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The Doctor checks his console screen, taps a few buttons, and reports, "2401. Planet Jaconda. Recovering from some kind of invasion by a race of sentient snails. Native race are Avianoid."

"Jaconda! I must have been here at some time, but I don't recall what I did here. I guess that's a good sign, yes? Well, happy hunting. I think the trace must be a ways away. The TARDIS did not want to get too close to my old timeline, so you'll have to hoof it from here. Good luck."

The TARDIS door opens and the team may exit and explore.

A likely destination suggests itself as soon as they leave the TARDIS. In the distance is a huge domed structure. Bryce and K-9 have worked out how to use the Temporal Trace Locator, so they can detect a faint trace when the targeting element, the bell of a trombone, points at the structure.

The air feels like Earth air, except for some odd smells of alien flora and fauna, but nothing threatening seems to be about. In fact, squinting at the building gives a hint that their might be a line of people standing outside the building.

The Doctor scowls when Ted asks if the Master might be behind the events. "That's not possible. He refused to regenerate, which ended his life. I cremated his body. So unless he can come back from the dead, no I don't think the Master is behind this. Our time lines did cross many times, however, so you may see him again."

I'll elaborate on the build point in the discussion thread.

Somewhat befuddled by the Doctor's "explanation", Bryce asks "So, Doctor, what do we do when we find one of these 'scars'? Will this device automatically repair it, or what?"

"No, the temporal traces are like dots that when connected, will identify the origin point of the weapon. Only shutting down the temporal exterminator can restore what has already been erased, but only if it can be reached in time."

The Doctor takes Joe back to London in 2018. Joe says she can manage and refuses to take anyone to her flat. The Doctor gives her a mobile phone that can contact him.

Once done, the Doctor asks if anyone needs to pick up anything before getting under way.

PCs can do some shopping, but the Doctor rushes this and questions anything that is not obviously useful, noting that the TARDIS has a lot of stuff in her storage rooms. He's anxious to get going.

Once everyone is back in the TARDIS, he connects some wires from the Temporal Trace Locator to the TARDIS control panels and starts things moving with lots of rushing around and flipping switches.

After the familiar sounds and vibrations, the TARDIS becomes quiet and the Doctor says, "All right, you lot. Off you pop. Take the temporal trace locator and turn it various ways and listen to the sounds it makes. You'll have to do some trial and error, to figure out how it communicates. Once you are close enough to the temporal trace, it will acquire it automatically and will go ding. Once you hear that, get back to the TARDIS. I'll be here, looking after the TARDIS and keeping away from anything that might be my own timeline.

"You have mobiles that can communicate with me, but don't use them too much. It takes more juice to power these than the usual phones and so each only has one or at most two calls in it before it needs recharging. Good luck."

A couple of pots of tea later, a workable device takes form. It is about the size of a carry-on suitcase, with the trumpet or trombone bell extending out a bit, with duct tape holding various hoses and cable lines going in and coming out at odd points. It has a small window with a touch screen (the mobile phone or a tablet, whatever you could find), and the interface can be programmed to send and receive signals to K-9, so, if needed, he can manipulate the controls. The suitcase could be strapped to K-9 or carried by a PC in one hand (but it will take two hands to operate it).

The Doctor looks it over and says, "Good job! While we're at it, why don't we give it a coffee maker and a selfie taking camera.... no, there isn't time. It just needs one more thing. It needs to make a sound when it has located a temporal trace. Something like ... oh, I don't know, .... I've always been partial to 'Ding'."

"Any way, this thing locates a temporal trace, which is like a scar, a discontinuity that is left when someone or something is removed from the timeline. They are hyper-dimensional scars in the Vortex. They aren't tied necessarily to a particular place. They might be entangled in the timeline or some person or object. It might even be linked to a specific time. The device will guide the TARDIS to someplace and sometime where a trace exists, but you'll have to explore and check around until you here it go 'ding.' It can tell you when you are close and which way to go, but there's no telling what exactly will be needed to find it."

The Doctor begins to fire up the TARDIS for a jump, saying, "I'll need to stay in the TARDIS, but if you get in trouble, call my mobile." He hands Bryce a cell phone with "The Doctor" as the principle contact.

