by Steve Barlow
Blast! Go back to 1.
50
You radio an ‘all clear’ message. Helicopters start to arrive. Medical staff tend to Jackson. Mike Annick appears and gathers the returning staff.
“Congratulations, Agent,” says Cranberry. “You saved the world — again.”
“Only just,” you say. “That was a weird assignment for G.H.O.S.T.”
“True. So, tell me, Agent — what do you think now about a partnership between humans and machines?”
You shake your head wearily. “I’m in two minds about it.”
EQUIPMENT
Phantom Flyer: For fast international and intercontinental travel, you use the Phantom Flyer, a supersonic business jet crammed full of detection and communication equipment and weaponry.
Spook Trucks: For more local travel you use one of G.H.O.S.T.’s fleet of Spook Trucks — heavily armed and armoured SUVs you requisition from local agents.
RACER (Robot and Cyborg Electronic Restraint) taser-style weapon, able to fire magnetic darts
BAM (Blasts All Monsters)
SAC (Scrambles All Cyborgs) electronic pulse hand grenade
HECK (High Energy Cyborg Killer) limpet mine device able to fire energy pulses into a robotic brain
1
You are at a stadium in London, watching your favourite football team and cheering them on.
Your phone rings with the Ghostbusters theme. You answer it. “Not now, Cranberry! We’re playing against United and they’ve just scored!”
“Very disappointing, I’m sure,” says Cranberry, “but you’re needed at the British Museum.”
To tell Cranberry you’ll go at the end of the match, go to 12.
To leave the stadium at once, go to 31.
31
You drive to the museum in your Spook Truck, checking your video and audio comms links that allow Cranberry, back at Arcane Manor, to see and hear everything you do.
“Do you read me, Cranberry?”
“Loud and clear, Agent.”
You arrive at the museum to find the police have already sealed off the building.
The officer in charge steps forward. “Stay back! We’ve been told there are mummies on the loose in there!”
You show him your ID. “What mummies?”
The officer points to a young woman. “This is the Curator of Egyptology at the museum. Ask her.”
The Curator nods. “My name is Selma Masry, and the officer is right. Our mummies are coming alive!”…
Continue the adventure in:
MONSTER HUNTER
MUMMY
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About the illustrator: Paul Davidson
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Franklin Watts
First published in Great Britain in 2020
by The Watts Publishing Group
Text © Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore 2020
Illustrations © The Watts Publishing Group 2020
Cover design: Cathryn Gilbert and Peter Scoulding
The authors and illustrator have asserted their rights in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
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