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Basics
Character Name: Chief Coordinator of the CIA (technically Lord Chancellor of Gallifrey) Narvinectrallonum, usually just "Narvin" or "sigh, Narvin"
Username: timecoordinator
Fandom: Doctor Who (Gallifrey audios)
Played By: Sean Carlsen (his voice actor) when I can find the icons, Colin Lane for the most part because I usually can't.
Canon Character Section
Physical Description: Narvin is of average height, average build, and average appearance. He doesn't give much thought into how he looks or dresses unless he is trying to be a spy, in which case it becomes very important, obviously, but otherwise he simply likes wearing his normal, bland CIA robes (though he won't be wearing them in Baedal because they make him stand out) and keeping what little he has by way of hair neatly combed. He looks to be in his mid to late thirties, with very short, almost cropped hair, and two, as is the norm for Time Lords, blue eyes. It would be probably immediately spotted that Narvin is not a relaxed person at all, though he can affect some other type of stance if he wants to, normally his posture is very rigid and he almost always keeps his hands clasped behind his back. The more observant will be able to stop that Narvin is very meticulously dressed - though he isn't going to be wearing thousand dollar suits and shirts, what he does wear will always be free of wrinkles, and will overall seem very neat and tidy. His style of dress could be termed as bland - easily forgettable. Which is the idea.
Sexuality: Narvin's sexuality is Time Lord, which is the end of that basically, in almost every respect. There is almost nothing at all in the entirety of his canon (which consists of eighteen hour long audios) that suggests he is interested in anyone that way (though Brax seems to daydream otherwise), and if there had been anything to suggest that he did, he'd probably perform seppuku just out of the shame. Or, most likely, he just wouldn't mention it, suppress it so deep into his psyche that it more or less fails to exist anymore. Narvin is very good at things like that.
History: Narvin entered the Academy with a very different future in mind to the one he ended up with, though to be fair to him, it would have been difficult to predict the future he ended up with, considering how incredibly crazy it turned out being. He specialised and graduated with the intention of being a technician, and upon exiting the Academy, that's exactly what he did. In almost no time at all, he joined/was recruited into something called Project Alpha, headed by a scientist named Glower, as his assistant. The intent of Project Alpha was to create a Timonic Fusion Device, basically a time bomb that aged everything in it rapidly, but their calculations in being able to control it were off, which was caught by the then-Ambassador Braxiatel. Despite being warned repeatedly about the dangers, Glower and Narvin tested the Device anyway and fulfilled the Ambassador's presage - the blast radius quickly exceeded their predictions and ended up wiping out the entirety of the planet Minyos, forcing the CIA to swoop in and cover up the event, and damaging what little relationship Narvin and Braxiatel had in the process, though it most likely wasn't much of one at that point. This was essentially what changed the direction of Narvin's life entirely; it was the catalyst for him leaving the scientists and joining the CIA, though the reasons of why are really only known to himself. Possibly he was better at being a spy than a scientist, possibly the CIA had a bunch of more cool gadgets, but whatever the case Narvin remains incredibly quiet about this area of his life - it is not something he is particularly proud of.
Extremely more skilled at being a backstabbing bastard than anyone had expected or felt comfortable with him being, Narvin more or less tripped up the power ladder of the CIA, and eventually caught the attention of the then-Chief Coordinator Vansell, who was very friendly and taught Narvin politics and at the same time only wanted Narvin close to him in case Narvin tried to make a literal stab at his job, which was far from the truth, considering Narvin didn't particularly care. With a history of temporal engineering and the like, Narvin was part of the technical team that provoked the events of Neverland and Zagreus, which culminated in the sacrifice and death of Vansell, leaving a power vacuum that Narvin was called upon to fill. He eventually took the official title of Chief Coordinator of the CIA and in doing so, upheld his predecessor's loathing of the current President, except Narvin did it with a lot more shouting and arguments.
Eventually his dislike and disapproval of the Lady President Romana drove him into alliance with the ruthlessly ambitious Inquisitor Darkel, who fed him some beliefs about returning Gallifrey to the way it was, which he fell for hook, line, and sinker. Though he knew on some level that Darkel probably merely only wanted the Presidency for herself, he was willing to overlook it, and gave her use of his Agency and his CIA codes, which Darkel used to release a malignant Time Lord entity known as Pandora, an Imperiatrix (a dictator) of Gallifrey. Braxiatel was forced to leave the planet after taking the past and present aspects of Pandora into his own mind, leaving the future aspect to continue plotting with Darkel. Though Narvin did find out about the abuse of his trust in the end, accepting that his agency was compromised, and realising that Darkel didn't want what was best for Gallifrey at all, it was more or less through these events that Pandora did manage to engineer an escape, taking the form of Romana's previous body and subsequently thrusting the entire planet into a civil war.
Narvin took Romana's side without question, and came to realise that despite his reservations with her and her policies, Romana does innately want what's best for Gallifrey as much as he does (well, to an extent - I don't think anyone could be as obsessive over Gallifrey as Narvin), which is certainly something he can respect, at least. He also didn't fail to observe that Darkel was very quick to join Pandora's side, a person happily wreaking havoc on the planet he was so devoted to.
Still, Narvin tried to think the best of Darkel, an attempt blown up nearly quite literally when in a discussion on supposed 'neutral ground', she planted a bug bomb under his skin. He survived after Leela cut it out with her knife and discarded it, but from that moment, Narvin turned completely against Darkel. And though in his usual manner, he admitted to no feelings of revenge, his hatred of her was quite obvious - apparently not to Darkel herself, however, since she seemed to continue believing that Narvin would be gung ho for supporting her presidential bid, but HAHAHA oh Darkel, he really almost literally can't stand the fucking sight of you, actually. But to not get too ahead of myself, during the war Narvin was blown up a couple of more times (one in an explosion that also blinded Leela), but soon he was able to adapt Matrix partitions (make really neat forcefields, in other words) to protect their base of operations and with time adapted it even more to help Romana destroy Pandora, which she did.
With the Civil War over, opportunists rushed in to make capital of Gallifrey's instability, both socially and politically. A power struggle over the Presidency began between Romana, Darkel, and the more or less well-meaning but ambitious Cardinal Matthias, but at the last moment, Romana was prevented from entering into the election and was, under Darkel's orders, almost completely cut off from the outside world. Narvin started to play merry havoc with Darkel's grips on power, interpreting her orders loosely and so on to keep Romana informed and, more importantly, not dead. It should be pointed out that most of this was done because he wanted to - it is notable because Romana was not actually his President during this time, but Narvin continued to protect her anyway. It doesn't amount to much when Braxiatel shows up, claims the Presidency as his own, destroys Darkel in the process and resigns (departing from Gallifrey once more) and appoints Matthias President, but presumably it is the thought that counts. When the dust settles, Romana is exiled from the Capitol, Narvin returns to his usual duties, and Gallifrey finally seems to have fallen to enough peace to rebuild for a bit.
