Irem, The City Of Pillars: (Arabic: إرَم ذَات ٱلْعِمَاد Iram dhāt al-ʿimād; an alternative translation is Iram of the tentpoles), also called “Irum”, “Irem”, “Erum”, “Ubar”, or the “City of the pillars”, is a lost city, region or tribe mentioned in the Quran. Rub’ al Khali: The desert is 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) long, and…
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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…
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 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…
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…
46: Curiosity Kills the Mummified Cat
USAF XXX-XXXXX X-XX Nevada 1938 / INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION / SUBJ. WFF / OMAR SHAKTI US SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS OPERATIONAL OFFICER (USSAOO): “You’d stopped the crazy ritual. They were finished. Why didn’t you leave Omar Shakti and just get the hell out of Egypt?” FOCK: “For a monkey in a uniform that’s the most pertinent question you’ve asked me all…
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,…