Video: When Props Attack

[timesbureaucrat]

[The communicator comes on with the sound of a hard crack, like the buttons are being smacked instead of pushed. The communicator bounces with the force of the blow.

On the screen, Narvin is looking wild-eyed and hair askew. He swears in Gallifreyan and runs a frustrated hand over his head.

Well, now that the communicator is on, he might as well explain.]

One of those vile pests has got into my room. If there's an exterminator around, I would pay good emeralds to see the blasted thing put out of my misery. I last saw it disguising itself as a communicator, but where or what it is now...

[He scans the room, sees something moving out of the corner of his eye.]

No don't--! [And runs off chasing after the Prop, communicator still on, but left on the table.]

Comments

[frontier_doktor]

Yes, but for the moment you're at least interesting to them. You have an edge. You can tell them about other Gallifreys.

Its worth a try. It's the easiest solution and it might be the best to pursue first. If you can get them, we can see if we can apply them here. It seems like a more difficult thing to build from scratch.

[He has a look around.] It looks as though your room is otherwise pretty safe. Perhaps the Andorian has left by now. [He stands again and fusses over himself primly.] I'm sorry that you were inconvenienced and I couldn't help you. [With the prop, anyway.]

[timesbureaucrat]

On the contrary, you've helped me tremendously, Doctor Visscher.

[Getting those regenerations will be a matter of playing Gallifreyan politics. And Narvin understands Gallifreyan politics. There's a chance it might actually work. For the first time in a long time, things are starting to look up.]