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'''Paper''' was a material made from [[wood]] or a similar materials. Paper was often used as something to write on. ([[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'', ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]] / [[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'')

[[Psychic paper]] was a blank, white card that had special properties. When shown to a person, it could usually induce them to see whatever the user wished them to see printed on it. This was commonly used by [[the Doctor]], particularly in his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]'', ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') [[Tenth Doctor|tenth]], ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'', ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'', ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'', ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'') and [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnations]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'', ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') [[Companion]]s of the Doctor such as [[Rose Tyler]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'') [[Martha Jones]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'') and [[Clara Oswald]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') also made use of the paper, while [[Jack Harkness]] had psychic paper of his own. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') [[Suggestibility paper]] was a material similar to psychic paper. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fugitive (comic story)|Fugitive]]'')

A speech by [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] [[Neville Chamberlain]] in [[1938]], following a conference in [[Munich]] intended to deal with the crisis in [[Europe]] caused by [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] expansionism, opened with the words: "I have in my [[hand]] a piece of paper..." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Illegal Alien (novel)|Illegal Alien]]'') Said paper promised that there would be "peace in our time." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Wednesday Afternoon (short story)|One Wednesday Afternoon]]'') However, it was [[World War II|not to be]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'', ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'', ''[[Just War (audio story)|Just War]]'')

After they left him at [[Winterborne School]] for [[Christmas]] and [[Whitsun]], [[Luke Pendrell]] remarked that his [[Luke Pendrell's mother|mother]] and [[Luke Pendrell's father|father]] would likely give him another cheque and a hasty apology written on [[Claridge's]] note-paper. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[The Devil of Winterborne (home video)|The Devil of Winterborne]]'')

The [[Tenth Doctor]] met a group of [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] while holding a sheet of A4 paper on a stick in the place of a plain white [[flag]], which he jokingly apologised for. When the Cybermen asked if he was surrendering, he responded that he was surrendering unto them "a very good idea". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')

In the [[22nd century]], the [[Dalek]]s recovered a [[Fire|burnt]] piece of paper from the wreckage of a [[human]] [[spaceship]], the ''[[Starmaker]]'', which revealed to them the location of [[Earth]]. The [[Dalek Emperor]] decreed that the Daleks would search for and [[22nd century Dalek invasion|conquer the planet]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Conflict (comic story)|The Road to Conflict]]'')

At a later stage of the 22nd century, paper had been replaced by [[holographic]] slides. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fear Itself (novel)|Fear Itself]]'') By the end of the [[26th century]], a shortage of reliable memory and storage devices after the wars resulted in the use of paper again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle]]'') By the [[30th century]], paper hadn't been used for centuries. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'')

To demonstrate the cause of the stalemate of the [[Dalek-Movellan War]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana II|Romana]] played a [[Rock paper scissors|game]] involving [[hand]] shapes forming "[[Rock|stone]]", "paper" and "[[scissors]]"; stone was represented by a closed [[fist]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'')

When the Tenth Doctor and [[Donna Noble]] arrived at [[the Library]] and were surprised to find that, despite no one being visible, 1,000,000,000,000 life forms were detected there, Donna suggested that the [[book]]s might be alive. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'') They weren't books, but in fact the [[Vashta Nerada]], who were hatched in the Library's books, using them in place of a [[forest]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'')

[[Psionic Paper]] was a paper that was created by the [[Paparian]]s. It could create an artificial reality. Whatever the writer wrote down came to life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wraith World (audio story)|Wraith World]]'')

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