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My dear friends...

I have continued to dig through the volumes left with the WBPI by Lord Smedley as he and the Duchess Bellambi made ready for their expedition to find what the somewhat offensively odored Tinnie called Ze Egg Chwamber of ze Gweat Swister (or something like that). After spending nearly an hour questioning him further, I fear I gained little save for some quite nasty bite marks on my knees and ankles and an appetite for Hassenpfeffer.

Therefore, sequestered in my favorit… Continue

My dear friends,

I am taking a moment to send you all a transcript of a somewhat unusual strategy meeting held recently between myself, Duchess Eva Bellambi of Loch Avie and Dr. Kate Nicholas of the Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge in the Natural Sciences.

Nichtstadt: Ladies, welcome to the hidden base of operations of the WBPI. I trust you were not followed?

Bellambi: No jasper would have the rocks to tail us. Every mook around here knows I pack a roscoe.

Nichola… Continue

My dear friends and colleagues,

Since my communication yesterday, I have much news to impart to you my friends.

First of all, it appears aide has come to us from an unknown benefactor. This morning a package arrived on the doorstep of the Winterfell Bureau of Para-Aetheric Investigation. Wrapped in paper identical to that of the brown envelopes we had previously received, this parcel contained several books, each apparently having been checked out from the Winterfell Library. Also in the parce… Continue

My dear friends,

I am sorry that I had to depart from your fellowship so suddenly, but certain alarming coincidences became apparent to me and I was forced to make great haste to the famous Library of the Platinum Spheres in Vienna to speak with certain learned gentlemen and consult tomes which even now I tremble to recall naught but their footnotes and the little illustrations at the top of each chapter.

So many factors seemed to coalesce in my mind, like mayonnaise and tuna salad on a warm d… Continue

I regret to report that last night, the offices of the Winterfell Bureau of Para-aetherical Investigations were broken into. In fact, one of the large casement windows facing the sea was literally ripped from the wall. I cannot even begin to consider what force could have accounted for such wanton destruction.

As workmen began making repairs, I carefully inventoried the valuable artifacts and active files stored in our offices, and found that nothing was missing....in fact, quite the contrary.… Continue