"Now imagine someone has made a souffle and then turned it upside down on a map of the city. Then forget that, because it's nothing like that. Temporal Traces are kind of like bread crumbs left by my eroding timeline. If we can locate enough of them, it can locate the weapon at the point where it started in on my timeline. If we're not too late and can interrupt the process, the timeline will heal and things will go back to the way they were."

The column in the center of the TARDIS starts to rise and fall as the familiar wheezing sound begins to fill the air. "I'm going to make one stop in London in 2018, to drop off Joe. She has been suffering from the effects of using that time particle locator and she'll need to spend some time away from timey-whimy phenomena for a while. I'll give her a phone so she can call if she's feeling better and wants to get picked up."

Last chance for Joe to get back into the upcoming chapter of the adventure. She can rejoin later if things work out, but it might have to wait for a spot when the game is in transition to the next adventure.

"Affirmative on not taking The Doctor. On not allowing the Doctor to see us, insufficient data. The Doctor may not recall us meeting his earlier, in his time line, self due to another reason such as disruption to his memory caused by his current state of health and age. Finally The doctor may indeed recall the meetings with us in his past and our future, and knows from those meetings he does not inform us of them now. So The Doctor may not be telling us of those meetings to preserve the time line or to avoid us now calling off our expedition as not needed when that very missions's success is what renders it redundant. The Tesseract has been tampered with, when this is not thought possible, and the individual who claims to have sent the message is a fairy tale. Much relevant data is unknown, unverified or deliberately with-held. Extreme caution is advised. Probability of something foul being afoot 98%."

The Doctor keeps trying to get a word in edgewise to K-9s analysis, but after a few tries, he looks in a mirror and adjusts his bow tie. Once the robot dog stops talking he turns back to face the group.

"Someone is attacking me, so yes, I'd say that is pretty foul. The Watchmaker is a legend on Gallifrey, a Time Lord who some thing is far in the future, watching over Gallifrey and playing with time lines like a puppet-master. Fat lot of good it did Gallifrey I'm afraid." The Doctor pauses, looking a bit out of sorts at the thought of the fate of Gallifrey. "Some of you know about that," he says, glancing at Ted with a nod, but then regarding Kyle with uncertainty. "But if my time line is destroyed, whole worlds may be lost. If recent adventures have taught me anything, it is that some view me with fear, but most respect me for what I've been able to do for them. I'd not like to roll the dice and see all this lost. I can face my own death; in fact, I've been planning on it, once I visited a few other former companions and friends. But to let it all slip away. I don't think so." Here he seems to have talked himself into something.

Well...that's not good. Doctor, you mentioned something tried to eat the paradox the last time you and...err...you were in the same place, with this whole "Shada" business. That probably means you can't follow the temporal trace locator yourself to gather the data, because you'd cross your own timeline repeatedly. We'll have to do it for you.

He thinks for a moment. Oh! And since you don't remember any of this, we can't let you see us at any of those moments! Otherwise you'd already know how this happens and where the attacks occur.

He looks to the more seasoned time travelers, to see if this tracks with their understanding of time travel.

"If I understand this correctly," the Doctor replies, "This weapon attacks the timeline at different points and this temporal locator gizmo takes us to those points. So I can't cross my own timeline because my timeline will have been erased. Nothing I see in these locations can create a paradox, since I won't have been there before and I won't remember it. But just to play it safe, how about we build this locator and check one of the places. You'll need me to fly the TARDIS, but you don't necessarily need me to go outside the TARDIS."

I put together an NPC profile for the 11th Doctor. I picked a picture that was reasonably close. We all know what the Doctor really looks like.

Check out the profile. Please use the same format for posting your character's attributes, skills, traits, etc. I'd prefer you not put spoilers on the attributes, skills, and trait lists. It just makes it easier to find a particular number when I need to while doing GM stuff. I've found in my other GM duties that having a standard format for everyone helps tremendously when I need look something up.

As you get time, I would add details for any of your traits and gadgets just to have a quick place to remind yourself and me of the game mechanical aspects of the trait.