Mr Pym Has an Adventure (audio story)
Mr Pym Has an Adventure was the second story in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield audio anthology The Eternity Club 3, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by James Goss and featured Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield.
Publisher's summary
Secretary Pym has never left the Eternity Club. This will never do. Bernice Summerfield drags him on an expedition. What could possibly go wrong?
Plot
Secretary Pym closes the Eternity Club's observatory due to the solar array being overused and Grizella, Altazar and Geren protest, with the former revealing what Benny had told her in confidence: that Pym has never left the asteroid. The three club members agree that somebody with no interest in adventure should not be giving orders, so Benny reprograms the clockwork butlers to kidnap him so that she might get him off of the asteroid for an adventure and flies him to a planet where he faints at the sight of the outdoors. When he becomes conscious again, he blames the atmosphere differential and is keen to get to work on moving things and rewinding the shuttle's clockwork engines, but Benny informs him that the butlers have everything in hand and tells him to relax by the sea. Although confused by the sea, he suggests a walk along the beach.
Benny and Pym find a ruined temple which Benny deduces was blown up and then have a picnic. A while later, Pym reveals that he has tasked the clockwork droids with rebuilding the temple in ignorance of archaeology, which frustrates and upsets Benny. In an attempt to satiate Benny, he has the butlers collect dust. They watch a sunset and notice that the temple has started glowing thanks to the butlers having restored the wiring for the solar batteries, but it starts to transform and open a portal through which a monstrous creature from another universe begins to emerge. It vanishes and Benny and Pym decide to head back to the shuttle in the dark, unaware of whether the creature had fully emerged or returned back through the portal.
The pair become confused and realise that they have lost time. A butler finds them and attempts to lead them back to the shuttle, but Benny believes that the creature has moved between the two of them and entered the butler, which they run from until they realise the danger that the creature could pose if it leaves the planet. At the shuttle, the butler explains that the universe will have to be closed down to stop the threat posed by the Death, which came through the portal long ago. Pym hits it with a flask of tea and the other butlers prepare to return to the Eternity Club with him and Benny, suggesting that the other members might be able to assist and revealing that they have all been infiltrated.
to be completed
Cast
- Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
- Secretary Pym - Nickolas Grace
- The Oldest - Niamh Cusack
- Grizella - Naana Agyei-Ampadu
- Professor Altazar - Shai Matheson
- The Suspension of Geren - Victoria Gee
- Nurse - Dianne Pilkington
- Butlers - David O'Mahony
Worldbuilding
- Pym cuts Benny off as she is about to talk about a certain planet's mercury seas.
- Pym hits a butler with a flask of tea.
Notes
- Mr Pym Has an Adventure was recorded at the Soundhouse on 9 October 2023.
Continuity
to be added
External links
- Official Mr Pym Has an Adventure page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
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