Excellent dream plot bunny prison escape
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beccaelizabethI do not know why I ended up sleeping until 3pm today. I started trying to sleep at midnight, only checked the internet once around 0230, and only had to get up once to check my house hadn't been broken into. Also my alarm went off at 1101. Staying asleep until 3pm seems excessive.
But I had an excellent plot bunny dream.
The Doctor was in prison. Which is not usually a problem for long. And it was the sort of prison where you can wander around and get meals and meet people and all sorts, so there seemed to be opportunity all over.
But it was like that time the audios kept 8 in prison by making him believe the consequences of leaving were too terrible.
If the Doctor escaped, every other prisoner would die.
All of them.
If anyone escaped really, which was why the prison authorities didnt mind all the mixing.
Everyone knew the cost of escape, so no one let anyone try it.
But it was a 'humane' prison, so any intentional deaths also counted as an escape
since they wouldnt be serving the rest of their sentence.
... that kept the violence... lower.
So the Doctor got there and realised:
No one can escape
unless Everyone does.
Everyone. Everywhere. Every last prisoner.
Even the ones in for crimes that would give you pause.
No one gets out unless everyone does.
But? Also?
Every last *guard*.
Since the prison staff are very much included in the rules.
So to get anyone out
involved herding cats
on prisoners considered the worst of the worst
so they wouldnt hurt a staff member
despite some serious motivation to do so.
... bits of this dream ... I was going to say got darker than Doctor Who does, but, ship repaired with people parts, concept of cybermen, Doctor Who does body horror nasties on several occasions.
Still.
Bit of a nightmare under the cut.
There were the special prisoners. The ones some judge or staff member had a particular grudge against. A whole corridor of people who some bastard had thought would have more problems running away
if they didn't have legs.
Or arms. Hard to do much if they take your legs and arms off.
And rather a lot of motivation not to do anything, was their theory, since one becones very much aware of which parts one realky needs to live.
No getting out early just by dying.
Not much by way of other rules.
There was one other woman. A surgeon. She hadn't killed the most people, but on the outside, she was the most hated. She'd saved the lives and livings of the rich and famous. She'd spread the guilt around.
Organ banker.
Room full of people she was treating as parts.
So they gave her a choice, when they went her to this prison. They let her choose if she wanted to lose her arms. She's a surgeon, so of course she said no. She should have had more imagination. They took her lungs out instead. They didnt kill her, her lungs stil, worked, they were just on the outside now. The ultimate blood eagle. All those miles of tubes and blood vessels the text books tell you about, they were all spread out around the walls. Took lots of clever machinery. And of course, infection remained a problem. No one could go in that cell with her. And she wasn't precisely mobile, even with all her limbs. So she was just sitting there. Alone. And would be, until her sentence ran out.
She had, of course, thought of how to escape. She even knew how to do the operation. But if anything went wrong, everyone would die. And she wasn't exactly going to get a queue of volunteers.
But if any of the prisoners were going to escape, they all had to. Even her.
The last of the special prisoners looked dead already, frozen. But they had a very very faint life sign. The cold was preserving them. But if they thawed out, they'd die before their sentence was up, and so would everyone else in the prison.
Significant incentive not to mess with the infrastructure or power supply.
But the Doctor is smart enough for this problem.
For all the technical problems.
So eventually everyone is outside, and the only remaining difficulty is getting them across 100 miles of sterilised empty desert, without getting too far away from each other, before anyone outside the prison noticed the escape attempt and just... bombed them all or something.
Without anyone killing each other at all at all, or leaving even one behind.
And if they achieve all that... well, then people the authorities thought needed to be in a prison like that, won't be any more.
The Doctor's problems probably continue a while after the escape.
This is an excellent if sometimes gruesome plot bunny. I would probably leave the nastiest bits out, if I wrote it up longer.
Anyone who wants to use it can use it. We'd all make different stories anyway. I mean, when I say 'the Doctor' we're not even seeing the same person.
In the dream it was 12. Also he lacked a sonic screwdriver but fixed things by waving his hand at them as if he was holding one. Said River was going to be ever so smug, she'd been saying for ages it was him and not the tech. Might have been kidding of course. But we'd never know.
Weird thing is this made such excellent story I didnt feel like it was a nightmare even when it was... like that.
