Bad Machinery

End of part 3! Prepare for part 4, the final part, which features not the usual 22 but 24 pages of pulse-pounding, senses-shattering action!

The fourth and final chapter of Solver: Wobbly Head (and the last Solver story until September) starts on Monday. Expect eight weeks of thrills, spills and rolling hills.

Part four begins! We return to matters roughly as they stood at the end of part 2. — You can read Solver part 4 in full (in hi-res PDF format) on my Patreon. If you want to read the whole[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

I’m sure that the decision to exclude* Dean from the circle of trust here won’t be a problem down the line. I’m absolutely positive about this. *I originally typed this as “explude” which I think might be a powerful new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

When Skelottie turned up with her bag of provisions, the comments were so preoccupied with Dean’s vertical monitors that they hardly questioned what might be in the bag.

It is by now well established that Lottie doesn’t like it when dramatic situations place fish in peril.

As a long-time investigator of mysteries, Charlotte cannot help but be impressed when a villain really puts their back into presentation.

Do you know what Bovril is? I would imagine that a section of the audience do not. It’s “beef extract”, a bit like Marmite, you can make “beef tea” from it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMDmE5Hal_E Unfortunately I can’t find an ad for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Beate’s inferiority complex re: Lottie is poorly thought through. Not only can she drive, she can drive a Bedford Rascal, which is a sweet ride by anyone’s reckoning. Why am I so fascinated with the Bedford Rascal? I don’t know.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

When we saw Beate’s lodgings earlier in the story, they looked to me like the sort of place where infestations would be an issue. I read somewhere that the colour yellow wards off bedbugs. Apparently it reminds them of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…