Spicy Tea and Sympathy (audio story)

Spicy Tea and Sympathy was a Bafflegab Productions audio story written by Paul Magrs and narrated by Anne Reid, along with Dan Starkey and Stephen Critchlow.

Synopsis
Brenda and Effie are drawn to a new tearoom in the park. It is owned by the dashing Professor Marius Keyes, who has stuffed the place with Egyptian Antiquities of all kinds. But why does his odd-tasting tea send both women a bit woozy? And why’s he got actual bandaged revenants hiding in his room at the Hotel Miramar and giving massages in his tearoom basement?

It’s all enough to give Brenda shocking flashbacks to the 1930s, when she was housemaid in the home of a certain Reginald Tyler and, together with Henry Cleavis, they fought forces of darkness and diabolism as the Smudgelings, an undercover monster-fighting team. Back then they uncovered a scheme to do with exotic tea leaves and vital life essences and a certain dessicated princess from ancient times.

In the present day the same awful dangers rear their bandaged heads, and it isn’t just Professor Marius Keyes who has mummy issues…

Plot
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Characters

 * Brenda
 * Poppy Keyes
 * Effie Jacobs
 * Marius Keyes
 * Sheila Manchu
 * Professor Reginald Tyler
 * Henry Cleavis
 * Ayotep

Worldbuilding

 * In Brenda's dream Marius Keyes sees into Effie Jacobs' past including; a glowing cat growling the dark and mistry streets (AUDIO: The Woman in the Black Beehive) and an evil bat with long velvety ears. (AUDIO: Bat Out of Hull) He also predicts their future including; blood and suffering, meat pies and garden furniture that has been manufactured from evil bamboo. (PROSE: Something Borrowed) Effie had a similar dream but in hers Marius' predictions included; the undead rising from their tombs and seeking reckogning, Effie being turned into a vampire Queen, Brenda being whisked off her feet by a great big brute and the pair of them appearing on a television show about haunted houses. (PROSE: Never the Bride)
 * Professor Henry Cleavis writes about Hyspero. (PROSE: Fellowship of Ink)

Continuity
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