31 Plays in 31 Days, #1 - "A Separate Battlefield"

Blargh. I probably shouldn't do this. It's probably going to put an unnecessary responsibility on me when I should be devoting my energy to more targeted, less arbitrarily structured things. But I really have enjoyed doing 31 Plays in 31 Days in the past, and I would hate to break a streak running four years strong. So what the hell. On to 31P31D 2016!

To kick things off, I did a draft of a scene I've been imagining for the fifth Mrs. Hawking story. In that, I had the idea that Nathaniel could get captured by Mrs. Frost, Mrs. Hawking's Moriarty. I like that because it damselizes the one male character on team, requiring our two female characters to rescue him. It makes an interesting situation to put Nathaniel in, because how is a character whose power is to talk going to deal with a situation where they're trying to get information out of him? Plus, it's an opportunity to bring Clara in.

Generally, Clara is not going to be a team member for their regular missions. But her one condition in Base Instruments for allowing Nathaniel to continue helping is Mrs. Hawking protecting him. And if he gets captured, that's Mrs. Hawking failing in that promise. That means Clara will have to get involved, and not just to kick Mrs. Hawking into gear. I love the idea of her, Mary, and Clara working together for once to get their boy out of this scrape.

This is the first actual scene I've been able to concretely imagine for part five.

( Day #1 - A Separate Battlefield )