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
THE 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.
TUMB 01/7
Back at the bar, Shay is paid off, The Professor has examined and accepted the artifact, Brownstone is at the Police Station cashing in his bounty (2 dozen doughnuts for Mack), and Father O’Banion is set for a singing contest that night. And Leeroy was still missing. Came home to find that the door was open, and the alarm still on. Whoever was there had the skills to spoof the alarm signal.
TUMB 01/8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
THE HARRIKENS
01/8 Leeroy lay butchered on a large silver serving tray in the dining room, a series of kanji characters on the plate. Harriken. They’d picked a fight they hadn’t needed to pick, so now it was time for KIBACS: keep it bloody and complicated, stupid. “You shouldn’t have fucked with my dog. I hope you enjoy your short-assed lives.” Brownstone goes the Confessional, to tell Father of what he is about to do. Father suggests that the world will still need him in the future, and to be careful. Shay comes to Brownstone’s house, friendly call, and finds Brownstone gone, and Leeroy almost buried in the back yard. She, too, vows vengeance, and leaves to find Brownstone.
01/9, 10 Brownstone goes after the Harriken. He knew their typical enforcer strength and weapon choices, but he had no idea how many men might be inside the house or if they had access to heavier weapons or magic. Brownstone goes for an encounter. . Multiple magazines, pistols, and knives: check. A frag grenade and a flashbang just in case: check. Besides, a vengeance run required a personal touch. Blowing the entire house up from outside wouldn’t be as satisfying as going through beating down or killing every single motherfucking dog-killing Harriken. Two guards stood upfront, armed with wakizashis and pistols. Hints of their extensive tattoos peeked out on their necks and hands. Brownstone killed the two guards, used body of one to smash open the door to the house. A half-dozen Harriken enforcers stood inside the foyer with their swords drawn. He killed one, and three rushed him from the front, while two circled on opposite sides. Brownstone, in a wondrous fight, kills three floors of Harriken. Shay arrives to help, reconstructs the battle in her mind as she walks through the hose, finds Brownstone taking care of the last of them, and probably didn’t need her help, but she opened the door, anyway.
01/11 James came to the last room in the basement, one occupied by two samurai-types, with swords. They were truly confused that James would kill so many for a dog. They fought as well as they knew how, and were done in by James
01/12 Shay comes to the final room, sees James punch the last man, then demand an apology, which the man does, apologizing to Leeroy. James explains that if they would have left his dog alone, they would have lived, but – James didn’t need her, so she left. The last man kept babbling about a “she”, whom he thought James wanted, and said, “Mount Baldy. There’s an old resort that’s been converted to a private chalet. The Belmont House. She’s there.” James wasn’t interested, and left the man alive. It was one thing to kill a man in battle, but he was having a hard time working up his bloodlust with this pathetic fool begging for his life and about to wet himself. The house had been cleared, and maybe that was enough. James had made it halfway down the hall when he heard the scrape of metal on cement. Fucker. I gave you more than enough chances. The Harriken man held his pistol, but hadn’t stood yet. James shot him, grabbed some of their assets, and left.
01/13 Shay met him outside, followed him to his truck, patched/sewed him up. Brownstone was hungry, so asked her if she wanted to go to Pork Gods for BBQ. TV on, and they listen to an elf singing country, group called Best of Three Worlds. (Oriceran, Earth, and the South). Will probably win a Country Music Award! Conversation turns to world, and girls, and Shay accuses James of being gay, and that she doesn’t mind. Then she left.
