{"id":234,"date":"2002-10-17T23:30:14","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=234"},"modified":"2002-10-17T23:30:14","modified_gmt":"2002-10-17T23:30:14","slug":"triple-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Triple threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?selm=20021014225302.10542.00010376%40mb-me.aol.com&#038;rnum=1\">Brad Willis<\/a> suggested a <i>Doctor Who<\/i> story challenge in alt.drwho.creative a few days ago&#8211;take the <i>Doctor Who<\/i> characters from seasons 18 to 21 and do a &#8220;what if&#8221; to them and see where the story takes you.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how I got this idea.  I don&#8217;t know what it amuses me so much.  But here&#8217;s the brainwave I had.<\/p>\n<p>As we all know, Nyssa hails from Traken.<\/p>\n<p>What if Nyssa hailed from Carggg instead?<\/p>\n<p>Some explanation.  Carggg is a planet from DC Comics&#8217; <i>The Legion of Super-Heroes<\/i>.  Natives of Carggg have the ability to &#8220;split&#8221; themselves into three separate individuals.  Triplicate Girl (or Triad in post-<i>Zero Hour<\/i> continuity) came from Carggg.<\/p>\n<p>So, Nyssa of Carggg would be able to split into three, separate Nyssas.<\/p>\n<p>Just think.  If Nyssa could split into three, couldn&#8217;t the Master, who took over the body of Tremas, Nyssa&#8217;s father?<\/p>\n<p>As I said, I don&#8217;t know <i>why<\/i> I&#8217;m so taken with the idea.  I know exactly what I would do with it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Willis suggested a Doctor Who story challenge in alt.drwho.creative a few days ago&#8211;take the Doctor Who characters from seasons 18 to 21 and do a &#8220;what if&#8221; to them and see where the story takes you. I don&#8217;t know how I got this idea. I don&#8217;t know what it amuses me so much. But<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=234\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Triple threat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,75],"tags":[4092,4082,4102],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","category-writing","tag-comic-books","tag-doctor-who","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}