Since their return from the “frozen wastelands of the North”, life around the globe had very quickly returned to normal, though people were still questioning both how and why communications across the Northern Hemisphere had been first blocked and then restored. The Balance, reluctantly, had decided to keep quiet about their part in its restoration, … More Episode 59 – Accept no Substitutes

Inspired by the novel “Search and Rescue” by Ian Thomas Healy Certain characters in Arctic Rescue were suggested by David J Hargis The Balance were only now realising that the air inside the circular chamber Akira had teleported them into was both drier and warmer than they were used to with an unusual metallic tang. … More Episode 58 – From Beneath the Ice (Part 2)

Inspired by the novel “Search and Rescue” by Ian Thomas Healy Certain characters in Arctic Rescue were suggested by David J Hargis The Balance was feeling both frustrated and isolated. All long distance transmissions over the airwaves, at least across the whole of the Northern Hemisphere, had been down now for over 24 hours. Surprisingly … More Episode 57 – Call of the North (Part 1)

Mary sat down and relaxed into the sofa as she lit her pipe. Frankie remained quiet, as she got comfortable. For someone who thought at the speed of light she had amazing patience when it came to dealing with the inherent slowness of organic lifeforms. “So what did you learn?” Mary asked. <<That The New … More Bluebook Session 56a – Frankie’s Knight-Time

(Adapted from the published adventure by D.T. Butchino) “Professor Worth, everything’s in place. The unredacted versions of the documents you requested have been obtained and released into the public domain. They will ‘prove’ that Stormers are a risk, not just because they’re potentially a covert advance force for alien invaders but because their forced breakthroughs … More Episode 56 – Hate is a Four-Letter Word

(Inspired by the novel ‘Neverwhere’ by Neil Gaiman) Harry Powers, Director of AEGIS had persuaded Frankie to put his video call straight through to the team. That meant at this time of the day that the team were gathered in the lounge, lounging and Mary enjoyed the look of annoyance on his face whenever he … More Episode 55 – Things to see, People to do

(Adapted from the published adventure ‘Danger in Dunsmouth’ by Jason Blair) Prelude “Once upon a time… Well, don’t all good stories start that way? Anyway, there were once three sisters, spinsters all, Angry, scrawny Hagatha, bookish, green-fingered Hannah, and matronly Henrietta who had spent their entire lives in Dunwich, a small coastal village that supposedly … More Episode 54 – Darkness over Dunwich

Mace sighed deeply; it had been just over 18 hours since their return to their own time and the team was still all crowded round the Med-Bay hoping against hope that the “tête de porc-épic” – no, in English that should be ‘porcupine-headed’, anyway the strange-looking alien Rhan and the boy Ashen would be successful … More Bluebook Session 53a – A Couple of Intriguing Enquiries

9pm, 31st December 1999 The sky outside was already filled with the cacophony of numerous explosions as multiple fireworks were set off early. However, instead of celebrating the arrival of the new Millennium with the rest of the world, the Balance were sitting in a drafty, old community hall on creaking folding chairs with a … More Episode 53 – “Y2K, or not Y2K, that is the question”

31st August 1888 Through the curtain of rain, they witnessed the transformation of a man into a beast. A man whose fingernails had glistened like silver and which, like his snout and teeth, grew out; in this case into silvered blade-like claws. The dark-haired female was immediately eclipsed when the bonneted female with the bronzed … More Episode 52 – Excavations and Revelations