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+{{Infobox Story SMW
 |image                  = The Curse of Fenman cover.jpg
 |series                 = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]''
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 |enemy                  = [[Avril Fenman|Avril]]
 |setting                = [[Crater Base]], [[Advent Day]] [[2619]]
-|writer                 = [[Gary Russell]]
+|writer                 = Gary Russell
 |director               = [[Gary Russell]]
 |music                  = [[James Dunlop]]
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 |cover                  = [[Stuart Manning]]
 |publisher              = Big Finish Productions
-|release date           = [[30 April (releases)|30 April]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]
+|release date           = 30 April 2013
 |format                 = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>Part 3 of 3
 |production code        = BFPBSBOX004
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 |producer               = [[Scott Handcock]] and [[Gary Russell]]
 |epcount                = 1
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 '''''The Curse of Fenman''''' was the sixty-fifth ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio story released by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was the third story of the ''[[New Frontiers (audio anthology)|New Frontiers]]'' series.
 The release of this story marked the first appearance of [[Avril Fenman]] on audio, in which she is portrayed by [[Georgia Moffett]]. Avril had previously appeared in the novel ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal (novel)|The Squire's Crystal]]'' in 2001.
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 Avril explains that she put the crystals inside of everybody so that she could observe them and they would be drawn together. Jack does not understand how he is involved, however.
-''Working at [[Jacques, Jackson and Jacques' Sons]] on [[Kadept]], Jack is sent by his father, [[Jacques]], to travel to Raster and collect money from the [[Quilters]]. As soon as he leaves the [[office]], Jacques begins making plans for his [[funeral]] and to use his [[life insurance]] to mitigate the firm's losses, which he overhears. Jack completes the mission and takes a ship to Zordin, on which he meets Benny, Dray's daughter and Avril, who is inhabiting the body of [[Muffenne|Investigator Muffenne]] and tasks him with spying on Benny. He places a crystal into his palm and makes him forget about her, but he will honour the deal.''
+''Working at [[Jacques, Jackson and Jacques' Sons]] on [[Kadept]], Jack is sent by his father, [[Jacques (The Curse of Fenman)|Jacques]], to travel to Raster and collect money from the [[Quilters]]. As soon as he leaves the [[office]], Jacques begins making plans for his [[funeral]] and to use his [[life insurance]] to mitigate the firm's losses, which he overhears. Jack completes the mission and takes a ship to Zordin, on which he meets Benny, Dray's daughter and Avril, who is inhabiting the body of [[Muffenne|Investigator Muffenne]] and tasks him with spying on Benny. She places a crystal into his palm and makes him forget about her, but he will honour the deal.''
-''to be completed''
+Peter still does not understand what is going on, so Avril begins to explain.
+''Irving arrives at the slave pits looking for Peter and Antonio claims to be him in case it is a trap. He has paid for Peter's freedom, but Antonio refuses to leave without him and a [[Guardbot (The Curse of Fenman)|Guardbot]] shoots him. With his dying breath, he tells Peter to leave with Irving and they share a final kiss.''
+The crystal inside Antonio, Avril explains, moved into Peter and made him see Antonio. Irving has known this and hired Jack to work at the White Rabbit after he sensed a crystal inside of him.
+''Some time after starting work at the White Rabbit, Jack is visited by Avril and explains that there are three versions of Benny: one who was eaten by a ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]'', one whom he last heard was with [[the Epoch]] and one whom he left Earth with after a version of Ruth died. He and that Benny were remapped into the [[27th century]], around [[2613]], and he became the [[entertainment manager]] on the cruiser that their [[shuttle]] turned into whilst Benny went off to the [[Raloogan system]] with [[archaeologist]]s. When he heard about Irving, he travelled to Legion in the hopes that he would run into Benny.''
+Avril brought Jack and Ruth to Legion so that she could absorb their youth and vitality when she manifests her new body as the [[asteroid]] [[Hera]] passes overhead. She found Benny in [[stasis]] on [[Mars]] and placed Ruth in another pod before taking the body of [[Lewis (The Curse of Fenman)|Professor Lewis]] and missing Benny's resuscitation by some months, meaning that she had to wait until she reached Legion. Irving reveals that he has destroyed the asteroid required to restore Avril, allowing Ruth and Jack to destroy their crystals. Peter then shoots Avril, sacrificing Antonio. Benny hugs him as he cries and apologises for not having been there for him and Antonio.
