Kenya

Arjar Singh: A name in the New York diary of the late Pierre Henri Levington. A dealer in African Tribal Artifacts and exporter of same to Emmerson Imports of New York. I believe we visited, or at least walked past, the building, but have no record of meeting the man.

Unknown man in Turban (I bet it was Tandoor Singh) was seen to take an interest in us as we made enquiries regarding rail journey to Nairobi.

Some pompous woman passenger in the “first class” car – name unknown – who, after the fire attack, accuses us of all being on drugs and setting fire to ourselves.

Hospital Staff: various medical staff who attend to the burn wounds suffered by those who fought the fire.

Natalie Smythe – Proprieter of Nairobi newspaper, source of some local information, and victim of firebombing suspected by Robert to be the work of Tandoor Singh who is rescued from the building and hospitalised for much of the time the party is in Nairobi

Reggie Baines, proprieter of the Hampton Hotel, the base at which the Carlyle expedition rested while in Nairobi. It is while talking to either him or Natalie that we perceive Sir Aubrey seems a lot younger than we would expect – Daniels notes’ record that someone in conversation with the party says the man we have a picture of must be the father of the man they met. Also we believe Hypatia Masters was pregnant when travelling with the expedition.

Sam Mariga, Gardener at the Nairobi railway station, known to Mr Johnstone Kenyata and a good man to have on our side as regartds organising an expedition ot the mountain of the black winds. He has been there and seen the bodies, and leads us there now.

Johnstone Kenyata Heads up the office of some association or other which is clearly the independence movement by any other name. Speaking of names, his can’t possibly be a coincidence. Clearly opposed to the cultists and apparently taken by Daniels’ speaking with him in Swahili (as opposed to shouting at him in English, perhaps!) he introduces three of the party to a man who takes us for a short road journey to an encounter with a native mystic (Old Bundawi)

Lt Mark Selkirk was the officer who led the army expedition that discovered the massacre site, we know of him from notes made by Jackson Elias. When we make enquiries at the Army base, we find he perished in a fire some time ago. The work of that bloody Tandoor Singh again, thinks Daniels.

Doctor Horace Starrett the Anglican Vicar. Convinced the massacre was the devils work as the bodies were fresh as they day they died.

Roger Cory is a man who holds some sort of official post in the Colonial Administration Office, who recalls the Carlyle expedition but considers that matter long since over and done with.

Military Officers at the Army Base: Did not record their names. Robert goes to the army barracks with at least one other, meets the commanding officer, who is perfectly polite and proper. He reveals the fact of the death of Mark Selkirk, then offers us the chance to talk to a sergeant who accompanied the party Selkirk led. Daniels has a feeling the man’s account is unreliable, not through malice, but through his wanting to rip out his eyeballs after going mad as the massacre scene.

“Nails” Nelson: On leaving the army base Robert and companion(s) repair to a local bar where it is rumoured Nails Nelson will appear. He does. His story checks out as per the Jackson Elias papers.

Tandoor Singh “A humble tea seller”. My fragrant arse he is. He was most surprised (good spot, Helena) to see Robert and Helena come to his tea emporium. Surprised because he expected us to be dead, I suppose. Daniels takes an instant dislike to the guy and wishes to terminate him with extreme prejudice. For this he comes close to blows with Steele over his “policeman” thinking which says you can’t just go round wasting people you dislike. Daniels’ military training says quite the opposite. Daniels is persuaded not to blow the guy away, and the Steeles and Daniels are captured by this man, now a near raving lunatic who reveals he was behind the fire on the train, the fire at the newspaper offices, and is clearly the number one cult man in these parts. He may be a lunatic, but he does chastise his thugs for leching at the captive Mrs Steele in the cellar dungeon. Maybe this is because she’s going to be fed to the creeping horror. After the shootout we remove a book written in some sort of Asian dialect, some robes and some candles, from a “safe”. In the cellar are the shallow graves of several victims to his rituals, and a statue of Nyarlathotep in the aspect of the creeping horror.

Colonel Endicott – A man who has some issues with two foot high spiky teethed “ghouls” I think David Martlesham called them after opening a game lodge and in particular a night platform right in their feeding grounds.

Silent Joe - The colonel’s sole servant at his game lodge, who seems struck dumb and certainly resists all attempts at conversation – until, after the encounter with the “num nums” is over and we have to trek to a native village for water for the radiator, leaving the Colonel and “Mrs Carruthers” to defend the woman and others in the party, we find Joe speaks reasonably decent English and native languages, but would be most grateful if we kept that to ourselves, lest the colonel find out, and force him to endure hours, days, weeks of banal conversation.

Old Bundawi – An old man, and a highly respected tribal shaman, with obvious knowledge of the cult of the bloody tongue, and portents of things to come. He offers the party who attend him two items, a fly whisk (Daniels’ notes say this fends off evil spirits but I have no idea why the hell he got that idea) and a caged lizard. She Who Is Not What She Seems was uncaged during the attack of the num nums and is the reason most of us still live.

More Characters of Kenya:

(not documented by Major Robert Daniels)

The Campbells - A married couple that Pen and Steel met at Idina's house party. More here.

Dave the Donkey - A loyal mule which accompanied the investigators from Nairobi all the way to the Mountain of the Black Wind. Once there he became a meal for some hungry cultists, which didn't make Helena very happy!

The Happy Valley Set - A group of settlers living the good life beyond Nairobi. More here.

M'Weru - High Priestess of the Bloody Tongue at the Mountain Of The Black Wind, and (possibly) Roger Carlyle's "African Woman". Shot dead by Robert, using both Barrels of his Elephant Gun. He took her head away with him.

Inspector Wilson - An officer in the Nairobi CID. Investigated the various arson attacks, and the Tandoor Singh case. Arrested Robert and Chuck at one point, and kept them in the cells overnight.