'Seems' being the operative word.
Early on, before Braxiatel left (the first time), an alien student named Gillestes developed something that the Gallifreyans nickname the 'Free Time' or 'Dogma' virus. Its properties are unique in that they lay dormant in the contaminant for what may be a very long time and is only activated when a Time Lord regenerates. When they do regenerate, they turn into a mindless zombie that only comprehends and believes in one thing: Free Time. Unfortunately, the student was using pigrats as test subjects, pigrats that subsequently escaped and infected a vast amount of Time Lords, which becomes quite the problem. Through sheer numbers, they overwhelm the Guards and break through all the set up barriers, and Gallifrey begins to fall.
Romana, Leela, Narvin, K-9, and the biodata archives of Gallifrey are scooped up in various ways (Romana arrives via TARDIS; Narvin, Leela, K-9 are actually scooped in via time scoop) by Braxiatel to a mysterious planetoid that is a second out of phase with the entire universe. He tells them that the cure for the virus is simply another virus - that stops the Time Lord from regenerating, ever again. He tells Romana to make the choice - either condemn Gallifrey to zombification, or take away everyone's regeneration. Before she can actually decide, however, the Time Lord she came with (Elbon, a surgeon) steals the cure and rushes to the TARDIS they arrived in, revealing that he himself is infected. The dubiously termed "cure" heads to Gallifrey, and the time scoop decides that this is a wonderful moment to break down, depriving them of the only means of preventing the "cure" from reaching the planet. Thus all hope seems lost, everyone looks to Romana for a plan, she takes a deep breath and...
SUDDEN CUT TO (after five years of waiting): Romana, Leela, Narvin, and Braxiatel all seem to have given up Gallifrey as a loss, and Braxiatel reveals (with much provocation from Romana) that they are in fact not just on a mysterious planetoid. Or at least, it is not that mysterious to him. It is the Axis, essentially a gateway between thousands, millions of alternate timelines, and Braxiatel brought them here in hopes of finding a new Gallifrey, possibly one that is not completely fucked as their old one. It doesn't go terribly well. Narvin loses all of his regenerations in the first universe they enter, though he keeps his mouth shut about it, and they end up losing Braxiatel (and Benny ends up gaining Braxiatel) in a universe they enter not long after. Leela does manage to get her sight back in one where Narvin is also forced to confess, after being seriously injured, that he is actually out of lives. (Is it not entirely clear if Narvin has no lives left period, but that is what I am going to assume.)
They at last poke their noses into a Gallifrey that seems much like their own, except drastically behind as far as technology and society is concerned. They haven't perfected time travel, they haven't even really bothered with space travel, they keep slaves, and through a series of events, Narvin, Romana, and Leela end up stuck on this Gallifrey, which has recently just lost its own Romana and Narvin (President and Chancellor respectively). They decide (well, Romana decides, really - she more or less simply orders Narvin to go with it) to try and make the best of it, though Leela is too heartbroken by their subsequent loss of K-9 and any means of return to stay with Romana and Narvin. She leaves them, and Narvin starts to help Romana piece this Gallifrey to something they truly recognise. As her Chancellor. A title he is... unimpressed by, to say the least.
This is Narvin's canon point and I'm taking it because Narvin does truly hate being Chancellor. He does stay as Chancellor for Romana, and because he more or less has no other choice, but he doesn't truly want to be there, which I assume Baedal will latch onto. I don't actually like Gallifrey Series 4 as a canon terribly, but I think for the moment, there isn't another place I can take him from. If Narvin was from one of the earlier series, he would have difficulty accepting his situation (more than he already would) and be consumed by nothing other than a method of returning to his Gallifrey, which would tie him from getting terribly involved in other plots. At the point I am taking him from, Narvin does not actually want to be on Gallifrey - it isn't his and he doesn't like being Chancellor, and he actually has other problems right now, most notably the drastic decrease in his lifespan, which is even more of a problem at the moment because the Gallifrey he is/was trapped on is very trigger happy (which may not be a problem that Baedal will help, actually). Something to distract him, or even offer a solution, therefore, is very welcome to him.
Powers: Narvin has no supernatural or exceptionally superhuman abilities, but he possesses the typical range of neat stuff that comes with being a Time Lord. He has a binary vascular system which helps him keep his breath longer than humans, but not indefinitely, fifteen or so minutes being the usual extent of it. He also has two hearts (not that you could tell) that he has a modicum of control over, meaning he can slow one or even complete stop one. Generally stabbing a Time Lord in one heart will not kill them, though it may be damaged beyond repair, preventing them from ever using it again, but they will survive. He also has a more robust immune system than that of humans, which makes him more resilient, but again, not completely immune, to most poisons, and helps him heal physical wounds more quickly. Not Wolverine quickly, but a cut that might last a week for a human would maybe heal in half that time for him.
Also, as a Time Lord, Narvin holds the rudimentary ability to perceive and sense time (that is, when time lines are damaged or broken or some such. He cannot foresee the future). Psychically he can also read minds, but he has to be in physical contact and has to concentrate pretty hard - he usually doesn't, and doesn't like to, use it.
The one ability that Time Lords are known the universe over for (i.e. their ability to regenerate/die and live in a new body), however... Narvin no longer has. If he dies, he dies. It's a problem most people have to deal with, true, but not one Narvin is terribly used to dealing with himself.
Talents/Abilities:: Narvin is an extremely skilled technician, and can basically do almost anything with anything technologically. He is also a good liar, well versed in the general universal workings politics, and no matter what series 4 says, I will maintain that Narvin has had some combat training. He can hold a gun well. He can shoot with it well. He probably wouldn't do well in a fight where he is outnumbered, or against someone more versed in fighting such as Leela, but he is capable of holding his own if push comes to shove.
He is also very good at manipulation (political or otherwise), and again, no matter what series 4 says, is damn good at sneaking around. He is... was a spy. He's is good, and enjoys, being a spy.