+Jack and Ruth go for a walk and discuss Ruth's feelings about the person that she once was. After going to Bastion with Peter to bury Antonio, Benny returns and admonishes Irving for having destroyed the asteroid given that Avril was there in a "bizarre, echoey, scary way", but admits that she wants to trust him. He feels that he now has a clean slate and a family.
 == Cast ==
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 * [[Newsreader (The Curse of Fenman)|Newsreader]] - [[Mark B. Oliver]]
-== References ==
+== Worldbuilding ==
-* Irving bought the [[White Rabbit (Legion)|White Rabbit]] at the [[Chamber of Real Estate]] on [[Dexter Prime]].
+* Irving bought an old customs building from the [[Ikerian]]s at the [[Chamber of Real Estate]] on [[Dexter Prime]]. He turns it into the [[White Rabbit (Legion)|White Rabbit]].
 * Fenman removes [[Pandora]] from Irving's mind.
 * [[EOIN]] has gone offline.
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 * [[Jacob (The Curse of Fenman)|Jacob]] and [[Jackson (The Curse of Fenman)|Jackson]] are two of Jack's brothers.
 * Jack knew a [[Benny (The Curse of Fenman)|Benny]] who worked at [[Benjamin, Benedict, Bentley and Ben's Sons]]. He was a terrible [[lawyer]].
+* Peter asks if Irving is from an [[anti-matter dimension]].
+* The [[Braxiatel Collection]] is now owned by "other people".
+* Jack finds [[Everlasting Matches]], which he had not seen in years.
+* [[Leonidas]]'s [[Leonidas's ring|ring]] contained Avril's essence.
+* Avril manipulated Irving into buying [[Shuttle Crater XJ-7]].
 == Notes ==
-''to be added''
+* In [[2613]], [[Avril Fenman|Avril]] finds that [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] awoke from her [[stasis pod]] several months earlier. In ''[[Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)|Judgement Day]]'', however, she awoke in [[2616]].
 == Continuity ==
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 * Braxiatel was first infected with [[Pandora]] in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]'' and Avril sends it back into the mind of the Collection Braxiatel in [[2601]] around the time of the events of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect (audio story)|The Mirror Effect]]''.
 * Avril mentions [[Deirbhile]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison (novel)|The Glass Prison]]'')
-* Benny mentions going to [[Lyndyaz]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brand Management (audio story)|Brand Management]]''), [[Agora]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bad Habits (audio story)|Bad Habits]]'') and [[Versimmon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Weather on Versimmon (novel)|The Weather on Versimmon]]'')
+* Benny mentions going to [[Lyndyaz]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brand Management (audio story)|Brand Management]]'') [[Versimmon]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Weather on Versimmon (novel)|The Weather on Versimmon]]'') and [[Agora]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bad Habits (audio story)|Bad Habits]]'')
 * Jack mentions a [[Naxian]] trader ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Iris Wildthyme and the Sound of Fear (audio story)|Iris Wildthyme and the Sound of Fear]]'') and [[Morok]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum (TV story)|The Space Museum]]'')
-* Benny says that [[Advent]] would not be Advent without [[plum pudding]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'')
+* Benny and Jack both say that [[Advent]] would not be Advent without [[plum pudding]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'')
 * Peter mentions [[Adrian Wall]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stone's Lament (audio story)|The Stone's Lament]]'', etc.) [[Bev Tarrant]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Genocide Machine (audio story)|The Genocide Machine]]'', etc.) [[Doggles]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Inappropriate Laughter (short story)|Inappropriate Laughter]]'') and [[Joseph (Steal from the World)|Joseph]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Steal from the World (short story)|Steal from the World]]'')
+* Peter previously said that Irving met Antonio without knowing it as he was in a crowd. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)|Everybody Loves Irving]]'')
+* One version of Benny was "gobbled up" by a ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judgement Day (BFBS audio story)|Judgement Day]]'')
 == External links ==
-{{Bigfinish|releases/v/new-frontiers-765}}
+{{bigfinish|releases/v/new-frontiers-765}}
 {{BFBS}}
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-[[Category:Bernice Summerfield stories]]
+[[Category:Bernice Summerfield sources]]
 [[Category:New Frontiers audio stories]]
 [[Category:Irving Braxiatel audio stories]]
 [[Category:Audio stories set on Legion]]