Thurali

A write-up of Thurali from Tyranny of the Daleks.  This is using the second edition rules for the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game from Cubicle 7.

A vision of Lentargi at the Shimmering Ferns

Concept: Union of Thural and the bio-quantum energy of Lentargi in Extermina, the Dalek virtual world

Focus: Caring for all life on Galentor

Homeworld: Galentor

Tech level: 3

Short-term goal: To rid Galentor of the infestation of the Evil Ones

Long-term goal: Caring for all life on Galentor

Awareness 6, Coordination 3,

Ingenuity 4, Presence 5,

Resolve 6, Strength 4

Skills:  Athletics 4 (Running), Conflict 3, Convince 3, Intuition 4 (Empathy), Knowledge 3 (Galentor Mythology), Medicine 4 (Folk medicine), Science 0, Subterfuge 4 (Camouflage), Survival 4 (Wilderness), Technology 0, Transport 0

Note: These statistics relate to the manifestation of Thurali in Extermina, the Dalek virtual world.

Distinctions: Uplifted being with raised attributes and skills, extra abilities described below

Story Points: 12 

(Extra points due to fusion with Lentargi)

Character notes

During the adventure, one possibility is that Thural, leader of the Pham and shaman of Lentargi, will unify with the spirit of Lentargi through a special ceremony he has learned in secret books of lore. This could create a super-being called Thurali, who may come to the Doctor’s aid in defeating the Daleks.

In essence, the ceremonial ritual opens the mind of the devotee to the spirit of Lentargi. To Thural and the Pham, Lentargi is more than a god. It is the living essence of all things, from which all strength, vitality and fertility comes.  Whilst the Pham think of Lentargi in mystical, mythological terms, it is in fact a planetary-scale life-field.

The Lentargi field (as Xafonix labelled it) is a bio-electro-quantum network; a naturally emergent, planet-wide phenomenon arising from the interaction of Galentor’s biosphere, magnetosphere, and the subatomic lattice of certain crystalline elements.

Within the Lentargi Field exists a state of quantum coherence, a shared information substrate binding DNA, neuronal patterns, and even microbial behavior. This creates a Life Matrix: a distributed network allowing rapid adaptive responses across species , for instance, simultaneous flowering, migration patterns, or coordinated healing of ecosystems after trauma.

It’s not telepathy, but a biophysical empathy; life literally responding as one.

There are special localities, such as the Shimmering Fens near the Pham’s grounds, rich in the Lumarg fungi, where resonance patterns from the Lentargi Field can be detected. Anyone here may have hallucinations, or as the Pham calls them, visions, including those of Lentargi itself, as the mythical Lord of the Mugati.   During one of these ceremonies at the Shimmering Fens after a Dalek attack, in prayer Thural opened his mind to Lentargi like never before. His brainwaves synchronised with the low-frequency oscillations of the Lentargi Field as his ritual chanting grew louder.

As such, the neural network of Thural’s brain became quantum entangled with the Lentargi field, unifying both as one being, Thurali. As a planetary-scale bio-quantum field, Thurali is able to engage in quantum entanglement with any coherent energy pattern, including the Daleks’ virtual hive-mind, Extermina.

As the Doctor’s consciousness was drawn into Extermina by the Daleks, the Time Lord managed to open a quantum bridge, and Thurali crossed over into the vast psionic simulation that is the Daleks’ virtuality.  His goal is to locate the Stranger (the Pham’s word for the Doctor) and do whatever is needed to cleanse his world of the Dalek incursion.

In this form, he appears as Thural, but imbued with the authority and intuitive awareness of the planetary consciousness that is Lentargi.  He speaks with the resonance of the planet’s spirit.

Inside Extermina, Thurali has special powers to navigate through the virtual environment. The Lentargi Field,  a living bio-quantum network, naturally resonates with the subatomic code that forms the Daleks’ virtual environment. To him, Extermina’s data-streams appear not as sterile code but as living harmonics, currents of resonance that he can sense and follow like pathways of vibration. Where the Daleks see logic and order, Thurali perceives the rhythm of life and corruption intertwined, allowing him to move through their virtual hive-mind as though walking through a living landscape. In this way, he becomes a ghost in their circuitry, guided by empathy rather than logic, and uniquely attuned to the pulse of life even within a realm built for death.

In game terms, navigating through Extermina will require Resolve + Intuition rolls, the difficulty being based on the distance involved and any in-built defences (firewalls if you like) around a particular locality. 

In addition, Thurali can, once per scenario session, attune to Extermina’s underlying code and perform an act of “restoration”, effectively healing some part of the virtual world or wresting control momentarily of Dalek control systems. This requires an Ingenuity + Intuition v 21 roll as it such an effort, and in the case of a failure, this will cause massive psychic feedback and Thurali risks dispersion (effectively disappearing from Extermina), which can only be avoided with a Resolve + Survival v 18 roll.