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I could not have written this story without working out its timeline in advance, and [livejournal.com profile] platypus suggested other people might be interested in seeing it, too. Again, you may not want to look at this until after reading the story.



9:00 – Party starts. Machine is configured to go 4 hours.

9:53 – TARDIS arrives (Bubble Room, 2)

10:00 – Time jump. The Doctor is shifted to 11:12. Donna is shifted to 10:33.

10:13 – The Doctor arrives [somewhere], cutting off his conversation with Graham. We don’t see it and it doesn’t matter because of the 10:20 event.

10:20 – Time jump. The Doctor is shifted to 11:42.

10:28 – The Doctor arrives near the Jungle Room, where Graham is mixing drinks. Meets up with Graham, finds out about the party.

10:33 – Donna arrives in the Jungle Room. Meets Bernard, gets a drink.

10:40 – Time jump. Donna is shifted to 11:35. The Doctor is shifted to 10:13. Graham is shifted to 11:45.

10:49 – Phengarian arrives (Hologram Room, 3)

10:54 – Murder is committed (Central Hallway near Red Room, 3)

10:58 – The Doctor arrives in the Red Room. Phengarian brushes by him.

11:00 – Time jump. Doctor is shifted to 10:28. Phengarian shifted to 11:18 in Foam Room.

11:12 – Doctor arrives in the Foam Room (second floor), heads for the Jungle Room, suggests a conga line.

11:13 – Donna discovers Mae’s body, goes looking for the Doctor.


11:18 – Donna makes it down to the first floor, meets up with the Doctor briefly before the 11:20 jump.

11:19 – Phengarian has just enough time to kill someone else in the Foam Room.

11:20 – Time jump. Donna is shifted to 11:44. The Doctor is shifted to 10:58. Phengarian is shifted to 11:50.

11:35 – Donna arrives in the Jungle Room, witnesses the conga line.

11:40 – Time jump. Donna is shifted to 11:13.

11:42 – The Doctor arrives at the Bubble Room and gets into the TARDIS.

11:44 – Donna shows up in the queue for the loo outside the Bubble Room. She sees the bubbles floating outside, heads for the TARDIS.

11:45 – Graham discovers dead bodies in the Foam Room.

11:48 – Graham places emergency call, realizes that cops can't get through his shield. Heads to his room (second floor, central to building) to disable device.

11:50 – Phengarian arrives near Bubble Room.

12:05 – Doctor and Donna confront Graham.

on 2008-03-10 06:44 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] iainpj.livejournal.com
A very good story, and really impressive that you could pull this all together and make it work. It would have broken my wee brain to make this sort of attempt.

One thing I'm a bit confused on, though: the machine jumps individual people around, and not rooms? And even though people jump every 20 minutes, it takes varying amounts of time for them to get when they're going to be, so they don't actually get 20 minutes in any given ... room? time? whatever. Plus, if they're getting jumped around like this, then, theoretically, there are multiple overlapping versions of any given person in the house at any time, right?

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