A Recap
Hmmm... where were we? A man was vanished from a pavement, with only a cooling heat shadow to indicate his once presence. The Plain Chocolate Digestive Detectives went in to investigate the disappearance as one of the strange phenomena connected to those twice baked confections. Evidence was stolen from the lab. Our protagonist went to McGonagle Biscuits to quiz their new president Agnes McGonagle and see if she was more willing to talk than her uncooperative predecessor and uncle Rolf.
This is where it got complicated. The Detective received a secret message to meet Agnes at the Rusty Bucket but actually ended up meeting a future (or alternate) version of Agnes and himself. Then after the revelation of a future temporal explosion based in McGonagle Biscuits, a future detail emerged that the strange phenomena were linked to cheap biscuit deliveries from the future, and that everything was about to go a little ca-ca.
Using information from future Agnes, the Detective and Current Agnes hitched a ride either into a future or some other McGonagle biscuit factory, and were confronted with a bizarrely not dead but rather malevolent Rolf McGonagle. Unexpectedly employing surprise (and the shear stupidity of all fictional villains), the Detective knocked out Rolf and the three escaped via a teleporter. They ended up a few days before their own time and unbeknownst to them the fabric of space time began to quake in its shoes like a fish in a department store.
The Detective, knowing that overlaying time streams was dangerous, whisked Rolf and Agnes off to his unexpected digs in the Old University, where Rolf gave up his story and the Detective's partner Carter eventually turned up to play guard while our hero and Agnes went to meet an old friend of his at the university, and that old friend Lily dished the dirt on some our protagonist's surprising academic history. Lily was eventually packed off to ask a millennia old Mesopotamian super-computer what to do, and hasn't been seen since. The computer thinks she's a high priestess.
Space time continued to quiver, and then shake violently before it became as tense as a kitten in the presence of gift wrap. Future Detective and Future Agnes appeared in our time stream just as Carter knocked out present Agnes for reasons as yet unknown. Unfortunately this time when they arrived, they caused a three layer temporal overlap instead of a double and at that point all of space and time took a nap to try and recover.
What will happen next? What does it all have to do with biscuits in the end? Why did the story derail in a sudden knot of time travel? Is Elvis really dead? Does the author have the faintest idea of where to go next? Why did giant newts not feature in this tale at all so far? And finally, why did Carter knock out Agnes? Feminine rivalry or the first attempt to avert the time singularity predicted to occur?
Some of these question will be answered, some not, and more will be placed in the oven until baked a lovely golden brown.
O.
--- Retroactive Note ---
Holiday Interruptus:
The Quirky Muffin is down for holidays. Normal service will resume in about a week, barring unexpected story segments.
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