Pulp Oracle - Rip-Roaring Twenties

… for “In a Wicked Age”

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1,During a formal ball, a strange tunneling vehicle emerges from the dance floor
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1,all-female band of sky-pirates, robbing from the rich 1,anarchist plants a series of terrifyingly-powerful bombs 1,bizarre torture device, seized during the war, and the only soldier to survive it 1,brass automaton, still carrying out the orders of its long-dead master 1,briefcase containing vials of a deadly plague 1,British spy and a foreign agent meet at a high-stakes card game 1,captain, young and bold, at the head of a fleet of rocket-planes 1,crime lord from the Orient, cunning and cruel, and his beautiful daughter 1,criminal who leaves no traces, and the detective on his trail 1,duel between rival suitors for the headstrong daughter of a wealthy industrialist 1,Eastern mesmerist, and the police officer sent to ask for his help 1,empty workhouse, the machinery still running, its inhabitants snatched away in an instant 1,engineer prepares the world’s fastest train for its maiden voyage, unaware that the guest of honour has other plans 1,experimental submarine’s obsessed commander, fighting an endless war, strikes at the shipping lanes 1,female engineer, who can fix any machine and pilot any vehicle, searches for her missing brother 1,fleet of zeppelins, an aging captain, and an ambitious first officer 1,foreign agent, surgically-altered into the likeness of the king 1,gangster family attacks its rivals with stolen lightning cannons as the youngest son makes a play for power 1,general with a secret, and a reporter who knows too much 1,incendiary device razes a slum to the ground, leaving a single survivor clutching a black box 1,island of great lizards, and the hunter who lived to tell the tale 1,island of monstrous animals and savage tribes 1,jazz musician and an escape artist, on the run from a black magic cult 1,kidnapped scientist, forced to build weapons of war by his captors 1,large jewel, giving off an unknown radiation, carried by a foreign dignitary 1,locked vault of war machines, and a gentleman thief 1,luxury airliner plays host to a formal dinner of the Royal Society 1,man locked in an asylum, the walls covered in plans and equations 1,mastermind uses a mind-control ray to assemble an army of puppets, but some resist 1,mechanical orchestra, smashed by a mob, and the living singer who barely escaped 1,megalomaniac in the House of Lords plots to destroy Parliament 1,movie starlet, dressed in red, who carries a flame-pistol in her purse 1,murdered researcher, his laboratory in ruins and his daughter the only one who knows his secrets 1,pair of college friends turned bitter scientific rivals, locked in a race to find the secret of immortality 1,pair of goggles, the only way to detect an invisible assassin 1,powerful serum makes treated soldiers stronger, faster, and tougher—but kills them within a year 1,radio operator receives signals from another world, warning of an imminent invasion 1,renowned archaeologist displays the findings of his latest expedition, including a clay tablet in a mysterious code 1,retired prizefighter returns to the ring with a mechanical replacement for his missing arm 1,series of vanished workers, leaving behind grieving families, are replaced with identical and voiceless laborers 1,ship run aground, with no crew but full of sophisticated radio gear 1,sleeper agent struggles against the hypnotic conditioning that drives him to kill 1,soldier of fortune and a government interrogator, playing chess in a gentlemen’s club 1,squad of Nazis, on the hunt for a dark power, led by a grizzled lieutenant and a Gypsy fortune-teller 1,stage magician who appears to do the impossible, and a bitter rival desperate to uncover his secrets 1,steam-driven juggernaut, thought destroyed, awakens to continue its final mission 1,talking ape and an ancient shaman are among the ‘treasures’ gathered by an insane collector 1,thinking machine predicts unlikely events with disturbing accuracy 1,university professor with a daring theory on the creation of life 1,war criminal, hiding under a false name, secretly continues his horrific research 1,wealthy socialite, who dons a mask to fight for justice
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