But the dream where I can't find my things but can find the door is unlocked was horrible heart pounding leap out of bed to check everything time.
:rolls eyes:
But I had an excellent plot bunny dream.
The Doctor was in prison. Which is not usually a problem for long. And it was the sort of prison where you can wander around and get meals and meet people and all sorts, so there seemed to be opportunity all over.
But it was like that time the audios kept 8 in prison by making him believe the consequences of leaving were too terrible.
If the Doctor escaped, every other prisoner would die.
All of them.
If anyone escaped really, which was why the prison authorities didnt mind all the mixing.
Everyone knew the cost of escape, so no one let anyone try it.
But it was a 'humane' prison, so any intentional deaths also counted as an escape
since they wouldnt be serving the rest of their sentence.
... that kept the violence... lower.
So the Doctor got there and realised:
No one can escape
unless Everyone does.
Everyone. Everywhere. Every last prisoner.
Even the ones in for crimes that would give you pause.
No one gets out unless everyone does.
But? Also?
Every last *guard*.
Since the prison staff are very much included in the rules.
So to get anyone out
involved herding cats
on prisoners considered the worst of the worst
so they wouldnt hurt a staff member
despite some serious motivation to do so.
... bits of this dream ... I was going to say got darker than Doctor Who does, but, ship repaired with people parts, concept of cybermen, Doctor Who does body horror nasties on several occasions.
Still.
Bit of a nightmare under the cut.
There were the special prisoners. The ones some judge or staff member had a particular grudge against. A whole corridor of people who some bastard had thought would have more problems running away
if they didn't have legs.
Or arms. Hard to do much if they take your legs and arms off.
And rather a lot of motivation not to do anything, was their theory, since one becones very much aware of which parts one realky needs to live.
No getting out early just by dying.
Not much by way of other rules.
There was one other woman. A surgeon. She hadn't killed the most people, but on the outside, she was the most hated. She'd saved the lives and livings of the rich and famous. She'd spread the guilt around.
Organ banker.
Room full of people she was treating as parts.
So they gave her a choice, when they went her to this prison. They let her choose if she wanted to lose her arms. She's a surgeon, so of course she said no. She should have had more imagination. They took her lungs out instead. They didnt kill her, her lungs stil, worked, they were just on the outside now. The ultimate blood eagle. All those miles of tubes and blood vessels the text books tell you about, they were all spread out around the walls. Took lots of clever machinery. And of course, infection remained a problem. No one could go in that cell with her. And she wasn't precisely mobile, even with all her limbs. So she was just sitting there. Alone. And would be, until her sentence ran out.
She had, of course, thought of how to escape. She even knew how to do the operation. But if anything went wrong, everyone would die. And she wasn't exactly going to get a queue of volunteers.
But if any of the prisoners were going to escape, they all had to. Even her.
The last of the special prisoners looked dead already, frozen. But they had a very very faint life sign. The cold was preserving them. But if they thawed out, they'd die before their sentence was up, and so would everyone else in the prison.
Significant incentive not to mess with the infrastructure or power supply.
But the Doctor is smart enough for this problem.
For all the technical problems.
So eventually everyone is outside, and the only remaining difficulty is getting them across 100 miles of sterilised empty desert, without getting too far away from each other, before anyone outside the prison noticed the escape attempt and just... bombed them all or something.
Without anyone killing each other at all at all, or leaving even one behind.
And if they achieve all that... well, then people the authorities thought needed to be in a prison like that, won't be any more.
The Doctor's problems probably continue a while after the escape.
This is an excellent if sometimes gruesome plot bunny. I would probably leave the nastiest bits out, if I wrote it up longer.
Anyone who wants to use it can use it. We'd all make different stories anyway. I mean, when I say 'the Doctor' we're not even seeing the same person.
In the dream it was 12. Also he lacked a sonic screwdriver but fixed things by waving his hand at them as if he was holding one. Said River was going to be ever so smug, she'd been saying for ages it was him and not the tech. Might have been kidding of course. But we'd never know.
Weird thing is this made such excellent story I didnt feel like it was a nightmare even when it was... like that.
But the dream where I can't find my things but can find the door is unlocked was horrible heart pounding leap out of bed to check everything time.
:rolls eyes: