Jump 157: Doctor Who

Jump #157: Doctor Who
>Page of Wands (Inner fire that can drive away fear and replace it with fury.)
>Companion to: The War Doctor (-100)
>Liar (800)
The best lies are the ones that are true.
>Inspirational (600)
It's going to be a very long ten years. When I say something, it's got to count.
>No More (400)
This isn't the happy-go-lucky explore the universe kind of adventure. This is the kind where you need to be able to dig in and fight.
>Companion's Luck (0)
Admit it. He wouldn't be the Doctor without a companion, now would he?

Now... the choice I made to start out this jump made it interesting. The War Doctor is not one who is out having a fun time. He's fighting some of the hardest battles that his universe will ever see, facing weapons that are quite frankly absurd when thought about outside of their context. I have no intention of stealing any of them. I have no intention of trying to out-tech the Daleks, because they're worse than the Borg when it comes to adapting to things. But the Time Lords' war is a conflict that spans a great many worlds that will doubtlessly be annihilated, species that will be retroactively annihilated after they serve their purpose, and timelines that never were in the first place.

My role in this is to do everything that I can to make things go better for the Time Lords in general and the Doctor in specific. No reason not to be forthright with him, but I'm definitely not going to take this jump or anything in it for granted - wearing my Sunday best, that is, praetor armor that I have been steadily upgrading for many jumps now, and likely will keep upgrading for many jumps to come. Granted, I've taken to wearing a cloak over it so that I look rather less intimidating, but... there's only so much one can do. Especially when the better part of the right arm isn't so much proper praetor armor as it is a gold pauldron and gauntlet.

Let's see the Daleks learn to deal with fiendfyre- actually no, scratch that, better not to chance them learning magic, because with the way they work, somehow they WOULD. Pity I have no scrolls of Genocide, though.

It's a pity, though. As much as I did within this jump to help the Doctor, and there was ten years of strategizing and fighting at his side, it wasn't enough to win the war. It made it shorter, sure, but the same sacrifices had to be made in the end. Makes one wonder about those fixed points in time, really. Though it was a damned good thing I had certain perks from Terminator and Chrono Trigger, they came in handy WAY more often than I would have imagined.