Author Topic: Trial By Fire (update for March 2015, page 7) (Read 32413 times)

Mad Lord Snapcase · « **Reply #75 on:** April 18, 2014, 10:58:22 AM »

...and a hound from Hell (or maybe Baskerville Hall)! Just re-based it after getting it on eBay.

FramFramson · « **Reply #76 on:** April 18, 2014, 02:27:09 PM »

"Uhhhh, uh uh, nice doggy. Want a, uh, bone? Maybe I've got one here somewhere..." *pats pockets frantically*

d phipps · « **Reply #77 on:** April 19, 2014, 03:48:31 AM »

Yikes! That's one mean looking puppy!

Mad Lord Snapcase · « **Reply #78 on:** July 09, 2014, 08:52:31 AM »

January, 1920

There hasn’t been an update for quite a while and this thread was meant to keep me on track! It has of course taken that blundering fool, Snapcase quite some time to get to British Somaliland. A passage had been booked for him on the Doreen Goldbeck, a Cheskora Line tramp steamer. Anyone interested in hiring this steamer should contact Michi at:

Doreen Goldbeck

Doreen Goldbeck, a Cheskora Line tramp steamer.

The delay has been mainly caused by my decision to paint three new leagues for this game. However at long last, the first league is ready and they have arrived at the dockside in Berbera. They should have been led by Gerry Wade, an agent of Lord Milner, the Colonial Secretary, Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff and Superintendent Battle of the Yard. However, since his murder at Chimneys, that august triumvirate are having to rely on the Mad Lord who may not be the sharpest tool in the box!

Here they are being ferried into the harbour after offloading from the Doreen.

The Mad Lord arrives in British Somaliland.

Snapcase has changed into his ‘regimentals’ expecting to be met by the Governor at the very least…………

Three men await their arrival at the dockside………………

“Ahoy, hoy” shouts the man in the blue shirt, “I’m Bertie, Bertie Wells”.

“Allow me to introduce myself and my travelling companions, I am Lord Snapcase, son of the 9th Earl of Snapcase, my younger brother Errol and his daughter Lavinia” [~~suspended~~ on holiday from St. Trinians, her boarding school] “and of course Minkey.”

“and in return” called Bertie, “allow me to introduce Flight Sergeant ‘Ginger’ Hebblethwaite our driver and Phantom Ace our pilot, ex-RFC originally from Oklahoma. We shall be boon companions for the next few months. Group Captain Robert Gordon has put us at your disposal."

..............and so the League is formed:

Lord Snapcase (mad as a box of frogs)
Errol Snapcase (failed silent movie actor, on the run from Hollywood turf accountants)
Lavinia Snapcase (daughter of Errol, suspended from St. Trinian’s notorious 4th form)
H. G. Wells (time-traveller and author, prefers to be called Bertie)
Flight Sergeant ‘Ginger’ Hebblethwaite (notorious bibber and friend of Flying Officer James Bigglesworth)
Phantom Ace (travelled to Britain from his home town in Oklahoma during the Great War to volunteer for the RFC, 16 victories)
Minkey (Lord Snapcase's travelling companion)

To be continued………………………………………

Prof. Dinglebat. Phd. · « **Reply #79 on:** July 09, 2014, 10:47:16 AM »

Snapcase has changed into his ‘regimentals’

Lavinia Snapcase (daughter of Errol, suspended from St. Trinian’s notorious 4th form)

Michi · « **Reply #80 on:** July 09, 2014, 11:27:17 AM »

Thank you for booking a passage on the Doreen. Cheskora Lines is proud to provide convenience to travellers of renown. Your cabin is repainted now, the sheets were burnt and the flooring refurbished...