So Anyway...

Plucky Elizabeth picked up her belongings and left the mountainside castle of Dr Vorhees, scientist extraordinaire. He'd told her many times her services at the petri dish were no longer needed. She boarded a train heading west and read "Ulysses" until she reached the sleepy town of Terrischetta-on-Puln. It looked as good a place to disembark as any. Upon entering the station she purchased a copy of the Puln Times, where she saw, with more than a little alarm, her picture on the front page, walking out of a cafe arm-in-arm with curler and former social pariah Uzman von Stuggetter, a man she'd never met. She folded the paper under her arm and hailed a taxi which was driven by the smarmy Jorge, a man renowned for overcharging and associating with the scandalous underbelly of Terrischetta-on-Puln. She asked Jorge to drive her to the Puln Curling Hall, but fell strangely under his spell and ended up sharing a highball with him at the Palm d'Or, a bar and swimming complex owned by the Dowager Fernetta deBanque. Mr deBanque was killed at this same complex after diving into an unfilled pool while Fernetta looked on. Fernetta sat at Jorge and Elizabeth's table and lit a menthol cigarette. She called for Johann, expatriate bartender, to bring another round of drinks. Written on the napkin at the bottom of Elizabeth's drink was a map of West Erschtadt-upon-Puln and a meeting time. She suggested then that Jorge take her and her highball straight to West Erschtadt-upon-Puln. It was an area he knew well. Jorge dropped her off and immediately went to meet Fernetta deBanque at Ouives, a drag bar near the Palm d'Or. There they were to meet up with Cloque Dagger, drag queen and member of the Terrischetta-on-Puln town council. Meanwhile in Erschtadt-upon-Puln, Elizabeth walked, the Puln Times still under her arm, towards the center of town. There she met Johann, who offered her another highball and told her he had information she might find interesting. He lead her through the back of Meeno's Cafe, where the kitchen was less than sterile. Sitting at the bar, slumped over a Rob Roy, sat a wobbly Uzman von Stuggetter. Elizabeth gasped. Johann gasped. von Stuggetter looked up, gasped, and ordered another drink. Elizabeth took her Puln Times, highball, and Johann and joined von Stuggetter at the bar. She showed von Stuggetter the newspaper and he denied all responsibility. Johann looked worried, and tried to convince Elizabeth to go with him to Madame Chang's, a Chinese restaurant where normally all is revealed. She refused and stayed at the bar with von Stuggetter. Johann went alone to Madame Chang's where he sat in a waiting area wondering why there would be a sombrero on the wall. He heard a commotion and looked up to notice Fernetta deBanque and Cloque Dagger entering the restaurant. They breezed past Johann to their waiting table, where Cloque ordered Steak Kew and Fernetta refused food to drink flaming amarettos. Uzman von Stuggetter stumbled off his bar stool and offered a hand to Elizabeth, inviting her to share a duck with him at Madame Chang's. Though revolted by his demeanor, she accepted, and walked arm-in-arm with him out of Meeno's Cafe, where their picture was snapped by Otto Jarmanek, society photographer for the Puln Times. Elizabeth suddenly had a searing flash of deja-vu and fell to the ground....

But what of Dr Vorhees?

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* Yes. What of Dr Vorhees?