13th January 2016 Writings

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Excerpt from: Reverse Map Game: 1925

1840
Americas
The Minnesota Commonwealth is annexed by the United States. Owing to its low population, it is admitted as a territory. Most of the territory is split off as the Unorganised Territory. This is the result of aggitation by the majority English speaking immigrants who had arrived from the United States in recent years.
The Norse and native minorities oppose the annexation. This opposition is one of the main causes for the creation of the Plains Nation in later years. The Minnesota Norse language would continue to dwindle in usage.[1]

The British expand further into the arctic regions.

In Alabama, government investigation proves the existence of a Union supported Underground Railroad. This results in an increase in National Guard activity around the plantations.


Europe
An old explorer arrives home to the United Kingdom, but dies before he could reach Oxford to recruit his replacement. All his notebooks (and those of his predecessors) are lost...


Africa
Further colonial expansion occurs.


Asia
Some Russian exploration occurs in Siberia.


Oceania
The colony of New East Anglia is renamed Victoria after the Queen.

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Excerpt from: Multiple Invasions Timeline

6 January 1886
A sixth War Dirigible is commissioned at the yard in New Jersey. The Minnesota begins it’s journey to Montana.

And still, despite the previous day’s headline in the Times, something was coming from Mars…

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Excerpt from:Daria: A Day as a Senior

“Hi, Quinn,” Stacy said.

“Are you ready?” Quinn asked, bouncing slightly on the spot.

“I have done my homework,” Stacy said, in a slightly worried tone.

“I'm sure you have done OK,” Quinn reassurred.

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Excerpt from: Daria: Loneliness of Alex

“Stacy, note start at 4:30 PM,” Quinn said.

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Excerpt from: Daria: The Trouble with a Video Assignment

“try not to use it too much,” Jake said.

“How much is too much?”

Jake sighed.

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Excerpt from: The Kelsington Conspiracy v2

“It will take a while, would you like to order something first?” Elias asked.

“Sure,” Corrine asked after a moment.

Corrine ordered an orange juice while Elias ordered a frothed coffee. They then sat down. “What I am going to tell you, is secret,” Elias said, quietly and confidentially.

“I understand,” Corrine said.

“I know, I trust you,” Elias said. “As the first Mara Green College article says, I did oppose Kelsington International's offer of a grant...”



Chapter 1: Kelsington Moves on New Oxford
Tuesday, 10 August 2004
Mara Green College, University of New Oxfordshire, New Oxford, New Oxfordshire, Australia
Elias Stanton entered the Dining Hall, carrying the latest university newsletter. He hadn't liked what he had read there. He was sure that Kelsington would put pressure on UNO as it had other universities that they had given grants to. He saw one of his friends at the one of the tables, and went in that direction. “Mel!” he called out.

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Excerpt from: The Kelsington Conspiracy

“She might still try to question me today.”

“You have class, don't you?” Parminder asked.

“Yes,” Elias answered.

“I don't think she will interfere with that.”

“That is what I thought.”

“So, you doing anything else?” Parminder asked.

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Excerpt from: Doctor Who: The Many Time Lords

The Many Time Lords – Chapter 4: Cloister Bell
In the TARDIS (Travelling through the Vortex)
After Susan and her companions (with the help of UNIT and Torchwood), had defeated the Drahvins, she did not stay around to mop up in the aftermath of the invasion. She and her companions had a hurried back to the TARDIS and left the Azores.


Susan knew that the TARDIS would go off course again, so she had set a random course. She had charged out of the console room into the corridors, leaving her companions.
. Daniel glanced at the indicators. From what he understood, the TARDIS was again going off course from the random trajectory that Susan had set. “I wonder where we are going now?” he wondered. He then saw Jia'hale heading off into the corridors also.

“I will be in the bathroom if you need me,” she said, as she ran off. She wanted to strip off her clothes and relax.

“Of course she would be,” Daniel said.

“She had a very rough time of it this time Daniel!” Sabrina said, then thought, ‘I would too if I had fought those Amazons.’

“I suppose so,” Daniel said, then left the console room.

“I have had a difficult time also,” Felicia said.

“All of us have had a difficult time,” Sabrina said. She pondered. It wasn’t just today either. It has been a busy week, or two.

“Definitely,” Sigrun said.

Felicia left the console room after Jia'hale.


“What do you think that the TARDIS was trying to tell Felicia when we arrived in the Azores?” Sigrun asked.

“No idea, it could be anything, but whatever it is it would be private,” Sabrina replied.

“I agree,” Daniel said. Being a private person himself, he didn't like it when Sigrun pried into others affairs. Not that she did that all too often, just mostly after rather dangerous adventures...

“It could turn out to be important,” Sigrun said indignantly ‘If the TARDIS told me something, I would tell the others, especially Susan.”

“It possibly could be, but then it would be Susan’s business, not ours,” Daniel said.

“I suppose so,” Sigrun said.


Felicia had gone to the library. She was looking for records of Susan’s and her mysterious Grandfather’s adventures that had been recorded by historians. She was certain that he would have collected some of that information. She decided to start with an encyclopaedia.


Jia'hale was now relaxing in the bathroom. ‘This is what I like after a day of chasing after Drahvins, and Terileptils,' she thought. She began to think about what she would do when she managed to get back home. Maybe she would finally tell her family about her travels in the TARDIS...


Susan was deep in the TARDIS. She was replacing the storage device with the Time Lord AI's back where it had come from. She hoped that he would never need to use it again, yet she knew that something would eventually happen that would require her to use it again...

In the console room, Sigrun and Daniel were still arguing about whether they needed to know what the TARDIS was trying to tell Felicia.

“I don’t think we do need to know, Sigrun.” Daniel said.

Sabrina was trying not to pay attention to their argument whilst watching the console instrumentation. She noticed that the TARDIS was indeed going off course. Could there be a pattern to the changes...

She noticed that the TARDIS was now heading away from Earth, towards The Library, which she knew wasn’t right. As much as she liked the largest Library in the Universe, and enjoyed talking to CAL, Sabrina didn't want to think about what might be wrong there now...

“...If we don't know, we might get killed or something,” Sigrun said.

“Or the reverse may happen...” Daniel said.

“Possibly, but it’s better to know!”

Daniel rolled his eyes.


Felicia was reading an encyclopedia article...

Reports of this figure are often contradictory, with different faces and companions being reported. One consistant aspect, however, is the presence of a strange blue box being reported at most locations where the Doctor has been spotted.
What else is consistent, is that the Doctor is most often accompanied by a young female travelling companion, even though it is often a different person (or persons) each time.

‘Well that’s obvious,’ Felicia thought.

“This is strange,” Sabrina said.

“What is?” Sigrun asked after Daniel had left the room in a huff. She knew that she would win the arguement.

“The TARDIS is going beserk, usually the course changes are slight, but it is going all over the Milky Way!” Sabrina exclaimed.

“I suppose that there must be a reason?”

?” Sigrun pondered. “There has to be! The TARDIS can’t be doing it just for fun!”

“Your guess is as good as mine, first it was headed to The Library, then to Trenzalore, then back to Earth, in orbit early in 2005, and now it is headed to somewhere called the Medusa Cascade,” Sabrina reported.

That got Sigrun's attention. Something was certainly up. “Any information on what that is supposed to be?” she asked.

“None, I can't get anything on it. It’s either in a restricted data storage area, or it the TARDIS hasn't got any information on it.”

“It’s most likely the former,” Sigrun suggested.

“I guess so.”


Felicia was still in the TARDIS library, there was information about the Doctor's activities, but it was scarce.

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