On 1 May 1895, a young gentleman visited the offices of Pelgrane Press. He had recently qualified as a solicitor in the West Country. The gentleman carried a manuscript wrapped in waxed paper and string. He also brought a small steamer trunk filled with curios. Acting for an anonymous client, he delivered the items with a banker’s draft from the Bank of England for a substantial sum.
The book itself is a work of scientific romance. It is a gallimaufry of fables, in the manner of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. We may never know why it was written, or for whom. Still, Gentle Reader, may you find it useful. Wherever you travel. Whenever you read it.
The Book of Changing Years is a collection of time travellers’ tales and curios put together on the quiet by agents of TimeWatch and secreted in an innocuous drawer in the Citadel — TimeWatch HQ. It’s an in-world book of clues and mysteries for players of the TimeWatch RPG in the style of The Book of the Smoke and The Armitage Files.
- Why are there too many cats in London in 1840 and no dogs at all, and how does that relate to the pyramids of Kush?
- Why is Edward V scouring the timelines for Caravaggios?
- Who time-pranked Alexander Graham Bell into thinking he’d heard spirit voices on his new invention?
Fire up your autochron, unhook your tethers and dive into the gaps between the chimes.
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