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|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | |main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | ||
|featuring = [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Irving]] | |featuring = [[Ruth]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Irving]] | ||
|enemy = Adam Yarryl | |enemy = [[Adam Yarryl|Adam]] | ||
|setting = [[Legion (planet)|Legion]], [[Tugara]], [[ | |setting = [[Legion (planet)|Legion]], [[Tugara]], [[Oxyrincus]] | ||
|writer = [[James Parsons]] and [[Andrew Stirling-Brown]] | |writer = [[James Parsons]] and [[Andrew Stirling-Brown]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
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[[Money]] makes the world go round, as can a few too many strong drinks. But when [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], in a fit of sobriety, agrees to do a pre-[[Advent]] favour for [[Irving Braxiatel]], little does she suspect that a bit of corporate schmoozing with a fast food magnate is going to lead her into the biggest spin she's experienced for a very long time. | [[Money]] makes the world go round, as can a few too many strong drinks. But when [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], in a fit of sobriety, agrees to do a pre-[[Advent]] favour for [[Irving Braxiatel]], little does she suspect that a bit of corporate schmoozing with a fast food magnate is going to lead her into the biggest spin she's experienced for a very long time. | ||
In a whistle-stop tour of frontier planets, she encounters mysterious burials, guns and swords, legs and claws, lost treasure, mortal combat, conspiracy, stomach-churning posh nosh and a little man called Perkin. | In a whistle-stop tour of frontier planets, she encounters mysterious burials, guns and swords, legs and claws, lost treasure, mortal combat, conspiracy, stomach-churning posh nosh and a little man called [[Perkin (Filthy Lucre)|Perkin]]. | ||
Oh, and love and war, again. | Oh, and love and war, again. | ||
Meanwhile, [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] has to tackle possibly the most irritating computer virus ever created, and Ruth must clamber through the bowels of a crashed ship with "the Man With The Vulpine Tattoo". | Meanwhile, [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] has to tackle possibly [[Vira (virus)|the most irritating computer virus ever created]], and Ruth must clamber through the bowels of a crashed ship with "[[Mylo Shryke|the Man With The Vulpine Tattoo]]". | ||
And this was supposed to be the holiday season? | And this was supposed to be the holiday season? | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
On [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]'s chosen day of [[sobriety]], [[Ruth]] takes her to the [[White Rabbit (Legion)|White Rabbit]] where [[Irving Braxiatel|Irving]] is serving free [[Yarryl's Root Vegetable Chips]] as part of a deal with [[Adam Yarryl]]. Irving calls Benny into his office and asks her to meet with | On [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]'s chosen day of [[sobriety]], [[Ruth]] takes her to the [[White Rabbit (Legion)|White Rabbit]] where [[Irving Braxiatel|Irving]] is serving free [[Yarryl's Root Vegetable Chips]] as part of a deal with [[Adam Yarryl]]. Irving calls Benny into his office and asks her to meet with Adam, an enthusiast of [[archaeology]] who has heard of Benny and might be willing to fund her, and she agrees on the condition that she, Ruth, [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] and [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]] get a [[holiday]] on [[Bella Sol]] afterwards. Peter, however, is unavailable. | ||
Benny attends | Benny attends Adam's [[party]] dressed as [[Twiggy]] and meets the host, who tells her about his dig on the [[war]]-torn [[planet]] [[Tugara]] and invites her to join him there. When she does so, [[Shima Vassari|Dr Shima Vassari]] shows her the [[grave]]s of nine [[mummification|mummified]] girls that they have found and Benny identifies it as a [[Clock of Children]] indicative of worshippers of [[Time (mythology)|Time]]. Privately, Vassari shares with her that she has found evidence that Adam intends on expanding his [[factory]] and knowingly wrecking an [[archaeology|archaeological]] site. She wakes up next to Adam and sees on the [[news]] that Vassari's mutilated body has been found in [[Elanara]]. | ||
As Benny, Ruth and Jack return from Bella Sol in the ''[[Irverfield]]'', they receive a [[distress call]] from a [[freighter]] and go to help. Jack remains in the shuttle whilst Benny and Ruth investigate, but Sylana tells them that the distress call was an accident and that they do not require assistance. [[Sylana Shakhar]] reveals that she, [[Jardin]] and [[Wolf (Filthy Lucre)|Wolf]] are [[pirate]]s and have taken over a [[Five Systems Bank]] freighter carrying unlawfully-gained money. Benny uses the ''Irverfield'''s systems to reboot the freighter and they | As Benny, Ruth and Jack return from Bella Sol in the ''[[Irverfield]]'', they receive a [[distress call]] from a [[freighter]] and go to help. Jack remains in the shuttle whilst Benny and Ruth investigate, but Sylana tells them that the distress call was an accident and that they do not require assistance. [[Sylana Shakhar]] reveals that she, [[Jardin]] and [[Wolf (Filthy Lucre)|Wolf]] are [[pirate]]s and have taken over a [[Five Systems Bank]] freighter carrying unlawfully-gained money. Benny uses the ''Irverfield'''s systems to reboot the freighter and they crash in a [[lake]] on [[Oxyrincus]], which Wolf knows to be a nightmare world of hybrid creatures. | ||
