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It’s just a fun passion project. Development can be a bit slow, mostly because of personal life stuff. But we do already have an outline for the basic plot and other members. Currently we are looking for a new coder (that can do game maker) a writer, and a mapper.

If you’re interested I’ll leave a link to a recruitment post I made on gamejolt. Just comment on that if you’re interested, or just comment on this tumblr post, either way it okay. No 100% guarantee that you’ll make the cut, so just remember that. Also we have a discord server for the game to.

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left to right, top to bottom; mapper, eel, traveler, diseased, beloved, winterbound, artificer, hunter!!

"Very well!!"

I wonder if The Visionary from The End of Time was a Mapper, or some Pythian/Karn equivalent. Obviously the Sisterhood of Karn is already far more mystical than orthodox Gallifreyan society and her alias isn't reeeaaallly a timekeeping pun like we are told most Mappers went with, but there are still some things which make me ponder it.

Most obviously there's the fact that she spends 90% of her time scribbling and scrawling prophecies in Circular Gallifreyan that are treated with the utmost seriousness by Rassilon & his cronies, which naturally reminds me of the most famous Mapper in the wider Whoniverse, Auteur (if we believe his story, of course)

And while that is mostly an Auteur "thing" specifically it's perfectly possible other Mappers would keep a penchant for using their language of temporal cartography quite...obsessively, as the Visionary does.

The Visionary also seems to be a few silly collars short of a High Council; we are told that when all the Mappers were plugged into the ancient Gallifreyan Matrix to download their memories and "map" out the new chronology of the Anchored universe, they were first haphazardly drugged with hallucinogens from across the universe in what can only be described as the Time Lord equivalent of MKUltra. It is said explicitly that this process broke the minds of every Mapper to undergo it (aka every Mapper)

The Visionary also has very interesting tattoos, which one could read as similar to the tattooed star chart that adorned the mad Time Lord and (retroactively implied) Mapper Astrolabus, who was eventually skinned for having done so and, well we're not quite sure what happened to him...

A minor point of note is also that the Visionary was specifically welcomed onto Rassilon's Council; something interesting if we assume her to be a Mapper, a member of the Sisterhood of Karn or even both, due to the history Rassilon has with...well basically everything in Gallifreyan history to be frank with you.

But regardless, Mappers were one of the first generations of loomed Time Lords after the Anchoring of the Thread, created on Rassilon's orders to observe and "map" the new spacetime continuum of the rational universe. If anyone would know that a Mapper, maddened or not, would be useful to him on his council during the Last Great Time War, it's Rassilon.

(As an aside, the depiction of the Anchoring of the Thread in Doctor Who: Flux and its additions does make me ponder if Mappers were in fact a Division project specifically, but that's a theory for another day)

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