History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWhoTheLoneCenturionS2E2TheGlowingWarrior

* SadisticChoice: Beau arranges for either Lancelot or Lynn to be killed by a mechanical dragon with Rory only having enough time to save on. He chooses Lancelot and Lynn saves herself.

'''Plot:''' Narrated by a man telling his children, he begins the story by telling how Camelot's Christmas celebrations ended with the arrival of a man glowing green who soon dies after whispering the phrase ''Green Fire''. Rory quickly identifies that the man was covered in phosphorus and his investigations lead him to find a map on the man, and with Merlin's suggestion Guinevere gives him the task of finding out more. Joined by Lancelot they follow the map to a tower where they discover a woman named Lady Lynn who was captured by a group called the Order of the Green Fire. She is insistent of returning to her castle as her brother was captured by the Order, and on the journey they encounter a minstrel named Beau who knows of a secret underground pathway to the castle. However while the cave leads them to a newly built door with a puzzle required to open it, Lancelot accidentally burns the door making the pathway inaccessible. Rory is able to find a river that leads out of the cave however though he and the others are knocked unconscious while in the forest. He awakens in the dungeons of Lynn's castle and it is revealed that Beau is the lord of the castle and Lynn's sister though by this point Rory had figured out that he couldn't have be an ordinary minstrel. Beau reveals that he caused all these events to find a worthy knight to marry his sister, and takes Rory to see a mechanical dragon he had his guards build and challenges him to either save Lancelot or Lynn from certain death. Rory saves Lancelot knowing Lynn would be able to escape, and Rory is able to stop her from killing her brother by pointing out he shows symptoms of lead poisoning cased by his use of phosphorus leading to Beau being imprisoned. With Lynn now in charge Rory takes the opportunity to interrogate Beau who explains how he was given all of the equipment and the idea by someone in Camelot, with Rory suspecting that Merlin was behind all of this to give him a chance to search for the Pandorica. Rory leaves to confront Merlin with Lancelot, and the story ends with the narrator revealed to be Lynn's husband reading from the parchment Lancelot had wrote on describing the adventure with Lynn mentioning how the story of Rory's confrontation with Merlin is a tale for another time.

'''Plot:''' Narrated by a man telling his children, he begins the story by telling how Camelot's Christmas celebrations ended with the arrival of a man glowing green who soon dies after whispering the phrase ''Green Fire''. Rory quickly identifies that the man was covered in phosphorus and his investigations lead him to find a map on the man, and with Merlin's suggestion Guinevere gives him the task of finding out more. Joined by Lancelot they follow the map to a tower where they discover a woman named Lady Lynn who was captured by a group called the Order of the Green Fire. She is insistent of returning to her castle as her brother was captured by the Order, and on the journey the encounter a minstrel named Beau who knows of a secret underground pathway to the castle. However while the cave leads them to a newly built door with a puzzle required to open it, Lancelot accidentally burns the door making the pathway inaccessible. Rory is able to find a river that leads out of the cave however though he and the others are knocked unconscious while in the forest. He awakens in the dungeons of Lynn's castle and it is revealed that Beau is the lord of the castle and Lynn's sister though by this point Rory had figured out that he couldn't have be an ordinary minstrel. Beau reveals that he caused all these events to find a worthy knight to marry his sister, and takes Rory to see a mechanical dragon he had his guards build and challenges him to either save Lancelot or Lynn from certain death. Rory saves Lancelot knowing Lynn would be able to escape, and Rory is able to stop her from killing her brother by pointing out he shows symptoms of lead poisoning cased by his use of phosphorus leading to Beau being imprisoned. With Lynn now in charge Rory takes the opportunity to interrogate Beau who explains how he was given all of the equipment and the idea by someone in Camelot, with Rory suspecting that Merlin was behind all of this to give him a chance to search for the Pandorica. Rory leaves to confront Merlin with Lancelot, and the story ends with the narrator revealed to be Lynn's husband reading from the parchment Lancelot had wrote on describing the adventure with Lynn mentioning how the story of Rory's confrontation with Merlin is a tale for another time.

* {{Irony}}: Gawain in the myths is usually associated with Lothian or the Orkney Islands, both of which are part of Scotland. Also in the myths Gawain had a one night stand with a fey that resulted in a son named Gingalain, which brings to mind River who is a child of the TARDIS and part-Time Lord who from Rory's perspective he has only met once during ''The Pandorica Opens'' meaning he's unaware that he's her father.

* ContinuityNod: A minor one but in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]'' River said she hates good wizards in fairy tales as they always turn out to be the Doctor. As it turns out, her father was one of [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy the most famous knights]] from the Myth/ArthurianLegend.

* WholePlotReference: This entire story is based on ''Literature/GawainAndTheGreenKnight'', with Beau mistakenly believing that Rory's name is Gawain after his misheard Lancelot telling him to go away. It's heavily implied that Lynn would rewrite the story due to her annoyance over how Lancelot wrote about her, and it would eventually turn into the story people are more familiar with.

* AdaptationalBadass: Gawain had some magical abilities in some versions of the Arthurian legends, but he was never practically immortal like Rory.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Lancelot makes a lot of mistakes and tends to make stupid decisions.

* ContinuityNod: A minor one but in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]'' River said she hates good wizards in fairy tales as they always turn out to be the Doctor. As it turns out, her father was one of [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy the most famous knights]] from the Arthurian Legends.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Lancelot never had a romantic interest in Gawain in the original stories.

* ContinuityNod: A minor one but in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]'' River said she hates good wizards in fairy tales as they always turn out to be the Doctor. As it turns out, her father was one of the most famous knights from the Arthurian Legends.

* DissapointedByTheMotive: Rory is shocked that everything Beau did was simply to find the best knight who would then marry his sister.

* AdaptationalWimp: Gareth is simply a servant who is the lover and future husband too Lynn instead of a knight. Lancelot also suffers from this as he makes a number of mistakes during the adventure.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: In regards to the Arthurian stories at least, Rory is revealed to be Gawain which explains why there wasn't a Sir Rory in myths.

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