The Woodworks

The Woodworks was the first serial of season eight of Category War.

## Synopsis

"You aren't a god!"

The land of Ilon hasn't known a god - or even a system of religion - for hundreds of thousands of years. However, that has changed.

After escaping from a world of monstrosities, Tom and Areex find a new god has taken control. One with glowing green eyes.

And, for another thing, something is attacking Ilon. Something with a killing intent.

## Plot

### The Green-Eyed God (1)

After jumping through the dimensional aperture, Tom and Areex fall onto the surface of Eddinzough - which resembles a giant table with several “shelves” jutting out from it. The duo lands on what they assume to be a plant. They then decide to look for life.

As such, Tom looks around the shelf they’re nearest to - finding a set of stairs constructed in the side of the shelf. Tom is then found by a wooden being.

This is one of the Eddinzoughians - the inhabitants of Eddinzough. The Eddinzoughian welcomes Tom and Areex to the unimaginatively named village of “wood”. Once they reach the village, the Ilonite lets it slip that Tom and Areex aren’t the first visitors to Eddinzough.

A few minutes later, Tom and Areex are grabbed by members of a new religion on Eddinzough - the “Following of the Sun-God of the Waylaid Order of the Closest Rock to the Big Burning Thing That Was Previously Mentioned”. Tom and Areex are brought to one of the many houses in wood and dropped into a chamber - where a voice welcomes them into the inner sanctum and two green eyes start to glow. Tom then realises who the Sun-God is.

Sutekh

### Eversiscendance (2)

That’s when a more familiar voice replies that Sutekh is dead. That voice belongs to Kieli - who steps forwards. Initially, Tom berates Kieli for trying to manipulate the people of Eddinzough into worshipping her. However, Areex reveals that Kieli is a friend of theirs. As such, Tom stops.

Kieli then reveals that she stowed away on the Nebula. After it exploded (The Raid) - Kieli was thrown onto Eddinzough. To make sure that her fellow Resistance members found her, Kieli made sure that any travellers would find her - masquerading as a god.

Afterwards Kieli - along with Kieli’s attendant (who goes by Attendant) - introduce Tom and Areex around wood. Eventually, Tom and Areex find a communicator - an advanced piece of technology that every single village on Eddinzough has. While looking at the communicator, Tom and Areex find out that villages are being attacked. However, the communication doesn’t have a description of the attackers.

As such, Tom and Areex - along with Kieli - set off for heartwood. Using a short-range, one-use teleporter that Areex had on their person, the trio sets off for heartwood.

On arrival, the trio very quickly finds the leader’s house - as it’s larger than all of the other houses in heartwood. The trio meets the leader of heartwood and informs him of their story. The leader, though confused by other worlds, allows them to view a recording of the attacks. While watching the recording, Areex realises that the attackers are the Eversiscendants.

### The Battle of the Bottom (3)

Afterwards, the trio decides to set off in search of the Eversiscendants. Kieli hires a skimmer - the vehicle used by the Eddinzoughians - and sets off for the bottom of Eddinzough.

Once the lowering of the skimmer is finished, Areex starts up a scanner - showing that the Eversiscendants are several klicks away.

While Areex drives, Tom and Kieli share stories about their adventures. Eventually the Eversiscendants’ ship - Fort Square - comes into view.

Inside Fort Square, the Eversiscendants realise that a skimmer is approaching. Beanley suggests firing on it, however, Thorn decides to go out and destroy it himself. Beanley and Adriano go along with him.

Soon, a smaller Eversiscendant ship meets with the skimmer. Almost immediately, Areex realises that Cubeson is missing - along with Thorn’s staff. There’s also another member of the Eversiscendants - a Flesh Effervescent. Areex then realises that the Eversiscendants must be from the past. That’s shortly before the Eversiscendants begin to battle with the Resistance members.

While battling with the Eversiscendants, a plant-like being (similar to the one that Tom and Areex landed on) attacks them. It eats the Flesh Effervescent and in the confusion Tom, Areex, and Kieli are able to steal what Areex identifies as a dimensional warper from Thorn’s pocket.

As such, the trio is able to warp out of Eddinzough. The Eversiscendants decide to leave Eddinzough to try and find a new fourth member - although Beanley suggests that they destroy just one more village before leaving.

## Cast

* Tom - Tom Baker
* Areex - John Scott Martin
* Kieli - June Page
* Thorn - John Hollis
* Adriano - Alun Armstrong
* Beanley - George A. Cooper
* Flesh Effervescent - TBA
* leader - TBA
* First Ilonite - TBA

## Notes

* The Kieli red herring was only added due to there not being enough material for three parts in the original draft scripts
* Part 1 was originally dubbed "Heartwood Bound"

## Continuity

* The Eversiscendants here come from before the war and before meeting Cubeson. They first meet the Resistance as a whole in Operation: Earth
* Sutekh and his death is mentioned - with his corpse featuring in The Relics of Sutekh

Sephulchre, Decay, The Children Shall Rule, Operation: Earth, Deathdays, The Loop, Reach, Genesis, Parasite, The Relics of Sutekh, Nova Six, Siege

**Seasons 4 and 5**
The Final Sanction, Sultanate, Hunters, Legacy of the Dead, Art, The Vault, The Curse of Tau Ceti, The Great Interstellar Train Robbery, The Shoal, Ice Screams, Hephaestus, The War Makers

**Season 6**
The Wall, The Water Monsters, War and the Daleks, Song of Death, The Maze, The Raid

**Seasons 7-9**
Planet of the Evil Ones, The Evolutionary Episode, Liberation, The Labyrinth of Karakarat, The Corruptor, **The Woodworks**, The Dark One, The Core, The Obsidian Archipelago, Breath, The Wheel of Metal, Death in the Light, Diamond Dogs, Hotel Hell, Legacy

**Season 10**
Planet of Bones, Men of the Earth, The Eight Soldiers, The Orb of Cestala, The Palace of Death, The Time Storm, Angel of Time, The Flight of Luxury, The Fine Game of Nil, The Haunting of the Epsilon Zone, The Horrid Circus, The Last Day at Eridan, Town of the Damned, The Jester's Trial, Concealment, Death Masks, The Last City on Earth