A Favour For The King – Chapter Seven Near to Mount Katahdin at the Cagle Estate: The violent events of a distant primordial era had already laid and determined the geological foundations of this region. Nevertheless, in the current brief snapshot of the present, they had left almost no lasting visible scars of their titanic…
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A Favour For The King – Chapter Six
A Favour For The King – Chapter Six Monday, May 18, 1925 – Penobscot River, Lincoln: After our recent shocking encounter it was a very quiet journey upriver. Having escaped the clutches of Razorshins by the skin of our scalp, we made the short trip to the village of Lincoln sticking as close the middle…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Thirteen – Epilogue
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Thirteen Saturday 25th April 1925 – Epilogue: 06:00am – Wiseacre’s Estate It was dawn on Saturday 25th April 1925. The unnatural, clammy, dank fog had lifted just as quickly as it had first manifested leaving a bright clear sky. There was no sign of strange Byakhee creatures upon which…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Twelve
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Twelve Friday 17th April 1925 – The Decline and Fall of Jimmy Wiseacre: 10:00pm – Going For Wiseacre – Continued Entering Wiseacre’s ostentatious country retreat through the shattered remains of the double front doors, McGee and McNifey enter the lobby area, taking care to keep under the footprint of…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Eleven
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Eleven Friday 17th April 1925 – Driving Around Atlantic City: 10:00pm – Going For Wiseacre Showing mercy is what separates us from the goon squad. They’d tell you it’s a weakness, but what splashing the milk of human kindness has got us is a sawbones to patch up a…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Ten
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Ten Friday 17th April 1925 – Driving Around Atlantic City: 05:00am – Drawing Out Wiseacre’s Men The air is crisp and cold. A steady but persistent wind drives its way across the grey coastal landscape forcing the Fixer’s crew to button up their collars and turn their backs on…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Nine
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Nine Friday 17th April 1925 – Aboard the Docked Beauregard: 03:30am – The Deep One Idol We all jumped into the van ably driven by McNifey. We looked around with some trepidation but we were not followed. We also managed to avoid the cops. Possibly the whistle we had…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Eight
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Eight Thursday 16th April 1925 – Atlantic City Investigations: 10:30pm – The Pink Feather Club in Atlantic City – Continued As the lights slowly come back up at The Pink Feather everyone seems to calm down after strutting their St Vitus dance to Thelma Ickerson’s warbling. Things have turned…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Seven
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Seven Monday 6th April 1925 – Atlantic City Bound: 10:00am – Sailing to Portland and onto Atlantic City We all set sail for Portland on “The Beauregarde” and arrived on Monday 6th April 1925. Morello and MaGee take Solomon up on his truck driving offer. Ed and MacNifey take…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Six
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Six Thursday 2nd April 1925 – Sable Island: 08:00am – On The Shore Of Sable Island We all awoke from much needed sleep. Last night’s storm was still ringing in our ears yet it was strangely calm. We needed to see the elusive Messrs Linsey and Abrams so we…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Four
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Four Monday 30th March 1925 – Sable Island: 03:30pm – On The Shore Of Sable Island Sable Island, what little daylight we had to work with has been swallowed up and spat out like so much hokey baccy juice. Impure blackness, billowing and rising…rising up, ravenous, sucking up everything…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Three
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Three Sunday 29th March 1925 – Halifax, Nova Scotia: 22:30pm – On board The Beauregarde Halifax, we sit aboard Berkeley’s fishing sloop “The Beauregard”, trying to run Pythagoras over all the angles of this case, and waiting for first light before we set sail for Sable Island. Suddenly, there’s…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Two
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Two Sunday 29th March 1925 – Halifax, Nova Scotia: 16:00pm – Terminus Hotel The boys head outside our Hotel, in Halifax, and look to follow Monsieur Sasquatch’s trail through the spring snow, but despite the size of the guy’s gunboats, they quickly lose the scent. Instead we take a cup…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter One
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter One Saturday 28th March 1925 – Beacon Hill, Central Boston, Massachusetts: 13:00pm – Solomon King’s Residence On to Halifax, well, that certainly was all kinds of a coconut shy! Solomon King in a world of pain…and not someone else’s, for a change!! So shaken we are to only call…
The Fixer From Boston – Introduction
The Fixer From Boston – Introduction Saturday 28th March 1925 – Boston, Massachusetts: Introduction to the characters and their adventure begining in Boston: Brendan “The Fox” Magee He’s been running a group of fixers for 2 years. Your group primarily functions as additional help in various mob activities. You have used additional people but at…