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== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
The leading lights of {{Gomez}}'s private members' club bar her on the grounds that she's female. They're going to regret it. | The leading lights of {{Gomez}}'s private members' club bar her on the grounds that she's female. They're going to regret it. | ||
== Plot == | |||
[[Harrison Mandeville]] is alerted, by one of the [[Scoundrels Club]]'s butlers that a woman has entered the club, and sat in the seat of one of their longest serving members. Horrified, Mandeville goes to confront the woman, {{Gomez}}, who shrugs off his concerns, and attempts to prove her identity as the Master. She is promptly thrown out of the club by Mandeville and three porters, and swears revenge on the club and the man. | |||
At the opening of Lord [[Ascot (Dismemberment)|Ascot]]'s new gallery, the [[Ascot Gallery]], Missy waits, watching the crowds. As the skies open up, the guests are horrified when blood starts raining down on them, as they wait helplessly, outside the closed gallery. Once inside, Lord Ascot refuses to let that put a damper on things, and opens his gallery to visitors. Expecting an exhibit on Modern Urban Pottery, the guests are instead treated to pieces from the [[Reissmann Collection]], a collection of artwork stolen from [[Judaism|Jewish]] families by the [[Nazi]]s in [[1930s]], alongside pictures of Lord Ascot in full Nazi regalia. As he flees the gallery, Lord Ascot runs into Missy, who taunts him before leaving. Soon after she leaves, the [[Ascot Bridge]] collapses, sending Lord Ascot to his death. | |||
Later, [[Bobo Braithwaite]] wakes up tied to some train tracks, and mistakenly believes he's part of some publicity stunt for his new high-speed train line. Soon Missy confronts Bobo, and forces the Reverend St [[John Colquhoun]] to marry her and Bobo. She reveals to Bobo that she had drawn up documentation that ensured, upon his death, that his wife would inherit all his money. She then leaves Bobo to be killed by the very high-speed train that he had built. | |||
In southern America in the [[1700s]], an freed slave named [[Saffron (Dismemberment)|Saffron]] is visited by Missy, who offers her a job. She is soon employed as a cook at the Scoundrels Club, where her food becomes a hit with the club's members. Soon the club begins preparing for it's most cherished annual event: the Marlowe Banquet. | |||
As the banquet gets underway, Mandeville relishes in the event. When the group goes to gather their copy of ''[[Dr Faustus II]]'', the group finds that it is gone from its locked lead box, and soon discovers that someone has thrown it into the fire. Suspecting Missy's involvement, begins shouting for her, only to discover that the various members of the club have been paralysed. Soon, Missy enters the club, along with Saffron, and confirms their part in the drugging. | |||
Missy then lifts a horse's head onto the table for all to see, which Mandeville recognizes as his prized stallion, Downton. As the members slowly begin succumbing to the poison, Missy offers the group an antidote: the most prized manuscript the club owns, the last remaining copy of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Love's Labour's Won]]''. The group devours the book, and then slides into unconsciousness. | |||
Much of the Scoundrels Club's members wake up on the [[Mandeville sugar plantation]], in the [[18th century]], where they are enslaved and forced to work on the plantation. In the present day, Harrison Mandeville is running away from Missy, but is shot by a dart that completely paralyses him. Missy then drags him over to her chair in the club, and begins using him as a rug. She then turns to Dr [[Skarosa]], and, while taunting him, pushes him into the fire. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* {{Gomez}} | * {{Gomez}} | ||
* [[Harrison Mandeville]] | * [[Harrison Mandeville]] | ||
* | * [[Skarosa]] | ||
* [[Ascot (Dismemberment)|Lord Ascot]] | |||
* [[Bobo Braithwaite]] | * [[Bobo Braithwaite]] | ||
* [[John Colquhoun|Reverend St John Colquhoun]] | |||
* [[Saffron (Dismemberment)|Saffron]] | |||
* [[Foreman (Dismemberment)|Foreman]] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||