Session 1:The Vinyl Solution

Max Little, AKA Agent Acorn was relaxing at home in his up-market, desirable, luxury caravan somewhere near London when the phone rang. It was Agent Arthur. He hurriedly explained that he was on to something big and needed to meet Acorn on the corner of Oxford Street and Carnaby Street where he would explain in more detail.

Acorn quickly got into his Bond Bug Micro (black with flame motif down the side) and sped off towards Oxford Street.

Jeff Baron, AKA Agent Aardvark was relaxing at home in his up-market, desirable, luxury penthouse flat somewhere in London when the phone rang. It was ALPHA. ALPHA ordered Aardvark to go to Lord Cuthbert’s (the PPS to the Home Secretary) mansion, to search for clues, as he had gone missing. He would meet up with Agent Athena there.

Aardvark quickly got into his Aston Martin DB5 (silver) and sped off towards the countryside.

Major Peter Churchill (Royal Marines 45 Commando), AKA Agent Ajax was relaxing at home in his up-market, desirable, luxury townhouse somewhere in London when the phone rang. It was ALPHA. ALPHA ordered Ajax to guard Godfrey Sedge (the undersecretary to the MOD) at his country home for the weekend as he was dealing with extremely sensitive MOD documents. He would meet up with Agent Anvil there.

Ajax quickly got into his Triumph TR4A roadster (red) and sped off towards the countryside.

Rob Edwards (Royal Green Jackets), AKA Agent Anvil was relaxing at home in his up-market, desirable, luxury cottage somewhere in the countryside when the phone rang. It was ALPHA. ALPHA ordered Anvil to guard Godfrey Sedge (the undersecretary to the MOD) at his country home for the weekend as he was dealing with extremely sensitive MOD documents. He would meet up with Agent Ajax there.

Anvil quickly got into his 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T (modified) (black) and sped off towards another bit of the countryside.

Acorn got to swinging Carnaby Street and stood outside Groovy Records waiting for Arthur. He heard a shout, and looked up to see Arthur standing on the roof. He said a few words to an unseen foe, and then shot through the heart by a silenced pistol, he plummeted to the pavement, dead before he hit the ground. Acorn ran down a side street and managed to find a fire escape. He used his acrobatic skills to climb quickly to the roof, and saw a figure fleeing across the rooftops. He followed, but by the time he got to the other side of the buildings, all he could see was a Mercedes Benz 220SE (black) in the street below, speeding into the distance.

Ajax and Anvil were guarding Godfrey Sedge. They had secured the perimeter, vetted the staff, and searched the grounds a number of times and the job was starting to get boring when Sedge emerged from his office and ordered the two A-Gents to leave. He explained their job was done and they wouldn’t be required any more. Anvil immediately sloped off, but Ajax was more reluctant to leave. In the end, he decided to obey and drove home.

Meanwhile, Anvil was watching Sedge’s office from outside the window. He saw Sedge enter the office once more, go to the record player, take a 45 off the turntable and then go to the fire. He then went back to his desk, packed all his top secret files into a briefcase and then left. Anvil then heard Sedge’s Bentley S2 Continental (black and silver) speeding off down his immaculate gravel drive. He then broke into Sedge’s office and retrieved the melted record from the fire.

Meanwhile, Aardvark had met up with Athena and they were preparing to search Lord Cuthbert’s pile for clues. You could barely cut the sexual tension with a damp spoon as the pair traded innuendo. Aardvark chose to ransack Cuthbert’s bedroom, while Athena searched downstairs. Aardvark vaguely heard the phone ringing downstairs as he discovered a strange speaker behind Cuthbert’s bed with wires leading out the window and down into the grounds.

Athena emerged and beckoned Aardvark towards her, and then kicked him in the head. Aardvark fought back skilfully. The room was already ransacked but they made even more of a mess as the two highly trained athletes matched each other blow for blow. Eventually Aardvark had the better of it and managed to subdue Athena and tie her up, and bung her in the boot of his car.

