New York City, U.S.A: 12:20 PM: Having returned from Westchester with Roger Carlyle’s 3 books we still wonder if we are puppets being dangled on a string like we were when we wandered pointlessly around Europe on the Orient Express at the whim of a vengeful deceitful Nyarlathotep or whether we are in any kind…
Author: Joseph Donelly
9: The Gateway
New York City, USA 12:00 PM: As we drive away from the collapsing warehouse we still can’t hear any sirens and realise that we have got away clean. Being in 3 vehicles, we can go different ways: Trixie, Greg and Simon head to the Bronx to check out the apartment of the recently deceased Leland…
8: Third Raid on The Bloody Tongue
New York City, U.S.A: 10:00 PM: Bloody Tongue? Should be the Bloody Cockroach, except that Cockroaches don’t bleed, because no matter how often you stamp on them, another always seems to crawl out from under its stone. Just how many bases do these idiots have? We discuss further activity, but need additional information before we…
7: The Carlyle Family & Expedition
New York City, U.S.A: 07:53 AM: We awake refreshed after an uneventful night. Discussing Silas N’Kwane, it is agreed, despite Greg’s protests, to give him to Poole. Keeping him gagged and wrapped up in his tarpaulin we drive close to Poole’s precinct house leaving him handcuffed to some railings. Trent then makes an anonymous call…
6: Jonah Kensington Left Hanging
New York City, U.S.A: 09:30 PM: Having shot Mukanga dead, Donelly gingerly picks up his staff keeping his hand covered. He then attaches it to his backpack. Trixie, Wes, Joe and Trent then head back downstairs back to the concierge of the apartment block. It’s still dark. Whatever they did was a little more than…
5: Jonah Kensington in Trouble
New York City, U.S.A: 01:07 AM: Driving back from the failed meeting with Erica Carlyle, we follow up the lead of the Harlem speakeasy, where the three strangers had driven back to after spying on Jackson Elias’s funeral. As we would stand out, we sought to make use of Donelly’s friend Earl Hines. The Cotton…
4: The Clues Pile Up
New York City, U.S.A: 07:51 AM: Greg takes a pep pill and joins the others. There’ll be time to give them up when he’s dead. For now, there’s work to be done. It’s done the trick, as he brews the coffee he remembers that New York Medical Records Bureau may well have Huston’s records on…
3: The Raid on Ju-Ju House
New York City, U.S.A: 15:23 PM: Having left the Shop I return to our car with Irma, Gupta and Joseph. We watch the comings and goings for a few hours. Gives me time to think, and all the while I’m wondering exactly how rough this situation is going to get. I can’t help but have…
2: Proof Carlyle Expedition Still Alive
New York City, U.S.A: 18:02 PM: First we had the name of the bar in Hong Kong where Jackson met Nails and was told that Jack Brady was still alive. However he is most assuredly long gone from this location now. Secondly, and marginally more useful, Jackson mentions Carlyle’s lover “Anastasia” for the first time….
1: The Games Afoot, Follow Your Spirit
TELEGRAM: HAVE INFORMATION CONCERNING CARLYLE EXPEDITION: STOP. NEED RELIABLE INVESTIGATIVE TEAM: STOP. ARRIVE JANUARY 15: STOP SIGNED JACKSON ELIAS. (SEE HANDOUT 02) – Telegram sent to Irma by Jackson Elias: Jackson Elias was a good friend, although they’d not seen each other recently, shared a similar outlook and were of a similar generation. Whenever…
0: Prelude
Havana, Cuba: 06:56 AM: The adventure of “The Thing On The Roof” was over for Greg and Honduras just a distant memory to us all now. The group were all fighting our own devils and the time spent in Havana would go a long way to making my boys fit again. Greg too. Casualties were…
The Story So Far
Having dealt with Vitaly Grishkin, Theological and Spiritual Advisor to the Petrograd Soviet and Adherent of Rasputin, and Woodbury DeNeilsen, Private Secretary of John Pierpont Morgan Jnr. Based at the Metropolitan club, we now have a short time to recover and contemplate all that we had accomplished. We had recently been contacted by our old…