Millennial Rites

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Millennial Rites
Series:	Doctor Who - Virgin Missing Adventures
Release Number:	15
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companions:	Mel
Enemy:	Ashley Chapel The Valeyard Yog-Sothoth
Setting:	London: 31 December, 1999
Author:	Craig Hinton
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Publication:	October, 1995
Format:	Paperback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0426204557
Previous Story:	Managra
Following Story:	The Empire of Glass

Contents 1 Publisher's Summary 2 Characters 3 References 4 Notes 5 Continuity 6 Timeline 7 External Links

[edit] Publisher's Summary

'The Millennium, Mel: the last New Year's eve of the Twentieth century. But it's definitely not party time.'

England, 1999: the Doctor and Mel have come to London to celebrate the new year with old friends - and to heal old wounds. But others are making more sinister preparations to usher in the new millennium. A software house is about to run a program that will change the fabric of reality. And an entity older than the universe is soon to be reborn.

When Anne Travers' fear of the Great Intelligence and millionaire philanthropist Ashley Chapel's secret researches combine, London is transformed into a dark and twisted mirror image populated by demons and sorcerers. Only the Doctor can put things right, but his friends have also been shockingly changed and he cannot trust anybody - least of all himself.

[edit] Characters

• The Doctor
• Melanie Bush

[edit] References

• Tobias Vaughn
• Library of St John the Beheaded
• Yog-Sothoth
• Saraquazel
• The Valeyard

[edit] Notes

• This is one of a number of stories (including White Darkness, All-Consuming Fire and The Taking of Planet 5) which equate various entities in the Doctor Who universe with the Great Old Ones of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

[edit] Continuity

• I2, OffNet and Ashley Chapel all previously appeared in MA: System Shock.
• This story takes place on December 31, 1999, where the Sixth Doctor is celebrating New Year's with Mel. At the same time, the newly regenerated Eighth Doctor was battaling against The Master in San Fransisco. The Fourth Doctor alos visited the year 1999, (Millennium Shock) but it isn't specified what month it is: taking into account the visit dealt with the problem of the Millennium Bug, it's safe to assume the Doctor was in London around the end of December.

[edit] Timeline

• Millennial Rites occurs after: DW: Trial of a Time Lord
• Millennial Rites occurs before: DW: Time and the Rani

[edit] External Links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis - Millennial Rites
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Millennial Rites