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Beyond Big-G City: What the heck does Stratego! ™ have to do with anything? Read on. . .
Jim, through his favorite analytical tool, “Stratego!” ™, strongly suspects the presence of evil force The Power in client Stella. Sick of drunkenness, debauchery and decapitation in the Mortal Desert, Pan devises a cunning plan to speed up his mission. David, frustrated by his lack of research progress in Tiberias, sings “My Way” at a karaoke club and blindly stumbles past a clue to his quest!
Week Six:
Inside Olympus Rest sanitarium; return to a Mortal Desert; a new Karaoke sensation in Tiberias.
July 25-31, 2025
Stella and Jim play Stratego! ™ in the Olympus Rest common room Friday, July 25. But Jim’s purpose is not to win. As she trounces him in four consecutive games he observes signs of possession by evil force The Power– -Stella’s wicked double-edged banter, and the black aura flickering above her sickly gray one. He shares his findings with Apollo, physician in charge of Olympus Rest. Jim recommends 24/7 observation of Stella, and round-the-clock surveillance of The Power in its cubical prison. Apollo, though skeptical, agrees; if Stella’s episodes and a breach in Olympus, Inc.’s, security system coincide, it will be evidence that The Power is once again infiltrating the city. . .
By Tuesday, July 29, Pan, undercover as Little General, has stirred up sufficient drunken chaos in the outlaw camp to cause the beheading of Great Cheese and the rise of his successor, Fat Mac Daddy. Mac Daddy’s chief minister, Side of Fries, has confided in Pan that he wants to repeat the process. Though his mission is succeeding, Pan is thoroughly sick of it and has five more camps to go. A means of streamlining his one-to-many combat surfaces in his mind. It will capitalize on mortal jealousy, code name: Tigers into Butter.
With zero progress so far in Tiberias, David wakes with a throbbing head on Thursday, July 31. He downed way too much local red wine at a karaoke club the night before and crooned an out-of-sync rendition of “My Way”, a favorite of his Sinatra fan foster dad, Milton Bernstein. At a nearby Mom-and-Pop he cures his hangover with a huge breakfast. Turns out the waitress heard him at the club last night, says he’s looks a lot like an Israeli singer she remembers on TV from when she was a kid who did Sinatra standards, but she doesn’t mention the guy’s name. David, kind of homesick and mildly curious, drops a postcard to Milton, asking if he remembers an Israeli Sinatra singer from forty years back. . .
Is Jim’s hunch about Stella and The Power correct? Will “Tigers into Butter” vanquish the Mortal Desert outlaw bands? And what the hack does a has-been Sinatra singer have to do with anything?
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