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The White Guardian interrupts the Doctor's puttering around in the TARDIS to give him a quest: [[Gotta Catch Em All|find all six segments]] of the [[Cosmic Keystone|Key To Time]] before... well, there's a deadline, but it's not entirely clear when it is. But sooner would be better.
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Her name is Romana.
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Romana reads the TARDIS Owner's Guide and effects a perfect materialisation on the icy, remote, pre-contact world of Ribos, location of [[Plot Coupon]] #1. They quickly track it to the royal bling room, where it's been disguised as a huge glowy blue lump of [[Green Rocks|jethrik]], an incredibly rare and expensive subtance.
But all is not as it seems. The jethrik has been planted there by one Garron: ostensibly a real estate agent showing the planet to a client (the Graff, a psychopathic ex-dictator), but really a [[Snake Oil Salesman]] trying to trick the Graff into paying an inflated price for the allegedly jethrik-rich planet.
It works, and the Graff's million-opek down payment is stored in the royal treasury for the night. The [[Genre Savvy]] will not be surprised to learn that, next morning, the money and the jethrik is gone, and the guards have no idea what the Graff Vynda-K is ranting about.
=== Tropes ===
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: A peculiar variant. Garron affects a strong [[British Accents|Somerset accent]] as part of his con, apparently to sound like more of a rube. The Doctor identifies it as such, and goes so far as to wonder why an accent specific to [[The West Country|a few counties]] on an [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]] is being heard on Ribos. [[Justified Trope|It eventually turns out that Garron is either a native of Earth, or spent some time there in the past]].
* [[Green Rocks|Blue Rocks]]: The jethrik.
* [[The Caligula]]: The Graff Vynda-K.
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