Personality: In serious contrast to the other main characters of the show (i.e. Romana, Leela, and Braxiatel), Narvin has lived his entire life on Gallifrey and has never had much interest in looking outside of it, content with his lot and his almost obsessive commitment to protecting that lot. He is traditional, grounded, more so than any member of the main cast, and is opposite to them in many ways - the conservative to Romana's liberal, the surprisingly honest to Braxiatel's almost perpetual guile, the pragmatism to Leela's instinct. He is basically the archetype of everything a Time Lord is taught and known throughout the universe to be, which happens to include being extremely repressed about his emotions, with an almost uncontrollable sense of paranoia for just about everyone, and combined with what is quite frequently a sense of ruthless and unfeeling practicality. He has almost every emotion in his repertoire carefully controlled, i.e., locked up nice and tight in some corner of his brain somewhere, except annoyance and disgust because he really likes to use lots of those. And though Narvin, as a spy, is fairly adept at being all different levels of charming if he wants to, he usually doesn't want to, especially when involved with politics and people who already know of his reputation. He absolutely does not exert himself in needlessly trying to hide his true nature.
And what is his true nature? Well, there is a particular range of adjectives that is usually used when describing Narvin, which probably says a lot about what other people think of him. They include things like 'smug', 'conceited', 'insincere', 'untrustworthy', 'morally decrepit' all of which are words he is used to, and none of which are words he would hurry to deny. He's blunt when he needs to be, is exceptionally smart and knows that he is, has done quite the list of awful things in his time in the CIA, and is so constantly full of irritable trenchant remarks that you'd think if he ever stopped making those, he would also stop breathing. No one likes him and he knows that no one likes him, whether that's because of his reputation or the personality he not only exhibits in interaction but practically appears to exude is something not always clear. It wouldn't be far-fetched to say that Narvin is more comfortable when people don't like him as well - he has probably been dealing with suspicion with so much of his life that someone actually trusting him would be considered weird and creepy and deeply unsettling to his psyche.
Narvin would probably be the first to say that he's not a good person - even for a Time Lord, he has pushed the walls of morality very far, how far being a secret known only to him, though he's no more proud of the things his organisation does than the Time Lords in general are proud of admitting that they did some of them. But as Narvin points out, it is his job to know about them, and so he does, even if he's not happy about it, which he usually isn't. As the (former) Head of the Celestial Intervention Agency, Narvin carries a reputation, as most CIA operatives do, of being slippery and up to no good, a reputation he seems happier to upholding rather than denouncing. The fact that he is the top man of the entire Agency makes this reputation even worse - there is, after all, quite a difference between being a good spy, and being a good enough spy to rise to the top of all of them. Doing so probably requires a certain lack of scruples, a sharp mind, and quite the level of deviousness, and none of those are things Narvin is in any want of, as he can be very quick to show if properly pushed.
It would probably shock Narvin most of all to be told that he's a good man, but at the base of it, the claim would be true, though the definition may have to be fudged just a little. Narvin actually is nowhere near as terrible as people perceive him, as he himself perceives, even. It is true that Narvin thinks very highly of himself intellectually, but it's never very much so morally - he's done enough awful things in his time to consider himself rotten and despicable, to the point that it ends up being more or less just fact to him, as much as two plus two equals four. But while he is all of the many things listed above, Narvin is also an incredibly loyal man right down to the core, depending on who he decides to throw his lot in with, very willing to forgo his own opinions, vices, hesitations, even his life, to protect Gallifrey, his Agency and anyone he considers to be connected to them, even if he despises them, as he quite frequently does. Torvald is a fairly good example of Narvin's protectiveness - despite the man being already extremely suspicious after certain events where he was assigned for six months to a time point in 1931, Narvin was very fast in covering up his 'murder' of Andred... though doing so didn't benefit him in anyway, and in fact threw bundles of suspicion onto him rather than Torvald. When he found out that Andred had killed Torvald instead of the other way around, he freely admits that he probably wouldn't actually hate Andred to the extent he does if Andred hadn't gone and killed one of his men. Even after he had simultaneously found out that that man had been abusing CIA privileges and therefore betraying his trust.
A large part of the reason he felt he could betray Romana, at least, was because he felt that she had essentially, in changing Gallifrey from its usual traditions, revoked her claim as Gallifrey. Eventually he decided that Romana (as President) was Gallifrey after all, and proceeded to get himself blown up about fifty times to prove it or something. Narvin has not had the greatest track record of being reasonable when it comes to his duty, actually. On many levels, the thing that redeems him the most largely ends up damaging him the most, either directly or indirectly through watching Gallifrey being damaged.
This is, however, not to say that Narvin takes every order from the President as red and follows without question - he will question. He will question a lot. He will shout about it (very loudly, even), argue about it, do basically everything short of actually engaging in fisticuffs if he disapproves but at the end of it, if his President is unmovable, then Narvin carries out those orders in the end, whether he likes them or not (both the President and the orders). He does have a history of having gone around the President's back, but he's always careful in not having it conflict to her orders, though this does normally mean the use of his expert skill in the art of semantics. It should be noted that the only time he considered giving up his job was because Gallifrey was very close to electing a leader he knew he would actually be utterly incapable of following orders from, apparently choosing resignation rather than a more high profile, but decidedly more ambitious, approach of taking the Presidency for his own.
It's probably a bit ironic that Narvin would most likely have a pretty good, stable (and boring) Presidency compared to nearly everyone else we see on Gallifrey, but that he really couldn't care less about it, and in fact, basically harbours no ambition at all, which is more than you can say even about Romana in the end. Of all of the people on Gallifrey, Narvin stands alone as really the one who is never out for himself (well, maybe Brax shares certain sentimentalities of this as well), and even if he was ambitious, it probably would have been over-ridden by his loyalty. His rise to Chief Coordinator of the CIA wasn't even hostile (as it has had a habit of being) - his predecessor died and he was chosen for it, and the subsequent switch from Acting-Chief Coordinator to just Chief Coordinator wasn't a decision he took lightly. It is particularly in the scene where he admits that yes, he did think about the Presidency, that you realise how easy it is for him to obtain it, but also how much he would hate doing so, to the point that he considers the Chancellorship a step down, or at the very least, something akin to absolute misery. Power-grabbing isn't his area of political machinations - he prefers to shine quietly, behind the scenes, as it were. In fact, Narvin is particularly derogatory in politics of toadys and yes-men and "lap dogs" especially, though he's a little hypocritical on that account, considering how he keeps Torvald around, though he always more appreciated Torvald's skill in following orders, not his compliments.
