Greetings, people of Earth! Our superior alien race finds your puny starships laughable. The extent to which you hu-mans rely on “dilithium crystals” is outrageous. Why, what will you do when the supply runs out in approximately 345.3 Earth years, or, as we like to say on Arcturus, 93 h’waxlobs? I suppose you’ll do as [...]

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(It’s only a model…) When the Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, reached from the shining bosom of the water with the legendary sword Excalibur in her grasp, I said to myself, “Arthur, one of these days, this is going to come back to bite you in the butt.” [...]

Mr. Sherlock Holmes here. Most copious thanks to all eight (!) teams who registered for Pieces of Nine‘s cross-Ottawa treasure hunt, and to the nefarious Krigers for playing their dastardly part! Especial thanks to those out-of-town visitors who journeyed from such distant locations as Toronto and Kingston to assist with the retrieval of Her Majesty [...]

Extra-special shameless self-promotional post! Egad, old chums, Professor Moriarty has stolen a private letter from among the papers of Her Majesty Queen Victoria! Were its contents to become public, the results could bring the British Empire to its knees! HRH has engaged the services of Mr. Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, but the case is [...]

This week’s post is a little late, but I hope you will forgive me in that I couldn’t possibly make it before the event I am about to discuss had actually happened. That’s right: yesterday, Saturday the 18th, was the second annual Cross-Ottawa treasure hunt – PIRATES! First of all, a huge THANK YOU to [...]