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calufraxStory: River Song and the Lost Tomb of Ardûn
Author: Nancy Brown
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 4928
Author's Summary: River's professor for her first archaeology class was a self-declared expert on late twentieth and early twenty-first century Earth history. Naturally, she hated his guts.
Characters/Pairings: Jack Harkness, River Song, The Doctor (other)
Warnings: None.
Recced because: This has everything you want in an adventure: mystery, humour, action, and a brilliant pay-off. Plus, River Song. This is the River I always wanted to see onscreen - competent, independent, adventurous, and a working archaeologist; the glimpses we get of her at university are fascinating. The worldbuilding is completely believable, with little details and throwaway facts fleshing out what's already a compelling setting.
Basically? I want to have gone to university with River Song, and I want to have had this adventure. Because it's brilliant.
The lost Tomb of Ardûn has five hundred stories and a thousand legends associated with it. The few details that echo amongst every retelling are these three:
1. Empress Ardûn was buried in the heart of the temple, ostensibly to show her importance, but mainly because her people wanted to be quite clear on the matter that she was dead and not coming back.
2. She was entombed with rich treasures packed in tightly like a squirrel packs its cheeks with food. (The legend actually says "like a marmba packs its throat pouch with rotting leaves," but Mels once owned a squirrel she named Harry Pothead, and River likes that image better.)
3. Her spirit still haunts the temple, bound inside, and her angered screams can be heard from beyond the walls. Hearing her scream is a certain sign of the listener's impending death.
Author: Nancy Brown
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 4928
Author's Summary: River's professor for her first archaeology class was a self-declared expert on late twentieth and early twenty-first century Earth history. Naturally, she hated his guts.
Characters/Pairings: Jack Harkness, River Song, The Doctor (other)
Warnings: None.
Recced because: This has everything you want in an adventure: mystery, humour, action, and a brilliant pay-off. Plus, River Song. This is the River I always wanted to see onscreen - competent, independent, adventurous, and a working archaeologist; the glimpses we get of her at university are fascinating. The worldbuilding is completely believable, with little details and throwaway facts fleshing out what's already a compelling setting.
Basically? I want to have gone to university with River Song, and I want to have had this adventure. Because it's brilliant.
The lost Tomb of Ardûn has five hundred stories and a thousand legends associated with it. The few details that echo amongst every retelling are these three:
1. Empress Ardûn was buried in the heart of the temple, ostensibly to show her importance, but mainly because her people wanted to be quite clear on the matter that she was dead and not coming back.
2. She was entombed with rich treasures packed in tightly like a squirrel packs its cheeks with food. (The legend actually says "like a marmba packs its throat pouch with rotting leaves," but Mels once owned a squirrel she named Harry Pothead, and River likes that image better.)
3. Her spirit still haunts the temple, bound inside, and her angered screams can be heard from beyond the walls. Hearing her scream is a certain sign of the listener's impending death.
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Date: 2013-12-20 02:24 am (UTC)