'Entwickler and the Mince Pie Murder'

A Panzerfäuste Gamebook by Luke Passingham

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“I hate officers!” shouts Ginger as he lunges forward with his knife. “And I especially hate you, Entwickler! Why, my own brother was killed in that rubbish scenario about the mecha crab! I’ll carve ya up like a Christmas Turkey!”

He is fast but no match for the Pride of the Ausdenkerkorps. Swift as a flash you deploy your sleeve-mounted, poisonous spike-covered boxing glove to jab straight into his nose, and then just to make sure you shoot him several times.

By the time you are done the rest of the Dwarves have fled. It seems there is little more to be gained here, but a prudent check of Ginger’s pockets reveals a strange object - a snowman made of silver with glittering black onyx eyes and buttons, and a shining golden nose. Turning it over, the number 12 is scratched into its back.

Could this be a clue? You carefully put it into an envelope. Make a note of this number!

As you do so you hear footsteps behind you and turn to see a smartly dressed man entering through the giant hole you smashed in the wall. A golden crown glitters on the lapel of his smartly dressed suit: ‘Silent’ Dwight himself. The look of anger on his face is slowly replaced with shock as he spies the still twitching body of Ginger on the ground.

If you’d like deal with ‘Silent’ Dwight’ too, permanently, go to 30.

If you’d like to seize ‘Silent’ Dwight and scare some answers out of him, go to 44