A Favour For The King – Chapter Eight Cagle Mansion Ruin South of Mount Katahdin: McGee was uneasy. We were still being watched. We all shared that eerie feeling. Though it was unspoken we also knew that could mean strange creatures could be drawn to us. We had hoped that being with the barrier created…
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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…
53: The Investigators, the Pharaoh, His Queen and Her Doctor
8th October 1945, Ljubljana, Slovenia, People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia US Military Investigators’ Report by Special Agent XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX Following up on a tip by one of the partisan resistance fighters our military investigators located a small apartment in downtown Ljubljana. Partially destroyed by fire (cause unknown) we had no difficulty entering. The two rooms within…
52: The Pyramid of Menkaure, A Voice From Beyond
Sprech, Broadmoor, Gardener and all of the investigators are at the Pyramid of Menkaure. Entering the tunnel first are Gardener and Sprech because they know the way. Who knows what dangers lie ahead? Nerves are frayed. Everyone is jumpy. Gardener: “Come on, hurry up!” The tunnel beneath the Pyramid of Menkaure takes a turn. Gardener:…
51: The Great Egyptian Bake Off
Crimson burn’d the star of sadness As behind the beams I peer’d; All was woe that seem’d but gladness Ere my gaze with truth was sear’d; Sarcophagus, mir’d with madness, Thro’ the fever’d flick’ring leer’d. Now I know the fiendish fable That the golden glitter bore; Now I shun the spangled sable That I watch’d…
50: Two Go Camping in The Desert
Leaving the hotel, the investigators head back to the Dark Mistress on the Nile. The boat no longer has a power source and is immobile but safer out on the water from attack. The assumption is that the cultists in Luna Park have been entirely wiped out. But this is not a certainty. At least…
49: Nyarlathotep’s Helter-Skelter
“Look out Helter-skelter, helter-skelter Helter-skelter. Look out ’cause here she comes. When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride…” (Excerpt “Helter-skelter” The Beatles, 22 November 1968) “I was old when the Pharaohs first mounted The jewel-deck’d…
48: Welcome to Luna Park
Trixie’s Secret Diary: It’s late Friday night and we are just sooo pooped. We return to our boat, the Dark Mistress, which has been ransacked – numerous items stolen by two westerners – Aussies. Never trust ‘em, honey! We have Hamza, an acolyte of the Black Pharaoh who tells us about a ritual taking place…
45: Unwelcome Guests
The Assault On Omar Shakti’s House Take out Omar Shakti? After all that the investigators have faced and achieved this would appear a comparatively simple task. Simple. Simple? The word rings of treacherous deadly complacency. The rancid heat of a day’s hustle and bustle, as the desperate inhabitants of a sprawling metropolis fight to survive,…
44: The Red Glow From Below
The merciless sun beats down on the endless wheat fields and its heat is collected by the winds that ripple through the ears like the waves of a yellow ocean before blasting the scientist as he stands and aims his rifle towards a lone figure, arms outstretched; a target hanging from its neck. It’s rifle practice…