That said, Narvin himself is very good at giving credit where it is due and is actually rather sensitive to other people in certain, very subtle, ways. Compliments (genuine ones, that is, and you'll know when it's genuine) do not come easily from him, but he is easy in acknowledging people's strongest and weakest points, which admittedly, does tie into his job a little. But, for instance, Narvin is loathe to ever call Romana incompetent or stupid (not intellectually stupid anyway), and though he may call Leela a savage, after he has finally warmed to her enough not to actually be hateful to her, he is quite vocal on the fact that Leela is not incompetent either, though he does remain just as fast to point out that if Leela were ever in any sort of politics, she'd be a right failure. (Additional note: in Series 3, Narvin rarely calls Leela a savage at all. The term does return to his vocabulary in Series 4, but usually only after Leela has already insulted him.) When Leela loses her sight, Narvin never slips up or forgets, something even Romana has difficulty doing, and in the earlier episodes, where he is most definitely not portrayed nearly as nobly, Narvin is still written as careful not to let Leela walk away with the presumption that her husband had switched sides, though in doing so he most likely could have driven her away, and weaken Romana's position after having done so.
In general it's difficult to tell when Narvin is going to be ruthless or not - by comparison he is actually very nice to Romana and Leela, the latter more than the former. The idea of being handed over to him and his spooks is apparently enough to make someone quake in their boots and I don't tend to take that as an exaggeration when considering the CIA's track record, and he has no hesitations in throwing Janartis out to the pigrats the moment he's done with him, though I suppose I should point out that Narvin and Janartis had been on opposing sides in the Civil War, and that Narvin deeply loathed Janartis as both Darkel's pawn and lap dog. He also tells Braxiatel that he wouldn't hesitate in bringing the man down if he had a legitimate way of doing so (his point being that he would only do it if he had a legitimate way of doing so), though to be fair, he does hesitate with the information he could use for that exact purpose because Braxiatel took him into his confidence. WHICH he broke anyway and used it to snap Braxiatel's credibility when the man was forced to leave (and in doing so he didn't actually damage Braxiatel that much, so Narvin was fairly forgiving in this case as well), so in the end, it's really just whether he likes you/is loyal to you or not.
To sum up, Narvin is unpleasant, irritable, sour, bitchy, and a bunch of other not very positive words, but he has a heart of... tarnished silver. Maybe.
Object: His newly acquired drinks cabinet?
No. Narvin will be bringing his datapad - full of important CIA and Chancellorship information, with a bunch of cool functions that he never really uses unless needed because that's the way Narvin is.
Reason for playing: I could go on about why I love Narvin - he's just terrible. No one likes him and he's comfortable knowing that no one likes him... which in a sense, makes him the most ideal for politics, which is really where I'd like to focus most of my playing of him, whether that's in the actual politics of the city, or the politics between the deities. At the moment Narvin is Chancellor of Gallifrey (well, a Gallifrey), but he won't be bringing that up - not after a while, anyway. After he realises that he's more or less cut off from that universe, he'll eventually return to referring to himself as the Chief Coordinator of the CIA, which he will infinitely prefer.
But my point is that Narvin is/was/will be very unhappy being Chancellor - he doesn't like being in so much power, he prefers to be the go to man for "Narvin, make someone's head explode here" or "Narvin, ruin someone's life here". He enjoys playing in politics but... doesn't actually associate in it or consider himself a politician, and I know that doesn't make any sense, but that is essentially who he is. Strangely, Narvin is also... fairly emotionally exhausted at this point. It's strange because Narvin is not someone usually defined by his emotions (as discussed in length as part of his personality), but so far, he has lost not only his planet that he was so devoted to, but also his lives, then Braxiatel, then ended up being forced to watch Leela reject both him and Romana and also take up a title he's basically loathed for all of his life on a planet that would almost unanimously vote to have him killed. It's a peculiar place, emotionally, for Narvin right now and I think that would be interesting to play with.
He is also a scientist... if not at heart, at least in a left ventricle of one of them, and may be involved in some technological scientific do-happenings if the opportunity ever arises or is presented.
Also at the moment, and discussed above, Narvin has lost all of his future regenerations, which does worry him, though he will never admit it. I'm not sure where I'll go with that, but I am very chin-scratchy in trying to think of a plot where he does re-obtain them somehow, or at the very least tries to.
Gods: Narvin, with his natural affinity for the technological and advancements in that area, may catch the interest of Kavan as far as that's concerned, though I think I can safely say that Narvin wouldn't be interested in being one of his failed relationships. Morally, I'm torn between him being noticed by either Eliandre or Gediron. Narvin is almost inconveniently "just" at times - he nearly refused to help Romana destroy Pandora because he wanted to put the malignant Time Lord ghost spirit who'd just destroyed most of Gallifrey on trial, and sort of in general the Time Lords reflect her in their supposed indifference and emotionless nature, but I think he may fit Gediron's circle more. Though he isn't the warrior or fighter type, he certainly fits a particular niche of 'loyal soldier', and if you can fault Narvin of all other things, you at least can't fault him for diligence. And though Narvin tends to claim that he doesn't deal or have time for revenge, he does like to indulge in it every so often, which may attract the attention of Vell. At the moment, however, when he's just entering, Narvin has no especially pressing gripes. He doesn't even resent the person who ripped out all of his lives that much, so this might not happen until someone actually does something shitty to him.
Narvin will probably hesitate in calling the gods 'gods', however. Most likely he will consider them very powerful people, but Narvin doesn't believe in gods, or enjoy the thought of worshipping someone just so they won't poke him full of holes - it's basically the same thing as toadying to him and he doesn't have uses for it.
Writing Samples
First-Person Journal Post: (dated before his arrival to Baedal)
Councillor Braxiatel: not a rabid Hound.
- So an improvement over the last.
- Doesn't seem to trust me terribly, so not much is changed.
- Discussed slaves and their integration to society.
- Wrote me up quite an impressive of legislation.
- Will present it to the High Council tomorrow.
- Will probably be rejected.
- Good to see him again.
Leela: still no sign of her.
- First assassination attempt on Romana since our arrival was last week.
- Does she know?
- Probably difficult to get news in the Outlands, but I'm not entirely certain she is in the Outlands.
- Romana is distraught. Probably.
Romana: got an earful of why increased security is unnecessary thank you very much Narvin.
- Never mind she was the one who put me in charge of her security in the first place, I suppose.
- Or thank me for saving her life.
- Again.
Need to dismantle the dome.
- Need to survive long enough to oversee the dismantlement of the dome.
- Latter is starting to look like it'll prove to be a problem.
