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Rated: 18+ · Interactive · Fantasy · #2281311
What if homo sapiens sapiens weren't the only hominids on the planet?
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Chapter #4

Shipley and the fairies

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Before you disembark from the Manannan, you have an interesting conversation over breakfast with a Bavarian gentleman named Ludwig Schmidt. Ludwig is a forty year old businessman who migrated to the United States in his teens, prior to World War I. He is something of an entrepreneur, investing in a wide range of ventures.

He’s also a friend of a friend, and shares your concerns about the darker forces moving in this world. When Ludwig was a teen growing up in Munich, a gypsy told him that it was his destiny to migrate to America, so that someday his grandson could save the world from shadowy forces arising from the East.

Ludwig will be traveling to his native Munich to convince as many of his family as he can to come back to the United States with him. Like you, with the election of Hitler as Chancellor, Ludwig can see the writing on the wall.

You two chat on a number of topics before you need to leave. As you get up, he hands you a tattered leather book with the words “Praktikal Folkloristiks” embossed in gold on the cover.

“Take it,” Ludwig tells you. “You’ll find it useful in the coming days.”

Later, when you get off the ship, you’re about to get into your car when you see a woman staring at you from a distance. You can’t be sure, but she looks Scandinavian or Germanic. Your driver says something to you, making you turn your head. When you turn your head back, the woman is gone.

You decide to put the incident out of your mind. Instead, you settle back and thumb through the book Ludwig gave you while enjoying the half-day’s ride to Shipley.

(Does anything unusual happen on the ride to Shipley?)



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