The freighter is attacked by giant [[squid]]/[[lobster]] hybrids and Jardin is killed. Whilst Jack deals with [[Vira (virus)|Vira]], a [[virus]] that has infected the ''Irverfield'', Benny, Ruth and Wolf decide to leave, but Sylana is unwilling to leave the treasures aboard. She shoots Wolf and is killed by one of the hybrids as the ship is flooding. Benny and Ruth get back to the ''Irverfield'' and leave with Jack, flying back to [[Legion (planet)|Legion]]. | |||
Benny is invited to speak at a [[Yarryl Corporation]] event and exposes Adam as an [[art thief]] and [[smuggler]]. She reveals that those left in the wake of Adam's crimes have formed the group [[Fightback]], using a sphere of evidence acquired from a princess to prove her claims. [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]] defends Benny from Adam's guards with [[Robo-drone]]s and escapes with her to the ''Irverfield''. | |||
When they get to Legion City, Benny is kidnapped by Adam, now a bankrupt fugitive, who tells her that her romantic feelings for him were due to his [[pheromone]]-enhanced [[aftershave]] and body splash. He is obsessed with history and warfare and has been deliberately causing wars around the universe, as well as making those who disappoint him fight to the [[death]], which is what he did to Vassari. Benny is given a [[squire]], [[Perkin (Filthy Lucre)|Perkin]], and made to fight a robot which she defeats by knocking its legs from under it before sending Adam flying onto its lap, leading to his death. | |||
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* [[Ruth]] | * [[Ruth]] | ||
* [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] | * [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] | ||
* [[Peter Summerfield]] | |||
* [[Irving Braxiatel]] | * [[Irving Braxiatel]] | ||
* [[Adam Yarryl]] | * [[Adam Yarryl]] | ||
* [[Jardin]] | * [[Jardin]] | ||
* [[Sylana Shakhar]] | * [[Sylana Shakhar]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Mylo Shyke|Wolf]] | ||
* [[Gerrant Arnoir]] | * [[Gerrant Arnoir]] | ||
* [[Shima Vassari]] | * [[Shima Vassari]] | ||
* [[Danielle Kerenson]] | |||
* [[Hans Bliss]] | |||
* [[Marco Bliss]] | |||
* [[Perkin (Filthy Lucre)|Perkin]] | * [[Perkin (Filthy Lucre)|Perkin]] | ||
* Yarryl's automaton knight | * Yarryl's automaton knight | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
* [[Sylana Shakhar's father]] was a [[pilot]] who spent his life on haulage lines and cheap passenger runs. | * [[Sylana Shakhar's father]] was a [[pilot]] who spent his life on haulage lines and cheap passenger runs. [[Sylana Shakhar|Her mother]] was an [[engineer]] and was left with substantial [[debt]]s by her business partners. | ||
* "[[The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (song)|The Good, The Bad and The Ugly]]" is, Ruth believes, a traditional [[Earth]] folk song. | * "[[The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (song)|The Good, The Bad and The Ugly]]" is, Ruth believes, a traditional [[Earth]] folk song. | ||
* [[Welcome House]] is a [[café]] in [[Legion City]]. | * [[Welcome House]] is a [[café]] in [[Legion City]]. | ||
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* Benny mentions ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''. Ruth has never heard of [[Henry V|the titular character]]. | * Benny mentions ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''. Ruth has never heard of [[Henry V|the titular character]]. | ||
* Irving buys Benny a selection of party wear from an [[Ikerian]] clothes dealer. The costumes are [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]], [[Mother Theresa]], [[Margaret Thatcher]] and [[Twiggy]]. | * Irving buys Benny a selection of party wear from an [[Ikerian]] clothes dealer. The costumes are [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]], [[Mother Theresa]], [[Margaret Thatcher]] and [[Twiggy]]. | ||
* [[Till Madden]] attends | * [[Till Madden]] attends Adam's party dressed as [[Stephen Hawking]]. | ||
* | * Adam dresses as [[George Armstrong Custer]]. | ||
* | * Adam serves [[Yarryl's Root Spirit]]. | ||
* Benny makes a suggestive joke about [[Little Big Horn]]. | * Benny makes a suggestive joke about [[Little Big Horn]]. | ||
* Benny sarcastically mentions having a degree from [[Heidelberg University]]. | * Benny sarcastically mentions having a degree from [[Heidelberg University]]. | ||
* The [[Kastor Vorax]] was a fabled union of [[planet]]s who came together after a natural disaster in their system. They made the [[Nine Crowns of the Kastor Vorax]]. | * The [[Kastor Vorax]] was a fabled union of [[planet]]s who came together after a natural disaster in their system. They made the [[Nine Crowns of the Kastor Vorax]]. | ||
* | * Adam has a [[Playstation]]. | ||
* Irving has a Mark 6 [[Kredysonuzzi]] [[Healing Bed]]. | * Irving has a Mark 6 [[Kredysonuzzi]] [[Healing Bed]]. | ||
* A [[cist]] is a simple [[grave]]. | * A [[cist]] is a simple [[grave]]. | ||
* The [[Widow Maker]] is a new [[fighter bomber]]. | * The [[Widow Maker]] is a new [[fighter bomber]]. | ||
* [[Bab]]s are posts on the [[Babblesphere]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
