Author: Dotan Dimet

Prof. Chrstopher Neave is Oren’s character for my current campaign. So now he joins Theodore Alexius Victor Warner III in the roster of “characters in my game that have their own webpage”. The third character is Bo’s Doyle Zachary, a smuggler with a destiny and a sucking chest wound. Hopefully, Miller will join us, when he finishes reliving the last campaign in India…

Charlie Stross reviews Inventing the Victorians. One sentence summary: the Victorians were maligned by Virginia Wolfe to make her and her cronies look cool in comparison.

Jack the Ripper – Timeline (2 of 6) starts conveniently on October 1st, where Theodore’s letter has conveniently placed our campaign in time.

On October 1st, the following (Ripper related stuff – I could do with a more universal timeline…) occured:

• Coroner Wynne E. Baxter begins inquest into the murder of Elizabeth Stride at the Vestry Hall, Cable Street. Adjourned until the 2nd.
• The morning issue of the Daily News first prints the text of the Dear Boss letter.
• Thomas Coram finds a bloodstained knife in Whitechapel Road, with a blade of about 9 inches.
• The Financial News contributes £300 toward a reward for the capture of the murderer.
• Lord Mayor offers £500 reward.
• Sir Alfred Kirby offers £100 reward and 50 militia men to help apprehend the criminal. Offer declined.
• Queen Victoria telephones the Home Office at 3:30 pm and expresses her shock at the murders.
• The ‘Saucy Jacky’ postcard is received at the Central News Agency.
• Michael Kidney arrives drunk at Leman Street Police Station, blaming the PC on duty at the time of Stride’s murder, and asking to speak with a detective.
• The Star prints the text of the Saucy Jacky postcard in the evening edition.
• The first of many imitative hoax letters is received, with the word “Boss” hastily inserted in play of “The City Police.”

In short, Rippermania is at it’s peak.