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Drawn into the world of Gulliver's Travels fiction, the TARDIS crew found themselves giants facing near execution at the hand of miniature Lilliputians. But once Ravena and a sympathetic Lilliputian minister helped Phineas and the Doctor escape, the travelers swam out to sea. There they grasped onto the TARDIS console and held on for dear life as the sea churned around them.
The 11th Doctor - [Cody] tall, 6 foot man in his late 50's with gray curls, a wizened face, and sparkling blue eyes. He closely resembles his 4th
incarnation after being aged a bit by time and turmoil.
Ravena Shaw - [Jen] Virginian colonist, granddaughter of a local farmer now deceased. She is unmarried, a woman of 23 thus a spinster (by choice). She
lives on her family farm with her sister-in-law and nephew. Her brother (who owns the farm) is off fighting in Washington's army. Like the women in her
family, she practices the old traditions of home remedies and Irish white witchcraft.
Phineas - (Duncan) - 45, a gray haired (used to be red) scientist who has never undergone regeneration. His blue eyes sees things many of his colleagues don't so he is considered paranoid. A view that isn't hurt by the fact that both his assistants are cousins of his and he can't stand visitors to his lab.
Glumdalclitch - The farmer’s nine-year-old daughter, who is forty feet tall. Glumdalclitch becomes Gulliver’s friend and nursemaid, hanging him to sleep safely in her closet at night and teaching him the Brobdingnagian language by day. She is skilled at sewing and makes Gulliver several sets of new clothes, taking delight in dressing him. When the queen discovers that no one at court is suited to care for Gulliver, she invites Glumdalclitch to live at court as his sole babysitter, a function she performs with great seriousness and attentiveness. To Glumdalclitch, Gulliver is basically a living doll, symbolizing the general status Gulliver has in Brobdingnag.Queen of Brobdingnag - was so delighted by Gulliver’s beauty and charms that she agreed to buy him from the farmer for 1,000 pieces of gold. Gulliver appreciates her kindness after the hardships he suffers at the farmer’s and shows his usual fawning love for royalty by kissing the tip of her little finger when presented before her. She possesses, in Gulliver’s words, “infinite” wit and humor, though this description may entail a bit of Gulliver’s characteristic flattery of superiors. The queen seems genuinely considerate, asking Gulliver whether he would consent to live at court instead of simply taking him in as a pet and inquiring into the reasons for his cold good-byes with the farmer. She is by no means a hero, but simply a pleasant, powerful person.
King of Brobdingnag - in contrast to the emperor of Lilliput, seems to be a true intellectual, well versed in political science among other disciplines. While his wife has an intimate, friendly relationship with the diminutive visitor, the king’s relation to Gulliver is limited to serious discussions about the history and institutions of Gulliver’s native land. He is thus a figure of rational thought who somewhat prefigures the Houyhnhnms in Book IV.
The violent sea storm blows the travelers ashore at the foot of a sheer rock cliff. They slowly recover and get their bearings. To their relief the TARDIS Console is also washed up on shore. But while they inspect it (and find it devoid of all power), the sky darkens above and the ground rumbles beneath. Then the sheer cliff (a giant rock) is lifted away by an equally giant hand and tossed into the sea. Glumdalclitch spots the movement of three tiny people racing to get away from the splash she created in the waves. She's immediately delighted when she spies the Doctor and mistakes him for an older version of Gulliver. She chides him for being naughty and running off from the king. Then she plucks all three travelers up (along with their toy console) and puts them inside her skirt pocket. She heads off to the palace.
Glumdalclitch intrudes on the royal couple to show them Gulliver has returned to them as she insisted he would. She pulls the travelers out of her pocket for display. The King is delighted, especially to see Gulliver has brought other little people with him including a female. But Phineas and Ravena look a little worse for wear from their journey (Ravena shivers and Phineas is bleeding from his Lilliputian arrow hits). So Glumdalclitch offers to take the other two back to her rooms and nurse them while Gulliver stays to talk with the King. She departs leaving the Doctor to face the King.
Glumdalclitch settles Gulliver's friends in the dollhouse made for Gulliver. She brings them a hot meal cut down to size they can eat and pulls out a trunk of dry doll clothes for Ravena and Phineas to change into. Ravena changes, but Phineas is much more interested in seeing to their "toy". Glumdalclitch retrieves it from her other pocket and lays it the house for them. Phineas looks to the Console seeing that while the power is dormant the circuits appear undamaged from the sea water. His conclusion is that it is fixable. But the question remains if they fix the Console will that get them any closer to escaping this world. Glumdalclitch wanders why they would want to escape. After all, she is willing to care for them and the King will surely want them to stay. He was so hoping Gulliver would bring back a wife and have enough children so all his friends could have their own mini-jesters.
The Doctor tries to convince the King that he is not Gulliver, but the more he argues the angrier the King becomes. The King is irritated it took Gulliver so long to return - nearly 7 years. In an out of character tone, the king admits to being tired of waiting for Gulliver to return. The Doctor quickly senses he may not just be talking to a simple character anymore but perhaps the gamemaster himself. The Doctor plays along in character, deftly questioning the king about his kingdom and the changes it's seen in the last few years. The queen preens that her husband is quite proud of their achievements, especially since they sent the explorers over the mountains in the west. The king shushes his wife, but it is too late. The Doctor strokes the king's pride as a way of getting him to talk about his westward exploration. The king reveals that the scouts were sent beyond the known kingdom where they found little but an endless night. But then they spotted the ruins of one of the Ancients' museums. It was lined with books in two levels connected by a spiral staircase. They brought many trinkets home from their journey, whch the king shows is displayed in a curio case of his. The Doctor examines the curios and realizes at once that they are objects from his TARDIS... in giant size.
Ravena tries to convince Glumdalclitch that she did not come there to produce playthings for the king! Her tone is fierce, but Phineas uses more diplomatic terms. He lies and says Ravena is their niece and therefore could not possibly marry either the Doctor or himself. That news depresses Glumdalclitch. She expresses concern that now she is nearly 16, marriageable age, the king will have her sent to work with the servants away from the palace. She was hoping when the explorers returned with objects from their land that meant more miniature people would need her care in the palace. Asked what she means, Glumdalclitch refers to the expedition over the western mountains that returned finds such as these... she points to her collection of miniature curious she has hidden in the dollhouse attic. They include a velvet settee, a record player and the TARDIS Instruction Manual. Phineas and Ravena instantly realize that means the TARDIS itself can't be that far away.
The Doctor realizes the rest of his TARDIS must then just be over the western
mountains. He thinks aloud about the possibility of a dimensional stabilizer
failure. The queen questions him about his words, but the Doctor covers up his
thoughts. The king turns to topic back to Gulliver's return and shows pleasure
he brought a female with him this time. He asks how long before she breeds more
little people; his cousin is particularly impatient to have a curio for himself.
The Doctor mistakenly blurts out how absurd he finds that question and how
atrocious he thinks the whole idea is. In true character the King rumbles with
anger threatening Gulliver about challenging his will. It seems the king might
just crush the Doctor with his fist.
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