Sunday 20 June 2021

Additions to the Cast of 'Setting Jhamjarhistan Ablaze'

The first three on the left all form part of the Court of the Emir, but as yet have not been identified by name. Monty Bottomley-Throppet (the local SIS man) has put his second-best agent (the best being old Zebediah Vaggers) on the case to identify them. This is the renowned but highly-secretive Barrington Lovett-Behind.

In the centre, we have Mrs. Goggins from Greendale. She answered an advert in Postmistress Weekly, to assist the Emir to set up a postal service in Djelibad. However, on arrival she found it was a terrible scam to recruit British Postmistresses as Nautch Dancers in the Emir’s court. I think the Emir has some sort of grudge against the Royal Mail.

On her left is Appah Rao, a huge Jetti from Mysore who specialises in pounding large nails into prisoners' heads using only his bare hands. He it is, who is about to torture Chippy Minton to extract any knowledge Chippy has of the Golden Jhamjarh of Sticky Gods.

The three on the right are Gunga Al Djelibeybi, the Emirzade of Jhamjarh, Faqir Al Djelibeybi, the Emir of Jhamjarh and Lakshmibai Al Djelibeybi, Emira of Jhamjarh.


Also, we now have a mountain gun for the Basmachi. Here they are in training whilst the local Imam reads them the training manual. What can possibly go wrong?

2 comments:

Dave Stone said...

Wonderful looking additions Martin, and what could possibly go wrong with untrained individuals and explosive devices indeed ! LOL

Martin Thornton said...

Indeed! Thanks, Dave.