01 - Feared by Hell
Series - The Unbelievable Mr Brownstone
TUMB 01/1 Alison finds lost puppy in drain. Red emotional flare in distance (pain, fear). Dog’s owner, James Brownstone, gives her ride to meet the Ishidas. (Mon’s missing, maybe Ishidas can help find her. Internet contact). Stays to protect her. Alley, walls on either side of the alley stood tall enough to block line of sight. Isheda brothers (Cockbite One and Cockbite Two) try to kidnap Alison, James fights them (new shirt destroyed), saves her. Alison not afraid. Brownstone takes her home.
TUMB 01/2 Lots of detail on the two (See Characters, Alison, James Brownstone), gives her a one-time use business card, in case she gets into trouble.
TUMB 01/3 Brownstone goes home, ( See Characters, James Brownstone), checks with the LAPD Bounty Hunter Outreach Department app, (still needs to pay the bills). Humans, trolls, rogue-troll wrangles, nothing worth-while. Goes to confession, admits wrath, enjoyment in violence, taking care of Alison. Priest (Father McCartney) tells him to continue doing so. Goes to Leanan Sídhe, his favorite Irish pub, to meet with Doctor F.J. Smite-Williams, Professor of Historical Extra-Dimensional Engineering, (which was a fancy way of saying he studied magical artifacts), AKA The Professor, and also AKA Father O’Banion (when in his drinking mein - drinks Harp Lager beer), concerning leads to ancient Earth artifacts. Will have some leads coming soon. Enjoys seeing the Amazing Malty one of the bar’s attractions. Malty chugs beer out of its bottle. James goes home, find Leeroy missing again, not with Alison, so goes out to find him. Meets with a gang he knows of, headed by Trey. Haven’t see Leeroy, and Trey tells the gang about Brownstone, his bounty hunting, his fighting (the Harrikens), the myths about how he was created, and the Granite Ghost (3 pages), and that you JUST DON’T MESS WITH HIM !
TUMB 01/4, 5
Italic textTHE ROD OF SUPAY EXPEDITION
Receives message from The Professor that the job is a go, that he’ll be working under someone else, and to meet at the Leanan Sídhe at 9 PM for info. In order to better work at the coming tasks, James wanted extra “insurance.” As much as he didn’t trust magic, sometimes it kept things simpler—especially when all you had to do was drink something, so he went to Zoe’s house, the best potions-maker in L.A., to get extra “Energy” (a translucent yellow liquid) and “Healing” (a small vial filled with a dull red liquid). Later that night Brownstone meets with The Professor and Shay Carson, who will lead the expedition to Peru to find the Rod of Supay (See Miscellaneous).
TUMB 01/6
After a jet ride down to Tapachula, Mexico, they boarded something that looked like it had been found in some old aviation museum, with a pilot older than that, who knew where to land and take off in Peru without attracting too much attention. Then a jeep ride until they got close enough to walk through the jungle to the site. A crumbling stone archway and weathered stairs, atop a tall cliff, told them they had arrived. The site was inaccessible from one side because of the difficulty of scaling a cliff in the middle of dense jungle, but in an emergency they could probably climb down and follow the river. The noise of the jungle surrounded them: the flutter of birds’ wings, buzzing of insects, the shuffling of God-knew-what. A powerful and evil magical artifact might lie inside this ancient tomb. Evil energy had a way of attracting evil. They went down the steps, into a dusty chamber, where smaller tunnels headed off in three directions. Shay knew exactly where to go, towards the main burial chamber. Then they realized that they were hearing a strange buzzing sound that had not been there before. The quiet sound stood out as if someone were screaming. Shimmers, bloody footprints, and three men in scarlet robes winked into sight. Brownstone and Shay disposed of two of them, and Brownstone knocked the third unconscious, while Shay went into the main chamber to look for the hiding place of the artifact, a small carving in the wall that when looked at from a certain angle and illuminated with only a single beam of light resembled a stylized humanoid figure. “Blood freely given will reveal the sacred treasure,” Shay recalled, as she nicked the tip of her finger. The chamber rumbled, and a wall moved, revealing a painting and a small box, with the Rod of Supay inside. She collected it. And they left.
