Henry Gordon Jago: Difference between revisions

In [[1866]], he was at the [[Alhambra Theatre]] where he auditioned for Romeo in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' where he got a letter from his future self. He also worked as a cleaner in the theatre. His future self sent him a letter to stop the kidnapping of one of the youths that worked in the theatre, but this lead to him being knocked out. He realised that the kids were being kidnapped as food. It was then he drunk his first Pale Ale from the [[Red Tavern]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Year of the Bat (audio story)|The Year of the Bat]]'')

They all discovered that Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick were constructs created by a [[Temparon]] ship using sand to form bodies, which had crashed to Earth, as a result of Payne's time experiments. He had to pretend to be the Doctor when he went to Bedfordshire, this managed to fool Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick for a while. However, Jago, Litefoot, Leela and the Doctor managed to dissipate the bodies of Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick with water, effectively killing them. After this, Leela returned to Gallifrey, and they were invited to join the Doctor as his companions aboard [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. They eagerly accepted the offer, though Jago began to suffer from motion sickness on his first trip. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Hourglass Killers (audio story)|The Hourglass Killers]]'')

He found himself very popular following his show and was invited to a party, where [[Aubrey (The Age of Revolution)|Aubrey]] wanted him to meet [[Cliff Richard]], instead he met Guru [[Sanjaya Starr]]. After eating something strange at the party he started to act strangely wanting loads of salt.   Jago and Litefoot also stopped an alien being and a mad [[guru]] from killing people by eating food containing the aliens offspring. The guru believed the alien was a god, and the aliens way of reproduction was by laying eggs in it's victims and eating them from the inside out. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Case of the Gluttonous Guru (audio story)|The Case of the Gluttonous Guru]]'')

He was sent by [[The Colonel]] to [[Suffolk]] to discover the truth about ghosts in the Fog. On the train down to [[Lowestoft]], he immediately fell asleep. He started to realise his memories of the future and his travels of the Doctor started to fade. Over the cliffs in [[Shingle Cove]], he met [[Camilla Tevelyan]] before the Fog came in. Jago and Litefoot went into the cove to discover more about the person Camila saw. They saw a pub full of skeletons. He was rescued from drowning by [[Isaac Pawley]]. Tevelyan tried to kill them.([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Skeleton Quay (audio story)|The Skeleton Quay]]'')  

He started to have bad dreams and [[Sigmund Freud]] analysed them. He started to include Freud into his dreams. Before a treatment session he saw a baboon buying tickets at his theatre, this was one of his dreams. As part of his dream he started to remember is mother. He went to the Zoo with Litefoot where he was pushed into the Ape house. He was rescued by [[Madame Anna]] who accompanied him around town. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Return of the Repressed (audio story)|Return of the Repressed]]'')  

The Colonel asked him about their adventures including their encounters with Dr Tulp. When Litefoot started to ask questions, [[Drucker (Military Intelligence)|Drucker]] told Jago that asking questions would be bad. He was told by [[Agatha Worthing]] that the Colonel was working against the crown. He went to find Litefoot after he was kidnapped, and was given where he was held by Agatha. Ellie and he went to find Litefoot using this knowledge. His verbose way of talking confused the Colonel's robots. He was presumed dead in the destruction of the Colonel's base.([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Military Intelligence (audio story)|Military Intelligence]]'') He wasn't dead and impersonated the Colonel. Jago was to represent Litefoot as his barrister. During the trial of Litefoot he was arrested for contempt of court and as an accessory to murder. Quick managed to get them free by misdirecting the police force into which station they were taken to.   They went to the Colonel's base and discovered that the Colonel wanted to kill the Queen and become emperor of the British Empire. He realised that he could reset the gun the Colonel was using to fire on his base, he stopped the Colonel. Because of the death of Agatha the Queen put a bounty on their heads and they became fugitives. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Trial of George Litefoot (audio story)|The Trial of George Litefoot]]'')

