The Dorchester Alibi
Underby stood looking out the windows as Dorchester scribbled out page after page of copies behind him by dim candle light; the sun had dipped down over the horizon of buildingtops hours ago. The...
View ArticlePayment Due
Underby chuckled, reading about the food poisonings at the Bucket, in the evening edition of the local newspaper. Folding up the paper, he dropped it on his desk, ready to pour himself a glass of...
View ArticleHunt For The Taheen
Underby was reading a thick volume on explosives when he thought he heard a noise in his office, somewhere between the sighing of a sheet of rice paper and a butterfly's gossamer flutter. read more
View ArticleThe Rogue Portal Hunters
Avariel Falcon looked up as the door to her office burst open and three men stomped in. The unicorn addressed the leader of the group, a black bearded dwarf dressed in leather work clothes and covered...
View ArticleWorking the nightshift
"Asshats."She spat a flake of tobacco out from her lips and watched it single down to the meetinghall floor. Beside her the mounted gatlings internal springs where making small singing sounds inside...
View ArticlePaid Attention - 1 of 2
Petra sat on a curb near the corner of Abney Parkway and Savory Street, replacing the rags in the toe of her boots, and listening vaguely to the French boy lecture her on the infractions she had...
View ArticlePetra, Kaylee, and the Ghost of Hakeldama
Petra Flax kicked open the door to the Bucket of Blood, and ran inside, panting and pale. She blinked around at those gathered, and quickly focused in on Kaylee who was busy concentrating on the small...
View ArticleKraken Season
(four weeks ago) Tenk did not look up as the elevator to his rickety office affixed to the clocktower atop city hall opened and expelled little Maggie and Mr. Underby. “Mr. Tenk!” Mr. Underby commanded...
View ArticleThe New Captain
Tenk stormed into his office in search of his Personal Assistant. He found him there, enjoying a cigar while surveying the city from the balcony. “Mister Underby!” Underby turned slowly. “Yes, Mr....
View ArticleDecember 25th, 188x. New Babbage.
continued from The Twelve Days of Christmas (In July) “Happy Christmas, Mr. Underby.” “Happy Christmas, Mr. Tenk.” read more
View ArticleThe Brazen Head Incident - Prologue
Count Bologna sat at the end of the bar in the Bucket of Blood, well after midnight, imbibing his fifth mug of Foggy Dew. He had been surprised to learn a few weeks earlier that the murky liquid was...
View ArticleLittle Black Book Entry: Who does Underby think he is?
That Underby! Who does he think he is? read more
View ArticleLittle Black Book: On Politicians
Well, Underby is still here running city hall in my bar, and he's obviously not going to give me a job so I can move up in the world. Nothing to do but watch and learn. Watch and learn, right?Here's...
View ArticleThe Debt, Collected.
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View ArticleA Dangerous Con: A Polite Chat with Mr. Underby
The girls felt like they were living under martial law confined to the house and the increased guard. They longed for a return to the previous month or even the days before Gus had met his tragic...
View ArticleIt's Underby's Fault.....
The New Babbage urchins have a lot in common with the gamins of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, and it turns out Gavaroche has a particular song in the French musical version, which can be found at the...
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