Character Name: Chief Coordinator of the CIA (technically Lord Chancellor of Gallifrey) Narvinectrallonum, usually just "Narvin" or "sigh, Narvin"
Username: timecoordinator
Fandom: Doctor Who (Gallifrey audios)
Played By: Sean Carlsen (his voice actor) when I can find the icons, Colin Lane for the most part because I usually can't.
Canon Character Section
Physical Description: Narvin is of average height, average build, and average appearance. He doesn't give much thought into how he looks or dresses unless he is trying to be a spy, in which case it becomes very important, obviously, but otherwise he simply likes wearing his normal, bland CIA robes (though he won't be wearing them in Baedal because they make him stand out) and keeping what little he has by way of hair neatly combed. He looks to be in his mid to late thirties, with very short, almost cropped hair, and two, as is the norm for Time Lords, blue eyes. It would be probably immediately spotted that Narvin is not a relaxed person at all, though he can affect some other type of stance if he wants to, normally his posture is very rigid and he almost always keeps his hands clasped behind his back. The more observant will be able to stop that Narvin is very meticulously dressed - though he isn't going to be wearing thousand dollar suits and shirts, what he does wear will always be free of wrinkles, and will overall seem very neat and tidy. His style of dress could be termed as bland - easily forgettable. Which is the idea.
Sexuality: Narvin's sexuality is Time Lord, which is the end of that basically, in almost every respect. There is almost nothing at all in the entirety of his canon (which consists of eighteen hour long audios) that suggests he is interested in anyone that way (though Brax seems to daydream otherwise), and if there had been anything to suggest that he did, he'd probably perform seppuku just out of the shame. Or, most likely, he just wouldn't mention it, suppress it so deep into his psyche that it more or less fails to exist anymore. Narvin is very good at things like that.
History: Narvin entered the Academy with a very different future in mind to the one he ended up with, though to be fair to him, it would have been difficult to predict the future he ended up with, considering how incredibly crazy it turned out being. He specialised and graduated with the intention of being a technician, and upon exiting the Academy, that's exactly what he did. In almost no time at all, he joined/was recruited into something called Project Alpha, headed by a scientist named Glower, as his assistant. The intent of Project Alpha was to create a Timonic Fusion Device, basically a time bomb that aged everything in it rapidly, but their calculations in being able to control it were off, which was caught by the then-Ambassador Braxiatel. Despite being warned repeatedly about the dangers, Glower and Narvin tested the Device anyway and fulfilled the Ambassador's presage - the blast radius quickly exceeded their predictions and ended up wiping out the entirety of the planet Minyos, forcing the CIA to swoop in and cover up the event, and damaging what little relationship Narvin and Braxiatel had in the process, though it most likely wasn't much of one at that point. This was essentially what changed the direction of Narvin's life entirely; it was the catalyst for him leaving the scientists and joining the CIA, though the reasons of why are really only known to himself. Possibly he was better at being a spy than a scientist, possibly the CIA had a bunch of more cool gadgets, but whatever the case Narvin remains incredibly quiet about this area of his life - it is not something he is particularly proud of.
Extremely more skilled at being a backstabbing bastard than anyone had expected or felt comfortable with him being, Narvin more or less tripped up the power ladder of the CIA, and eventually caught the attention of the then-Chief Coordinator Vansell, who was very friendly and taught Narvin politics and at the same time only wanted Narvin close to him in case Narvin tried to make a literal stab at his job, which was far from the truth, considering Narvin didn't particularly care. With a history of temporal engineering and the like, Narvin was part of the technical team that provoked the events of Neverland and Zagreus, which culminated in the sacrifice and death of Vansell, leaving a power vacuum that Narvin was called upon to fill. He eventually took the official title of Chief Coordinator of the CIA and in doing so, upheld his predecessor's loathing of the current President, except Narvin did it with a lot more shouting and arguments.
Eventually his dislike and disapproval of the Lady President Romana drove him into alliance with the ruthlessly ambitious Inquisitor Darkel, who fed him some beliefs about returning Gallifrey to the way it was, which he fell for hook, line, and sinker. Though he knew on some level that Darkel probably merely only wanted the Presidency for herself, he was willing to overlook it, and gave her use of his Agency and his CIA codes, which Darkel used to release a malignant Time Lord entity known as Pandora, an Imperiatrix (a dictator) of Gallifrey. Braxiatel was forced to leave the planet after taking the past and present aspects of Pandora into his own mind, leaving the future aspect to continue plotting with Darkel. Though Narvin did find out about the abuse of his trust in the end, accepting that his agency was compromised, and realising that Darkel didn't want what was best for Gallifrey at all, it was more or less through these events that Pandora did manage to engineer an escape, taking the form of Romana's previous body and subsequently thrusting the entire planet into a civil war.
Narvin took Romana's side without question, and came to realise that despite his reservations with her and her policies, Romana does innately want what's best for Gallifrey as much as he does (well, to an extent - I don't think anyone could be as obsessive over Gallifrey as Narvin), which is certainly something he can respect, at least. He also didn't fail to observe that Darkel was very quick to join Pandora's side, a person happily wreaking havoc on the planet he was so devoted to.
Still, Narvin tried to think the best of Darkel, an attempt blown up nearly quite literally when in a discussion on supposed 'neutral ground', she planted a bug bomb under his skin. He survived after Leela cut it out with her knife and discarded it, but from that moment, Narvin turned completely against Darkel. And though in his usual manner, he admitted to no feelings of revenge, his hatred of her was quite obvious - apparently not to Darkel herself, however, since she seemed to continue believing that Narvin would be gung ho for supporting her presidential bid, but HAHAHA oh Darkel, he really almost literally can't stand the fucking sight of you, actually. But to not get too ahead of myself, during the war Narvin was blown up a couple of more times (one in an explosion that also blinded Leela), but soon he was able to adapt Matrix partitions (make really neat forcefields, in other words) to protect their base of operations and with time adapted it even more to help Romana destroy Pandora, which she did.
With the Civil War over, opportunists rushed in to make capital of Gallifrey's instability, both socially and politically. A power struggle over the Presidency began between Romana, Darkel, and the more or less well-meaning but ambitious Cardinal Matthias, but at the last moment, Romana was prevented from entering into the election and was, under Darkel's orders, almost completely cut off from the outside world. Narvin started to play merry havoc with Darkel's grips on power, interpreting her orders loosely and so on to keep Romana informed and, more importantly, not dead. It should be pointed out that most of this was done because he wanted to - it is notable because Romana was not actually his President during this time, but Narvin continued to protect her anyway. It doesn't amount to much when Braxiatel shows up, claims the Presidency as his own, destroys Darkel in the process and resigns (departing from Gallifrey once more) and appoints Matthias President, but presumably it is the thought that counts. When the dust settles, Romana is exiled from the Capitol, Narvin returns to his usual duties, and Gallifrey finally seems to have fallen to enough peace to rebuild for a bit.
