Fic: Ac Velut In Somnis (3/13)

[john_amend_all]

I should have linked this video from part 1. If only the vidder had used the David Tennant / Billie Piper credits from Season 28...

Title: Ac Velut In Somnis (3/13)
Author: john_amend_all
Characters: Rose, Adam, Lynda, Nancy; Treguard, Majida, Brother Strange, Lord Fear, Lissard
Crossover: With Knightmare
Rating: All ages
Word count: ~28400 in total, 2157 this part
Disclaimer: "Doctor Who" characters belong to the BBC. "Knightmare" characters were created by Tim Child.
Summary: Rose had had enough adventures that she could probably have walked through one blindfolded. This time, she would have to do precisely that.

The path is closed, and yet there came
A challenger: Rose is her name.
The Doctor's held in dungeon grim
And Rose must quest to rescue him.
Her guides are drawn from time and space;
Their first adventures they now face.

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Comments

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Having Rose feel the dungeon's effects (including the loss of lifeforce), even if she can't see them, is a good way of establishing it as real (given that personally, my second-strongest memory of the series is that it clearly wasn't).

[john_amend_all]

Thanks. Making the dungeon real was one of my earliest decisions, and I realised ridiculously late in the process how well Lynda would also be suited for a version where it wasn't. It wouldn't take much to adapt Knightmare to the requirements of the Game Station.

[liadt]

Yay, a progress report! I like Rose being unable to stand looking at anything in the dungeon, which explains why dungeoneers need to wear the helmet.

[john_amend_all]

It was either that or having Rose able to see what was happening — but if I let her see, she wouldn't need advisors, and what fun would that be?