The Ruins of Time
(Short Trips: Time Signature)

Story

Featuring: First Doctor, Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright

Placement Rating: 
3 - Within a range of stories
Location: 
The planet Torcaldi
Duration: 
It appears to be a couple of days, though could be significantly more.

Susan gets Ian and Barbara to play the board game Sepulchasm. They take it with them when the TARDIS lands. The TARDIS lands on a planet where time is in short supply, and people called conduits can drain the time from people and things – leaving them frozen – and share it with others. It turns out that people and things from Gallifrey have enough time in them that the conduits can't drain it all. Susan leaves the game on the planet, allowing the people she has met to survive for longer.

Placement Notes: 
The board game is not named here, but is clearly the same game we see in Lungbarrow. On page 32 Susan thinks she couldn't ever leave the Doctor and sometimes wishes for a more settled life. Ian and Barbara are confused by the natives being hermaphrodites. On page 18 the Doctor calls Barbara "Miss Wright". So it's still relatively early in Ian and Barbara's travels.
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