Aardvark then followed the wires from the speaker and found a portable record player secreted in the neatly manicured herbaceous border. There was no record with it, however. He then dropped Athena off at HQ.

Later that evening the four A-Gents all met up for a sophisticated soiree round Ajax’s up-market, desirable, luxury townhouse somewhere in London. They discussed the events of the day, and word came through that the black Mercedes that Acorn had spotted was licensed to the Bulgarian embassy (a well-known hotbed of TWITCH activity). You were also informed that they had found a shattered record on Arthur’s body. It had a blue label, similar to the one Anvil had found.

There was no sign anywhere of Lord Cuthbert, but then word came from ALPHA that Godfrey Sedge’s body had been found, in his car just off the A3 somewhere in the countryside, but all his top secret files were missing. Despite ALPHA saying you weren’t required, you all decided to drive up and check the crime scene.

When you got there, it had been cordoned off by the police. On searching around Ajax discovered a discarded cigarette end which had unmistakable aroma of Bulgarian tobacco (which he recognised from that time he did that thing in Bulgaria).

Then you went to see how Athena was getting on at HQ, where they had locked her up. She was ranting about wanting to kill Aardvark. Anvil tried to get her to calm down a bit, and she spoke unintelligibly about doves and waves and stuff and began humming a strange tune.

You went to search Athena’s house. She had an up-market, desirable, luxury garden flat somewhere in London There was a poster of a band called The Sound Wave on the wall, and in her record collection you found all their records. They all had the distinctive blue label that was on the record Anvil had retrieved from Sedge’s fireplace. The label was from Groovy Records and they had all been produced by the famous record producer and pop impresario Dick Dove.

So you decided to break into Groovy Records. Anvil set some explosives on the other side of the building to act as a distraction if required, and you broke into the offices. You went through the place but couldn’t find anything too suspicious, but eventually discovered a secret door that led down to the cellar, and a strange soundproofed room with a weird speaker and flashing lights contraption in it. Overlooking this there was a control room where you found a file with the names of about 100 brainwashed agents and references to particular records, which were stored nearby. You found records for Athena, Cuthbert, Sedge, and also A-Gent Archimedes.

So, you went back to HQ and played Athena’s record to her (without hearing it yourself) and you found her extremely suggestible. Anvil told her to forget about wanting to kill Aardvark and other stuff that had happened to her, and managed to get the full story from her about how she had been brainwashed by Dick Dove as an aspiring singer a few years ago.

You decided to confront Dove. He was having one of his famous parties that very night in his mansion somewhere in the countryside and you acquired invitations from the Agency. You dropped Anvil off so he could sneak in and booby-trap Dove’s Rolls Royce. Meanwhile Ajax and Acorn snuck out of the party into Dove’s private office.

Aardvark and Anvil snuck up to the roof of the mansion to booby-trap Dove’s helicopter. Aardvark distracted the pilot, but something went wrong with the bomb, and Anvil realised it would blow as soon as someone turned the thing on, which wasn’t the plan.

With Ajax and Acorn in the middle of discovering a file with a list of his TWIST contacts (mostly Bulgarian) Dick Dove walked into the office, flanked by his two huge body guards. He made a brief speech about his plans and then legged it, while you were occupied with the bodyguards. Ajax took one bodyguard out quickly enough but the other got the better of Acorn, and hung him from the ceiling fan. And then he managed to defeat Ajax too, then went to join Dove.

Dove was running up to escape by helicopter just as Anvil and Aardvark were coming down. So, using all his championship boxing training from his days in the army, Anvil punched Dove out with a single blow. The pop impresario fell down the flight of stairs and landed in a heap at the bottom. Then Aardvark punched the bodyguard out, and he too fell down the stairs, landing on top of Dove.

The mission seemed to be a success. Athena was fully recovered, you had a list of all the brainwashed sleepers who could be unbrainwashed using the records from Groovy, and you had acquired a list of Dove’s TWITCH contacts.