#cwej

The doors to the House of Lungbarrow are open. Lungbarrow by Loomlight, the sequel to the legendary New Adventures novel, is available now. Hidden truths await inside, are you ready?

Amazon US: https://a.co/d/0hYDXXH0 Amazon UK: https://amzn.eu/d/0d5WbNTX AP digital store: https://payhip.com/b/gHPBu Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cwej-tomoko-banks/1149936663

I promise you there are a LOT of revelations to come for all levels of fans.

Also there’s a character in it based on my likeness featured on the cover (the one on the right in regards to the two figures in the foreground of Cover B); the villain of the book itself. Who? You’ll just have to read the book to find out ;)

The way Tomoko M Banks reframes the other, and all of the Marc Platt lore into the modern era is frankly incredible. With this book, the parts of Doctor Who that have all the creative freedoms are catapulted into the future.

You get so much with this novel. Its jam packed in a good way. There's even a bonus short story after the book by Wylder, and its fucking great. Lungbarrow by Loomlight isn't my favorite part of Cwej, but it's maybe the most essential part. People will be talking about this book years from now. Read it.

My friend James Hornby wrote a great story about the horror of working in a grocery store (he worked in one for many years), and invited a whole ton of other writers to pen little spin-offs from the main tale exploring different characters at the store, the store itself, and bread puns.

It's free to read, so you should read it.

@presidentdisastraofgallifrey just asked me if I have an explanation for how the Tardis was able to take the Doctor and Susan into Gallifrey's past in Listen. As far as we knew at that point, Gallifrey was still timelocked as a part of the War. I have kinda two parts of explanation for this.

The more straightforward answer: In the audio story The Shoreditch Intervention (the last story in the Susan's War 1 boxset), it is shown that a Time Lock can be breached by an individual going back along their own timestream - both Susan and the Doctor use that to enter Earth, which has been timelocked for the duration of the War. So what Clara unintentionally did in Listen was basically the same thing - she guided the Tardis back along the Doctor's timestream to the barn outside of House Lungbarrow where he grew up.

Now that's kind of an incomplete answer because other parts of the Doctor Who EU have demonstrated that Gallifrey is extra-super-timelocked (that's part of what the Transduction Barriers do) and that the Doctor and Susan were able to do what they did as easily as they did with the ease they did it because of the Time War breaking reality (I'm thinking of Year Two of Titan's Eleventh Doctor comics, where breaking back into the Time War is a much harder venture).

And so this leads into my second part of my explanation. This does rely on my usual assumption that Faction Paradox's War in Heaven and the Last Great Time War are the same.

So it's a major plot point in the Cwej series that the War in Heaven was ended by something called the V-Time Experiment. What exactly the V-Time Experiment did isn't the clearest, but from what I can gather and infer, it used the existence of the Cwejen (a soldier species manufactured by the Time Lords during the War) as anchors in a large-scale restructuring of reality to reform the universe and history into one where Gallifrey wasn't at War. Since we know very definitively how the War ended - we saw it in The Day of the Doctor - I interpret the V-Time Experiment as how Gallifrey returned itself to the universe from its pocket dimension (something that is never really explained in the show proper).