The Terminal Decay Concordance

Terminal Decay by unslinky is a fan fiction novel that takes place shortly after the episode "The Planet of the Dead"in the series Doctor Who. The story is Alternate Universe to everything Doctor Who and Torchwood after that. Unslinky started posting this amazing story in May 2010 and here it is March 2011 and the story is far from being completed. The story is on the website A Teaspoon and an Open Mind.

I am such a big fan of this novel and it's amazing complexities, I decided to write a
concordance for Terminal Decay.
The labels in this blog can be used to track of who's who and what's what in the novel. For instance if you scroll down to "seizures" you'll find that it has (3). When you click on that label you'll come up with the Chapters that has someone having a seizure: Chapter 410, 509, 555.
The summaries are just to jog your memory and sometimes I'll write something pertaining to that Chapter that is a bit of TD trivia. The Blog Entries themselves are listed below the rather long (and bound to be even longer) Labels section. Summary inconsistencies should be directed to me and I'll make corrections.
Writing this is a long process so I'm far from being caught up but I'm trying! One final thing: I am American so my phrasing and spelling may look a little "off" to you in the UK
Allons-y, Donnaj
Showing posts with label Telepathy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Telepathy. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Terminal Decay Chapter 9

Chapter 9 link

Martha now understands why she can’t touch the doctor: she is unable to shield her thoughts from the Doctor as she is mind blind the Doctor is unable to shield anyone else’s thoughts of the people that touch him except for Jack who is telepathic. The Doctor still doesn’t know what is wrong with him and why he called Martha and why he’s been cold and can’t get warm. The Doctor doesn’t realize he placed the milk in the microwave and not the refrigerator, and he also hasn’t had a proper meal since Christmas 1851 which in Martha’s timeline was five months previous. The Doctor admits that he knows that he hasn’t been experimented on, kidnapped or tortured to Jack. Martha makes the Doctor promise that he won’t run off before the tests are made and they can find out what is wrong with him. The Doctor confides that he can’t connect telepathically with the TARDIS since the Zed Neutrino energy on the Cruciform. The Doctor believes that the TARDIS is playing games with him by moving rooms around moving things around in the kitchen too. The Doctor thinks the TARDIS is unhappy with him because he took Rose back to the other universe.Jack and Martha believes it’s not the TARDIS that is not talking to the Doctor but that the Doctor for some reason is losing his ability to communicate with the TARDIS. The Doctor has another dizzy spell and loses his breakfast again. There is also a concern as to why the Doctor is not healing. The Doctor asks Jack to delay going in to Torchwood and doesn’t realize that it is spring/April because he’s forgotten.

Terminal Decay Chapter 8

Chapter 8 link

Jack stays overnight at Martha’s flat to watch over the Doctor. The Doctor has several nightmares during the night. The Doctor asks Jack why he didn’t ever tell him he was a telepath and Jack remarks that the Doctor never told him either, but being a 51st century human who was and who had training with the Time Agency. The Doctor discovers that he can no longer feel Jack’s “wrongness” of being an immortal. The Doctor has lost all his Time Lord time sense: Jack’s wrongness, what time it actually is. Jack believes that playing Play Station has helped with Torchwood tactics and explaining dangerous situations to Mickey. The Doctor plays Resident Evil 9 and has a nasty reaction to it and has his second bout with a flashback to Arcadia: the penultimate battle of the Time War. The Doctor again has problems with his short term memory asking for water and expecting tea. The Doctor and Jack watch the Disney animated film The Sword and The Stone.

Terminal Decay Chapter 7

Chapter 7 link

The Doctor has a flashback while sleeping on Martha’s sofa and breaks her glass coffee table. Jack is able to block his thoughts from the Doctor and helps Martha stitch the gash on his arm. The Doctor realizes that he is forgetting things recently told to him. Martha comments to Jack that the Doctor’s resting rates and heart rates are a bit off. The Doctor retires early to bed and sleeps through the night.

Terminal Decay Summary: Chapter 5

Chapter 5 link

The Doctor admits to Martha that he cannot block emotions telepathically because he is so tired. Through a phone call Tom learns that the Doctor is staying at their flat and is keen to meet the Time Lord once he returns from Africa.

The Doctor and Martha watch the first of many movies: The Lion King. The Doctor learns how Martha met Tom after the Year that Never Was. The Doctor learns from Martha that Jack although in a relationship with Ianto really would rather be with him. She also informs the Doctor of as much information that she has gleaned from Jack about being buried alive and about his brother Gray.

Martha is worried by the symptoms that the Doctor is exhibiting: claustrophobia, vertigo, panic, vomiting, forgetfulness. The Doctor agrees to have a thorough checkup in Torchwood the following day.