'Seems' being the operative word.
Early on, before Braxiatel left (the first time), an alien student named Gillestes developed something that the Gallifreyans nickname the 'Free Time' or 'Dogma' virus. Its properties are unique in that they lay dormant in the contaminant for what may be a very long time and is only activated when a Time Lord regenerates. When they do regenerate, they turn into a mindless zombie that only comprehends and believes in one thing: Free Time. Unfortunately, the student was using pigrats as test subjects, pigrats that subsequently escaped and infected a vast amount of Time Lords, which becomes quite the problem. Through sheer numbers, they overwhelm the Guards and break through all the set up barriers, and Gallifrey begins to fall.
Romana, Leela, Narvin, K-9, and the biodata archives of Gallifrey are scooped up in various ways (Romana arrives via TARDIS; Narvin, Leela, K-9 are actually scooped in via time scoop) by Braxiatel to a mysterious planetoid that is a second out of phase with the entire universe. He tells them that the cure for the virus is simply another virus - that stops the Time Lord from regenerating, ever again. He tells Romana to make the choice - either condemn Gallifrey to zombification, or take away everyone's regeneration. Before she can actually decide, however, the Time Lord she came with (Elbon, a surgeon) steals the cure and rushes to the TARDIS they arrived in, revealing that he himself is infected. The dubiously termed "cure" heads to Gallifrey, and the time scoop decides that this is a wonderful moment to break down, depriving them of the only means of preventing the "cure" from reaching the planet. Thus all hope seems lost, everyone looks to Romana for a plan, she takes a deep breath and...
SUDDEN CUT TO (after five years of waiting): Romana, Leela, Narvin, and Braxiatel all seem to have given up Gallifrey as a loss, and Braxiatel reveals (with much provocation from Romana) that they are in fact not just on a mysterious planetoid. Or at least, it is not that mysterious to him. It is the Axis, essentially a gateway between thousands, millions of alternate timelines, and Braxiatel brought them here in hopes of finding a new Gallifrey, possibly one that is not completely fucked as their old one. It doesn't go terribly well. Narvin loses all of his regenerations in the first universe they enter, though he keeps his mouth shut about it, and they end up losing Braxiatel (and Benny ends up gaining Braxiatel) in a universe they enter not long after. Leela does manage to get her sight back in one where Narvin is also forced to confess, after being seriously injured, that he is actually out of lives. (Is it not entirely clear if Narvin has no lives left period, but that is what I am going to assume.)
They at last poke their noses into a Gallifrey that seems much like their own, except drastically behind as far as technology and society is concerned. They haven't perfected time travel, they haven't even really bothered with space travel, they keep slaves, and through a series of events, Narvin, Romana, and Leela end up stuck on this Gallifrey, which has recently just lost its own Romana and Narvin (President and Chancellor respectively). They decide (well, Romana decides, really - she more or less simply orders Narvin to go with it) to try and make the best of it, though Leela is too heartbroken by their subsequent loss of K-9 and any means of return to stay with Romana and Narvin. She leaves them, and Narvin starts to help Romana piece this Gallifrey to something they truly recognise. As her Chancellor. A title he is... unimpressed by, to say the least.
This is Narvin's canon point and I'm taking it because Narvin does truly hate being Chancellor. He does stay as Chancellor for Romana, and because he more or less has no other choice, but he doesn't truly want to be there, which I assume Baedal will latch onto. I don't actually like Gallifrey Series 4 as a canon terribly, but I think for the moment, there isn't another place I can take him from. If Narvin was from one of the earlier series, he would have difficulty accepting his situation (more than he already would) and be consumed by nothing other than a method of returning to his Gallifrey, which would tie him from getting terribly involved in other plots. At the point I am taking him from, Narvin does not actually want to be on Gallifrey - it isn't his and he doesn't like being Chancellor, and he actually has other problems right now, most notably the drastic decrease in his lifespan, which is even more of a problem at the moment because the Gallifrey he is/was trapped on is very trigger happy (which may not be a problem that Baedal will help, actually). Something to distract him, or even offer a solution, therefore, is very welcome to him.
Powers: Narvin has no supernatural or exceptionally superhuman abilities, but he possesses the typical range of neat stuff that comes with being a Time Lord. He has a binary vascular system which helps him keep his breath longer than humans, but not indefinitely, fifteen or so minutes being the usual extent of it. He also has two hearts (not that you could tell) that he has a modicum of control over, meaning he can slow one or even complete stop one. Generally stabbing a Time Lord in one heart will not kill them, though it may be damaged beyond repair, preventing them from ever using it again, but they will survive. He also has a more robust immune system than that of humans, which makes him more resilient, but again, not completely immune, to most poisons, and helps him heal physical wounds more quickly. Not Wolverine quickly, but a cut that might last a week for a human would maybe heal in half that time for him.
Also, as a Time Lord, Narvin holds the rudimentary ability to perceive and sense time (that is, when time lines are damaged or broken or some such. He cannot foresee the future). Psychically he can also read minds, but he has to be in physical contact and has to concentrate pretty hard - he usually doesn't, and doesn't like to, use it.
The one ability that Time Lords are known the universe over for (i.e. their ability to regenerate/die and live in a new body), however... Narvin no longer has. If he dies, he dies. It's a problem most people have to deal with, true, but not one Narvin is terribly used to dealing with himself.
Talents/Abilities:: Narvin is an extremely skilled technician, and can basically do almost anything with anything technologically. He is also a good liar, well versed in the general universal workings politics, and no matter what series 4 says, I will maintain that Narvin has had some combat training. He can hold a gun well. He can shoot with it well. He probably wouldn't do well in a fight where he is outnumbered, or against someone more versed in fighting such as Leela, but he is capable of holding his own if push comes to shove.
He is also very good at manipulation (political or otherwise), and again, no matter what series 4 says, is damn good at sneaking around. He is... was a spy. He's is good, and enjoys, being a spy.