He was charged with the attempted assassination of Queen [[Victoria]]. Ellie gave him a message from the Doctor allowing them to use his house, [[107 Baker Street]]. He met [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] when the Doctor sent Doyle to him. He helped Doyle in an investigation when [[Laura Lyons]] sent him a letter and he posed as [[Sherlock Holmes]]. On meeting Lyons he started to be shot at. Following a clue from Lyons they found a route to prehistoric Earth in London. He decided to sacrifice himself when a set of dogs came after them, to allow Litefoot and Doyle to escape. He then met [[Roger Baskerville]] who told him about there work. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Monstrous Menagerie (audio story)|The Monstrous Menagerie]]'') He started to long for the New Regency theatre before, [[Remorse (The Night of 1000 Stars)|Remorse]] got him to remember his bad memories. In a picture Remorse showed them, he remembered one of his former theatre girls who became pregnant so he sacked her. He later found out that she was found floating down the Themes. Whilst drunk he started to fight Litefoot due to remorse. He couldn't juggle when drunk. After realising this he started to mope about their current predicament. Jago wanted to make an honest women out of the girl and marry her but she rejected him. He found out that this was all a scheme to kill the guild of clockmakers. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Night of 1000 Stars (audio story)|The Night of 1000 Stars]]'') He went to find [[Willis (Murder at Moorsey Manor)|Willis]], but he was murdered. They discovered that they were at the a Sherlock Holmes convention. He posed as Professor Potter in a murder mystery. After [[Fanshaw (Murder at Moorsey Manor)|Fanshaw]] was burnt alive he tried to comfort the maid who was distraught. He found at clock room with [[Reginald Peacock]] and was told to find the right clock. Peakcock found the right clock by recognising the Fundamental Theory of calculus but Jago watched him died from being steamed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Murder at Moorsey Manor (audio story)|Murder at Moorsey Manor]]'') He knew of [[Frederick Abberline]]. He helped in his investigations to find the Ripper, after he escaped from custody. Abberline asked to him inquire at the New Regency Theatre as Jack's new victims worked in the chorus there. He discovered that the theatre girls had gone to the New Regency's store warehouse. Abberline went with Jago and Litefoot to the palace to stop the Ripper from murdering the Queen. He was then exonerated by Queen Victoria. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wax Princess (audio story)|The Wax Princess]]'') In [[1894]], Jago spent time with his sister in [[Brighton]] after a bout of dyspepsia. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]'')

[[Nancy Pettigrew]] convinced Jago to hire the [[Scorchie]]s. They convinced him that they were the best act in London. He spent most of his time with the Scorchies so forgot to talk with Litefoot and Ellie. When Litefoot saw Jago crying in the theatre, Jago was crying sawdust. He knew he made a bad decision by allowing the Scorchies to have a show. Seeing the dead body of one of Nancy's lovers he realised that the Scorchies were evil. He tried to get Sergeant [[Appleby (Encore of the Scorchies)|Appleby]] to get away from the theatre before he was killed. He wondered how many people had witnessed being murdered in his theatre. [[Colonel Fuzz]] wanted Jago to kill Litefoot. They were both rescued by Ellie who burnt all the Scorchies. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Encore of the Scorchies (audio story)|Encore of the Scorchies]]'')  

He desired that when he died the Litefoot would be the one who would perform the post-mortem. Quick asked him and Litefoot to investigate the strange appearance of people congregating at cross roads and parks who attacked an people who interfered with them. Realising that they had gone to a funfair they went to investigate. He was mistaken for Ellie's grandfather. He saw the machine that caused people to become blank and possessed, exactly what Quick described. He was the followed by the people but he had Ellie managed to escape. [[Wednesday (The Backwards Men)|Wednesday]] tried convert him into a Kine, an alien being. Jago discovered that he wanted to convert people into Kine so that he could get undo the genocide of the Kine. He was stopped from converting to a Kine by [[Arioch]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Backwards Men (audio story)|The Backwards Men]]'')  

He thought that they were Lucky to have the Red Tavern as a base of operations. He started in investigate the appearance of a beast in the Thames. He said that one of acts had made a song about it. They later went to [[Jacob's Island]] to discover some more information. [[Mulberry Gride]] discovered that they weren't offically connect to the police so chucked them out of his factory. He found out about the [[Darkling Façade]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago & Litefoot & Patsy (audio story)|Jago & Litefoot & Patsy]]'') He became infected by the creature and started to behave strangely. They inquired after Patsy when she was imprisoned. When he went back to the Red Tavern he asked for a water instead of beer at the pub which brought Ellie's suspicions. When he met Ellie at [[Paddington station]] he trapped her in train carriage and drove the train to Litefoot. He found driving a train exciting. After getting them off the train, Ellie got them drunk to sedate them.   ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Higson & Quick (audio story)|Higson & Quick]]'')

He went on a cruise with Jago upon the [[Fata Morgana]]. He was met with the advances of [[Isobelle Danvers]]. Isobelle asked him to be there to stop the advances of other men. He didn't like rope ladders. He and Litefoot encountered a French Jago and Litefoot coming from a timeline where Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo. More Jago and Litefoots were encountered that were from different course of history where different countries won wars with the UK, with there being at least ones from Prussia, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Flying Frenchmen (audio story)|The Flying Frenchman]]'')  

He thought that Casino games were rigged towards the house. He went to a casino at [[Monte Carlo]] and won some money. He became enamoured with [[Madame Diabolique]]. He the helped Litefoot find the body of a missing person. Diabolique to him to a secret casino with [[Aubrey (The Flying Frenchmen)|Aubrey]]. He almost lost the [[New Regency Theatre]] in a bet. He kept winning and ended up playing the devil's roulette. He was tricked into changing his will to allow the theatre to go to the Dark Casino. He was taken to have his soul removed but because he was a veteran of the theatre he saw through the tricks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil's Dicemen (audio story)|The Devil's Dicemen]]'')  

