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The Doclopedia #1,066
Saloons, Bars & Pubs: The Pig And Goat
Oliver,
It is with a heavy heart heart that I must inform you of the death of your father, Mason Westridge, on 20 July, 1879. He was injured in a battle with the Queen’s Special Patrol and died of blood loss an hour later. Fortunately, he was able to make it to Fox Woods and the tunnel that leads to the Pig & Goat. Tippins and I were able to get him home via tunnel #3. He died in his bed and we buried him in the family plot next to your mother, unmarked, of course. Tippins informed the household staff that your father had been called away on business to Canada and would not return for some months. Of course, he will die there, in the far north woods, in a few weeks. Once “his body” is returned home, we shall bury your father properly.
This leaves you, my boy, to take up the duties of the Dark Rider. I know that you have the training and know much of your father’s (and grandfather’s and greatgrandfather’s) ways of fighting crime and injustice. However, I must here now fill you in on the full importance of the Pig & Goat.
There are four tunnels, as you know, running to Fox Woods, your family home, the old abbey and just outside Barnsley Manor. There are also six rooms to the Lair, two of which you have never been in. These would be the Room of Records, where the Dark Rider keeps not only important records, but diaries going back over a century, and the Artifact Room, where the strange and dangerous items the Dark Rider has acquired over his long career. This room is assuredly the most dangerous place on Earth.
As you know, there are various secret entrances into and out of the pub. Mr. Dove and his family are 100% loyal to the Dark Rider, so you may trust them as you trust me. Even as I write this, Mrs. Dove is busy adapting your father’s costume to your size.
I understand that it will take you a fortnight or more to make the move back home. Until then, both Tippins and young Jamie Dove will ride out on Lucifer every few nights, so as to let the Dark Rider be seen. As for the Queen’s Special Patrol, I am formulating a most embarrassing encounter for them once you arrive.
Once again, I am sorry for your loss of a father as much as I mourn my brother.
Yours,
Uncle Alvin
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