Personality: In serious contrast to the other main characters of the show (i.e. Romana, Leela, and Braxiatel), Narvin has lived his entire life on Gallifrey and has never had much interest in looking outside of it, content with his lot and his almost obsessive commitment to protecting that lot. He is traditional, grounded, more so than any member of the main cast, and is opposite to them in many ways - the conservative to Romana's liberal, the surprisingly honest to Braxiatel's almost perpetual guile, the pragmatism to Leela's instinct. He is basically the archetype of everything a Time Lord is taught and known throughout the universe to be, which happens to include being extremely repressed about his emotions, with an almost uncontrollable sense of paranoia for just about everyone, and combined with what is quite frequently a sense of ruthless and unfeeling practicality. He has almost every emotion in his repertoire carefully controlled, i.e., locked up nice and tight in some corner of his brain somewhere, except annoyance and disgust because he really likes to use lots of those. And though Narvin, as a spy, is fairly adept at being all different levels of charming if he wants to, he usually doesn't want to, especially when involved with politics and people who already know of his reputation. He absolutely does not exert himself in needlessly trying to hide his true nature.
And what is his true nature? Well, there is a particular range of adjectives that is usually used when describing Narvin, which probably says a lot about what other people think of him. They include things like 'smug', 'conceited', 'insincere', 'untrustworthy', 'morally decrepit' all of which are words he is used to, and none of which are words he would hurry to deny. He's blunt when he needs to be, is exceptionally smart and knows that he is, has done quite the list of awful things in his time in the CIA, and is so constantly full of irritable trenchant remarks that you'd think if he ever stopped making those, he would also stop breathing. No one likes him and he knows that no one likes him, whether that's because of his reputation or the personality he not only exhibits in interaction but practically appears to exude is something not always clear. It wouldn't be far-fetched to say that Narvin is more comfortable when people don't like him as well - he has probably been dealing with suspicion with so much of his life that someone actually trusting him would be considered weird and creepy and deeply unsettling to his psyche.
Narvin would probably be the first to say that he's not a good person - even for a Time Lord, he has pushed the walls of morality very far, how far being a secret known only to him, though he's no more proud of the things his organisation does than the Time Lords in general are proud of admitting that they did some of them. But as Narvin points out, it is his job to know about them, and so he does, even if he's not happy about it, which he usually isn't. As the (former) Head of the Celestial Intervention Agency, Narvin carries a reputation, as most CIA operatives do, of being slippery and up to no good, a reputation he seems happier to upholding rather than denouncing. The fact that he is the top man of the entire Agency makes this reputation even worse - there is, after all, quite a difference between being a good spy, and being a good enough spy to rise to the top of all of them. Doing so probably requires a certain lack of scruples, a sharp mind, and quite the level of deviousness, and none of those are things Narvin is in any want of, as he can be very quick to show if properly pushed.
It would probably shock Narvin most of all to be told that he's a good man, but at the base of it, the claim would be true, though the definition may have to be fudged just a little. Narvin actually is nowhere near as terrible as people perceive him, as he himself perceives, even. It is true that Narvin thinks very highly of himself intellectually, but it's never very much so morally - he's done enough awful things in his time to consider himself rotten and despicable, to the point that it ends up being more or less just fact to him, as much as two plus two equals four. But while he is all of the many things listed above, Narvin is also an incredibly loyal man right down to the core, depending on who he decides to throw his lot in with, very willing to forgo his own opinions, vices, hesitations, even his life, to protect Gallifrey, his Agency and anyone he considers to be connected to them, even if he despises them, as he quite frequently does. Torvald is a fairly good example of Narvin's protectiveness - despite the man being already extremely suspicious after certain events where he was assigned for six months to a time point in 1931, Narvin was very fast in covering up his 'murder' of Andred... though doing so didn't benefit him in anyway, and in fact threw bundles of suspicion onto him rather than Torvald. When he found out that Andred had killed Torvald instead of the other way around, he freely admits that he probably wouldn't actually hate Andred to the extent he does if Andred hadn't gone and killed one of his men. Even after he had simultaneously found out that that man had been abusing CIA privileges and therefore betraying his trust.
A large part of the reason he felt he could betray Romana, at least, was because he felt that she had essentially, in changing Gallifrey from its usual traditions, revoked her claim as Gallifrey. Eventually he decided that Romana (as President) was Gallifrey after all, and proceeded to get himself blown up about fifty times to prove it or something. Narvin has not had the greatest track record of being reasonable when it comes to his duty, actually. On many levels, the thing that redeems him the most largely ends up damaging him the most, either directly or indirectly through watching Gallifrey being damaged.
This is, however, not to say that Narvin takes every order from the President as red and follows without question - he will question. He will question a lot. He will shout about it (very loudly, even), argue about it, do basically everything short of actually engaging in fisticuffs if he disapproves but at the end of it, if his President is unmovable, then Narvin carries out those orders in the end, whether he likes them or not (both the President and the orders). He does have a history of having gone around the President's back, but he's always careful in not having it conflict to her orders, though this does normally mean the use of his expert skill in the art of semantics. It should be noted that the only time he considered giving up his job was because Gallifrey was very close to electing a leader he knew he would actually be utterly incapable of following orders from, apparently choosing resignation rather than a more high profile, but decidedly more ambitious, approach of taking the Presidency for his own.
It's probably a bit ironic that Narvin would most likely have a pretty good, stable (and boring) Presidency compared to nearly everyone else we see on Gallifrey, but that he really couldn't care less about it, and in fact, basically harbours no ambition at all, which is more than you can say even about Romana in the end. Of all of the people on Gallifrey, Narvin stands alone as really the one who is never out for himself (well, maybe Brax shares certain sentimentalities of this as well), and even if he was ambitious, it probably would have been over-ridden by his loyalty. His rise to Chief Coordinator of the CIA wasn't even hostile (as it has had a habit of being) - his predecessor died and he was chosen for it, and the subsequent switch from Acting-Chief Coordinator to just Chief Coordinator wasn't a decision he took lightly. It is particularly in the scene where he admits that yes, he did think about the Presidency, that you realise how easy it is for him to obtain it, but also how much he would hate doing so, to the point that he considers the Chancellorship a step down, or at the very least, something akin to absolute misery. Power-grabbing isn't his area of political machinations - he prefers to shine quietly, behind the scenes, as it were. In fact, Narvin is particularly derogatory in politics of toadys and yes-men and "lap dogs" especially, though he's a little hypocritical on that account, considering how he keeps Torvald around, though he always more appreciated Torvald's skill in following orders, not his compliments.
