User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-27350284-20151205202907/@comment-27350284-20151229175748

168.1.75.19 wrote: What I don't understand, something I am yet to find an answer to, is how could he chisel away at the wall over the period of 4.5 billion years when the entire castle resets itself every time he confesses/starts the struggle again? for example when he digs the grave to find 'I am in 12' he comes back to find it undisturbed. The skulls continue to amass too but this is outside the castle... maybe this wall is not part of the resetting process? My interpretation of this was not that the rooms reset but that the puzzles/trails the Time Lord is meant to face in order to reflect on their lives reset. This would easily allow for why there's skulls and a burnt out Doctor and markings and everything else laying around but the tasks like the grave reset. After all, the dial was not meant to be used in this way on a living Time Lord so why would it be set up to understand multiple iterations of the same attempt.