Money makes this Earth turn!

Chiana

So, when I walk through the door with the others and the TARDIS is standing right in the atrium of this rather run down place . . .

The door to the TARDIS opens and out steps the Doctor and Roy Batty. Roy looks still a bit put off by what he'd experienced inside the TARDIS (heh!), but more composed than the way the others had described him (and Leon) earlier here.

Meanwhile Sebastian, the teddy bear Napoleon (a petoid of Sebastians), and the Kaiser (another petiod of Sebastian) are looking rather flummoxed. See, while I had said that the TARDIS was standing in the atrium I didn't mention that it had materialized (in plain sight) with them watching!

Oh well, had kind of looked forward to the greeting Sebastian's "pets" give him every time he (or anyone) enter this place: "Home again, home again, jiggity jig. Good evening J. F." Kind of endearing, really...

. . .

"Sorry, but there has been a slight change in plans my dear," the Doctor sighs, looking slightly disappointed as he glances over at Roy, and then shrugging. "We have a . . . business proposition for Mr. Tyrell that would be profitable for all sides."

"Huh?" Sebastian asks blankly, still trying to process what he'd just seen. Maybe he thinks his condition (that Methuselah syndrome where his glands grow old too quickly) is beginning to effect his eyesight, somehow.

...

Not entirely an unreasonable assumption, really. The truth IS kind of frellin' wild!

God only knows what exactly Pris is making of this. Maybe SHE thinks HER accelerated decrepitude is effecting her, making HER see things.

...

Roy decided that the best course of action for his group would be to trust Tyrell in implementing our solution to their accelerated decrepitude problems, the Time Lord explains. Something along the lines of the devil (Tyrell) known than unknown (us). He knows we're not from around here, but heaven only knows what he really makes of us beyond that he's rather . . . frightened of us if I don't miss my guess.

. . .

"How disappointing," I sigh, shaking my head a little bit.

But not totally unexpected. He'll work with us in as far as getting to Tyrell (if only hoping that by doing so we don't turn on him if he goes along). We'd not have. Point in fact, I believe that Inquirer would have been rather happy to let them go their own way (she and some others were doing this Good Samaritan thing more out of a sense of the principle of it than out of a real desire to help Roy -- she'd have misgivings about the Replicants due to them having killed to get down here on Earth -- but that's that).

Yeah, in typical fashion (either if you're from the Uncharted or "Cyberpunk" setting) seems that Roy's

Yeah, that's that.

Roy Batty and the Doctor is able to win Sebastian over to their side, revealing that the Replicants needed his help or they'd die. They needed to see Mr. Tyrell.

There was a moment's confusion over the question of just who are the Replicants (Sebastian mistakes the dragon couple, Chiana and Sigin, as the Replicants when they kiss each other), but that is pretty quickly cleared up.

All goes well up until just about the time a bargain is struck up in Tyrell's bed chambers. Roy and friends gain access to his place by a similar gambit which had been used in the movie (i.e. chess moves). The Doctor is able to materialize the TARDIS into the bedchamber (much to Tyrell's shock) by again using the same kind of portable beacon locator (rather like Chiana had on her this time around) he'd used in past for precision TARDIS navigation.

Oh, Zora had been more than a bit happy to turn over Phylicia . . . Frankly, that little episode where, for a few moments there Phylicia had seemed something . . . other than human (actually it had been the legacy of the encounter one of her ancestors had with an Unseelie fey getting out of hand). Actually, that legacy had been leaking out unchecked for a bit here, playing on the unsuspecting Replicants emotions (who had zero experience with magic so they'd been wholly hostage to it's effects whereas even a peasant would have been able to resist), but that's by the by. Oh, Phylicia had apologized afterwards, promising Zora that she'd keep "the other" in check. Frankly, Zora just wanted this woman GONE. Raking in big money or not, she was beginning to scare the tough as nails Replicant woman.

As for the Champions, they'd just were glad enough to be able to get Phylicia (who'd just smiled a small, knowing smile that spoke that somewhere in that pretty little head of her's she seemed to know more about what was going on than she should have).

Fine and well, she's quickly and quietly "blockified" in a out of sight corner (and Roy's group just want this business to be over so don't ask what had happened to her).

Yeah. Anyway, the deal was going done in Tyrell's bedchamber when things go suddenly south!

... It's rather indicative what happened there. Rather typical, really. Straight out from the pages of your average Cyberpunk genre story.

1. Tyrell didn't betray them. It was . . . someone else within.

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