Group seed: Her Majesty’s Special Egyptian Antiquities Squadron

There’s a character in The Secret World that would fit in with this crowd fairly well. Although he absolutely would not move.  Why should he, when the occult world comes to him?

Her Majesty’s Special Egyptian Antiquities Squadron

Because back then apparently the British Empire thought that it was funny to call its in-house cadre of Ancient Egyptian mummy-sorcerers ‘Antiquities,’ that’s why.  World War II was a time of great eccentricities.  Or at least it was a time when the British didn’t worry much about anything that wasn’t directly impacting their ability to survive as a nation and as an organized political entity. Continue reading Group seed: Her Majesty’s Special Egyptian Antiquities Squadron

For the ‘the question is better than any answer’ files…

…we have this:

The million mummy question: Why are there a million mummies buried near Snefu’s Seila pyramid?

Fark’s holding out for Zombie Apocalypse, but I ain’t grooving to it.  For one thing, it’d be a Mummy Apocalypse; and when you think about it, mummies are some of the most laid-back undead out there.  I’m not saying that they’re the best of neighbors; but leave them the hell alone and they’ll usually return the favor. Besides, if there was going to be a Mummy Apocalypse it would have happened nine centuries ago, when we started using them as medical supplies.

No.  Really.