Bad Habits (audio story)
Bad Habits was the fifty-eighth Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the second story of the Road Trip series.
Publisher's summary
Meet Sister Bernice — newest initiate into the order of Saint Celestion. Such is her devotion to the faith that she and her young companion, Sister Ruth, have undertaken a pilgrimage to the planet Agora, birthplace of the blessed Saint himself.
The pilgrims aren't alone, however. Also on the planet is a team of archaeologists searching for the lost tomb of Celestion — a subject in which Sister Bernice seems curiously interested...
In her quest to unearth an ancient relic that will point the way to Legion, Bernice will face some fearsome challenges: the dreaded Blood Beast of Thaloon, the randiest Bishop in the galaxy, and an ancient cult with some very bad habits indeed...
Plot
Benny and Ruth pose as nuns to gain passage on the Sisters of Celestion's spacecraft to Agora, where they have been led to believe that the route to Legion can be found using the Sphere of the Serenity in the Talishante Monastery. During the flight, Sister Caitlin is found stangled with her own prayer beads and a funeral for her, but Mother Aurelia asks Benny and Sister Marianne to keep the fact that she was murdered a secret.
Bishop Synesius welcomes the Sisters to the monastery, the resting place of Saint Celestion., and gives them a tour, telling them about Melville Trout's excavations and the curse of the Blood Beast of Thaloon. In the morning, Benny uses a computer to hack into the archaeologists' approaching ship and delete the records of Professor Bunny Hare, a dendrochronology expert whose identity she intends to steal by keeping them in suspended animation. Not long after the archaeologists arrive, one of them, Dr Gaiter is killed with his own trowel. Sister Marianne tells Ruth that she suspects Mother Aurelia of being behind the deaths and they join forces.
A sonic cannon brings down the ceiling whilst the archaeologists are excavating and all but Benny are killed. The catacombs are closed, so Benny gets Synesius drunk and steals the keys before heading there with Mother Aurelia, whom she runs into on her way and reveals that she does not need her wheelchair. Synesius releases his Truvian gore-hounds.
to be completed
Cast
- Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
- Ruth - Ayesha Antoine
- Mother Aurelia - Jacqueline King
- Bishop Synesius - Nigel Lambert
- Sister Marianne - Charlie Langdell
- Professor Melville Trout - Ian H Watkins
- Brian - Marcus Harris
- Brother Mumford - Paul Jones
- Clive - Scott Handcock
- Sister Hettie - Alice Ingham
- Sister Ermintrude - Charlotte Parkyn
References
- Benny and Ruth forge a recommendation from Archbishop Quogthorn.
- Aurelia uses a wheelchair.
- Sister Caitlin is killed with her own prayer beads.
- Benny and Ruth met a Verunian holy man.
- The Sisters stay in the Convent of the Blessed Father.
- Aurelia says that Talishante Monastery is the most sacred place in the Twelve Galaxies.
- The tomb of Saint Celestion was found in 2603.
- Brother Talishante founded the monastery 2,000 years ago.
- Truvian gore-hounds are used for security.
- The monastery has a statue of Brother Martello.
- Mumford had a fish called Sammy. It was because of him that he joined the priesthood.
- Trout is a Talpiddian.
- Dr Gaiter was a geophysicist.
- Synesius eats stilton and avocado.
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- Benny talks about her time at school when she discovered that matron was a giant toad feeding on the pupils. (PROSE: Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille)
- Benny talks about when she ran away from the Academy and doctored her passport. (PROSE: Genius Loci)
- Benny sings as part of a choir. (AUDIO: The Worst Thing in the World)
- Aurelia wrote the book Murder on the Omega Express. (AUDIO: Private Enemy No. 1)
External links
- Official Bad Habits page at bigfinish.com
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