
Apart from the burst tube that was being replaced, there don't seem to be any particularly frail areas. In the boiler-room, Alexander keeps watch while Mr Carnegie and Major Kingsthorpe perform their respective workings to diagnose weak points in the boiler. The current supposition is mental weakness, but they're good men in other respects. Mr Matthews and Miss Vane ask Commander Nichols to show them the ship's records several men have been taken up recently for fighting, not in itself especially surprising, but more significantly several men seem to have reported fires that turned out not to exist. The team starts with a tour of the ship, though when they get to one of the boilers that's under repair they cut this short Mr Alexander talks with Sublieutenant Fisher, who's overseeing the work, and persuades him to clear the room for twenty minutes or so. He warns them that Captain Benn is a very suitable captain for this ship ( Royal Oak fought at Jutland and is generally considered close to obsolete). Alongside her is a fleet tender a few hundred yards away is the old seaplane carrier Pegasus. Nichols is waiting with a boat to take them to Royal Oak, moored offshore. The weather is clear after the previous night's storms, and the flight to RNAS Hatston takes about three and a half hours. The ship is currently at Scapa Flow the team's assigned transport is at Croydon Airport, a DH.89a Dragon Rapide. Commander Nichols, the 2ic, is aware of the team's nature for other eyes, their cover is that of a civilian engineering investigation team. Haunted Battleship Friday 13 October 1939Ĭaptain Knight confirms that some instructions have come in "on the square" the second-in-command of HMS Royal Oak, which got back yesterday from the North Atlantic, is concerned that his ship is haunted she's had more than the usual rate of boiler tube failures, and a variety of other problems.
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Captain Knight performs summary introductions, and explains that the powers that be aren't quite sure how to use the team yet for the moment, they should concentrate on training. Princess Charlotte, apocryphal younger sister of King George VI.Īpocryphal younger sister of King George VI.Įarly in September, the team is gathered for the first time. NPCsĬaptain Maxwell Knight, in charge of MI5's B5(b) (which nominally monitors political subversion, but has other less official rôles (such as running magically-talented troubleshooters). Vladimir Igorovich Kirilov, White Russian elementalist. (Image of Merle Oberon played by Karen Gilham RIP.) (Played by Ingvar Mattsson.) Killed in Action.īarbara Vane, teacher, housekeeper and spirit medium. Ola Nordmann, a Norwegian/Sami fisherman and shaman. (Image of J J Thompson FRS played by David Cantrell.) Reginald Arthur Matthews, retired from the Indian Civil Service and knowledgeable in the ways of the Mysterious East. (Image of Rowan Atkinson as Major Blackadder played by Phil Masters.)



Major Brian Kingsthorpe, an engineering officer, veteran of the Great War, and subtle ritual magician. (Played by Ingvar Mattsson.) Missing, presumed damned. Robert John Carnegie, an American dabbler in the occult. (Image of Barry Morse played by John Dallman.) Pete Argas, a veteran of the Great War with a talent for not being seen. (Image of Jude Law as Errol Flynn played by David Devereux.)

Vincent Alexander, an unnaturally charismatic actor. Secret Rites, Grotesque Ceremonies and Fantastic CostumesĢ.55. I Don't Want To Set the World On FireĢ.48. East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)Ģ.46.
