As the Team’s Raptor took off Mary looked down on the stone circle below, now surrounded by several metre high earthworks, with a recently misplaced standing stone off centre and the deep hole where their ‘cargo’ had broken free. Perhaps she thought, it was for the best that she was leaving with the Aontacht Éire … More Bluebook Session 60b – Fáilte to Hell
The present, near the shore of Loch Arbhach in County Sligo, Éire Mary shuddered. The moonlight from the blood moon overhead highlighted the massive stone giant covered in moss who was fighting against a well-built, grey-skinned man in emerald green armour hitting away at it with a long shafted war hammer. Standing nearby in the … More Bluebook Session 60a – Irish Eyes
It had been three weeks since the theft of the Janus mask and the false accusations had first surfaced. Jimmy the Fish had strongly recommended the team keep their heads down while he dealt with the lies being spread about them; especially by Graf Geothe and Beth Coffin. He’d arranged for them both to be … More Episode 60 – Escape from Frankfurt
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
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