He tried to hypnotise Isobelle to stop her sea sickness. He went dancing with Isobelle. When visiting an island, he went after Isobelle when she was possessed. They met [[Victor Bataille]] who showed them an ancient temple. He was tasked with looking after Isobelle. The possessed Isobelle ran off and he chased after her. He was to be sacrificed to Kibu. Litefoot got Jago to hypnotise Isobelle to stop Kibu from awakening. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Island of Death (audio story)|Island of Death]]'')  

====Meeting their Biographer====

====A Masterful Encounter====

Following the evening show at the New Regency, he found a man lurking in a cupboard who said he was his [[Henry Gordon Jago Jr|son]]. Jago Jr asked him to help find his mother [[Ruby Valentine]] who had been abducted. He accompanied his son to where Ruby was taken and saw a strange temple, the [[Hellfire Club]] and brought her to Litefoot's mortuary. After his son was kidnapped her went after the kidnappers back to where he found Ruby's body. He found a monstrous menagerie and later witnessed the resurrection of Satan. He was attacked and almost mortally wounded. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago & Son (audio story)|Jago & Son]]'')  

[[Bram Stoker]] invited him to watch [[Henry Irving]] perform. He thought that Henry wasn't acting at the moment. Bram later informed him about uncanny things happening at the Prince Albert Theatre such as disappearances of the actors. He told Litefoot and discovered that there was something connecting it to the recent death Litefoot had to deal with. He had to stop Irving from attacking Bram. They returned to the theatre where they found some tunnels under which they explored. He then fell through them when they started to collapse. He encountered [[Wilhelmina Gussett]] in a cave under the theatre before she was cremated and he saw the [[Women in White]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Woman in White (audio story)|The Woman in White]]'')

====Vampiric Designs====

They were invited to the Scarlet Gallery by Quick as there was a murder. He didn't think that the deaths of [[Melchester]] and [[James Royston]] were connected. He noticed that something was wrong with Litefoot. He went back to the Gallery and found him sulking about there, but when Jago touched Litefoot he became a pile of rotten canvas. He discovered that Litefoot was in a painting. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Picture This (audio story)|Picture This]]'')  

He believed that cinema would take up and his profits were decreasing because of it. He went to visit the fair and participated in [[Old Ma Hambley]]'s horror. He thought that it was a variation on Pepper's Ghost when he saw one of the Flickermen. He became annoyed when [[Robert W Paul]] secretly filmed them being scared by a rubber skeleton. When investigating an abandoned tunnel, he saw loads of the Flickermen. Paul showed them the film after it was developed when Flickermen appeared on the film. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Flickermen (audio story)|The Flickermen]]'')  

Both Jago and Litefoot received letters informing them of something uncanny happening at St. Cecillia's School for Girls. He then went after Ellie, thinking something was wrong with her. He then spent his nights getting drunk at the Red Tavern, and let slip to Ellie about vampires. Shortly afterwards he became the caretaker of the school. He then had to referee a Hockey games. He accompanied the girls to a trip to the New Regency Theatre. Jago thought [[Lucilla Fredericks]] was a vampire and was later proven correct. [[Ravener]] later told him that he was the person killing the students and the teachers. On viewing Paul's film, he realised that Ellie was now a vampire again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[School of Blood (audio story)|School of Blood]]'')

He helped Litefoot to stake out Ellie to discover if she was committing the murders. He followed Ellie to a rendezvous with Ravener, and then promptly lost her. At Litefoot's house, Ellie informed him about [[the Old One]] and his supposed plans. She then confronted them about her brother's murder, which they had to tell her the truth about. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Warm Blood (audio story)|Warm Blood]]'')

====Finding himself on a parallel Earth====

He found George's dream interesting. Back at the New Regency he welcomed back an old colleague, [[Harry Hypno]], to his stage when he saw something in the wings. This caused him to have a dream where he corpsed on the stage during his act. He later found that these were caused by [[Chronoplasm]] leaking from the [[Time Agency|Time Agent]] [[Cara (The Stuff of Nightmares)|Cara]]. When Agent Cara discovered that Magnus Greel was dead she decided to kill them both. They later had another nightmare where they were time agents. Jago and Litefoot became trapped in the future and escaped through a time portal back to what seemed to be their time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stuff of Nightmares (JL audio story)|The Stuff of Nightmares]]'')  

He spent his time trying to find food for himself and Litefoot. He accidentally met his counterpart's wife [[Xiu Xiu]] who chastised him. Litefoot asked Jago to locate his alternative self and the equipment he had just bought. When he saw Greel's time cabinet, he tried to stop it being activated, but failed. He used the energy in it to heal his alternative self's injuries. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[How The Other Half Lives (audio story)|How The Other Half Lives]]'')  

He then helped Aubrey and Betterman in an investigation of fading bodies, accompanying them to a fallen spaceship in the middle of the city. He encountered [[Angelica (Chapel of Night)|Angelica]] who wanted to take his reality, but because he came from another world it didn't work and blew up the spaceship. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Too Much Reality (audio story)|Too Much Reality]]'')  

==Parallel World==