The Toy (audio story)

 was an audio story released solely to online subscribers of The Complete History magazine, alongside issues #4 and #5 of the magazine. It was read by Sarah Sutton.

Publisher's summary
In her bedroom on board the TARDIS, Nyssa dreams of her long lost home, and a Forbidden Archway that never really existed – or did it?

In the TARDIS corridors she finds a flight of steps, a door marked ‘keep out’, and beyond, a locked room full of secrets. In particular a casket containing a jewel seems to call to her. “Nyssa of Traken, do you want to be my friend?”

So begins a journey that takes Nyssa from snow capped mountains to vast cities, and introduces her to people she seems to know so well. What dangerous landscape has she wondered into – and can she ever escape to safety, and the comfort of her travelling companions?

Plot
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Characters

 * Fifth Doctor
 * Nyssa
 * Tegan Jovanka
 * Adric
 * The Master
 * First Doctor (vision)
 * Susan Foreman (vision)

Continuity

 * Nyssa has a dream about the Melkur and her father and mother. (TV: The Keeper of Traken) She remembers the destruction of her homeworld. (TV: Logopolis)
 * There is snow on Gallifrey. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
 * Adric and Tegan do not know who Susan is. Tegan would later meet her in TV: The Five Doctors.
 * Nyssa asks if the Master is still out there. The Doctor says that the Master has a habit of surviving. (TV: Castrovalva, Time-Flight)
 * The Doctor says that the Master could not bear a universe without him. (TV: The Five Doctors) Nyssa suggests this could be why the Master left Gallifrey.