That said, Narvin himself is very good at giving credit where it is due and is actually rather sensitive to other people in certain, very subtle, ways. Compliments (genuine ones, that is, and you'll know when it's genuine) do not come easily from him, but he is easy in acknowledging people's strongest and weakest points, which admittedly, does tie into his job a little. But, for instance, Narvin is loathe to ever call Romana incompetent or stupid (not intellectually stupid anyway), and though he may call Leela a savage, after he has finally warmed to her enough not to actually be hateful to her, he is quite vocal on the fact that Leela is not incompetent either, though he does remain just as fast to point out that if Leela were ever in any sort of politics, she'd be a right failure. (Additional note: in Series 3, Narvin rarely calls Leela a savage at all. The term does return to his vocabulary in Series 4, but usually only after Leela has already insulted him.) When Leela loses her sight, Narvin never slips up or forgets, something even Romana has difficulty doing, and in the earlier episodes, where he is most definitely not portrayed nearly as nobly, Narvin is still written as careful not to let Leela walk away with the presumption that her husband had switched sides, though in doing so he most likely could have driven her away, and weaken Romana's position after having done so.
In general it's difficult to tell when Narvin is going to be ruthless or not - by comparison he is actually very nice to Romana and Leela, the latter more than the former. The idea of being handed over to him and his spooks is apparently enough to make someone quake in their boots and I don't tend to take that as an exaggeration when considering the CIA's track record, and he has no hesitations in throwing Janartis out to the pigrats the moment he's done with him, though I suppose I should point out that Narvin and Janartis had been on opposing sides in the Civil War, and that Narvin deeply loathed Janartis as both Darkel's pawn and lap dog. He also tells Braxiatel that he wouldn't hesitate in bringing the man down if he had a legitimate way of doing so (his point being that he would only do it if he had a legitimate way of doing so), though to be fair, he does hesitate with the information he could use for that exact purpose because Braxiatel took him into his confidence. WHICH he broke anyway and used it to snap Braxiatel's credibility when the man was forced to leave (and in doing so he didn't actually damage Braxiatel that much, so Narvin was fairly forgiving in this case as well), so in the end, it's really just whether he likes you/is loyal to you or not.
To sum up, Narvin is unpleasant, irritable, sour, bitchy, and a bunch of other not very positive words, but he has a heart of... tarnished silver. Maybe.
Object: His newly acquired drinks cabinet?
No. Narvin will be bringing his datapad - full of important CIA and Chancellorship information, with a bunch of cool functions that he never really uses unless needed because that's the way Narvin is.
Reason for playing: I could go on about why I love Narvin - he's just terrible. No one likes him and he's comfortable knowing that no one likes him... which in a sense, makes him the most ideal for politics, which is really where I'd like to focus most of my playing of him, whether that's in the actual politics of the city, or the politics between the deities. At the moment Narvin is Chancellor of Gallifrey (well, a Gallifrey), but he won't be bringing that up - not after a while, anyway. After he realises that he's more or less cut off from that universe, he'll eventually return to referring to himself as the Chief Coordinator of the CIA, which he will infinitely prefer.
But my point is that Narvin is/was/will be very unhappy being Chancellor - he doesn't like being in so much power, he prefers to be the go to man for "Narvin, make someone's head explode here" or "Narvin, ruin someone's life here". He enjoys playing in politics but... doesn't actually associate in it or consider himself a politician, and I know that doesn't make any sense, but that is essentially who he is. Strangely, Narvin is also... fairly emotionally exhausted at this point. It's strange because Narvin is not someone usually defined by his emotions (as discussed in length as part of his personality), but so far, he has lost not only his planet that he was so devoted to, but also his lives, then Braxiatel, then ended up being forced to watch Leela reject both him and Romana and also take up a title he's basically loathed for all of his life on a planet that would almost unanimously vote to have him killed. It's a peculiar place, emotionally, for Narvin right now and I think that would be interesting to play with.
He is also a scientist... if not at heart, at least in a left ventricle of one of them, and may be involved in some technological scientific do-happenings if the opportunity ever arises or is presented.
Also at the moment, and discussed above, Narvin has lost all of his future regenerations, which does worry him, though he will never admit it. I'm not sure where I'll go with that, but I am very chin-scratchy in trying to think of a plot where he does re-obtain them somehow, or at the very least tries to.
Gods: Narvin, with his natural affinity for the technological and advancements in that area, may catch the interest of Kavan as far as that's concerned, though I think I can safely say that Narvin wouldn't be interested in being one of his failed relationships. Morally, I'm torn between him being noticed by either Eliandre or Gediron. Narvin is almost inconveniently "just" at times - he nearly refused to help Romana destroy Pandora because he wanted to put the malignant Time Lord ghost spirit who'd just destroyed most of Gallifrey on trial, and sort of in general the Time Lords reflect her in their supposed indifference and emotionless nature, but I think he may fit Gediron's circle more. Though he isn't the warrior or fighter type, he certainly fits a particular niche of 'loyal soldier', and if you can fault Narvin of all other things, you at least can't fault him for diligence. And though Narvin tends to claim that he doesn't deal or have time for revenge, he does like to indulge in it every so often, which may attract the attention of Vell. At the moment, however, when he's just entering, Narvin has no especially pressing gripes. He doesn't even resent the person who ripped out all of his lives that much, so this might not happen until someone actually does something shitty to him.
Narvin will probably hesitate in calling the gods 'gods', however. Most likely he will consider them very powerful people, but Narvin doesn't believe in gods, or enjoy the thought of worshipping someone just so they won't poke him full of holes - it's basically the same thing as toadying to him and he doesn't have uses for it.
Writing Samples
First-Person Journal Post: (dated before his arrival to Baedal)
Councillor Braxiatel: not a rabid Hound.
- So an improvement over the last.
- Doesn't seem to trust me terribly, so not much is changed.
- Discussed slaves and their integration to society.
- Wrote me up quite an impressive of legislation.
- Will present it to the High Council tomorrow.
- Will probably be rejected.
- Good to see him again.
Leela: still no sign of her.
- First assassination attempt on Romana since our arrival was last week.
- Does she know?
- Probably difficult to get news in the Outlands, but I'm not entirely certain she is in the Outlands.
- Romana is distraught. Probably.
Romana: got an earful of why increased security is unnecessary thank you very much Narvin.
- Never mind she was the one who put me in charge of her security in the first place, I suppose.
- Or thank me for saving her life.
- Again.
Need to dismantle the dome.
- Need to survive long enough to oversee the dismantlement of the dome.
- Latter is starting to look like it'll prove to be a problem.