'Entwickler and the Mince Pie Murder'
A Panzerfäuste Gamebook by Luke Passingham
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9.
“Thank the Kaiser you have arrived '' says the officer as you get out your notebook. “To be frank we don’t have much. Far as we can tell the victim is one private Timm - Victor Timm. He’s a bear trainer recently transferred in from the Grenadiers - we’ve no idea what he’s doing here face down in a pile of festive pastry treats. Anyway, I’m off now, bye!”
He goes to leave, but you seize him and demand more information. The officer stares, horror-struck, into the eyes of your night-vision frog. The frog croaks forlornly. Eventually the officer speaks.
“Very well. All I have for you is a bit of exposition,” he gasps. “Timm’s transfer from the Grenadiers to the Panzar-Bar unit was raised a few eyebrows as he has a shady past – he was connected to dodgy quartermaster and suspected crook ‘’Silent’ Dwight: he served time inside a military stockade for his part in the infamous badger heist. Faced dismissal when he came out, but it seemed he’d gone strictly legit and expressed a desire to work with bears, leaving all that badger business behind him. You could check out his old unit: he served with the 16th Battalion, penal division – “Felix’s Fanatics”. Oh, and I should probably mention that with the bears moved up to the front, we have converted the bear-training facility into a mince pie manufacturing facility in order to give all our loyal troops a delicious festive treat. You could do worse than to speak to the officer in charge, one Hauptmann Vince Pie.”
You give the officer a stern look to stop him running off again. What now?
If you want to examine Vic Timm (if you have not already done so) go to 18
If you want to blow the body to bits with explosive for no reason whatsoever go to 06