimming pool.

YOU: Are you a policeman?

DOCTOR: Why? Did you call a policeman? Argh!

(He falls to the ground.)

YOU: Are you all right, mister?

DOCTOR: No, I'm fine. It's okay. This is all perfectly norm . . .

(A breath of golden energy comes from his mouth.)

YOU: Who are you?

DOCTOR: I don't know yet. I'm still cooking. I'm the DOCTOR. Do everything I tell you, don't ask stupid questions, and don't wander off.

(The DOCTOR walks straight into a tree.)

YOU: Are you all right?

DOCTOR: Early days. Steering's a bit off.

(The Tardis Cloister Bell tolls.)

DOCTOR: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

[Garden]

DOCTOR: I've got to get back in there. The engines are phasing. It's going to burn!

YOU: But it's just a box. How can a box have engines?

DOCTOR: It's not a box. It's a time machine. And a phone box. For phoning people. Like Old-O-Ivy. She’s a puzzle but you can phone her. On a phone.

YOU: What, a real phone? In a real time machine?

DOCTOR: Not for much longer if I can't get her stabilised. Five minute hop into the future should do it.

YOU: Can I come?

DOCTOR: Not safe in here. Not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes, I'll be right back.

YOU: People always say that.

DOCTOR: Am I people? Do I even look like people? Trust me. I'm the Doctor.

(He jumps down into the Tardis.)

DOCTOR : Geronimo!

(TARDIS, 5 minutes + 3 series and 6 specials later)

(A bow-tied young DOCTOR smiles at you.)

YOU: DOCTOR!

DOCTOR: Hello.

YOU: You're okay. You didn't even change your face.

DOCTOR: Ha! It's started. I can't stop it now. This is just the reset. A whole new regeneration cycle. Ooo.

DOCTOR: Taking a bit longer. Just breaking it in. Oh. Oh. Gah.

(He starts the Tardis' engines.)

DOCTOR: It all just disappears, doesn't it? Everything you are, gone in a moment, like breath on a mirror. Any moment now, he's a-coming.

YOU: Who's coming?

DOCTOR: The DOCTOR.

YOU: But you, you are the DOCTOR.

DOCTOR: Yep, and I always will be.

(His hands are glowing.)

DOCTOR: But times change, and so must I.

DOCTOR: We all change, when you think about it. We're all different people all through our lives. And that's okay, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the DOCTOR was me.

(The DOCTOR removes his bow tie and drops it on the floor. His face is in pain.)

YOU: No, no.

DOCTOR: Hey

YOU: Please don't change.

(The DOCTOR jerks backwards as 11 and then forwards as 12. Tall, grey haired, piercing blue eyes and a Scottish burr.)

Notes:

Hugely energetic, occasionally flirtatious, and by his own admission, "a mad man in a box", the Eleventh Doctor combined youthful looks with an old soul. Crashing into the lives of Amy Pond, and her boyfriend (later, husband) Rory, he solved the mystery of the time-erasing cracks in the universe, escaped his own death, restarted reality and even found time to marry River Song. A broken man after Amy and Rory were sent back in time by a Weeping Angel, and a Victorian-era Clara fell to her death, he decided to disappear. But it wasn't long before the lure of "the woman twice dead" brought the Doctor out of retirement. Finding his own tomb on the embattled Trenzalore and meeting a shameful, hidden past incarnation, started him on a path of redemption, teaming up with the Tenth Doctor to save Gallifrey rather than burn it. After sacrificing his life to defend Trenzalore, and granted a whole new cycle of incarnations by the Time Lords, the Doctor regenerated once more…

The Doctor's initial outfit, chosen within the narrative of "The Eleventh Hour" from an array of clothes found in a hospital, is a brown tweed jacket with elbow patches, bow tie, braces, blue trousers and black, ankle-high boots. The details of the outfit vary, switching from a braces and bow tie combination in red to the same in blue. In later stories, a green moleskin overcoat makes its way into the Doctor's ensemble, occasionally replacing the Harris jacket. On other occasions he does not wear a coat and wears a bow-tie and dress shirt.

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