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(The Beast Below)

"Stop! You mustn't do that!"

Not heeding the girl's warning , Amy ventured into the hut anyway. It appeared to be pulsating red light Searching around , she came across a windup torch.

"That's weird" she said to herself, "That's-"
At that moment, something lashed out at her; like an octopus tentacle. She shrieked and tried to back out of the hut only to notice she was surrounded by clockwork men. Within seconds, she was on the floor as a wave of sleeping gas from one's ring overwhelmed her.

Amy awoke to find she was in a chair, facing four huge television screens and two buttons: one marked Forget and the other Protest. She watched as the computer confirmed her name and age (though it seemed to think she was 1306),
She laughed. "Shut up!"
The screen changed to an image of an older man explaining about what she was about to watch and how she had the choice to Forget or Protest. In rapid succession, Amy saw images of fire and burning, In shock, she pressed Forget.

shivver

I was inspired last night! Also, I figured this would be an example of what I was trying to describe for this challenge.

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“Now take me shopping, big boy!”

Martha recoiled from Annalise’s tinny screech as the call cut off, and she stared in bemused disbelief at her flip phone, a common reaction to the blonde’s antics. Her father must be having a mid-life cataclysm to make the breezy div even the least bit attractive to him. She clapped the phone closed and leant into jogging the last block to the hospital to prevent a tardy arrival when a tall man dashed up, blocking her path, and she leapt back a step to avoid a collision.

“Like this!” he exclaimed, making a show of pulling off his tie, leaving the collar of his shirt standing tall like his mess of brown hair. He held up the knotted loop, displaying it like a prize fish he’d just caught. “See?” Before she could reply, he sprinted off, his long coat flaring behind him.

Martha stood there for a beat, smiling in confusion only because she couldn’t think of any other response. The nutters were out on Chancellor Street today, apparently.

shivver

You're going to novelize an episode! Well, a short bit of it.

1. Think of an action scene (not a conversation) from any DW episode - a scene that you're familiar with enough that you can picture the setting and you can see in your mind what the characters are doing.
2. Now, write a few paragraphs describing what's happening, as if you're novelizing the episode.
3. You're aiming for ten or fifteen seconds' worth of action, and trying to make your reader clearly picture what's going on.
4. Try to focus on using action verbs and avoiding adverbs (words ending in -ly). For example, instead of "The Doctor ran quickly to the console", try "The Doctor dashed to the console" or even "The Doctor leapt to the console".

You can choose an audio, if you prefer, or even a comic book, but not a prose story. If there's any dialogue in the scene, you can either get it from chakoteya.net or just make it up from memory - for this challenge, dialogue accuracy is not important.

This one is due Monday, since this is the first challenge and is posted late.

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