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After a catastrophic storm leaves the city of Redling half-filled with mud and the magician Bouragner Felpz ill with exhaustion, his faithful ward Corianne determines to take him on a relaxing country vacation. This however is soon upset by the sudden appearance of a ghostly witch, who holds the key to preventing an even greater catastrophe. After the Storm concludes the first volume of The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz.

 

 

 

 

 

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Episode 2.11: After the Storm

 

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It’s important as an author, I think, not to underestimate your audience. As I had planned from the very beginning that The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz would be split into two distinct volumes, I felt it would be unfair to pretend to the reader that the stories would stop after the first one. Felpz gets about so much that any attempt I made to retire him would be seen as very feeble, so I did not even try. All that remains to be said at this point is that he will return. In fact, if you look closely, you may find him cropping up unexpectedly in completely different stories. He is just that kind of character.

 

 

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A simple murder soon takes a turn for the mysterious, as things often do when the magician Bouragner Felpz is involved. Now he and his ward, Corianne, find themselves drawn into the harsh world of vagabond thief-masters and young pick-pockets, trying to uncover the truth behind an enchanted ring and the shadowy organization known as the Alchemists’ Circle. This is the tenth and penultimate story in the first volume of The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz.

 

 

 

 

 

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Episode 2.10: The Alchemists’ Circle

 

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Though each Bouragner Felpz story is self-contained, and can be read alone, when put together the stories that comprise the first volume do contain an overarching meta-story. Hints of it can be found, sprinkled throughout the volume, but they only become really obvious here, now that we are coming close to the end. Alchemists’ Circle is also notable in that it is the longest of all the stories—very nearly long enough to be a novella—and when taken within the context of the volume, can be seen as something like the climax.

 

 

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In a world where magic is real, mythical creatures such as vampires can collide with reality to produce astonishing events. In this, the third installment in the Adventures of Bouragner Felpz, we find the “Magician’s Consultant” and his long-suffering ward embroiled in an intrigue that connects a famous cathedral to something much darker, and downright unholy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Episode 2.3: The Unholy Cathedral

 

 

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The third part of an ongoing series is where it gets hard. For me, anyway. The first one is fun because I am starting something new and I am very excited about it. For the second one I am still riding the wave of ideas that got started with the first installment… but by the third episode I am starting to feel the strain. Doing something new yet the same and again and again. I don’t think it gets easier after the third one… it stays difficult for a while. But if I can work my way through the third part, and the fourth and the fifth, then I begin to really get a feel for the series: where it is going, and what it is doing.

 

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Mr. Bouragner Felpz is a curious gentleman. “Magician’s Consultant,” according to his card, his practice takes him to places both fantastical and sinister as he untangles magical mysteries. And where he goes, his ward and reluctant biographer Miss Corianne Birch is often obliged to follow. Set in a time and place not far from late Victorian England—but in a world where magic is very, very real—The Crimson Stair is the second story in the Adventures of Bouragner Felpz.

 

 

 

 

 

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Episode 2:2: The Crimson Stair

 

 

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One of the joys of my profession is going through history with a fine toothed comb and picking out the little mysteries that were never big enough or important enough to be solved, and fabricating fantastical solutions for them. The Crimson Stair was originally inspired by events that occurred during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England concerning the death of Robert Dudley’s wife. Though the circumstances have been drastically altered, and the regal connection virtually eliminated, the original fundamentals of the idea remain. I also used as inspiration a staple from Greek Mythology, under the reasoning that what was considered a good idea there and then would still be a good idea in a different place and time… even if the results were less than satisfactory.

 

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Corianne Birch is a young woman, newly orphaned, in a strange city. Fortunately, she has a godfather who has agreed to take custody of her. Perhaps unfortunately, he is the flamboyant, inscrutable, sometimes-maddening magician Bouragner Felpz. Set in a time and place not far from late Victorian England—but in a world where magic is very, very real—”The Purple Gentleman” is the first in a series of short stories about the masterful magician, Bouragner Felpz, and his adventures in the tricksy, turning backwaters of the magical world.

 

 

 

 

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Episode 2:1: The Purple Gentleman

 

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It was around the time I started seriously writing that I also noticed how unfair the genre system is. It classifies things like Fantasy and Horror and Mystery as different things, when in fact the contents of a story could be all three at once! I also noticed how this system had somewhat informed the ideas people had in their heads about what Fantasy was. To them, Fantasy was dragons, wizards, elves, dark lords, and little people with furry feet. But that is only one side of the many-faced fractal that fantasy is. I postulated that you could have detective fantasy, just like you have detective fiction. And so I dreamed up a magician (taking obvious and liberal inspirations from a very famous detective), and planted him in the center of a world that on the surface could pass for late Victorian London, but peer under the surface and you would find a world crawling with unusual and fantastic creatures, knotted with problems just waiting for some brilliant and extraordinary solution. This is the world of Bouragner Felpz, the Purple Magician.

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Nat has always been able to see things other people can’t. But she has never seen anything quite as peculiar, or quite as frightening, as the strange man locked in the chest in her room in the new house. Soon she finds herself dropped in the middle of an ancient conflict, and the fate of the man in the chest rests in her hands.

“The Man in the Chest” is a stand-alone, dark fantasy short story by Goldeen Ogawa.

 

 

 

 

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Episode 1:4: The Man in the Chest

 

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I wrote The Man in the Chest as a way to figure out how demons worked. I was creating a religion for a completely different story, and as I went along jotting down notes, this story came out and I jotted it down as well. It is an odd little story that doesn’t really fit in with any of the serials I’m working on, but I think it stands on its own fairly well.

 

 

 

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