.017 [Video--In Gallifreyan]

[timesbureaucrat]

[As soon as Narvin's figured out what's going on by observing the reactions of people who have been through it before...]

This is Coordinator Narvin of the Celestial Intervention Agency. If there are any Time Lords hearing this, I have an urgent message for the High Council. Please respond.

((OOC: If any classic-era Time Lords, especially non-

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This renegade will at least try.

[dominie]

Narvin! What are you doing! Don't answer that, I know what you're doing. Think about what you're doing!

Well, someone's got to stop Narvin from breaking the universe.

[timesbureaucrat]

I know exactly what I'm doing. If I can get a message to the CIA, they can fix this. Temporal intervention is what we do. [Never ever ever on this grand a scale or so directly affecting Gallifrey, but Narvin is more than a bit crazy to the point of being delusional when it comes to this subject.]

My predecessor, Coordinator Vansell, can stop the whole thing from happening. The Pandora crisis, the Time War, all of it. Or, if whatever contact I make is too late for that, then at least my past self can mitigate things, and stop Gallifrey from being destroyed.

And this is where he switches to [Private]

[dominie]

No he couldn't. Listen to me very carefully, Narvin. I'm not just another Time Lord. I'm not even like other mes. I know things, things that I shouldn't know.

Every course of time that I can follow, every thread of probability leads to Gallifrey's destruction in several different ways. It's all woven up in it. I understand you want the world safe, I do as well. But you can't rip an event of that magnitude out of time without dire consequences. You might as well shoot a canonball through a woven sweater.

[Private] Have a bucket of crazy

[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin is speaking quietly, almost to himself, almost whimpering.]

But it can't be inevitable. It simply can't be. Even fixed events can be altered. Time rewoven. That what Time Lords are for, to determine the proper course of time through the cosmos and protect it.

[And then a sudden mood change to chilly and ruthless.]

Besides, events didn't destroy the Time Lords, you did. Lord Rassilon had a plan, and if you hadn't...

[He trails off and becomes pensive, because he'd vehemently disagreed with Rassilon's plan when he'd first brought it up in secret to the CIA. His utter refusal to hand over some of the necessary technology from the CIA vaults was one of the things that had got him sentenced to execution. But that was when he'd still thought they could win the Time War. Now, knowing that the choice is the annihilation of his race or self preservation at the expense of the rest of the universe...he doesn't know whether or not he did the right thing. And, because that's a disturbing thought that he doesn't want to deal

[Private]

[dominie]

In most of them, I do, but in some of them I don't. [Oooooh Narvin, that's a whole bucket of crazy.] I can't show you all the threads from here. We're not intertwined with the series of events in our universe, but I can tell you without a doubt whatever path that would lead to Gallifrey's salvation I've not been able to find, and it may rest even well before the time of this incarnation.

I know you love Gallifrey, but you'll be the one to destroy her and half the accompanying universe if you don't cease in attempting to produce a paradox that would have destruction a hundred times greater than what the Master did with Logopolis.